As one senior ACE executive put it this spring, “Relevance is becoming the new litmus test. It will no longer be enough to produce high-quality work.” Now many ballet company execs, chor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PM“Genesis was capable of making dozens of inferences about the story and several discoveries. It triggered concept patterns for ideas that weren’t explicitly stated in the story, recogniz…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PM“Museums depend heavily on philanthropy. How do they start dissecting what’s okay and what’s not in terms of their policies?” says Komal Shah, a trustee of the San Francisco Museum o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PMSince the protests began on June 9, artists have been wondering about their role, and many have taken up the job of disseminating information to the wider public. – Artnet
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PM“It is impressive how the process has been turned into memes and audiovisual content with such extraordinary speed. There are artists creating posters and songs and whatnot, but artists al…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PMJustin Davidson: “The Berkshires, the bucolic swath of Western Massachusetts where urban refugees can get their weekend dose of gardens, waterfalls, and even the occasional moose sighting,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PM“Printed news started out as, essentially, collections of letters to the editor. Newspapers did not routinely employ full-time reporters until the 19th century. At that point, the older me…
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“Do You Hear the People Sing?” is ringing out across the region, in the streets and in an airport sit-in.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:54PMAshley Park, the Tony-nominated Mean Girls star recently announced to return to Broadway in Grand Horizons, has nabbed a principal role in Paramount Network's new dramedy Emily in Paris, ac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMStage and screen star Annie Golden can be found leading the cast of Broadway Bounty Hunter at off-Broadway's Greenwich House Theater through August 18. With music and lyrics by Be More Chill…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today.Sara Bareilles to Release Unheard Waitress Songs on New EP
Tony-nominated Waitress songwriter Sara Bareilles has announced the u…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMDerren Brown: Secret transports audiences into the startling world of mind-reading, suggestion and psychological illusion.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMAugust Wilson Brings Ma Rainey to Life in Jim Crow America by Barry Thornton August Wilson’s 1920s Jazz Age play opens with a mic check in a small recording studio in Chicago, as Irvin and…
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 03:55PMThe Get on Your Knees star spoke to Seth Meyers about sex, talk show manners, and haunted theatres.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:42PMIn this exclusive clip from the upcoming film, the late director-producer discusses bringing on Jerome Robbins.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMChristie Baugher's The Fitzgeralds of St. Paul will be performed at the Public Theater venue August 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:34PMPlaybill's job listings offer an extensive selection of available jobs within the theatre industry.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:33PMPark is also scheduled to return to Broadway later this season in Grand Horizons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMPaula Vogel’s 1997 play How I Learned to Drive is poised after almost two decades to make it Broadway premiere via Manhattan Theatre Club. The production, directed by original director Mar…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:24PMAnnie Golden stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about Broadway Bounty Hunter and more with Paul Wontorek.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PMPaula Vogel's Pulitzer-winning play How I Learned to Drive will debut on the Great White Way next spring, headlined by stars of the original 1997 off-Broadway production, Mary-Louise Parker …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PMThe full company of stars from the acclaimed world premiere staging of Tina Satter's Is This a Room has signed on to reprise their performances for the upcoming remount of the new play at…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PMSpamalot, Wolf Hall, and Three Tall Women will also be staged.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:19PM by Ryan Duncan
Ryan Duncan (right) with Max Chernin in Passing Through (Photo by Diane Sobolewski)
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SOURCE: www.theensemblist.com at 03:16PMThe evening will include songs from McDonald’s career and the behind-the-scenes stories that go with them.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PMThe Tony winner will play a stage and screen star in the series, executive produced by Oprah Winfrey.
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“What I Wish I Knew My Freshman Year: An Open Letter from a Recent Theatre Arts College Graduate”
Written by Alexandra Muscaro
July 28th, 2019
The day I thought would never come fi…
SOURCE: performerstuff.com at 02:49PM“The Philadelphia Orchestra Association has withdrawn its invitation to Plácido Domingo to appear as part of its Opening Night concert on September 18, 2019. We are committed to providing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMSpanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, and Dutch, along with English, assign Greek this particular honor. In the Baltic languages, it’s Spanish; the Bulgarians use “Patagonian.” And …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“It’s all about awareness and action. The artist’s job is to raise consciousness and cut through the complacency. I asked playwrights to meditate on the theme of, ‘Wake up—act now!…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“Mark [Rosewater, head designer,] explains how, once he and his team come up with the creative concept for a particular Magic set, there are lots of other things to think about. They have …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMListen Robert McCrum explores the elusive Samuel Beckett’s astonishing literary career through rare audio tape recordings from the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Readi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:23PM‘Up In the Cheap Seats’ author Ron Fassler looks back on Hal Prince’s immeasurable contribution to Broadway.
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 02:17PMSuperbly directed by Joe Brancato, MADISON MICUCCI is the play's emotional engine while JEREMY RISHE plays the multi-dimentional "Seth"revealing complex layers with great wit and humor!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:17PMAli Ewoldt will also appear in the benefit concert for Broadway Hearts, a non-profit that brings entertainment to children in New York-area hospitals.
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Lauren Yee is this year's honorary playwright.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PMSara Bareilles has often spoken about the amount of music that had to be cut before the final version of Waitress made it to Broadway. Now fans of the show are going to get to hear ‘What�…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 01:55PMThe Public Theater’s star-studded monologues come to Broadway
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 01:50PMThe music is infectious. The voices and the humor of the entire cast - most especially the leads RYLAN MORSBACH as "Shrek" and ALEX GETLIN as "Fiona" - simply blew me away! Deserved Standi…
SOURCE: berkshires.macaronikid.com at 01:50PMBack in 1998, the official Enron vision and values statement had a line in it that said: “Ruthlessness, callousness, and arrogance don’t belong here.” Two years later, as the company�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PMThe women detailed multiple accounts that date back to the late 1980s.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMUnder the spritely direction of GIOVANNA SCARDELLI, "Mrs Christie" is a most entertaining melange of biography, sparkling with magical realism and theatrical wit.
SOURCE: berkshireonstage.wordpress.com at 01:43PMNew York, New York August 13, 2019— Ruth Stage is thrilled to present a chilling new take on Tennessee Williams’ seminal play, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, directed by Austin Pendleton and …
SOURCE: StageLight Magazine at 01:43PMMary-Louise Parker will reunite with her original co-star, David Morse, in the spring for the Broadway debut of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer-winning play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:42PMThe Tootsie actor shows his singer-songwriter side in the new music video.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PMMary-Louise Parker and David Morse will star in a 2020 Broadway production of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize winning How I Learned to Drive, reprising roles they originated Off Broadway in 1…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PMPaula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “How I Learned to Drive” will premiere on Broadway this spring. The play, which had its world premiere at the Vineyard Theatre in 1997 and then t…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 01:30PMThe landmark play's original 1997 stars return for its Broadway premiere, directed by Mark Brokaw.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMThe three acts brought political sharpness, percussive and vocal attack to a windy Mattingley Bowl in Hampshire
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:24PM“On Saturday afternoon, the orchestra’s board voted unanimously for a transition plan … which calls for the exit of the orchestra’s top leadership [and] brings a temporary close to w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM“The art collective teamLab’s new, immersive museum in Tokyo attracted more visitors than the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam last year, and twice the combined number of visitors to the thr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM“While other budding jazz musicians of the 1940s were enamored of the daring bebop innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Mr. Wilber, … a clarinetist and saxophonist who was …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMBehrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains, which recounts his escape from Iran to Indonesia and onward to Australia by boat, has just won the $25,000 National Biography Award, the fou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM“I was bitten by the theater bug from a very, very young age,” he tells The Post in his high-pitched voice. Just weeks after the family moved to New York from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Josh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMFrancis Ford Coppola: “No one wants to make a pro-war film, everyone wants to make an anti-war film. But an anti-war film, I always thought, should be … something filled with love and pe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM“Slowly at first — but now in increasing numbers — Russian female comics are taking to the stage to challenge the status quo. Embedded in the humor are also serious reckonings on their…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMAccording to the annual Global Trends Report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, released on June 19, nearly 70.8 million people worldwide had been displaced as of the en…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMSwim is a show about grief, friendship and wild swimming. It’s also about miscommunication or the inevitable barriers existing between one person’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:17PMMEMORIES IN MUSIC FORGE A GREATER WHOLE We’re witnesses to an aftermath and its collateral healing, the unsought legacy of a gay guy who died too soon: Newly revised after its 1993 incepti…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:16PMProduced by GOH Productions in association with Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre (CAMT)
Created & Directed by Vít Hořejš
Nominations: Outstanding Costume Design - Michelle Be…
SOURCE: The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation at 01:15PM99 years after Liberty and the News, Walter Lippmann’s hopes for journalism remain largely unfulfilled.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMfeels both cautionary and elegiac; it is obviously relevant in these times of extremism and the rise of small town tyrannies.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMGallim specializes in depicting raw emotions through movement.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMReview: The Comedy of Errors, The Place, Bedford4.0starsAs part of a collaboration with The Place, Bedford, we are publishing reviews by three young writers between June and August 2019. Thi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:06PMGuy Masterson and Nick Hennegan have long form at the Fringe, separately and together. But here, with Masterson as producer and Hennegan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:05PMThe Queens, Brooklyn and New York libraries’ initiative has partnered with 17 new cultural institutions since its inception, bringing the number of participants up to 50.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMMulti Ethnic Theater presents August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" in San Francisco through Sept. 1.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:00PMThe point – and it’s a major one – is that the actor, irrespective of all other considerations, must be the best possible interpreter of the role for the work in question.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM
This new piece from award-winning Canadian company the Chop takes audience participation to new heights. For ecological reasons, Anita is reducing her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:41PMFrom tuneful trumpet practice to to rather more violent domestic exchanges, check out these fantastic production images to get a taste for the new revival of Philip King's 1970s drama Go Ban…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:33PMFormer The Stage Edinburgh Award winner and Fringe stalwart Pip Utton is no stranger to creating shows based on complex and often
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMThe stars of Frozen and Mean Girls will join Green for the latest installment of her monthly concert series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PMThe underwear-clad musical duo returned to Joe’s Pub August 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMAs Alice in Canning Town brings its East End reinvention of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Newham playground, Arc in the Park, get a flavour for the show with this new trailer. And book…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:16PMA new play about health-care inequity gets the new-works-festival treatment in Zimbabwe and California.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:15PMSarah Silverman’s Off Broadway musical The Bedwetter has found its director along with a new premiere date: Anne Kauffman will direct the Atlantic Theater Company production, with previews…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:10PMThe cast of the new musical, currently playing in Connecticut, celebrated its cast in a new photo shoot.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMMeet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details… Velma
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMIn the company’s season finale, veteran Pittsburgh actor Daniel Krell plays the closeted father in a musical about family.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:01PM
My first job was the role of Kendra in a workshop of Jason Robert Brown’s musical 13. It was in Los Angeles
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMThe Obie-winning director of The Lucky Ones will direct the spring production at the Atlantic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMLiz Callaway, David Hyde Pierce, and Howard McGillin are among the performers who will pay tribute to the late Ragtime and Passion star.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMJeremy O. Harris’ Broadway-bound Slave Play will arrive with most of its acclaimed Off Broadway cast intact, producers announced today. Taking the stage at Broadway’s Golden Theatre next…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:42AMCasting has been announced for the Broadway transfer of Jeremy O. Harris' acclaimed work Slave Play. The previously announced production, directed by Robert O'Hara, will begin previews on Se…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMA new interpretation of Charles Dickens' classic story A Christmas Carol will debut on the Great White Way this holiday season. Adapted by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMLet the world we dream about be the one we live in now! The new Broadway musical Hadestown will embark on a national tour in fall 2020. The traveling production of the Tony-winning Best Musi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMYou've gotta look to your heart! 2015 American Idol winner Nick Fradiani will lead the national tour of A Bronx Tale. Fradiani will star as Lorenzo in the road production of the popular musi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMNew adult musical comedy TICKLE, based on an incredible true story and documentary produced by Stephen Fry, premieres at London's King's Head Theatre this autumn. Casting is now announced. W…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 11:37AMHow did you start off in performance? Many of my teachers were inspirational, as well as my youth theatre directors. They guided
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMAccording to journalist Alanna Mitchell, if we really want to understand the environmental crisis facing the planet, we need to look to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:34AMProfessionals from the food and theatre world are collaborating on a new take on Shakespeare, complete with crudités.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:31AMSprecher, who was behind the failed musical Rebecca, was arrested early on Tuesday
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:24AMStephen Edlund directs with choreography by Tony winner Sergio Trujillo.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMby Melina Young Post-show blues. It’s a common phrase among theatre folk. As we close the final performance of the Fountain Theatre’s arts education program, Walking the Beat Hollywood,…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 11:18AMby Edward Precht. @pertoltprecht. NEW YORK, NY - Would you like some Trigorin with that shake? Times Square’s Stardust Diner, most famous for their bubbly wait staff that sings to you whil…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:10AMBy Paul T Davies
Paul T Davies reviews James Rowland's Songs of Friendship now playing at Summerhall at Edinburgh Fringe.
This post REVIEW: James Rowland Songs Of Friendship, Summerhall, Edi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:07AM“Hadestown” will launch a national tour beginning in the fall of 2020, the producers announced Tuesday. Winner of the 2019 Tony Award for Best Musical, the “Hadestown” tour will vi…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:06AMActor Campbell Scott (House of Cards, Dying Young) will tackle the holiday season’s favorite miser with an eight-week Broadway run of A Christmas Carol, with Matthew Warchus directing the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:04AMThe uptick in hauling older scripts, from Tootsie to Moulin Rouge, to the stage has left playwrights with many hurdles
Here is a question from Tootsie, the Broadway musical about an out-of-w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMAt last, someone has laid the sugary ghost of Elaine Paige. Jamie Lloyd’s stripped-back Evita at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park has all the metallic modernity of their Jesus Chris…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending August 11, 2019. The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League.
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMLamplighters is well-versed in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'H.M.S. Pinafore," and its shows in this razor-sharp production.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:00AM
Rock of Ages leading lady Kirsten Scott shows off her huge range and talent with performances from Ragtime, Big Fish and tick, tick...BOOM!
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:56AMFolklore and myth are brought dizzyingly up to date in Finn Anderson and Stewart Melton’s live-layered musical, using just two voices and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMPerformances will begin in September at the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMIt’s never unimportant to have unconscious bias made conscious. In this solo piece, Jack Britton – 5ft 4 3/4in – takes us
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMThe movie reunites Washington with onstage co-stars Jeremy Jordan, Steven Pasquale and Eugene Lee.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMBy Paul T Davies
Paul T Davies reviews Sam Anderson in Bi-Cycle now playing at Underbelly George Square at the Edinburgh Fringe. Bi-Cycle Underbelly George Square, Edinburgh Festival Fringe.…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:44AMBy Amy Steiger. Amy Steiger reflects on some of the classic acting texts—which are overwhelmingly written by cis white men and use colonialist, binary, and patriarchal language and narrati…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:44AMFor those who couldn’t make the trip to New York City to see Kerry Washington on Broadway in American Son, Netflix dropped a first look at its upcoming adaptation of the acclaimed play.
W…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:43AMBroadway producer Ben Sprecher — the man behind the failed musical “Rebecca” — was arrested early Tuesday on charges of possession of child pornography, sources told The Post. Sprech…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:42AMAccording to the New York Post, Ben Sprecher, producer of the doomed Broadway musical Rebecca, was arrested today, August 13, for possession of child pornography.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMOn Monday night's episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, James Corden and Josh Gad tell viewers about how they were were cast as leads in 'Once Upon a Time In Hollywood,' 'Hobbs &a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMAMERICAN SON will debut on November 1 on Netflix, following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMThe producers of Waitress have announced that a new EP, titled a?oeWhat's Not Inside: The Lost Songs from Waitress,a?? will be released. The album features outtakes and demos recorded by Sar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMIt's official! The holiday masterpiece, A Christmas Carol, comes to Broadway this holiday season for eight weeks only following critically acclaimed runs at London's Old Vic. Two visionary t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMRichard Wright and William Shakespeare are justly praised for their depth and breadth of thought; I wish that in the zeal to focus them on single concepts, these productions didn't reduce th…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:40AMIt all began when 15-year-old Matthew Lopez’s mother took him to see the Merchant Ivory movie adaptation of E.M. Forster’s Howards End. “With that one day at the movies, it seems prett…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:37AMThe EP will will feature outtakes and demos of tunes cut from the musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMMatthew Lopez’s two-part play about contemporary gay life in New York, The Inheritance, was a runaway critical and popular hit when it premiered in London last year. Audiences compared t…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:32AM“A Christmas Carol” will transfer to Broadway this winter from the West End. Written by Jack Thorne, the book writer of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and directed by Matthew …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:31AMThe entire cast of the show’s original run returns for the Vineyard theatre production this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMA new play, generations in the making begins with this trailer. The Inheritance is coming to Broadway this Fall starting September 27.
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SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:30AMThe free lunchtime concert series concludes August 15 in the midtown park.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMThe train to Hadestown may be stopping in your neighborhood. The 2019 Tony Award winner for Best Musical Hadestown will begin a North American Tour in the Fall of 2020. The musical, written …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:27AMHadestown, Anaïs Mitchell’s hit Broadway show as popular with audiences as with critics and Tony voters, will launch a national tour in the fall of 2020, producers have announced. The tou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:26AMThe House of Cards actor will star as Scrooge in the solo play from Harry Potter playwright Jack Thorne.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AMThe stage and screen star celebrates his birthday August 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AMThe film and TV actor will portray Scrooge in Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Dickens, which has been a London holiday hit since 2017.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMPerformances of the William Finn and James Lapine musical begin August 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AMThe forthcoming Broadway premiere of the Jeremy O. Harris drama Slave Play has a full cast. Producers announced today that Ato Blankson-Wood, James Cusati-Moyer, Sullivan Jones, Chalia La To…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:18AMJeremy Jordan Sings "Without a Believer", an unheard track from the hit musical Waitress. Hear Sara Bareilles sing this song and more on the new EP "What's Not Inside," available for pre-ord…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:14AMThe yuletide just got a whole lot merrier on the Great White Way. The Old Vic production of A Christmas Carol, adapted from the Charles Dickens classic by Jack Thorne, is headed to Broadway …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:13AMThe musical will embark on a tour in 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AMThe stage and screen veteran will join Anna Paquin in the PR-themed dark comedy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AMFormer veterinary school has imprinted itself as the third home of exceptionally good stage work during the festival
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:06AMDescribing what happens after a drunken one-night stand between two first-year students at an Ivy League university, Anna Ziegler’s Actually assesses the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:06AM
Many cast members of the play's Off-Broadway premiere will reprise their performances this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:49AMThis sci-fi original is part classic murder-mystery, part probing workplace drama.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:48AMSenior Producer of Edinburgh's Lyceum Theatre Harriet Mackie will be departing Scotland to become the new Old Vic Theatre producer in London. The young talent will take over from Georgia Ga…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 09:45AMBy Paul T Davies
Paul T Davies reviews The Adventures Of Butt Boy and Tigger presented by Outcast Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe.
This post REVIEW: The Adventures Of Butt Boy and Tigger, Ed…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:44AMHarriet Mackie has been appointed producer at the Old Vic. Mackie joins from the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, where she has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:36AMPerformer training company the Actors Class is cutting ties with Hoxton’s Courtyard Theatre after seven years due to claims of non-payment and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:36AMThe Sam Shepard play begins Sept. 6 at the Black Box theater in Braddock; the new play “Dance Nation” runs Nov. 22-Dec. 15.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:30AMBy Mark Ludmon
Mark Ludmon reviews Sheila Atim’s promising debut play Anguis at Gilded Balloon Teviot at Edinburgh Fringe
This post REVIEW: Anguis, Gilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh Fringe …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:21AMA sumptuous Ibsen revival starring Uma Thurman and a knockout premiere by Adam Bock close the Williamstown season with a metaphysical “boo!”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMMembers of the cast of Oklahoma! will appear at Barnes and Noble to celebrate the show's cast recording release with an in-store performance and signing on August 22.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AM'Fefu and her Friends,' María Irene Fornés' feminist classic, is reborn at the Odyssey Theatre
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:01AMIt may not be the company hitting their absolute heights, but it knows what its audience wants having been versed over the past few years and plays all the hits. Like your favourite festival…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIn this perceptive and unfailingly intelligent one-act work, forcefully performed and precisely staged by Really Really Theatre Group, finding consensus is difficult in an era when the fate …
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMIt has just been announced that acclaimed London theatre actor Joel Montague will be starring as Mendel in the upcoming highly-anticipated London stage debut of Falsettos. The hit Broadw…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 09:00AM
Documenting real-life tragedy onstage
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 08:53AM“For decades, Placido Domingo, one of the most celebrated and powerful men in opera, has tried to pressure women into sexual relationships by dangling jobs and then sometimes punishing the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM“University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust’s board agreed to continue funding a pilot scheme initiated last year, suggesting that creative activities could reduce the need for ce…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AMFinnish artists Essi Rossi and Sarah Kivi set out to educate themselves and the audience on women, sex, and desire in Ejaculation:
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMSummerhall, EdinburghIn a series of autofictional shows, Traumboy and Traumgirl offer insights of varying quality amid the intimate revelations and erotic dancing
‘I’m not the person mos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMPerforming at the fringe can cost a fortune – little wonder so many comics bunk in together. We drop in on Jon Richardson, Rose Matafeo and Josie Long, among others, to see how they live
I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMTrafalgar Studios, LondonPhotograph 51 playwright Anna Ziegler returns with a problematic two-hander that asks us to decide where the truth lies
In Photograph 51, Anna Ziegler attacked the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThree neighbours in a Parisian apartment block squabble, fall in love and steal each other’s biscuits in an appealing wordless comedy
It won a Molière award …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThe procedure left the comedian with sexual anxiety – and a tell-all show at the Edinburgh festival
Journalistic etiquette decrees that any delicate questions are usually saved until near …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMMore2Screen has announced the cinema release of the critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Angela Carter’s Wise Children, which will be screened in more than 250 cinemas across the UK an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:20AM“Slave Play” will bring the majority of its Off-Broadway cast to Broadway this fall. The Broadway cast will feature Paul Alexander Nolan, Ato Blankson-Wood, James Cusati-Moyer, Sulliva…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:17AMListen: Lauren Class Schneider talks to Brenda Meaney, cast member from “Little Gem” playing off-Broadway at Irish Repertory Theater. Class Notes actively covers New York’s current the…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:10AMAfter the 71st Annual Emmy Awards nominations were announced last week, the outcome became yet another reminder that we are inching further and further away from the whimsical, light-hearted…
SOURCE: theatrenerds.com at 08:05AMSo the exam results are in and it looks like you might have to think again. Don’t get down, says John Byrne.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AM
Three people sit at a desk in front of a blown-up version of the iconic, depression-era photograph Lunch Atop a Skyscraper. Something
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMThere’s no faulting the ambition of Poor Michelle’s new show. It sets out to tell the story of Bible John, the serial
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMApparently Vu Le of Nonprofit AF blog spoke at Association of California Symphony Orchestras last week. (those lucky dogs) In his post this week, he addresses the question about whether arts…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:24AMI recently revisited this blast from the past, and loved it so much I couldn't wait for another Throwback Thursday. So, I guess this is a Throwback Tuesday... Anyway, back in 1991, while eve…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:18AMReview: The Canary and the Crow, Roundabout at Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe 5.0stars From Middle Child’s work over the past year we can expect their offering at this year’s Edinburgh Fri…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:03AMReview: Mustard, Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe 4.0stars Eva O’Connor, whose Maz and Bricks played Edinburgh Fringe last year, is back in Summerhall with a scorching, honest and brutally n…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:03AMReview: Where to Belong, Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe4.0starsYou have to get up early to see Victor Esses’ Where to Belong, playing each morning at 10am in Summerhall, but if you do, you�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:03AMActually has its issues as a drama and the heavily discursive competing narratives approach limits how the play is staged that can feel repetitive at times, but Ziegler has created a scenari…
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Two vicious dissections of class and identity might just leave you reeling
Darren McGarvey AKA Loki: Scotland Today The Stand's New Town Theatre ★★★★★
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMCaptivating and macabre, 1927's new show marks a partial return to their own origins
A fat cat who gobbles up everything in sight. A king who tests his wife’s fidelity with increasingly ho…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMAs part of Kids Week, you can treat your child to a free activity as well as a theatre show! Check out our exclusive workshops and Q&As.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 06:39AMSome West End theaters are fitting staff members with recording devices to deal with alcohol-fueled bad behavior.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24AMAmusingly pitched as “a disaster movie about falling in love”, this new show from writer and director Piers Black ties two separate
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMEva O’Connor’s solo show straddles the line between dramatic monologue and performance art. While clubbing in south London, a young woman meets
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMThe Shakespeare play is a highlight of the 2020 season, which also includes a reimagined Chicago, directed and choreographed by Donna Feore.
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Leyla Josephine swaggers on stage in a dressing gown, vest and pants. With a stubbled chin and padded gut, she’s clad in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMBy Paul T Davies
Paul T Davies reviews A War Of Two Halves now playing at the Tyncastle Football Stadium as part of the Edinburgh Fringe 2019.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:57AMAs if Tuesdays weren't bad enough, you have to be faced with the news that Matt Cardle has had to pull out of the UK premiere of Falsettos. But it's not all doom and gloom. Replacing Matt wi…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:55AMThere’s an urgency and intensity to Marika Mckennell’s E8, but there’s a clumsiness and a clunkiness, too. Developed by Oxford’s North Wall
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMWatching Glory Die makes clear from its title where it is going to go. Based on a true story about a young
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AMThe concept of the piece was fascinating, with the production beginning with an introduction of the actors in a travelling performance group tasked with telling the story of The Hunchback of…
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From Adult Swim to ‘dank memes’, modern comedy is confronting the illogicality of life in 2019
There is an episode in the first season of Broad City – the US sitcom about two twentysom…
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Mark Ludmon reviews the new comedy show from The Thinking Drinkers at Underbelly, Bristo Square, at Edinburgh Fringe.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:48AMNick Awde speaks to Turtle Company’s British co-director Stevan Mijailovic about bringing its children’s show Joyce to the Edinburgh Fringe South Korea’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMSet against the backdrop of Princeton University, Actually provides a reminder that, even in the era of #MeToo and #TimesUp, there remain plenty of grey areas when it comes down to defining …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMA growing genre across Continental Europe, music theatre is an alien concept in the UK. Nick Awde meets Zoe Ní Riordáin and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM Behind the scenes at Broadway's "Sea Wall/A Life,' with Gyllenhaal and director Carrie Cracknell.
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Mark Ludmon reviews Ontroerend Goed’s show, Are we not drawn onward to new erA, at Zoo Southside at Edinburgh Fringe
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:50AMWe have learned that the superlative clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Bob Wilber died at his home in England earlier this month. – Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36AMThat Levant was what he seemed was doubtless a key to his appeal. His authenticity has never appeared more exceptional: no present-day mainstream media personality – not even our President…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36AMIt’s difficult to remember when I first met Iris Murdoch and John Bayley – in my experience, they were inseparable. – Paul Levy
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36AMThe gray-haired man standing outside Jacob’s Pillow’s Ted Shawn Theater during intermission is explaining his reaction to Andrea Miller’s Boat to two attentive listeners. The members o…
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Mark Ludmon reviews new play Wireless Operator with Thomas Dennis at Pleasance Courtyard at Edinburgh Fringe
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:22AMTouring theatre company Lung makes work that blurs the line between art and activism. Co-artistic directors Helen Monks and Matt Woodhead tell
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