So you think you can captivate? "Dancing at Lughnasa" " Brian Friel's bittersweet Tony-winning play of common lives told with uncommon grace " does exactly just that in a richly satisfyin…
David Finkle will read from the ten-story collection focusing on Manhattan people and theater, publishing, and music, and their often complicated friendships. He'll read the story "Banana No…
A free audition workshop with Jason Buyer, author of Inside the Audition Room: The Essential Actor's Handbook for Los Angeles. Inside the Audition Room: The Essential Actor's Handbook…
Samuel L. Jackson will be among the particpants at the Drama Desk's panel discussion Anatomy of a Breakout, to be offered on Sunday, November 13 at 8pm at Fordham's Mainstage at Li…
Ms TN been making sad little meep noises all year about the increasing necessity to pull back on the blog and focus on my own work. Now, as the late, great Midnight Oil once had it, the time…
The Old Vic's challenge to write and stage a play in 24 hours leads to an inspirational show of talent by young producers, directors, producers and actorsIt's 11pm and what looks like a chil…
Seattle Repertory Theatre stages Annie Baker's "Circle Mirror Transformation," a play about five people in a New England college town who turn out for a creative-drama class.
TheaterMania contributor David Finkle will read from his just-published collection of stories, People Tell Me Things, at The Drama Book Shop on Friday, November 4 at 5pm. Finkle will read,…
Performing arts institutions can now apply for exemption from government plans to make universities compete over students with the highest A-level gradesDrama schools could be made exempt fr…
An exciting new play described as “a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse” is on tap at Lincoln Center Theater. Performances of J.T. Rogers’ Blood and Gifts begin on October 2…
Now, Mr. Volpe, supportive, inspiring and funny, is directing the debut high school production of Spring Awakening, the Tony-winning musical that addresses child abuse, abortion, homosexuali…
A preliminary lineup of participants has been announced for the Drama Desk's panel discussion Anatomy of a Breakout, to be offered on Sunday, November 13 at 8pm at Fordham's Mainst…
Getting into drama school is no easy business. Thousands of young hopefuls apply every year for several hundred places. How do you stand out from the crowd without having to resort to dying …
Most of us are well aware that heinous Nazi war criminals like Josef Mengele attempted to evade justice — in Mengele's case, by fleeing to Paraguay — and living materially comfor…
In the latest performance of our podcast series designed to be heard in specific contexts, poet Lemn Sissay invites you to listen to some Late Night Rain Lemn Sissay
Although she just turned 25, Jackie Rivera s best known locally for a procession of pugnacious characters negotiating late adolescence, but now she has the linchpin role as Emma, the idealis…
After seeing Relatively Speaking, the evening of one-act plays penned by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, Broadway.com's resident artist Justin "Squigs" Robertson had pl…
The New York Times reports today that Michael Cristofer will lead the Huntington Theatre Company's new production of Captors as Adolf Eichmann. The play, according to the Times, is already …
"Captors," play about Eichmann, has eye on Broadway after Boston world premiere.
The basketball drama Magic/Bird, which traces the fierce competitive streak and eventual friendship between NBA icons Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson and Larry Bird, is readying to bounce…
The Montreal theatre known for mounting classics is sometimes criticized for artistic conservatism but cannot be accused of shying away from controversy
Inspired! Samuel French Celebrates New Plays by Emily DeVoti, Jessica Dickey, and Crystal Skillman Daniel Talbott and Jessica Bauman direct moments from The Amish Project, Milk, Birthday a…
Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, which takes a page from Lorraine Hansberry's Tony and Pulitzer-winning classic A Raisin in the Sun, begins performances Oct.…
The Mountaintop, Katori Hall's Olivier-winning play examining the final hours of of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., opens at Broadway's Jacobs Theatre on October 13. Directed by …
The Mountaintop, Katori Hall's Olivier-winning play examining the final hours of of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., opens at Broadway's Jacobs Theatre on October 13. Directed by …