The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle handed out its annual awards at a ceremony Monday at A Noise Within in Pasadena. The evening's biggest winners were "Margo Veil," a new play by Len Jenki…
A performer says he's not slinking away after he was forced to admit that he made up parts of his one-man show that looked at working conditions in Chinese factories where iPads and iPhones …
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for excellence for work produced or presented in 2011 in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County will be handed out March 19. Among the nomi…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" by stage and film director Mike Nichols was applauded in reviews on Friday, with Nichols being praised for precise sta…
Can We Talk About This? is DV8 Physical Theatre's latest project; a danced documentary-style theatre production, conceived and directed by Lloyd Newson. The production opened on Monday (12 M…
Lindsay Posner's revival of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party opened at the Menier Chocolate Factory last week (8 March 2012, previews from 2 March). The play, now considered a modern classic, s…
Eight-time Tony-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim received a U.K. Critics’ Circle Award for Distinguished Services to the Arts on March 9. The 24th annual award cerem…
Stephen Sondheim was presented with the UK's Critics' Circle 2011 Award for Distinguished Services to the Arts at a March 9 luncheon event at London's Menier Chocolate Factory.
Franco-Romanian artist Mircea Cantor defends his right not make a point, while Swedish choreographer Marten Spangberg demands we re-think art entirely
Signature Theatre Company's new production of Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque, widely praised by critics as a rediscovery following its March 5 opening night, has been extended …
"We should not seek immortality in reproduction. But if you contribute to the world's culture, if you have a good idea, compose a tune, invent a spark plug, write a poem, it may live on, int…
THRILLING HOPELESSNESS Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured. – Jeremiah 42:11. In 1964,…
The loosely affiliated community of American theatre geeks had a Mecca this week. It was the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, where MCC Theater opened its retooled pro…
Noel Coward’s ever-popular 1924 play Hay Fever is back in the West End and is the first production to be performed at the theatre now named in the playwright’s honour. The outra…
By: Sandi Durell The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, reco…
Zach Braff of Scrubs and Garden State fame has brought his new comedy All New People to the West End following a short national tour.Braff, who makes his playwriting debut with the play, als…
Soho Theatre and the Waltham Forest Cinema Trust have unveiled plans to reopen the former Granada Cinema in Walthamstow as a live entertainment venue.
The Guardian (UK) 02/26/12
The millionaire standup comedian tells those who have sneered at his routines: 'If it's so easy then why don't you do it?'Michael McIntyre's brand of observational comedy has made him comedy…
The millionaire standup comedian tells those who have sneered at his routines: 'If it's so easy then why don't you do it?'Michael McIntyre's brand of observational comedy has made him comedy…
I've been asked to write a play. What a dreadful idea'Critics," said the Irish writer Brendan Behan, "are like eunuchs in a harem. They know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, bu…
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Theodore Mann, co-founder and Artistic Director of Circle in the Square, passed away on February 24. He was 87 years old. Broadway theaters will dim their lights on at 8PM on February 24 in …
Theodore Mann, who, as the co-founder of Circle in the Square Theatre, was one of the foremost figures in the birth of the Off-Broadway theatre movement, died Feb. 24 following a brief illne…
The Circle in the Square Theatre School will present a Theodore Mann production of Aesop's Fables: A New Musical, a children's play performed by CITSTS alumni, beginning March 5 at B…