Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Matthew Murray discuss The Scottsboro Boys, All About Me, Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday, and more.
Linked From BroadwayStars at 12:00AMLinked From BBC at 12:00AM This week, as Stephen Sondheim (and the world) celebrates his 80th birthday, I wanted to share some thoughts on one of America's most influential songwriters from the performers who bring his music to life.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMEXCLUSIVE: The Green Day-fueled American Idiot doesn't bow on Broadway bow until April 20. Already, talks are underway with Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman to turn the musical into a feature film.
Linked From Deadline at 12:00AMAPRIL DEBUT | Original R-rated version was cleaned up for Broadway, film
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 12:00AMThe nation's rolling spring break sked brought tourists back to Gotham last week -- and with them a nice boost to Broadway's box office.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMVenue founder Gil Cates receives honor at fundraiser
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMThe widow of country music legend Roger Miller has won a protracted legal battle over the rights to some of his biggest hits, including "King of the Road."
Linked From news.yahoo.com at 12:00AMThey said they are in talks with real estate agents about possibly staging the show from a Broadway theater in New York City.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMTony Kushner's harrowing play Angels in America became a film, a TV series and finally an opera. As it makes its UK debut, John O'Mahony meets the playwright - and one very enterprising comp…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMTheresa Rebeck had high hopes at the start of the last decade for her new play, "The Butterfly Collection," but they turned into bitter memories that still rankle.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMThe veteran actor talks 'Up,' FDR, Elvis and more.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMThe two theatrical knights met last week for the first time in years, and The Times had a front-row seat
Linked From entertainment.timesonline.co.uk at 12:00AMKelsey Grammer is a fervent conservative, recovering cocaine addict, and paranormal enthusiast who just might run for office. (Politicians have had more baroque baggage.) But first he's play…
Linked From New York Magazine at 12:00AMAs Morticia Addams, Bebe Neuwirth is hoping for a perfect fit.
Linked From New York Magazine at 12:00AMAnthony Mackie discusses returning to Broadway in Martin McDonagh's outrageous comedy A Behanding in Spokane.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMAlfred Molina opens in the new American play "Red" at the Golden on April 1. He told me about it...
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMRichard Dresser says his new comedy, "The Last Days of Mickey & Jean," was inspired by the fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger, but it's not about him.
Linked From Boston Globe at 12:00AMA play bearing much of the Bard.
Linked From Philly.com at 12:00AMForget charter schools. Forget those children never left behind. Oh, and make them study the flute?
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AM"The Brits may do 'proper' Shakespeare," says veteran theater PR Karen Greco, "but NYC companies do it kick-ass."
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AMSays spokesperson Dame Judi Dench: "World Theater Day is an opportunity to celebrate theater in all its myriad forms."
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AMFundraising for this annual outing is no blarney.
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AMThe actress-playwright (and wife of playwright Chuck Mee) says her play "Rescue Me" isn't a matter of Iph, but when.
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AMGot $5 million to spare? You could help produce every Shakespeare play during 2012.
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AM"I think 'Ching Chong Chinaman' is a brilliant title, says Lee of Pan Asian Rep's new show. "It makes everyone stop in their tracks..."
Linked From Clyde Fitch Report at 12:00AMThe unveiling of a caricature of former American Idol finalist March 18th
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:00AMThe musical "Million Dollar Quartet" opens at the Nederlander April 11. Following the new trend, it runs an hour-thirty, no intermission.
Meantime its star Hunter Foster is hoarse.
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMWalt Spangler is back in town. That's good news for anyone intrigued by the set design of such Goodman Theatre productions as "King Lear" and "Desire Under the Elms."
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 12:00AMPlaywright Rebecca Gilman contemplates the role of art in depicting disasters in "The True History of the Johnstown Flood."
Linked From Variety at 12:00AM'True History' of Johnstown has burdened cast with a hopeless script
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 12:00AMRyan Knowles gives a dynamic peformance as the infamous Roman emperor in this raunchy extravaganza.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMIf you like your theater gamy and a bit rough around the edges, "Caligula Maximus" will thoroughly satisfy your desires.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AM"Two Gentlemen of Lebowski" is an extremely faithful adaptation in Shakespearean iambic pentameter of the 1998 cult film "The Big Lebowski," about a stoner-bowler who accidentally gets invol…
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMHorror and humor go hand in hand in the Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company's latest fun-filled effort.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMQui Nguyen and Robert Ross Parker serve up laughs and some swell fight choreography in this riff on teenage slasher movies, but this unfocused collaboration often feels recycled.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMThe puzzling play has something to do with dreams. Or maybe not.
Linked From Philly.com at 12:00AMJeremy Irons as a modern day Lear; very ambitious but badly in need of a good editor
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMGeoffrey Nauffts and Sheryl Kaller deliver a thoughtful, poignant and funny drama for the new age.
Linked From Theater News Online at 12:00AMPeter Nauffts takes a worst-case scenario and makes of it a captivating cautionary tale.
Linked From Theater News Online at 12:00AMSuzan-Lori Parks's new play, The Book of Grace, is determined to bludgeon every shred of hope, optimism and cheerfulness out of us until we succumb to her grim view of human beings, event outcomes and life generally.
Linked From Broad Street Review at 12:00AMSuzan-Lori Parks' new allegorical drama set in U.S. border town with Elizabeth Marvel works only on a symbolic level
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:00AMThis enjoyable play has been revived more than once. Whether it needed to be this time is debatable.
Linked From Theater News Online at 12:00AMThese sparring characters live up to the expectations set by past productions.
Linked From Theater News Online at 12:00AMThe story of Hellen Keller and her teacher Annie, and one s struggle to teach the other, is compelling despite its flaws.
Linked From Theater News Online at 12:00AMAndrew Lloyd Webber reminds us that sequels are usually not a good idea.
Linked From Theater News Online at 12:00AMComplicated, gloomy, intertwined families are linked between 1959 and 2039 moving back and forth in time. Continually absorbing.
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:00AMValerie Harper in a tour de force performance as Tallulah Bankhead, six months before she died, brave, hilarious, astonishing.
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:00AMBruce Norris has written a bitter comedy about what he knows is far from the last word on racism by injecting a note of another lasting pain.
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:00AMCriticised for being too marginal or too sensationalist, it's time we gave Britain's black theatremakers the applause they deserve
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMThe best new play award for The Mountaintop upset the form-book and made pundits look foolish
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