Broadway's hit musical "Rock of Ages" could be in jeopardy now that former "American Idol" finalist Constantine Maroulis is feeling underappreciated.
Linked From New York Daily News at 12:00AMThe studio and producer Marc Platt are in active development on a remake of "Jesus Christ Superstar."
Linked From www.riskybusinessblog.com at 12:00AMThirty-five years ago this summer, Bob Funking and Bill Stutler, two former ad men, brought dinner theater to an office park in Elmsford.
Linked From The Journal News at 12:00AMIn the long-archived "The Day on Which a Man Dies," Tennessee Williams explores the final moments in the life of an artist he identified with.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMWilliam Shakespeare is the American summer phenom. You can't get away from the guy.
Linked From Boston Globe at 12:00AMYou don't have to understand the language a play is performed in to be moved by the visual and emotional spectacle of theatre
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMThe actor has long been drawn to the challenging play and its bizarre developments. He is performing it at La Jolla Playhouse.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMHow are the arts debased or devalued by studies noticably skewed toward a particular viewpoint?
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AMOnly the most recent Hamlet on Broadway, that of Ralph Fiennes, won a Tony for the actor essaying the title character.
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AMMembers of the creative team behind the twice-extended Thank You For Being a Friend talk about parody laws and Estelle Getty's hemorrhoids.
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AMA selection of selections selectively selected from The Clyde Fitch Report blogroll, with commentary.
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AMThree playwrights whose dramas will be seen at this year's Fringe Festival
Linked From justshowstogoyou.com at 12:00AMA vintage musical comes to life in the fond spoof.
Linked From Kansas.com at 12:00AM'Torchbearers' reunites longtime WTF actors in a 1920's farce about a theater company trying to put on a show
Linked From The Berkshire Eagle at 12:00AMThis month's column offers a change of pace from the usual roundup of new publications, as we share some of our staff's all-time favorite books about this business we call show.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMIt's not just an Old-Fashioned, please, but Cole Porter would be happy. Specialty cocktails inspired by plays and musicals are enlivening lobbies of Broadway's not-for-profit theatres.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMMore than 80 singers and dancers turned out in Fair Lawn last month to audition for the upcoming Old Library Theater production of "Rent," the gritty smash musical that centers on seven impo…
Linked From NorthJersey.com at 12:00AMThe show continues Australian choreographer Jason Gilkison's family tradition of ballroom dance, sexing it up for Broadway.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMSusan Lucci, Samantha Harris, Carrie Ann Inaba, Tony Roberts, Ricky Paull Goldin, David Fumero, Melissa Gallo, Chrishell Stause, and Saundra Santiago celebrate the Broadway opening of Burn the Floor.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMThis dazzling Latin and ballroom dance revue is brilliantly performed by a cast of international dancesport champions.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMThis oversexed and underwhelming - if surface-level-enjoyable - show that just opened at the Longacre has been so glamoured and glitzed à la Dancing with the Stars that it even incorporates two of that ABC megahit's most sinewy fixtures: its unquestionably gifted and blindingly sculpted (and incidentally engaged) champion celebrity partners, Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:00AMOld Globe has lined up an all-star team for a musical based on 'First Wives Club,' including pop giants Holland/Dozier/Holland
Linked From www3.signonsandiego.com at 12:00AMDespite some really slick production values and a generally tight and perky staging by Francesca Zambello, this is still just another one of those six-finales-in-search-of-a-plot shows.
Linked From SanDiego.com at 12:00AMDon't hate Broadway vet Richard Jay-Alexander for thinking Jessica Biel has the chops to pull off Guys and Dolls in concert. After all, he considers Barbra, Bette and Bernadette close personal and professional friends.
Linked From The Advocate at 12:00AMFor young dancers Oskar Rodriguez and Angelo Rivera, landing in an all-star ensemble's revival of an iconic musical has given them further inspiration to pursue their dreams.
Linked From www.laindependent.com at 12:00AM"Guys and Dolls," a Broadway musical set in Times Square, filled with Hell's Kitchen riff-raff and their would-be reformers and subtitled "A Musical Fable of Broadway, seemed right at home a…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMLast weekend, Kevin Stites and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra did right by the evergreen Frank Loesser score for a pleasant night out, in the face of grievous miscasting and a total absence of…
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMLaura Eason's smart and riveting "Sex with Strangers," the must-see show at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's First Look Repertory of New Work and, I'll bet, the next red hot Chicago play, i…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 12:00AMNew works target real life in annual Steppenwolf showcase
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 12:00AMThe subject is lines and lyrics that use the names of our 50 states. I've managed to find one for each question without ever repeating a musical.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMCasting news about Little House on the Prairie, the Musical at the Paper Mill Playhouse and the New Group's Starry Messenger.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMToday more than a million visitors a year come to what is perhaps the most visited assassination site in the world and to the small room across the street where the spirit of Abraham Lincoln…
Linked From www.dallasnews.com at 12:00AMThe good news about this ballroom dancing extravaganza is that it is every bit as flashy and tacky as you would expect. Do I need to add that this is also the bad news?
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 12:00AMBurn the Floor consists of a breathless, plotless succession of ballroom routines. That's it, and it's either a lot or not very much, depending on your love for this type of dancing.
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMWith its zero percent body fat and four-alarm sizzle, "Burn the Floor" is the stage equivalent of a fast, frisky beach read. With legs. Twenty pulsating pairs.
Linked From New York Daily News at 12:00AMWhen the dance cannot turn a full evening into more than a series of strenuous effects, director-choreographer Jason Gilkison switches the lights from green to purple. When all else fails, w…
Linked From Newsday Subscription at 12:00AMDespite the overt sexiness, there's something bland about the evening, a generic eroticism that needs a dose of quirkiness during a surprisingly monotonous tour through the history of ballro…
Linked From www.google.com at 12:00AMWhile ballroom blitz Burn the Floor has been touring internationally for 10 years, its arrival on Broadway clearly aims to cash in on the resurgent popularity of dance on television reality shows. But if you're going to invade the turf of Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins and Michael Bennett, you need to bring something beyond adrenaline and aggressive sizzle. Something like grace, style or wit. While there's only about 15 ounces of collective body fat onstage, there's also about 15 ounces of imagination.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMGuest stars Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy provide most of the heat in this surprisingly tepid dance show.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMUnless you are missing a chromosome or two, you should find Burn the Floor an invigorating and exhilarating entertainment. It is certainly the sexiest show on Broadway.
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMIt pulsates. It seduces. It is rock solid, pure entertainment.
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 12:00AMIf you can overlook the often generic R&B elevator music of Motown writing legends Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland, the cut-and-pasted and cursorily reimagined book by Rupert…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMThe First Wives Club kicks off with more fits and starts than a dithering bridezilla in a dress shop. But that first half, when we meet the wives and their woes, is just a setup for the second, when they actually go into action. That's when First Wives and its new songs by the incomparable Motown team Holland/Dozier/Holland step up with a pizazz that befits a (potentially) Broadway-bound show.
Linked From www3.signonsandiego.com at 12:00AMThe new musical adaptation of the hit film about three scorned wives is a true crowd-pleaser, but would benefit from a stronger book and score.
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