Photo Credit: Stephen Mosher Multiple award winners Kim Grogg and Lennie Watts join forces to honor their Hometown Heroes! Grogg, from Indiana, and Watts, from Missouri will pay tribute to s…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 10:58PMBess Wohl's play Grand Horizons opened at Second Stage Theater at the Helen Hayes Theater and was Directed by Leigh Silverman.
January 23, 2020: Bill and Nancy have spent 50 full years …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:54PMPhoto Credit: unknown JANUARY 29, 2020 – FEBRUARY 1, 2020 Christine Andreas Feinstein’s 54 Below AND SO IT GOES-Life & Love, Lost & Found If you are finding it a little challengi…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 10:40PMBess Wohl’s new play puts a Neil Simonesque spin on the story of a couple considering divorce after 50 years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMBreaking up is hard to do…especially when you've been collecting social security for a decade.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36PMThis ingenious, bare-bones adaptation of Susan Hill’s Gothic novel — a long-running hit in London — allows audiences to take charge of their fear.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMAfter the sensational success of its first iteration, LET’S TAKE OVER, is back for another year! LET’S TAKE OVER gives 10 talented young
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:30PMPhoto Credit: unknown Sean Patrick Murtagh, New York based singer and actor as well as San Francisco Cabaret Fixture, makes his Green Room in MARIO! A Salute to the great Lanza. An open love…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 10:27PMReview of Bess Wohl's "Grand Horizons" at 2ndStage
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:23PMThe play is often quite funny in the way that a well-written sitcom can be, but a thick layer of jokes and punchlines cannot cover up the fact that there is little of credible substance here.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:23PMPhoto credit: unknown A Tribute to the Great Kaye Ballard COST: $20 online ($25 at the door, cash only) + $20 food/beverage minimum For more information about the show, artists and to purch…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 10:20PMThe prolific Mike Bartlett — from whose pen have leaped television series such as Doctor Foster and Press, as well as stage hits such as King Charles III — has two things to celebrate …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:09PMBroadhurst Theatre, New York, NY.January 21, 2019. A jukebox musical tends to fall into one of two categories: telling the life story of an artist with his or her music woven into the chrono…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:06PM★★★★ Bess Wohl gets big laughs from a long-married couple, their potential divorce, and their flabbergasted adult children
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:01PM★★ Strong comedy performances offset the surprisingly mild script by the usually adventurous Bess Wohl
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PMEven before the great James Cromwell arrives at the punchline of a decrepit dirty nun joke, or the incomparable Jane Alexander gets to a vibrator bit exhausted seasons ago by Grace and Frank…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
January 23, 2019: The horror story, The Woman in Black, has a long and distinguished history. It began as a 1983 novel by Susan Hill and spawned two films. The firs…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMIn just the first minutes of Bess Wohl’s “Grand Horizons,” a supremely funny comedy of marital malaise presented by Second Stage Theater, Jane Alexander and James Cromwell deliver a mi…
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Photo Credit: unknown AN HOUR OF PERFORMANCES WITH NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF CLASSICAL MUSIC GUEST PERFORMERS EVERY MONTH THE CLASSICAL CORNER YOU’VE LOVED SO MUCH AT SALON …
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 09:58PMThe special preview, featuring director-choreographer Raja Feather Kelly and star Janelle McDermoth, took place January 22 at The Green Room 42.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48PM(Lauren Shook’s article appeared in Shakespeare and Beyond, 1/7; via Pam Green.) In 1608, famine plagued England. Preachers responded with sermons begging the gentry to show compassion for…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:41PMLANE BRADBURY – ORIGINAL ‘DAINTY JUNE’ IN GYPSY presents MON HISTOIRE EN CHANSONS FRANCAISES (My Story in French Songs) Lane Bradbury may have been born and raised as a Southern Belle …
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 09:26PMWhat it is, what it is…Get ready to be transported back to the seventies with all its kitschy-ness, loud colors and lingo combine it with the Elizabethan Shakespearean style, and you have …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:23PM“I think I would like a divorce,” Jane Alexander as Nancy French says to her husband of 50 years, played by James Cromwell. “All right,” Bill replies. Blackout. More production p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18PMHarold Pinter theatre, LondonIan Rickson’s exquisite production is enlivened with expertly weighted humour and a modern beat
Last year, David Hare teamed up with Rupert Everett to stage an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PMLondon's long-running ghost story finds a new haunt off-Broadway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:12PMSBS and Blink TV have announced that Swedish pop phenomenon and winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, Måns Zelmerlöw, is heading to the Gold Coast to perform and be one of the Jury m…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:10PM...a gifted, energetic ensemble and a crack production team
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:04PMBy: David Sheward
January 23, 2019: Adapting a novel to the stage is a tricky business. A play needs to have a central action executed within a playing time of a few hours while a nov…
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Nude retreats, marine poachers and hot-tempered chefs – Screen Australia has announced two feature films, one television drama and two online projects that will share in $3.5 million of pr…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:46PMThe new Bess Wohl play, directed by Leigh Silverman, opens at The Hayes January 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46PMMichelle Dooley Mahon's solo play at Irish Rep recounts her experiences caring for her mother during her battle with Alzheimer's.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:36PMThree Cheers for Florence Halop (1923-86) whose career in radio and television spanned five and a half decades. A native of Queens, Florence was the younger sister of Billy Halop, one of the…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:36PMTo the best of my knowledge, burlesque star Betty Rowland (b. 1916) is still with us at age 104. When she hit the century mark a few years ago there was much hoopla, as in this Leslie Zamec…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:36PM(l to r) Drew Schad and Leslie Ann Sheppard in ‘SHEEPDOG.’ (Photo: Lowell Thomas) By Becky Sarwate Shattered Globe Theatre’s 2019-2020 production season continues with…
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:36PMToday a long overdue post on the terrific Hollywood star Randolph Scott (1898-1987). Scott is someone you can use as a sort of litmus test: if you meet someone who is someone is familiar wit…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:36PMA deeply moving testament to the power of emotional resilience, The Scourge is a captivating tribute to the human spirit, and Mahon is an international treasure.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:30PMRomeo and Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn, does not nearly reach the very high bar that Amas has set in its first half century.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PM“I think I would like a divorce,” Jane Alexander as Nancy French says to her husband of 50 years, played by James Cromwell. “All right,” Bill replies. Blackout. That’s all the dial…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PMMillennial Notes Sarah Ruhl Challenges Marriage with Free Love by Krista Pearl McAtee “This play is about polyamory” we hear audience members whisper to each other before the play starts…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:05PMJason Robert Brown’s The Bridges of Madison Country to have Australian premiere at The Hayes. Producers Matthew Henderson and Neil
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:03PMWhen their date at a lamentable community theater performance of Romeo and Juliet leaves a Brooklyn Girl in tears and a Brooklyn Guy bored to tears, he needs to prove to her that he really i…
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The Boy I Paid For is a surprisingly layered journey through love, acceptance, romance and sex. With a title like this work has, one could easily think that this would be a basic story brim…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:51PMIan Rickson’s exemplary production relishes the nuances of Conor McPherson's adaptation
Uncle Vanya must surely be the closest, the most essential of Chekhov’s plays, its cast – just f…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:48PMA modern-day musical spoof of Shakespeare's tragic love story is running at A.R.T./New York Theatres.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:42PM“My desire to give evolved from going to a lot of museums, art galleries and live performances,” he says. “It took years to develop my taste, but once I was on the ground, seeing what …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMKehinde Wiley’s official portrait of President Obama and Amy Sherald’s painting of the first lady, like the Obamas themselves, broke boundaries. L.A.-born, New York-based Wiley and New Y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMLast Friday, when art historians confirmed its authenticity through X-rays to see if the original painting was there, Ermanno Mariani got the curious call, and the voice was oddly familiar. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMHer blunt views on culture were summed up in a 2008 blog which complains “I simply can’t stand going to exhibitions, museums, opera”. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMIn yet another spectacular triumph, global hit COME FROM AWAY has smashed the highest weekly gross income for the week
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The previously announced Neil Diamond musical is inching its way closer to Broadway!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:48PMOn the heels of a debut run at Southwark Playhouse, Samuel Bailey's new drama Shook will open in London's West End this spring. George Turvey will repeat his work as director for the transfe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMSee Austin Scott, Kimber Elayne Sprawl, Marc Kudisch and more sing out tunes from Girl From the North Country, which features the sounds of Bob Dylan, ahead of the show's Broadway bow.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMA Soldier’s Play, Charles Fuller’s 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that never came to Broadway, has finally received its due. The Kenny Leon-helmed production made its opening night Br…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMCasting is complete for Emily Feldman's new play The Best We Could (a family tragedy), set to arrive at off-Broadway's City Center—Stage II this spring. Daniel Aukin will direct the previ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMThe new musical comedy Emojiland has extended its off-Broadway run at The Duke on 42nd Street. Originally announced to play a limited engagement through March 8, the musical will now conclud…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMSundance Film Festival has released the first trailer of the upcoming documentary We Are Freestyle Love Supreme, a 15-year retrospective of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail's hip-hop im…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMPearl Sun chats about joining the Broadway cast of Come From Away and more with Beth Stevens.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMThe cast of the upcoming Broadway musical Girl from the North Country met the press on January 22 at The Bitter End, the oldest rock 'n' roll club in New York and personal favorite venue of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMSamantha Williams, a senior at Pace University, will take on the role of Emmie Thibodeaux, daughter to the title character, in the upcoming Broadway revival of Caroline, or Change. The prev…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMTony nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Broadway producer Justin Mikita are expecting their first child. Ferguson, who will appear on Broadway this season in a revival of Take Me Out, announc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMPearl Sun knows something about living on the edge. Since 2017, she's been the standby in Come From Away on Broadway where she memorized the stage blocking and lines for five characters, b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMMean Girls is headed back to movie theaters. Tina Fey, screenwriter of the 2004 film and Tony-nominated book writer of the current Broadway musical, has announced an upcoming movie musical v…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMIn the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through an exit interview with HR about their time at the company. That concept doesn’t exist for Broadway performers…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMThe 2020 Oscars will feature performances from each of the songs nominated in the Best Original Song category. Cynthia Erivo, who was nominated for two Academy Awards this year as the star …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMAs Greta Gerwig’s big-screen adaptation of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 coming-of-age novel, connects with a new generation of audiences, it’s time to remember the Broadway m…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMHe’s mad. He’s bad. He’s dangerous. But damn him to hell, his serenades are divine. It’s the last day of
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMWinter theater and dance in Chicago provides a home away from home.
On nights when the temperature falls into single digits and icy sidewalks (clear that stuff, …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:00PMOn nights when the temperature falls into single digits and icy sidewalks (clear that stuff, people!) make the public way treacherous, it's easy to find reasons to stay home.
But the month…
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By JK Clarke It takes an extraordinarily special talent to take Shakespeare’s more problematic—or “less compelling”—plays and make them not only interesting, but …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:51PMMean Girls, the twelve-time Tony-nominated musical, has officially recouped on its capitalization and appears to be headed for the big screen. Producers of the hit musical announced today th…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:42PMThis Dear Evan Hansen-inspired contest from the Broadway Education Alliance and Gotham Writers Workshop recognizes excellence in storytelling with a $1,500 scholarship.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PMVinie Burrows, Katie Firth, and more star in the evening of short plays, each an adaptation of a story by the well-known authors.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PMOthers set to sing February 9 include Elton John, Chrissy Metz, and Randy Newman.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:37PMIt seems like just yesterday that Matthew Bourne’s groundbreaking reinterpretation of a classic triggered gents to walk out at the sight of two men partnered and young girls to cry when co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:33PMFrom Ford’s Theatre – Save on tickets to Silent Sky at Ford’s Theatre—a captivating play by Lauren Gunderson about trail-blazing astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt. A decade before w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:33PMThe central romance feels overly familiar, but this touring production's ensemble creates a magical environment.
Your affection for Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flahe…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PM Your Kids, Our Kids (Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, Founding Directors) proudly presents the 6th Annual VOICES FOR THE VOICELESS: Stars For Foster Kids, an event that brings together …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:28PMThe world premiere of Chris Bohjalian’s MIDWIVES started performances at George Street Playhouse January 21 forward of a January 24 opening night.
SOURCE: scoopsquare24.com at 04:19PMI’d say Deborah Zoe Laufer is having a bit of a moment right now, but it’s been going on so long I think it’s fairer to say she’s having a bit of an amazing career. Laufer’s plays …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:13PMABOUT LOVE and THE SICKNESS Culture Project presents About Love, a new play with songs and music. Music and lyrics by jazz artist Nancy Harrow and script and direction by Will Pomerant…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:12PMOn 22nd February Riverside Theatres will present Spice Night, an evening of trailblazing, queer comedy from across Asia, as part of
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:12PMOver the past few centuries, philosophers of time have worried about divine eternity, absolutism and Kantian idealism. Our current fixation on presentness, and whether it is a real feature o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMThe museum is betting that in a city where tickets to the Museum of Ice Cream cost $38, visitors will be willing to pay for the privilege of experiencing photography in a way that feels mor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM“The BBC came very close to erasing all of the original Python tapes, at least from the first season. What happened was that we got word from our editor that the BBC was about to wipe all …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMOnce upon a time, none of these stories had yet been fixed on a page (or a clay tablet), but were carried in the physical bodies of the people who committed them to memory. Long before Johan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMA year-round contemporary performing arts program presented at Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre and Darebin Arts Centre Following on from
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There was always a problem with Sting’s Broadway musical, “The Last Ship.” Even though the music was par excellence, the songs beyond
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:54PMNathan Brewer will direct the benefit performance of the new musical for the Abingdon Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PMTina Fey will adapt her Broadway show as a film.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:48PMThe musical version of “Mean Girls” will be adapted into a film from Paramount Pictures, the production announced Thursday. The film will be produced by Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey and…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 03:37PMMatthew Bourne’s Windsor-inspired take on the classic ballet returns, with a snarling corgi, cellphones and all the thunderous, shirtless male swans of his 1995 original.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:36PMMean Girls has been a movie and a musical. Now it’s going to be both.
Tina Fey and the producers of the Broadway production announced Thursday that they’ll be returning to North Shore H…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 03:33PMWithin our smartphones is a world of smiley faces, flowers, royals . . . and a pile of poo. And now many of them have come alive, in the off-Broadway musical “Emojiland.” Several key pla…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:33PMSamantha Williams and others join Sharon D. Clarke, John Cariani, and Caissie Levy in the upcoming production at Studio 54.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMThe inaugural recipient of the Pinnacle commission will be announced this spring.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:20PMConceived, written, and directed by Gerard Alessandrini, Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation, the latest installment in his outrageous parodies of the shows and stars of the Great White …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20PMBrandon A. McCall and Kayla Cyphers lead the current touring cast.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:18PMSharon D. Clarke stars in the Tony Kushner-Jeanine Tesori musical on Broadway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:18PMThe show from Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond, and Nell Benjamin continues on Broadway and on tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PMLittle Women opened on Broadway 15 years ago today, and we're looking back on the most famous song from the musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 03:09PMThe former artistic director of WPA Theater—the original home of Little Shop of Horrors, Steel Magnolias, and more—died at 71 last year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PM“Caroline, or Change” has announced its complete Broadway cast. Joy Hermalyn is joining the cast as Grandma Gellman, alongside Kevin S. McAllister as Bus/Dryer, N’Kenge as the Moon a…
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The real-life couple will present their work at The Lark’s Barebones Studio.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMThe North American tour of the hit Disney musical is scheduled to play 14 cities this year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMThe stars greeted fans at the Atlanta festival for the first time since the launch of the Disney+ series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:41PMA TREE GROWS IN THE ANTILLES In 1990, eight years before he wrote Ragtime, Stephen Flaherty composed an eclectically exotic score for this one-act fairy tale. It’s the forthright story of…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:39PMDivorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak int…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 02:29PMPhilippa Chong asked them. “Critics were understandably ambivalent towards amateur reviewers despite their appreciation for general readers’ enthusiasm about books. … If the critics I …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMPut simply, life is beginning to look ever more complex and ever more collaborative. All this has fractured Western biology’s consensus on Darwin. – Slate
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“I don’t play music and I don’t paint, but I always thought architecture was an art and I try to practice it that way. Architecture is intuitive. It’s humanly expressive. You’re pu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMOn the surface, yes, of course they were — and there are some modern-day emoji that look surprisingly like their Pharaonic predecessors. The differences, though, are deep. – The New York…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMMichelle Herman: “In that very first class, long before I had any idea what I was doing, … I had a moment of what seemed like perfect clarity: My body and my mind were working as one. An…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThe evening at Birdland will benefit The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMThe assistive devices, now being tested at People’s Light in Pennsylvania, offer a new way for hard-of-hearing patrons to fully enjoy the theatre.
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Ryan Cupello and Mia Vallet will star in the production at Access Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:49PMWatch as The Phantom of the Opera star Meghan Picerno races against the clock to answer 20 questions in just 2 minutes.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 01:37PMTony nominees Ariana DeBose and Jennifer Damiano also join the lineup for the Feinstein's/54 Below concert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMHer new monthly showcase at Duke of Perth creates a community for newbies and vets alike.
Gina DeLuca is a 32-year-old Chicago-based writer and live lit performe…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:30PMCity Lit's docudrama captures some of the “moral muck” facing the south's first Black Congresswoman.
Clocking in at 95 minutes, City Lit's production of Voic…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:05PMThe drama also stars Broadway alums Jennifer Ehle and Damian Lewis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PMKatie Arnstein is an award-winning writer and performer. Her latest play, Stick Door, the final part of her It’s a Girl! trilogy, will be performed at the VAULT Festival next month. I caug…
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The tribute, hosted by Kind, also featured The Prom's Angie Schworer, Brad Oscar, Lee Roy Reams, Jelani Remy, the Skivvies, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMPolitical prisoners swallow their pride (and maybe some poison) in Rivendell's world premiere.
The gulags in Meghan Brown's world-premiere dystopian fable, The T…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:50PMAlexis Gregory’s dark comic queer thriller opened January 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PMBulgarian playwright Zachary Karabashliev's ddrama shows promise, but falters.
Bulgarian playwright Zachary Karabashliev's 2008 play, about two entwined dysfunct…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:45PMIn today's roundup, we've got tickets for Samuel Bailey's award-winning Shook and a cast announcement from The Creature: Frankenstein Retold. Check it out!
The post London Theatre News Toda…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:37PMWhat was Cherie Blair thinking during the New Labour years? Has her contribution to Tony Blair's success ever been fully acknowledged? Cherie - My Struggle provides an intimate look at a rem…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:29PMA brutal homophobic assault tests the love between two women in Diana Son's drama.
To be queer and in love in a 90s play is a pitiable fate. At best, characters …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:25PMThe film about the hip-hop improv troupe founded by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, and Anthony Veneziale premieres at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMSometimes the smallest venues/shows/casts pack the biggest punch. This was the case on Wednesday, January 15th at Dixon Place with the one-night-only performance of Marathon, a one-act play …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:18PM A simple railroad or subway ride leads you right to Madison Square Garden for top-notch children’s entertainment. Shows are varied with appeal to youngsters and, often, even their paren…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:12PMTrent James lights up Wednesdays at the Chicago Magic Lounge.
The intersection of comedy and magic has ballooned since the art form's vaudevillian heyday. Case i…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:10PMIn 1984, 20 fire-breathing, stilt-striding performers took to the streets of the colourful Baie-Saint-Paul in Québec City, Canada. The shows they put on there began a journey to bring the…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 12:10PMBobby Moresco will direct the limited engagement at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM“Performance Space New York [formerly P.S. 122], the historic performance arts nonprofit in Manhattan’s East Village, will shift to a new, artist-run model for 2020. A cohort of NYC-base…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMA key point that many people don’t realize is that the site does not use any algorithms: each review that goes into a movie’s or TV show’s Tomatometer score is read and evaluated by a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMLEARN NEW WAYS TO DO THEATRE, CREATE YOUR OWN WORK & MAKE CONNECTIONS!
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMThe Charlotte Symphony Orchestra seeks a strategic, business-minded leader with a passion for classical music, high emotional intelligence, and collaborative style to serve as President &a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMDespite his success with revisionist productions of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller plays, Ivo van Hove seemed an unlikely choice to direct a major revival of the Bernstein-Laurents-Son…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMThe Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale was founded in 1969 as the world’s first law enforcement service to specialize in art and cultural heritage. Its agents have worked from…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMErik Lee Preminger (his father was film director Otto Preminger) started traveling with his mother while still an infant, got his first jobs with her show before he was old enough to go to s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMShould Jeanine Cummins have written the book? Lauren Groff doesn’t know. Should she have reviewed it? She doesn’t know! “Perhaps this book is an act of cultural imperialism; at the sam…
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Get a sneak peek at Tony nominee Max von Essen and Olivier winner Laura Michelle Kelly in rehearsal for the upcoming New York Pops concert Find Your Dream: The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerste…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:51AMThe actor, starring as Elphaba in the hit Broadway musical, gives Playbill an inside look at her pre-show routine.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMThe play follows four girls in a Korean Christian youth group traveling to Bangkok who make a startling discovery.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMThe Broadway favorite won her fifth of six Tony Awards for playing Bess on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMThe Best We Could (a Family Tragedy) is part of Manhattan Theatre Club’s spring lineup.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMThe world was a very different place in 1997 when Chris Bohjalian published MIDWIVES, the first of his best-selling novels. The action unfolds in a sparsely-populated state before cellular p…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:29AMThe play succeeds in large part because it begins in the aftermath of a school shooting. There are a few bits of dialogue describing the terror of the incident itself, but there is no onstag…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:26AMThe Bollywood hit has been remade for the stage. Its tunes are beautiful but this is a missed opportunity to reimagine an antiquated story
Even by the standards of Bollywood sagas, Umrao Jaa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMReview: The Co-op, White Bear Theatre 3.0stars Day-drinking, bickering and playacting their dream roles, three charmingly ambitious yet painfully insecure ‘nobodies’ run their dysfunctio…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:03AMReview: Candy, King's Head Theatre 3.0stars Strangely, this play is at its strongest during the times when it’s completely off topic. Despite focusing on the experiences of a young man fal…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:03AMReview: Smoke Weed Eat Pussy Everyday, Camden People's Theatre 5.0stars There she lies on the mattress, snuggled in a thin blanket, holding herself tight. It’s silent and dark and through …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:03AMReview: Four Play, Above the Stag Theatre 3.0stars ‘There are so many ways to be in a relationship in 2020’ says Jake Brunger, the playwright of Four Play on the play’s programme inter…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:03AMReview: Street Scene, Opera North5.0starsStreet Scene is a rollicking, powerful production which kicks off Opera North’s first season of 2020. Kurt Weill’s opera is truly a fusion of gen…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:03AMTheatremakers from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds have called on the industry to address their underrepresentation and challenge stereotypical portrayals of their
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AMThe future of Edinburgh’s festivals is under threat from the government’s “current obsession with a hard Brexit”, according to MSP Gordon MacDonald.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AMLast week, I published the results of some research I did into the recoupment % of new Broadway musicals over the last half a decade. The conclusion was that the % of those musicals that are…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMSizzle sells, or as Kinky Boots proved on Broadway in 2013, “The Sex Is In the Heel.” Why was the musical named Kinky Boots? Maybe Fetish Footwear didn’t have quite the same kick. �…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AMDirected by Bronagh Lagan, Rags embraces the true wonders of theatre, bringing to light the compelling story of some Jewish immigrants attempting to integrate into American society of the 19…
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The cult classic musical that’s having a coast-to-coast moment opens at the O’Reilly Theater this weekend.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:56AMby Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. LOS ANGELES - Tina Fey, writer of the 2004 hit film Mean Girls and its Broadway adaptation, announced today that she plans to adapt the beloved musical for the s…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:39AMby Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. LOS ANGELES - Tina Fey, writer of the 2004 hit film Mean Girls and its Broadway adaptation, announced today that she plans to ad...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:39AMThe Harlem-set “Blues for an Alabama Sky” finally arrives in New York, with a juicy role that has attracted African-American actresses across the country.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AMThe artists will take part in a salute to executive producer Ken Ehrlich.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMSee upcoming Dear Evan Hansen Fisher star in the second trailer for the soon-to-be-released Netflix original.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AMThe new comedy stars Lesli Margherita, Ann Harada, Max Crumm, and Josh Lamon.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AMIt is not difficult to see what attracted Metropolitan Playhouse to Ardrey’s drama: its message that one cannot shut one’s self off from the problems of the world as the America First mo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:06AMThe movie musical, in the works for over a decade, will follow a man who wakes up to find himself hearing everyone’s inner thoughts through song.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMThe movie musical, in the works for over a decade, will follow a man who wakes up to find himself hearing everyone’s inner thoughts through song.
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Lucy Kirkwood brings 18th-century women into focus; Trevor Nunn directs Beckett; Cormac McCarthy’s life-or-death debate
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Paul T Davies reviews Sex/Crime a new play Alexis Gregory now playing at Soho Theatre.
This post REVIEW: Sex/Crime, Soho Theatre London ✭✭✭✭ first appeared on Britis…
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January 23, 2019: Laura Linney, truly an elixir of stage chemistry, commands a full 90-minutes of storytelling in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s production, My Name is…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:42AMPerformances will begin in April at Trafalgar Studios.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMThe final instalment of Belgian dance theatre company Peeping Tom’s neurotically fraught family-based trilogy, Child (Kind) is the most daringly dark of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:30AMGot you weekend plans? We have some nifty ideas, from Chinatown adventures to great music and blasting klingons.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:30AMIowa Thespian urges getting out of your comfort zone
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:07AMAs strange as it is insightful, the Belgian physical theatre company's latest production is a dangerous treat
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:06AMThe 13-year-old girls (and one boy) of Clare Barron’s “Dance Nation,” produced by Washington Ensemble Theatre, live and sometimes nearly die for competitive dance. And there’s nothin…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMAlexis Gregory’s script for Sex/Crime takes an uncomfortable glance at our obsession with serial killers, sexual violence and 21st century homosexuality.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBy Robert Mello, Frankie Mulinix. Frankie Mulinix speaks with Rob Mello, owner of Atlanta’s Rob Mello Studios, about the city’s artistic spaces, governmental and organizational support, …
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Jader Bignamini’s first performances with the DSO were unexpected: in 2018, due to cardiac surgery, outgoing music director Leonard Slatkin had to cancel the final concerts of his tenure w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM“According to a company press release [about the two artistic directors], Öhman is leaving to accept a directorship at Swedish contemporary dance presenter Dansens Hus. Waltz” — whose…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM by Ron Fassler Scott Organ’s new play 17 Minutes is the latest drama offered by the Barrow Group, one of New York City (if not the country’s) most exceptional producing entities. L…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:49AMWe here at Theatre Nerds can hardly contain our anticipation as this season’s new musicals come rolling onto the Great White Way! It’s sure to be a remarkable and memorable season on Bro…
SOURCE: theatrenerds.com at 08:48AMIt has been confirmed that Shook will transfer to the West End this Spring after receiving its world premiere at the Southwark Playhouse last year. Papatango Prize-winning play by Samuel …
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:30AMIt’s hard to believe but a decade has passed since Stephen Clark and Howard Goodall’s musical adaptation of Erich Segal’s novel Love Story premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre befo…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 08:15AMThe Theresa Rebeck play at the South Side theater sounds the alarm on one family’s dysfunction.
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“Blue” to Play the Apollo, Mandy Gonzalez Reveals Breast Cancer Diagnosis, “Karate Kid” Musical Eyeing Broadway, Rachel Tucker to Join “CFA” “Today on Broadway” is a daily, M…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMThis week, let's take a look at the people who were in the Musical of the Month - the multiple Tony nominated company of Applause. Among them are once and future TV and movie stars, legends …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:54AMLyttelton, LondonTwelve bickering, bantering women must determine an accused murderer’s pregnancy claim in this admirable drama
The Welkin is a courtroom drama that sets itself up as a wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMBy AARON KRAUSE MIAMI –A black mother expresses a chilling, yet valid concern in American Son, Christopher Demos-Brown’s unflinchingly honest and heartbreaking play about race, set in …
SOURCE: TheatreCriticsm.com at 07:37AMShakespeare’s Globe’s summer season 2020 will include Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night and Antony & Cleopatra.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMDisabled actor and writer Athena Stevens has revealed how she has to crawl to the stage at a major London fringe venue
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMCameron Mackintosh has moved to address the number of minority ethnic actors appearing in musical theatre productions, amid pressure from South Asian
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMDarkly comic tale of a woman's journey to uncover her roots and understand who she is, Cheryl Ndione's Apple will run at the VAULT Festival next month. Book you tickets now!
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:10AMTerry Jones was first among equals in the era-defining ensemble that launched Monty Python’s Flying Circus on unsuspecting television viewers used to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMWith its focus on the small things, Sam Steiner’s play You Stupid Darkness! is a delicate but delicious thing at the Southwark Playhouse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM“FUTURE, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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Under a new artistic director, this season at Austria’s main playhouse includes 30 premieres, ranging from classical dramas to brand-new works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48AMBarbican, LondonThis third part of Peeping Tom’s trilogy surreally explores the innocence and danger of childhood, but it’s definitely not for kids
Having already graced the London inter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMReview: Hamlet: Rotten States, The Hope Theatre 2.0stars Christmas has been and gone and I thought the same could be said for panto season. Yet, tonight I discover that my aforementioned pre…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMReview: Fix, The Pleasance Theatre3.0starsA broken washing machine in an old house, somewhere in the woods, an older woman with secrets and a repairman with a seemingly easy task. That is th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMExhibit at Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven remembers the now-lost 1952 mural by John Wilson, "The Incident," which depicts the aftermath of a lynching by the Ku Klux Klan.
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Yelena Eckemoff, Nocturnal Animals (L&H Productions)Russian-born pianist and composer Eckemoff, long a New York resident, collaborates with a superb rhythm section of Scandinavian musici…
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 12:19AMJustin Ross Cohen directs the Mark Saltzman musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLeigh Silverman directs the new play, starring James Cromwell, Jane Alexander, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFrom show panels featuring Beetlejuice and Moulin Rouge! to interviews with Donna McKechnie to autograph signings, and more, don’t miss the ultimate behind-the-scenes convention.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony-winning director Kenny Leon on his new production of the Pulitzer-winning drama---Director Kenny Leon didn't see Negro Ensemble Company's original mounting of A Soldier's Play in 1981, …
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