Martin McDonagh, the celebrated playwright who also found big-screen success with “In Bruges” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” began his career penning bleak Irish dr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:29PMTaylor Mac knows how to throw down a challenge. Visiting L.A. last year with the music party/drag extravaganzas “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music” and “Holiday Sauce,” the New Yo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:29PMIf “Billy Elliot” had a sequel, it might look like the life of Liam Mower. At age 12, Mower won the title role of the original West End production of “Billy Elliot: The Musical” in L…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:29PM“Smart Love” at Pacific Resident Theatre appears destined to be a garden-variety dysfunctional family portrait, but then Brian Letscher’s new comedy unexpectedly pivots into a quirky t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:29PMNo doubt many of you are familiar with Strathmore – it is a preeminent performance venue right here in our backyard. Not only does it boast the impressive Music Center, which draws some of…
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Columbia’s Pro Cantare presented “Salute to Gershwin & Kern” at the Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Maryland. Under the leadership of Frances Motyca Daws…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:45PMRoyal Caribbean International raises the bar on it stage performances — for a nightly audience that reaches nearly 100,000.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:27PMChoreographer Camille A. Brown stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about her Tony nomination for Choir Boy and more with Beth Stevens.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:24PMMay 5 marked the 2019 Lucille Lortel Awards, which celebrates the best of the off-Broadway season. Check out photos of the winners and attendees from the big night!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:24PMBroadway.com's #LiveAtFive is a daily news show on Facebook Live, in which our editors discuss the newest buzz on Broadway, chat with stage stars about their current projects and take qu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:24PMBroadway's brightest are living it up at the hottest party of the year: the 2019 Met Gala. This year's epic fashion theme: camp! Check out fabulous photos from the red pink carpet!
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:24PMThe New York Drama Critics' Circle has named The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth best play of the 2018-19 season. Robert Horn and David Yazbek's Tootsie was given the prize for best musical.�…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:24PMThe Honey Trap, a World Premiere at Greenbelt Arts Center, clearly has the best set I’ve seen in years: a mixture of ’50s kitsch, photos of ’50s-era entertainers, a record player conso…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23PMThe line between Broadway-type musical theatre and opera becomes finer by the year--though I dare say that TOOTSIE is unlikely to be showing up at the Met any time soon. But the Kurt Weill-I…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21PMYou'd never know that the Met's production of Francis Poulenc's DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES is over 40 years old, except for a few giveaways. There are no dancing nuns, no nudity, no screeching…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21PMLady Gaga busted into the 2019 Met Gala with an extravagant Brandon Maxwell outfit–well, outfits. Like a Russian nesting doll, Gaga took off one layer after another. The Oscar-winning sing…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:15PM“Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock n’ Roll,” a new documentary exploring the roots of the New Jersey sound, is hitting theaters worldwide for an engagement on May 22 and 29. The film…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:15PMThe 2019 Met Gala theme Camp: Notes On Fashion has set expectations record high. And with Lady Gaga teasing itty bitty purses and voluminous gowns online, the excitement is understandable. B…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:15PM“In this newly designated ‘human age’, our species’ impact on the oceans, the land and the atmosphere has become an inescapable feature of the Earth. This idea that humanity has forc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06PM“In truth, freelance journalism, as a career, is mostly an anachronism. Given the rock-bottom rates on offer, few writers actually support themselves with full-time freelancing… But for …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06PMBuild your emergency management plan with this online professional development course.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06PMTwitter has, for two complementary reasons, been a sustaining force for event television. The fans want to avoid spoilers. They also want to enhance the collective experience by chattering o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06PMOur digital beings are taking us apart. Pluralism is about holding ourselves together: various mental styles interact unpredictably within us, allowing for unpredictable contact with other t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06PMReporting to the Executive Director, the Development Director (DD) will lead in the engagement, identification, cultivation, and solicitation of major donors and corporations, leveraging the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06PMCancel culture is not the same as the rising desire to engage with art’s social implications. But both phenomena are indications of a country that is fundamentally shifting the way it enga…
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Listen: Adam Feldman Discusses NY Drama Critics’ Circle Awards, RTC to Bring ART’s ‘1776’ to Broadway, Rough Week at Broadway’s Box Offices [display_podcast] “Today on Broadway�…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:54PMMusic producer and photographer Eamonn Doyle on his favourite corners of the city
SOURCE: propertylistings.ft.com at 08:28PMOn the heels of the announcement that their company will receive the John Aniello Award as Washington’s outstanding emerging theater company of the year, Ally Theatre Company has announced…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMWe don’t know which of this year’s Helen Hayes Award nominees will receive the coveted Helen Hayes awards on Monday, May 13, but we do know this: Ally Theatre Company will receive the Jo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMSome familiar musicals and not-so-familiar plays will mark Signature’s 30th season this coming year, the company has announced. Signature starts off its season with Assassins, the Stephen …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMThe Kennedy Center’s 2019-2020 season for young audiences will feature work from Education Artist-in-Residence, perhaps better know as author, illustrator (Knuffle Bunny, and Elephant &…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMIf there was ever a time for old-fashioned spoofy fun, it’s now. Your chance to goof off comes courtesy of Rep Stage’s joy-buzzery production of The 39 Steps, directed by Joseph W. Ritsc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMThe Tony Award winner tells Playbill about camp, fashion as theatre, and the Broadway boys playing subjects to his Sun God.
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Hilton Als reviews the new musicals “Beetlejuice” and “Tootsie,” which feature performers who help you see the narrative behind all the flash.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:46PMA new interactive play can be performed in the bathroom of your apartment, provided you have a tub, Patricia Marx writes.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:46PMBruce Springsteen hasn’t made too many public predictions about whether he’d ever record or tour with the E Street Band again. Sunday night, he answered a firm yes to both those question…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:43PMIf there’s one takeaway for the hundreds of ASCAP Expo attendees who sat for a Saturday afternoon panel featuring Ariana Grande’s “songwriting dream team” of Tommy Brown, Victoria Mo…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:43PMIn their conversation Sunday night at a private Netflix event honoring “Springsteen on Broadway,” Bruce Springsteen and Martin Scorsese spent close to a third of the 45-minute chat discu…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:43PMBruce Springsteen joined Little Steven Van Zandt and the Disciples of Soul at the band's record release show Saturday night in Beverly Hills.
SOURCE: USA Today at 06:43PMBruce Springsteen talked E Street with Martin Scorsese at a Netflix event Sunday.
SOURCE: USA Today at 06:43PMThe 46th annual Daytime Emmy Awards were handed out Sunday at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California. Here are the winners.
SOURCE: USA Today at 06:43PMPlácido Domingo added role No. 151 to his legacy Saturday night. Was this celebrated tenor-baritone-conductor-impresario and all-around operaholic counting all 65 years he has been on the s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:43PMWomen on the front lines of danger in 1963 were often pushed to the backbench of the civil rights movement. A new play gives them their due.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMThe award-winning Pittsburgher and “Pose” star makes his case for reigning menswear fashion icon.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:26PMOne of this year's Tony nominees is a rising star. Jeremy Pope made a double Broadway debut this season, and now he's a double Tony nominee.
SOURCE: CBS 2 TV at 06:24PMFor fans of Chicago’s legendary indie music scene, Hank’s Bar will feel like a fusion of The Hideout, Lounge Ax, Martyrs, the Double Door, and any number of other mission-based small mus…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:20PMEva Noblezada, the multi-talented Hadestown star who recently received her second Tony nomination, has signed on to lead Broadway.com's latest vlog, "Little Songbird," beginning on May 9. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMThe three productions will be celebrated at a May 13 reception.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:11PMThe New York Drama Critics’ Circle has named The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth best play of the 2018-19 season, Tootsie best musical, What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07PMThe 2019 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were handed out last night to recipients in 19 categories, with one special award and three honorary awards also besto…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04PMBest Musical nominees 'Hadestown' and 'Tootsie' had great weeks - almost everyone else took a sizable hit.
SOURCE: Forbes at 06:02PM
Every morning the week of May 1317, Live with Kelly and Ryan will bring the color and excitement of the Great White Way to viewers across the country with Broadway Week. Over the years, Live…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54PMHadestown and Tootsie joined Broadway’s million dollar club last week, each show posting box office totals above the $1M mark, even as Broadway overall slipped from the previous week’s s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PMBased on the 2007 film of the same name, this world premiere is just as lost as its titular character.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:28PMThe New York Pops honored music icon and activist Cyndi Lauper, kicking off a season of Cyndi that includes appearances at WorldPride and the Hollywood Bowl.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:24PMThe British drama gets a vivid area premiere at Studio Theatre.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:18PMThe recent announcement of the 2019 Tony nominations meant great news at the box office this past week for a pair of productions competing in the category of Best Musical. The new juggernaut…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMTo call “August Rush,” the new musical at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, a pre-Broadway tryout is a major overstatement. What is up on that historic stage at present is more akin to a …
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The Tony-winning playwright is currently represented on Broadway with a revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PMBack in 2003, BroadwayWorld launched as a modest, Broadway-only 'fan site' devoted to New York theatre. Created by Robert Diamond, the site had one goal- to bring together his dual passions …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMThe Hate U Givestar and celebrated advocateAmandla Stenbergis set to star in the new musical drama, The Eddy, at Netflix, according to Deadline. The Hate U Givestar will co-star alongsideAnd…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMThe 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 03:48PMBroadway starNoah Galvin joined Booksmart co-starMolly GordononAM to DM by BuzzFeed Newsthis morning to discuss their new film.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMBroadwayWorld has a first look at Asolo Repertory Theatre'sSWEENEY TODD.The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It is directed and choreographed byPeter Rothstein, who helmed the theatre's critica…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMWelcome to this week's edition of BroadwayWorld's exclusive WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, for the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 552019.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMThe musical earned 14 Tony nominations April 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMThere are old rules in the brain’s design that do not change: Use it or lose it. I would add, Choose it. A great deal hangs on how we work as a society to choose who we want to be—whethe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PMAnna Wintour rules with an iron fist. No selfies (yeah right). No unattractive food. No cellphones or smoking. And don’t even think about declining the invite if you ever want to attend ag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PMThese books and classes seem to ask an underlying question: Is what the world is experiencing today a replay of the Nazis and Italian Fascists? Probably not. But the parallels these writers …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PMWhile other films about ballet have gone for big-name actors with body doubles for the dancing bits — think of “Red Sparrow” and “Black Swan” — Fiennes was committed to casting a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PMSeeing what Twitter thinks you like can be a fun activity — but it can also be an odd experience to see what the company infers about you from your online moves. The psychology around targ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PMSubscribers, donors and patrons gathered at the Solarium in Decatur for the...
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:33PMActors, by definition, play all sorts of roles. But for Jennifer L. Nelson—a theater veteran who’s been working on stage and off ever since she landed in DC at the age of 22—the multi-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19PMWelcome to this week's edition of BroadwayWorld's exclusive WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS - read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, for th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMNathan Lane is enjoying one of theatre’s longest running careers. He’s been brightening stages ever since 1975 when at 19 he made his off-Broadway debut, and 1982 when he first bounced o…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:11PMMoulin Rouge!, the dazzling musical based on Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film, focuses on the entrancing chanteuse, Satine and lovesick writer, Christian.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:04PMPreviously nominated for his turns in the musicals An American in Paris and Falsettos, newly minted three-time Tony nominee Brandon Uranowitz is in new waters being nominated for his first p…
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Rose Hovic is one of the most riveting characters in the history of musical theater, inspiring allusions to the most renowned figures in dramatic literature. Gypsy’s lyricist, Stephen Sond…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52PMHarry Potter and the Cursed Child standout Lauren Nicole Cipoletti talks keeping the secret, her dizzying debut, and J.K. Rowling's response to her Moaning Myrtle.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:49PMIn honor of Admiral Peary’s birthday, today we pay tribute to several classic comedies set in or near the Arctic Circle. Shame on you if you don’t know who Robert Peary (1856-1920) was. …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:48PMSteppenwolf’s LookOut Series on Monday announced its summer 2019 lineup, including a reunion reading of The Inconvenience’s “Hit the Wall” by Chicago playwright Ike Holter. Tickets a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:20PMBy Douglas Mayo
Highlights of the Autumn Theatr Clwyd season include a major site-specific production, the world première of a new comedy and three new Christmas productions.
This post Thea…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:18PMTickets are now on sale for Sea Wall/A Life, a pair of monologues about grief, set to arrive at Broadway's Hudson Theatre this summer. Carrie Cracknell will repeat her work as director from…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMThe newly Tony-nominated revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons has received a one-week extension at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre. Originally announced to run through June 23, the pr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMIt's showtime! Set designer David Korins discusses his inspiration for creating the look of Beetlejuice on Broadway.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PM1776 is returning to Broadway. The Tony-winning musical about the events surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence will arrive at the American Airlines Theatre in spring of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMSpring of 2021 is going to feel more like July of 1776, with a Broadway revival of the classic Sherman Edwards (music and lyrics) and Peter Stone (book) musical 1776. Roundabout Theatre Comp…
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The co-production between the Huntington Theatre Company and Center Theatre Group features multiple cast members from the original Broadway production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PM"Weightless," a rock music adapted from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" by the Bay Area band Kilbanes, plays at The Strand in SF through May 12.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:53PM“John Gardner, the literary critic, wrote that the job of the novelist is to create a ‘vivid and continuous dream’ for the reader, but I’d somehow developed a case of readerly sleep …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMThe original theme – played in many versions since the program’s launch in 1979 was composed by BJ Leiderman. So why the update? The show’s current producers wanted to “freshen” th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMA study from Canada reveals undergraduates consider language learning to be a feminine pursuit, and that men with traditional beliefs about the proper roles of men and women report less inte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM“Our new engines of prediction are able to make more accurate predictions and to make predictions in domains that we used to think were impervious to them because this new technology can h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM★★★ Soho Rep's typically top-notch production fills in the blanks of an experimental endeavor
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:45PMWhile clearly aimed at an older demographic, this world premiere will appeal to people of all ages interested in the still-relevant question of how to live life with poise, class and style.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:44PMFrom a funeral home to a London train station, from musical love stories to plays about parenthood, check out what is onstage near you this summer.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:27PMOther winners include 'Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future' and 'Pass Over.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:27PMSchool Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:24PMPerformer portraying Presley says he relishes winning over doubters in show coming to Princess of Wales Theatre this week.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:21PMThe new series is scheduled to make its premiere in 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMJoin us for a panel discussion about current trends in Japanese theatre at the Martin E. Segal Center.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:13PMDonnell E. Smith as Bowzie.
Although I previously saw this award-winning (2017 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award) play a year ago in New York, it made a lasting impression on me, one that ma…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 01:09PMFrom the Catskills to Las Vegas and back again, singer Julie Budd is one of the last performers standing from the glamorous age of nightclubs and variety television. She’s got quite a foll…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:07PMPoland's Song of the Goat Theatre brings its passionate "King Lear" song cycle to UC Berkeley May 11-12.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:00PM
The Cervantes Theatre’s headlines its third New Spanish Playwriting season with the full UK and English-language premiere of Denise Despeyroux’s one-woman show The Reality, which had a d…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:58PMThe Roundabout Theater Company revival is a coproduction with the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., which will stage the show next May.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMBroadway producer Terry Allen Kramer, whose credits include Kinky Boots, the 2017 Bette Midler Tony-winning revival of Hello, Dolly! and The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, died May 2 at New York-P…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:41PMIncreasingly, the best theatre in America can be found Off-Broadway and regionally. It's time for the Tonys to recognize that.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:37PMRoundabout Theatre Company has announced a one-week extension of the new Broadway production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, directed by Jack O'Brien, starring Tony Award nominee Annette Ben…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMFrom stage to screen, Broadway will be represented on TV for the week of May 6, 2019
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMHartford Stage will present The Flamingo Kid, which closes the 2018-19 season. Performances for The Flamingo Kid begin on Thursday, May 9, and run through Sunday, June 9.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMThe New York Musical Festival NYMF has announced that in recognition of his 2019 Tony Award nomination and his history as a NYMF Alum, Joe Iconis Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter will b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMThe 2019 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were handed out last night to recipients in 19 categories, with one special award and three honorary awards also besto…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMAs previously announced, Sea Wall A Life, which recently played to sold-out audiences at The Public Theater, will open on Broadway this summer.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMThe Al Hirschfeld Theatre box office opens today, Monday, May 6, for tickets to Moulin Rouge The Musical, based on the 2001 Twentieth Century Fox Motion Picture by Baz Luhrmann. Moulin Rouge…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMHadestownhas announced that a new block of tickets are on sale now
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMTonight, Broadway stars will compete to be the last one standing and win the Broadway Bee The event is a comedic spelling bee between Broadway shows, hosted by the creators of The 25th Annua…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMVoting is open and continues for the BroadwayWorld Theater Fans' Choice Awards Now in our 17th year, the Theater Fans' Choice Awards are, by FAR, the largest fan based awards of their kind. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMLast night,Kristin Chenoweth was a guest on 'Watch What Happens Live.' During the interview, Chenowethtells host Andy Cohenabout the first time she met Ariana Grande, calling her one of the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMThe top growing current Broadway musicals were Hadestown 13.58, Tootsie The Musical 12.53, Ain't Too Proud 12.14, Oklahoma 8.66 and Beetlejuice 8.06. The top growing current Broadway plays w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMOn this day in 2008, Glory Days had its opening night on Broadway
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMRoundabout Theatre Company and the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University will bring a new production of 1776 to Broadway
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMCan Cooper connect her current role in Tootsie to her Broadway debut in Spring Awakening?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PMStars in the Alley returns to Shubert Alley Friday, May 10!
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:28PMContinuing its series spotlighting Broadway’s unsung heroes, the popular platform showcases Asian-American swings currently covering tracks not traditionally written for Asian actors.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMIt’s that time of year again! When a bunch of theatre people vote on who were the best theatre people of this theatre season. This time around, 10 musicals and 15 plays have been nominated…
SOURCE: theatrenerds.com at 12:17PMLOVE AND LOSS AND ‘THAT’S THE DEAL’ Jack is a middle-aged Oxford English don of the ’50’s , a bachelor and apologist for Christianity. Graceful, witty books and lect…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:15PMThree retired nuclear physicists meet in a quaint cottage not far from the nuclear power plant where they once worked and where a catastrophe has occurred. Earthquake, tsunami, tidal wave, r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15PMShadowlands isn’t an all-out weepie but there are a few who will find it hard to control their emotions. A well made and moving revival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMBroadway can expect 1776 in 2021. But first the revival of this most American musical, to be directed by Diane Paulus (Waitress, Finding Neverland) will stage engagements in various cities f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMThe Stratford Festival will present the concert as part of its Forum Showcase in November.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMCompany stage manager Zac Holton has had nearly every job in the business. He tells Fergus Morgan about the work ethic instilled
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMChoreographer Sarah O’Gleby reveals how she staged Robbins’ dance to a T and crafted some choreography of her own.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMGo on this set tour with the Tony-nominated designer as he reveals the storytelling in the smallest details.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMA revival of “1776” is coming to Broadway in the spring of 2021. The production will be directed by Diane Paulus and play the American Airlines Theatre. Before coming to Broadway, the pr…
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The production will debut at the previously reported American Repertory Theater; a Los Angeles engagement will also precede the Broadway bow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMPress Junket for the 2019 Tony Award Nominees
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May 5, 2019: On Wednesday morning May 1, the day after The American Theatre Wing announced their 2019 Tony Nomin…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:56AMThe Grammy-winning singer/songwriter, who penned the musical's score, performed after the show's curtain call March 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMThis comes following a successful world premiere at Cambridge’s American Repertory Theater in 2018.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:42AMThe show is set to make its world premiere at the Emerson Colonial Theatre this November.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:40AMTitus who? General Titus Andronicus was a fictional character in Shakespeare’s first and only fictional revenge tragedy that takes place during the fall of the Roman Empire. He returns…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:33AMJosh Bergasse’s life could be a musical.He started dancing every day in his mom’s studio since he was barely out of diapers. And in his own words, ten years and 10,000 hours later, he ac…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:30AMA new play from Jiréh Breon Holder moves the needle forward on what theater is capable of.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:24AMShe won five Tony Awards as a Broadway producer, but was just as well known as the grande dame of Palm Beach, Fla., socialites.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AMThe Carmen Jones star on her lifelong dream to play her award-winning role.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMhttps://www.buzzsprout.com/123341/1080320-podcast-episode-188-josh-bergasse.mp3 Josh Bergasse’s life could be a musical. He started dancing every day in his mom’s studio since he was bar…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:15AMCamp relies on a sensibility that is deliberately not mainstream. So: “Is camp still ‘lots of fun’ when everyone’s on board, aboveboard? The ‘fugitive sensibility’ Sontag hoped t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMIt’s got the collection of the former Museum of the Confederacy, so can it ever truly tell all of the stories suppressed and neglected over the years? Well, that’s the plan: “It’s un…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMThe ceremony, held May 5 at NYU Skirball Center and hosted by Mike Birbiglia, saw big wins for Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future, Pass Over, and Carmen Jones.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AMThe film adaptation of Patrick deWitt's best-selling novel will be screened at Cannes this month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMBut no: There is one, really stupid joke, and we made sure that we put it on an altar, as: This is the stupidest joke. Do you want to hear it loudly, and pronounced with such courage?
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:06AMThe new play, about a writer looking to free herself from the ghosts of literary convention, will debut at The Flea this spring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMWatch the full episode of Couch Surfing streaming now on PeopleTV.com, or download the PeopleTV app on your favorite device.
The original Broadway cast of Rent found the project opened …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:00AMThe playwright’s problematic response to Thomas Hardy’s novel has its world premiere at the Hampstead Theatre, London
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“Stay persistent and be yourself. You don't have to be anybody else.”
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 10:59AMBy Douglas Mayo
Major casting changes have been announced for Mamma Mia! at the Novello Theatre, London from 10 June 2019.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:52AMThe new musical at the Walter Kerr Theatre was nominated for 14 Tony Awards, the most of any production of the season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMThe Broadway Blog chats with Drew Redington, currently appearing in the Tony-nominated musical, "The Prom."
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:48AMStudio Theatre closes its current season with a tight, gripping production of Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Children” — nominated for Best Play at the Tonys last year — that craftily combin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:42AMThe new musical arrives at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre following an engagement at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMDid the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why *cause* the spike? Bit of an issue with a recent study that claims it did: “Importantly, the researchers don’t know if the people who died by suicide …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMWell, why not? “‘Come and convince our showrunners that they can’t just make six episodes of things. Like you guys, they should make 200 episodes,’ she recalled him saying. Fey rejec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMAmber Gray auditioned as well as she could for the Broadway-bound Hadestown: She “couldn’t read sheet music but had prepared for the tryout by diligently listening to the assigned song f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMIs it too soon after this year’s Tony nominations came out? So what? Bring ’em on: “When it comes to new musicals, looking beyond Broadway can reveal productions that may yet be player…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMThe artist was SKU and “the exhibition, Rainbow Scenes, was billed as exploring ‘how we, as individuals, are subjected to wider cultural, economic, moral and political forces in society.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMLove London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Rosmersholm at Duke of York’s Theatre, a new adaptation of Ibsen’s play.
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The cast of the Tony-winning musical was honored for their performance on NBC’s Today Show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMThe Jack O’Brien-helmed revival, starring Annette Bening, Tracy Letts, and Benjamin Walker, will play an additional week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:49AMThe revival of the Terrence McNally play, directed by Arin Arbus, began performances at the Broadhurst Theatre May 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMWhat Thespian alum Kathy Bates told graduates
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:10AMHeller blurred the line between collector and dealer – and caused an international incident because of it. “Heller’s sale of Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles to the National Gallery of A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AMHoang’s first novel, The Kiss Quotient, had an autistic main character – and so does her second. She says, “There was this website I looked at — I don’t want to tell you what it is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AMThe 1990s really did last into today: “Must See TV veterans have helped shape some of the most groundbreaking shows of the Peak TV era, including Homeland, The Handmaid’s Tale, Atlanta, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AMIf you ignore the controversies surrounding some “sloppiness” in the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Emmy awards last year (and maybe this year too), you can just f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AMReally. “The botanist David Hosack transformed this landscape into the country’s first public botanical garden in 1801. His creation, the 20-acre Elgin Botanic Garden, would come to cont…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AMIn 1995, his senior year at Ohio State, Eddie George rushed for a school-record 1,927 yards and scored 25 touchdowns, gaining an average of 148 yards per game. Against Notre Dame that season…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00AMBy Vera Starbard (Tlingit/Dena’ina). Playwright and Editor, Vera Starbard (Tlingit/Dena’ina), reflects on her journey through rural Alaskan Native communities to reawaken the ancestral…
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Who is Leah Shelton? Performance artist. Psycho siren. Part-time magician. People may have seen me onstage pole dancing on a hills hoist in my solo show Terror Australis, or making a red han…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:57AMIn 90 minutes. Give or take how many laughs pile up during the performance. And there are many.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 08:42AMThe City of Melbourne is on the hunt for ambitious young artists and creatives to take part in the 2019 SIGNAL Young Creatives Lab. Expressions of interest are now open for 18 to 25 year old…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:19AMTony Award nominee Lucas Hnath's new play, Hillary and Clinton, will offer a special Midnight Performance on Thursday, May 16, 2019. Hillary and Clinton stars Tony and Emmy Award winners Lau…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06AMMichael Black’s two-hander Starved is a quietly challenging and impactful play, which provides an eye-opening insight into what it’s like to live in poverty in Britain today.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMLorna Luft Takes Fans Down Memory Lane May 10th at Brooklyn's On Stage at Kingsborough
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May 7, 2019: Lorna Luft, singer, actress, and recording artist, will share h…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00AMWhile many people know its good-versus-evil tale, what audiences may not know is just how much goes into bringing this ballet to life.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AM“Rent’s” Mark and Roger, Rapp and Adam Pascal, celebrate 20 years of friendship with acoustic sets for the Trust Cabaret season finale.
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But there’s a pretty strong reason to read – or attempt to read, or annotate – difficult works. “So is it an indecipherable ruse or a harbinger of hypertext? Could it even be … the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AMAmy Sherald: “With a successful career, you have to hire some assistants to help, otherwise I can imagine that you would have to snort a lot of cocaine and drink a lot of coffee to just, l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AMThey’re learning to sing without a voice box, and they literally do have a choir. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AMHOT on Broadway (adj): fierce, talented, big potential; has "buzz"; has "it" factor.BROADWAY HEAT X 2: Oklahoma! / Hadestown Edition
In order to get through the rest of the season's show…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:36AMThe Tony-winning composer of Broadway hit The Band’s Visit is no stranger to musical adaptations of films, but had misgivings about taking
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMAs Wendell Pierce takes on the role of Willy Loman at the Young Vic in London, revisit the history of Arthur Miller’s classic play Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMA Shakespeare scholar’s fun, insightful and profoundly approachable study of 20 of his plays is perhaps the finest critique of his work to dateYouth is wasted on the young and so, in my ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMHaunted by the 60,000 bodies being disinterred to make way for High Speed Rail 2, Guardian comedy critic Brian Logan set out to connect Euston’s past and present
‘We’ve found four time…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMBernard “Toots” Shor (1903-1977) operated one of the more legendary show biz night spots in New York in the mid 20th century. After a decade of being a bouncer and manager at various est…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:12AMHappy birthday, Willie Mays (b. 1931)! Known as the “Say Hey Kid”, Mays spent almost the entirety of his career (1951-72) playing for the (first New York, then San Francisco) Giants, fra…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:12AMThree new plays by Caryl Churchill and a first mainstage appearance by Bezhti author Gurpreeet Kaur Bhatti are among the highlights of the Royal Court Theatre’s next season, a whole year o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:02AM‘I can feel his soul,’ the famous Russian choreographer and namesake of Eifman Ballet St. Petersburg says of renowned composer Tchaikovsky.
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Priya Swaminathan and Tonia Davis, co-heads of Higher Ground Productions, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company announced the company’s initial slate of upcoming…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:59AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Monday, May 6, 2019 - Monday, May 6, 2019.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:33AMParamount Network has ordered 10 one-hour episodes of comic drama “68 Whiskey,” an adaptation of Ron Howard’s Israeli TV series “Charlie Golf One,” from Imagine Television Studios …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:11AMWelcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. Chaucer’s classic collection of tales comes to life in the brilliant full-length adaptation, The Canterbury Tales by Lindsay Price. A group of trave…
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