Friday, October 18, 2019
Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune) is among a slew of theater stars who have signed on to appear in the highly anticipated Aretha Franklin biopic R…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:18PMThe Lion King this month marks 20 years on the London stage, during which time it has become the sixth longest-running West End musical ever, with no end in sight. The iconic Disney musical …
Linked From Theatre.com at 02:08PMThursday, October 17, 2019
The Peter Pan story resonates with me much like Harry Potter resonates with the generations after mine (for the record, I love Harry Potter). And the Peter Pan story has come in many forms, …
Linked From www.jkstheatrescene.com at 03:48PMThe band features six instrumentalists, including Judi Silvano on vocals, performing October 18–19.
Linked From Playbill at 01:06PMThe moment you've been waiting for...George Washington(s)!
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:09AMWednesday, October 16, 2019
You think your dad (or mom) is a deadbeat? Consider the plight of the young characters in “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical,” a thoroughly endearing family-friendly musical…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMIn 2013, I got to interview the cast of The Rocky Horror Show, prior to their run at Bucks County Playhouse. One of the actors in that cast was GLOW’s Season 3 break-out star Kevin Cahoon.…
Linked From Call Me Adam at 07:06PMTony winner Warren Carlyle has signed on as director and choreographer of Harmony, a new musical featuring music by Barry Manilow and a book and lyrics by Bruce Sussman, set to make its New …
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:03PM“I Wanna Be a Producer”: 10 Q & A’s with a Tony Award-Winning Producer
Written by: Alex Muscaro
Date: October 14th, 2019
Some of the essential players in the theatre-making pr…
Linked From performerstuff.com at 02:29PMThe queens of SIX are ready to take the UK by storm with their national tour! As the cast prepares to take the hit show on the road, we're getting a peek inside the rehearsal studio. Check i…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:52PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Grease: Rydell High poster (Provided by HBO)
Grease: Rydell High, a TV series spinoff based on the John Travolta and Olivia Newton John 1978 movie musical, has received a straight-to-serie…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:54PMMonday, October 14, 2019
By Bob Shuman Director Tonya Pinkins asked six American women of multi-cultural backgrounds to compose one-acts on the theme of women oppressing women—her seven actors are all women, too…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:26PMThe Light in the Piazza occupies a strange space somewhere in between musical theatre and opera, with its sweeping, operatic score paired with a more traditionally theatrical mode of storyte…
Linked From Entertainment Weekly at 04:41PM“Having had roughly six years to figure out how to best attract TV viewers trained to feast on content, none of the streaming services set to debut between now and next spring will be excl…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 04:03PMSouthbank Centre, LondonOur era of buffoonish leadership is brilliantly skewered in Forced Entertainment’s mimed maelstrom of aggression
Sweaty, sad and stupidly funny, Forced Entertainmen…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:06PMSaturday, October 12, 2019
The London stage this month has a range of different performing artists of every age and type. Among them: Ian McKellen, 80; Cher, 73; Ariana Grande, 26; Little Simz, 25; and even Adrian Mol…
Linked From www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:54PM By Ron Fassler If Chita Rivera isn’t a living legend, then who is? At eighty-six, she has been working primarily in the musical theatre for sixty-two years. The recipient of two Best…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 05:12PMFriday, October 11, 2019
Just like Hamilton, the musical Six is about history. Just don’t confuse its six stars with Chicago’s six merry murderesses of the Cook County Jail. The main characters of this already-p…
Linked From Broadway Direct at 08:42AMRex Bunnett’s hobby evolved into one of the country’s biggest private collections of original musical theatre posters, cast recordings and other memorabilia,
Linked From The Stage Registration at 08:30AMThursday, October 10, 2019
Vaudeville, London From age six to 30, Mischief Theatre’s engaging band of classmates bicker and play but rarely test the assumption that character is formed in childhood
Mischief Theatre,…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:12PMSix essential videos of Chicago star Ryan Silverman.
Linked From BroadwayBox at 04:47PMAmber Riley is going under the sea to join the upcoming Little Mermaid Live! on ABC. The Glee alum will serve as the emcee for the Disney favorite, which airs on November 5.
In the The Litt…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:42PMVinyl records earned $224.1 million (on 8.6 million units) in the first half of 2019, closing in on the $247.9 million (on 18.6 million units) generated by CD sales. Vinyl revenue grew by 12…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:33PMWednesday, October 9, 2019
The City of Greater Dandenong’s annual exhibition, HOME has announced the six shortlisted national artists from a refugee or asylum seeker background, whose works will be on display at the…
Linked From artsreview.com.au at 08:11PMThe Broadway legend’s six-performance engagement runs through October 16.
Linked From Playbill at 11:08AMThe city’s Pacifica Radio station, which for six decades has aired leftist-leaning news coverage and alternative programming, has been in chronic turmoil for the past several years, with c…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:42AMTuesday, October 8, 2019
U.K. drag sensations Baga Chipz and Sheila Simmonds will star in the all-drag makeover that will play six performances at Trafalgar Studios this December.
Linked From Playbill at 02:16PMThe Guardian’s theatre critic reflects on why the stage remains such a vital means of distilling society
We live, to put it mildly, in volatile times. No one knows for sure where this coun…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:24AMMonday, October 7, 2019
Mark Nadler has had quite a career as a singer, pianist, tap-dancer and comedian, winning numerous awards for his one-man shows, including the 2015 Broadway World Editor's Choice Award for E…
Linked From Call Me Adam at 10:36PMSunday, October 6, 2019
A few tantalizing fragments on comedian Charlie Crafts (1895-1974). A Boston native, Crafts first comes onto our radar as Jack Haley’s vaudeville partner around 1923, specializing in songs…
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