Signature Theatre’s Cabaret Series is a relaxed affair. Pull up a chair and put your elbows on the table because Awa Sal Secka and Katie Mariko Murray are going to make you feel right at h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:46PMShe was best known for wildly different roles, in a frat house comedy and in the 1960s drama “Medium Cool.” She was also in films by Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:32PMGREAT CHORUS, GREAT BRIDGE, GREAT INTRO WONKY SUPERSTRUCTURE A middle 8 is a section in song structure — usually in the middle and consisting of eight bars — that is used to add…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:15PMIt only took fifteen years for Facebook to go from a hotness ranking website to a lynchpin in the collapse of American democracy, but unfortunately The Social Network came out in 2010. That�…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:04PMCapsule reviews are by Charles McNulty (C.M.), Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings Driving Miss Daisy Michael Learn…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMBe Seen This work from Acts of Matter artistic director Rebecca Lemme examines the lives of those on the margins of society; part of the third annual “Dance at the Odyssey” festival. Ody…
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Tony Award nominee Jarrod Spector Broadway's Beautiful, Jersey Boys and currently starring in The Cher Show will premiere his newest solo show conartist this spring, it was announced today. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMIs it possible to disrupt yourself? That’s a question that’s been on my mind a lot as Netflix, hoping to court filmmakers and garner awards recognition for them, has stumbled, reluctantl…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:53PMChristiani Pitts stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about King Kong and more with Caitlin Moynihan.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:48PMBroadway.com #LiveatFive is a daily Facebook Live show in which Broadway.com editors discuss what's going on in the theater community and chat with stage stars. Here's the most …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:48PMJared Marcel Pollen: No taste is triumphant anymore. This is to say that the mainstream is itself in peril as much as the domination of any narrative art within it. Indeed, the very notion o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PMThe actor shares the most meaningful moment, what it was like to make that first entrance, and making Broadway history.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:41PMCatch your favorite Broadway and cabaret stars on stages across the country this month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:34PMHe’s performed alongside the Grateful Dead, the Dave Matthews Band and Sting. He’s appeared in a Spike Lee film. He’s played at Carnegie Hall. And this Sunday, Branford Marsalis and …
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Following widely-acclaimed, sensation-stirring, and sold-out engagements in London and New York, Carole Shorenstein Hays andSonia Friedman Productions with Tom Kirdahy today announced that t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMViveca Chow is one of Broadway's rising stars having recently made her debut in the 2017 revival of Miss Saigon. In an effort to share her art, opinions, advice and more, she is now authorin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMThe concert venue hosted major stars from Broadway and the music industry, including Tony winners LaChanze, Lena Hall, and John Gallagher Jr., as well as Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Adele, an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PMBecause early motion pictures were released on nitrate film, which is dangerously flammable and susceptible to decay—only to become even more flammable as it deteriorates—the majority of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM“Horror movies tend to imaginatively transport consumers into fictional universes that brim with dangers,” the researchers write. “Through such imaginative absorption, peop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMThe heads are unforgettable, standing watch over Easter Island’s windswept plains. Clearly they served some function, but was it more than ceremonial? The answer, say scientists, is ye…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMThe Orioles announced today that, after attracting more than 70 million visitors to downtown Baltimore and the state of Maryland to enjoy baseball at iconic Camden Yards, the ballclub will p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:38PMLast night, January 10, 2019, Brittney Johnson (Les Mis, Motown, Beautiful) stepped on to the stage at the Gershwin Theatre and made history as the first Black woman, or any woman of color f…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 05:32PMArena Stage is offering free tickets to furloughed federal employees with valid government ID for select performances of Kleptocracy January 18 – 23 and The Heiress February 8 – 13. Limi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:29PMLoy A. Webb’s play, starring McKinley Belcher II! and Mandi Masden, will begin performances January 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PM‘Tis the season to be jolly and celebrate, and what better way to do that than talking Nutcracker and traveling through the past, present, and future in A Christmas Carol style, With …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:15PMAcclaimed Broadway actor and close friend, Ric Rider stopped by the studio to talk theater, NY, Columbia and more, plus we learn all about HCC’s Dance department as it takes on a new …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:07PMThe Mississauga-raised actor comes home to the GTA with a role in the touring company of the comedy stage hit.
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The critically acclaimed production, now at Brooklyn's St. Ann's Warehouse, will head to the West Coast next.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:58PMOn this day, BWW is celebrating the birthday of America's own ten dollar founding father without a father, the inspiration for the smash musical bearing his name, Alexander Hamilton.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today.
Mykal Kilgore Is 'King of the World' in Songs for a New World Music Video
The upcoming cast album from this past …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PM“Now, Ms. Schutz admits that she is ‘guarded’ about the controversy …, saying only that [painting Open Casket] was an attempt to ‘register this monstrous act and th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMUsing his own fortune, Verdi built the retirement home for opera singers and musicians, a neo-Gothic structure that opened in 1899. The composer died less than two years later, but he made s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMWe are all customers now; we are all supposed to be kings. But what if ‘being a customer’ is the wrong model for healthcare, education, and even highly specialised crafts and trades? …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMThe director was nominated for a Tony Award for directing the 2016 Broadway production of “Eclipsed” starring Lupita Nyong’o.
SOURCE: USA Today at 04:32PMBonnie Tyler’s aptly chosen lyrics ‘I need a hero!’ welcome us into the modernised Thebes of neon lights and a ping-pong table on wheels; and we are greeted by ‘gods’ facing the ev…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:24PMEXCLUSIVE: After acclaimed and sold-out runs in London and New York, current-events-based play The Jungle will have its West Coast premiere at the storied Curran Theater in San Francisco thi…
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Short Shorts Film Festival in Hollywood is a one-day film festival program that aims to introduce the world of Japanese and international short films through
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:54PM by Carole Di Tosti Shakespeare’s King Lear in the last decade has been performed frequently. Perhaps this is because the elements in the play have currency. The titula…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 03:51PMThe solo comedy will play Theatre Row beginning in March.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PMAward-winning playwright and director Emily Mann, who has served as the Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey since 1990, will ret…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:48PMThis was the weekend when the government abandoned all negotiations with the striking and occupying protesters and turned to outright violence: by Sunday, all occupied buildings had been sto…
SOURCE: www.dispositio.net at 03:45PMThe Highline Ballroom has been forced to abandon its current location and pause programming until a new space can be found. OwnerSteven Bensusan has released the following statement
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMAs 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 photos below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMIt used to be that a handful of glossy magazines and fashion houses determined what’s cool. No longer. And perhaps that explains how “streetwear” has taken over and become …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMOn Friday, Drury Lane Theatre announced casting for its production of “Mamma Mia!” The show will be directed by artistic director William Osetek and choreographed by Jane Lanier with mus…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:15PMThe new musical, directed by Moisés Kaufman, opened January 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMThe Oscar race for Best Picture is still up in the air, especially after the Golden Globes, which picked “Bohemian Rhapsody” for Best Film Drama over presumed Globes and Oscar fa…
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The newly launched podcast Doubletapped explores social media's impact on the personal and professional lives of Broadway performers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PMWhile the orchestra performance and set design are amazing, Bartlett Sher’s staging has a few kinks to work out.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 02:54PMThe young actors stopped by the Playbill studio to interview co-star Mark Lambert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PMThe anchor of the play is Philip Riccio as Clark, who through understated but profound character work draws the audience into Clark’s psyche and his dilemma, writes Karen Fricker.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:43PMFormer Pittsburgh dance coach and choreographer says she will be shooting new episodes for the eighth season of the Lifetime reality series.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:37PMStepping in for Katie Rose Clarke, Johnson's performance marked an important milestone for the show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PMGet ready, PR Hamiton in comin' to town Beginning tonight, January 11,the Broadway mega-hit will play the Luis A. Ferre Performing Arts Center, starring Miranda reprising his role as the tit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMThe latest about Hamilton in Puerto Rico, Be More Chill, and The Prom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PMAstrid Van Wieren and Lisa Horner star in the Broadway and Canadian casts of Come From Away. When they visited Newfoundland, where their Tony-winning musical takes place, they took home a li…
SOURCE: Forbes at 02:26PMReading through dossier after dossier on 16 American writers contained in Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files, what strikes you immediately is the terrifying absurdity of Hoover’s o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMYes, argues scholar Jonathan Rose. “The intelligentsia was driven to create literary modernism by a profound loathing of ordinary common readers. The intellectuals feared the masses no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThis stunning Under the Radar festival show tells the story of Valerie Solanas, the feminist agitator who shot Andy Warhol.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMSpace available at Victory Gardens Theater in the Richard Christiansen Theater (RCT) for 6 weeks in August/September 2019 and potentially either April / May 2020 or May/June 2020. The RCT r…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 02:18PMDirector Trip Cullman conjures a gorgeous conspiracy of elements with Tarell Alvin McCraney’s memory play.
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The national tour, starring Chris McCarrell in the title role, launched January 4 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, at the Walton Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PMFrom David Cromer to Austin Pendleton to Jocelyn Bioh, these ten people pull double duty leading onstage and off.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMBy Douglas Mayo
The Annie UK Tour is back in 2019 with Anita Dobson and Craig Revel Horwood sharing the role of Miss Hannigan. See the tour schedule for Annie the musical UK tour below. Foll…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:51PMThe luxury accommodations serve as an immersive "Waitress" experience, featuring Broadway memorabilia, costumes, signed posters, and a show-themed cookbook.
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:42PMTHEY FOUND THEIR FREEDOM: ON BLUEBERRY HILL
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January 11, 2019: In No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic existentialist drama, one of the three dead characters dest…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:39PMBe More Chill will begin performances at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre 149 West 45th Street on Wednesday, February 13 at 8PM. The official opening night is Sunday evening, March 10. Check out ph…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMIn recent days, staff say, the New Museum has procured the services of Kentucky-based Adams Nash Haskell & Sheridan, a firm that specializes in defeating unions, boasting on its web…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM“As it stands, no new offers are out, nor are any expected to be made to a single potential host to fill the void left by [the] Kevin Hart [debacle]. … [Instead,] producers will sele…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM“If James Graham has learned one thing from writing his latest political drama, it is this: ‘Brexit sends reasonable people mad,’ he said. ‘You are stepping into an a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PMVenus Unwrapped, a year-long festival of music by women, begins with the finest female composer of the 17th century
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:17PMMusicals Louise Redknapp has been forced temporarily to withdraw from Dolly Parton musical 9 to 5 due to injury. She was due
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:13PMThe documentary musical, Witness Uganda, by Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews will make its west coast premiere at The Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts. After a successful Off-…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:13PMSeance: January 23 to March 13. 20 terrifying minutes. ★★★★ The Guardian ‘Creepy and manipulative.’ Darkfield create intense individual experiences in shipping containe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMDean O'CarrollHometown: Amherst, MA. I went to the same high school as Madeline George and Annie Baker. In 2014, Annie won the Pulitzer for Drama (for THE FLICK) and other finalists were Ma…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 01:06PMReview: Wise Ones, Wild Ones, Rich Mix4.0Overall ScoreShoreditch. 2019. It is late; the sun has long since set. An audience is welcomed into a room on the top floor of the Rich Mix performan…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:04PMOn paper, the blue-chip title, solid production values and enthusiastic young cast should be enough to make Clueless the Musical a hit, yet the new Off-Broadway musical is missing the ever e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMAlfonso Ribeiro burst on the entertainment scene with the title role in Broadway’s “The Tap Dance Kid,” and earned his first Variety mention on Dec. 22, 1983, a rave review, when he wa…
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What do our contemporary British culture and philosophy owe to Europe? As the unravelling Brexit chaos begins to bite, a new British play celebrates the great sixteenth-century European who …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:39PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 1112019 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMGHOSTLIGHT RECORDS has announced the second single from Jason Robert Brown's landmark musical Songs for a New World. Preview the music video of King of the World below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMThe North American Tour of Disney's The Lion King has released new production photos of the current cast, check them out below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMThe evening will spotlight the songs of Katya Stanislavskaya.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PMBy Jennifer Christie
Jennifer Christie reviews Bernadette Robinson in Songs For Nobodies now playing at London’s Ambassadors Theatre.
This post REVIEW: Songs For Nobodies, Ambassadors …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:08PMThere was a time when writers – of books, of magazine articles – could make a decent middle class living. That’s increasingly rare. And yet, if anything, we’re readin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMYouth theatres from across the country have been giving back to their communities, and your vote can help one of them win a grant from Playbill.
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The lineup features readings of plays by Kate Cortesi, Obehi Janice, Lily Padilla, and Sylvia Khoury.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMReview: An Enemy Of The People, Union Theatre2.0Overall ScoreI am handed the program for tonight’s performance as I enter, the front cover blazoned with a now infamous image (Seamus Wray) …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:54AMThe two artists are reuniting with Jaap van Zweden and the orchestra for performances in January.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMThe playwright and director’s final season, 2019–2020, will be entitled Signature Emily.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMBy Douglas Mayo
Producers have announced that the current tour of Doctor Dolittle has been cancelled and will finish it’s touron 26 January 2019. Music & Lyrics Productions has ann…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:34AMBy Douglas Mayo
Producers of Dolly Parton’s musical 9 to 5 have announced that Louise Redknapp has had to temporarily withdraw from the show as the result of an injury.
This post Louis…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:21AMThe evening featured a mix of classics and Broadway standards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AMThe new play by Nassim Soleimanpour invites a new actor to perform the play each night (without seeing the script).
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMThere are three things in life that please Betty Buckley above all others. As it happens, cats don’t make the cut. “The things I love most are music, theater and horses — not necessari…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:20AMFollowing an acclaimed off-Broadway premiere with Lincoln Center Theater, Joshua Harmon's Admissions will arrive at London's Trafalgar Studios next month. Alex Kingston will take on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMWhat a celebration we'll have today! Brittney Johnson became the first woman of color to play Glinda in Wicked on Broadway on January 10. Johnson, who became an ensemble member and Glind…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMBarrow Street Theatricals has announced the newest round of rotating guest actors for the American premiere of Nassim by celebrated Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour (White Rabbit Red R…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMNow the International Federation of Actors, FIA, representing performers in more than 70 nations, has released a statement in support of the strike.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMThe producers of The Lightning Thief The Percy Jackson Musical announced this morning Chris McCarrell will reprise the role of Percy Jackson in the upcoming national tour of the musical adap…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMThe photographer’s latest project explores the face of youthful ambition through a series of images captured in Shanghai and Shenzhen
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:15AMPlus: western galleries prepare for the Taipei Dangdai fair; Stik street art restored; Thomas Dane and Simon Preston team up
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:15AMHow does Taiwanese collecting compare to that in mainland China — and will the new Taipei Dangdai art fair change things?
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:15AMJason Chung Tang Yen on how local galleries are responding to the Taipei Dangdai fair — and to wider changes in the market
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:15AMThe artist is the first woman to represent Taiwan at the Venice Biennale, but she is ambivalent about her nationality and gender identity
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:15AMTaipei has sustained centuries-old Chinese traditions of collecting and connoisseurship — upheld today by patrons like Robert Tsao
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:15AMThe government should “crack down” on arts degrees and restrict the number of students taking them because they offer limited economic value
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:14AMNeither gratingly modernist, nor fustily old hat, this new collection shows that symphonies and concertos have life in them yet
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:14AMThe authors let dance serve as a way of embodied knowing -- an intelligence that can unlock an understanding of physics' theories and abstractions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:12AMTony award-winning director Diane Paulus – whose production of Waitress comes to the West End next month – has claimed a world
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMJeez, talk about artwashing. A string of PR disasters, including demonstrations against Britain’s National Gallery of Art for accepting sponsorships, led the Italian defense company Fi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMThe destruction wrought on Myrna Herzog’s 1661 Edward Lewis bass viola da gamba by the Italian airline during Herzog’s trip from Rio de Janeiro to Tel Aviv last January made head…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMThe Dutch conductor, who is currently music director of the New Zealand Symphony and has held the same post with the symphony orchestras of Antwerp, San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Netherlands…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMBack in 2010, we started a reading series in our rehearsal room due to the number of submissions of great developing work we received that wasn’t for us, but we felt should be seen. …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:05AMArtsBeat Radio on 89.5fm/WSKB 1/11/19. New plays and musicals start the New Year in Western New England. Mark G. Auerbach interviews Donna Lynn Cooper Hilton from Goodspeed's Festival of New…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:03AMThe musical concert, featuring the six wives of Henry VIII, begins at the Arts Theatre January 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMWhen going to a RE | Dance Group show, there are a couple things you can usually count on: 1) unapologetically long passages of pretty dancing; 2) poetry woven into the fabric of the dance w…
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The author of 'Having Our Say' and 'Execution of Justice' will have led the New Jersey theatre for 30 years when she steps down in 2020.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:57AMThe upcoming Moulin Rouge! star returns after a sold-out New Year’s Eve concert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMWhen Nancy Pelosi accepted the gavel as Speaker of the House last week, she expressed pride at presiding over Congress during the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote (coming …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:51AMThe new play by Calvin Trillin, inspired by his memoir of the same name, will open January 20 at Theatre For A New Audience.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMTeenage Mark thinks that he might be gay. He is sexually aroused by the guys he sees on the train and vaginas
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMFind your next job with this selection of upcoming auditions for Broadway and shows around the country.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMThe Joshua Harmon play heads to London following an Off-Broadway run at Lincoln Center Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMUCB events will perform at SubCulture Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights beginning February 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMThe Network star dropped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon January 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMBy Emma Stenning, Naomi Campbell. Naomi Campbell, Luminato’s new artistic director, sits down with
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:19AMBlake Lively and Ryan Reynolds hosted a reception in New York at Feinstein's 54 Below followed by a special screening of Mary Poppins Returns,nominated for 4 Golden Globe Awards including Be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMCBS This Morning is in Puerto Rico, getting ready for Lin-Manuel Miranda's return to the stage in the title role in Hamilton.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMToday, Friday 11 January, London launched its production ofWaitresswith a sneak peek at rehearsals, cast photocall and interviews. BroadwayWorld UK's Jamie Body was there to capture all the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMIn a season full of new Broadway plays, there may be room for one, or two, more. According to Michael Riedel of The New York Post, Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me is moving…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMWe are pleased to announce the winners for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Washington DC Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD Nominations were reader-submitted and voted on by you - the local theater…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMThe UK tour of Doctor Dolittle has collapsed, and will end its run nine months early. Producers have cited “lower than anticipated
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMAn overdue tribute to Hollywood legend Nick Cravat (Nicholas Cuccia, 1912-1994). Cravat and Burt Lancaster met as teenagers and formed an acrobatic (trapeze) act called Lang and Cravat which…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:06AMThe album from Ghostlight Records features Shoshana Bean, Colin Donnell, Mykal Kilgore, and Solea Pfeiffer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMOld Red Lion, LondonLiv Warden’s play explores what happens to the daughters of a powerful man who is charged with GBHWhere are the women closest to once-powerful predators who have been u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMMusical is dividing residents on island where creator Lin-Manuel Miranda spent childhood summersJavier Ortiz likes to look on the bright side in San Juan, the pretty and gritty capital of Pu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM“[UCB], facing substantial financial pressures, announced on Wednesday that it would be closing its East Village location in Manhattan, a month after laying off several staff members. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM“Though Polunin has long had a reputation for behaving inappropriately, in the last month his posts have been somewhat unhinged. … A troubling tirade about gender and sexuality remai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AMThe newly-retired dance critic of The New York Times wrote an actual letter to the editor saying that, while he quite liked Emma Sandall’s article this week about the history of high l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AMKaywin Feldman is coming to Washington from the Minneapolis Institute of Art, where attendance more than doubled during her ten-year directorship. As Peggy McGlone reports, Feldman did that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AMIt’ll be a battle between two former “American Hustle” co-stars for Best Actor at Sunday’s Critics’ Choice Awards. Christian Bale (“Vice”) and Bradl…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMThe star and creator of the hit musical appeared live on CBS This Morning January 11 ahead of his opening night.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMThe star and creator of the hit musical appeared live on CBS This Morning January 11 ahead of his opening night.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMDuring the final week of a blockbuster exhibition, the museum will offer visitors a late-night Potter fix.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMPhysical theatre company Rhum and Clay’s new show is inspired by Orson Welles’ notorious 1938 radio broadcast. Welles’ famously retold HG Wells’
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Ken Barnett also stars in the film by Matthew Puccini.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AMIn renewing the institute’s galleries, director Stefan Kalmár is also celebrating Jane Drew’s architectural vision
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:52AMMusic & Lyrics Productions has announced that its touring production of Doctor Dolittle, starring Mark Williams, will close at the end of its run at the New Theatre, Oxford, on Saturday…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:50AMIt’s been another busy week in Theatreland. With (most) shows now fully recovered from the festive period, there have been lots of exciting developments going on. From several shows announ…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:43AMThe writer-director’s new film chronicles how the vice-president seized the levers of power during the Bush era
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:38AMJojo Ruf, a co-founder of the Welders Playwriting Collective and the Coordinating Producer of DC’s Women’s Voices Festival in 2015, will take the reins as the new Managing Direct…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 11 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AMThis hardscrabble crime thriller is also a powerfully subtle character study.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06AM By Sandi Durell Extremely talented Jeremy Pope as Pharus, is a golden voiced tenor whose bright eyes are always facing up to heaven and has much to say as he makes his w…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 09:05AMRichard Briers found fame in beloved TV sitcoms including The Good Life, but his real love was theatre. Biographer James Hogg tells
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMLiv Warden’s play Anomaly, inspired by the Weinstein scandal, focuses on the family of a media mogul who’s been caught up in a scandal that can't be hushed up by PR.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe holidays are over, and we’ve gotten the memo: For the next 11 months, SUVs may not wear reindeer horns and people must coexist without eggnog. L.A. theaters have packed away the Dicken…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
New Diorama, LondonOrson Welles’s radio adaptation of the sci-fi classic is given a new spin on stage with references to Trump and BrexitThe story of the panic induced by Orson Welles’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMAs prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party continues to encourage an exclusionary Hindu version of Indian nationalism, more liberal-minded Indians (by no means only Musli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM“The RSC-led performance project is a collaboration of 15 organisations, including Epic Games, the creator of online video game Fortnite. Other collaborators include theatre company Pu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM“The painting, found in April 2014 in the attic of a house near Toulouse, southern France, was thought to be another version of the famed [Judith Beheading Holofernes] by the maverick …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM“[Her] professionalism and perseverance in the 1970s helped a generation of women infiltrate the boys club of television news … She broke ground on topics like sex abuse in the workp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AMAnimals from the American Folk Art Museum share a habitat with paintings from Fountain House Gallery that embrace a similar theme.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18AMThis week, we start with the biggest hit with the longest run, and end with a high-profile, star-powered flop. Just goes to show that the longest-running show and a disappointing show can bo…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 08:06AMThe Bush Theatre has revealed further details about its BABYLON season, a programme which celebrates Black and Brown artists and international performance.
The post Bush Theatre reveals deta…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 08:02AMIf it isn’t exciting enough that the Fats Waller musical Ain’t Misbehavin’ is being revived at Southwark Playhouse from 19 April to 1 June 2019, following its premiere at Mercury Theat…
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Today Josephine Crowell (1859-1932) is remembered chiefly for several memorable late supporting performances (her last three in fact): as a lady on a street car in Harold Lloyd’s Speed…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:48AM“The dancing style is known as ‘nautch,’ and is a sophisticated art form that arose out of the Muslim Mughal empire and peaked in the mid-19th century.” After partiti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AMVirtual reality (or VR as you may know it) is becoming a rather exciting technological development, where users can become fully immersed in the computerised world around them.And VR is comi…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:40AMBy Douglas Mayo
Alex Kingston is to star in Admissions, the acclaimed award-winning hit comedy direct from New York’s Lincoln Centre Theatre which is to open at Trafalgar Studios in Fe…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:31AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 21 May, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock chairs the last of three 2019 post-show Q&As for Lazarus Theatre, to Oscar Wilde's Sa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AM“The Upside” has a downside: We’ve seen it a million times before. Onstage and on-screen, crotchety rich people are changed forever by fun-but-flawed poor people. It’s become a g…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:21AMLiv Warden’s punchy debut play shifts its gaze away from the epicentre of the MeToo movement towards the auxiliary victims of abuse:
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AMA brand-new production of Ain’t Misbehavin’ – the first London revival in almost 25 years – will play Southwark Playhouse from 19 April 2019 to 1 June, following its premiere at Merc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:11AMIn 1930s London, the psychoanalyst met the Spanish painter — art and Freudian theory have been entwined ever since
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:04AMMalcolm Muggeridge interviews Edward R. Murrow on Panorama, a BBC series first seen in 1953 that is the world’s longest-running television program about current affairs. The two men discus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMWritten by Peter Mulligan and directed by Zoey Alexis Boyd, Loop examines different philosophical outlooks one might have and how they ‘help’ (or not) with expectations of life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM“I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable dist…
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BroadwayWorld presents a comprehensive weekly roundup of regional stories around our Broadway World, which include videos, editor spotlights, regional reviews and more. This week, we feature…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54AMThe Muni Arts Centre in Pontypridd has closed after the company that ran it went into liquidation. The arts centre, a converted
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMCouncillors are considering relocating a theatre in south-west Wales to a new premises, at a cost of up to £4.5 million, to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMAlex Kingston (ER, Doctor Who) will star in the award-winning new comedy Admissions from Joshua Harmon, the writer of acclaimed hit Bad Jews, direct from New York‘s Lincoln Centre Theater.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:45AMSadler’s Wells, LondonThe French artist Olivier de Sagazan turns himself into a sculpture in this terrifying, visceral performanceOlivier de Sagazan’s Transfiguration, a performance firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMThis year, Waltham Forest will become the first London Borough of Culture. The title awarded by London’s mayor Sadiq Khan will see
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMWe love seeing our favourite faces return to the West End, and so we’re very pleased to hear that Alex Kingston is making her return to the West End.Alex, known for her star roles in hit s…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 06:07AMWhat a blow for Louise Redknapp who was due to play the role of Violet in Dolly Parton’s 9 To 5 The Musical but has had to temporarily withdraw after suffering a fall on the way to rehears…
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Strictly Come Dancing’s Oti Mabuse and actor Tyrone Huntley will lead the creative team of a new production of the musical Ain’t
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMGood morning BroadwayWorld Today's top stories Callum Francis makes his Broadway debut in Kinky Boots, The American Associates Of The National Theatre celebrateNETWORK at tonight's gala, and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48AMAs Ian McKellen launches a tour of 80 venues to mark his 80th birthday in May, we look back over his long and brilliant stage career Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMThe singer star fell on her way to rehearsals for the brand new West End musical
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:36AMDue to an injury, Louise Redknapp has had to delay her appearance in 9 to 5 The Musical.Louise was due to make her West End comeback as Violet in the Dolly Parton musical when it opens on 28…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:30AMLouise Redknapp has been forced to temporarily withdraw from Dolly Parton musical 9 to 5 due to injury. She was due to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AMDue to an injury this week, Louise Redknapp has had to temporarily withdraw from performing the role of Violet in Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 The Musical.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:14AMThis production of the sharply relevant play An Enemy of the People at the Union Theatre features numerous dynamic performances, ensuring the audience’s attention is never lost.
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Slow burning tragedy: Eve Allin writes on falling in love with Lynn Nottage's play about eight lives in industrial Pennsylvania.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 03:56AMA recent report by Eleanor Ross for iNews reveals that a whole lot of UK theatres still seem to see plays by women as a risk or 'niche.'There are huge hopes from artistic women directors for…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:41AMIt seems as though there was less outright street fighting this day, more a tense atmosphere of expectation — the occupants held firm but were awaiting an attack by government troops. …
SOURCE: www.dispositio.net at 03:27AMKeyboardist and synthesizer specialist Jim Baker has led the collective quartet Extraordinary Popular Delusions playing every Monday night in obscure Chicago venues for the past 13 years. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24AMIt is sometimes necessary to specify a third dimension – bulk or thickness – when describing a Buckley painting. The other giveaway that tells you a painting is by Buckley is its rough e…
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Valerie Solanas, the mentally ill woman who shot Andy Warhol in 1968, has had a remarkably long run. Her SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men), which called for the overthrow of the go…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53AMA pair of Kinky Boots veterans step into the Tony-winning Broadway production at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on January 11. Callum Francis takes on the role of Lola for the first time on Broad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24AMBlack Rep presents world premiere of play based partly on interviews.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:18AMThe holidays are over, and you’ve been hunkered inside the house a little too long. It’s about time you spread your wings.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:18AMGroup lauds STL women's notable contributions to the arts
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:18AMChristian Bale gets under Dick Cheney’s skin in “Vice” which opens at theatres across Spain from January 11, 2019.“Vice” explores the real story never revealed about how Dick Chene…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:11AMListen: Brittney Johnson Makes History as First Glinda of Color! “Constitution” Reportedly to Play Broadway this Spring, Brian D’Ary James to Lead “The Ferryman”…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMThe blockbuster musical heads to San Juan before the production embarks on a third national tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe singer and songwriter’s latest album is a shift from pop to the kind of experimentalism that has seen her labelled as a musical boffin
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMWhether you want to rent, buy or just gawk at costumes, here are ways the Collection can help you---You probably know that TDF supports audiences by offering discounted tickets and a variety…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMTwo lucky guests were given the chance to witness The Prom cast recording their cast album—and Playbill readers are allowed in for a sneak peek.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAndy Kelso also returns to the Tony-winning musical January 11.
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