Friday, September 20, 2024
"I went to the Broadway show within the first year and saw the original witches and Joel Grey and I remember thinking, 'What a great part! I'm just too young.' But who knew 20 years later it…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:13PMLast year, the Metropolitan Opera hosted a concert celebration of the music of composer Stephen Schwartz. Jeanine Tesori, composer of Broadway musicals including Fun Home and Kimberly Akimbo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:48PMWhen Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home after his father’s death, he finds his mother remarried to his uncle and his father’s spine-chilling apparition roaming the palace grounds. C…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:30PMThursday, September 19, 2024
A Wonderful World has found a new home on Broadway! The new musical, which played in Chicago and New Orleans last year, has officially arrived at Studio 54, and the company made sure that al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMGabriel Kahane, writer and performer of MAGNIFICENT BIRD and BOOK OF TRAVELERS, sat down with Playwrights Horizons' Literary Director Lizzie Stern to discuss his process making these two sol…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:38PMLondon Transport MuseumThis fond bio-drama charts a draughtsman’s labour of love to create a comprehensible London Underground diagram
He may not be a household name but, 50 years after hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMChristopher Sieber, a two-time Tony-nominated maestro of musical comedy, is bursting at the prospect of being the resident schlub of the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Beginning October 23, he'll be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMTony Award winner Danny Burstein has joined six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald in the upcoming revival of Gypsy in the role of the mild-mannered former talent agent Herbie. Perfo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:48AMWednesday, September 18, 2024
Initial casting is set for Second Stage Theater's Broadway production of Cult of Love, a dysfunctional family play by Emmy nominee Leslye Headland (Russian Doll). Trip Cullman directs the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PMHome-grown Hollywood star Erika Alexander visits Philly, the regional premiere of The Porch on Windy Hill, the return of Digital Chutzpah, and more. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:35AMWatford Palace theatreStage version of TV movie offers impressive impersonations of the Beatles stars but is more like fan fiction than drama
What went down during the penultimate face-to-fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMTuesday, September 17, 2024
Why should you go see IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT? The cast has a few ideas... Get your tickets at https://bit.ly/3Xb9N95.
IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT
By Sarah Mantell
Direc…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:46PMIt was almost 55 years ago that Broadway legend Stephanie Mills made her debut in Maggie Flynn. Now she is back at home onstage, playing eight shows a week at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Mills …
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:06PMKeith Richards and Mick Jagger’s 1967 raid and trial caused a national storm, seeming to pitch old against young, Establishment against counterculture. But was the real story overlooked? W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMMonday, September 16, 2024
Tony-nominees Amber Iman (Lempicka), Jennifer Damiano (Next to Normal), and Brenda Braxton (Smokey Joe's Cafe), alongside Marcus Paul James (Ain't Too Proud), Marcus M. Martin (Aladdin), Jai…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24PMhttps://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2024-2025/mo-at-the-nso/
With the help of the National Symphony Orchestra and all-star guests, New York Times best-selling author/illustrator Mo Will…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:32PMProducers Mike Bosner and Jason Owen are proud to announce full casting for the North American tour of Shucked, the Tony Award® winning musical. As previously announced, the tour will …
SOURCE: tourstoyou.org at 11:49AMThe 76th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 15 at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater, with a number of artists familiar to Broadway and New York theater audiences taking home awards.
Ac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMBig changes are coming to the Segal Centre! 🎉✨ Watch as we give our home a little makeover—because even theatres need a glow-up! 😉 From backstage to the front of the house, includi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:43AMDisney cleaned up at the Emmy Awards on Sunday night, taking home nine trophies and giving the Bob Iger-run entertainment giant more ammunition in the streaming wars. While FX’s The Bear f…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:35AMSunday, September 15, 2024
At The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards, numerous Broadway performers and creatives were nominated for awards for their work in television- from acting accolades to recognition for excellence in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54PMSaturday, September 14, 2024
Yes, it’s true! The birthday of Joey Heatherton (b. 1944) is a couple of days after that of Lola Falana (b. 1942). I don’t know if Catherine O’Hara knew that when she cooked up her sat…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:32PMThe new Broadway season begins with this two-character play from Jen Silverman who is a “they/them” playwright, novelist, and screenwriter; and they seems to have had productions every…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:05PMFriday, September 13, 2024
"What's been cool about being here in San Francisco is that the Stage Doors... It really is people who have seen this show grow from its initial seed to the popularity it has now... They rea…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:02PMThe winter of 1978 was Hedgerow Theatre’s 55th Anniversary year. It was also the year that Susie Wefel, then a member of Actor’s Equity Association,…
The post Home No More: Hedgerow�…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:46PMThursday, September 12, 2024
Booth Theatre, New York
Two living legends command the stage in uneven new play as two different women who share a house and form a tentative, transformative relationship
The Roommate, a new…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PMThere's a little gem playing at the Wild Project through September 28th. One set, 80 minutes, with terrific and compassionate writing (Matthew Freeman), directing (Jessi D. Hill), and acting…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:32PMThe Blood Quilt, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Katori Hall, has its cast. The show will begin performances at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on October 30, with an official opening set …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMThe musical adaptation of Real Women Have Curves will open on Broadway in 2025, following its 2023 world premiere at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. The Broadway produ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMStephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughWhen the retired MD of a department store books a theatre company to perform at his home, relationships and reality begin to unravel
If, like Alan Ayckbour…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMWednesday, September 11, 2024
Gathering at their childhood island home off the coast of Georgia, four sisters meet to create a family quilt to honor their recently deceased mother. When their reunion turns into a readin…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:54PMThe Hills of California, a new play by Tony Award winner Jez Butterworth (The Ferryman, Jerusalem), begins its Broadway run on September 11 at the Broadhurst Theatre. Directed by Sam Mendes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18AMTuesday, September 10, 2024
https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/fidelio/
NEW PRODUCTION
Only her love can set him free.
Florestan suffers in a secret underground cell, unjustly incarcerated for his polit…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:18PMAfter being home to The Phantom of the Opera for 35 years, the Majestic Theatre is reopening with Gypsy starring Audra McDonald! Hear the orchestra from the upcoming episode now. #shorts
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:42PMMeet Roya, our fabulous hostess, as she welcomes you into her home to celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year. She’s preparing a feast, but the main attraction is Roya sharing her great Ame…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:38PMJames Earl Jones (1931–2024).September 10, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
James Earl Jones, who died yesterday at ninety-three, was not only the first dramatic actor to…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:18AMAmerican actor starred in films including The Great White Hope and The Lion King, and won two Tony awards in prolific stage career
James Earl Jones was movie royalty, a magisterial star who…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMMonday, September 9, 2024
James Monroe Iglehart Leads New Orleans-Style Parade to A Wonderful World's Broadway Home. 579 views · 6 hours ago ...more. Playbill. 213K.
SOURCE: Google at 07:24PMVeteran actor James Earl Jones, who over the course of his career earned three Tony Awards (including a Special Award for Lifetime Achievement), two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMTribunes are pouring in following the news of the death of distinguished actor James Earl Jones. Widely regarded as one the world’s great stage and screen actors, Jones passed away this mo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:22PM 
