by Matt Smith “Melody is the very air we breathe.” Such is the compelling assertion Broadway songstress Jenn Gambatese offers midway through her solo show, Once Upo…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 11:54PMFey has made two successful changes to theatricalize her original screenplay. The story is now cast as a flashback narrated by best friends Goth Janis (Barrett Wilbert Weed) and Damian (Grey…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMJohn Contini and Jerry Vogel star in two different plays as men with dementia
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:36PMBarbecue by Sugarfire Smoke House, paddleboarding, canoes, kayaks and Forest Park? You can enjoy that savory, sunny combination this summer, according to a partnership announced Monday.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:36PM By Marilyn Lester The great Duke Ellington, a jazz pioneer and arguably one of America’s most gifted composers, has magic in his music. This was especially evident in The …
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 11:35PM The Outer Critics Circle nominations came out today. The only omission really is “The Band’s Visit” which they awarded last year and Categories:
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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:12PMAllan Monga of Portland, Maine recently won the right to compete in the national Poetry Out Loud festival. He was initially barred because he's an asylum seeker and not a U.S. citizen.
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The Dance Enthusiast asks Chinese choreographer Nuo An about getting inspired by tea. In response, she reveals that, "The dance's poetry addresses our senses, from inhaling a floral scent to…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 10:54PMThe National’s magnificent production of Caryl Churchill’s English civil war play resonates powerfully todayCaryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire was written in 1976, is s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMSummer: The Donna Summer Musical officially opened on Broadway on August 23, and Broadway.com was on the scene with an exclusive photo booth at the after party at the Marriott Marquis. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:36PMI have written before about the visual arts fair I started about two years ago to provide an opportunity for students and artists in the community to sell their work and get experiencing tal…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:33PMICE Reviewed by Dana Martin 24th Street Theatre Through June 10th RECOMMENDED Immigrants have been scorned and vilified and “undocumented” has become a dirty word. But ICE, a sli…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 10:26PMThe Importance of Being Earnest Reviewed by Julia Stier The Dean Productions Theatre Company Through April 28 A Shakespearean character famously asked, “What’s in a name?” — but …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 10:16PMBelleville Reviewed by Neal Weaver The Pasadena Playhouse Through May 13 Amy Herzog’s play begins quietly enough. Abby (Anna Camp) and Zack (Thomas Sadoski) are a married couple living…
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Tom Stoppard's Tony-winning play returns to Broadway following a West End run, featuring Tom Hollander reprising his starring role as Henry Carr
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48PMNYU Skirball, New York, New York. April 14, 2018. The NYC premiere of Love Heals All Wounds, directed and choreographed by Jon Boogz and Lil Buck, with spoken word poetry by Robin Sanders, w…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:34PMBroadway’s sly and spry revival of Tom Stoppard's “Travesties” is guaranteed to work your gray matter. It also engages smile muscles.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:33PMPerformances forANNIE THE MUSICALbegintonight,Tuesday April 24at theEd Mirvish Theatre ANNIEis now on stagethroughJune 3, 2018.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33PMDavid Ives' recent plays, a series of "rediscovered" gems of French theatre, translated into English and done in verse, feel like the stage equivalent of a thrilling Jenga game.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:30PMLady Gaga convinced Bradley Cooper to sing live for “A Star Is Born.” The pop star told the actor that is a pet peeve of her’s was watching actors lip-synch to pre-recorded…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:22PMThis familiar musical revue of Broadway legend Jerry Herman's hits and misses, Jerry's Girls, has been reimagined for the Wick theatre by Herman's buddy Lee Roy Reams and performed by a com…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PMThe screen and stage star invents herself anew, this time in song A onetime Martha and Maggie the Cat in the theatre, not to mention a screen siren of the sort they don't make anymore, might…
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Reston Community Players is currently showing the amusing and energetic Thoroughly Modern Millie, with original book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlon, new music by Jeanine Tesori, and new …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45PMIn the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway revival of “Travesties,” a sign (“Ruhe Bitte”) on the show’s set advises us to please be quiet in the Zurich reading …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:24PMRoundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic DirectorCEO - in association with Chocolate Factory Productions David Babani, Artistic Director and Sonia Friedman Productions -present the f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24PMIt’s 1979 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where people are disappearing right off the street. The so-called “Dirty War” waged by the military Junta against its own people is in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:20PMThis exuberant revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1974 comedy of the intellect, starring Tom Hollander, is one of the sweetest and strangest defenses of art.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PMLincoln Center’s sumptuous fourth Broadway revival of “My Fair Lady,” the supremely tuneful and witty 1956 Lerner and Lowe musical adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s pointed 1913 pla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08PMTom Stoppard’s Tony-winning 1974 play Travesties, stuffed thick as a English gentleman’s armchair, its ideas on art, war, patriotism and purposeful nonsense fashioned into a nons…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM★★★★ Tom Stoppard's early masterwork is a shell-shocked delight in revival at the Roundabout
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM★★★★★ Tom Hollander heads a just about perfect cast, directed just about perfectly by Patrick Marber
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM“Da, da!” when translated as “Yes, yes!” is a fittingly celebratory salutation to greet the sparkling and incisive revival of Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties” which has arrived at t…
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Twenty-five years after it rocked the world the first time, Angels in America is back on Broadway. The National Theatre's production of Tony Kushner's masterpiece is now running at the Neil …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMAccording toRadar, Lindsay Lohan will attend Mean Girls on Broadway tomorrow night The report says that the actress, who originated the now-iconic role of Cady Heron in the 2004 film Mean Gi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMSignature Theatre presents the premiere of the new musical Girlfriend.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMGOLDEN SANDS AND GRIEVANCES Nicola Werenowska has certainly found fertile ground for the setting of her play: the decline of English seaside towns (in this case Clacton) from t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:50PMPiccadilly, LondonWill Young entertains in a sequined catsuit but this laborious version of the charming film is a step in the wrong directionI don’t know if it’s been spotted already, b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PMMore stars have been announced to appear in the 2018 season of the Berkshires' Williamstown Theatre Festival. Two-time Tony winner Chita Rivera and Broadway alums Eden Espinosa and Kryst…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today and this weekend.
Alice by Heart Musical to Play Vassar Before NYC Premiere
The highly anticipated new musical Alice by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PMBen Thompson stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about Waitress and more with Ryan Lee Gilbert.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PMThe way to document the finished works hasn’t been completed yet, but each will be accompanied by extensive musical notes, Labanotation — a method for recording dances — interviews wit…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMI’ve run a handful of races per year since my first 5K in 2008, and have done enough theme/costume runs to be used to seeing women (and occasionally men) in fluffy statement skirts—somet…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 06:18PMThe state's largest theatre has cancelled the remainder of its season, citing financial troubles.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:13PMThe Huntington Theatre Company's production of Merrily We Roll Along took home seven awards, including Best Musical in the Large Stage category, and SpeakEasy Stage's Curious Incident of the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12PMThe final presentation of the recently expanded Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge, took place just last night. This year's Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge finalists included Eliza …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12PMThe Dallas theatre will produce a world premiere by Nathan Alan Davis and a new adaptation of 'A Doll's House' by artistic director Joanie Schultz.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:05PMThis new musical based on J Meade Falkner’s melodramatic Victorian 1898 novel, Moonfleet is a lumpen, deadly earnest affair. The story swirls
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMBaz Luhrmann’s warm and silly 1992 debut Strictly Ballroom, the first of his ‘Red Curtain’ Trilogy – followed by Romeo + Juliet
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Listen: Lauren Class Schneider takes to composer and lyricist, Michael Roberts about “Goldstein: The Musical,” playing off-Broadway at The Actor’s Temple. Class Notes activ…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:55PMStars from some of the most popular shows on Broadway, including Angels in America, The Band's Visit, Dear Evan Hansen, Frozen, Hello, Dolly, The Lion King, Mean Girls, Once on This Island a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMThe Great Leap runs May 23 - June 17, 2018 with a Monday, June 4 opening night at Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2 330 West 16th Street. View the latest photos from rehearsal below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMCurrently in previews at theBernard B. JacobsTheatre 242 West 45th Street isEugene O'Neill's ferocious American classic, The Iceman Cometh, starring Tony Award winner, two-time Academy Award…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMBroadway Recordstoday announcedthatLesli Margherita Rule Your Kingdom - Live at Feinstein's54 Belowwill be released digitally and in stores onFriday, May 11, 2018. The album is currently ava…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMCasting is announced for two REPRISE 2.0 productions with two Tony Award leading actress nominees Laura Bell Bundy Legally Blonde -Tony Nomination,Hairspray, Anger Managementis to play Chari…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMNew York Deaf Theatre (NYDT) will present an accessible production of the Pulitzer Prize finalist's 2011 play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PMThe Reprise 2.0 productions will play UCLA’s Freud Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:38PMThe revival of the Eugene O'Neill classic opens April 26 on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PMAdditional casting has been announced for the new musical Lempicka, and Theresa Rebeck’s latest comedy Seared.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PMEven though the technologies are new, the horror and despair of the current informational carnage are not unprecedented. Since the beginning of the Internet, the unintended consequences of i…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:12PMIf we can't rely on what they say to get a clear sense of how Facebook et al see themselves and the way they are reshaping the world, then what clues do we have? The biggest and most concret…
SOURCE: www.dezeen.com at 05:12PMThis ought to be a real nice clambake! The new Broadway production of Carousel and The Actors Fund have teamed up for a special Monday matinée performance of the Rodgers & Hammers…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMThe cast and friends of Summer get down with Matt Rodin in this boogilicious Red Carpet Challenge on opening night!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMTony Kushner's landmark play is back on Broadway with some landmark players. Take a look at Angels in America.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMWilliamstown Theatre FestivalMandy Greenfield, Artistic Director has announced additional casting for the 2018 summer season, includingEden Espinosa,Samira Wiley,Krysta Rodriguez,Rachel Tuck…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04PMOn this day, we wish a sweet second Broadway birthday to Waitress the Musical
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04PMThe Book of Mormon and Hamilton star will be part of a cast that also includes Georgia Flood and Lucas Neff.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PMThe annual event from Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS took place April 23 and 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PMAlmost 200 high school-aged songwriters around the United States submitted songs for the competition from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Adventure Theatre MTC’s production of Judy Moody & Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt is sure to please both children and parents. The play, a first-of-its-kind, collaborative…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PMDropped into the middle of “My Shot,” the rousing song from the hit musical “Hamilton” that lays out the hero’s dreams and ambitions, is an odd little line that might nudge the mem…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:45PMLifetime's new straight-to-series scripted show American Princess from Jenji Kohan, Jamie Denbo, and Tara Herrmann, has found its leading wench-in-waiting Georgia Flood Anzac Girls, Wentwort…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMCarousel and The Actors Fund announced today that the new hit revival of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's classic musical will host a special Mondaymatinee performace on Monday, May 14, 2018 at 300…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMProceeds from a newly added May 14 matinee will go to the national human services organization.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PMNick Scandalios, the executive vice president of the Nederlander Organization, will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award at this year’s Tony Awards ceremony. Scandalios — a longt…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:28PMMillennial Notes Roy & Walsh Stir Souls with King Lear Mash-Up by Emily Colby An old woman shuffles onto a bare stage in a beautiful, vintage fur coat and old, raggedy pajama bottoms.…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:27PMBut, amidst all this excitement, there was an undertow of concern in the crowd at this year's IRNE Awards.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PMI’ve termed it ‘metric fixation’. The key components of metric fixation are the belief that it is possible – and desirable – to replace professional judgment (acquired through pe…
SOURCE: aeon.co at 04:12PMThe Muny has announced the parental powerhouse that will lead the St. Louis outdoor theater’s closing centennial-season production, Meet Me in St. Louis. Tony nominee Erin Dilly will s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:04PMIn his final vlog episode, Escape to Margaritaville star Paul Alexander Nolan shares how he gets beach body ready!
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L’Imitation of Life, which premiered in 2013 before this year’s remount, is one of Hell in a Handbag’s stronger parodies. Though it will mainly appeal to an older audience due to its s…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:54PMRemember the “Sesame Street” song that includes the lyrical question: Who are the people in your neighborhood? The people that you meet when you’re walking down the street. The people …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:54PMKing Kong will scale the Broadway Theatre this fall when the new musical opens on November 8, 2018. Previews are set to begin on October 5. Producers of the lavish and intricate production h…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:39PMThe stage musical based on the 1997 animated film opened April 24, 2017.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMNew York's acclaimedClassic Stage Companyrecently marked its 50th birthday with a gala celebration on Monday evening, April 23 at Bohemian National Hallrecognizing Artistic DirectorJohn Doyl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PMJust last night, theDramatists GuildFoundation DGF gathered the best of Broadway at the Hudson Theatre to toast the life and work of one of American theatre's greatest living composers,Steph…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PMLena Hall has shared on Twitter that she appeared in a reading of a musical version of theMartin Scorsese film THE KING OF COMEDY at Ars Nova this past weekend.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PMArtists Striving to End Poverty held its inaugural gala April 23 at Feinstein’s/54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:33PM"What Baking Can Do" gets its due.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 03:31PMThe Signature Theatre production, directed by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, begins previews April 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMShoshana Bean will perform at the May 15 gala at the Joyce.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:29PMNew York critics have some things to say about the La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” whose Broadway production opened Monday. And few of those things ap…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:18PMAmazon, Netflix and multiple Hollywood studios (including Disney, Fox, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros.) have sued SET Broadcast over allegations its SET TV service is used expressly for p…
SOURCE: www.engadget.com at 03:06PM"In the 1660s, the French philosopher Blaise Pascal speculated, 'the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.' Pascal surely knew it was hard…
SOURCE: theconversation.com at 03:06PM"One thread to keep in mind again is songwriters used to be able to rely on a steady stream of sheet music sales, and then it was album sales, and then it was download sales. As those have d…
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Is Captain America ready to hang up his shield? Chris Evans has said so in the past, and his contract with Marvel is up after “Avengers 4,” the 2019 follow-up to the imminent …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PMIt's been a decade since stage favorite Caissie Levy took her first steps on Broadway. In the last 10 years, she's become a checkerboard chick as Penny Pingleton in Hairspray, let th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:54PMCharm and whimsy get whacked at 1st Stage.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:48PMBy: Isa Goldberg
April 24, 2018 - Revivals of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel are infrequent indeed. And this production, directed by Jack O’Brien, is a brilliant reimaging of this c…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:40PMThe new stars of Sweeney Todd share how they first came to know the Sondheim and Wheeler musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:37PMOuter Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, today announced the nominees fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMJust last night, theDramatists GuildFoundation DGF gathered the best of Broadway at the Hudson Theatre to toast the life and work of one of American theatre's greatest living composers,Steph…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMSUMMER TheDonna SummerMusical opened on Broadway last night, Monday, April 23, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre,205 West 46th Street. We're taking you to the red carpet below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMClassic Stage Company celebrated its 50th anniversary April 23 with a tribute to its Tony-winning artistic director.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMThe young soprano returns to the Met next season in Rigoletto.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PMI’ve been holding this post on Don the Talking Dog so it could coincide with the new edition of Smithsonian, which features an article on same in which I am quoted. The canine prodigy …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:18PMPlaywright Bran Friel has been called “the Irish Chekhov.” (Friel died in 2015 at 86.) Like the plays of that century-earlier Russian author, Friel’s are character-driven rather than…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 02:13PMThe Fairy Princess wanted to acknowledge some good things – every once in a while…we need some good news – and we have HAD some, so everyone give a big YAAASSS cuz the the …
SOURCE: fairyprincessdiaries.com at 02:11PM SpongeBob Square Pants leads with 11 Nominations! Harry Potter and the Cursed Child follows with 10 and My Fair Lady with 9 Nominations! Photos/Video: Sandi Durell &#…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 02:08PMIn 1971, a boy named Frank saw Johnny Cash live. It changed his life. The comedian reveals why he has written – and starred in – a drama about the hellraising singer’s infamous fight w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMApril appears to be the month of celebrating locally not only cherry blossoms but playwright Samuel Beckett. There are three notable productions in town. Scena Theatre has just presented The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMWith the Avengers movies, "the studio has breathed lucrative new life into its decades-old comic-book properties, and built a ravenous fan base for each new character it introduces at the mu…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PMMuseums have long dealt with unauthorized augmentations of their exhibitions, such as unofficial tours, but technology has opened up new possibilities for activists and art enthusiasts eager…
SOURCE: www.wired.com at 02:04PMSince 1950, on the night of a Broadway opening, before a bustling crowd even enters the house, a tradition takes place among the show’s cast. The chorus member with the most experience…
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Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Tony-winning Artistic Director John Doyle, has announced its upcoming 2018-2019 season, the acclaimed theater's 51st. Highlights include a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PMTime to get your disco on! Summer: The Donna Summer Musical is officially open on the Great White Way. The production opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on April 23. Check out the sparkly c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PMAustin Pendleton starred on Broadway in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, GRAND HOTEL, DOUBLES, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, and the upcoming CHOIR BOY, and Off-Broadway in OH DAD, POOR DAD..., THE EXONERATE…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:35PMOuter Critics Circle2017-2018 Award NominationsOUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAYThe ChildrenFarinelli and the KingHarry Potter and the Cursed ChildJunkOUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICALEscape to M…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 01:29PMNick Scandalios, Executive Vice President of the Nederlander Organization, will be the 2018 recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award. The news was announced on April 24, 2018 by the To…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:26PMSoules steps in for the previously announced Jill Tanner in the Irish Repertory Theatre production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PMOuter Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced toda…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:12PMThe April 18 gala celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PMThe leading ladies and the company of Broadway’s latest bio-musical greet Playbill on the opening night red carpet.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PMThe hit production of the musical Annie will embark on a UK tour, opening at the Manchester Opera House on 9 February 2019
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:08PMThe new UK tour of the hit production of popular musical Annie will open at the Manchester Opera House on 9 February 2019.
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 01:08PMWitch opens with what appears to be a coven of women in black shiny robes circling the stage holding candles. One periodically reads from a book so iridescent that its pages glow in the dark…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMFat Friends The Musical might not be the kind of show you see over and over again, but if you’re looking for a fun, feel-good night out then you can’t go too far wrong with what is an en…
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A fascinating installation employing professional mourners from across the world — but are we participants or voyeurs?
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:57PM"Newish LA Weekly editor Darrick Rainey and publisher Brian Calle run what is perhaps the most on-edge paper at this moment in American journalism. In December of last year, Calle - formerly…
SOURCE: www.cjr.org at 12:54PMIt’s the first time since 1998 for a mass shift to the public domain of material protected under copyright. It’s also the beginning of a new annual tradition: For several decades from 20…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 12:54PMThe nominations for the 2018 Outer Critics Circle Awards are here! The new musical SpongeBob SquarePants heads the list with 11 nominations, followed just behind by the two-part play Harry P…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMThe Tony Awards will honor Nick Scandalios, executive vice president of the Nederlander Organization, with the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award at the 2018 ceremony on June 10. The award pays t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMThe Late Late Show's newest Crosswalk the Musical is here—and it's epic. Tony winner and Late Late Show host James Corden teamed up with Broadway vet and newly minted Oscar win…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMThe Broadway-aimed musical Half Time, née Gotta Dance, has added Tony-winning theater legend Donna McKechnie (A Chorus Line) to its troupe of senior citizen dancers for the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMThe artist’s most popular song on Spotify has been covered by everyone from Philip Glass to the X Factor finalists
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:42PMPresented through the TDF’s Costume Collection, the awards recognize outstanding contributions in costume and theatrical design.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMASTEP recently held a star-studded gala at 54 Below honoring the activism of composer and lyricist Georgia Stitt, and ASTEP's work with CASES, the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Emplo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMWe spoke to the award-winning Schwartz and the dozens of theatre pros he’s impacted at the Dramatists Guild Foundation celebration.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMThe Off-Broadway company, under the artistic direction of John Doyle, unveils its 2018–2019 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMThe Muny announced today the parental powerhouse that will star in the theatre's closing centennial season production,Meet Me In St. Louis,August 4 - 12. Tony-nominated Erin Dilly will star …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced today that Nick Scandalios, Executive Vice President of the Nederlander Organization, is this year's recipient of the Isabelle Stevenso…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMThe casts of Hamilton from Broadway to their friends around the country on tour put together a collection of performances of The Hamilton Polka. Watch below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMThe composer, performer and polymath of music, Bob Dorough, died on Monday, April 23 at age 94. Dorough was known primarily as a bop and cool jazz pianist and singer, but gained another kind…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 12:20PMThe family favorite will begin performances August 4 at the outdoor St. Louis venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM“SpongeBob SquarePants” leads the 2017-2018 Outer Critics Circle list with 11 nominations. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” followed with 10 nominations and “My Fair Lady” bro…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 12:13PMTwist discuss his work, new and old, and the direction he’s going in as we approaches 50.
The post Revisiting the Past: An Interview with Master Puppeteer Basil Twist appeared first on Sla…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:12PMJohn Kander and David Thompson’s new musical will now play through June 17 at the Vineyard.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMThis week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Seth shares tales from his concerts with Barrowman, including onstage pranks he pulled during Sunset and Phantom of the Opera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMIf you’re not already ready, then you probably need to be schooled on how to rock. Luckily, there’s a place to go: School Of Rock. The sensational Olivier Award-winning show has had all …
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:04PMThe theatre executive will be honored for his outstanding dedication to family equality.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 12:04PMIf you don’t know the city and you’ve not heard any stand-up comedy for the last ten years, spending an hour at How to Be a Londoner is a moderately entertaining way to spend your evenin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe next year is an exciting and busy period for musical revivals, as some beloved shows return to the West End. Here are four of the biggest ones that guest blogger Nicole Ackman advises yo…
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Scandalios is the executive vice president of the Nederlander Organization.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMNick Scandalios, Executive Vice President of the Nederlander Organization, will be this year's recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, the Tony administration committee announced tod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:56AMOrange Tree, Richmond Set in a Shropshire village, Joe White’s tender and wise play is suffused with grief, loss – and unexpected laughsIt’s cold comfort down on the pig farm in this h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMAndré De Shields, Georgia Engel, Donna McKechnie, and Lillias White will star in the musical directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM"Over the course of a few weeks, we got a backstage look into the making of Playbill - the unmistakable, yellow-bannered magazine for theatergoers - and the transition of the 134-year-old Ne…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AM"A deeply layered, rigorously controlled formal structure undermined by a strange embarrassing whimsy occurs in almost every painting. While accepted in outlier artists like James Castle, or…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 11:48AMA producer and former performer will lead the launch of a new streaming network devoted to theater and theater-related content this summer, bowing a free version before a subscription tier t…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:48AMFor the cast and directors of "Madama Butterfly" at Cleveland Opera Theater, the work they're staging this week is a creation not only beautiful and powerful but also timely.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:45AMThe summer season will also include new plays by Liza Birkenmeier, Jaclyn Backhaus, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMThe summer season will also include new plays by Liza Birkenmeier, Jaclyn Backhaus, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMTake a peek inside Max von Essen’s fancy dressing room at Anastasia.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMThe Beast in the Jungle, the highly anticipated new show from Scottsboro Boys collaborators John Kander, David Thompson and Susan Stroman, has received an extension by off-Broadway's Vin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMNick Scandalios, executive vice president of the Nederlander Organization, will receive this year’s Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award. The special Tony Award is given each year to a member…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 11:33AMPaper Mill Playhouse announced today the full cast and creative team for the East Coast premiere of Half Time. The newest addition to this stellar cast is Tony award winner and Broadway lege…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMBy Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, April 24, 2018 About a month ago, when I was in New York City to see the spectacular Broadway revival of Angels in America, I also took in a ve…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 11:32AMIn producing this play about prison and societal reintegration, Victory Gardens Theater unconsciously traffics in some of the racial dynamics that prop up the prison system.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:30AMThe Donmar Warehouse has today announced two new productions in Josie Rourke's penultimate season as Artistic Director: Brian Friel's Aristocrats, directed by Lyndsey Turner; and Measure For…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 11:25AMTheatr Clwyd in Wales has announced the participants of its Roundabout writer-in-residence scheme. The three writers are actor Melangell Dolma, director and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMJukebox musicals can tend to be a bit of a mixed bag in my experience; they often tend to sacrifice
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SOURCE: ayoungertheatre.com at 11:24AMBenjamin Alborough’s Cream Tea and Incest is less similar to the ‘Daddy’s Boy’ skit in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt than I
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SOURCE: ayoungertheatre.com at 11:24AMby Dionna Michelle Daniel Our Fountain Family is at the core of our theatre. This week, I had the privilege to sit down with a few of our patrons before the Monday night performance of our h…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 11:20AMOuter Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced toda…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMSUMMER The Donna Summer Musical opened on Broadway last night, Monday, April 23, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 West 46th Street. We're taking you inside the cast's opening night party Ch…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:17AMOn this episode, the critics ponder whether some shows are too dated to revive, reach into the mail bag, and tell you which (non-NYC) theatres are worth a visit this summer.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:16AMPowerhouse, the theater development program by Vassar and New York Stage and Film, has announced its 2018 season, according to Variety. The season will include new musicals by Duncan Sheik a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMHarry Potter and the Cursed Child and the Lincoln Center Theater revival of My Fair Lady were also among the season's most nominated.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMThe singer stars as Enrico in the Metropolitan Opera's Lucia di Lammermoor from April 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMAvicii’s seismic effect on the world of music is still being assessed, some days after his tragically early death at the age of 28. With his music shooting back up the charts, tributes hav…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:05AM“SpongeBob SquarePants”has received 11 nominations for 2018 Outer Critic Awards, more than any other show, followed by “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” with ten, and “My Fair …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04AMThe following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending April 22, 2018.
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SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe Kite Runner is powerful and quite brilliant production that investigates the complexity of power balances between people – and how these can fluctuate and change on the toss of a coin …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWhen it first opened in 1989, “Grand Hotel” won more plaudits for Tommy Tune’s stylish direction and choreography than for its score (by Robert Wright, George Forrest and Maury Yeston)…
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America's self-definition as a nation of immigrants is under threat, as are immigrants themselves. How are U.S. stages and artists dramatizing this moment?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:55AMAmerica may call itself a nation of immigrants, but our stories are still scarce on U.S. stages. Let's change that.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:54AMThe touring production, set to star Josh Young, will still play the Hirsch Theater in Jerusalem in June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMThe touring show will still play the Hirsch Theater in Jerusalem in June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMTheatres find new ways to relate to immigrant and refugee communities, not only as audiences but as partners.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:49AMDACA recipients, feeling unwelcome in the country they call home, claim a home onstage.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:47AMA one-night-only performance of The Lion, the Drama Desk Award-winning solo musical written and performed by Benjamin Scheuer, will play at The Sheen Center on Monday, April 30th at 7 PM. Al…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 10:47AMSophie Tucker may have billed herself as “the last of the red hot mamas,” but she was wrong. Carole J. Bufford easily assumes the mantle with her razz ma tazz style, high energy and powe…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 10:47AMWhat roles can theatre play in the global refugee crisis? Healing, representation—and diversion.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:46AMWhen we practice lifesaving techniques in the pool, we get to choose who is drowning and who is saving. When we get in the boat...
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:44AMThe Broadway, Chicago, tour, and London casts of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical teamed up to pay tribute to Weird Al’s “The Hamilton Polka.”
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMBroadway actress-singer, MAC and Bistro Award winner, Raissa Katona Bennett, returns to the cabaret stage in April celebrating the release of her third recording, Can’t Help Singing—The …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 10:44AMSo much American theatre, from O'Neill to Udofia, has been inspired by the stories of playwrights' immigrant parents.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:43AM"Especially on Caruso's breakthrough records, the sound is scratchy, wiry and wobbly. The same holds true for early recordings of Nellie Melba, Luisa Tetrazzini and other luminaries of that …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMThe Alphabet (Google) subsidiary "says it removed 8.3m videos for breaching its community guidelines between October and December last year as it tries to address criticism of violent and of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMPrincipal casting is set for the upcoming Broadway premiere of King Kong! Christiani Pitts, currently starring in A Bronx Tale on Broadway, will star as Ann Darrow, and Eric William Morris, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42AMIf that’s Donna Summer, then this must be the late 70s and early 80s, the era of disco dancing in the clubs and roller skating at the Roxy. (And let’s not even talk about the fashions.) …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:33AMThe wildly witty and inquisitive company presents two reimagined shorter works: an expanded riff on a short piece created for Hubbard Street last year and a mashup of memorable moments from …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:30AMThe final days of Anne Boleyn are being dramatised for a new site-specific play at the Tower of London, where she was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AMThe John Kander and Fred Ebb musical will play the Southwark Playhouse beginning May 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMSUMMER The Donna Summer Musical opened on Broadway last night, Monday, April 23, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 West 46th Street. Check out photos below of the cast taking their opening n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMProducers Carmen Pavlovic Global Creatures and Roy Furman have announced first principal casting for the new musical King Kong. Christiani Pitts, currently starring in A Bronx Tale on Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMNow, if you want to sing along, you just go right ahead and sing, the hostess of Broadway's newest musical advises her audience at the top of the show. And if you want to dance, go 'head, fl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMThe actor’s solo concert debuts April 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AMGet a first look at the new TV commercial for Katharine McPhee in Waitress.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:17AMThe World Premiere production ofTransfers, written byMCC Theater's Youth Company Playwriting Lab Director and Obie Award winnerLucy Thurber, and directed byJackson Gay, opened just last nigh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMThe Tony winner and late-night host offers his own version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein favorite.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMChristiani Pitts will take on the lead role of Ann Darrow and Eric William Morris will play Carl Denham in upcoming Broadway musical “King Kong.” “King Kong” will ope…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 10:14AMChristiani Pitts, currently starring in A Bronx Tale on Broadway, will star as Ann Darrow, and Eric William Morris, who played Sky in Mamma Mia!, will play Carl Denham in next season’s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:13AMA new streaming platform promises that all the world's a stage with original programming and broadcasts of hit musicals and plays.
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:12AMWhen the radiant, intellectual soprano Julia Bullock stepped on stage Carnegie Hall's intimate venue, Weill Recital Hall (just 268 seats), to wild applause, I felt like I was the only one he…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07AMLaChanze, Ariana DeBose, and Storm Lever star in the new biomusical, which opened April 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AMBy Audra Almond-Harvey. Audra Almond-Harvey, executive director of abrasiveMedia, explores Nashville, Tennessee’s evolution as a city since the flood of 2010.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:04AMChristian Gerhaher joined the ensemble for a performance including rarely heard works at the Royal Opera House
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:01AMThe purpose of my visit was very specific to the Watermill Theatre. The forthcoming production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Paul Hart, and building on the success of last year�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe British conductor’s debut with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin included his own work alongside Liszt and Britten
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:00AMIzzy Tennyson won the Ideastap/Underbelly award for her debut solo show Brute at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She tells Giverny Masso
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMBrian Friel's 1990 play focuses on one weighty summer in the lives of five sisters sharing a small cottage in rural northwest Ireland
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:00AMArtistic director Dennis Garnhum of the London, Ont., theatre keeps going bigger and better. Up next: seats have been removed to recreate a racetrack for Chariots of Fire.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AMRiotous cabaret EFFIGIES OF WICKEDNESS (Songs Banned by the Nazis), a rare musical offering at west London's Gate Theatre, has extended until 9 June 2018, with a cast including drag artist L…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 10:00AM
Performances will begin in October at the Broadway Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AMThe Dramatists Guild Foundation hosted a star-studded concert to honor the famed composer at the Hudson Theatre April 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AMLeslye Headland is a playwright, screenwriter, director, and creator. We speak with her about her process for writing the play "Surfer Girl," taking an indirect path to directing, and what i…
SOURCE: The Interval at 09:43AMThis is an important and timely book, one that happens to be compulsively readable and that anyone even mildly interested in the intersection between religion and politics, faith and science…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMSomerville's Union Square hosts four chocolate companies, in renovated warehouses.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AM68th Annual Awards Outer Critics Circle Announce 2017-18 Season Nominees
“SpongeBob SquarePants”Heads the List with 11 Nominations! Followed by “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:38AM"As conversations about bullying heat up throughout the country, with the role of social media and the effects on adolescent mental health emerging as related concerns, there's no better tim…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 09:36AMThe Dunya Contemporary Art Prize, a biennial award which includes a commission from the Museum of Contemporary Art and an exhibition with a catalogue as well as $100,000, goes to Sophia Al-M…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:36AM"[Sierra] Boggess, who got her start as Ariel in Broadway's The Little Mermaid in 2007 before joining the casts of Phantom of the Opera and School of Rock, [had been cast as] Maria in a Roya…
SOURCE: slate.com at 09:36AM"The piece spurring the conversation [at Pacific Northwest Ballet] is RAkU, created in 2011 by Ukranian-born Yuri Possokhov, who danced with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow before becoming the …
SOURCE: crosscut.com at 09:36AMJohn Lloyd Young, the multi-award winning Frankie Valli from Broadway’s Jersey Boys, as well as the star of Clint Eastwood’s movie adaptation returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below and it wil…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 09:30AMA new musical by the Tony-winning duo behind “Spring Awakening,” Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, and another by Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown are on tap for the 2018 se…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMA lavishly staged new production of the ever "loverly" classic musical
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:30AMBy: Isa Goldberg
April 24, 2018 - In this small stage musical, Goldstein, a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, grapples with his feelings about his parents, his family, and growing up. By rei…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:29AMDo you remember 1979? Watch this fantastic trailer for The Gift of the Gab, the first in Simon David Eden's Brighton trilogy, for a feel of the swirling social and historical context for thi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:28AMSUMMER The Donna Summer Musical opened on Broadway last night, Monday, April 23, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 West 46th Street. We're taking you inside the big night with the cast Watch…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMIt has only been a month since the tragic death of cast member Yann Arnaud, who fell to the stage during a new duo straps routine when the show was in Tampa.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:02AM"Over the course of three stories, we draw a very direct line between the young actors the audience see on stage and the people they’ll be in 60 years time – asking what conversations do…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMOn Saturday, April 28th at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, Vocal Arts DC will present their newly commissioned, world premiere of composer Gregory Spears’ song cycle, WALDE…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMAnna Camp and Thomas Sadoski costar in an uneven Pasadena Playhouse production of playwright Amy Herzog's drama-with-a-dash-of-"Psycho."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
National, LondonThe easy word to describe Brian Friel's Aristocrats is "Chekhovian". The decay of a great Georgian house, the decline of a once-powerful Catholic family, the eventual expulsi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMOnce again, Imagination Stage turns an ages-old classic into something modern and relatable for both kids and adults. In this fine adaptation of the story of Robin Hood by Greg Banks, direct…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMJamaican dancehall and Georgian polyphonic chanting – it seems like an odd pairing for a main stage production, but Cecilia Bengolea and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:44AMTheater Pizzazz’ Magda Katz was on the scene of Stephen Schwartz’ big birthday celebration at the Hudson Theatre on April 23 when The Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF), Andrew L…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 08:36AMRomola Garai, playwright Ella Hickson and director Blanche McIntyre on how theatre needs to be fearless in both form and content
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:36AM"The priceless tome was brought to an Alençon (Orne, Normandy) auctioneer specialising in the sale of religious objects, by an anonymous owner several months ago. It was discovered to have …
SOURCE: www.connexionfrance.com at 08:33AM"The sprawling 1.5-million-square-foot National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, designed by Dutch firm Mecanoo Architects, was recently completed in the southern port city of Kaohsiung ... Sl…
SOURCE: www.smithsonianmag.com at 08:33AMJulie Fuchs says that the management of the Hamburg State Opera has informed her that she cannot perform the role of Pamina in this spring's production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte because "…
SOURCE: www.classicfm.com at 08:33AMBill Bailey's live comedy show, Larks In Transit, will transfer to the West End stage for a limited engagement this December. The comedian's show is currently on tour …
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:28AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 24 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:12AMMel Giedroyc has swapped punning with Sue Perkins on Bake Off and The Generation Game for verbal duelling with John
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SOURCE: ayoungertheatre.com at 08:06AMPresented by Acting Gymnasium and updated for the 21st century, Molière’s The Misanthrope is directed by Gavin McAlinden and transposed to modern day London.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMPuppets are on the up – War Horse and Pinocchio being just a couple of recent examples. So now is a better
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AM
When the sun is shining, and the wheels are rolling, there's only one thing to do: get All Or Nothing - The Mod Musical rocking.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:53AMBefore we finish the last 2 preliminary rounds of The Broadway Olympics (see your results so far HERE), this week's poll is a quick one. Let's take the pulse of Broadway fans!Whic…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:36AMAbbey theatre, DublinA sensitive revival of Brian Friel's play about a Catholic family in Donegal offers no easy answers to the problems of class and kinThe title of Brian Friel's play from …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMSound and movement rhythms are set against each other in a show that throws in mediaeval singing, a dancehall soundtrack, and clopping pointe shoes
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:32AMWhile onstage gender reversal has long been a common sight in pantomime, drag has tended to be regarded as a niche style
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMWith his background writing for Coronation Street, playwright Ben Tagoe knows how to crank up the tension in a confined space. With
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMIt's the little stuff that counts: Joe White's debut is another special play from a special theatre.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:09AMThe St Petersburg Ballet Theatre's full-length classic Swan Lake, which returns to London this summer, has announced an exciting array of guest stars.
The post Guest stars revealed for St Pe…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:08AM Sierra Boggess has withdrawn from a concert performance of West Side Story at the BBC Proms after a backlash over the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMActors Alexander Vlahos and Alexandra Dowling have argued it is “more important than ever” to give children opportunities to see live theatre,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMCast members from the West End’s longest-running musical, The Phantom of the Opera, were hailed the stars of West End Eurovision 2018, scoring a remarkable double victory. The post West En…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM
By Sophie Adnitt
Sophie Adnitt reviews West End Eurovision, a special event benefiting TheatreMad held at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre. West End Eurovision Shaftesbury Theatre 22nd Apr…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:46AM“A lot can happen in a day” is the low-bubbling refrain of Joe White’s debut play Mayfly. Set in rural Shropshire, it’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMA desperate need for dialogue: Katherina Radeva writes on why she's organising a day of ideas-sharing around questions of otherness and identity.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:31AMThe writer and producer spoke to Love London Love Culture about Cream Tea and Incest, now playing at The Hope Theatre following a run at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. For those w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMThe Pint-Sized Playwriting Podcast exists to help emerging playwrights understand how to get ahead in the world of new theatre. This latest episode is with the superb Janet Fillingham, liter…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMCome From Awaystar Jenn Colella and The Band's Visitsensation Katrina Lenk will announce the nominees for the 2017-18 Outer Critics Circle Awards tomorrow, April 24thin the Oak Room at New Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12AMThere’s a lot to like about The Gulf, as it delves insightfully into what makes relationships work, and what makes them fail.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMOliver Tompsett and Natalie McQueen will step into the lead roles of Charlie Price and Lauren in the London cast of Kinky Boots alongside Simon-Anthony Rhoden who continues as Lola.
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Listen: Reviews for “Summer” and “Harry Potter” are in, Sierra Boggess withdraws from “West Side Story” Concert, and Chita & ALW to Receive Lifetime A…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:55AMFeeling the pressure of airing in primetime, James takes on his most ambitious Crosswalk the Musical yet with 'The Sound of Music' -- and reluctantly invites Allison Janney, Anna Faris, Kuna…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54AMGood morning BroadwayWorld Today's top stories Travesties opens at the American Airlines Theatre, the nominations are announced for the Outer Critics Circle Awards, and more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54AMArtistic director Josie Rourke has announced two new Donmar Warehouse productions for 2018: Brian Friel's the Aristocrats, directed by Lyndsey Turner, and her own gender-swapping production …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:40AMFans of the historic Crighton Theatre in Conroe, Texas, are well-acquainted with the high quality work of its resident company, STAGE RIGHT PRODUCTIONS, all under the guidance of producers, …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:36AMAlan Bennett feels passionately about education, he tells John Crace - from the issues he raises in The History Boys to 'morally wrong' university tuition feesThere's a line in The History B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMMale and female stars to share roles in new spin on Shakespeare tale of sex and powerGender fluidity on stage will be taken to the next level when the actors Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMThe choreographer on staging Crave with an all-female cast and the struggle of performing with Merce Cunningham’s companyJulie Cunningham might have been precision-engineered to dance the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMHayley Atwell and Jack Lowden will star in a new production of Measure for Measure at the Donmar Warehouse, in which they
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:09AMI was 10 when I got my first professional acting job. I’d been at a local stage school and some producers came
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMeet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details… John
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMReared features a tangled web of secrets that can’t all fit under one roof, leading to a hurried conclusion, but Paddy Glynn stands out.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMHow did you start off in theatre? In the National Youth Theatre run by Michael Croft – a wonderful introduction to life
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Buckcherry, P.O.D., LIT and Alien Ant Farm are all set to join forces for the "Gen-X Summer" tour.As a group, Generation X has a notorious reputation and is hailed as the generation of slack…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:34AMTheir latest record "Off To The Races," is a vibrant and electic amalgam of the music of JukeBox. Comprising of the most colorful and bombastic songs by the band, this marks their fith studi…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:34AMSofter Sex Productions presents a performance featuring the trio of 'Corina Seas, Little Galaxies and Lizzy Loeb.' Corina Seas is still a fresh face on the L.A. music scenario. She has a bac…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:34AMCannes 2018 brings back ‘Persona Non Grata’ Lars von Trier with his most recent serial killer drama, “The House That Jack Built,”The controversial Danish director will premiere his n…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:27AMThe cult rags-to-riches crime drama of 1983, “Scarface,” penned by Oliver Stone and directed by Brian De Palma, reached its 35th anniversary and has been screened at the Tribeca Film Fes…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:26AMSony Pictures Entertainment Chairman Tom Rothman assured theater owners Monday that his studio is dedicated to appealing to a range of audiences — from global franchises such as “Spider-…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:04AMEvans, now on Broadway in "Lobby Hero" and soon to reprise his signature role as Captain America in "Avengers: Infinity War," reveals his theater-kid roots, details the difficulties of spit …
SOURCE: stagecraft.libsyn.com at 04:00AMA slightly belated present for #ShakespearesBirthday. Casting is announced for this summer's fringe revival of Olivier Award-winning RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET, with nods to the bard's T…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 04:00AM
Born this day, Marceline Day (Marceline Newlin, 1906-2000). Originally from Colorado Springs, and raised in Salt Lake City and Venice, California, Marceline Day was the younger sister of Ali…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:24AMJUBILATION! It promises to be one of the most enchanting nights of theater in a long time. On Saturday April 28 at 8:00, some of London and Hollywood’s greatest names will gather at The Wa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:07AMOctober 1, 1946: the first night of JB Priestley's play left critics bored and stifling groans"Bang! Bang! Mr Priestley lets drive with both barrels," was the Times's verdict on An Inspector…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AMThe band “Django Django,” will get on stage to perform some new numbers from their latest album "Marble Skies." This time they will have the company of Los Angeles based singer and songw…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:04AMEvery Friday night becomes unique at L.A.-based nightclub Largo when multi talented musician Jon Brion woos the audiences with his enigmatic compositions. Born. 1963 Jon Wright Brion is a co…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:04AM
All or Nothing, the self-described “Mod Musical” now at the Ambassadors Theatre directly following a run at the Arts, tells the story of the Small Faces, the English rock band fr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42AMThe highly anticipated new production of Tom Stoppard's 1975 comedy Travesties officially opens at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre on April 24. Patrick Marber directs the produc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42AM By Sandi Durell The current production of Transfers by Lucy Thurber, from MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, follows a very real path of thought provoking human…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 12:40AMHow do you stand when the ground around you is moving, what forces push and pull and how do you find what unites us all Chunky Move’s world premiere of Common Ground by Artistic Director…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:39AM Described by The New York Times as “electrically thrilling,” by Variety as “a performer who can reveal the sorrows, pains and joys of the composer’s richly layered reperto…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 12:24AMIt was revealed on Twitter tonight that the cast of The Bands Visit will stop bythe TODAY showthis week for a special performance from the show andkicking offBroadway Week on the morning sho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24AMLyricist-librettist Russell collaborated with composer Janet Hood on the musical, which begins performances April 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTom Stoppard’s Tony-winning play officially opens on Broadway April 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTom Stoppard’s Tony-winning play returns to Broadway for the first time since 1975.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHow Greg Garcia and Mike O’Malley baked Jimmy Buffett lyrics into the plot of their original musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Dance Enthusiast asks Chinese choreographer Nuo An about getting inspired by tea. In response, she reveals that, "The dance's poetry addresses our senses, from inhaling a floral scent to…
SOURCE: www.thedanceenthusiast.org at 12:00AMHow Lucy Thurber's new drama was inspired by a pair of her pupils---Obie-winning playwright Lucy Thurber is as interested in talking about her teaching experiences as her new drama Transfers…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMIn IMPRESSIONS: Jon Boogz & Lil Buck's Love Heals All Wounds at NYU Skirball, "The poppers’ sharp hits travel joint-to-joint juxtaposing with the fluid rhythms and suspensions of jookin�…
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