Animation workers have reached a $100 million settlement with the Walt Disney Company, Pixar, and Lucasfilm in a class action lawsuit claiming that the defendants violated antitrust laws by …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:45PM“Superior Donuts” has the nostalgic feel of a 1970s sitcom — particularly since it’s anchored by old pros such as Judd Hirsch and Katey Sagal. Hirsch plays Arthur, the jaded owne…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:34PMDenzel Washington might be getting a new partner in crime — er, stopping crime — in the upcoming thriller Inner City. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Colin Farrell is in talks…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:34PMDarryl Reilly, Critic Dazzling visualizations of nine, iconic songs are superbly choreographed by Dwight Rhoden in Star Dust: A Ballet Tribute to David Bowie. The Complexions Contemporary Ba…
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By Myra Chanin January’s Ricky Ritzel’s Broadway XV at Don’t Tell Mama was the best one ever. If you’ve flunked Mathematical Latin, I’m talking about the 15th …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:44PMI feared for attendance at tonight’s planned “What the F**k, Chuck?” rally at Grand Army Plaza, as Senator Schumer has now vowed to take a hard line and promised to block T…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:36PMThings are getting tense up there in Toronto, where disgraced impresario Garth Drabinsky is plotting his comeback with the new musical “Sousatzka.” Drabinsky’s temper was legendary dur…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:29PMAudiences are used to being told to silence or turn off their devices prior to a show. But what happens when they’re encouraged to turn the volume up high, scroll through Facebook and resp…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:23PMAll the world’s a stage, as the saying goes, and the players at the Folger Theatre do a very nice job of bringing Shakespeare’s words alive. The company’s new production of “As You L…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:15PMLucas Hedges stars in this highly physical production about two dog-owning brothers who are short on social skills and living in a squalid suburban London apartment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMWriter, director and actor Leah Purcell has won Australia’s richest single literary prize – the Victorian Prize for Literature – for her play The Drover’s Wife, a dramatic re…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 10:09PMThough the events of “The Lion in Winter” take place more than 800 years ago, the struggles, rivalries and dramas, portrayed seamlessly by The Arlington Players, still exist within famil…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:08PMWho’s to blame for Hench and Bobbie? The two boys, 16 and 14, live alone in a rundown “social housing” block in a London suburb, with one shirt between them and only what food they can…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:02PMAnna Jordan writes a new play about two boys and their dog.
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Reviewed by: Russell Goeltenbodt Highly Recommended Being at an age where I remember the 1977 [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:54PMReviewed by: Bob Douglas Highly Recommended World- acclaimed and delicious coloratura diva Sondra Radvanovsky brought [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:54PMWe have heard a lot lately about Lucas Hedges, the 20-year-old Oscar nominee who plays the fatherless teen in "Manchester by the Sea." But we also need to know, right now, about his smolderi…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:42PMGaye Taylor Upchurch’s appealing direction gives Folger Theatre’s As You Like It a warm flirtatious essence with buffoonery galore masking over Shakespeare’s initial soulful melancholi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:38PMPearle Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky offers pretty much everything you could want in a drama - thrilling story, unforgettable character and mesmerizing dialogue. The emotional spectrum i…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:18PMRegional Arts Victoria welcomes the Victorian Government’s Regional Centre of Culture program and is delighted to announce that Artlands 2018 – one of Australia’s biggest arts even…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 09:11PMLondon-based writer Anna Jordan's drama follows a family on the edge of the abyss.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:00PMLucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated for his breakthrough performance in 'Manchester by the Sea,' makes his stage debut in the American premiere of 'Yen,' Anna Jordan's drama about disaffected Brit…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Be the dancer that has it all! Would you like to train at the Joffrey Ballet School this summer under the instruction of icons like Mia Michaels, Josie Walsh, Desmond Richardson, Era Jourav…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:57PMThe CW's hit television programs SupergirlandThe Flash will come togetherfor a musicalepisode later on this season.Broadway fans will be glad to know that the composers of the hit Broadway m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:40PMRobert Cushman: The author was 25 when she wrote the play and it has the pretentiousness of youth without the excitement
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 08:36PMRobert Cushman: At its end, Passing Strange succumbs to the kind of portentousness seemingly unavoidable in rock musicals
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 08:36PMIf you’ve seen Manchester By The Sea (of course you have), you already know that Lucas Hedges has the seething sullen-teen thing down. This gifted young actor raises the stakes to Ja…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PM
Yen, a bleak British play that opens tonight Off-Broadway, stars Lucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated last week for his role in Manchester by the Sea, and Justice Smith, of the Netflix hip-hop dram…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36PMYen, a bleak British play that opens tonight Off-Broadway, stars Lucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated last week for his role in Manchester by the Sea, and Justice Smith, of the Netflix hip-hop dram…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMAn 11-day celebration of puppet-related stage productions in Chicago, and shows elsewhere, have showed the possibilities of an art form.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06PMColin Farrell is in negotiations to co-star with Denzel Washington in the legal drama “Inner City” from “Nightcrawler” director and scribe Dan Gilroy. Sony recently a…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM
In today’s society, we are tempted by “junk food” making it difficult to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dherbs.com has a slew of healthy recipes and natural detox product…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 06:56PMMurder…Murder…Murder — a world premier presented by the SkyPilot Theatre Company — takes the audience into a murder mystery reminiscent of the board game of ‘ClueR…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:54PMfellowship (a play for volunteers)Reviewed by Mayank Keshaviah Cornerstone Theatre Through February 12 RECOMMENDEDOpponents of the new administration in Washington have issued a vociferous c…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 06:50PMRoundabout Theatre Company celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Underground program January 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:42PMJust as the short stories in collections by Anton Chekhov, Flannery O’Connor, Grace Paley and Alice Munro are meant to be savored one small masterpiece at a time and not gobbled up indiscr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:40PMWho is Kanen Breen? Kanen Breen, tickler of fancies, deliverer of opera, divider of opinion. A sad clown, a happy hooligan, an introverted extrovert; an intro-extrovert? What would you do di…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 06:34PMJackie Burns recently channeled a Broadway legend when she sang'The Adele Dazeem Medley,' arranged by Benjamin Rauhala, at THE BROADWAY PRINCESS PARTYon January 29th, 2017 at Feinstein's54 B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Jeffrey Seller's Bringing Drama to the Screen
Move over, Glee. Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller and Friday Night Lights …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMAndrew Keenan-Bolger stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about the upcoming Newsies broadcast and more with Paul Wontorek.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMDuring our recent video chat (watch above), “La La Land” star Emma Stone made it clear that she had no intention of performing her big number “Audition,” which rece…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:15PMA lawsuit brought against the producers of “Hamilton” and the owners of the theater in which it’s playing has turned attention to issues of accessibility for disabled Broad…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03PMThe annual monologue contest will be held in New York City.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMThe musical celebrates the career of Kurt Weill.
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There is a laugh track with this show. As in a prerecorded TV sitcom where the studio audience was cued to be amused, there’s an overhead LAUGH sign that flashes intermittently accompanied…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:52PMNot only will Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom write songs that are ultimately deemed too dirty to air on her own show, but she'll also chip in to help write (presumably not too dirty) …
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:44PMBy Abraham Benson-Goldberg. Abraham Benson-Goldberg discusses Khan Theatre’s production of Philoctetes , examining the intersections of young soldiers, heroism, war, and politics.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:39PMRen Dara Santiago’s new play will kick off Cherry Lane’s 2017 Mentor Project.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:15PMScott Ebersold directs Max Vernon’s new musical, which begins previews February 15 at the Lynn Redgrave Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:07PMHis departure follows 33 years at the West Coast theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PMDirectors include Hunter Foster, Denis Jones, Tina Landau, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PMMore fans, panels, workshops and a larger marketplace made for a jam-packed weekend of non-stop entertainment. The Broadway Wiz team was on hand to experience all the Con had to offer...
SOURCE: broadwaywiz.com at 05:00PMA story made famous by a 1981 Henry Fonda/Katharine Hepburn film hits the stage as the season-opener for Vista’s Broadway. Randall Hickman directs Ernest Thompson’s “On Golden Pond,�…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMThe event will take place on February 3.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMThe show is inspired by the book Drama High.
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Nicholas Barasch, Kyle Scatliffe, and Lauren Worsham star in the New York City Center Encores! production of Big River.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMNicholas Barasch, Kyle Scatliffe, and Lauren Worsham star in the New York City Center Encores! production of Big River.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PMMiguel Cervantes, the star of Broadway's Hamilton in Chicago, is set to perform a private concert at a state-of-the-art recording studio, In Studio Live.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54PMNicholas Barasch and Kyle Scatliffe star in the New York City Center Encores! production of Big River.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMEven though Orange Julius has some elements that would lead some people to label it as either a “queer” or “Vietnam” play, its writer Basil Kreimendahl has managed to juggle with the…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:48PMRachel de Benedet among the performers to be featured in the Off-Broadway cast, starting February 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:39PMNBC has ordered a pilot episode for Drama High from Jeffrey Seller and his partners.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:37PMStephen Carlile takes over as Scar in the long-running Disney musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:34PMGet a glimpse of all the hot shows coming to Feinstein's/54 Below this month.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 04:33PMEXCLUSIVE: Tony Award-winning Schuyler sister Renée Elise Goldsberry has signed with UTA on the eve her appearance at Sunday’s Super Bowl LI in Houston.
Goldsberry won last year’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:16PMThe longtime leader will step down at the end of the company's 50th anniversary season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:05PMA UK stage veteran makes his Broadway debut.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
There's a legitimate school of rehabilitative thought that says many sex offenders can't change their impulses — they only can learn to self-regulate their behavior and understand how cons…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:49PMBy Michael BlockThe journey to Broadway was not nearly as long as Leo Tolstoy’s novel but there's a grand coronation for the arrival of Dave Malloy's astonishing Natasha, Pierre, and the G…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 03:42PMStephen Carlile begins performances as Scar in The Lion King on January 31. This marks the actor's Broadway debut; he originated the role on the U.K. tour.
Carlile appeared in the West …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMTake a break from your subway commute and join Kirsten Wyatt and In Transit's Erin Mackey in the kitchen for a fluffy lime coconut cake!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMTwo-time Tony Award-winning GoodspeedMusicals has assembled six exciting teams - three led by prominent women directors - to helm the diverse productions planned this season a tap-happy musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:28PMVISITING THE INTERNET OF ‘SHADES’ Cryptic and fascinating, Jennifer Haley’s 85-minute one-act The Nether takes its name, if not its inspiration, from an allusion to the afterlife. But,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:25PMWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is scheduling special opening night events for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST fans on Thursday, March 16 at approximately 590 locations nationwide. T
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:23PMPerformances will begin at the Florida venue in March.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:21PMBroadway's award-winning best musical, The Lion King, welcomes Stephen Carlile as Scar beginning performances tonight, Tuesday, January 31st, 2017. Carlile makes his Broadway debut, having o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMRobert Chafe’s sweeping new stage adaptation is a great small work of art about final founding father Joey Smallwood
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:09PMHollywood is getting ready to tackle the Super Bowl as hard as longstanding sponsors like PepsiCo and Anheuser-Busch InBev. Disney’s studios, NBCUniversal’s Universal and Viaco…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMNot only is the pop star performing the halftime show, but she's also new face of Tiffany & Co.'s latest ad campaign, premiering during the game
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:05PMA Red Orchid produces a dark sci-fi police procedural.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMMax Vernon's new musical is directed by Scott Ebersold.
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Ryan Scott Oliver's OTHERBODY is a political new musical for anyone who has ever felt like an "other".
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:59PMProducer Cameron Mackintosh is experimenting with an all-electronic ticketing system.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMEdward Albee’s Tony-winning drama plays a limited engagement in Washington, D.C.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMActor and director Scardino will take his show to Feinstein’s/54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMLooking for a way to give back in 2017 Now you can make an impact while getting to see the theatre you love, with the help of Charitybuzz. Below, check out just a few of their current auctio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:44PMToday, NBC announced that it has given a pilot order to DRAMA HIGH, from executive producers Jason Katims Friday Night Lights, Parenthood and Jeffrey Seller producer of the Broadway sensatio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41PMTheatre Forward and UBS will host the 14th Annual Broadway Roundtable on Friday, February 3 at UBS 1285 Avenue of the Americas from 1200pm - 200pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMTony Award winner Jane Krakowski, Late Show with David Letterman's Paul Shaffer, and Emmy Award winner Jeff Richmond have joined Don Scardino Nothing To Hide with John Miller, which will hav…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMOn this special Broadwaysted episode, the crew is coming to you live from the heart of BroadwayCon 2017 Kevin, Bryan, and Kimberly were on the floor at booth 330 of the Javits Center in NYC …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMUpstream Theater gives 'The Year of the Bicycle' its U.S. premiere
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:36PMJason Katims is back in business with NBC. The “Parenthood” creator has landed a pilot order for “Drama High,” an hourlong series about the drama department at a work…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:30PMInterAct Theatre Company and Iron Age Theatre co-produced Howard Zinn's 'Marx in Soho.' Robert Zaller wonders what brought him back from the literal and figurative dead.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:26PMPlasticityReviewed by Lovell Estell IIIHudson Guild TheatreThrough March 13The title of this play refers to the brain’s ability to rewire or reorganize itself by forming new neural connect…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:06PMJohn Legend and Ariana Grande's duet to "Beauty and the Beast" is featured in the new teaser.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
The Lookingglass Theatre Company's MOBY DICK is spectacular, dazzling and at times, lethargic.
SOURCE: showbuzznyc.com at 01:59PMThe production opens in Hull in March before playing in Stratford
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:48PMHer iconic black-and-white images of playwrights, collected in a new book, help reveal their subjects' true selves.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:45PMMoby DickReviewed by Terry Morgan South Coast Repertory/Segerstrom Stage Through Feb. 19th RECOMMENDEDIf one has the audacity to take on the leviathan of American literature, Herman Melville…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 01:41PMWalterdale Theatre Associates received threats over decision to cast white woman in lead role instead of the traditional person of colour
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:36PMThe Santa Ana Winds Guy is all four members of the Four Seasons combined with all four actors playing the Four Season in Jersey Boys and multiplied by ten.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:23PMAmas Musical Theatre,New York City's award-winning pioneer in diversity and multi-ethnic casting in the performing arts since 1968, will celebrate its 48th Anniversary at a gala benefit on M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:11PMDirecting a play is always a challenge, so directing two at the same time is definitely demanding (especially if you’re doing your own sound design). That’s what Rick Lombardo pulled off…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:07PMOn this morning's LIVE WITH KELLY, Cate Blanchett discussed making her Broadway debut in THE PRESENT and shared what happened when her 8-year-old son came to see the show
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMAn alternative style of artist management is helping talents such as James Acaster and Dane Baptiste take a long-game approach. Rule No 1? Be niceBack in the 1990s, when club comics such as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMDerek McLane, who has designed the stage of the awards show for five years running, has a uniform that works on Broadway and in Hollywood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:04PMThe Bring It On alum fills some big Broadway shoes.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
The play The Drover’s Wife was awarded the Victorian Prize in both the literature and drama categories.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMThis short video is the first in a series to promote the forthcoming Newsies screenings.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMThe iconic musical theatre star turns 96 January 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMAn incredibly talented HAMILTON fan has just unveiled an epic homage to the musical's characters, lyrics and scenes - all with 25,000 dominoes. Watch them topple in the video below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:38PMSecond Stage Theatre celebrated its annual All-Star Bowling Classic on January 30 at Lucky Strike in New York City. For over 25 years, stars of stage and screen have come out to bowl in supp…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMGroundhog Day has already picked up a Best Musical win before its Broadway bow! The Andy Karl-led musical received the U.K. Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Musical following its w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMName: Dan DineroHometown: Rochester, NYEducation: BA from Yale University, MA and PhD in Performance Studies from NYU/TischFavorite Credits: I’m still really fond of one of the first shows…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:32PMAs BroadwayWorld sadly reported last week,Tony Award winner Mary Tyler Moore - best known as a television icon for The Mary Tyler Moore Show- passed away at80 years old. According to her pub…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:29PMA three-disc studio album from Bob Dylan, Triplicate, will be released on March 31, featuring 30 brand-new recordings of classic American tunes and marking the first triple-length set of the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25PMFirst up in Encores 2017 season is Big River The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Tony Award-winning musical based onMark Twain's classic American novel. Big River will starNicholas Baras…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMThis February, Feinstein's54 Below,Broadway's Supper Club amp Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. Scroll down for details
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMRoundabout Theatre Company will soon presentSteven Levenson's The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin Dear Evan Hansen new play,If I Forget, directed byDaniel Sullivan. The cast includes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMPaper Mill Playhouse, recipient of the 2016 Regional Theatre Tony Award, presents the comedy by Ken Ludwig, A Comedy of Tenors, the hilarious sequel to the Tony Award-winning comedy Lend Me …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMAs BroadwayWorld sadly reported last week, veteran British screen actor, SirJohn Hurt, has passed away at aged 77. His diverse career included turns on screen on film, television, as well as…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMAudiences have a final chance to 'Seize the Day' - tickets are now available for 'Disney's Newsies The Broadway Musical,' playing in U.S. movie theaters for three days only on Thursday, Febr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMSet between the stories told in Walt Disney Animation Studios' acclaimed film 'Tangled' and its short film 'Tangled Ever After,' the Disney Channel Original Movie 'Tangled Before Ever After'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMFor one night only, TODAY's Tamron Hall became part of the long-running Broadway musical CHICAGO. Below, watch as Mel B, currently starring in the show, takes Tamron behind the scenes and co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:16PMThe award-winning playwright’s newest work debuts at the Signature Theatre with a cast that changes roles nightly.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMFord’s Theatre, aided by director Aaron Posner, gets a big one right.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:06PMThe characters are instantly familiar: Richard is a bit gauche, a bit geeky, a bit immature; Katie is sassy, strong-minded, but still obsessed with You Know Who, an ex who treated her badly.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMRoundabout Theater Company toasts its initiative that helps foster new works by emerging theater artists.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMIt may be set some 60 years ago, but “Perfect Arrangement” arrives with what seems perfect timing at Intrepid Theatre this week. Just weeks ago, former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PM
The Instituto Cervantes of Chicago on Tuesday announced the lineup for its 15th Chicago Flamenco Festival. This year's five-week festival kicks off with a preview event at City Winery Feb. 2…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:56AMThe Directors Company presents the reading of David Epstein’s new play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMVirginia’s own Mason Bates is the current composer-in-residence at the Kennedy Center and now playing the second season of his collaborative KC Jukebox series. The series presents out-of-t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:52AMFull of song, love, and laughter, As You Like It will sweep you off your feet. If you don’t love it at first sight, wait. Of all the couples in this romantic story, the best chemistry in A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMThe legendary team of Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern created some of the best music ever written for the American stage in Show Boat. And each song gets a stellar rendition by Toby’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMThe U.S. premiere of Wallace Shawn’s latest work debuts Off-Broadway starring Matthew Broderick and the playwright himself.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMGlenda Jackson, John Tiffany and Anthony Boyle were honoured at the ceremony
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:36AMA multi-talented duo work their socks off as Agatha Christie meets the Marx Brothers in this musical murder mystery spoof
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:36AMAnnemarie Lewis Thomas is composer, musical director and founder principal of Musical Theatre Academy. MTA has just won the Stage School of the Year (2017) award for the second time. She cha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMWe can't wait for this tale as old as time to get told on March 17! The final trailer for Disney's live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast is here, and it features a snippet of Ar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMToronto company Yangaroo tapped to provide the secure voting platform.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMFormer BAFTA chairman John Willis has been named the new chair of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He replaces Paul
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AMEmily Estefan, "Take Whatever You Want" (Alien Shrimp Records)...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:13AMIndustry figures from across UK theatre came together on January 27 for The Stage Awards, held at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMFiled under: Comedy, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Ten Foot Rat Cabaret, Under St. Marks
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:03AMAbove the Elgin Theatre in Toronto on the 4th floor, magical things are happening. A company with 70 Tony Award nominations and 12 wins between them are gearing up to premiere a new musical,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:03AMThe following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending January 29, 2017.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMBud Martin will direct the production at 59E59.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 1242017 - 1312017.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMThere's a madcap edge to David Spicer’s new comedy that spoofs so much of modern England.
Stephen Boxer is Gerry Duffy, a middle aged frog farmer who's been supplying amphibians for diss…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAs WICKED welcomes cast changes this week - including Willemijn Verkaik returning to the role of Elphaba - yet-another new booking period for the long-running West End production at the Apol…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 11:00AM
We chat to Dan Gillespie Sells and others about the upcoming new musical
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:36AMCeremonies will be held in Los Angeles April 1 and in New York May 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMOscar Best Picture frontrunner “La La Land” just got a serious new rival in “Hidden Figures” following that film’s surprise Best SAG Ensemble win on Sunday.�…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:30AMOnce again, Gurira turns her focus to the African continent, exploring the kind of history that I'm pretty sure is rarely featured in the majority of Western schoolrooms. The year is 1896 an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMDerek Whitener of Firehouse Theatre was left with a fractured skull.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AMDisney will discontinue the Club Penguin subscription social game for desktop and mobile devices, and at the same will launch a new mobile game featuring the cartoon aquatic birds in March. …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:25AMZachary Fernebok
Hometown: Darnestown, Maryland
Current Town: Atlanta, Georgia
Q: Tell me about the Pirate Laureate series.
A: In the world of Ephrata, the power of poetry t…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:24AMThe Amazon series won the 2016 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series—Comedy or Musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMSAG Award winner Viola Davis will join Oscar winner Julia Roberts in a big screen adaptation of Jodi Picoult's popular novel SMALL GREAT THINGS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMWe talk to playwright Tanya Sarcho about her new play "Fade." She discusses what inspired her, using autobiography in work, writing for TV, and more.
SOURCE: The Interval at 10:14AMAfter a sell-out run at the 2016 Edinburgh Comedy Festival, Britney comes to London as the part of the Vaults Festival. It is a sketch show with a difference, all the sketchs are about Britn…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM
Leigh Fondakowski’s play chronicles the events surrounding the 2010 BP oil spill, the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AMTheatre 503, LondonMichael McLean gets under the skin of his characters’ lives in Skelmersdale but his play skimps on the bigger pictureWhat happened to the social utopias of the 1960s, bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMAlso recognised in the awards were Billie Piper, Stephen Dillane and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:36AMDreamgirls is now well settled into the Savoy Theatre and comfortably booking up until the autumn. So for a reviewer with no real interest whatsoever in the TV series Glee or its much lauded…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMCall Answered: I have known about Peter Michael Marino for some time now, but it was with his direction of Amy Marcs' "Nice T!ts" that I got to know Peter. In his newest project "Show Up," P…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 09:29AMGLAAD, the world's LGBTQ media advocacy organization, announced today the nominees for the 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:22AM1. Take a class Preparing for a movement/dance call doesn’t mean packing a bag the morning of. It means putting into practice your
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIt was about six years ago and I wanted to create work. I was desperate, in fact. I rang and emailed every
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMPrison dramas are practically a genre in their own right on television and the silver screen, but for the stage they are not so common. Daddy’s Girl, which is directed by Alice Malin, focu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBetween the ages of eight and 14, I worked fairly regularly as an actor on television and in several British-made features. Although
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM
BroadwayWorld has teamed up with Broadway alumIlana Levine, who makes her entrance onto the podcast stage with her new show Little Known Facts. Ilana's unique brand of celebrity interview, '…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:56AMReviewed by Judd HollanderThere's a moment in Martin McDonagh's pitch-black comedy The Beauty Queen of Leenane where the entire audience gasps over a certain character's actions. It's a soun…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:42AMWatermill, BagnorTwo actors play all 14 characters – and the piano – in a smart, jaunty show that transposes the English country-house mystery to small-town AmericaJoe Kinosian and Kelle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMHarry Potter and the Cursed Child was the big winner at this year's Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, taking home three prizes, while elsewhere Glenda Jackson, Billie Piper and Stephen Dillane…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMBillie Piper, John Tiffany and Glenda Jackson are among the winners of this year’s Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, at which London’s Old Vic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMAwards also went to Glenda Jackson, Billie Piper, and Stephen Dillane.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AMTim Minchin's GROUNDHOG DAY has been named the Best Musical of 2016 by the people who really know - the critics. The annual Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, held today at the West End's Princ…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 08:30AMToday, talented actress Gerianne Perez speaks to BWW about making her Broadway debut , and shares her hope thatIN TRANSIT will help people feel a little less alone in their journeys from poi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:15AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 31 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:03AMJanuary 29th was the final night of Ramin Karimloo and the Broadgrass Band's 'Lead Me Home' tour across the UK. Take a look at their performance of 'Anthem' from CHESS at the final performan…
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Today is the birthday of ubiquitous Hollywood character actor Percy Helton (Percy Alfred Michel, 1894-1971). We’ll get get into his movies anon, but few people probably know how charm…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:32AMBased on a true story this has been marketed as a look at British prison life, the issue is that Brown’s two-hander, with Mark Wingett (Jim Carver in The Bill) as her jailbird father Terry…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMLONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Actress Emma Watson twirls on the dancefloor as heroine Belle in Disney's latest glimpse of its upcoming live-action remake of "Beauty and the Beast", the romanti…
SOURCE: Reuters at 07:03AMI ranked the play as the fourth best thing that I saw last year and though I don't always like to go back to things I enjoyed (in case it sullies the memory), I wanted to treat myself to thi…
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By Alexa Terry
Dirty Great Love Story’ is sweet-natured and is told so inventively, making it no surprise that it has had the success it has
This post REVIEW: Dirty Great Love Story, Arts …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:53AMTicketing platform Eventbrite has moved to make itself the third largest ticketing site in Europe, after acquiring self-service platform Ticketscript. Ticketscript was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMGraduate acting prize the Alan Bates Award is taking the first stage of its audition process online in a bid to increase
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMThe decade is still associated with the ‘In-Yer-Face’ moniker but it brought us a thrilling variety of new writing and fresh, boundary-breaking styles of theatre There seems to be a bit …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMAs his hit production of The Glass Menagerie opens in London, the director explains why Tennessee Williams' play is so relevant and looks back at his work on Harry Potter and the Cursed …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:12AMAnthony Head and Helen George lead the cast of Rattigan's play
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:12AMChildren don’t read enough. They have too little experience of story – through books, theatre or whatever. It leads to diminished imaginative capacity, short concentration …
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Listen: Happy Birthday Carol Channing, Abby Mueller Gets “Beautiful,” and We are Joined by Broadwaysted! “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcas…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:55AMThe Watermill Theatre helped to pioneer the pocket chamber actor-musician show in the UK. Director John Doyle staged Cabaret here with just
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMTeetering somewhere between an incisive study of human fidelity and a sexy comedy of manners, Miles Malleson's Yours Unfaithfully is the kind of play that, under different circumstances, mig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48AMThe enterprising Arcola Theatre in East London has chosen to start its Revolution Season with a revival of Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths (1902), which has opened a couple of months short …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMSkelmersdale in Lancashire was meant to be a place of hope. One of the experiments in urban planning of the 1960s it’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AMMatt Trueman responds to The Guardian writer's blistering piece about the National Theatre's neglect of classic plays
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:04AMFizzing with righteous anger and frothing with near-the-knuckle humour, the Attic Collective’s Lysistrata at the King’s is a breath of fresh air and an undeniable statement of intent. Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMAs it celebrated its 600th West End performance last night (30 January 2017), KINKY BOOTS has announced the opening of a new booking period until Saturday 30 September 2017...
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A DAFT DETECTIVE DOUBLE-ACT Retro clutter round a piano: files, a hatstand, model house, gun, notebook, handcuffs. We are in the territory of smalltown detective fiction, a touch of the Poir…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:47AMThe social importance of eating together is reiterated throughout history and resonates across cultures. Of course, here in Britain, the attention affixed to tea is a clear indication of thi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24AMDepth of research, technical coordination and creative experimentation help bring Amazon adventure to life“I am in your head,” says Richard Katz. His voice is, anyway. It will be there f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AM"The country is all, sir. The king is not." That line in David Rice's adaptation of "Captain Blood," now in a world premiere at First Folio Theatre, scored a direct hit on a night when airpo…
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A new development that will transform over 1000m2 of vacant retail space into a collection of arts spaces in the Melbourne Arts Precinct is set to launch in February. Situated on the ground …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 12:59AMFrith Street Gallery, London is hosting “If The Ground Should Open...” by Jake Irvine from March 3 through April 13, 2017. “The Ground Should Open...” is a major new multimedia-…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:41AMLa Jolla Playhousepresents Freaky Friday, book by Bridget Carpenter TV's 'Friday Night Lights,' 'Parenthood', music and lyrics by the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning team of Tom Kitt …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMDoes This Song Make Me Look Fat Isaac Mizrahi makes his Cafe Carlyle debut with an all-new show tonight, January 31, through February 11. Mizrahi will perform classics such as 'Lotus Blossom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMNew Theatre in association with the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras presents Douglas Carter Beane’s award-winning comedy The Little Dog Laughed at the New Theatre from 7 February …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 12:04AMJeremy Beck, Ted Koch, Todd Lawson and K.K. Moggie populate a bleak landscape flecked with hope in the world premiere of Jeff Talbott’s new play The Gravedigger’s Lullaby directed by …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:03AMThe New York premiere of Anna Jordan’s award-winning play officially opens Off-Broadway for MCC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway production has increased the number of front-row tickets available to each performance via digital lottery.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGeoff Sobelle’s theatrical installation is turning the downtown theatre into a giant storage facility beginning January 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHeidi Blickenstaff and Emma Hunton reprise their roles as mother and daughter from the world-premiere staging.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJoe Tracz and Rob Rokicki open up about the making of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe movies and TV shows every theatre fan should tune into online and on the small screen this February.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTwo off-Broadway award winners opened in Pittsburgh last week, one set amid the multimedia circus of scripted professional wrestling, the other in the brutal world of early 20th-century boxi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMActors Marie Mullen and Aisling O'Sullivan join us to discuss “Beauty Queen of Leenane.” Ireland’s Druid theater company makes its BAM debut with this 20th anniversary revival of Marti…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMR.J. Julia Booksellers, 768 Boston Post Road, Madison will host free programs with local authors and a prize-winning writer of thrillers who lives in Salem, Mass. A Local Author Night Memoir…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThe ever-busy singing actor will also step into the title role of Broadway’s Aladdin on a date to be announced.
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