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SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:38PMBig, bold directorial choices don't enhance Young Jean Lee's intimate musical. Loren Noveck reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 10:30PM... one of the most exhilarating, reassuring, and life-affirming performances you may experience this year.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMBy Ron Fassler Lucas Hnath is a playwright who with each new effort continues to surprise his audiences with an imaginative flexibility. His previous efforts include the well-received Off…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PMAward-winning playwright Lucas Hnath takes a provocative and personal approach to an acutely disturbing crime story and its aftermath in his latest work Dana H., making its New York debut at…
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SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 09:58PMYoung Jean Lee's play-concert, directed and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly, opened February 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55PMDierdre O’Connell stars in a fascinating solo play that asks, can you ever really know a person?
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:54PM★★★★ A phenomenal and indescribable play from Lucas Hnath, with the astonishing Deirdre O’Connell
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:53PMPreviously seen in regional productions, the play opened February 25 starring Deirdre O’Connell
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53PM★★★ Deirdre O'Connell delivers a striking portrait of a woman in distress
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:52PM★★★★ Young Jean Lee’s show about death will send you off with a smile on your face
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PM★★★★ Playwright/songwriter Young Jean Lee studies an inevitable fact of life
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:49PMThis mammoth stage adaptation is more splashy than spiritual
The theatre gods rained down not fire and pestilence, but a 45-minute techincal delay on opening night of this substantially revi…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:48PMBy . Kansas City Repertory Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri presents panels from the 5th Annual ORIGINKC: NEW WORKS FESTIVAL on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:41PMSherry has been involved with the Bistro Awards since its inception — when it was simply a list that ran in Back Stage, to producing the show on her own for the past 28 years. The Bistro…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 09:32PMFamilies, as we know, have secrets
SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:28PMCelebrating an extraordinary generation of music making in the north as well as the 25th anniversary of Australia’s famed Goldner String Quartet and the 250th anniversary of Beethoven, mor…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:24PMPlaywright Lauren Yee’s script is really two shows: an old-fashioned rock concert uncomfortably yoked to a somber history drama.
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By . The Aurora Theatre Company presents WELCOME TO OUR SPACE?
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:59PM By Brian Scott Lipton “There are only two sure things in life, death and taxes,” Benjamin Franklin famously told the public, and playwright Young Jean Lee certainly …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:55PMKinnear will take over the role from Ed Harris, who departs in April.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:48PMJoe Ngo, star of Lauren Yee's Cambodian Rock Band at Signature Theatre, opens up about the difficult past that helped build this important new work.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:48PMJanelle McDermoth stars in Second Stage's new production of Lee's theatrical concert.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:48PMThe Jeanine Tesori-Tony Kushner musical returns to Broadway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:48PMby Emily Wilson
The new year has brought some new faces to Theatre Bay Area. Emily Wilson chats with the new folx in our office.
Shannon R. Davis.
Shannon R. Davis, developm…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 08:37PMProducers John Frost, Suzanne Jones and Ambassador Theatre Group Productions have announced the dazzling group of performers who will comprise the ensemble in the upcoming Australian Premier…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:32PMWe’re all in pain – because of loneliness or loss, betrayal or illness – and playwright Young Jean Lee wants to offer us some comfort. This might not be immediately apparent, given the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMThe Mint Theater Company presents two short stories dealing with love and spirituality by two great Russian writers.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:06PM
Actresses and activists celebrated Monday when a New York jury found the producer guilty on two counts, in a decision that could send him to jail for up to 25 years. – The Daily Beast
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54PMProducers John Frost, Suzanne Jones and Ambassador Theatre Group Productions today announced the dazzling group of performers who will comprise
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:51PMThe 1987 Michael J. Fox film gets a toothless musical treatment.
This musical version of the 1987 Michael J. Fox vehicle, receiving its world premiere at the Par…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:50PMDominion, LondonIt’s got pageantry, pyramids and dazzling dance moves, but this lavish stage adaptation drowns out the emotional drama
DreamWorks’ musical animation The Prince of Egypt …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMOriginally published on TheaterMania View this story online Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula share much in common. Their titles are often uttered in the same bre…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 07:47PMIn a funny and excruciatingly honest one-woman show, Debra tells stories about her neurotic childhood, clumsy romantic history, and the
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:42PMThe cast in Redtwist's drama about a police shooting makes the heavy lifting look easy.
Ruby (Brooke Reams) and Wilson (Kevin Tre'Von Patterson) seem to have a p…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:40PMSHE LOVES ME…AND WITH GOOD REASON! Ah, love. As hard to find as ever, but so satisfying when it is. But what did the ancients (20th-century people) do to find love before Tinder, eHarmony,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:38PMOriginally published on TDF Stages View this story online Harriet Tubman, Nellie Bly and Molly Brown are just a handful of the sheroes being celebrated on New York stages — When I was as…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 07:35PMA provocative fact-based play locates truth in transcripts
You are at a party having a good time when someone gives you a glass of champagne. You take one and then another and soon the party…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:32PMA woman chemist helps wives dispatch their plutocratic husbands.
In 2013, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Deborah Blum wrote an article for Wired magazine titl…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:30PMThe tragedy of a single elephant's death has universal implications in Griffin's production.
This Lynn Nottage drama is pure kinetic energy, exploring the illici…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:20PMReview submitted by Leslie Robinson of Severna Park High School Music, mayhem, magic and the mob! “Matilda the Musical” delivers allthis, plus a little chocolate cake! Marvelously tele…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:11PMLeslye Headland's drama reignites the dead nerve endings of romance.
"I would let [insert name here] ruin my life" is a phrase that anyone who's radiated their e…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:10PMA Cleveland bar faces gentrification in Factory's latest.
I guess a bad play could be written about the hostile overthrow of a Cleveland Heights karaoke bar at t…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00PM
Actors Gymnasium combines circus arts and a poignant story of aging in their annual winter show.
Actors Gymnasium primarily functions as a training school in the…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:50PMThis is a local event that will only be of interest to some, but as a card-carrying member of the Great-Neck Historical Society I feel compelled to spread the word. A week from today, Tuesda…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:42PMTwo gay men and their pooches try to build a life together in this tepid play.
Normally, in a fantasy life, you obsess over your pets. Dog cloning figures largel…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:40PMGilbert’s new play portrays an older gay man and a younger transgender man ‘in a bit of a battle with each other,’ he tells Carly Maga.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:27PMFollowing its premiere run of Ethan Lipton’s Tumacho in 2016, Clubbed Thumb (a resident company of Playwrights Horizons) is back with the Obie Award-winning writer’s commissioned Wild We…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:26PMWhat is it about the Bible and musical theatre? While the UK has the gospel according to Andrew Lloyd Webber – Joseph
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The solo show, adapted from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon's work, opened February 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PMOne of Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble's founding members, who will leave the theatre after 42 years, reflects on a career integrally intertwined with a community.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:49PMHangmen stars Mark Addy, Dan Stevens and more talk about Martin McDonagh's dark comedy and how it landed on Broadway.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMMartin McDonagh's newest Broadway play Hangmen may sound depressing; it's about an executioner in a small English town who finds himself out of work when capital punishment is abolished, b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMGreg Kinnear is headed to the Great White Way in an iconic role. The Oscar-nominated star will take over the role of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird beginning on April 21. He'll repla…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMA Broadway-pedigree musical has booked a world premiere staging in Houston, Texas. Noir, a new tuner from Duncan Sheik, Kyle Jarrow and Darko Tresjnak, will make its debut appearance at the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMStand up, your father’s passing.
Soon, Greg Kinnear will be that father — the patriarchal figure at the heart of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, one Atticus Finch. On Tuesday, prod…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 05:36PMThe Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art is now seen by many in Poland’s contemporary art community as a new front in the country’s culture wars, as the ruling Law and Justice p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM“Pretty remarkable. His entire brain is stimulated by music. His visual cortex is activated throughout. It seems like his brain is taking that part of the tissue that’s not being stimula…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM“It is a truth universally acknowledged in world cinema that a celebrated auteur, making their first film outside their native tongue, must be preparing a dud.” But is it actually true? …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM“There has long been concern over the ease with which suspect funds can be laundered through the buying and selling of art. Now, at last, we are seeing a concerted attempt to get to grips …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM“The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper sent him abroad to write ‘trench-coat prose’ about black Americans volunteering in the International Brigades. … Hughes’s 22 articles covered…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM“We need to account for the fact that we chase after disgust. Our attraction to disgust is hardly modern. The grotesque fascinated painters from the Renaissance to Goya, with his visages o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMNo one is arguing that theatre artists don’t deserve to be paid or shouldn’t be treated well. As Susie Medak, managing director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, pointed out, there’s simp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMFrom teaching Greek texts I have become increasingly convinced that the Theogony’s narrator quotes the Muses not merely to evade responsibility for telling an unknown story nor to praise t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMIt is hard now to recapture the shock of 1962 when the iterations of Campbell’s soup went on display at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles (New York wasn’t interested). But the cumulative …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMThe 2020–2021 season from the Houston venue also includes a world premiere by Liz Duffy Adams.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMWith the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's upcoming Brighton Beach Memoirs, director J. Barry Lewis says people need to "come forward with a new perspective on what a Neil Simon play is, not just what…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18PMC. A. Johnson's new play, presented by MCC, stars Kara Young as a teenager who escapes into the imagined worlds of her muse, Natalie Portman.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMHayes Theatre is yet again bringing a hidden gem of a show to Elizabeth Bay. This time, it’s The Bridges
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:05PMBy Linda Amiel Burns Since Jerry Herman passed away on December 26, 2019, I have attended many wonderful tributes for this legendary man of music who is considered one of Broadway’s gre…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:05PM
Academy Award-nominated actor Greg Kinnear is poised to become Broadway’s next Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, succeeding Ed Harris who departs the production on April 19, 2020. Ki…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:57PMArtistic director Simon Godwin stages his first play for Shakespeare Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:54PMPUPS ‘N’ STUFF MAKES A DOGGONE DRAMA “Love me, love my dog. [Then I’ll love you…}” That’s the operating assumption between Dex & Abby, a cross-species comedy/love play. At …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:39PMAaron Sorkin's adaptation of the Harper Lee novel continues at the Shubert Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PMAll the Natalie Portmans, C.A. Johnson's new off-Broadway play about a young, queer black girl whose imaginations of Natalie Portman offer an escape from a troubled home and alcoholic moth…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMJimmy Award winner-turned-Broadway-queen-bee Reneé Rapp is playing Regina George in Mean Girls. Get a taste of her powerful pipes!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMWith her stunning vocals and commanding stage presence, it's hard to believe young talent Reneé Rapp is only just making her Broadway debut in Mean Girls. The Jimmy Award winner turned Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMCoal Country, a new musical currently running off-Broadway at the Public Theater, just released its first production photos. The musical features music by three-time Grammy-winning country/f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMThe bestselling novel about a young Latinx woman's struggle to find her identity is now a play.
In 2017, young Latinx people entered the mind of Julia Reyes, the…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMThe two pairs are recognized for their recent work in the NYC cabaret scene.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PMGreg Kinnear will take over the role of Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird” on Broadway this spring, the production confirmed Tuesday. This is the Broadway debut for Kinnear, known …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 04:16PMGreg Kinnear will take over the role of Atticus Finch in Broadway’s To Kill A Mockingbird, producers announced today. Kinnear, in his Broadway debut, will follow Ed Harris, who took over t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:15PMNigerian-born, London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu curates one of the MCA’s largest shows ever filled with local treasures.
Museums can often feel like a …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:15PMA new work at the Auditorium combines Irish and African American dance traditions.
In the 19th century, amid social unrest, crime, and infectious disease in the …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:10PMOn this episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, Raina is back with Artistic Producers Katy and Zach to continue their conversation about what audiences can look forward to in our upcoming serie…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 04:03PMAs best explained in her EW Digital Cover story, actor and writer Danai Gurira has had a unique career in entertainment spanning more than her iconic turn as Michonne on The Walking Dead. Th…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 04:00PM
Rex Pickett adapts his novel, which was also the basis for the Oscar-winning film, for the stage.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:48PMThe salute to the late composer-lyricist of Mame, La Cage aux Folles, and Hello, Dolly! will be presented March 12 at Feinstein's/54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:44PMThe season will include the second full production of Theater J’s Yiddish Theater Lab.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:35PMThe audiobook version is currently available from Penguin Random House Audio, as performances continue on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PMNetwork for New Music’s ‘Musical Ecologies’ was right at home beside the birdfeeders at the Discovery Center. Margaret Darby reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:27PMJames Ijames puts the audience on trial in this TimeLine production.
Of all the inescapable truths that James Ijames bombards his audience with in Kill Move Para…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:15PMBen Platt has the Tony Award for “Dear Evan Hanson” and a load of other awards and starred already in Netflix’s “The
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:12PM
Keen Company presented a benefit reading of Arsenic & Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, directed by Mr. Silverstein. The one night only event in celebration of Keen's 20th anniversary too…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:55PMA vaudeville thriller set around a Dublin newspaper in 1973 uses knockabout humour to parallel modern-day geopolitics
‘General swearing and delight” is playwright Michael West’s winnin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMWhose Line Is It Anyway? made her a household name. But, more than 30 years on, does the queen of improv also think it held her back? She talks about ambition, sexism and her lucky escape fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMReview: Belly Up, VAULT Festival3.0starsBelly Up follows Liberty Whitley (Julia Grogan) who is charged with the murder of her master’s son after he attempts to rape her. In a time where ev…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:54PMReview: A Deed Without a Name, Theatro Technis 2.0stars Polish avant-garde artist, playwright, novelist and philosopher S.I. Witkiewicz posited “with fiction, you don’t make a fuss – y…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:54PMA boisterous, poppy "Pride and Prejudice" keeps the laughs coming at Playhouse on Park through March 8. The free-spirited adaptation of Jane Austen's novel by Kate Hamill, a hit at regional …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:50PMHead Over Heels made a splash on Broadway in 2016, notably starring the first transgender actor playing an out nonbinary character in a Broadway musical — Peppermint as Phythio. Now, th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:42PMFebruary 4 - March 22, 2020
WE'RE GONNA DIE
By Young Jean Lee
Directed & Choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly
With Freddy Hall, Janelle McDermoth, Kevin Ramessar, Ximone Rose, Debbie Christin…
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"Grand Horizons" by Bess Wohl, directed by Leigh Silverman
On Broadway at The Hayes Theater December 23 - March 1
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:31PMLydia R. Diamond's play of privilege and all it entails returns to Chicago fresher than ever.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:30PMJoe DiPietro's new play, CONSCIENCE will be performed at George Street Playhouse (GSP) in the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) from March 3 to March 29.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:29PMThe Crossing mixes it up to kick off #GLASSFEST, with the premiere of ‘Knee Plays,’ drawn from the music of Philip Glass and David Byrne. Gail Obenreder reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:25PMDetailing the Upper Big Branch mine explosion, and featuring music by Steve Earle, the new play with music premieres Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PMAt first glance, Adam Gwon’s debut musical, ‘Ordinary Days,’ is about exactly what is described in the title — a series of day-to-day interactions between a cast of seemingly normal …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:14PMThe Brilliant Original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA has embarked on a major UK and Ireland tour and there is just one month to go until it arrives at The P…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:12PMThe Tony Award winning musical “Bandstand” opens next week on March 3, 2020, at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. It was originally directed and choreographed by three-time Tony A…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:10PMThe transformative performer channels the legendary artist for the completely original, electric Floor Show.
When Blackstar came out in January 2016, I got my ho…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 02:10PMThe February 24 concert raised money to fight pulmonary fibrosis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:04PMChicano stage troupe Culture Clash returns to Berkeley Rep to parody the present while honoring its past.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PM
Review: How To Save A Rock, VAULT Festival2.0starsThere is a lot of theatre out there trying to tackle today’s ‘big issues:’ Brexit, Trump, climate change… the world is undeniably no…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:48PMThe easiest thing for many highly qualified, especially classically trained, musicians to try to do is to cross genres in an effort to be relevant to the cultural world of 2020. Demonstrably…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PMIn C.A. Johnson's new play, "All the Natalie Portmans," a 16-year-old girl turns to her imagination to cope with a fractured home life and her burgeoning sexual identity.
The post In ‘All …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:36PMThe upcoming Broadway engagement of Martin McDonagh's hit play begins February 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMThe upcoming Broadway engagement of Martin McDonagh's hit play begins February 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMNancy Anderson tackles the delightfully campy work of playwright Charles Busch
SOURCE: Forbes at 01:22PMPIANO BAR LIVE! is lighting up screens worldwide from Brandy’s Piano Bar, Mondays at 7pm. The Piano Bar is that special place where we can gather, entertain, support and create as we conne…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:21PMFind your next job with these Equity calls for Broadway productions and shows across the country hosting auditions in the Big Apple.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PMCarina del Valle Schorske: “If this musical is still our narrative ghetto, then the least we can do is make noise about what it feels like to live in it. In 2020, it feels exhausting.” �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PMOne of the delightful rewards of creating a blog like this is the cool stuff you uncover once you dig beneath the surface of the history of someone you only know glancingly, usually from the…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:18PMJane Alexander, the 80-year-old actress who has starred in Ibsen, Shakespeare, and Chekhov, and, not incidentally, who was head of the NEA during the (first) culture wars, is onstage again, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PMThe Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI), a Catholic lobby group run by the British conservative Benjamin Harnwell, was granted a 19-year lease on the building by the ministry of culture two y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM“It’s a truism to say our society doesn’t do well when faced with competing stories about what happened; that’s what ‘he said/she said’ has become a shorthand for. … To overcom…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM“This last question, though seemingly simple, resists every attempt to answer it. Every theory runs into brick walls of evidence, the research is limited, and even the basic understanding …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PMThe Dutch contemporary dance company performs at New York City Center March 4–7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMHis debut collection, Stateway’s Garden, captures the city’s unique, ugly beauty.
It's not often that a writer will make me see Chicago in a new way, but wit…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:15PMA group of talented young Broadway stars are among the nominees for the 10th Annual Clive Barnes Awards. The presentation of the annual honor recognizing excellence in theater and dance will…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMIn honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater-makers who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMAudiences now have more chances to catch the new musical Darling Grenadine. An extension has been scheduled for the sold-out production at Roundabout Underground's Black Box Theatre. Origi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMWhile audiences may find The Pirate Queen too repetitive to work as a fully realised production, it provides an evening of outstanding vocal talent and swashbuckling storytelling.
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The playwright talks hot wings, Tina Turner, and Lil Bad Cousin, her rapping alter ego.
SOURCE: traffic.megaphone.fm at 12:53PMIn these exclusive videos, watch performers transform in under one minute with the help of Broadway dressers. Plus, what it takes to be a dresser on the Main Stem.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PMShe will star opposite Ewan McGregor as the legendary fashion designer.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMMatthew Dunster directs the dark comedy at the Golden Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMThe new musical adaptation of the DreamWorks animated film officially opens tonight at London's Dominion Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMThe new musical stars Adam Kantor and Emily Walton.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMThe revised production from Tony winner Kathleen Marshall opens February 26 Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMThespians at 2019 MiFest say, “You Matter to Me”
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 12:27PMDirector Anapela Polata’ivao leads an all-female cast of Pacific Island actors during the six-week run at SoHo Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PMCharles Wood’s career blossomed in the 1960s as anti-war subjects were becoming popular, but his work was complicated by unshakeable affection for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PMLCT3's Production of The Headlands opened last night at the Claire Tow Theater.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:15PMDirected by Aaron Salazar, performances begin March 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMPart of LCT3's season, the world premiere officially opened February 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMTwo World War II-era sailors tap-dancing along “on the town,” so to speak, visit a movie studio with a vintage movie camera ready to film. “What Ought We to Do?” In this conceit,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:10PMAfter critically-acclaimed, smash-hit runs at the Public Theater and the West End, Girl From the North Country brings its rousing spirit to Broadway. 1934. A time-weathered guesthouse in t…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:09PMPaper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Producing Artistic Director, Michael Stotts- Managing Director) has announced an expansion of the theater's award-winning Theater School with the lease o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMRoundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) has announced a one-week extension and special benefit performance of Roundabout Underground's sold-out production of the new …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMEuropean culture capitals get party started CROATIA/IRELAND With launches in Galway and Rijeka now over, programmes for the two European Capitals of Culture
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMBeetlejuice star (and voice of a generation) Kerry Butler will make you LOL as she looks back on her Tony-nominated stage career.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:00PM
Daniel Zaitchik's Manhattan-set musical will play an additional week at Roundabout Underground.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMWhen a show lists a Trauma Counselor in the credits and has a “healing space” outside of the theater proper, you know you are in for an intense experience. Kill Move Paradise will make y…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMEmojiland, a new "textistential" musical about a band of emojis who must to learn to embrace the changes wrought by a smartphone update, was a surprise fan favorite when it opened off-Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMTeal Wicks, the stage veteran most recently seen as Lady in The Cher Show, will headline Tony-nominated composer Frank Wildhorn's new musical Camille Claudel at Washington, D.C.'s Signature…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMIn his final episode of Face Off, Phantom star Ben Crawford tours the Majestic Theatre for a final round of fart noises and a few last scares of Terence.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMThe writer Paula Vogel, the director Mark Brokaw, and the actors Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse on returning to a wrenching play two decades later.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32AMEvan Pappas will direct the Tony-winning musical with choreography by Sara Brians.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMThe four-part limited series debuts March 20 on Netflix.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AMAlexandra Palace has opened a dedicated creative learning facility, the latest phase in a major restoration of its East Wing. Designed with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMRoyal Shakespeare Company artistic director Gregory Doran has hit back at claims from theatre critic Dominic Cavendish that “woke” casting choices are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMBy Douglas Mayo
Cast announced for Private Peaceful Tour. Originating at Nottingham Playhouse the Private Peaceful tour will play in Ipswich, Plymouth, Richmond, and Oxford.
This post Priva…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:22AMThe limited engagement is helmed and written by Bay Street Theatre Associate Artistic Director Will Pomerantz.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMThe London revival, once again directed by Josie Rourke, begins performances March 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMThe Mack and Mabel standout, born February 25, was a frequent presence at the Persian Room and the Plaza.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMThe psychology of Blithe Spirit snaps convincingly into place in Richard Eyre’s production while at the same time it fully utilises every opportunity to make the audience laugh.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMGrosses leveled off last week coming out of the holiday weekend. Overall, the street dropped 6% coming in at $29M, though attendance was flat week-over-week. Most of the drop can be attribut…
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Sally Mayes, Stephanie Gibson, and Felicia Finley also star in the new musical, adapted from the film of the same name.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMIn late June and early July, music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead the orchestra in concerts at the Barbican in London, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMAcross northern Italy from Venice to Milan, theatres, cinemas, museums, and opera houses (including La Scala) have been ordered to stop operations for a week as cases of the disease spread. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM“After [James A.] Cincotta was hired as the museum’s retail director in 2015, staffers who worked for him began reporting what they said was routinely abusive behavior. Cincotta slapped,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM“The investigation, conducted by lawyers hired by the American Guild of Musical Artists, concluded that the accounts from 27 people showed a clear pattern of sexual misconduct and abuse of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMCharles McNulty: “I’m going to respect the tacit wishes of Mamet and not review the play as I would if it had had an official press opening. A work that’s still being tinkered with bef…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM“Unthinkingly defending one’s powerful friends has real-life consequences. What [illegally fired dancer Karline] Marion, and other dancers who may find themselves in a similar situation,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM“Born Peggy-Jean Montgomery, she became one of the country’s youngest self-made millionaires by age 4, then suffered a devastating reversal of fortune and fame in her adolescence. In adu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMby France-Luce Benson Stuart Perlman never considered himself an artist. A psychologist and psychoanalyst for over 30 years, he leaned into the arts following the death of his father fifteen…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:47AMOn this episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, hosts Raina and Tenara chat with Artistic Producers Katy and Zach about what audiences can look forward to in our upcoming High Pressure Fire Se…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 10:43AMAn amateur sleuth sets out to solve his father's murder mystery in Christopher Chen's new play at LCT3.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36AMThe London production team of The Prince of Egypt have released a spectacular new video of the cast performing "Deliver Us." Watch the full clip of their powerful rendition below:
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 10:35AMThe stage adaptation of Rex Pickett's California wine country road trip opened February 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMNew production shots have been released for the London premiere production of The Prince of Egypt. The news comes at the same time the show has announced an extended West End booking peri…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 10:30AMThe Tony-winning composer-lyricist heads to Hollywood for a one-night-only concert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AMThe world premiere of Common Ground Revisited is also a part of the Boston venue's 2020–2021 lineup.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMLeticia Silva and her twin brother Alejandro are founding members of Carlos Acosta’s Cuban dance company, Acosta Danza. She tells Giverny Masso
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," the family drama based on the Mark Haddon novel, gets a fresh production Feb. 27 through March 8 at Connecticut Repertory Theatre.
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The Wicked star will play a CEO at a Detroit car manufacturer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AMWhen I see the upcoming revival of Company this spring, it'll be the third Broadway production for me. This has always been one of my favorite Sondheim scores, and I really enjoy the psychol…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 09:48AMThe stars are aligned today such that there are three interrelated occasions to celebrate: Mardi Gras, Commedia dell’Arte Day, and the birthday of the great Venetian playwright Carlo Goldo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:42AMAran Bell and Roman Mejia among the nominees in the dance category. Sophia Anne Caruso and three actors new to Broadway are competing for the theater prize.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42AMphoto by Jessie WeinerLizzie DonahueHome Town: Staten Island, NYCurrent Town: Brooklyn, NYQ: Tell me about A Barn Play. A: It’s a quick-full length without an intermission. There ar…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 09:36AMThe big opening of Jamie Lloyd's star-studded production of Chekhov's The Seagull — freely adapted from the original source material by Anya Reiss (who's no stranger to the Russian pla…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 09:35AMThe theatre prize celebrates the work of young professionals in acting and dance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMThe project will make the company functional for popular, immersive plays and musicals.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:18AMIt’s so great to catch up with actor Wyatt Fenner. It’s been three years since our last interview together, when Wyatt starred in The War Boys at Access Theatre. Now he is featured in th…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 09:03AMLooking forward to look back. Also: looking forward to look forward. Just another month o' plenty here in the windy city.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMI go and see The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen at the VAULT Festival and end up playing a tree with killer leaves.
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The new play from Obie winner Christopher Chen, directed by Knud Adams, plays Lincoln Center Theater’s Claire Tow Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:57AMA young woman leaves an unnamed war-riven Slavic country for a new life in Dublin. But she falls through the cracks, ends
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMBeautiful new pics and an extension for The Prince Of Egypt as well as news from the world premiere of The Haystack at the Hampstead Theatre today.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 08:53AMEthan Lipton's enjoyable Western has some fuzziness around the edges that made our critic think about the films of Jim Jarmusch. Dan O'Neil reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 08:37AMAussieTheatre has ONE double pass to giveaway for Medea at the Cremorne Theatre, QPAC on Tuesday 28th April @ 6:30pm.
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:07AMTraditional university or drama school, which route is best? Sarah Lambie speaks to lecturers, students and theatremakers about which courses are most
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NYTW Announces Star-Studded “Three Sisters,” Captain America to be in “Little Shop” Film, Calista Flockhart to Lead “An Ideal Husband” in Boston Patreon: BroadwayRadio https://ww…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMPioneer Valley Radio review of Hartford Stage's "Jane Eyre" adapted and directed by Elizabeth Williamson. Segment begins at 1:16.
SOURCE: pioneervalleyradio.com at 07:36AMCelebrated parody Potted Potter is returning to Sydney after four previous sell-out seasons. Tickets for this fifth season went on
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30AMIt doesn’t matter if you've never seen Ben Elton’s TV comedy series Upstart Crow (I hadn’t) as the stage play is a stand-alone piece
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFollowing a sell-out run with extra shows at last year’s Melbourne Comedy Festival, Murder Village is back for ten more
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00AMFrom wig maintenance to hair styling, Broadway’s hair and wig designers offer pro tricks and product recommendations to take your production to the next level.
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Plans to convert a brewery in Dorset into a theatre have been cancelled, due to a lack of funding. The Maltings in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMA pair of ticket touts who targeted shows including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child have been jailed for fraud. Peter Hunter
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMSignificant dark periods and major renovations meant West End theatre saw a dip in attendances in 2019, with musicals suffering a rare
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMFrom 2004:
I love parody and caricature, and it’s one of my medium-sized regrets that I have no gift for either (though I can do adequate impersonations of a few of my friends). Alas, I fi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01AMWith the UK becoming a global exporter of immersive theatre, writer and performer Christopher Green tells Nick Awde about his 48-hour show The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMWhen one is an actor and is put on a room full of dancers for audition and stands at the back doing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMThe touring musical "Bandstand," set during the big band craze of the 1940s, comes to the Waterbury Palace for a single performance March 1.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM“Only when one’s friends die and one accompanies them to the grave’s edge does one realise precisely what they have meant to one.”
James Lees-Milne, diary, March 25, 1977
Continue re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AM
There’s something a bit ho-hum, mean and pinched about the reception of Sir Tom Stoppard’s new (and, he says, perhaps final play), Leopoldstadt. – Paul Levy
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AMTobi was among the first group of writers I invited to blog on ArtsJournal. I had read her for years and appreciated her elegance, clarity and erudition. Though her judgments were crisp, the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AMAlongside the the wonderful, illuminating dance criticism she wrote for decades, she wrote wonderfully well about fashion, and only when I became a mother did I realize that while Tobi was r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AM,,, an inventive mix of gradually darkening humor, family drama, and the vicissitudes of memory,
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46AMIn the end, though, the play, overstuffed with ideas and theatricality, does not pack the emotional wallop one might expect.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46AMBy Douglas Mayo
The cast of The Prince Of Egypt perform Deliver Us ahead of its opening night at the Dominion Theatre, London.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:45AMOur #FirstNightTakeover series continues with Perry O’Bree attending the opening of Be More Chill at London’s The Other Palace. After the UK premiere production received a well-deserved …
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 05:30AMToday's top stories: The Minutes officially begins previews tonight on Broadway, and more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14AMIn our continuing series, editor Lisa Martland picks out some of her Top Picks from the last week of theatre (to 23 February 2020), including Aleks Sierz’s thoughts on the Bridge Theatre�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMI was born in Paris and studied at University of Lille. My first job was working as a waitress at Hollywood Savoy,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMHow did you start in theatre? I was a very shy child and acting helped me find my voice. What is the
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Sydney is in for a treat this April when we launch our landmark 2020 Season with Volt – a celebration
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:21AM"Extremities" on a ship best sums up its playwright William Mastrosimone’s adept, if off-kilter, new psychological thriller "Rules of Desire," that’s been given a tidy production. In it,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:18AMWho is Peter Cook? Peter Cook is an award-winning actor, educator, writer and director who is currently starring in Breaking The Castle at Canberra’s The Street Theatre. What would you do …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:05AMTreasure Island by Todd Espeland is a theatrical, character-driven adaptation that’s worth it’s weight in gold – or in this case, a treasure chest full of ‘pieces of eight’! Fiftee…
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In this special live podcast from BroadwayCon, we’re speaking with Priscilla Lopez, Ashley Park, & Bess Wohl on how Grand Horizons, now at the Hayes Theater, has championed the underdo…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:55AMIt’s been almost five years since Hamilton opened on Broadway, and in that time it has quickly become one of the best-selling Broadway musicals of all time. Fans come from far and wide to …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:52AMWicked is about to welcome its newest stars. Lindsay Pearce, a runner up on television's The Glee Project, and Sam Gravitte, a former Wicked understudy, will take over the roles of Elph…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48AMEarlier this month, Tony-nominated director Alex Timbers had the rare honor of being an artist with three musicals running at the same time on Broadway. He's the director of the best-selli…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48AMThey're gonna be popular! Lindsay Pearce, an alum of The Glee Project, and Sam Gravitte, a former Wicked understudy, take over the roles of Elphaba and Fiyero in the smash-hit Broadway music…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48AMTracy Letts' Pulitzer-finalist play The Minutes begins its Broadway run at the Cort Theatre on February 25. Anna D. Shapiro directs the production, which will officially open on March 15.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48AMGuy Pearce, Christopher Kirby, Michala Banas, Angus Sampson and Genevieve Morris: what do all of these names have in common? Aside from being among Australia’s favourite on-screen stars, t…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:34AMAfter winning the Melbourne Fringe 2019, The Living Room returns the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The American female clown duo created
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:28AMAs the writer of darkly funny plays including The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Pillowman and the filmmaker behind black comedies such as Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:24AMReviewed by Judd Hollander
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Such is the message of the new musical Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. Presented by The New Group at …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:24AMThe 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres has assembled some of the most provocative Australian artists who will bring their monsters to life through live performances, …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:06AMMelbourne Shakespeare Company is back with a brand new production, As You Like It, next month. This Shakespearian classic romantic
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:01AMLee's bilingual nightmare play excavates the Japanese-American consciousness and its relationship with sex, suicide, and identity.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe two step in as Elphaba and Fiyero February 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMYoung Jean Lee's play-concert, directed by Raja Feather Kelly, opens at Second Stage Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Steppenwolf production arrives at the Cort Theatre February 25 following its world premiere in Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe musical stars Luke Brady and Christine Allado, featuring Stephen Schwartz’s music from the 1998 film in addition to new material.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDeirdre O’Connell reprises her performance in the new documentary play from the Tony-nominated writer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMObie winner Deirdre O'Connell tackles her greatest acting challenge yet in Dana H at the Vineyard Theatre---When Lucas Hnath first approached Deirdre O'Connell about portraying his mother in…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMThe musical, featuring Stephen Schwartz’s music from the 1998 film as well as new material songs, has extended seven weeks.
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