Sunday, July 20, 2025
Mick Lally theatre, GalwayTo mark their 50th anniversary, Druid Theatre Company pair Shakespeare with JM Synge’s stark one-act tragedy
Marking 50 years of exceptional theatre-making, Druid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThursday, July 17, 2025
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OHMYGOD HEY!
Yesterday it was announced that the current Broadway r…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:00PMSunday, May 11, 2025
Soho Theatre, LondonWhether singing or crawling cleavage-first over the shoulders of her crowd, the eccentric diva asks what an artist should do in such ominous times
‘I do think in 90 min…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMThursday, February 27, 2025
Gene Hackman in “Under Fire” (1983).February 27, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
Waking up to news of the death of Gene Hackman has been a shocking blow due to circu…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 04:23PMFriday, November 8, 2024
The first thing you notice about Seattle's I-5 Colonnade Park is the light. Or lack thereof: On a clear October morning, the freeway nearly 100 feet overhead eclipsed the sky, leaving only s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, August 7, 2024
Summerhall, EdinburghWith big hair, long dress and Appalachian accent, Charlene Boyd finds common voice with the singer in a personal and political show
The most powerful country songs are t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59AMTuesday, July 16, 2024
The previously reported world premiere production of Bad Kreyol by Dominique Morisseau (Skeleton Crew) has its full cast. The show is a co-production from Signature Theatre and Manhattan T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMThursday, July 11, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) will soon present the third show of its 2017-18…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:02PMFriday, July 5, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: WP Theater will soon present two-time Grammy-nominated comedian Lisa Lampanelli (HBO, Comedy Central, The Howard Stern Show), Outer Critics Circle Award wi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:32AMWednesday, July 3, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Just yesterday, Eclipsed playwright and star of 'The Walking Dead' Danai Gurira appeared onstage for a special curtain call at today's matinee of Eclipsed to de…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:48AMMonday, July 1, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Following a sold-out run at The Public Theater, ECLIPSED will begin previews on Tuesday, February 23, 2016, with opening night set for March 6, 2016 on Broadway…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:02AMFriday, June 7, 2024
5 Pop Stars Who Wowed Me
Some people call it "stunt casting," and sometimes, it is - anything to get butts in seats, right? Sometimes, though, it is just good casting. Here are five times t…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:36AMThursday, May 9, 2024
The cast of Passing Strange perform an excerpt from the song 'Come Down Now' in rehearsals for the Tony Award-winning rock musical
A young musician sets out on an electrifying musical odyss…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:59AMFriday, May 3, 2024
The cast of Passing Strange perform an excerpt from the song 'Prologue' in rehearsals for the Tony Award-winning rock musical
A young musician sets out on an electrifying musical odyssey to…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:00AMWednesday, May 1, 2024
Born 100 years ago today: announcer, quiz show host, news anchor, and actor Art Fleming (Arthur Fleming Fazzin, 1925-1995). It was Fleming’s bad fortune to have his most notable accomplish…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:36AMMonday, April 8, 2024
Nature’s getting dramatic, taking center stage, with the earthquake last week and the eclipse today. (New York City is expected to see a partial solar eclipse, with the moon covering about…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15AMTuesday, January 2, 2024
Friday, June 30, 2023
Imitation of Life Musical in Development
By: David Sheward
June 30, 2023: A new musical based on Imitation of Life, the Fannie Hurst novel and the classic Hollywood film version and su…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:46PMMonday, June 26, 2023
Universal Theatrical Group (UTG) has announced that a musical, based on Fannie Hurst’s novel and subsequent Universal Picture films Imitation of Life, is in development. An industry readin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:37PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . John Rubinstein remembers victory as the 34th President of the United States in Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground. Social unrest, race riots, and eventually the as…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:28AMFriday, February 24, 2023
Digital+Virtual+Hybrid Production: Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, Ariel Sibert, Cat
Rodríguez and Rory Pelsue (Creators, Writers, Director) in collaboration with
David Bengali (Video Desig…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:15PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
Barry Bostwick and Carole Demas, the first Broadway Danny and Sandy, in “Grease” (1972).February 14, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
Fifty-one years ago, on Valentine…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 08:52AMThursday, January 26, 2023
Haha, don’t worry she’s not dead, she’s only turning 65! The title of this post has more to do with the fact that Ellen ended her long-running talk show a few months ago, and the monst…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:14AMTuesday, January 10, 2023
January 10, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
Though the Tony Awards have been handed out since 1948, the citing of nominees didn’t enter the mix until 1956. Since then, a…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:28AMFriday, November 18, 2022
Dorking HallsPlayful material about Pascoe’s life on the celebrity B-list is eclipsed by a heartfelt second act focused on private truths about new motherhood
Sara Pascoe isn’t the first…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMSaturday, September 24, 2022
“Cheek to Cheek,” an intelligent, entertaining musical revue that showcases two dozen of the songs that Irving Berlin wrote for movie musicals, makes no claims that his work in Hollywood…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56PMWednesday, August 10, 2022
Lamont Dozier (1941-2022) had the bad luck to pass away on the same day as another music business legend, Olivia Newton-John, and as a result the news of his death was eclipsed (not unlike w…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:07PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Join us for a special design workshop with Tony Award-winning Designers, Clint Ramos and David Zinn! Clint and David will speak with four MFA Scenic and Costume Design students as they parti…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:18PMThursday, February 24, 2022
Julian Work's union stamp for 1948.
We in The New York Public Library's Music & Recorded Sound Division are doing what we can to uncover and bring attention to composers from underre…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMWednesday, February 2, 2022
Shakespeare in the Park will celebrate its 60 anniversary when it returns to the Delacorte Theater this summer. The season will feature Richard III, directed by Slave Play Tony nominee R…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:33PMFriday, November 12, 2021
The protagonists’ primary fear in Lungs -- bringing a child into an environmentally crumbling world and an economy in freefall – is secondary to the challenging script’s focus: examini…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48PMThursday, November 4, 2021
BROADWAY IN A BOX CD REVIEW:
Gypsy (1959 OBCR)
At Christmas a few years ago, Jeff gave me a copy of Broadway in a Box: The Essential Broadway Musicals Collection. He has now given me the o…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:06AMWednesday, October 6, 2021
When Stephen C. Byrd began producing on Broadway 16 years ago, he and his partner Alia Jones-Harvey were usually the only Black faces they saw in the business. “We would walk into marketin…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, May 18, 2021
Twenty-five years before the hard-bitten Hollywood tale Sunset Boulevard, Swanson played a small-town waitress with a dream to act
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Gloria Swanso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMThursday, March 4, 2021
Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently.
Saycon Sengbloh Nabs Lead Role in The Wonder Years Reboot
Saycon Sengbloh, who garnered a 2016 Tony nomination for her perf…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:24PMThursday, February 18, 2021
Oscar winner and Tony nominee Lupita Nyong’o is bringing her children's book Sulwe to the small screen. Variety reports that the story will be adapted into an animated musical for Netflix…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMTuesday, February 16, 2021
Our series on films about theatre continues with a British comedy in which variety acts face an existential threat when TV steals their audience
Theatres around the country are shutting thei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMFriday, November 27, 2020
Anne Nichols (1891-1966) is one of those figures whose own fame has been eclipsed by her greatest creation. We’ll get to her most famous play presently, but first some background. Nichols …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06AMSaturday, October 31, 2020
The four-time Tony-nominated duo behind the all-Black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Eclipsed, and more reveal their path to success.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AMThursday, October 15, 2020
A trove of lost photographs, taken by a junior teacher more than 30 years ago, revisits a country on the brink of social change and a landscape near eclipsed from history
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:55AM 
