The American Repertory Theater production of Pippin, the Tony Award-winning medieval pop musical fable by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson, will transfer to Broadway's Music Box Thea…
Linked From Playbill at 07:59PMThe A.R.T. revival of the musical Pippin directed by Diane Paulus is set to head down to New York this Spring. Beginning previews on March 23rd, with an opening on April 25th, the Stephen Sc…
Linked From TheaterInTheNow at 07:59PMAccording to Pippin's official website, producers have confirmed the show's return to Broadway The production began performances tonight, January 3rd, at The American Repertory Theatre in Ca…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:59PMThe musical, featuring a score by Stephen Schwartz, will be back on Broadway for the first time since its original five-year run ended in 1977.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 07:37PMPaulus' musical revival will open in the spring
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"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." Thomas Mann, Essays of...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 06:56PMToday's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column is a paean to Donald Fagen and his new album, Sunken Condos. Here's an...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 06:56PMIn today's Wall Street Journal drama column I report on the Florida Repertory Theatre's revival of The Little Foxes. Here's...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 06:56PMWhen I posted my Top Ten shows of the year earlier this week, one may or may not have noticed that there weren’t any North Bay shows on my list,
Linked From The Idiolect at 06:27PMI'll be the first to admit that it's really easy for me to get lost into thinking so much about something that I forget that I can do something with it. First of all, the inside of my head i…
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According to the Daily Mail, the Crucible Theatre's production of My Fair Lady, starring Dominic West and Carly Bawden, is in the process of attempting an early summer West End transfer.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:57PMAs reported by the Daily Mail, Claire Foy has been cast as 'Lady Macbeth' opposite James McAvoy in new West End theatre company Traf Transformed's production of Shakespeare's Macbeth. The sh…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:57PMAccording to the Daily Mail, 'Homeland' star Damian Lewis is in talks to star as 'Bill Snibson' in a new West End revival of the musical Me And My Girl. No official offer has been made, but …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:57PMAccording to the Daily Mail, after an open audition, Alice Jane Murray of Kent has been cast as 'Lois', and Marc Leslie will play the role of 'Roy' in the London Palladium production of A Ch…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:57PMAmerican Airlines is the official airline of the new critically acclaimed new production of the Tony Award-winning musical Annie. Cast members from the production performed a selection of so…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:57PMThe Walnut Street Theater located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the nation’s oldest theatre and the state theatre of Pennsylvania. Located in the heart of Philadelphia, the Walnut h…
Linked From Luner on Theatre at 05:36PMBrandy Sensational R&B singer who has been named one of the most talented artists of her genre by fellow musicians, and has won five Grammy Awards for her outstanding vocals. January 19t…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 05:29PMBoHo Theatre and Stage Left Theatre present a joint production of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. The production runs January 5th through February 10th , 2013, at Theater Wit, and is dire…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 05:29PMThe League of Chicago Theatres, in partnership with Choose Chicago, announces the first annual Chicago Theatre Week, celebrating the rich tradition of theatre-going in Chicago and encouragin…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 05:29PMWicked recently announced that they once again led Broadway in yearly box office revenue. Also, Wicked set the record for the highest grossing week in Broadway history, totaling an astoundin…
Linked From Ticket News at 05:19PM‘The Show Must Go On” is an adage long identified with those who work in the theater. Accordingly, it sums up New Jersey’s professional theaters attitude during and after Superstorm Sa…
Linked From princetoninfo.com at 05:15PMWith its surreal interludes, flickering projections of Henry Fuseli’s paintings, and sudden, unexplained nudity, Buran Theatre’s “Nightmares: a demonstration of the Sublime…
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On the centenary of Stravinski and Nikinski's era-defining ballet, the emerging French choreographer returns to New York with his own response
Linked From Culturebot at 04:56PMSignature Theatre presents the Tony Award-winning musical Dreamgirls, playing in the MAX Theatre now running through January 13, 2013. Directed and choreographed by Associate Artistic Direct…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:56PMThe show just might go on. Ben Sprecher, lead producer of "Rebecca: The Musical," confirms that his rights to the beleaguered production have been extended another year from his original dea…
Linked From Newsday Subscription at 04:55PMTickets for the first annual Chicago Theatre Week, a collaborative initiative between the League of Chicago Theatres and Choose Chicago, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 9 at www.chicagotheat…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 04:18PMAt one point in Ignite Theatre's impressive production of the rock musical "Next to Normal," Diana Goodman (Margie Lamb) shares a dance with her teenage son, Gabe.
Linked From Denver Post at 04:18PMCo-founder of the WARM collective, she was also a teacher and writer who wanted her work "to be an affirmation."
Linked From StarTribune at 04:17PMCharles Busch is set to star in The Peccadillo Theater Company’s upcoming staged reading of Sidney Howard’s 1926 play THE SILVER CORD Monday, January 14 at 7 PM at Theatre at St. Clement…
Linked From Off-Off Blogway at 04:11PMReally good new plays are still as elusive as the Higgs boson, though more common than they were 15 or 20 years ago. The Royal Court Theatre has probably done more to bring this about than a…
Linked From John Morrison at 04:09PMMusical sets records here and in New York.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 04:01PMPOSTED BY DOUG GEORGE ... Following an AmEx presale, seats through Sept. 8 go on sale soon. But there's a catch.
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 04:00PMPOSTED BY DOUG GEORGE ... The Chicago area's own Michelle Williams will head up the national tour of "Fela!" that's coming to town Feb. 19-23.
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1909 Birthday of Victor Borge (1909-2000), pianist and comedian whose 1953 Comedy in Music ran 888 performances, the longest run ever for a solo musical on Broadway. He followed it with Come…
Linked From Playbill at 03:55PM"We've always had an interest in making things, in making 'stuff.' I've always been interested in theater as a visual medium."
Linked From Culturebot at 03:55PMOn Twitter Watch, Sierra Boggess wrote 'Just did my last lesmisofficial with these sweet kids pic.twitter.como4MClSGt'
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:55PMTroika Entertainment presents the international hit, Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical. Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical launches its national tour on January 8 in Minneapol…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:55PMName: Cory EinbinderHometown: BrooklynEducation: Brooklyn College, MFA Performance and Interactive Media Arts, University of The Arts, BFA Theatre Arts Favorite Credits: Director and Product…
Linked From TheaterInTheNow at 03:55PMShort-Term Cliff Deal Reinstates IRA Rollover and “Pease” Provision and Estate Tax Extended The tax deal passed by Congress on Tuesday has encouraging but mixed results for chari…
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 03:36PMOf the eight new plays and musicals that opened on Broadway this fall, all will be closed by Jan. 6. Not even headliner Katie Holmes could keep Theresa Rebeck’s critically panned &ldqu…
Linked From Backstage at 03:22PMBeing a guy in a dress has never been a particularly easy thing, and yet, one German man, living (and dressing) as Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, managed to survive both Nazi party rule and the re…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:17PMThe Tribune's Nina Metz and Chris Borrelli debate vocal audience members and break them down by type
BY NINA METZ AND CHRIS BORRELLI ... Let's talk about heckling. Who isn't talking about h…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 03:00PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
Kerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 03:00PMBY NINA METZ AND KERRY REID ... Pushing boundaries, good taste and tiny budgets to their breaking point is the very definition of Chicago's fringe theater scene.
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The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective presents the first ever New York revival of Arthur Bicknell's Moose Murders, the most notorious flop in the history of modern theater. Performances begi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMAttention all actors According to a recent tweet from Actors' Equity Association, as of January 7, AEA's new building entrance will be through Times Square Visitors Center 7th Ave. at W. 46t…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMAccording to the Star, a high school in Utah has cancelled a student production of All Shook Up because of a 'sexually suggestive song.' Rehearsals for the production had already begun but t…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMThe wait is almost over: Broadway.com’s popular talk show Show People With Paul Wontorek returns for its third season on January 4 with a very special guest, Broadway favorite&nbs…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:54PMThe West End's Top Hat has found an elegant new star in Charlotte Gooch. We headed to the leading lady's dressing room at the Aldwych Theatre to chat about dancing—di…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:54PMIn a joint effort to present the arts and culture to the diverse and myriad communities in Southern California, the Museum Marketing Roundtable announces the eighth annual ‘Museums Free-Fo…
Linked From Arts Beat LA at 02:33PM“Patti Issues,” Ben Rimalower’s solo show, is much more than any ordinary young gay man’s account of his obsession with a Broadway legend.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:27PMThe website Bitter Lemons and the program publisher Footlights are joining forces...LA Women's Theatre Festival prepares for its 20th anniversary...Apollo Dukakis discusses A Noise Within's …
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 02:20PMAs you may have noticed (Josh Gad certainly has), he and Andrew Rannells have a lot in common. They were co-stars on Broadway in The Book of Mormon, are both Tony nominees, and are both sta…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:17PMThis post is a response to Jody Christopherson’s recent interview and continues a partnership between HowlRound and the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW). For many years,…
Linked From HowlRound at 02:07PMNational Theatre artistic and executive directors ranked joint top in Stage 100 list of influential theatremakersThe National Theatre's artistic and executive directors Nicholas Hytner and N…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:05PMThroughout the entire hundred and fifty-seven minutes of “Les Misérables” I sat cowering in my seat, lost in shame and chagrin. This movie is not just bad. It’s terri…
Linked From The New Yorker Subscription at 02:05PMStacy Wolf loves "Les Miserables" despite its problematic gender roles: "'Les Miserables' should have feminists like me up in arms. The musical takes the female charac…
Linked From Gold Derby at 02:05PMGod Bless America, and The Golden Land: The Golden Land is a play that every immigrant should be expected to see and should be playing in every elementary, high school and college across the…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 02:05PMProducers Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Will & Jada Pinkett Smith and Ruth & Stephen Hendel are pleased to announce that Grammy Award-winning recording artist and former member of Dest…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 02:05PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Former Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams is joining the latest national tour of the musical "Fela!"...
Linked From Associated Press at 02:05PMReviewed by Joe Regan Jr. December 31, 2012 For twelve years Natalie Douglas and Mark Hartman have performed New Year’s Eve shows, the last ten at the Duplex in Greenwich Village. …
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 02:05PMFor those of you who haven’t gotten around to seeing “Peter and the Starcatcher” at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, now might be your last chance to see it on Broadway. The pr…
Linked From Backstage at 02:05PMWashington, D.C. —Ford’s Theatre Society announced that a donation drive during performances of A Christmas Carol has raised $88,040.67 for the Washington-based charity Martha’s Table.…
Linked From fords.org at 02:05PMMost theater aficionados can recall with delight their first theater experience. On Thursday, Jan. 24, Broadway’s Palace Theatre will be filled with over 2,500 New York City public sch…
Linked From Backstage at 02:05PMA look at the men and women - actors, directors, designers - whose work enhanced the 62 productions I reviewed this year.
Linked From The Berkshire Eagle at 02:05PMThe holiday season is usually a bountiful time of year for Broadway shows. Hordes of tourists bring about a bump in box-office receipts for musicals and plays across the board.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 02:05PMNo new reviews this week, but these will return at the same time next week, as the new theater season gets underway. See below for complete listings of shows to see this week.In this week's&…
Linked From LA Weekly at 02:05PMThe latest in the series of fund-raising concerts will include Talib Kweli, the Roots and the Blind Boys of Alabama.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:05PMAn honest, uncomprising look at teens.
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Theater, the original social media, meets its digital counterparts in form-breaking new live/virtual experiments: “As a theatre artist, I love space,” Whit MacLaughlin is saying as we le…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:57PMDaniel Oreskes will join Academy and Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave and Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg in the world premiere of The Revisionist, Eisenberg's new play …
Linked From Playbill at 01:53PMThe Broadway at Birdland concert series will present the return of The Marcy & Zina Show, featuring songwriting duo Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, Jan. 7 at Birdland.
Linked From Playbill at 01:53PMOriginal Broadway cast members and creators from three landmark musicals — Grease, Nine and Grand Hotel — will reunite Jan. 14 for a one-night-only benefit for The Actors Fund.
Linked From Playbill at 01:53PM"Bunheads," the whimsical hour-long ABC Family dramedy-with-dance series starring Broadway's Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, returns to the air Jan. 7 in an episode titled "You…
Linked From Playbill at 01:53PMMasterworks Broadway will release a newly remastered version of "Bye Bye Birdie – The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack," in conjunction with the film's 50th anniversary…
Linked From Playbill at 01:53PMDaniel Oreskes will join previously announced stars Jesse Eisenberg and Vanessa Redgrave in Eisenberg's new off-Broadway play The Revisionist. Directed by Kip Fagan, the Rattlestick Play…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:53PMOriginal Broadway cast members and creators from the landmark musicals GREASE, NINE and GRAND HOTEL will reunite on January 14th for KATHI MOSS' RAMA-LAMA-DING DONG REUNION a one-night-only…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:53PMJust in time for the Season Three premiere of DOWNTON ABBEY on PBS stations across the US starting this Sunday, BroadwayWorld is pleased to present two exclusive images from the spectacular …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:53PMMint Theater Jonathan Bank, Artistic Director presents the first-ever American Production of Katie Roche by Teresa Deevy. The Mint production will run from January 26th to March 24th at thei…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:53PMOne of stage and screen's brightest young stars shines in his cabaret debut. Leslie's show features songs from his roles on Broadway Rent, Leap of Faith, the hit NBC musical drama Smash, alo…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:53PMRattlestick Playwrights Theater's Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long have announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of The Revisionist, wri…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:53PMIn Golden Boy, Seth Numrich plays Joe Bonaparte, a young man whose talents bridge the very different worlds of music and boxing. In this exclusive look behind the scenes of the current Broad…
Linked From Playbill at 01:53PMA conference of 1,200 attendees is not just a single event: in many ways, it is 1,200 entirely unique conferences—1,200 different experiences that overlap, collide or pass each other by. T…
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 01:34PMThe Milwaukee Rep does well by Jane Austen - the adaptation by Mark Healy trades off the wide expanse of literary panorama of Austen’s late 18th Century realm for a more intimate portrait,…
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 01:32PMDonna McKechnie’s new cabaret show extends the story of her “Chorus Line” character, Cassie, into the present.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMAn ambitious production at the Pantages signals a new chapter
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Linked From StarTribune at 01:17PMPainters take on the seasons in two shows at Groveland Gallery.
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Barbara Cook, Joel Grey, Sheldon Harnick and Mary Rodgers will sit down with Leonard Lopate Jan. 21 to discuss their lengthy and legendary careers as part of the "Relevant Octogenarians…
Linked From Playbill at 12:51PMDe'Adre Aziza and Brandon Dirden will be part of Dominique Morisseau's Detroit '67, which will be staged as part of the Public Theater's Public Lab series in February.
Linked From Playbill at 12:51PMIn celebration of the American Repertory Theater's production of Pippin, opening today in Cambridge, MA, the Playbill Vault revisits the musical's Broadway roots.
Linked From Playbill at 12:51PMAward-winning actor-writer Charles Busch will star in The Peccadillo Theater Company’s upcoming staged reading of Sidney Howard’s 1926 play The Silver Cord Jan. 14 at Theatre at…
Linked From Playbill at 12:51PMOnce Upon a Time in New York City 2, a benefit concert featuring new material from emerging songwriters celebrating the city of New York, will be offered Feb. 3.
Linked From Playbill at 12:51PMAccording to Billboard.com, Les Miserables Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack has now hit 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, topped only by Taylor Swift's Red album.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:51PMFor generations, musical theatre writers have come to New York City to change the world. 'Once Upon A Time In New York City' is a concert series about the people who have changed THEM. After…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:51PMDebra Jo Rupp will channel famous sex therapist Dr. Ruth in Dr. Ruth, All the Way when the solo show heads to TheaterWorks in Hartford, Connecticut. Written by Mark St. Germain (Fr…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:51PMJosh Gad is coming to a movie theater near you! Open Road Films has scored the distribution rights to the Steve Jobs-centric bio pic jOBS, which stars Ashton Kutcher as the late creativ…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:51PMLast year was a big one for us. Michael co-curated FreeFall ’12 at The Theatre Centre with AD Franco Boni, and spent seven months at The Shaw Festival, where he assistant directed Ra…
Linked From praxistheatre.com at 12:35PMAbout a year ago I met with a young woman who was running her own dance studio in North Carolina. We had a great conversation about the work she was doing and in the midst of it, we bandied …
Linked From One Producer in the City at 12:16PMNo one mourns the Wicked, least of all the investors in the original Broadway production (currently playing to sold-out audiences nightly at The Gershwin Theatre). This week the Tony Award-w…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:16PMWe hope that everyone had a safe and happy New Years. Thanks for making 2012 another successful year in Chicago theatre. Its an honor to support this community and the excellent work that yo…
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The world stage premiere of Chariots of Fire, adapted for the stage by Mike Bartlett from Colin Welland's Oscar-winning screenplay to the 1981 Enigma Productions film of the same name, i…
Linked From Playbill at 11:52AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth (a New Years Eve baby) celebrated her birthday this week, on Dec. 31. Playbill.com looks back at some of her stage highlights.
Linked From Playbill at 11:52AMThe Barrow Group Acting Studio will present the New York premiere of Stefanie Zadravec's Save Me, which was named Best New Play at the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, Jan. 18-Feb. 10 at …
Linked From Playbill at 11:52AMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham announced today that single tickets are on sale for the spring 2013 season at The Public's newly r…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMProducers Bill Kenwright, The Really Useful Group, David Mirvish, Troika Entertainment amp Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures present the all-Canadian cast of the North American premiere of Andre…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMTickets are now on sale for the forthcoming Broadway production of Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, starring Tony nominee Alec Baldwin and Shia LeBeouf. Directed by Tony winner Daniel Sullivan,…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:51AMTaylor Swift is queen of the charts—her album Red remains number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for the seventh week in a row—but right behind Ms. Swift is a group of A-list movie …
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:51AMFour Broadway legends—Joel Grey, Barbara Cook, Sheldon Harnick and Mary Rodgers—will grace the stage at 92Y on January 21 to share life lessons and stories as part of the venue&#…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:51AMCasting has been announced for the next two shows in the Public Theater’s spring 2013 season, kicking off with the world premiere of Detroit ‘67 (February 26 through March 17) an…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:51AMPopular London musical star Alex Bourne is best known for his long and successful runs in We Will Rock You and Buddy, and now the strapping 6'4" performer is wowing audiences in the…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:51AMThe magic of Broadway never seems to truly disappear. The idea of transferring a Broadway show to Off Broadway theater is one that has become common in this day in age. The example, set firs…
Linked From Luner on Theatre at 11:36AMThere’s a spirit lurking the streets of Broadway and it’s one thats been haunting the streets the past two years. Just as everyone had thought midnight had struck on the clock fo…
Linked From Luner on Theatre at 11:36AMWhen the play "Freud's Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 it became an unlikely hit, but few could have predicted just how widely seen the session would become. This fictional …
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:30AMShattered Globe Theatre continues its 2012/13 Season with the dark comedy HAPPY NOW? by Lucinda Coxon, directed by Artistic Director Roger Smart, playing January 24 – March 2, 2013 at …
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 11:29AMWendy Kaplan, President of MadKap Productions, will present the Chicago Premiere of SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE…, written by former Seinfeld writer Marc Jaffe and Emmy nominated playwright Er…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 11:29AMBroadway In Chicago and the producers of the new musical THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, announced today that tickets will be available for 14 addition…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 11:29AMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine 2011 Tony Awards including Best Musical, has broken the house records in three different cities for the week ending December 30, 2012. On Broadway, THE BOO…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 11:29AMA decadent feast for the eyes, the 1926 Italian historical epic The Last Days of Pompeii comes to the Music Box as part of its monthly Silent Cinema Series with live organ accompaniment. T…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 11:29AMGiving audiences an unbridled and candid look behind the scenes of the Broadway curtain, NCM® Fathom Events, Overnight Musicals and The Broadway League present “One Night Stand: Creating …
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 11:29AMThe One-Minute Play Festival and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre present: The 2nd Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV on Sunday, January 6th at 5pm PST (San Fr…
Linked From HowlRound at 11:21AMLet's leap into the new year with looks at two new cast recordings, both courtesy of the invaluable Ghostlight Records label.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 11:15AMLike a grand diva who can’t get enough farewell tours, Les Misérables — the stage musical version — is again on a tour stop in Philadelphia against many odds. This time it arrives ami…
Linked From Philly.com at 11:15AMSay her name: Michelle Williams, the Grammy Award-winning recording artist and former member of Destiny's Child, is set to join the national tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical F…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:15AMNew production images have been released for the RSC's hit show Matilda the Musical at the Cambridge Theatre, which is soon to open on Broadway.Click here to buy tickets to Matilda through W…
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Renown Baritone Jubilant Sykes Takes Tenor Role In Premiere Jubilant Sykes has sung classical and spiritual music at the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:58AMMovies that become stage musicals generally benefit from title familiarity. But not all of them are successful.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 10:56AMI almost typed this up in the comments on another blog, but I didn't want to give away stuff on other people's blogs that I could give away here instead.I saw the movie a couple of weeks ago…
Linked From Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:52AMNCM Fathom Events, Overnight Musicals and The Broadway League will present "One Night Stand: Creating a Play in a Day," a one-night event broadcast to movie theatres nationwide Jan…
Linked From Playbill at 10:51AMDavid Mamet's recent Broadway drama The Anarchist, which centers on a female inmate serving a life sentence and a woman in power who must determine whether she is fit for parole, will be…
Linked From Playbill at 10:51AM"The Devil's Bitch," a new short film comedy by Marla Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage about an aspiring wheelchair-using musical theatre actress who sells her soul to a fabu…
Linked From Playbill at 10:51AMA sense of uncertainty pervades Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway mounting of The Other Place, a new drama by Sharr White about a dynamic neurologist confronting the onset of an ill…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:51AMThe Gershwin Theatre is green with more than leading character Elphaba. Wicked just broke a new record by becoming the first show to remain the highest-grossing production on Broadway f…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:51AMThe stars of the spooky FX series American Horror Story really let their hair down for a wildly out-of-character musical number on the show's January 2 episode. Sure the creepy series is…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:51AMMark your calendars! The 14th Annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards will be held on May 5 at the Allen Room in Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The invitation-onl…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:51AMThe stage version of Chariots of Fire currently playing at London’s Gielgud Theatre will close a month early, with its last performance taking place this weekend. Mike Bartlett’s adaptat…
Linked From The Stage at 10:51AMGiving audiences an unbridled and candid look behind the scenes of the Broadway curtain, NCMR Fathom Events, Overnight Musicals and The Broadway League present 'One Night Stand Creating a Pl…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMROBERT CUCCIOLI, who electrified audiences in Broadway's smash hit musical, Jekyll amp Hyde, is electrifying listeners again with the release of his debut solo album, ROBERT CUCCIOLI - THE L…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMMaking it on Broadway is one thing but staying on Broadway is quite another. Four Broadway legends Joel Grey, Barbara Cook, Sheldon Harnick and Mary Rodgers visit 92Y on Monday, Jan. 21 t…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMRoundhouse, London: Having reopened the Roundhouse in 2006 following its renovation, Fuerzabruta - from the same Argentinean creators of De La Guarda - is back by popular demand. It means br…
Linked From The Stage at 10:48AMYvonne Arnaud, Mill Studio, Guildford: Ruby is a typical little girl, wanting to play with her big brother, dress up as a princess or a pop star, wear make-up, to be able to do what grown-up…
Linked From The Stage at 10:48AMGorilla Tango has one weekend primetime slot left in March - Fridays 7:30pm! GTT provides the infrastructure (audition and rehearsal space, performance space, box-office, basic marketing), a…
Linked From Collective Leverage at 10:16AMNEW YORK—Former Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams is joining the latest national tour of the musical "Fela!
Linked From Denver Post at 10:15AMThe Broadway’s Best Shows Season of Winning!
12 Days. 12 Prizes. 12 Winners.
Last month, Broadway’s Best Shows held our first ever “Season of Winning” Giveaway. Our amazing f…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:14AMClassic Stage Company has announced that Stephen Bogardus (Irving Berlin's White Christmas), Jeffry Denman (The Producers), Jason Michael Evans, Amy Justman (Company), Ken Krugman (Assassins…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:14AMTheater made "Les Misérables" part of the canon of the most successful musicals. What has film done with the screen version?
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Destiny's Child star Michelle Williams will join the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Fela! as Sandra Isadore when the production returns to Washington, D.C. Jan. 29 at th…
Linked From Playbill at 09:51AMRobert Cuccioli, who recently returned to Broadway in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, will offer a tune from his solo album, "The Look of Love," on the Jan. 4 broadcast of "On …
Linked From Playbill at 09:51AMThe editors of Playbill.com have combed through the past seven years of our popular Cue & A feature to select some of our favorite answers to the question, "What is the one performa…
Linked From Playbill at 09:51AMBucks County Playhouse, under the producing direction of Jed Bernstein, will kick off its 2013 season with the Jerry Herman classic Mame, starring Tony Award-nominated Annie actress Andrea M…
Linked From Playbill at 09:51AMJohn Lithgow stars in the title role opposite Nancy Carroll in The National Theatre revival of Arthur Wing Pinero's The Magistrate at the NT Oliver. With his louche air and a developed taste…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:51AMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, today announced complete casting for the company's upcoming new production o…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:51AMBroadway In Chicago and the producers of the new musical THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, announced today that tickets will be available for 14 addition…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:51AMThe blockbuster musical WICKED has achieved an unprecedented Broadway milestone as it enters its 10th Anniversary year, becoming the first Broadway musical ever to remain the highest grossin…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:51AMBucks County Playhouse BCP Jed Bernstein, Producing Director has announced that subscription packages for the 2013 Playhouse Production season are on sale now.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:51AMComplete casting has been announced for Classic Stage Company's upcoming revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony-winning musical Passion. Directed by John Doyle,&n…
Linked From Broadway.com at 09:51AMThe national tour of Fela! just got a little more bootylicious. Grammy winner Michelle Williams, formerly of Destiny’s Child, will play Sandra in the national tour of the Tony-nominate…
Linked From Broadway.com at 09:51AM“Honey, you got one shot!” That’s how Jennifer Hudson's new Smash character describes the thrill of being in a live Broadway production, a longstanding desire of H…
Linked From Broadway.com at 09:51AMTony nominee Andrea McArdle (best known as Broadway’s original Annie) will take on another musical icon: Auntie Mame. McArdle will star as the eccentric title character in the Buc…
Linked From Broadway.com at 09:51AMBroadway hoofer Rachelle Rak is rocking out in the national tour of the new musical Flashdance as Tess, the sassy best friend to aspiring dancer Alex Owens, and audiences are about to get a …
Linked From Broadway.com at 09:51AMElphaba's makeup isn't the only green item coming in to the Gershwin Theatre these days. Wicked just broke a new record by becoming the first show to remain the highest-grossing…
Linked From Broadway.com at 09:51AMBritish theatre producer David Cecil, who was charged for staging a play with gay themes in Uganda after he was issued a warning not to do so, has had his case dismissed. At a court...
Linked From The Stage at 09:50AMNEW YORK (AP) — Former Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams is joining the latest national tour of the musical "Fela!"
Linked From Boston Globe at 09:44AMA Younger Theatre is proud to announce that it has joined IdeasTap’s Creative Space, based within the IdeasTap HQ in London Bridge. The Creative Space offers AYT’s Artistic Direc…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 09:31AMAll of your nightmares are about to come true: Drama Desk Award winner Austin Pendleton (Uncle Vanya) will direct and star in Mississippi Mud Productions' Suddenly Last Summer, set to play t…
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:14AMIt's a season with something for everyone, from a dramedy about a contentious Republican clan to a musical that brims with holiday cheer. Walnut Street Theatre has announced its mainstage li…
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Woody Sez, the show celebrating folk music legend Woody Guthrie, is embarking on a UK tour later this month.The show, which weaves together Guthrie's songs with excerpts from articles he wro…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:58AMOlivier winner Nancy Carroll joins John Lithgow in Pinero's Victorian farce The Magistrate at London's National Theatre as a part its 2012-2013 season. The piece, directed by Timothy…
Linked From Playbill at 08:50AM"American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert, whose critical review of "Les Misérables" went viral and garnered a response from movie star Russell Crowe, took to Twitter…
Linked From Playbill at 08:50AMThe New Orleans-based Preservation Hall Jazz Band begins "Crescent City Stomp" Jan. 3, an 11-night residency at the McKittrick Hotel, the home of the interactive Off-Broadway produ…
Linked From Playbill at 08:50AMStephen Bogardus, Jeffry Denman, Will Reynolds and more will join the previously announced Melissa Errico, Judy Kuhn and Ryan Silverman for the new Off-Broadway production of Stephen Sondhei…
Linked From Playbill at 08:50AMThe Broadway premiere of The Other Place, Sharr White's mysterious play about a doctor whose life is shaken, featuring Laurie Metcalf, reprising her earlier Off-Broadway performance, plu…
Linked From Playbill at 08:50AMGlitter and Be Green, an intimate cabaret featuring a trio of Wicked alumni, will be held Jan. 14 at the Laurie Beechman Theater in New York City.
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Current Role: Pulling double duty as Deputy, the sharp-eyed assistant to a bumbling gravedigger, and Master Nick Cricker, a Victorian music hall ch…
Linked From Broadway.com at 08:50AMRebecca, the now derailed Broadway musical, might not be going up in flames afterall! The musical's rights holders have granted the producers of the show one more year to raise the capit…
Linked From Broadway.com at 08:50AMRemember when the cast of Broadway’s Anything Goes made a ridiculously fun backstage music video to “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction? Well now, all the way acros…
Linked From Broadway.com at 08:50AMBroadway.com’s extensive “best of the year” features dominated the list of most-read stories on the site for the week of December 28 through January 3. If you missed any of…
Linked From Broadway.com at 08:50AMProducers Shawn Jay-Z Carter, Will amp Jada Pinkett Smith and Ruth amp Stephen Hendel have announced that Grammy Award-winning recording artist and former member of Destiny's Child Michelle …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:50AMI have been watching Michael Mainwaring perform since I saw him ‘steal the show’ at Ford’s Theatre in Shenandoah. I admire his talent, enthusiasm, and showmanship and I wa…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:23AMOver 2,500 students from the New York City Public School System will visit the current Broadway revival of Annie on Thursday, January 24 as part of the Inside Broadway organization's ‘Crea…
Linked From TheaterMania at 08:14AMActress Evelyn Ward, who appeared on Broadway as well as on TV and film frequently from the 1940s-1960s, died December 23 of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 89. Ward's Broadway credits in…
Linked From TheaterMania at 08:14AMGrowing up as a kid in suburban Massachusetts in the 80s, I took at least two trips a season to the famed Fenway Park to catch BoSox games. (Huh. I wonder if anyone has ever studied my Massa…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 08:07AMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 08:03AMThis the first of a series of behind-the-scenes articles on McLean Community Players’ production of Next to Normal. Today, Director Lisa Anne Bailey introduces the show and her cast. T…
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Robertson will be music director at least through 2015-2016.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 07:56AMAcclaimed British pop singer Lulu, who appeared in the original London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance, will make her New York City concert debut next month.
Linked From Playbill at 07:49AMInside Broadway, the not-for-profit arts education organization, has partnered with the Broadway revival of Annie to offer two exclusive "Creating the Magic" events, which will be …
Linked From Playbill at 07:49AMThe original production of the Tony Award-nominated Best Musical Mame, which features a classic score by Jerry Herman, closed Jan. 3, 1970. Playbill.com has put together a musical tribute, i…
Linked From Playbill at 07:49AMMatt Bomer, who was seen in the New York and Los Angeles readings of Dustin Lance Black's 8, will guest star on the Jan. 8 episode of NBC's "The New Normal."
Linked From Playbill at 07:49AMAdam Lambert has found himself in the center of a heated controversy over remarks he posted on Twitter earlier this week regarding his opinion of the recently released film LES MISERABLES. T…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:49AMMatt Bomer is set to guest star on NBC's freshman comedy THE NEW NORMAL. The actor will potray 'legendary party boy 'Monty' in the January 8th episode entitled 'The Goldie Rush'.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:49AMThe Other Place, the new play starring Laurie Metcalf, is now in previews at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. The Other Place will open Thursday, Jan…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:49AMAs we wave goodbye to 2012, a year filled with cheerleaders, paperboys, porn stars and Patti, Broadway.com is ringing in the new year by asking your favorite stars to share the high point of…
Linked From Broadway.com at 07:48AMNEW YORK—When the play "Freud's Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 it became an unlikely hit, but few could have predicted just how widely seen the session would become.
Linked From Denver Post at 07:15AMAfter decades of journeyman work, Reed Birney has translated his recent Off Broadway success into his return to Broadway, in “Picnic.”
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 07:08AMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
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Below, check out recently discovered deleted scenes from the 1986 film adaptation of the off-Broadway musical comedy LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Included in the videos are cut lines, alternate s…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:49AMHi My name is Cody Williams and I am so excited to be working on Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella. Over the next month I'll be blogging about my rehearsal experience for this INCREDIBLE p…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:49AMFor the ninth consecutive year, the hit Stephen Schwartz-Winnie Holzman musical at the Gershwin Theatre has out-grossed every other Broadway production, according to a statement released by …
Linked From Playbill at 06:48AMThis year will see a mini-festival of Wallace Shawn plays in New York. The main event will be the upcoming Wallace Shawn-André Gregory Project co-produced by the Public Theater and Theatre …
Linked From Superfluities Redux at 06:26AMAs we leave the holidays behind us and begin the New Year, it’s time to get out of Mom’s house and back into the clubs!
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 06:26AMNEW YORK (AP) -- When the play "Freud's Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 it became an unlikely hit, but few could have predicted just how widely seen the session would be…
Linked From Associated Press at 06:26AMIn 2012, D.C.'s theater companies threw an admirable amount of support behind local playwrights. Most prominently, Theater J launched the Locally Grown: Community Supported Art Festival and…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 06:26AMToday is the birthday of that great musical-poetic iconoclast Van Dyke Parks. Oddly enough, experimentalism and Americana go hand in hand – the list of writers, poets, painters and co…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 06:03AMSPECIAL ONE NIGHT PERFORMANCE OF THE BRONTES! KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE THEATRE LAB MONDAY JANUARY 7TH, 2013 6:00 P.M. Dear Fans, Friends and Family of Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadsi…
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Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire, the husband-and-wife team at the helm of Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), have topped The Stage newspaper's list of the 100 most influential people in UK th…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 05:55AMIn an interview published in today's Entertainment Weekly, Academy Award winning actress Jennifer Hudson revealed that she considers her upcoming guest spot on NBC's SMASH as training for h…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:48AMBroadwayWorld was invited backstage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre for a special two-part tour from Celia Keenan-Bolger right before she left the show and Adam Chanler Berat. Click below to …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:48AMNEW YORK (AP) — When the play "Freud's Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 it became an unlikely hit, but few could have predicted just how widely seen the session would becom…
Linked From Boston Globe at 05:40AMThe producers of "Rebecca: The Musical" have been granted one more year to raise the capital they need to bring the troubled Broadway production to the stage, but the cost of the show could …
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Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 3 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:47AMThe American Repertory Theater A.R.T. opens its production of Pippin tonight, January 3, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Roger O. Hirson, directed by A.R.T. Artistic Direc…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:47AMThe London theatre looks to be awash in great women of the English (and Irish) stage in a 2013 line-up of star roles that disproves the often-held assertion that the men get all the great st…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 04:28AMA play featuring black actors in “blackface” will be the centrepiece of this year’s High Tide theatre festival.
Linked From The Independent at 04:11AMScottish Ballet’s Nutcracker is a deliberate step away from Christmas sugar. There’s a cartoon edge to Antony McDonald’s designs, while choreographer Ashley Page is determined to make …
Linked From The Independent at 04:11AMSince his breakout hit, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Judd Apatow has barely been out of the multiplexes, writing, producing or directing some 18 movies since 2005. Now he has his eye on Broadway.
Linked From The Independent at 04:11AMHe’s been called the “antithesis of feel-good” by at least one critic but the playwright Martin Crimp has released an album titled - ironically? - 100% Happy.
Linked From The Independent at 04:11AMThe Hall of Hams is my series on some of my favorite actors who have brought the art of melodramatic acting into the modern era. Today is the birthday of Ray Milland (1907-1986). Milland is …
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Fuerzabruta is a big, loud, cheerful burst of images. A running man breaks through walls, giggling aerialists chase each other and women swim, in real water, over the heads of the audience.
Linked From The Independent at 03:10AMToday is the birthday of LaVonda Stapp, (1920-1963), variously billed as Tiny LaVonda, Little LaVonda, Princess Lavonda, and Lady LaVonda, and always “The Smallest Woman in the World.&…
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After Marshfield author Casey Sherman’s book “Search for the Strangler” was published seven years ago, he began giving talks based on his research and the surprising conclusions his re…
Linked From Boston Globe at 10:35PMNEW YORK (AP) — Oz has reclaimed the box office crown on Broadway.
Linked From Boston Globe at 10:35PMNEW YORK (AP) — Oz has reclaimed the box office crown on Broadway.
Linked From Boston Globe at 10:35PMWolfgang Puck Shows Off New Restaurant
Culinary king Wolfgang Puck opens the doors to his restaurant Spago, and our guest correspondent Krista Simmons is there to get all the dish, including…
Linked From Young Hollywood at 10:00PMSarah Hyland Takes On Britney Spears and Jack Black
The lovely Miss Sarah Hyland pays a visit to the Studio to tell us all about her film 'Struck By Lightning', which combines the forces of …
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3rd: Ruth Mackenzine / Danny Boyle Cultural Olympiad / Olympics Opening Ceremony Last year: 8th Highest ever: 8th It had seemed an unenviable task to follow in the footsteps of Beijing 2008,…
Linked From The Stage at 09:40PM11th: Sonia Friedman Sonia Friedman Productions Last year: 13th Highest ever: 7th Following the unexpected commercial success of Jerusalem was always going to be a tricky task, but Sonia Fri…
Linked From The Stage at 09:40PMAs the UK’s theatres sparkle with creative brilliance amid a background of grey austerity The Stage 100 salutes the industry’s brightest sparks, some well known and others unsung If you…
Linked From The Stage at 09:40PM1st equal: Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire Ambassador Theatre Group Last year: 1st Highest ever: 1st Now celebrating a fourth year at No 1 in The Stage 100, Howard Panter and Rosemary Squi…
Linked From The Stage at 09:40PM7th: Michael Grandage and James Bierman The Michael Grandage Company Last year: 7th Highest ever: 2nd When Michael Grandage left the Donmar in 2011, the big question was how he would follow …
Linked From The Stage at 09:40PMOur judging panel explains why it reached the decisions it did in The Stage 100 Awards 2013 Shakespeare’s Globe – London theatre of the year In a year that saw the capital turned into a.…
Linked From The Stage at 09:40PMLondon David Attenborough Attenborough bids farewell to the Almeida this spring after 11 years in post, during which the Islington venue has been one of London’s most consistent sources of…
Linked From The Stage at 09:40PMFind out more about the two winners of the 2013 Unsung Hero award. Anne McNulty Having spent 20 years in the job, the Donmar Warehouse’s former casting director Anne McNulty oversaw the ca…
Linked From The Stage at 09:40PMThe Tony Award-winning 1972 pop musical Pippin twists itself into a new, cirque-inspired production — shaped by Tony Award-nominated director Diane Paulus and circus artist Gypsy Snide…
Linked From Playbill at 09:37PMMaria Friedman, John Lithgow, Simon Russell Beale, Alex Bourne, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Harriet Walter, Phyllida Lloyd, Hannah Waddingham punctuate this month's look at London theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 09:37PMThis isn’t your daddy’s Chekhov.
Popping up twice this month alone, the melancholy Russian continues his run as New York’s most popular dead playwright. But don’t expect anything tra…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 09:33PMDebra Jo Rupp Stars in Solo Show About Life Of Sex TherapistThe doctor is in.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 09:03PMAssassins, at Manitoba Theatre Centre, isn't opening for two weeks, but some of the issues raised by Stephen Sondheim's musical about murderers of presidents - like the availability of guns …
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