This isn't exactly a review because I wasn't able to see the whole show. But here are some thoughts based on what I saw.
The rhythms of African-American casual conversation fit beautifully …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:54PM“A Strange Loop” is a musical about a big, gay black guy who is struggling to write a musical about a big, gay black guy who is struggling….. Michael R. Jackson, the musical’s talent…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44PMIt’s been 30 years since photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) and choreographer Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) died from AIDS. The June-long celebration of civil rights and respect …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:44PMBangarra Dance Theatre, Sydney Opera House, June 14 What a marvellous idea to include Jiří Kylián’s Stamping Ground in this celebration of Bangarra’s three decades of dance. It’s …
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Michael R. Jackson’s gutsy, exasperated musical is set within the mind of a black, queer man who’s writing a musical about a black, queer man who’s writing a musical …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48PMBen Page is an emerging composer/actor from Toronto, Canada and the fastest shawarma eater east of the Don Valley. Ben has played piano for virtually his entire life but refused to practice …
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Susanna Wolk is a New York based director whose work has been seen at 54 Below, New York Fringe Festival, Access Theatre, Dixon Place, the PIT, The Flea, Theatre Ro…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:48PMLast season, two off-Broadway plays – “Daddy” and “Slave Play” (both by Jeremy O. Harris) – highlighted significant issues about the self-identity of young black gay and queer me…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:45PM“I remember more experienced writers telling me that I should say yes to every opportunity until I had earned the privilege to say no. But hope is both a strength and a weakness; it takes …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PMThe proposal would mean the EIF has taken a 19.4% cut in its funding since 2015/16. EIF director Fergus Linehan questioned the lack of a strategic plan for the festival, which took £3.8 mil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PMData compiled by Doug Risner, a professor of dance at Wayne State University in Detroit, shows that only 32 percent of male dancers have fathers who support their desire to dance. Typically,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PMMillennial Notes John Fisher Exposes Hollywood Horrors by Hamilton Nguyen John Fisher’s fresh new play “Action Hero” smashes the rosy view of California and Hollywood. The witty play h…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:13PMBy Bob Shuman Byungkoo Ahn’s distillation of the lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Alan Turing, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Hans Christian Andersen, among others, works so effectively—and is so dif…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:03PM“Disaster, the Musical!” is anything but in its current incarnation at Cockpit-In-Court. Whatever the opposite of disaster is by definition, this is it. Cockpit has kicked off their 20…
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“Pride and Joy: The Marvin Gaye Musical” played this past weekend at Patricia & Art Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric in Baltimore, Maryland. This is a touring company, an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:50PM“Charley’s Aunt” by Brandon Thomas, produced by Maureen Rogers and directed by Patrick Pase is now playing at the Laurel Mill Playhouse on historic Main Street in Laurel, MD. The play,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:39PMMichael James Scott, the showstopping actor currently appearing on Broadway as Genie in Aladdin, has signed on to lead Broadway.com's new vlog—"Live from the Lamp"—starting on June 25. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMOscar-nominated actor Gary Busey will portray the Almighty this fall in the world premiere pop-rock musical Only Human. Previews will begin on October 8 ahead of an October 21 opening night …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMTommy Bracco, the Broadway alum most recently seen as Giulio in Pretty Woman: The Musical, will take to the small screen as part of the 21st season of the CBS reality series Big Brother. The…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMSomething's coming, something good! We knew filming of Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg's upcoming West Side Story film remake would start this summer. The eagerly anticipated film, starrin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMBroadway.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 quest…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMLucas Hnath's new play Hillary and Clinton will conclude its Broadway run earlier than expected. Originally scheduled to play a limited engagement through July 21, the play will now close on…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMMake people see how the world could one day be! The popular Broadway musical The Prom, named Broadway.com’s 2018 Show of the Year and winner of the 2019 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Mu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMDebra Messing is headed back to the Great White Way. The beloved stage-and-screen star will headline Noah Haidle's Broadway-debut play Birthday Candles next spring at the American Airline…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMCuban-American performer Christie Prades is headlining the London premiere of On Your Feet!, the Broadway musical about Gloria Estefan opening June 27 at the London Coliseum, following a sho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMThe Actors Fund, the national human services organization with a mission of fostering stability and resiliency and providing a safety net for performing arts and entertainment professionals …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today and this weekend. The Secret Life of Bees Musical Extends Off-Broadway
The acclaimed new musical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMThe week following the 73rd annual Tony Awards saw box office jumps for a number of shows newly named Tony Award winners. Productions that saw increases include Tony-winning musical Hadestow…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMA spectacular romp around the world with 192 of NYC's best dancers and two standing-room-only audiences led to a sensational evening of record-breaking modern-day burlesque at Broadway Bares…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMCharlie Pollock stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about Pretty Woman and more with Beth Stevens.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PM★★★★Michael J. Jackson takes on identity, and Tyler Perry, in a funny, haunting and truly original new musical
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:30PMIn 'A Strange Loop,' identity crisis drives a dense, whirling vortex of satire and self-discovery to dazzling effect.
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‘Love is love,’ is a turn of phrase we hear often during pride month. The Tony-nominated musical “Falsettos,” a theatrical milestone in the movement for LGBTQ liberation, has arri…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:54PMImagine that two monks show up at your house, politely knocking and bowing, and then want to discuss taking your three-year-old son back to India because he is believed to be the reincarnati…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:39PMI am officially besotted with Ida Lupino after seeing ‘Gwen & Ida: The Object Is of No Importance’; I was so intrigued by the character onstage (gracefully played with steely resolve…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:29PMBy . The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presents Alice’s Wonderland by Ingrid Oslund, livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network on Friday 26 July at 6 …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:25PMWhile Gary and Hillary announced their Broadway leave-taking amidst the post-Tonys fallout, a greater number of productions saw their fortunes burnished in the afterglow of the nationwide tr…
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The producers and creative team behind Broadway’s upcoming musical adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook say they are “encouraged” by the author’s “strong statement of supp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:44PMThirteen productions will receive support to extend rehearsal and development time for new plays and musicals.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:42PMAt the National Gallery of Art, the chamber orchestra showed the composer’s many sides.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:42PMFor the first year ever, the pre-show Stripathon fundraiser brought in over $1 million.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PMFor the first year ever, the pre-show Stripathon fundraiser brought in over $1 million.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PMMelinda Lopez’ adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s play opened in Boston June 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PMNicole Burgio’s kinetic solo performance ‘xoxo moongirl’ is a candid, gripping tale on family, healing, and domestic abuse. Kyle V. Hiller reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:10PMFinancial documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun and interviews with three of the symphony’s key decision-makers reveal that the organization’s efforts were predicated on the thinnest o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMA whole host of Stirling Prize-winning architecture practices have declared an emergency in response to accelerating climate change. Calling for a “paradigm shift”, they unveiled 11 p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM“The museumification process of a living cultural landscape and the consequences of the loss of ancestral knowledge in managing water, agriculture, sustainable production and occupation of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMThere’s an idea in vogue that if an artist or writer can just talk to enough different people about their experiences in the city, they can give us a clear vision of San Francisco as it is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMThe distinction is critical: Whereas addiction is something people experience mostly as individuals, social norms are shared mental states shaped by the views and beliefs of other members of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMThe Cuban government, which regularly arrests artists and journalists, also expected to welcome a record-breaking 5.1 million tourists this year. Cuba’s leaders are well aware that cultura…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMIn the past 10 years, northern and Indigenous music has been winning over bigger and bigger audiences, and some artists have leveraged that into international recognition. But the cost of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMMac made every recording session, every gig, and every musical encounter better just by being there. He knew what to add. He knew what to subtract. He brought the best out of everyone in the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM“In the era of Donald Trump — and YouTube — the most fevered version of the case against postmodernism has become increasingly visible. That is, the claim that a coalition of critical …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMThe most common theory is that the 500-year-old artwork is sitting in storage in Switzerland — specifically in Geneva, where, according to The New York Times, more than a million works of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMBurning Man organizers had proposed raising the current 80,000 limit as high as 100,000 in coming years. But the Bureau of Land Management said in releasing the final environmental impact st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMThe critics sometimes found his work overstuffed, with more attention paid to décor than to human beings. But audiences ate it up for decades. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM“When satire is doing a good job, it’s not just punching up. It’s reminding us of our complicity.” But there’s no double meaning in outrage: “Outrage tells you, ‘Here is the th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM“His personality isn’t so different from one of those determined entrepreneurs from the 1900s who wanted to stick a motor on a carriage and get people moving without having to hitch a ho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMAcross Britain and Ireland indies are doing what they do best: hosting readings and signings, cooking up literary lunches and generally feeding curiosity. Bookshop crawls are quite the thing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMThe opening of a €600m super-museum in Berlin has been postponed to next year, raising sceptical eyebrows among locals wary of the German capital’s growing tendency to deliver large publ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMToday’s young adults are just as likely to endorse traditional racial and gender stereotypes as members of previous generations. And by age 30, those who have earned college degrees enjoy …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMDespite the progress made in recent years, she said, female conductors were still judged differently from their male counterparts while on the podium. “The thing about conducting is it’s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMThe top letter, in which Cohen wrote in December 1960 about being “alone with the vast dictionaries of language,” fetched almost $75,000 compared to an original high estimate of $13,000.…
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Roundabout Theatre Company Artistic Director Todd Haimes has announced that star of stage and screen Debra Messing will come to Broadway in 2020 in a production of Noah Haidle’s Birthday C…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:55PMThe Temptations musical celebrated its highest gross to date the week after Broadway's biggest night.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PMThis week Seth reminisces with the Beetlejuice stand-out and talks to future stars from LaGuardia High School, the famous New York City school that inspired the movie Fame.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMThe Prom, the inspiring new musical comedy with a score by Chad Beguelin (Aladdin) and Matthew Sklar (Elf), and a book by Beguelin and Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone), will take the festiv…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:51PMThe Tony-nominated musical about The Temptations opened March 21 at the Imperial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PMTheatergoers can watch Debra Messing age before their eyes next spring. In Noah Haidle’s new play, “Birthday Candles,” the star of “Will & Grace” — both past and rebooted —…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:21PMThe play’s the thing wherein to catch the conscience of the queen in Timothy Findley’s 2001 drama “Elizabeth Rex,” now in an al fresco staging with Oak Park Festival Theatre. Fitting…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:15PMThe play’s the thing wherein to catch the conscience of the queen in Timothy Findley’s 2001 drama “Elizabeth Rex,” now in an al fresco staging with Oak Park Festival Theatre. Fitting…
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Also announced was the re-election of Brian Stokes Mitchell as Chairman of the Board.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PMThe Harvey Weinstein–inspired drama, starring John Malkovich, is set to open at the Garrick Theatre June 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PMBy . The VORTEX in Austin, Texas presents black girl love: an adaptation project livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:47PMPlays in this Ensemble Studio Theater series include stories of the Second Coming told seven ways and two women in search of a hot duck.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMThe Roundabout Theater Company production, which follows a woman’s long life, marks the playwright Noah Haidle’s Broadway debut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMJohn Lennon and Sam Shepard wrote sketches. The cast was unclothed. And it went on to a two-decade Broadway run. An oral history of one of theater’s unlikeliest hits.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMGet a glimpse at a musical number from the new streaming musical No One Called Ahead.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 03:23PMIn its best moments, Steven Levenson’s “If I Forget” is like a Jewish “August: Osage County,” a relatable familial potboiler that simmers with religious, generational, marital and …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:20PMNew musical ‘Moulin Rouge!’, Disney’s ‘Hercules’ in Central Park & more
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 03:19PM“The Prom” will launch a national tour beginning in Providence, Rhode Island in February 2021. In addition to the tour, “The Prom” announced a worldwide licensing deal with Theatrica…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 03:15PMBroadway’s The Prom has a date with the road: The Tony-nominated musical will launch a first national tour in February 2021 in Providence, Rhode Island. The tour was announced today by pro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:09PMThe musical has also reached a licensing agreement with Theatrical Rights Worldwide.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PMDebra Messing will return to Broadway next year in a spring production of playwright Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles. The Roundabout Theatre Company production will mark the New York premie…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMDebra Messing is about to celebrate her birthday on the Broadway stage — kinda.
On Monday, Roundabout Theatre Company announced that Messing will star in the New York premiere of Birthday …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 03:00PMPlaywright and screenwriter Noah Haidle will make his Broadway debut in the production from Roundabout.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMDebra Messing will return to Broadway in Noah Haidle’s play “Birthday Candles.” The play, directed by Vivienne Benesch and produced by Roundabout Theatre Company, will begin preview pe…
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The book will stand as a good first stop for anyone interested in Alfred Stieglitz, 20th-century photography, or American modern art.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:54PMThe season will feature a world premiere play by Michael Leon and a new Louis Armstrong musical.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:53PMThe biomusical will open in November at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMAfter oodles of gossip it’s been confirmed that Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford will reprise their lead roles in the New York City Center an…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 01:35PMMax McLean channels author C.S. Lewis in "The Most Reluctant Convert" at Herbst Theatre in SF.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:30PMDavid Whalen returns to the role of the great detective in the only Holmes play written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:25PM“King King” will open a production in Shanghai in 2021. The musical will be presented in Shanghai by Broadway producers Carmen Pavlovic, Roy Furman and new partner, Harmonia Holdings, a …
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 01:20PMKyle Vincent Terry, Tiffany Villarin, Cristina Pitter, and more are tapped to perform in the new plays at the Playwrights Conference in Connecticut.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMTheatre EVOLVE presents the world premiere of "Human Resource(s)," Sara Means' new play about the rabid world of office politics.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:12PMMarch 22, 2019. Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ellice Patterson started Abilities Dance Boston with a clear mission: to offer a space for dancers of varying physical an…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 01:05PMHillary And Clinton, Lucas Hnath’s Broadway play starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow, will plays its final performance on Sunday, June 23, producer Scott Rudin announced today. The cr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:03PMA first look at the new “West Side Story” movie has arrived. This movie, set to premiere in December 2020 to be released by Walt Disney Studios, just released a new photo starring Ansel …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:02PMSo by all means let’s go on running relaxed performances for people who need them but at the same time we shouldn’t lose sight of the need to promote co-operative, compliant, appropriate…
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"Hedgehog is exquisitely written, viscerally performed, and splendidly staged." Critics and audience have fallen for BoxLess Theatre's coming-of-age tale and its central character Manda. Fin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:58PMThe new Joe Iconis musical takes over Greenwich House Theatre this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PMThe popular platform, continuing its series showcasing theatre's unsung heroes, gave Playbill a peek at the next generation of performers slated to hit the Great White Way.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMI’ve always been fond of tiny triumphs that seem to come out of nowhere to score surprise effects. Let me evoke three such incidents.
One long ago day some of us were cruising the labyrin…
SOURCE: John Simon at 12:48PMThe new musical from Lynn Nottage, Duncan Sheik, and Susan Birkenhead will play an additional week at Atlantic Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMThe gorilla will make his musical debut in the Chinese metropolis in 2021.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMKids Week is a fantastic opportunity to take your kids to something brand-new that they’ve never seen before this summer. During the month of August, children aged 16 or under can watch a …
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:42PMThe Parisian theatre company is on a rare visit to the UK with Ivo van Hove’s The Damned. What are the secrets of the world’s oldest active troupe?
Companies like nothing more than to re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMThe duo’s behind-the-scenes web series continues ahead of their return to Feinstein's/54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM“Hillary and Clinton” will play its final performance on June 23, about one month ahead of its original closing date. The play, starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow, opened at Golden…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 12:32PMThe recent revival of Sunday In The Park With George, which starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford, is coming to London's Savoy Theatre next year.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:30PMRajiv Joseph’s Comedy Exposes Seduction of Innocents by Barry David Horwitz Could there be a more topical play than Rajiv Joseph’s “Archduke”? Here’s a new play about young people …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:30PMThe Broadway production of Sunday in the Park With George, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, has announced it will transfer to London next year.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMThe new Lucas Hnath play starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow will end its engagement at the John Golden Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMThe new pop musical is based on the true story of America’s first congresswoman, Jeannette Rankin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMReview: The Cheviot, the Stag & the Black, Black Oil, Live Theatre4.0starsRarely does an evening at the theatre involve dancing. Cèlildh dancing, no less. The Cheviot, the Stag and the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:12PMIlaria Della Bidia is an Italian singer who has toured the world with renowned Tenor Andrea Bocelli for the past eight years. She can sing in 10 different languages including Italian, Englis…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 12:12PMPerhaps better than any other examination of Callas' life and career, the play 'Galas' delves into the frustration and pain that engendered her genius
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:11PMJesse JP Johnson talks playing Boq in Wicked, his upcoming Feinstein's/54 Below concert, and the unusual way he booked the 9 to 5 tour.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:09PMJeff Daniels will be leaving Broadway's "To Kill a Mockingbird" on Nov. 3, and Ed Harris will take over as Atticus two days later.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 12:06PMOn the heels of an acclaimed 2017 Broadway production, Sarna Lapine's new staging of Sunday in the Park with George has scheduled a move to London's Savoy Theatre next spring. Jake Gyllenhaa…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 12:04PMThe two will reprise their performances in the U.K. after headlining the musical at New York City Center and on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMTickets go on sale today for a strictly limited season of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George starring Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and Tony Award w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:02PMTony Grech-Smith tells Fergus Morgan about his journey from script supervisor to directing NT Live broadcasts of shows including Yerma and Julius
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMActor Riad Richie chatted to Emma Clarendon about starring in Shakespeare in the Squares’ production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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Tickets are on sale now for the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival bringing over 500 individual performances, 89 productions, and five Capital Fringe curated shows across 13 stages in Southwest DC…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:52AMBy Douglas Mayo
The acclaimed Broadway production of Sunday In The Park With George starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford is to open at the Savoy Theatre, London for a strictly limi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:50AMThe Notebook author Nicholas Sparks has released a lengthy, 500-word-plus statement in which he expresses “regret” and apologizes for his words that “have potentially hurt young people…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:44AMCo-produced by Michael Urie and Doug Nevin, the June 20–24 festival resurrects deserving queer-themed works alongside brand-new voices.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMThe world premiere of Michael R. Jackson’s musical opens at Playwrights Horizons June 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMThe Tony Award-winning musical "Once" gets its regional theater premiere via 42nd Street Moon through June 30 at the Gateway Theatre in S.F.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:30AMAs director Sally Cookson's Peter Pan returns to London this summer, a number of cast members from the 2016 production will return, it has been announced.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 11:30AMBabes With Blades announced its 22nd anniversary season, titled “Take Control. Take Action. Make History,” reflecting women taking ownership of their environments and the ways in which t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:30AMThe 2018 Tony winner will play a woman in the grips of memory loss in the feature-length adaptation of Emma Healey's novel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMThe Pretty Woman standout is among the 16 new Houseguests on the CBS reality competition.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMThe designer and director Franco Zeffirelli, who has died at the age of 96, roamed freely across theatre, opera, television and film
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMAmbassador Theatre Group chief executive Mark Cornell has claimed theatres need to look to cinemas to improve audience comfort, arguing theatregoers are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:14AMAfter 52 years the band can still sell out Wembley Stadium but the latest line-up change may be a rupture too far
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:12AMMore than a third of voters in an online poll conducted by The Stage do not believe theatres were right to cancel
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMKimberly Chatterjee takes Instagram along backstage for the opening night of Life Sucks.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:03AMThe musical satire "Disenchanted" plays at San Jose's 3Below Theatres June 20-July 21; presented by Guggenheim Entertainment.
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Places! The Kristin Chenoweth Experience will launch July 14 at The Hollywood Bowl.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM“Alright, come on,” comedian Hannah Gadsby said to the uproarious applause that greeted her when she walked abruptly out onto the stage of the Chicago Theatre Sunday night, eschewing an …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:55AMReview: The Flies, The Bunker1.0starWritten in 1943, Jean Paul-Sartre’s The Flies adapts the Greek Myth of Orestes and his lost sister Electra as they seek to avenge their unjustly murdere…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:54AMSunday “Ada and the Engine”: During the start of the Industrial Revolution, Ada sees the unlimited potential in Charles Babbage’s invention of the first mechanical computer. This play …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:50AMJackie Sibblies Drury's drama about race, privilege, and surveillance opened Off-Broadway June 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMWheelhouse Theatre Company celebrates the return of Aaron Posner's Chekhov-inspired play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMOpera Theatre of St. Louis has a notable heritage of commissioning and performing operas that examine important issues of our time. The company’s 28th world premiere, “Fire Shut Up in My…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:36AMThe Oscar-nominated actor will play God in the new pop rock musical at Theatre St. Clements.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMBradley Gibson joined the Broadway company of Disney’s The Lion King last summer after stints in the original casts of Rocky and A Bronx Tale. Playing the coveted role of Simba has been a …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:30AMThe pop star's upcoming album Lover will drop August 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMGary Busey will play God in new pop-rock musical Only Human opening Off Broadway this fall, producers announced today. The musical, with a book by Jess Carson, music and lyrics by Mike Squil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:11AMThe new musical offers a look at the innermost thoughts of a queer, Black musical theatre writer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AMAs an actor, Tuyen Do’s credits include Pah-La at London’s Royal Court and The Great Wave at the National Theatre. She tells
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMActor/singer/writer/dad Nadim Naaman takes a moment to answer 10 Questions for 10 Years most thoughtfully indeed.
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DC Metro Theater Arts and DC Theatre Scene are pleased to announce that they are joining forces to cover the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival. Each online publication will review half of the 89 …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59AMThe Broadway vets will return to the Netflix series starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMWhy Bob Fosse’s influence never fizzles
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:15AMIt’s getting closer. For months now, film fans have eagerly sought news about the upcoming adaptation of West Side Story directed by Steven Spielberg. Having survived the aftermath of the …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:11AMWhen, three years ago, Kully Thiarai was named artistic director of National Theatre Wales, she immediately signalled her intention to work with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIn his premiere London concert, Ben Platt performed his Sing To Me Instead tour to thunderous applause and proved that sublime vocal skill and authentic connection are the perfect combinatio…
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Steven Spielberg directs the upcoming adaptation of the musical, slated to premiere in December 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AMGarsington’s third new production for 2019 brings the UK stage premiere of an opera first performed in Paris in 1872, but only
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMI was actually rooting for Ghost Light, John Stimpson’s new Shakespearean horror comedy to strike a chord with me , because — why wouldn’t I? Such a thing, well executed, would be pret…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:36AMWith just under a week until West End LIVE returns to London’s Trafalgar Square, the full line-up of award-winning shows and acts has been released. StageFaves will be there to capture all…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 08:35AMJackie Sibblies Drury takes a conventional family set-up and subverts it at New York’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:29AMReview: Citysong, Soho Theatre3.0starsI think it’s fair to say that the Irish are famed for their musical and literary prowess almost as much as they are for their drinking habits and four…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AMThe Shitfaced-Shakespeare® crew are finally ready to tackle the greatest dramatic work ever committed to the page in the English language: Hamlet. The latest in their internationally succes…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:12AMHOT on Broadway (adj): fierce, talented, big potential; has "buzz"; has "it" factor.
BROADWAY HEAT X 2: Beetlejuice / Tootsie Edition
Once again, the voting for both shows was VER…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 08:03AMWhy the playwright says he’d “never want to research a play” and his take on the gay rights movement.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AMThere are momentary gasps and occasional laughs in The Starry Messenger but ultimately this is a stretched out evening at the theatre, albeit one with a starry cast.
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Lynette Linton’s first season at the Bush Theatre will feature six UK playwriting debuts from artists including Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Richard
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMLynette Linton has appointed five new artistic associates at the Bush Theatre, including Martha Plimpton and Adjoa Andoh. Other initiatives by the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMDawn Walton is to step down as artistic director and chief executive of Eclipse Theatre Company after 10 years. Walton founded the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMLast week, actor Lenny Henry gave evidence to a parliamentary review on media diversity in which he warned that people from minority
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:49AMAs well as being there to entertain, theatre needs to challenge, and new play Bitter Wheat looks set to do just that. Its premise might sound familiar: a corrupt Hollywood producer holds co…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:48AMCuts to arts funding have hit all of Europe, resulting in theatres sticking with ‘safe’ work. Nick Awde meets Swedish director Henrik
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMIn Nashville, there’s an Urban Outfitters that used to be an empty warehouse in a sketchy neighborhood where I performed my first adaptation of The Metamorphosis. It was 2001 (a few week…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:03AMThe eccentric inventiveness of what Little Bulb has done is thoroughly entertaining.
Little Bulb Theatre: The Future, Battersea Arts Centre 2019. Photo: Adam Trigg
I loved Little Bul…
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Esplanade — Theatres on the Bay will soon stage Garin Nugroho’s (Indonesia) “Fatih – The Prince & The Drum,” an epic tale of trial and tribulation, told through Malay percussio…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:17AMA screen role as an expectant dancer prepared Bobbi Jene Smith for the real thing. She talks about doing the bump … with a bump
It’s a case of life imitating art. In the new film Mari, B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMOrange Tree, RichmondSuperb performances power the ingeniously plotted story of a young earl’s marriage to the daughter of an impoverished duke
The whirligig of time, as Shakespeare observ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMIt’s been more than a fortnight since Evening Standard critics Henry Hitchings and Fiona Mountford revealed on Twitter that they were being
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMStrange Fruit – Bush Theatre, London Nancy Medina directs a revival of Caryl Phillips’ powerful 1981 debut play as part of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMI have always thought the best place to trial universal basic income schemes would be in the arts community, because of the
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Intentional or not, Slow Burn Theatre Company producing Priscilla, Queen of the Desert at the height of Pride Week, near the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, is the ultimate synergi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42AMMel Brooks, award-winning comedy legend of stage and screen, returns to the Great White Way on June 17 as part of the In Residence on Broadway series. The new show, titled Mel Brooks on B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24AMFor centuries, galleries and auction houses have been able to say pretty much what they like about an artist’s work, without buyers having an easy way of checking its authenticity
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMThe song with the distinctive repeated phrase has been covered in styles ranging from Brazilian pop to reggae
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMA new bio-play puts the first woman to play big-league professional baseball center stage---If you've never heard of Toni Stone, don't worry -- you're in good company. Playwright Lydia R. Di…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMIn IMPRESSIONS: American Ballet Theatre in Cathy Marston’s “Jane Eyre," "Marston’s choreography is equally undistinguished. Moments — the tick-tock precision of Lowood’s students…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Being recognized as the nation’s first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer has been an intense mix of success and accolades along with intense discrimination and loneliness. …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMFour new musicals will be presented at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe EGOT-winning comedian takes the stage beginning June 17.
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