“I graduated from Georgetown in 2000 and started off sleeping on my sister Gina’s couch in Carroll Gardens,” says comedian Mike Birbiglia. “And 18 years later, I live in Carroll Gard…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:55PMChoir Boy, a play with music, tells the story of a young man ready to take his rightful place as leader of his school's gospel choir.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMJustin Edwards stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about The Ferryman and more with Ryan Lee Gilbert.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMThe City has been growing a lot, especially the downtown. It’s ripe for a great arts scene. The trick? How to keep it lively and desirable but affordable at the same time. Artists love…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PMThe ideal of super-smart people using those super smarts to create disruption for the betterment of all, or as Steve Jobs once put it, engineers working, quote, “to solve most of humankind…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 will come to Tokyo this year Check out a first look at production footage in the video below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12PM“A Star Is Born,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Vice,” “The Hate U Give,” and “Deadpool 2” are among the films nominated for the 34th …
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The play, “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” will be read this weekend at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on the Lower East Side.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMThe re-enactments will be staged at the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse and Fordham Law School.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:33PMTony nominee Sara Bareilles and Tony winner Gavin Creel discuss their friendship and why they're excited to star in Waitress together.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMJonathan Larson’s Tony- and Pulitzer-winning musical heads to the small screen January 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PMTelevision was a revolution in the way people accessed information and entertainment. We forget now, but artists were intrigued not just by by the medium’s possibilities but also by it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMEric Booth: “Teachings artistry lives in the hybrid zone, where two essential human realms meet—art and learning—to enrich one another and create the most fecund human space. Indee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMThe immersive stage adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s cult novel opened in New York City last summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PMOn this day, we're wishing a happy birthday to Tony Award-nominated composer, Dave Malloy
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PM
AHN doctor helps a team from Pittsburgh Public Theater, including Tamara Tunie as Prospero, prepare for a new all-female adaptation.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:43PMEight groups will remount full productions of their high school play or musical during the 56th annual festival in Nebraska this June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMIn a recent blog post I enumerated poems or parts of poems that have been amiably haunting me all my life. Yet there is one of tem that, though frequently recurrent, I did not mention. It ru…
SOURCE: John Simon at 04:36PMThe three Chers of The Cher Show —Stephanie J. Block, Micaela Diamond and Teal Wicks —along with their Sonny, Jarrod Spector, join Rebecca for a lively chat.
SOURCE: play.acast.com at 04:30PMThe world premiere of If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a MuhFucka written by Tori Sampson, who is making her New York City professional debut, and directed by Leah C. Gardiner has found its Of…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 04:24PMWritten by Daddy Long Legs and Jane Eyre composer Paul Gordon, Emma stars Doctor Zhivago's Kelli Barrett in the title role.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMThe Tony winner joins the show’s composer for a limited engagement beginning January 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today.
Watch Bryan Adams Offer Up a Surprise Performance at Pretty Woman
'90s hitmaker and Broadway-composing newcomer Bryan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PMThe latest about The Prom, Hamilton in Puerto Rico, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:14PMMany tribal art dealers feel that their work in restoring and preserving pieces, documenting information about them and helping to establish collections, has been misrepresented and point to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMA 25-year-old Air Force vet and translator for a U.S. intelligence contractor, Winner was convicted of leaking a classified NSA report on Russian hacking of US voter databases. For The Inter…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMPeter Galison: “The general project that I’m working on is about the self and technology—what we understand by the self and how it’s changed over time. My sense is that the self …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM"Crazy Rich Asians" and "Black Panther" are among the 10 nominees for the Producers Guild Awards announced Friday.
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Check out the video below for a look inside Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of Choir Boy, written by Academy Award winner Tarell Alvin McCraney
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54PMSingle tickets will go on sale to the public at 1000 am on Saturday, January 5th for The Bard SummerScape production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma, which had a critically acclaimed, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54PMGenevieve Angelson and Dan Daily complete the cast of the Manhattan Theatre Club production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PMFind your next job with this selection of upcoming auditions for Broadway and shows around the country.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PMThe play with music, from the acclaimed Oscar-winning Moonlight writer, will open January 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PM“Stories that are ability-positive center around real or fictional characters with different ability statuses, not for dramatic reasons, like an abled character experiencing a new stru…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMIt was a big year in literary deaths. End-of-an-era stuff… – LitHub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMThe spectacular new musical Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory begins on stage today (Saturday 5 January) ahead of the official Opening Night on Friday 11 January 2019 at Sydn…
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Broadway Records today announcedthatEmma Original Soundstage Recordingwill be released digitally onFriday, January 11, 2019and in stores onFriday, January 25, 2019.The album is currently ava…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMSingle tickets will go on sale to the public at 1000 am on Saturday, January 5th for The Bard SummerScape production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma, which had a critically acclaimed, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMIt's a true stage romance We're wishing all the best to newly engaged Hamilton alumsAnthony Ramos and Jasmine Cephas-Jones. Ramos announced their big news on Instagram, check out the post be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMOpposites attack in Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play True West, about two brothers with more in common than they think. Holed up in their mother’s California house, lowlife L…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 02:46PMGot hours to spare? Cause there are a lot of awesome numbers from Broadway musicals revivals.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:36PMI’m now completely immersed in the work on my book on Shakespeare in Berlin in the last 100 years. In particular, I’m currently digging as deep as I can into the Weimar Republic …
SOURCE: www.dispositio.net at 02:32PMAll The Possibilities: Broadway Sings Wartofsky, with performances from Baldwin, Darius de Haas, Annie Golden, Alysha Umphress, and more, is available January 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PMFull casting has been announced for The Cake, a new play by Emmy nominee Bekah Brunstetter making its New York premiere at City Center—Stage I in 2019. Manhattan Theatre Club Arti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMWait for it. Anthony Ramos and Jasmine Cephas Jones, the mega-talented original cast members of Hamilton who began dating at the start of the hit musical's run, were engaged on Chri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMThey're going to see what baking can do! Tony nominee Sara Bareilles and Tony winner Gavin Creel are getting ready to start their shifts in Waitress on Broadway. This will mark Bareilles…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMWe guess we can say the producers … produced … their nominees for the worthiest films of the year. Ushering in Oscars season just a little bit more, the Producers Guild of America releas…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:11PMMatt Zoller Seitz: “These types of guys thrive on attention, and if they can’t get the positive kind, they’ll settle for the negative. ‘Oh, sure, they’ve tried …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PMOnce a writer dies, their work is controlled by an estate. Of course. But that control can often result in censorship, unreasonable demands for fees, and suppression of scholarship. Pity the…
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Kicking off 2019 and this 25th Anniversary season, Tony and Grammy award-nominated Michael McElroy and BIV present a fully choreographed rendition of Journey to the Past from Anastasia.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, Sara Bareilles, will return to Waitress in the role of Jenna, joined by Tony Award-winner, Gavin Creel as Dr. Pomatter for a limited engagement January …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMThe stars from the original Broadway cast announced their engagement from Europe.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PM“BlacKkKlansman,” “Black Panther,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” “The Favourite,” “Green Book,” “A Q…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:32PMFor decades New York Stage and Film has given artists the opportunity to birth their dreams.
SOURCE: Forbes at 01:32PMThe Juilliard School Drama Division and its Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program present the second of two 2018 Houghton Festival Readings. The North Star written by Donja R. L…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:27PMActor Danny Dyer spoke on several issues like the future of UK, the US President and about his friendship with Harold Pinter at the Alternative Christmas Message aired by Channel 4 at 3 pm o…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:19PMOlivia Colman’s royal comedy ‘The Favourite’ has earned 10 nominations and is leading the race for the London Critics Award. The other contenders are Rupert Everett’s ‘The Happy Pr…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:14PMA fresh innovative way to experience musical theatre is coming to you, well, to your iTunes…in the form of a podcast. David Zellnik (the book writer/lyricist of Yank!) & Eric Svejcar (…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 01:06PMName: Coco TaylorWhere can we find you out and about?: I’m at Rockbar every Tuesday at 9pm hosting my show Cuckoo for Coco.Why Drag?: Because TheaterWorks USA stopped calling.What made you…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:06PMBroadway’s CHRIS MCCARRELL discusses reprising his critically acclaimed role of Percy Jackson for the new national tour [...]
The post Interview with “THE LIGHTNING THIEF’S” CHRIS …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:06PMSite-specific suffragettes, "All Our August," plays at Trader Joe's: local dramaturgs share their interests and ambitions.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMWith physical humour, highbrow theatrical humour, lowbrow theatrical humour, musical theatre moments, live stunts and more, Peter Pan Goes Wrong is highly recommended for fun-loving families…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM
Final casting has been confirmed for All About Eve, Ivo van Hove's upcoming stage adaptation of the legendary film, led by Gillian Anderson and Lily James.
The post Full cast confirmed for A…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:55PMPresenting: “Bang One Out,” Whisperado‘s new lyric video, which premiered yesterday at Blogcritics.
SOURCE: jonsobel.com at 12:54PM“During a years-long pro bono legal fight, Mr. Begle represented [Ruth] Brown and other R&B artists, helping them claim royalties from past sales, industry-standard royalty agreeme…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMSmall gains were made in other key behind-the-scenes positions, the study found. Women accounted for a greater percentage of producers, executive producers, writers and editors, compared wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMThe Tony-nominated Summer star wants you to put down your phone, just for a moment, and enjoy your day.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMChase Brock stages a futuristic, full-length narrative dance theater piece.
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:48PMTheCasting Society of Americahas released the feature film nominees and hosts for the 34th annualArtios Awards, according to Deadline.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMThe Highline Ballroom concert will feature all-new arrangements of the Grammy-winning singer’s hits, including “Hello,” “Someone Like You,” “Rolling in th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMEmploying humor, documentary detail and suspense, Bachner offers an emotional detective story. Wit and whimsy meld with poignancy as the picaresque quest begins in present day New York City.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:36PMBy Douglas Mayo
Ramin Karimloo, star of The Phantom Of The Opera, Love Never Dies and Les Miserables will tour the UK from January 2019. Ramin Karimloo UK Tour tickets are now on sale.
This …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:36PMBelow is a selection from an Off-Broadway season full of starry faces like Daveed Diggs, Jake Gyllenhaal, Isabelle Huppert, Uzo Adubi et al, in plays by Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:27PMWhile we get used to practising our numbers, we thought we'd test yours - in our lyric-themed Theatre Quiz, based on the numbers of musicals!
The post Theatre quiz: Musical lyrics by number…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:19PMLarry Marshall is headed back to the diner. The Tony nominee and Waitress alum will step back into the role of Old Joe beginning on January 7, replacing June Squibb, who will play her f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:04PMThe Tony nominee will play Joe alongside Sara Bareilles and Gavin Creel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PMThe White Rabbit Red Rabbit playwright brings his latest play, NASSIM, to New York.
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We’ve read about how Khmer royal court dance has been revived (and even queered). Less familiar is the masked dance-drama lakhon khol, which was nearly wiped out, along with the countr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM“We assume that a search engine company builds a model of human knowledge and allows us to query that model, or that some other company (or maybe it’s the same company) builds a mode…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMDerek Thompson points us back to the age of the “party press,” when newspapers were funded by political organizations that “treated readers as a group to engage and galvani…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM"Blue Man Group" ✭✭✭ 1/2 "Blue Man Group" has been playing at Briar Street since 1997, a remarkable run of 20-plus years. There have been only two major overhauls in that time; the lat…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:45AMThe Casting Society of America administers the awards that recognize the artistic contributions of casting directors working in film, television, and theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMThe concert, recorded in summer 2018, features selections from West Side Story and Candide.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMCouncillors have rejected a petition with more than 3,000 signatures to turn a former Odeon cinema in Ashford into a theatre. However,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMTributes have been paid to a 20-year-old performer who went missing while working on a cruise ship over Christmas. Arron Hough, a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMOn Friday, January 11, CBS News correspondent David Begnaud will conduct the first live interview in Puerto Rico with Tony, Grammy, Emmy and Pulitzer Prizewinner Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hamilt…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMIn a special 'Behind the Musical' event, Sierra Boggess and Tim Rogan recently sang 'Cousin's Cousin' from Ever After. Check out the full performance in the video below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMThe duo will begin performances in the hit Broadway musical January 7 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMCooper may have achieved movie star status before getting the chance to direct — “luckily, in the end,” he says — but that gave the actor time to find his voice before making “A S…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:20AMTowards the end of their careers Laurel and Hardy embarked on a UK tour, performing up to 13 shows a week. Stan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMThanks to the smash successes of “Aquaman,” “A Star Is Born,” and “The Meg,” Warner Bros. capped off 2018 with a new milestone. The studio had its biggest…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:18AMArtsBeat Radio on 89.5fm/WSKB for 1/4/19. Westfield native Nick Burrage from the national tour of "Cats" and Paul Marte from Hartford's Bushnell. A Broadway hour. "Cats" plays The Bushnell …
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:03AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM Zip it up. Weeks ago I was looking for a CFO. I found one on ZipRecruiter. So I gotta give ’em a shout. What’s the next one of these? To Kill A Mockingbird is killing …
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Listen to the SpongeBob SquarePants star belt it out on the new song by Will Van Dyke and Jeff Talbot.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMCasting is complete for the highly anticipated West End premiere staging of All About Eve, a new play based on Joseph Mankiewicz's six-time Oscar-winning 1950 film. Tony winner Ivo …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMGet ready, folks, because it's show time! The cast of the acclaimed new Broadway tuner The Prom kicked off their Friday morning offering up a lively number from Matthew Sklar and Chad Be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMThe show's composer took to the stage after the January 3 performance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMLady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Antonio Banderas, Emily Blunt, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler and Lucy Liu are just a few of the big names set to present at the 76th annual Golden Globes Awards te…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:49AMHer residency was scheduled to kick off in February at Park Theater at the Park MGM casino-resort.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:47AMIvo van Hove directs the new stage adaptation of the classic film.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMTrumpeter Jason Palmer is a master of rhythmic displacement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AM“The clue for 2 down in the New York Times‘ first crossword puzzle of the new year was nothing unusual: ‘Pitch to the head, informally.’ But the answer stopped many p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMAndrea Clearfield added Nepali and Tibetan bells, conch shells, and singing bowls to the Western orchestra for Mila, Great Sorcerer, but even those were sounds she already knew. So she got a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMThe Public Theater officially opened its 15th annual UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL on Thursday, January 3. BroadwayWorld attended the opening, and you can check out the photos below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMThis morning, some of the cast of the hit Broadway musical comedy, THE PROM,perform 'It's Time to Dance' in Good Morning America's Times Square studio.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMLin-Manuel Miranda reprises his performance in the title role of his smash hit beginning January 11 in San Juan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMUsual Girls star Midori Francis, School Girls' Latoya Edwards, and Once On This Island's Isaac Powell will also be part of the reading.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMIf you’re a fan of stand-up comedy, you know the highs and lows that come with artists working the crowd with fresh material they’ve been practicing for weeks. With their eyes on you and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:18AMTamara Rojo's casting of Isaac Hernández as the prince is vindicated by his bravura performance
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:18AMAt the start of the year we're all looking for inspiration. Director Bernie C Byrnes has already found hers working with writer/performer Christopher Tajah on Martin Luther King Jr play Drea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:15AMChatillon-DeMenil Mansion hopes to raise $55,000 for window work
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:04AMCity Museum had been looking for a new owner that could keep it growing and make some behind-the-scenes changes, director says.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:04AMNEW YORK • Broadway producers had plenty of reasons to pop the bubbly as 2018 wound down, with many shows recording their most profitable weeks despite some eye-popping ticket prices.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:04AMA hit from Humana, the second of three world premieres from Ike Holter and the woman hidden in the history of DNA are just a few of the productions debuting in the first month of the new yea…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:56AMFor all his brilliance, Shakespeare still suffers from the occasional whining of critics about his later “problem” plays. Longer and more complex, with familiar plot lines splintered and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56AMA public art organisation has been tapped to curate the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale for the first time
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:52AMThe documentary features appearances by Martin Short, Stephen Schwartz, Maya Rudolph, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMJanuary 4 was the birthday of Sorrell Booke (1930-1994). Those who know Booke only as “Boss Hogg” will be startled by aspects of his background. He’s a Yankee from Buffalo,…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:42AMWolfe, who starred in the Off-Broadway revival of The Last Five Years, joins the Tony Award-winning lyricist-composer for the latest installment of his residency.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AMThe Cinexx theater in the town of Hachenburg made the offer to members of the right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland for a screening on Jan. 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Cinexx says…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“New York’s Supreme Court has dismissed a case against [the magazine and its] former publisher, Knight Landesman, whom curator and art fair director Amanda Schmitt claimed had se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“National Geographic Channel has pulled its long-running Neil deGrasse Tyson chat show StarTalk off the air, at least for now, following allegations of sexual misconduct against the fa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“Background music has to walk a tricky line. We want something inoffensive yet meaningful, and you’d better believe that we — the consumer masses — will barrage customer serv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“Five hundred years from now, people will come to that album the way that people come to Wagner and Beethoven. This is a classical piece from our era.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMFrom the Broadway Company and current 1st National tour of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,Madeline Doherty. Maddieadmits that fear and intimidation have been some of the best partners in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMCaitlin Kinnunen, Beth Leavel, and the cast of the original musical rocked out live.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AMFollowing the critically-acclaimed Broadway hit run of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King & I and its record-breaking season at the London Palladium, Bartlett Sher’s production will head…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 09:15AMIt’s now 2019 and we’re doing a fine job of worst-case scenarios without the imaginings of clever film-makers
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:00AMThe Atlanta and Sacramento events will also feature appearances by Frozen star Caissie Levy, Tony-winning producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh, and Heathers star Ryan McCarten.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMStarting off 2019 with plenty of theatre in the diary, these are the nine plays Rev Stan is particularly looking forward to seeing.
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As the start of 2019 begins, and everyone in Theatreland freaks out about where on earth 2018 went, there’s already been some exciting news for West End fans.Missed the latest goings on am…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 08:58AMOur forecast feature allows us to comfortably predict, even before the year’s first show opens, that 2019 will be an exciting one for Washington area audiences as companies open newly …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMThe standup and former banker on the things that make her laugh the mostWhen I was a kid I could not get enough of the Carol Burnett Show and it’s still one of the things I watch on YouTub…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMAfter making waves on Broadway, “Waitress” comes for a much anticipated run at London’s Adelphi Theatre from February 8 through May 21, 2019.The musical is directed by Tony Award® win…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:53AMWho would’ve thought Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first award would be for math? (Although, yes, music was still involved). (Jan. 4)
SOURCE: USA Today at 08:41AMLast month, Thelma Fardin posted a video to Instagram in which she tearfully recounted how Juan Darthés allegedly raped her while they were touring Nicaragua for a telenovela. She was 16; h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AMBook clubs with names such as “Read Women” have been growing in Brazilian cities, pushing for including more work by women authors in publishers’ lists, bookstores’ i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AMThe figures show a bounce-back for the museum after several years of dips in attendance attributed to falling tourism in Paris following the 2015-16 terrorist attacks. Juicing the numbers we…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AMHoward Shalwitz, longtime artistic director of the DC company Woolly Mammoth, writes about his recent visit to the Hungarian capital, reporting that, despite constant political pressure on f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM“A Star is Born” didn’t earn the most Golden Globe nominations this year — that turned out to be “Vice” with six bids — but we do think it will win …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:30AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 4 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24AMBelow are BroadwayWorld's latest Classifieds listings as of 142019. Catch up below on anything that you might have missed and to visit the full section to post FREE classifieds, read ads and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24AMLin-Manuel Miranda and the Hamilton team are gearing up to bring the hit musical to the stage in Puerto Rico. Yesterday, the cast had their sitzprobe. Today, Miranda is taking to Twitter to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24AMLinsdey Huebner talks to writer, Liv Warden about her debut play which focusses on the family of a man accused of sexual assault.
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:18AMNili Hadida is ready with her debut album and will showcase her ambitious new work on stage at New Morning, Paris on January 23, 2019.Lilly Wood and the Prick is the French-Israeli folk pop …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:18AMAn exhilarating, almost farcical dramatisation of 2016’s successful Vote Leave campaign and its Machiavellian director
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:09AMThis collection of issue-related compositions might sound worthy, but strong standalone compositions and tight interplay deliver the ‘uplift’ of the title
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:09AMThese handsomely lit country-soul ballads are populated with distinctively American characters — blue-collar losers, dreamers, gamblers and drinkers
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:08AMWith punchy sound quality and multiple perspectives, this Netflix film is a satisfying record of a top-drawer performance
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:03AMThe term is often used to mean ‘art by women’, but a more accurate definition might be art with a feminist sensibility
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:03AMA new production explores the fertile terrain between VR, augmented reality and immersive drama. But will this kind of storytelling ever truly take off?
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Bekah Brunstetter, a North Carolina playwright whose work has frequently graced DC-area stages, will write the book for a Broadway musical version of the Nicholas Sparks’ bestseller, T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48AMColiseum, LondonEnglish National Ballet’s revival of Derek Deane’s 1997 staging has a flock of well-schooled swans and some standout solos, but there is a lack of chemistry between the l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMOrpheus McAdoo (1858-1900) was a terrifically successful African American minstrel show impresario, back in the era when “genuine” all-black minstrel shows were the rage, paving …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:32AMLast year, we began a series of the Best Title Songs From Broadway Shows. Over the next few weeks, we'll finish that up. This week, it's all about the mid-80's. There were so many wonderful …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:24AMA teacher who stole money given to him by students for theatre trips has been banned from the profession for a minimum
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMThe Nicolas Sparks romance novel, which was adapted into the 2004 hit film, will now debut on the stage
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:04AMTwo episodes of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, became available on line for listening or…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMAlmeida Theatre, London ***
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM“There is one thing that 99 percent of all critics share with one another: they are failures. I don’t mean failures as critics—my God, that’s understood. I don’t even mean they are…
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Once again, art-lings, let me offer you my Best Wishes for an Art-Full New Year, along with CultureGrrl’s Top 20 Stories for 2018. And I’ll end this post with a postlude about an issue t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AMLet’s mention just a few recent recordings by Canadians whose work has caught the ears of the Rifftides staff. — Doug Ramsay
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AMWild Child and Batty Jr. join forces with some other promising musicians for a performance at The Independent, San Francisco, on January 27, 2019.The website of The Independent aptly says th…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:36AMRomantic drama "The Notebook," which sparked a real-life love story between movie stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, is headed for Broadway as a musical.
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