A world premiere from a local actor/playwright, a co-production, an old favorite, two musicals, and two stories about, or almost about, actual events make up Keegan Theatre’s 2019-2020 sea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54PMMasterVoices performed a beautifully sung and played rendition of the legendary 1941 musical "Lady in The Dark" as part of New York City Center’s 75th Anniversary Season for three sold-out…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMhttps://broadwayshowbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Choreography.mp3
SOURCE: broadwayshowbiz.com at 11:46PMArthur Miller's tragedy from an African-American viewpoint
The Young Vic, a welcoming theatre with a culturally diverse audience, has been home to memorable Miller revivals before, notably I…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:42PMOff-Off Broadway at The Tank (312 W. 36th Street), NYC. So grateful that NYC provides off-off Broadway theaters such as The Tank, providing talented, new
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The show must go on. Anne Hathaway lived that lesson the hard way after her pants split before an appearance on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert."
SOURCE: USA Today at 10:59PMKristen Bell is back to explain motherhood in a video series for the 'Ellen' show. This time she gives a porcupine an ultrasound.
SOURCE: USA Today at 10:59PMBilly Joel has been entertaining fans since the '60s. The "Piano Man" turns 70 on May 9, 2019. His life in pictures:
SOURCE: USA Today at 10:59PMI think every performer has a song that they wished they could sing in performance, but there’s something that takes it out of your reach. In Bethesda Little Theatre’s latest cabaret sho…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:54PMKenneth Branagh’s fond, partly fictional portrait of William Shakespeare’s retirement is a soapy tale of family secrets and festering resentments.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:51PMHollywood star Will Smith was reluctant at first to play Genie in the live-action remake of Disney's "Aladdin" as it meant following in the big footsteps of late comedian Robin Williams who …
SOURCE: Reuters at 10:51PMViolinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk were set to grapple with Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 on Wednesday night at the Soraya in Northridge. The great 1944…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50PMIt was the summer of 1963 when photographer Kwame Brathwaite captured a protest over Wigs Parisian, a white-owned wig shop that opened on Harlem’s 125th Street near the Apollo Theater. One…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50PM“I just want to do Beckett’s ‘Happy Days’ over and over again,” Dianne Wiest declared between nibbles of a poached egg. “I don’t want to do anything else, because nothing else …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50PM4 men. 3 years. No women. Only studying and fasting. This is the start of William Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labor’s Lost.” What ensues is a wildly outrageous comedy unlike any of Shake…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:46PMThe 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
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24PMListen: McClure and Baldwin to Lead “Mrs. Doubtfire” Reading, Stars in the Alley Today, Adam Gwon Musical to RTC! [display_podcast] “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Fri…
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SOURCE: www.theensemblist.com at 08:52PMJason Mendez's new play "Supremacy" explores Black Lives Matters within a framework borrowed from superhero comics.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:45PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
May 10, 2019: Talking about Mexico, and building the wall, Cirque du Soleil’s new show, Luzia (A Waking Dream of Mexico) at Citifield, suggests intentionally or n…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:43PMWoolly Mammoth invites applicants and nominations for this leadership position at one of the field’s leading regional companies. The next Managing Director will join Artistic Director Mari…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PMYes, there are some literary stars here whose books come to U.S. readers in translation — Karl Ove Knausgaard, Stieg Larsson, Elena Ferrante — but the number of books published in Englis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PMThe conversation about AI is full of confusion, misinformation, and people talking past each other — in large part because we use the word “AI” to refer to so many things. So here’s …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PM“[She] drew whimsical but thoughtful cartoons: an office worker sitting in what is actually one of his desk’s drawers; a lumberjack peering at a heart pierced by an arrow carved inside t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PMThe ancient country, known as Doggerland, which could once have had great plains with rich soils, formed an important land bridge between Britain and northern Europe. It was long believed to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PM“Before each performance Carol Isaac climbs into her little box from the orchestra pit and raises her seat just enough to be seen by the singers but not the audience.” It’s tight quart…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PMSeventy percent said they had kept their disability hidden because of worries it would damage a relationship with a venue, promoter or festival, while two thirds said they had to “compromi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PM“An array of rapidly developing technologies offer thrilling potential for the future of motion pictures – such as the rise of AR (augmented reality), AI (artificial intelligence) and th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PMIt’s an issue, since the beginning of art. Where does one person’s art end and another’s begin. The lines are quite blurry… – Smithsonian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PMSo was it a troll? – Washington Post
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PM“In our own world, filled with ubiquitous date marks, it is easy to underestimate the sheer novelty, and so historical significance, of this mass year-marking. But, in the ancient world, t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PMPrimary market galleries in Italy no longer have to pay the artist’s resale right (ARR) when selling a work for the first time on behalf of an artist, meaning only works being resold are s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PM“In the future, 50/50 ideologies fade to dust because they are too narrow, too binary and mistake equality for equity or justice. To paraphrase political activist Angela Davis, equality is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PMPoet-playwright Aziza Barnes puts many ingredients into their script blender to whip up a “comedic look” at the lives of Octavia (Paige Gilbert), Imani (Alfie Fuller), and June (Antoinet…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:30PMThe Prom and Tootsie are among the highlights on offer for anyone visiting the Great White Way.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:04PM
Despite great songs, this revival of an old story is full of missteps.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 06:54PMTen of the 34 shows that opened on Broadway during the 2018-2019 season began life Off-Broadway. I was struck by how sharply different my reactions were to seeing the Off-Broadway and Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PMThe return engagement of Roy Williams’ drama, directed by Denis Lawson, is set to open at Hampstead Downstairs May 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:19PMDave Bova, whose hair, wig and makeup designs for productions including Be More Chill and 2017’s Sunset Boulevard and M. Butterfly brought a distinctive visual panache to Broadway over the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:17PMWelcome to hell! Hang out backstage at the Walter Kerr Theatre with Hadestown star Eva Noblezada as she kicks off a new Broadway.com vlog!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMFresh off of baking around the country as the original Jenna in the national tour of Waitress, multi-talented star Desi Oakley is headed into the long-running Broadway hit Chicago. Oakley wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMRoundabout Theatre Company has announced the world premiere of Scotland, PA, a new musical comedy based on the cult 2001 film, featuring an original score by celebrated composer Adam Gwon (…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today. Kristine Nielsen & Julie White to Host 2019 Drama League Awards
Kristine Nielsen and Julie White, the newly Tony-nominated …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMA slew of stage stars recently took part in an industry presentation of the 2001 Tony-nominated musical The Full Monty, producer Tom Kirdahy confirmed to Broadway.com. Tony nominee Leigh S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMBenjamin Walker stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about his Tony nomination for All My Sons and more with Paul Wontorek.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMStuart Ross directs the return engagement at York Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:05PMWhat goes into making a technically heavy Broadway scene happen Watch below as theProduction Stage Manager from Network walks us through the opening sequence
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04PM
Never mind where the bodies are buried: Let’s talk about the mountain of corpses onstage these days at the Booth Theatre. As soon as that blood-red curtain parts and theatergoers get a gan…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:53PMBlack Rep production offers insight into legendary performer and activist.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:36PMThe play, a sort-of autobiographical story about an author and an inmate, includes a post-show “community conversation” about incarceration.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMCut a rug, hit the floor, dance like nobody's watching — never mind that you're on an open-air dance floor in downtown Chicago, surrounded by a gazillion people on a summer night in Grant …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:30PMThe lineup includes two musicals by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:26PMThe Dramatists Guild of America has selected Schreck's 'What the Constitution Means to Me' for the prize.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:24PMThe David Yazbek and Terrence McNally musical, about a group of steelworkers who turn to stripping, premiered in 2000.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PMCritics are always sniping at something, but the real fun begins when they start sniping at one another. The members of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle got into a heated exchange last w…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:03PM
With a slightly different cast and some changes to the music, it is no surprise that BE MORE CHILL's Broadway production was recorded for Ghostlight Records BE MORE CHILL Original Broadway C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMRoundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic DirectorCEO has just announced the world premiere of a new musical Scotland, PA, featuring a Book by Michael Mitnick and Music amp Lyrics by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMGet ready because BroadwayWorld is giving you the chance to win a pair of tickets to a taping of Live With Kelly and Ryan to see a performance from either Hadestown or Be More Chill during '…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMBroadwayWorld has just opened up new opportunities for interns to join the team
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMThe play continues its run at Broadway's Belasco Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PMMusic and arts groups are scrambling to find a rental venues now that the downtown San Jose concert hall has been sold with plans to make it the new home for a South Bay church.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:39PMThe world premiere from Chicago-based playwright Ike Holter begins previews June 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PMA new musical based on the 2001 cult film Scotland, PA will get its world premiere in September at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Off Broadway stage, the company announced today. Directe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PM
The musical comedy, based on the 2001 Macbeth–inspired film, features a book by Michael Mitnick.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:59PMFran Drescher, star of the hit TV show The Nanny, has hinted that there may be a musical or play of the series in the works. While attending the Endometriosis Foundation of America's Blossom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMChicago announced today that actress Desi Oakley will join the Broadway production in the role of Roxie Hart for six weeks of performances at the Ambassador Theatre
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 03:48PMLaurie Metcalf, John Lithgow and the other cast members talk about portraying the political power couple on Broadway.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:48PMThe Kennedy Center has announced its 2019-2020 season for the National Symphony Orchestra Pops. Tony Award winner and original Hamilton cast member Leslie Odom Jr. will lead NSO's annual Hol…
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 03:41PMWhat is justice? How can a killer be punished? Can murder ever be justified? Does violence ever end? These are the questions that Aeschylus asked in “The Oresteia,” his trilogy of traged…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:32PMThe Drama Desk Award nominee will star alongside Kristen Stewart and director Ben Foster in the upcoming movie.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PMBirmingham RepThis staging of the bestseller loses the story’s gut-wrenching power in a sea of lighthearted flourish
Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling book The Kite Runner is about fathers, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMMost Broadway tours are like those old mimeograph machines: the more times they’re toured, duplicated and recast, the more the quality fades. So why is “Chicago the Musical” different?…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:15PMA talent-packed cast has been assembled for a pair of industry readings of the new musical version of Mrs. Doubtfire. Tony nominees Rob McClure (Beetlejuice) and Kate Baldwin (Superhero) wil…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMGet ready for a Cynthia Erivo world takeover. The big-voiced Brit has a Live from Lincoln Center solo concert airing on PBS on May 10. "That night felt amazing! Now I get to relive it and sh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMBeing a high school student is difficult enough with trying to balance homework, extracurricular activities and a social life, but for senior Thursday Williams and freshman Rosdely Ciprian, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMThe new Off-Broadway play "Lockdown" takes an authentic, intimate and powerful look at the impact of long-term incarceration and the reality of what life inside prison is really like..
The p…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:04PM
The Waitress alum will play Roxie Hart in the long-running musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PMHarold Pinter, Caryl Churchill receive smart revivals, Anton Chekhov not so much
The post From London: Betrayal, Three Sisters, Top Girls Tops to Middling appeared first on New York Stage Re…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:43PMIn this age of devices, the continuing evolution of man’s relationship with technology has been the subject of many studies and stories. Madeleine George’s play, The (curious case of the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PMAs part of her #PrettyStrongWomen exercise series, Marino and Pretty Woman star Samantha Barks show viewers how to squeeze in a quick abs workout to a track from the hit musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PMAs corporate interests collude with self-interested politicians to rid our city of any remaining strains of legitimate regional music culture, Evanston-born playwright Laura Eason shows just…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:30PMThe performance marks the first time the instrument, a project of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting survivors, has been featured on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PMThey join a cast including Nick Adams, Lauren Elder, and Anthony Galde in the new Bobby Cronin-Crystal Skillman musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMThe gala evening celebrates LuPone's enduring relationship with the Philharmonic on May 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PMYasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning God of Carnage is a cautionary tale for modern times. Written in French and translated into English by Christopher Hampton, Reza’s razor-sharp black com…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:12PMAny time someone appears on stage in tap shoes, I’m all in. Jodi Long brings that footwear and more to “Surfing My DNA,” world-premiering through May 26 at New Jersey Repertory Company…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 02:07PMOn May 8, the Tony-nominated revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! became the first Broadway show to feature the Instrument of Hope, a trumpet made with bullet casings, which has …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:04PM
As BroadwayWorld reported last summer, Fox Stage Productions and Kevin McCollum plan to bring a musical version of MRS. DOUBTFIRE to Broadway Four-time Tony Award Winner Jerry Zaks will dire…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMThe Broadway stage has always been a place for shows to push boundaries and address important issues facing society. From Rodgers and Hammerstein's iconicSouth Pacific, to the 90's smash hit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMJoin Lily Tomlin, Neil Patrick Harris, Tiffany Haddish, Ruth Buzzi, Billy Crystal and many more as Hollywood pays tribute to Rowan amp Martin's Laugh-In.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMOklahoma!'s Tony Award-nominated music arranger, orchestrator, and music supervisor Daniel Kluger talks about creating the all-new sound for this revival.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 01:38PMThe last of this season’s Encores! musicals in concert, starring Michael Urie, resurrects a 1947 show that feels nostalgic for nostalgia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMAfro-Cuban artists' stories emerge in Paul S. Flores' new 'We Have Ire,' premiering May 10-12 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in S.F.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:29PMWiest, in L.A. for Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days." talks theater, "Law & Order" and why she would work with Woody Allen again "in a second."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:28PMThe stage adaptation of the 1993 comedy is penned by Something Rotten! collaborators John O'Farrell and Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PMThe critics discuss the surprises and snubs of the Tony nominations, plus how to present problematic classics.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:27PMWritten By Julio Martinez
Pasadena Playhouse is announcing participants for the return of the Playhouse Block Party, in partnership with the Playhouse District Association. This all-day ev…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:18PMThis morning, the international superstar released a video of her and some very excited Londoners shaking and shimmying their way to the London Coliseum.
The post Conga down to On Your Feet …
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 01:03PMDebbie Kurup chatted to Emma Clarendon about starring in The Best of… Rock Musicals and the Donmar Warehouse production of Sweet Charity.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM
The Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical opened on Broadway May 9, 1994.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMFame the Musical is “an act of rebellion and an act of love.” This is how director Luis Salgado describes his latest bilingual (Spanish and English) musical, opening tonight at GALA Hisp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMAdmittedly, the synopsis for the dystopian kitchen-sink drama The Children at Studio Theatre didn’t tremendously excite me initially, notwithstanding the interest in acclaimed British play…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PM“In the end, we’re all just taller children,” croons Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Elizabeth Ziman on her band, Elizabeth & The Catapult’s, aptly title 2009 song, “Taller Ch…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMIt seems somehow written in the stars that Michael Kahn would choose the world premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s The Oresteia as the final show of his towering tenure as Artistic Director a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMAccording to Pew Research Center, 47 percent of such Republicans say it would bother them “some” or “a lot” to “hear people speak a language other than English in a public place.�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMJack O’Brien will direct the Bay Street Theater production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PMNBC has picked up to series Jimmy Smits Drama “Bluff City Law” and Kal Penn Immigration Comedy “Sunnyside,” reports the Variety.Co-created by Georgaris and Michael Aguilar and writte…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:46PMTimely revival for Kneehigh Theatre's frantic Beggar's Opera reimagining
Five years ago this Kneehigh Theatre production caused a stir with its vibrant modern retelling of John Gay’s 18th …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 12:42PMWe're well and truly into the merry month of May! With Bank Holidays left, right and centre, there's plenty of chance to celebrate new theatre.
The post May picks: new shows to see this mont…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:39PMPathe UK has released the first exclusive poster for JUDY starring Renee Zellweger Zellweger stars as Judy Garland in the upcoming biopic directed by Tony nominee Rupert Goold AMERICAN PSYCH…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMRodgers amp Hammerstein's Oklahoma became the first Broadway show to feature the Instrument of Hope on Wednesday, May 8th during a special encore performance of 'Out of My Dreams' right afte…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMBroadway Inspirational Voices will take the stage ahead of receiving a 2019 Tony Award honor.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM★★★ Jerome Robbins’ 'Bathing Beauty Ballet' sparks the uneven Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn musical at Encores!
The post High Button Shoes: Silvers Turned to Tarnish in Keystone Kops Musical…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:30PMTheatreFIRST and Shotgun players present Burlingame playwright Geetha Reddy's 'Far, Far Better Things," an adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities."
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:29PMHBO has announced the airing of “The Gilded Age,” a long-planned series from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes, which originally was to be on NBC.“The Gilded Age” in 1885 w…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:26PMThe new drama, to play the Irondale, details what went down at the 1944 Democratic National Convention.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMSeries creator Tina Fey says fans will be able to make decisions on behalf of the show's characters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMThe 85th annual ceremony will take place May 17 at the Marriott Marquis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMThe 35th Annual Helen Hayes Awards are just around the corner and we couldn’t be more excited! All of DC theater in one room together, wearing fancy duds and celebrating another year of ha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06PMMaxine Peake is magisterial at the Barbican in this heart-breaking monologue Avalanche; A Love Story.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM
A principal cast of signing actors and their signing counterparts will perform the Stephen Sondheim–James Lapine musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMThe beloved dancer is retiring from the company after 15 years. His final performances with the ballet run May 9–12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AMWho knew The Play That Goes Wrong was such a #mood?
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:55AMChisa Hutchinson’s solo play, starring Brenda Pressley, is now playing at the Minetta Lane Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMAntony Sher, Daniel Rosenthal and Amber Massie-Blomfield are among the authors shortlisted for this year’s Theatre Book Prize. The annual award, run
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMJude Christian has been appointed associate director of Manchester arts venue Home. She will join the organisation in a newly created role,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMThe Broadway and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend alum will appear alongside Andi Mack’s Peyton Elizabeth Lee.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMBroadway veteran and four-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn has given over the better part of the past year to London and to Trevor Nunn’s beautiful Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Fiddler o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMThe culprit was one Robert Phillips, an Englishman who had been a worker on a project to repair and stabilize one of the large stone arches at the site in 1958. He took a cylindrical core th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“The Philadelphia Cultural Pass will provide free tickets to any of the roughly 40,000 Penn Medicine and 6,800 Drexel [University] employees working full-time or more than half-time. … A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“Polish police say Elżbieta Podlesna put up posters of the revered Black Madonna that showed the Virgin Mary and Jesus with rainbows from the LGBT flag as the halos. Now she could face tw…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“For years, Mr. Kinder led the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became renowned for his generosity as a teacher and as a [party] host” as well as for a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMEmily Carrico was diagnosed with slippage of the vertebrae when she was still a toddler; she had two lower vertebrae fused with the sacrum. Then she spent months in a cast, a year in rehab, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“Although Renaissance and Baroque repertoire remains his lodestar, [Liam] Byrne has taken the music — and audiences — to surprising places. In 2015, he squeezed into the belly of a pla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMFor years it’s been known that the makers of top video games would make employees work 90-hour weeks or more, with no extra pay, at the crunch time before a title’s release. But now crun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMF. Scott Fitzgerald’s deployment of jazz imagery was as cutting-edge as it was conservative. He embraced the new music; he struggled more to embrace its practitioners and progenitors. He w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMTom Carson: “Most of the Americans entranced by the fib that everything after high school is a fall from grace undoubtedly have no idea where it originated, but the Clearasil staining Mark…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMLooking to buy last minute tickets to a Broadway show Don't know what to see Trying to find a theater
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMSkylar Astin has joined the ensemble cast of the 'Secret Society of Second Born Royals,' a contemporary princess story for Disney, the upcoming streaming service. Actress Peyton Elizabeth Le…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMBryan Cranston stopped by 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' to talk about his Tony-nominated role in Broadway's 'Network.' During the interview,Cranston brings up hisunorthodox method to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMBBC One and FX are partnering on a new adaptation of the timeless classic, A Christmas Carol.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMKristine Nielsen and Julie White - both recently nominated for the Tony Awards for their performances in this season's production of Gary A Sequel to Titus Andronicus - will host the 85th An…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMGlenda Jackson made a triumphant return to Broadway last year after a 30-year absence, winning every possible award for her performance in the smash hit revival of Edward Albee'sThree Tall W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMDawn Ursula and Erika Rose reprise their roles while a last chapter gets written.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:24AMBetsy Wolfe stars in Encores! production of High Button Shoes, and she captured her opening night on the BroadwayBox Instagram.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:16AMEveryone has an idea for a something . . . whether it’s a play, a movie . . . or even an app. But as I wrote about here, ideas are worth zippo. That’s why they can’t be protected by …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
Adam Seidel’s drama, directed by Elena Araoz, is currently playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMIn The Reality, a one-woman, two-character play by Uruguayan playwright Denise Despeyroux, Maite Jáuregui plays identical twin sisters. One appears live on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:51AMThe annual event puts New York City public school students on a Broadway stage to perform excerpts from the Broadway Junior series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM“Godzilla: King of the Monsters” follows the global success of Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island. This next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ cinematic MonsterV…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:45AMThe beautiful hilltop home of playwright/screenwriter Jane Anderson and author/producer Tess Ayers was the lovely location on April 14 of a special gathering of VIP donors and Fountain Frien…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wpcomstaging.com at 10:40AMWho is the world's worst detective? You'll need to investigate the case of The Falcon's Malteser, adapted from Anthony Horowitz's much-loved young adult novel by New Old Friends, which gets …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:37AMThe 64th annual ceremony will take place June 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMAfter a guest appearance on The Late Show, the Tony Award nominee invited the studio audience to see the evening performance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMA Streetcar Named Desire requires careful handling. At its best – when the casting is cohesive, the personal chemistry crackles and the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:32AM“I just sort of assumed some other celebrity was attached to the project,” admits Brandon Uranowitz of the initial table read for Lanford Wilson’s “Burn This.” His assumption was w…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:30AMThere’s an endearing humanity to Grace Chapman’s refugee-related drama Don’t Look Away, but there’s a tragic predictability to it too. It’s a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMThe two Tony nominees join Season 2 of the children’s series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMRoyal Opera House, LondonCrystal Pite reinvents the corps de ballet, alongside Christopher Wheeldon’s classy meditation and a flawed world premiere by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
The world premie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMBarber Shop Chronicles is a bold and inexorable march towards changing the way we share stories, shifting the mainstream narrative and dealing with both joy and pain in equal measure.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM
The production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize–winning drama is set to begin performances in London May 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AMBy Neil Giordano Zhang Yimou’s return to form is a story of doubles, duplicity — and zithers. Shadow, directed by Zhang Yimou. Screening at Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA. If Chine…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMGot your Mother's Day weekend plans yet? Here are 7 ways to celebrate, from awesome brunches to dazzling gardens to an all-female mariachi band.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:45AMBy Douglas Mayo
The Falcon's Malteser - a hilarious family show about the world's worst detective, adapted from Anthony Horowitz's novel comes to The Vaults this Summer.
This post Hilarious …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:31AMThe as-yet-unnamed venue is scheduled to open in King’s Cross in 2021. His most recent opened in Southeast London in 2017.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24AMMeera Syal, Lloyd Owen and Daniel Rigby have been cast in the Lyric Hammersmith production of Michael Frayn’s award winning Noises Off which runs from 27 June to 27 July 2019 2019.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:21AMThe Michel Legrand musical made its U.K. debut May 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMDolly Parton's brainchild, 9 to 5 The Musical, is set to work overtime at London's Savoy Theatre. The feel-good production announced today that the show will continue to run at the West E…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 09:10AMRichard Barthelmess (1895-1963) was a second generation thespian. His mother Caroline was a stage actress; he got his first professional experience as a child actor in her productions. He al…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:06AMMissouri born Robert Melvin (1920-1995) was afflicted with a condition known as neurofibromatosis, which caused distorting tumors on the right side of his face. He didn’t literally have tw…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:06AMPeek inside the schedule for the first ever Thespian festival
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:06AMAbuse of power, victim-blaming, emasculation and female rage – the Medusa myth contains so much that resonates today. It’s disappointing that superstar
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMIn The Cult of K*nzo Paula Varjack takes us on a humorous journey of her life in fashion, comparing it to getting into the hottest nightclubs as well as her ability to laugh, and allow us to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMost fans know "Kim's Convenience" from its three seasons on Netflix. But it began as a play. And Seattle audiences will get to see that play at Taproot Theatre starting May 15.
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From BTS to "30 Egg Plays in 60 Egg Minutes" there's so much to check out in Chicago in the week ahead.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 08:45AMBy Douglas Mayo
Riot Act, a powerful verbatim theatre piece exploring the history of the LGBTQ rights movement is to tour the UK.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:25AMTrump on Show, which ran for four days last month at the city’s last commercial Cantonese opera theater, “tells a story of Mr. Trump’s long-lost twin, Chuan Pu, who was raised in China…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMThe co-founder and recently retired director of DC’s famed theatre company reports from this year’s Golden Mask Festival, where selected companies from all over the vast country meet to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMFive key high-level staffers of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority didn’t renew their contracts and are leaving between now and the fall. And one much-anticipated venue in the WK…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM“Steven McMahon, 34, was named Artistic Director on Tuesday, taking over half the role occupied by company founder Dorothy Gunther Pugh since 1986. While Pugh will stay on as C.E.O., McMah…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMIt’s showtime with “Beetlejuice” — the exciting venture by Warner Bros. The production is nominated for eight Tony Award nominations including Best New Musical and Outstanding Actor …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:14AMListen: “Rain” to Make Return Run on Broadway, New “Beautiful” Star Announced, and Highlights of Dave Malloy’s “Octet” [display_podcast] “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Mon…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:12AMDeborah Colker Dance Company presents Dog Without Feathers, an incredible piece of dance which combines music, poetry, stark cinematography and a spellbinding dance ensemble.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM3-D Theatricals' gives this one the treatment such a monumental, near-epic tale of this caliber fully deserves. Even if you’ve seen the show done before, you’ve NEVER seen it like this�…
SOURCE: buckingtrends.me at 08:00AMHow the Audible Emerging Playwright uses theatre to get “people who do not ordinarily care about people like me, care about people like me.”
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AMThe Old Vic Theatre has announced the official line-up for their highly anticipated fifth season with Matthew Warchus as Artistic Director. Aptly stylised as #OVSeason5, the new Old V…
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By Douglas Mayo
Alan Cumming, Daniel Radcliffe, Mark Knopfler's musical Local Hero, a new play by Lucy Preeble and the return of A Christmas Carol are part of the Old Vic 2019-20 season.
Thi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:42AMCharing Cross theatre, LondonDespite witty couplets and a zippy staging, this whimsical tale struggles to engage
When the multi-Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand died in January, obituar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMCarlos Acosta has been awarded the 2018 Critics’ Circle Award for services to the arts – only the third person from the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMArts subjects would be embedded into the national curriculum for Wales under new proposals from the Welsh government. Teachers would also be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMShakespeare’s Globe is delaying a major capital project due to commence this year, claiming it needs more time to meet a higher
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMI've had the pleasure of seeing Ms. Broadway May 2019 in nine different shows over the years, from her Broadway debut in Blood Brothers all the way through to her triple-role turn in last …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:33AMMeera Syal is to star in Noises Off at the Lyric Hammersmith. Syal will play Dotty Otley, and will be joined by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMAnthony Horowitz's much-loved young adult novel is coming to the stage this summer in this adaptation from New Old Friends and James Seabright.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:24AMI LOVE interviewing Tony Award winner Cady Huffman. We always have a great time together, though, the best time we’ve had so far was when Cady, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Kenyon Phillips & I a…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 07:12AMTina Fey's series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is going to have an interactive episode on Netflix According to Deadline, the show, which ended after its fourth season, will return for this spec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06AMAndrew Garfield is headed back to the big screen According to The List, the actor will play real-life pianist James Rhodes in the musical biopic, Instrumental. The film is an adaptation of R…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06AMThe Koorie Heritage Trust presents insideOUT – a solo exhihition by Ngarigo artist Peter Waples-Crowe that seeks to challenge binary constructs and heteronormativity. Waples-Crowe will tra…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:01AMJewel of the Empire, the latest immersive experience from Funicular Productions, combines excellent food with lively entertainment to make for a fun evening out.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMBy Douglas Mayo
HOME, Manchester’s multi-art form centre has announced the appointment of Jude Christian to the new role of Associate Director.
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The late and very great Michel Legrand wrote a colossal amount of music, mostly for films, but 2002’s Amour was one of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMViewing Afghanistan’s recent history through the experiences of three overlapping generations of women, Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns tells a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMEveryman, CheltenhamShakespeare, wizards and panto dames all play their part in an evening of autobiography that is a love letter to theatre
Scratch a great actor and you often find a born c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMIt’s often cited as one of the funniest plays of all time and now we’re seeing who’s up to the task of delivering those hilarious lines as the cast of Noises Off has been announced!In …
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 06:34AMThe Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) invites instrumentalists and singers everywhere to be a part of the biggest orchestra in Australia. AMEB have announces that I am Australian (w…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 06:33AMDolly Parton’s 9 to 5 the Musical has extended its run in the West End to 2020. It is now booking at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMNatalia Osipova, who plays Medusa, is an extraordinary ballerina who combines bold technique with fierce dramatic conviction
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:18AMDave Bova, a veteran wig, hair, and makeup designer, whose work can currently be seen in Be More Chill on Broadway, passed away unexpectedly this week.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04AMAndrea Levy’s award-winning and sprawling epic Small Island retells an uneasy moment in Britain’s recent history through the eyes of the people involved. But what a glorious story it is.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFRIDAY “Rent”: The non-Equity cast has changed, but this 20th anniversary touring production of Jonathan Larson’s musical was last in Chicago at the then-Oriental Theatre in 2017. Nede…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMIn 2015, Justin Trudeau was elected prime minister of Canada. In his Montreal victory speech, delivered in both French and English, he said, “Sunny ways, my friends. Sunny ways!” Histori…
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Who is Amartuvshin Enkhbat? I am a proud Mongolian who followed his dream of singing and graduated from the State University of Arts and Culture. I have worked very hard to achieve this drea…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:57AMVisits to the Coronet Theatre, until last week known as The Print Room at the Coronet, make me miss the days when I lived in Notting Hill (or rather, near enough, Ladbroke Grove). Last week,…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:50AMProductions in London of classic plays — from Chekhov to Cy Coleman — feature strong female performances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMDolly Parton's 9 To 5 The Musical is extended its run at the Savoy Theatre! Today, 300,000 additional tickets have been released for shows until April 2020.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:23AMA whole new world premiere! The cast and creatives of Disney's live-action Aladdin celebrated the film's world premiere in Paris, France on May 8. Will Smith, who plays the perennially bl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06AMAmour is a sweet and bittersweet story which is delicately handled by director Hannah Chissick. The concept of is intriguing and mystical, and the style of the music is chocolate box sweet.
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Usually lurking behind the scenes, trying to control public perceptions of their client, publicists stand centre stage in new satire Cuttings, which plays the Hope Theatre in June. Time to b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:57AMBy Douglas Mayo
To mark 9/5 Day today (9-5-2019), a celebration of both the iconic Dolly Parton song and the musical, the producers of 9 to 5 the musical are delighted to announce that ticke…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:43AMWilde stayed at a farmhouse in Norfolk, England, with his wife, and later, his lover. He also worked on “A Woman of No Importance” there.
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The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is one of the largest and most influential dance education and training organizations in the world. Established in the UK in 1920, the RAD encourages its tea…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 01:55AMFor artists across the United States, the struggle to find and keep funding, pay collaborators and bring passion projects to life can feel like an uphill battle. In a dog-eat-dog world, some…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 01:31AMSome stories — and thus, some dances — are simply timeless. At the same time, there may very well be creative choices within works from the past — even if they feel timeless — that d…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 01:27AMSummer is just around the corner, and you may already have plans for an exciting summer program, workshop or convention. And you’ll surely want to make a lasting first impression and treat…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 01:24AMBoston Ballet Principal John Lam has danced leading roles in some of the most sought-after ballets – Prince Desire in The Sleeping Beauty, Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the princi…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 01:22AMThe 13-year journey to resurrect the fabled Coconut Grove Playhouse squeaked by what may have been the last serious roadblock Wednesday when the Miami City Commission voted 3-2 to overturn o…
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The revival, co-starring John Cullum and Will Swenson, opened at Studio 54 May 9, 2007.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48AMMovie-makers are hoping to enlist audiences for reducing inequality, promoting civil rights, tackling climate change and a myriad of other narrower causes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:01AMAn ongoing dispute between the film festival and the streaming giant could forever reshape the movie business
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMBring your A game to our Tony Awards predictions game---The 2019 Tony Awards promise a lot of head-to-head action -- there are multiple categories where costars are going up against each oth…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMMichael Curry on reinventing some of the movie's most iconic nonhuman characters for the stage---Compliment Michael Curry on his eye-popping puppets for Beetlejuice on Broadway, and he'll po…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMThe new play, which follows a trio of friends over the course of a New York City day, opens at MCC May 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPittonkatonk, Millvale Music Festival and Roxian opening all happen this weekend.
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