On Monday, September 16, 2019, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation announced the 2019 recipients at the annual Off-Off-Broadway IT Awards. For the past 15 years, the It Awards have ce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33PMBest Medicine Rep stands out among our newer small theatre companies for location (a store space on the upper level of Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg) and for mission: they will only presen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18PMThe Grammy-nominated American Idol alum began her limited engagement as Jenna September 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10PMThere is genius in this production that transcends the campiness of its plot and score.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 11:06PMBelow is the complete list of winners of the 15th annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards, honoring outstanding work Off-Off Broadway. Multiple-winning shows include “Eight Tales of Pe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01PMCobb is titanic in this piece bringing his resonant voice and impressive physical presence to bear on the most famous classic role for a Black actor in the canon as well as his thoughts abou…
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“Wives” is somewhat redeemed by its female actors: three wonderful performers – Purva Bedi, Adina Verson and Aadya Bedi – who make the most of every opportunity given them.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:35PMLeading Australian actors, directors, crew, writers and producers are in Canberra this week in a united push to convince Parliament to introduce local content requirements for booming digita…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:30PMPart hagiography and part Wikipedia entry, McCarter’s ‘Gloria: A Life’ skims the surface of Steinem. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:28PMJaclyn Backhaus’s slapdash comedy, at Playwright’s Horizons, travels through time to coax oppressed spouses out of their powerful husband’s shadows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMHERE Arts Center, New York, NY.July 30, 2019. Dance art — it’s a coming together of movement and costumes, lighting, and often music. Sisters Charly and Eriel Santagado, with their compa…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:18PMIt All Sparks Joy is an affecting dark comedy about one man’s attempt to address his cluttered life. Lead by an usher with sign aloft, we’re lead into one of the smaller rooms in the Tra…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:10PMReviews are in for “Derren Brown: Secret,” Jeremy O. Harris Stirs Debate Over Theatre Practices, Sara Holdren Steps Down at Vulture “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Fri…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 10:09PMIt’s true. The DC area has moved into the forefront of the nation’s theater communities. A recent report from Actors’ Equity Association named DC the “fastest-growing theater city.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:07PMLucy Prebble's new play exposes a political, murderous regime
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As the dyspeptic old-school entertainer embarks on a tour, his creator Steve Delaney reflects on dedicating his life to one character
Comedy has its careerists: thrusting tyros zeroing in on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMArcola, LondonGothic sound design and a trio of sharp central performances lend this version of Lisa D’Amour’s rather mystifying play some definition
Lisa D’Amour’s play is as weird …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMBy . The Oregon Shakespeare Festival presents Working From Home / Trabajando Desde Casa: Five Migrant Artists Talk About Working & Writing in America & Ashland livestreamed on…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:40PMVictorian noir meets comic mayhem in DTC’s ‘Hound of the Baskervilles.’ Gail Obenreder reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:39PM(Alison Flood’s article appeared in the Guardian, 9/16.) Hailed as one of the most significant archival discoveries of modern times, text seems to show the Paradise Lost poet making carefu…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:31PM★★★ An episode involving Ernest Hemingway's several widows is a highlight of a new satirical comedy
The post Wives: Life With Papa and Three Other Feminist Truths appeared first on New…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:30PMTaran Killam went on 'Live With Kelly & Ryan' to talk about shaving his beard for the new season of 'Single Parents.' Watch the clip below!
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Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today and this weekend.
Dylan Baker to Join Bobby Cannavale & Rose Byrne in Medea at BAM
Tony-nominated actor Dylan Baker (Bernha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:54PMJelani Remy has officially become a member of The Temptations by taking on the role of Eddie Kendricks full-time in Ain't Too Proud on Broadway. Remy replaced original cast member and Tony n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:54PMAcclaimed mentalist Derren Brown talks about bringing Derren Brown: Secret to Broadway and why it must be seen to be believed.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:54PMBroadway's most controversial show has all the makings of a disruptive hit, garnering flak and praise from all corners of the industry.
SOURCE: Forbes at 07:52PMAt this year’s annual HighTide Festival in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, I was privileged to chair an hour-long “In Conversation With” platform discussion with legendary director Deborah Warner,…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:28PMQuestion for readers- Have you ever attended an arts advocacy day at your state capital or Washington, DC? Actually, for those readers outside the US, I would be interested in hearing about …
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Some are dubious of the so-called Vine Art Movement. “Equating wine with art flatters the people who buy wine into thinking they’re participating in something larger than they are,” sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PMPhoto by Jaime Robledo.
Sacred Fools has announced their first all-female co-Artistic Director team in the theater company’s history.
Newly appointed are Adriana Colón, Aviva Press…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:54PMThe astonishing find, which academics say could be one of the most important literary discoveries of modern times, was made by Cambridge University fellow Jason Scott-Warren when he was read…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PMIn the summer of 1984, I signed up to be in the Rock Band program at French Woods. Every other kid in Rock Band that summer was a guitarist or a drummer; no one ever knew what to do with a k…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 06:48PMWoolly Mammoth Theatre guides Jackie Sibblies Drury’s “Fairview” to a sublime D.C. debut.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48PMJordin Sparks begins performances as Jenna in Waitress tonight, Monday, September 16th for a limited engagement through October 27. This will mark her Broadway return after making her debut …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:39PMBy Douglas Mayo
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour is back for 2020 visiting arenas around the UK for 32 sequin-filled shows.
This post Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour 2020 first appear…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:30PMA raft of newcomers and previewers on Broadway’s box office roster kept the industry tally afloat last week, with a total of 29 productions reporting a combined weekly gross of $29,092,571…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:19PMTheater critic Sara Holdren is leaving her post at New York Magazine in early October. Holdren, who was hired by the publication and its culture site Vulture in July 2017, announced her de…
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The tricky thing about reviewing Derren Brown’s Secret on Broadway is that the audience is sworn to secrecy on arrival in the theater. So should I just tell you it’s great, go see it, yo…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 05:55PMED&I rewards good intentions, but it's time to take the next step and embrace anti-racist practice, which focuses on results.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:43PMThe MP for Faversham and Mid Kent replaces Rebecca Pow, who held the role for only four months. Pow is moving to a position in the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Hel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PMUltimately, crosswords can get you to see preconceptions that you might not have realized you held. Once words signify, the puzzle gets political. Crosswords quietly have an ideological agen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PMNashville attracted—first downtown, because that’s where the Opry was located, and then on Music Row—a creative community, and that creative community feeds off of itself. I teach at B…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM“Musical malnourishment, with increasing mono-diets and over-consumption of processed, chemically treated/created culture, entails an over-reliance upon intake from manufactured commoditie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PMThe Internet is speeding up the evolution of English by increasing our ability to stay loosely in touch with, and mutually influence, one another. – Washington Post
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM“Seeking to understand what was going on, I took very unscientific straw polls of family and friends. I learned anecdotally what sociologists and social psychologists have shown in more sc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PMStephen Karam Looks at US from a Funny Angle by Barry David Horwitz What if aliens were observing us from another world, watching our daily lives? Would they be amused? In other words, wha…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 05:33PM“Money corrupts—which, duh—but the Epstein episode tells an even bigger story. The entire system for metabolizing philanthropic gifts, particularly private ones, into academic research…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PMIn 'American Moor,' a black actor responds to the demands of a white director presuming to better understand Shakespeare’s iconic black character, Othello.
The post A Fury in His Words: �…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:18PMNot many things can get me out of bed at 6 am, but RuPaul’s DragCon NYC is one of them! On Saturday September 7th, DragCon began bright and early, with VIPs admitted at 9 am. Press, howev…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:16PMTheir recent one-night-only concert sold out within two days of its announcement.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PMA great light has gone out on Broadway: Phyllis Newman, Tony winner and widow of famed lyricist Adolph Green, has died at
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:03PMBut why salt so much dialogue with, like, annoyingly contemporary expressions?
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The Broadway musical about The Temptations continues to draw full crowds at the Imperial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMThe ‘80s are back, and these shows should be, too
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 04:54PMExperience the best of Manhattan’s international cuisine
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 04:50PMThe secret is officially out! Derren Brown: Secret, that is. British master illusionist and mentalist Derren Brown's new show opened at the Cort Theatre on September 15 and some of the bigge…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMOn opening night of Derren Brown: Secret, Matt Rodin challenges guests to use their mentalism skills in this magical Red Carpet Challenge.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMWelcome to your Petersburg! Rising theater star Jake Levy will assume the principal role of Dmitry in the North American tour Anastasia beginning October 8 in Los Angeles, CA. This will mark…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMJeremy O. Harris' acclaimed debut work Slave Play began previews of its Broadway transfer this past week, posting substantial box office figures in its limited amount of starter performance…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMAmie Bermowitz and Steve Brady star in “Memoirs of a Forgotten Man” at New Jersey Repertory Company now through Sept. 15. Photo courtesy Andrea Phox
I have only once ever before written …
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 04:20PMLyrical, enigmatic, lively, maudlin, affecting and, ultimately heart-tugging. That’s a capsule description of Palo Alto Players’ beautifully conceived production of “Bright Star,” th…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:13PMGet to know Little Shop of Horrors' powerhouse trio, Ari Groover, Salome Smith, and Joy Woods.
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“As Much As I Can,” a show that illustrates the continuing AIDS crisis among African-American men, exists on two different planes, which are not in complete alignment with one another. I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:57PMCurrently starring opposite Lucy Liu on the CBS All Access black comedy Why Women Kill, the two-time Tony winner proves her comedy chops are still stiletto sharp.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMWashington Square Park has certainly seen its share of eccentrics. But a parade of fur-clad, claw-footed Frenchmen turned a head or two.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMBy . Zug in Cluj, Romania presents a performance of Etiquette, or the Perfect Human by Stereo Akt (Hungary) as a part of the Guest Performance Series in the Zug livestreaming on the global,…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:37PMSeveral shows have canceled and/or added performances during the week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:34PMIt’s all about time – or the lack of it – in Marisa Wegrzyn’s quirky surrealist comedy “Hickorydickory” that runs through September 29 at Dragon Productions Theatre in Redwood Ci…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:28PMRipley Rader turned her passion for making her own clothes into a thriving ready-to-wear line.
SOURCE: Forbes at 03:21PMHOOP DREAMS IN THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM No question, Lauren Yee is a wonderful new voice in theater. With Cambodian Rock Band she made crucial connections between iconic survivors and unspeaka…
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The popular platform paid tribute to the Asian-American actors pushing the industry forward in Broadway ensembles while acknowledging the progress that needs to be made.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PMThe company's 55th season will include works by Lynn Nottage, Lucy Prebble, Wendy McLeod, and Jen Silverman.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:53PMThis week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Seth reveals more guests for the upcoming Concert for America, stories from his concerts with Audra McDonald, and a video message from Cheyenne Jackso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMThe season will feature classics like 'Steel Magnolias' and new adaptations including 'Babette's Feast.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:19PMThe humanitarian award recognizes Moore's support of the Denver-area theatre community.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:13PMPlaybill offers an extensive selection of available jobs within the theatre industry, serving as the online source for careers in theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PMNBC has shared a first look at their special, “Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event,” which is set to air Thursday, Sept. 19 at 8 p.m.
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The show earned 10 awards in its last season, after demolishing the record for nominations with 32. And: “HBO and Netflix are, once again, locked in a tough battle. HBO notched 25 Creative…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PMNewman starting acting as a child and grew up to win a Tony in 1962, and to become the first woman to host The Tonight Show. After dealing with breast cancer, she also turned into a fierce f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PMThe Amsterdam Museum said on Thursday that staff were banned from using the term to describe the 17th century because “the term is strongly associated with national pride because of prospe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM“Music criticism will go on – in a few papers, in small journals and on the web (some of the record reviews on Amazon are startlingly erudite, but they are in the minority). Still, for b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PMYes, there are spoilers, but it’s beautiful (and think how much time you’ll save!). – The Verge
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PMThe numbers have no way of speaking for themselves. We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.’ Not only has someone used extensive judgment in choosing what to measure, how to define …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PMSontag’s fraught relationship with her body wasn’t simply about physicality; it was about her tormented relationship to need itself—her shame at having needs in the first place. – Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM“It’s my personal opinion that at this particular moment, the greatest challenge arts philanthropy faces is to decide what our responsibility is to the institutional nonprofit arts infra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PMWhich musical number from Smash are you, according to your astrological sign?
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PMIn a previous interview, FringeArts talked to Kelly Copper of Nature Theater of Oklahoma about Pursuit of Happiness, a work of dance-theater created in collaboration with the Slovenian dance…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 01:44PMThe Greek Passion, Opera North, Leeds Grand Theatre4.0Overall ScoreThe Greek Passion by Martinu, based on Nikos Kazantzakis’s Christ Recrucified, is a bold season season opener for Opera …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:36PMAnd then there was one. His name is Matt Torney. Theatrical Outfit...
The post Q&A: Matt Torney’s plan for the Outfit is “to make theater so exciting you can’t miss it” appeared …
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:36PMThe Joshua Harmon play opened September 12 at the Geffen Playhouse, featuring its original trio of New York stars.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMGarrett, the artistic director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is the first to receive the new award for mid-career female directors.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:24PMThe initiative will center anti-racist and anti-colonialist approaches to staging theatrical intimacy.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:14PMTheatre company reacts to sexual assaults at previous events like The Great Gatsby
The company behind The Wolf of Wall Street, the latest production to tap into the trend for immersive thea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMSurrey House, Goldsmiths College, LondonA two-night stay in a simulated care home, recreated with exceptional intricacy, probes the line between care and control
I urinate into the cup and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMJelani Remy stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about Ain't Too Proud with Beth Stevens.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMReady for sweater weather and some unforgettable nights of theater on Broadway? Here’s the full run-down of the 15 new hard-rockin’ musicals, emotionally-rich plays and one-of-a-kind spe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMPhyllis Newman, a Tony-winning actress who became equally known for raising millions of dollars for women struggling with health issues, died on September 15 at home in Manhattan, accordi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMThis doctor is sticking around! Acclaimed Waitress star Mark Evans has extended his Broadway engagement as Dr. Pomatter through October 27 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
Caitlin Houlah…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMA talented group of theater artists were honored for their work on the small screen at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremonies on September 14 and 15. The announcement of these winners com…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMAfter an epic run (over 1,000 performances!) as Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, stage favorite Chilina Kennedy (Jesus Christ Superstar, Mamma Mia!) is now leading the firs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMProducers of the upcoming West End revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg have announced that Storme Toolis, an actress with cerebral palsy, will portray the dark comedy's central charac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMPerformances will begin October 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMMuch like Six, that pushes King Henry to the sidelines to place the spotlight on his long-suffering wives, here the Bennett sisters get to take complete ownership of the stage and the story …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMHelmed by Paramount artistic director Jim Corti, this production has plenty to holler about.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMAcclaimed harpist Anna Maria Mendieta's multimedia dance/music production 'Tango del Ciela' comes to Pleasanton's Firehouse Arts Center Sept. 21-22.
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Writer and Jonathan Larson Grant recipient Joel B. New will release songs from the new musical via weekly podcasts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:57PMThe new comedy by Cat Miller will receive its world premiere at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:57PMWashington, DC, is one of the few cities in the country where it’s not uncommon for large groups of people to come together to spend two hours deep in conversation about the constitution a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMThe Who – arguably the third cog in British rock royalty behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones – delivered more than a nostalgic run through the hits at Fenway Park on Friday.
The po…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54PMHigh Fidelity, the short-lived 2006 Broadway musical based on Nick Hornby's 1995 novel, will receive a new life this fall with a U.K.-debut staging at London's Turbine Theatre. Tom Jackson G…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 12:53PM“Sing your song… be someone big on earth” is one of the centering lyrics that Tom Sweitzer sang in his one-actor, cabaret-like performance of Meatballs and Music on September 13 & …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PMThe acclaimed Fountain Theatre has obtained permission from Warner Bros to present a one-night celebrity reading of the Jeremy Larner screenplay for the Academy Award winning 1972 movie, The…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:36PMThe immersive horror experience will open in midtown October 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMReview: Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation, Royal Court Theatre 4.0stars Fresh from the Edinburgh International Festival, Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestri…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:33PMReview: Red Dust Road, Home, Manchester3.0Overall ScoreAlthough it’s an infamous dramatic cliché, the journey of self-discovery at the heart of Jackie Kay’s 2010 autobiographical memoir…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:33PM“Acting on the findings of a Disciplinary Committee relating to a safe and respectful workplace complaint, Equity’s national Council ratified the recommendation of the Committee and expe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PMThe Eyes of the Night receives its English-language premiere tonight (13 September 2019) as part of the Cervantes Theatre's second annual Contemporary Spanish Playwriting season. Take a look…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:27PMPlaywrights Roy and Webb never lose site of the significance of the young Richard’s crime. The “Guide” is not about claiming innocence. It is about Richard’s sense of entitlement. Hi…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:26PMThe Tony nominee is behind a dance-filled, re-imagined production in Connecticut next summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMAs John, Christopher Sears is an enjoyable pill, perfectly offset by Tommy Crawford's Paul whose amiable placidity is almost Buddha-like. More importantly, both actors have impressive musica…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:07PMBased on the book by "Dear Sugar" columnist Cheryl Strayed, this attentive adaptation showcases the eternally-complicated task of being a person.
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Science fiction and horror are incredibly difficult to do well on stage. David Greig’s new adaptation of Solaris, directed by Matthew Lutton,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:50AMThe adaptation of Patrick Rothfuss’ fantasy series has been released back to Lionsgate.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMTonight is the night! Jordin Sparks officially takes over the role of Jenna in the long-running musical hit Waitress. The American Idol winner and Grammy-nominated recording star joins the s…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:46AMThe apocalyptic zom-com premieres October 24 on Netflix.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMBay Area's Smuin Contemporary Ballet kicks off a new season with "Dance Series 1," featuring new works inspired by Johnny Cash and Dave Brubeck.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:45AM"A modern classic!" First raves and an OffWestEnd.com Offies Awards commendation are in for the world premiere of Proforca Theatre's At Last. We've rounded up selected review highlights belo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:35AMReview: Anahera, Finborough Theatre4.0starsAnahera is truly not an easy watch – a play that evokes genuine fear and raises controversial and uncomfortable questions, the audience are witne…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:33AMReview: No Man's Land, Hull Truck Theatre 3.0Overall Score It is safe to say that No Man’s Land is, by no means, Harold Pinter’s most famous play. Ostensibly, it is about age and memory…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:33AMEmma Thompson has been appointed as a new patron of Graeae Theatre Company. The actor and screenwriter joins Peter Blake, Harriet Walter
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMMusical theatre stars Jenna Russell and Caroline Sheen have said the UK is falling behind America in its support of new musicals.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMAn actor rehearsing at the Watermill Theatre stepped into save a different production with just two hours’ notice. Phoebe Fildes is currently
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMby Aidan Sears. @aidanjsears. NEW YORK -- Local theater fan Hannah Paulson announced today that she has successfully captured Hadestown star Reeve Carney by using a mechanism of her own inve…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:23AMThe Old Vic production will broadcast live to cinemas November 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMPatti Murin, Arielle Jacobs, and Adrienne Walker see their roles with a couture twist.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AMAustralian writer-director Simon Stone’s contemporary rewrite will open Off-Broadway in January 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMby Alec Brown. @brownata3. NEW YORK, NY - Nathan Qualls, a 47-year-old self proclaimed Beetle-Head, was shocked and heartbroken by the lack of anything spooky or ookey happening to him upon …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:02AMCora Bissett’s What Girls Are Made Of is an engaging story, framed – in truth or hope, as one of naivety, overreach and reinvention. But it’s also a tale told from a single perspective;
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMI’ve been negotiating with Mark Sendroff for over two decades. And I’ve always known he was a good rep for his clients. But it wasn’t until a few years into our relationship that I …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMPerformances will begin in March 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMhttps://www.buzzsprout.com/123341/1704148-194-mark-sendroff.mp3 I’ve been negotiating with Mark Sendroff for over two decades. And I’ve always known he was a good rep for his clients. …
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Christopher Fitzgerald, Caitlin Houlahan, and Natasha Yvette Williams step back into the diner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMBy Michael Bobbitt, Raymond O. Caldwell. Part II of the conversation between Michael J.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:57AMThe Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star won the Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AM"I'll Get You Kicked Out of Here" - cell phones in the theater - a now-I've-seen-it-all, don't-mess-with-me, world-weary parody of "I Get a Kick Out of You" (The parody is done here with …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:41AMThe 38-member cast, led by Alexia Khadime, Christine Allado, and Luke Brady, performed the Oscar-winning song at the show's press launch.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMThe productions, featuring an ensemble of 10 actors performing both plays, will run through September 29 in Atlanta, Georgia.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMWhen Heidi Shreck steps out onto the Eisenhower stage and has what seems an informal, ad-libbed, introductory chat with us, the first thing you notice is her joy. She seems genuinely happy t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35AMThe longtime production stage manager worked on over two dozen productions, including revivals of Nine, Cabaret, and the Broadway debut of 1984.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMThe London revival will play Trafalgar Studios.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMThe comedy hails from 2 Broke Girls creator Michael Patrick King.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AMThe first batch of victors were revealed ahead of the primetime ceremony September 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMWhat is it like for leaders of Color to work in White theatres? This Howlround Theatre Commons interview is between two well-known Washington area leaders: Michael J. Bobbitt, former Artis…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMNever underestimate the power of a classic to communicate across time, cultures, and language in new and urgent messaging. We have Producing Artistic Director Hugo Medrano, the longest servi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMLast week, we did an update of a former Mr. Broadway (the great Joshua Henry HERE). This week, we take a look at what Ms. Broadway April 2010, Krysta Rodriguez has been up to. The last time …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 10:12AMTEDxBroadway returns to tackle one central question posed to academics, economists, entrepreneurs, scientists and theater professionals.
The post What’s the Best Broadway Can Be? TedxBroad…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:06AMUsually I turn around tributes to deceased artists as fast as I possibly can, but I got the news about Ric Ocasek on the way back from a performance last night, at a bus stop in Queens, in t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:03AMDoctor Who and ER star Alex Kingston tells Tom Wicker about struggling to get into the ‘closed’ New York theatre scene, never
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMThis isn’t just any (massive) theatre renovation. “It was in the Châtelet where the artistic revolutions and innovations of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes were first seen; here where Mahl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM
The studios, New York City’s largest rehearsal space, opened June 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AMThe show will follow students at School of American Ballet as they prepare for NYC’s annual production of The Nutcracker.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMThe scariest aspect of Matthew Bulgo’s dystopian horror is that his near-future America may already exist. In the world of the play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:48AMReview: A Very Expensive Poison, The Old Vic5.0starsAt once anachronistic, investigative and deeply morally invested, it’s easy to see a million and one ways in which Lucy Prebble’s A Ve…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:48AMThe newly restored and renamed Sondheim Theatre will reopen December 18 for the new production of the international hit musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMThe limited engagement from the two-time Olivier Award–winning Illusionist and mentalist opened at the Cort Theatre September 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMSoft diplomacy? Or government control and censorship? “Beijing has a very clear idea of how a film industry should operate—namely, as an essential part of the effort to bring public opin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMInstead of the royalties authors might expect from book sales, “what comes trickling back are mostly email alerts about websites in brazen violation of copyright law, offering free downloa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMMaurizio Cattelan, whose gold toilet called America was ripped from its pipes in Blenheim Palace, flooding the palace and causing rather a lot of damage, says that he didn’t steal it, desp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMIn Seattle, the Columbia City moviehouse Ark Lodge Cinemas has seen box office receipts drop by as much as 60 percent this year. “Its struggles illustrate the challenges of operating an in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMDiDonato works with inmates at Sing Sing and tours with a project aiming to bring harmony and peace through music. And right now, she’s singing the title role in Agrippina, the scheming wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMIt seems as if there’s no blockbuster Disney doesn’t own now that its properties include Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars. It has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:19AMBy Julian Eaves
The Stage Debut Awards took place last night at The Brewery in London with the public crowning Jac Yarrow as the Joe Allen West End Debut Award
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:12AMAn introduction to properties
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:09AMCompared to an evening of Netflix and Uber Eats, theater is downright risky. But it's also an immediate, communal experience that can flirt with the sublime.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMIt's all too easy these days to fall into a pattern of flipping on Netflix (or Hulu or Amazon Prime …) and vegging out. And yet, isn't there something magical about experiencing a concert,…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMThe fall theater season is looking a little feisty this year, from a play about a megachurch pastor who's suddenly not so sure about that whole hell thing, to a rumination on the still-shock…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM“Come and see those dancing feet” is famously the tagline of 42nd Street, yet it really should be the tagline of Heartbeat of Home, which opened to rapturous applause at the Piccadilly T…
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Phyllis Newman, 86, has died. She was an entertainer from the age of 4; veteran of 11 Broadway shows (Tony winner for Subways Are For Sleeping, pictured); daughter of a fortune teller and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51AMReview: Torch Song, Turbine Theatre5.0starsBy the end of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song, I am acutely aware of the fraught atmosphere, the sobbing man on my left and my own damp cheeks. Ori…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:42AMA first in West End history, the titular role of A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg will be played by Storme Toolis, who suffers from cerebal palsy.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 08:36AMThe grand reopening of Les Miserables, which premieres on 18 December 2019 with a brand-new production at the Sondheim Theatre (formerly known as the Queen's Theatre and recently renamed), i…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:30AMOf course it does. “With its time-sequence ticketing and Sensorio-branded hoodies for sale, Field of Light joins a coterie of art entertainments at wineries and related establishments seek…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMOcasek wrote and was lead singer on nearly every song The Cars recorded, including hits like “Best Friend’s Girl” and “Shake It Up,” and after the group broke up, he had a second c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMMarcus Aurelius’ Meditations is repetitive, redundant, with reformulated ideas in every chapter – but sometime it works. (At least once you’re already also in rehab.) – LitHub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMIt’s a quiet war, but it’s fierce. Macmillan is planning to block libraries from buying more than one digital copy of new books for eight weeks after the book comes out, starting in Nove…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMBy Douglas Mayo
Cirque Du Soleil's first acrobatic ice spectacular Crystal will have its UK premiere in March 2020. Cirque Du Soleil Crystal on sale Friday 20 Sept.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:16AMThe UK premiere of the new musical comedy High Fidelity, based on the acclaimed British novel by Nick Hornby (State Of The Union/About A Boy/Fever Pitch), is the second production in Paul Ta…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:05AMTammy Blanchard finally won the role she always felt she was meant to play. Here's how she handles the comedy and pain of the complex 'Little Shop of Horrors' character.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00AMExhibits range from interactive dance and music performances to technology themed murals and sculptures and virtual reality games.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMThe Broadway alum and Season 6 American Idol winner steps into the role of Jenna September 16.
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Fred Warren (1880-1940) started out in a song and dance act in vaudeville with his wife Effie Conley-Warren around the turn of the last century. The fact that the Rock Island, Illinois nativ…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:48AMLast week, director Julia Pascal said funding for theatres should be dependent on organisations committing to gender parity. Pascal – one of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:46AMKing’s theatre, GlasgowOn his first home tour for a decade, Boyle tempered bad-taste gags by trying to decide whether his trademark humour has any worth in extreme times
Australian standup…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMFor a play based around an act of provocation, there is nothing remotely challenging about Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMMark Gatiss has criticised “swingeing” cuts that he said are suffocating arts in the UK and preventing the development of talent from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMRosalie Craig has called on the industry to “push harder” for D/deaf and disabled actors to be part of every production. Craig
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AMThe season opener was pushed from September 14 to September 21, though the musicians of the BSO, not under the name of the BSO, played a free concert on opening night at a different venue. T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMArturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Ravel’s “Le Gibet” (from Gaspard de la nuit) on TV in 1975: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I’d been having a little too much talk with people whose business was talking. It was good to sit at the counter of a working-class restaurant where men spoke when they wanted something…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMRoss McGregor, artistic director and powerhouse behind Arrows & Traps Theatre Company, has captured the zeitgeist with his modern, political adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The …
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The winners have been announced for The Stage Debut Awards 2019, recognising breakthrough actors and creatives in the industry.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 06:56AMWho is Karen Jemison? I am the Producer at Manilla Street Productions and currently producing and directing Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton’s The Beautiful Game. What would you do differ…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 06:56AMKay Mellor and Leeds Playhouse have partnered on a new £10,000 fellowship, which will support playwrights working in the North. The recipient
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMBy Douglas Mayo
Tickets go on sale for the Jamie Lloyd Company's production of Cyrano de Bergerac starring James McAvoy at the Playhouse Theatre, London on Tuesday 17th Sept at 8.30am.
This …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:49AMFurther cast members, who are set to join Sharon D. Clarke and Wendell Pierce, have been announced for the upcoming West End transfer of Death of a Salesman. The show heads to the Piccadill…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 06:30AMThe barricades are seeing some new faces in December, as the Les Misérables cast for the show's return to the Sondheim Theatre has been announced.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 06:28AMFor many people Swan Lake IS classical ballet. No surprise then that these two Canberra performances by The Imperial Russian Ballet Company have been sold out for weeks, providing an auspici…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 06:20AMToday's top stories: the American Theatre Wing holds its gala honoring Jonathan Larson tonight, and more!
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Jac Yarrow’s performance in the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium was obviously a big hit with audiences as it was the public who crowned h…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 05:30AMIn this small, corporate-feeling space, A Conversation has found a perfect home at the Meat Market, sidestepping the need for the usual theatrical trappings, presenting its story simply. The…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:16AMAcclaimed playwright Peter Nichols, author of the once-controversial A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, passed away in Oxford on 7 September 2019 at age 92, just two weeks ahead of the play's re…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 05:15AMWritten by Paloma Pedrero – Spain’s most prolific playwright in the 21st century – and directed by Simone Coxall, The Eyes Of The Night makes its UK premiere at the Cervantes Theatre i…
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Almost a decade after her 2010 Broadway debut in In the Heights, multi-platinum recording artist Jordin Sparks heads back to Broadway on September 16, taking over the lead role of Jenna in W…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:54AMFrom Downton Abbey to Khalid, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMReliving her postnatal trauma in I’m a Phoenix, Bitch led to a breakdown and spider hallucinations. These days, Kimmings is all about ‘self-care on steroids’
“I don’t want people t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMWe have here Robert, a publisher; his best friend, Jerry, a literary agent; Emma, Robert’s sassy wife, a gallerist, for seven years Jerry’s clandestine mistress, but no longer so for two…
SOURCE: John Simon at 03:42AMA show that fizzes with the excitement of Chinese contemporary art at the start of the twenty-first century, recalling Judith Neilson’s astonishment and delight in her first forays into ar…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:15AM'Please don't mention specifically anything that happens in the show,' the star of Derren Brown: Secret requests of his audience about twenty minutes into his performance.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12AMI am currently working on a show that involves a dinner party, during which the cast has to consume a fairly substantial
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By Douglas Mayo
The National Youth Theatre today announces its 2019 Summer and Autumn Season which will feature an extended 7th annual REP season of three plays in London.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:50AMTrailblazing choreographer Rosie Kay is using the latest research in neuroscience to bring unalloyed joy to her audience
When Rosie Kay was starting work on her new dance show, Fantasia, she…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMBy Douglas Mayo
Casting has been announced for the new production of Les Miserables which will open at the Sondheim Theatre London in December 2019.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:25AMNext month, Act for Change will be holding another public event, our fifth. As I’ve been speaking to people about it and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAt London’s Royal Court two Saturdays ago, Clean Break, the remarkable company that works with women who have experience of the criminal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFaith, Hope and Charity – National Theatre, London Following Beyond Caring and Love, Alexander Zeldin completes his trilogy of plays about life
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Together, Gaulier-trained Queenslanders, Lucy Fox, Laura Trenerry and Ell Sachs are The Travelling Sisters. It’s no accident that their Melbourne Fringe offering Thy Thus ‘Twas sounds li…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:48AMThe Shane Warne Foundation intended to raise funds for ill and underprivileged children. After some point, not so much money actually went to the kids. The Foundation folded in 2017 rather t…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:29AMThankfully, public art has become much more than murals for blank wall spaces.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:24AMWelcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. Puzzle Pieces by Krista Boehnert is a monologue-based play that is a fantastic vehicle to introducing monologues to your student performers. Puzzle Pi…
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Geelong’s past and future have come together with the unearthing of an elephant bone among hundreds of buried historical objects during Geelong Arts Centre’s landmark redevelopment proje…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:29AMPhyllis Newman, who won a Tony Award for Subways Are for Sleeping, has died at 86. Deadline first reported the news.
Her son, Vogue theater critic Adam Green, confirmed his mother’s deat…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 12:22AMThe actress, who won a Tony in 1962 for her role in the musical “Subways Are for Sleeping,” also raised millions of dollars to help women in entertainment deal with health problems.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12AMThe American Idol winner plays Jenna for a limited engagement.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe band’s frontman talks about the origin of his twisted lyrics and what drives him to keep writing new songs
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMPurva Bedi, Aadya Bedi, Sathya Sridharan, and Adina Verson star in the world premiere at Playwrights Horizons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe American Theatre Wing Gala features the work of Jonathan Larson Grant recipients.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe composing team of Robert Wright and George Forrest were attracted to
taking the music of other composers and adapting it into scores for
musicals. They did this this with the musical o…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMEach week leading up to the October 6th concert premiere of Monkey Trouble Unleashed! at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre, I'm releasing a brand new episode of Something New: A Musical Theatre Pod…
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