"The Bigot"’s mouthpiece is the splendid Stephen Payne. Scruffy and silver-haired, Mr. Payne revels in Jim’s cantankerousness and physical decrepitude. Bellowing in his resonant twangy v…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:28PMCast, director and designers have been announced for HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, the thoughtfully [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:18PMGHOSTLIGHT RECORDS has announced that Be More Chill: Original Broadway Cast Recording is available for digital download and streaming [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:18PMArt Gallery of New South Wales head packer Brett Cuthbertson and his packing room team have awarded the 2019 Archibald Packing Room Prize to West Australian hyperreal artist Tessa MacKay for…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:14PMWhen I heard about Lauren Maul’s new musical Bucolic, I was so intrigued by its concept, subject matter & the fact that the musical features fellow “Call Me Adam” participant Micha…
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Vocal Arts DC concludes its 2018-2019 season at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater on Tuesday evening, May 14 presenting internationally acclaimed artists countertenor Iestyn Davies and lute…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:32PMTBD Immersive presents their new adventure, Under(world): The Lost & The Found, in Dupont Circle. The Dupont Underground has been transformed into a series of settings representing the i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26PMOn Saturday, May 11, 2019, at 7 PM Candlelight Concert Society will be presenting Escher Quartet and Christopher Shih, piano, at the Smith Theatre at the Horowitz Center for the Arts at Howa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:24PMInspired by Jerome Robbins, who cast him in the stage and film versions of “West Side Story,” he went on to create dances for Ann-Margret and others.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PMConsider: Royal Caribbean International’s cruise line directs 134 shows in 50 theatres on 26 ships around the world, including seven Broadway-originating shows, eight aqua shows, 18 ice sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PMWe asked, you answered: Playbill readers shared their dream cast for the upcoming revival of Beauty and the Beast.
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There are two things every teenager knows are true: you can’t choose your parents and you can’t choose the jerks you go to school with. Such is life for Annie Jump in small-town Strawber…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:58PMThe Chicago premiere of Lucy Kirkwood's Tony-nominated play, "The Children," portrays a pair of retired nuclear scientists, startled by a visit from a former colleague.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:12PMPresident of Disney Theatrical Productions and Chairman of the Broadway League Thomas Schumacher discusses 25 years of Disney on Broadway, what's in the works and more.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:06PMBrandon Uranowitz stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about being nominated for a Tony Award for Burn This and more with Beth Stevens.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:06PMAs President of Disney Theatrical Productions and Chairman of the Broadway League, Thomas Schumacher is bespectacled Broadway royalty. Disney Theatrical is celebrating its 25th year of maki…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:06PMBertie Carvel in Ink (Photo by Joan Marcus)Bertie Carvel made his Broadway debut playing quite the fictional character: the evil Miss Trunchbull in Matilda. The performance earned him a 2013…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:06PMThe Actors' Equity Foundation's 2019 Clarence Derwent Awards for most promising female and male performers on the New York metropolitan scene have gone to Sarah Stiles Tootsie and Ephraim Sy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04PMThis past month was filled with exciting stage-to-screen news In casting news, The In the Heights film rounded out its cast and Mike Faist joined the West Side Story film. The plays Outside …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04PMBroadwayWorld has teamed up with renowned caricature artist Ken Fallin, a life-long theater enthusiast, who has drawn many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Below, check out his latest …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04PMThe Tony Awards are like Christmas in June for theatre lovers, and that makes this year's nominees the reason for the season. This year's Tony nominees transported us with the magic of theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04PMMarylouise Burke True West and Andre De Shields Hdestown are the recipients of the annual Richard Seff Award presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation to veteran female and male character a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04PMMorrissey hit Broadway for the first time in his career playing a retrospective show at New York City's hallowed Lunt-Fontanne Theater. The affair will run for seven days through May 11th an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04PMTheater fans and collectors can have their very own bit of Broadway when set pieces and props from the Tony Award-winning musical AVENUE Q will be made available for an online auction on the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04PMThe Muny announced continues its multi-million-dollar stage renovation. Get a peek inside some of the structural and technological enhancements to St. Louis' famous outdoor venue below
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"Weightless," a rock musical by the Bay Area duo the Kilbanes, is being revived at the Strand Theaters, and that is very good news indeed.
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 06:11PM“Creators are driving record audiences to YouTube,” YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl told the presentation audience gathered at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. “Two-hund…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:04PMThe end result is a lopsided “winner-take-all” pattern of regional haves and have-nots. Our politics become ever more divisive and polarized as the “big sort” grows ever bigger, eati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:04PMStars Will Chase, Kelli O'Hara and Corbin Bleu chat with host Rebecca Milzoff about their Tony-nominated musical comedy and its modern update currently on Broadway.
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Morrissey has never really been as gloomy as his reputation would suggest – no one is as gloomy as his reputation would suggest – but the former Smiths frontman seemed in especially good…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:59PMMichelle Memran's The Rest I Make Up will be followed by a Q&A with Tony Kushner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PMIt is a well crafted story of a feisty seventy-something Sheila O’Connor (Nora Chester who does feisty beautifully) whose grandson, physician Brian O’Connor (an earnest Jordan Ahnquist),…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:47PMTrevor Nunn's celebrated West End revival of Fiddler on the Roof will welcome stage veterans Maria Friedman and Anita Dobson as Golde and Yente, respectively, on June 18. They will succeed o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMGiles Terera’s many and varied credits include Honk!, The Book of Mormon, and a revelatory National Theatre revival of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, but the versatile performer reached a new…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMThe Actors' Equity Foundation has announced Sarah Stiles and Ephraim Sykes as winners of the 2019 Clarence Derwent Awards, given to the most promising female and male performers on the New…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMAmong the questions: whether Oklahoma! choreographer John Heginbotham was snubbed, why Casey Nicholaw (The Prom) was nominated for Best Director but not Best Choreography, the wonderfulness …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“If YouTubers represent the epitome of the uphill battle to create stable employment and meaningful connection all in one place, they may also offer clues to an alternative approach to wor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMThe Oscar winner and third generation of a four-generation movie dynasty (so far) speaks very plainly about her complicated relations with her family members and romantic partners (i.e., Jac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMAs Sarah Malley discovered while working at an independent bookshop, some routine practices legally qualified at least in her state) as wage theft. And it’s far more common for indie books…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMContent posted using the hashtag, “often used by live figure drawing models to attract work via the social media platform, was hidden because “some content,” according to a message, di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMBret Easton Ellis grants that almost no house would publish American Psycho today (he wouldn’t even want to write it today), and it’s hard to imagine any American publisher releasing Lol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMEvery day that the TV networks keep their bundles intact is another day for the internet to undermine the bundles. Some of that comes through direct competition: Netflix remains quite disint…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMThe more an individual thought the issue involved playing God, the more morally unacceptable they judged it to be. – Nautilus
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“We’re playing god every day. As the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes said, the natural state for human beings is a life that’s nasty, brutish, and short. We play god when we vaccinat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“Empowering the female lead may be a celebratory hook for selling a show, particularly given that women buy the bulk of Broadway tickets. But on closer inspection, it is rarely the women t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“ALL — a physical poem of protest … explores what [Mia] Habib refers to as ‘the protesting body.’ It can be performed for up to 12 hours, though the New York iteration will clock i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMThe owner of five buildings on West 28th Street that comprise the core of the historic “Tin Pan Alley” is trying to block them from being landmarked by pointing to racist tunes emanating…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“The store’s closing follows a similar move by Vancouver’s venerable Sikora’s, a dedicated classical music store in West Hastings that shuttered in February 28, 2019 after four decad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“Could modern performers recapture Furtwängler’s elasticity of style? Most likely not. Scholars such as Robert Philip and Kenneth Hamilton have shownhow the advent of recording permanen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMAlthough broadly a work of fiction, Morna Young’s play about the fishing communities of the North-East of Scotland contains a rich documentary
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:25PMWho says New York City has to be expensive? Every month the Big Apple is filled with free events in the arts and culture that are open to the public, without advance reservations or ticketin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18PMActors’ Equity Foundation will honor the two actors in June in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:12PMAgile, easygoing moves are the hallmark of the Chicago troupe’s dance-theater work at the Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:04PMIn the final analysis, "Ink" is too swift and too slick for its own good--or should I say, for our good? Even if you know some of the details it traffics in, they zoom by at such a rapid cli…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:03PMThe world premiere of Lydia R. Diamond’s play, starring April Matthis, will begin performances Off-Broadway May 23.
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The Magic Mike musical has lost some of its mojo. Book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, composer Tom Kitt and lyricist Brian Yorkey have exited the project – “creative differences” is th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:57PMThe famed performer will sing tunes by Carole King, Barry Manilow, Burt Bacharch, and more at Birdland Jazz Club May 1–4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMThe famed fashion designer returns to the New York nightspot in June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMThe world premiere, co-written by Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tony nominee Tina Landau, begins performances in Chicago May 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMJust over a month ago, Tony winner Ben Platt released his first solo album, Sing to Me Instead, and now he has the merch to go with it
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMI can remember so well senior year of college when my friend Claudio came back from a trip to New York all abuzz over little drag rock show he'd seen Off-Broadway called Hedwig and the Angry…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMActress Ali Stroker made history as the first Broadway performer in a wheelchair. Now she's nominated for a Tony Award. Stroker joins 'CBS This Morning' to share how the production of Oklaho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMRoundabout Theatre Companywill soon present the world-premiere of Toni Stone,written by Lydia R. Diamondanddirected by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon.Toni Stone will be led byApril Matthis,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMOklahoma native Kristin Chenowith took to the plains to see the hit Tony Award nominated Rodgers amp Hammerstein's Oklahoma at Circle in the Square.After the show she joined fellow attendee …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMThe Castro Theatre in San Francisco is set to premiere a filmed version of Kinky Boots onSaturday June 22, 2019
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMJamie DornanandHolliday GraingerAnimals are set to star in the film adaptation ofJohn Patrick Shanley'shit Broadway stage playOutside Mullingar,according to Deadline.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMDenis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson's Bible-themed "The Good Book" at Berkeley Rep eventually finds its groove and tells a compelling story.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:24PMThe lineup includes modern classics, a holiday whodunit, and a new-play festival.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:22PMBryan Cranston might have had to dig just a little deeper these last few days to get to the pit-bottom despair that has audiences at Broadway’s Network recognizing a performance for our ti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:11PMThe production, starring three-time Tony Award recipient Chita Rivera, opened at the Broadhurst Theatre May 3, 1993.
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Stephen Fry brings the Mythos UK Tour to a venue near you as one of the world's greatest storytellers tells the world's greatest stories.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:57PMBy DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” Photos: Chris Gray/Cirque de la Symphonie [Click any photo to enlarge] The fun at Houston Symphony’s Jones Hall began as soon as muc…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:54PMMore sympathetic characters and more abstract setting brings story into sharp focus for young audience.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:52PM“I wanted a real life as a dancer, so of course I came to New York,” says Mark Morris, who at 19 left Seattle for this city in 1976, and — except for the six months a year he’s on to…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:51PM★★★ British rock veteran Morrissey is the latest pop star to invade Broadway, with a residency at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:35PMCelebrate your favorite theatre teacher
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 01:35PM★★ A new bio-drama is performed as a bizarre dance recital in a Chelsea townhouse
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:33PMIf it is possible to get double Tony Awards for portraying Dorothy Michaels and Michael Dorsey then Santino Fontana should be the one to get them.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:33PM★★★ Playgoers with a taste for British humor may well enjoy what's being served at 59E59 Theaters
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:30PMThe captured performance from the West End production comes to cinemas Summer 2019.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMThe decades-old nonprofit credits Surviving R. Kelly with bringing Black girls into the cultural conversation about gender-based violence.
To sisters Salamishah…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:25PMThe star of La Reina del Sur will perform in Isaac Gomez’s monologue play at the Minetta Lane.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMA planned workshop presentation of the upcoming musical Magic Mike was postponed this week due to the departure of the show's writing team. Press representative Adrian Bryan-Brown confirmed…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMJagged Little Pill, the acclaimed new musical featuring the songs of Alanis Morissette, has booked the Broadhurst Theatre as its upcoming Broadway home. The previously announced transfer fr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMIt's been quite the week for Broadway. In addition the announcement of 2019 Tony nominations, NBC's Today has been hosting live performances from a number of hits from the 2018-2019 season. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMOscar winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) and Olivia Colman (The Favourite) have signed on to star in a new film version of the 2016 Tony-nominated play The Father, accordi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMKate Del Castillo, celebrated star of Telemundo's La Reina del Sur, will take to the off-Broadway stage this summer in Isaac Gomez's solo play The Way She Spoke. Jo Bonney will direct the N…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMStuart Ross directs the return engagement of the Off-Broadway musical at York Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PMFor all you philosophy junkies out there—and you know who you are—Tim Blake Nelson’s world premiere "Socrates" at The Public Theater, the shining light of The Public’s Onassis Festiv…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:08PMEveryman Theatre proudly presents its lineup for the upcoming 2019- 2020 season with a slate of offerings sure to enthrall audiences. This season features revered big-name revivals—award-w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:03PMAn all too rare independent musical theatre production, the new Australian staging of Barnum sees Todd McKenney embrace the chance to play iconic huckster P. T. Barnum.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMPhysical theatre company BoxLess Theatre will debut their new drama Hedgehog at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre next month. It will be their first show as Associate Artists of the newly relaunc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThis week’s production news includes season announcements from the Royal Court Theatre and Old Vic Theatre in London, and an announcement that
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NEW YORK (AP) — Some records on Broadway are bound to fall one day and others are surely safe for all time. Sarah Stiles has one that's hard to top.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 12:53PMBAZ BAMIGBOYE: Michael Ball flashed a broad smile and revealed he will be stepping into plus-size frocks once more - as laundress Edna Turnblad, in the joyous musical Hairspray.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 12:53PMBAZ BAMIGBOYE: Anthony Hopkins will join fellow Oscar winner Olivia Colman in heartbreaking family drama The Father. As predicted in this column a year ago, Hopkins will take the title role.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 12:53PMA pair of grown-up preachers’ kids confront their faith on the night shift in this world premiere from 1812. Alaina Johns reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:53PMAs Morrissey took the stage on the opening night of his residency at Broadway’s Lunt Fontanne Theatre, the first words he spoke were the week-long run’s catchphrase, an homage to both hi…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:53PMIt was fitting that ASCAP president/chairman Paul Williams took the stage Thursday morning at the opening of the 14th annual “I Create Music” Expo to the strains of Kermit the Frog croo…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:53PMThe Economist recently called disruptive innovation — an idea that changes a whole system — the most influential business theory of the early 21st century. Not to front, but theater peop…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:53PMThe 2019-20 will feature another play by Joshua Harmon, plus works by Theresa Rebeck and Tarell Alvin McCraney.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:51PMAudra McDonald, Michael Shannon, Terrence McNally and Arin Arbus offer insight into Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:46PMGillian Anderson’s haunted, drawn face is the mesmerizing center of Ivo van Hove’s staging of “All About Eve,” a production currently blazing in London’s West End (at the Noel Cowa…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:42PMThe orchestra's 36th birthday gala featured the songs of Cyndi Lauper and a performance from the singer herself.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMThe Broadway revival of Terrence McNally’s play begins previews May 4—the same day the lower-priced tickets will go on sale.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMThe post-show Salon conversation, in partnership with the Alliance for New Music-Theatre, will take place on Saturday, May 4, at the Spooky Action Theater space at the Universalist National …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:31PM"Matilda," the proto-feminist story of a gifted little girl with nasty parents, is perhaps the best family musical of this young century. Prescient for 2010, it managed both to be a thrillin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30PMTony Award nominee Stephanie J. Block, Teal Wicks, and Micaela Diamond sing the showstopper on Today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMDebra Messing and Brían F. O'Byrne starred in the 2014 Broadway production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMMorrissey hit Broadway for the first time in his career playing a retrospective show at New York City's hallowed Lunt-Fontanne Theater. The affair will run for seven days through May 11th an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMThe new Broadway musical JAGGED LITTLE PILL will begin preview performances at the Broadhurst Theatre 235 W 44th St., NYC on Sunday, November 3, 2019, with an official opening night of Thurs…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMThe cast of the Tony-nominated musical The Cher Show hit the TODAYplaza this morningduring their Best of Broadway Week with a live performance of Song for the Lonely.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMBe More Chill Original Broadway Cast Recording is available for digital download and streaming today, Friday, May 3. This new album completes a remarkable full-circle journey for Be More Chi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMSTARS IN THE ALLEY, presented by United Airlines, has announced the performers for the concert that will take place on Friday, May 10th at 1pm in Shubert Alley, between Broadway and 8thAvenu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMC-c-c'mon c-c-c'mon, we're getting an upgrade this weekend because Be More Chill's very own Rich,Gerard Canonico, is taking over BroadwayWorld's Instagram Story tomorrow, May 4th So get your…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMThe Cher Show,the three-time Tony nominated new hit bio musical currently playing on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre, will celebrate the retail release of their Original Cast Recording wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMAwards season in NYC is now in FULL swing, and with the critics, press, and industry all having their chances to nominate and vote - now it's the fans' turn.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMOn Saturday, May 4 only, the new Broadway production of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune will offer 25 tickets per performance for 25 each to the 25 preview perform…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMReview by Winnie Dreisonstok Would you enjoy seeing a play by one of the world’s greatest playwrights and an opera by one of the world’s greatest composers in one happy, entertaining eve…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:17PMEXCLUSIVE: Kate del Castillo, whose wildly popular run as Teresa Mendoza in Telemundo’s La Reina del Sure series even drew the headline-making attention of El Chapo, will return to the New…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMThe Tony Award-nominated actor and playwright explains why different audiences get a different Heidi.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMMadagascar the Musical is a ninety minute escape from technology and provides the innocence needed for an uncomplicated and fun evening.
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Edward Hall’s final production as artistic director of Hampstead Theatre is of Howard Brenton’s wonky rewiring of Thomas Hardy’s bleak final novel
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:45AMThe 12 recipients will be recognized for their debut performances on and Off-Broadway this season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:44AMThe singers—Michael Fabiano, Bryan Hymel, Matthew Polenzani—will perform at The Dallas Opera's One Night Only Gala May 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMJagged Little Pill, the Broadway-bound musical based on Alanis Morissette’s hit album of the same name, has finally set a date.
True to their previous word of a fall bow, producers Vivek J…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:42AMFrom Vox Lux to Stanley Kubrick, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMThe much-loved film starring Audrey Tautou has been turned into a stage show. Designer Madeleine Girling explains how she found a new style to match its spirit Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMThe writer, performer and improviser opens up about the things that make her laugh the most
Rose Matafeo’s Horndog. Seeing a young woman of colour talking about love, life and cry-dancing …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMTyne theatre, NewcastleThe broadcaster and writer’s second live show is a warm storm of rollicking tales about musicians and his family
You could ask the question of any comedy show: how m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMThe two Oscar winners will star in the film adaptation of Florian Zeller’s acclaimed Broadway play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMThe 2019-20 season at the Los Angeles theatre will present Heidi Schreck's play fresh from Broadway, as a Rajiv Joseph play about LeBron James
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:29AMTrevor Nunn's celebrated West End revival of Fiddler on the Roof will welcome stage veterans Maria Freidman and Anita Dobson as Golde and Yente, respectively, on June 18. They will succeed o…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 11:22AMThe charity operating Perth Theatre and Concert Hall has been given a year to boost attendance figures at both venues. Perth and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMAs the 58th edition of the European art event arrives, we look at the biggest trends, the new arrivals, and speak to artists and curators involved
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:18AMThe free outdoor concert, featuring performances from over 20 Broadway shows, will be held May 10 in Shubert Alley.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMRadio City Rockettes will be holding auditions in Chicago on May 7-May 8 for the Christmas [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:06AMDave Malloy, the “Great Comet” composer, unpacks three songs from “Octet,” his (yes) a cappella musical about digital addiction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04AMThrilling and dynamic, Matthew Bourne’s production of Swan Lake stays with you long after the curtain has come down.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMGet a sneak peek at Playbill’s upcoming annual 25 Days of Tonys.
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Mikaela Bennett and Corey Cott lead the cast as Maria and Tony, respectively, in the Francesca Zambello-helmed production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMManagement of Newcastle City Hall is to transfer from the Newcastle Theatre Royal Trust to Academy Music Group, the organisation behind the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:50AMBroadway turned it out this week on The Today Show.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:49AMTwo-time Olivier award-winning actor David Bedella has revealed he is prioritising work in television because theatre does not pay enough for him
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMPlaywright Lucas Hnath, has served his apprenticeship in theatre by having work produced at some of New York’s most reputable off-Broadway venues and at many out of town spaces like the Hu…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:39AMThe Joe Iconis musical is available for digital purchase.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMHe can't stop the beat! Michael Ball, the West End megastar who took home a 2008 Olivier Award for his turn as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, will reprise his acclaimed performance in a remoun…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 10:35AMReviewers are calling Michael Black's new squat-set play Starved a "must see show", while audiences have taken to Twitter to say they are "totally blown away". We've rounded up some of the b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:29AMJagged Little Pill has found a Broadway home. The new original musical, set to the songs of Alanis Morissette, will open this fall at the Broadhurst Theatre. Performances will begin on Sunda…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:27AMBreaking News: Hot on the heels of receiving 11 Tony Award Nominations TOOTSIES’ Dorothy Michaels aka Michael Dorsey is basking in the glow of her newly found stardom, quickly becoming t…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:24AMName the title of the show using one simple sentence clue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AMFrom 18 June 2019 the new Golde and Yente in Trevor Nunn’s West End production of Fiddler on the Roof, a transfer from the Menier Chocolate Factory, will be Maria Friedman and Anita Dobson…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 10:20AM“Jagged Little Pill” will open at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway this fall. Previews are set to begin Nov. 3, 2019, with an opening night on Dec. 5. The musical, featuring the songs …
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 10:15AMThe Alanis Morissette musical will play the Broadhurst theatre in fall 2019.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AMStagecoach South East, a bus company that offers service to the host city of this year’s prize exhibition (the seaside town of Margate), has for a chairman Sir Brian Souter, who spent heav…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMIn 2016, the Charlottesville City Council voted to remove statues of Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson that were erected in the 1920s. (It was this vote that the notorious 2017 Unite…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM“To improve their chances of winning a grant, foundation officers and professional grant writers say charities should avoid making the following mistakes in grant proposals and application…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMGreed is good or at least entertaining in feisty Off West End revival
Deft and funny and nicely cast, what's not to like about Other People's Money, the era-defining Jerry Sterner play in r…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:06AMThe evening will feature work and performances by Natalie Walker, Douglas Lyons, Ty Defoe, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMShadowlands, the William Nicholson play that charts the story of C.S. Lewis’ correspondence-turned-relationship with the American poet Joy Gresham, is such a perfect fit for the Chichester…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMCommissioned in conversation with Moor Mother’s Circuit City, running this June 20–22, as part of the High Pressure Fire Service series. The present realities of housing for low-income …
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 10:00AMBroadway’s Jagged Little Pill, the new musical based on Alanis Morissette’s classic ’90s album, will begin previews Sunday, Nov. 3 at the Broadhurst Theatre, with an opening night se…
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The former Waitress star will perform at NYC’s SubCulture to raise funds for the Neurofibromatosis Network.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMThe Tony- and Olivier-winning musical will play the London Coliseum in April 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMThe Olivier-winning actor takes over for Judy Kuhn in this Trevor Nunn–helmed production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMChichester Festival theatreQuestions of faith and loss drive a masterly story of the Narnia author in Rachel Kavanaugh’s deeply poignant production
The first three speeches of Shadowlands …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMAhead of representing Ireland in Venice, she talks about sculpture, nationality and the serious business of making art
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:16AMOrganisers and partipicants at the Venice Biennale are finding new ways to document the event for future generations
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:16AMWith the country’s first appearance at the event, curator Nana Oforiatta Ayim is testing out what a national African pavilion can be
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:16AMFrom an immersive installation to a socio-historical voyage, here’s what the new arrivals are bringing to La Serenissima
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:16AMAhead of representing France at the Venice Biennale, the Turner Prize-winner talks about creating her semifictional world
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:16AMThe North Carolina-born singer collaborates with fellow Dublin local Francesco Turrisi to explore the theme of migration
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:13AMIn their first album since the departure of a key member, the New Yorkers have broken the mould — and not in a good way
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:13AMFor their eighth album, the Seattle-based drone metal band join forces with Hildur Gudnadóttir, Steve Albini and Anthony Pateras
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:13AMIn their follow-up to Small Town, the New York jazz duo set their sights on Thelonius Monk, The Drifters and another Bond classic
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:13AMFor their fifth album, the wind/brass ensemble breathes new life into French classical music from the early 20th century to the present day
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:13AMThis series starring Emily Watson and Jared Harris dramatises the events surrounding the 1986 nuclear accident to gripping effect
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:12AMAs its name suggests, Tales Retold is a company that attempts to find alternative ways to explore classic texts. It scored a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMThe Cerruti Collection, worth more than €500 million and housed in a villa near Turin specially built for it by collector Francesco Federico Cerruti, “includes Medieval and Baroque maste…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AMWell, since this is the UK, it’s 50p. Citizens Theatre in Glasgow offers 100 tickets at that price for every production, writes artistic director Dominic Hill — and there are also £2 ti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM“A sketch of a bearded man lost in thought, preserved for 500 years among the papers of Leonardo da Vinci, has now been identified as a rare portrait of the Renaissance master himself.” …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM“No definitive answer is possible,” writes Peter Dobrin about the 270-seat venue at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, “because it is in a way not a single hall, but many.” �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AMAnthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman will lead the film adaptation of the play The Father, according to Variety.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04AMComposer Songwriter Chris Lennertz has written nine original songs along with Tony-Award winning Lyricist Glenn Slater for STX Entertainment's first animated musical film UGLYDOLLS
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04AML.A.'s resident classic rock clowns take a stab at Shakespeare's Roman tragedy.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AMJane Clegg hasn’t been seen in London for 75 years but audiences at the Finborough Theatre are being thrilled by its compelling storytelling in a sizzling revival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBy Douglas Mayo
Disney On Ice - 100 Years Of Magic will tour the UK in September 2019. Disney On Ice tickets are now on sale.
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“Star Wars” actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbecca in the original trilogy, died on Tuesday, his family announced on his Twitter. He was 74. He died at his North Texas home surrounded …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AMThe talent offices at 42West just got a slew of new clients from the Great White Way. Stage and filmed content rep Michael Gagliardo has joined the talent agency, making the jump from his lo…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AMIn first-quarter 2019 earnings released today, Live Nation Entertainment’s revenue was up 17% to $1.7 billion, with an operating loss of $24 million and what the company says it is highest…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AMPresident Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton are jumping on the podcasting bandwagon. The former U.S. president and his daughter, who is vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, launched a new po…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AMScreenwriter and director Ethan Coen kicks off the Mark Taper Forum season Sept. 11 with a collection of short plays titled “A Play Is a Poem,” while the Kirk Douglas’ season opens wit…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AMTwelves years and 279 episodes culminated in one tearful bittersweet day on Tuesday — the taping of “The Big Bang Theory” series finale. Cast members of the longest-running multicamera…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AMEllen DeGeneres’ Ellen Digital Network is bringing Lea Michele and viral star Jay Shetty into its programming lineup — doubling down on comedic and uplifting content keying off the popul…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AMTaylor Swift’s fantastical music video for “ME!” is the fastest video to reach 100 million views on Vevo, achieving the feat in just 79 hours. The video also broke the record for most …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AM'Blinded by the Light' is based on the 'Greetings from Bury Park' memoir by Sarfraz Manzoor
SOURCE: USA Today at 08:45AMMr. Mayhew, who played the Wookiee Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, died at home in Texas after suffering a heart attack.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:44AMWhen it started pouring rain as a line down the block full of Moz fans awaited the opening of Morrissey’s seven-show Broadway mini-residency on Thursday night, it only heightened the mopin…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:44AM“What the Constitution Means to Me,” Heidi Schreck’s Tony Award-nominated play that has Broadway buzzing, will come to Los Angeles as part of the 2019-20 season lineup at the Mark Tape…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:44AMJohn E. Pizzini’s first attempt at college didn’t end as planned. At Michigan State University he studied engineering — a path his father pushed him to pursue — and he hated it. Abou…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:44AMListen: “Magic Mike” Grinds to a Halt, “Prince of Egypt” to Play London, Theatre World Awards Announced, Olay’s 45-Minute Musical! [display_podcast] “Today on Broadway” is a da…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:38AM“White Crow” director Ralph Fiennes says the dancer’s story resonates with his own artistic quest.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:24AMMaria Friedman and Anita Dobson are to join the company of Trevor Nunn’s critically-acclaimed production of Fiddler on the Roof which is currently running at the reconfigured Playhouse The…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:02AMOne of the most performed plays in the US, Our Town is regarded as Thornton Wilder’s finest work. Director Ellen McDougall tells
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMStrap in and lower your safety goggles, Brainiac Live! is coming to the West End! Based on the cult-classic television series Brainiac: Science Abuse this show is coming to the Garrick Theat…
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The Theatre World Awards for outstanding New York stage debuts during the 2017-2018 theatrical season have been given to: Gbenga Akinnagbe, To Kill A Mockingbird Tom Glynn-Carney, The Ferrym…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55AMAmong participants in the program, called Sinfonía por el Perú and founded by tenor Juan Diego Flórez in 2011, “[there has been] a 75% decrease in unwanted pregnancies, another 51% decr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMThe self-portrait of Gentileschi as St. Catherine of Alexandria, purchased by the UK’s National Gallery last year, is currently in a GP’s office in East Yorkshire; before that, it was at…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMThe two legendary actresses will be joining the cast of Trevor Nunn's critically acclaimed production at the Playhouse Theatre from 18 June.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:45AMAs I mentioned earlier this week, for the first time in decades, I was unable to see the Tony nominations live as they happened. Frustrating!!! Well, the good news is that 6 items on our "wi…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:33AMReview, Avalanche: A Love Story, The Barbican4.0starsIt’s mad to think that the first IVF baby was born just over forty years ago. Before then, couples who failed to conceive naturally jus…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AMIt was the role that won Michael Ball an Olivier Award… No, we don’t mean Sweeney Todd! The actor and singer will be back as Edna Turnblad when Hairspray the Musical arrives at the Londo…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 07:20AMDuke of York’s, LondonDuncan Macmillan’s deft but daring tweaks underline the majesty of this sexually charged study of faith and heartbreak
This has been dubbed Ibsen’s darkest and mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review the Irish Repertory Theatre’s off-Broadway revival of The Plough and the Stars. Here’s an excerpt. * * * The most important …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMAnthony Blunt, the English art scholar who was exposed as a former Soviet spy in 1979 and stripped of his knighthood, discusses his crimes in an excerpt from a TV interview, the only one he …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMPaul McCartney has accused a government funding body of having a “flawed process” that has seen the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AM“All children like to irritate and disappoint their parents. It’s a way of growing up, of sharpening their teeth.” Louis Auchlncloss, The House of the Prophet
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMPoetic two-hander The Half God of Rainfall combines epic myth, family relationships and gender politics in an exciting evening.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe last installments of Prairie Pothole, Violet, Private Eye, and P.L. Dermes
We hope you’ve enjoyed the return of comics serials to the Reader.…
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Guildford School of Acting has axed its Theatre and Performance degree after a decade, leaving students facing an uncertain future. The social
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMIn the Broadway musical The Prom, a high school PTA cancels the dance rather than allowing two girls to attend together. The show was just nominated for seven Tony Awards.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:48AMBy Douglas Mayo
Michael Ball is to return to his Olivier Award-winning role of Edna Turnblad, as Hairspray the musical dances its way into the London Coliseum in April 2020 for a strictly li…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:30AMIn “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” the stage is filled with mountains of dummy corpses that are alternatively used as playthings, stepping stones for Nathan Lane and Kristine Niels…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 06:30AMPhoebe Waller-Bridge is bringing her multi-award-winning play to the West End for a strictly limited run at Wyndham's Theatre this summer.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 06:26AMGood morning, BroadwayWorld Happy Friday Finish off your week by catching up on the latest Broadway news
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12AMStephen Fry has an epic story to tell and he’s taking it on tour. For the first time in nearly 40 years, Stephen Fry will be going on tour. Something he hasn’t done since his days of tou…
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Michael Ball is to reprise his role as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, when the musical plays at the London Coliseum next year. It
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMA musical adaptation of the hit Dreamworks animation, The Prince Of Egypt, is coming to the Dominion Theatre for a strictly limited run in 2020.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:48AMHairspray is making a comeback and with it, it's bringing Michael Ball as his Olivier Award-winning role of Edna Turnblad.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:34AMStage version of Andrea Levy's classic Windrush story is too pedestrian
Novelist Andrea Levy's 2004 masterpiece, Small Island, is a tribute to the Windrush Generation, those migrants to Eng…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:33AMWilliam Nicholson’s 1989 play, Shadowlands, opens with a lecture on love, pain and suffering. The half-buried joke is that this is precisely
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMECHOES OF ANTIQUITY , FRESHNESS OF YOUTH It’s a storming performance. Young Isabella Nefar as Judith erupts upon us: adolescent, exuberant, afire with defiance and…
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The Jazz Journalists Association has announced its 2019 award winners. Among them are Ahmad Jamal, Wayne Shorter, Linda May Han Oh, and Bobby Sanabria’s Multiverse Big Band. – Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AMI had a range of thoughts about Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins’s opera p r i s m, which won the Pulitzer Prize. And it made me long for the days, decades ago, when artistic music-theater…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AMHere’s some history of a 1980s funding coup pulled off by opera companies, theater companies, and Broadway producers — one that made a huge difference for some great artists who had been…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AMCultureGrrl takes in Reich Richter Pärt; Trisha Donnelly’s untitled, unexplained, and almost unlit installation; and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy. – Lee Rosenbaum
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AMGood Morning, Baltimore! It has been announced that Hairspray is returning to the West End next year at the London Coliseum. The news of the run was accompanied by the news that Michael Ball…
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Part of Fertility Fest 2019, the play charts one woman’s struggles with IVF treatments, from hope to desolation and beyond
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMAnn McDonough returns to Broadway after a 16-year absence as staunch Irish republican Aunt Pat---When Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman opened on Broadway last fall, Ann McDonough's friends imm…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AM1961 was an interesting year in Tony history for a couple of reasons.
First, it was a year where there were only three Best Musical nominees
instead of four, and second because there were …
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMIn Juan de las Brujas — A New Documentary by Andrew Houchens at the Montclair Film Festival, "Dynamic animation (by May Kindred-Boothby) illustrates the narration and shows dancers in act…
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