Annie Baker's Off-Broadway hit opens the George Street Theater season
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMThe local scene has expanded in both the number of shows and the variety, and an upcoming movie on the performance art only figures to spice things up further.On a recent Saturday night, Lil…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMLegit News: 'Heights,' 'Frankenstein' join 11-show slate -- NEW YORK The box office at "American Idiot" had the time of its life in Week 19 thanks to a stint by Green Day frontman, Billie Jo…
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMLegit News: Nonprofit commit to sustain, expand new works programs -- Pick one of Gotham's major nonprofit theaters and you'll likely find a second-stage program.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMLegit News: But creatives believed in conversion from screen to stage -- Tuner "Leap of Faith" took one from the 1992 film to the stage, opening at the Ahmanson Theater on Oct. 3 with hopes …
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMThis charming dance-filled musical for the kindergarten set will amuse adults as well.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMHollywood TV caught up with Carol Channing, or said she's supporting Florence Henderson on this season of Dancing with the Stars. Channing also sang Hello Dolly. For more, watch below.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMPee-wee Herman has just moved to New York City to prepare for his big Broadway debut in THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW and yesterday spent the day acquainting himself with all that New York has to …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMFormer Saturday Night Live and Comedy Central star Colin Quinn will move his one-man show Colin Quinn Long Story Short, directed by Jerry Seinfeld, to Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre for an 1…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMRAIN - A Tribute to The Beatles On Broadway has been extended by popular demand and will now run through Sunday, January 9 at the Neil Simon Theatre 250 West 52nd Street. Previews begin Tues…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMBroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 1092010.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMRadarOnline reports that 'Real Housewife' Countess LuAnn de Lesseps is serious about her intentions to appear on the Great White Way.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMIt has been a banner year for PROMISES, PROMISES' Katie Finneran. Her critically acclaimed performance as Marge MacDougall in the smash hit musical comedy PROMISES, PROMISES swept the 2010 a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 10 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMA Chorus Line stars Mario Lopez and Courtney Mazza will share their first steps into parenthood with America when the VH1 reality series “Mario Lopez: Saved By the Baby” premiere…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMHere are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 2010, from information compiled by Playbill.com. Women on the Verge Delays Broadway Breakdown for Second Time. Op…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe cast of Broadway’s Chicago has filmed a YouTube video to contribute to the It Gets Better project, recently started by advice columnist Dan Savage in response to the many recent ga…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMMike Farrell and Jim Parrack co-star in the Blank Theatre production of Edmund White's Terre Haute, inspired by the unpublished correspondence between one of America's most famous writers a…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMKatie Finneran, who won her second Tony Award for her acclaimed performance as the booze-loving Marge MacDougall in Promises, Promises, plays her final performance in the revival of that Bu…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMSebastian Arcelus plays his final performance as Bob Gaudio in the Tony-winning musical Jersey Boys Oct. 10 at the August Wilson Theatre. Arcelus is departing the production to head the cas…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe Deep Throat Sex Scandal, which concerns the making of the famed 1970s pornographic film "Deep Throat" and the subsequent controversy the film ignited, officially opens Oct. 10 following…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMWe screen Blu-ray releases of the delicious Canadian series "Slings & Arrows," and the Japanese classic "Seven Samurai," plus a restoration of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," and "Glee: Th…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AM1730 Birthday of Oliver Goldsmith, British author of She Stoops to Conquer.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe Barrington Stage Company's production of the Arthur Miller classic The Crucible officially opens Oct. 10 at 3 PM with Broadway actor and Barrington regular Christopher Innvar as John Pr…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMFOX has released the line-up of songs for its special October 12 episode, according to published reports The episode's musical selections will include Lea Michele and Chris Colfer duetting o…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMUK musical theater star Lee Mead will perform a special solo concert, Christmas with Lee Mead at the London Coliseum on Sunday, December 19, acccording to Whatsonstage.com' Mead, who came to…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMGLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, honored the Emmy Award-winning ABC comedy Modern Family at the Respect Awards in Los Angeles on Friday, October 8. The event was hoste…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Alan Campbell will play Dr. Seward in the Carolina Ballet's Dracula, to run October 14-31 at the A.J. Fletcher Theater of the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Art…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AM"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" showed on a large screen as an orchestra and chorus performed the film score by Howard Shore live at Radio City Music Hall Friday night.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMThe architect Bing Thom has renovated the home of Arena Stage in southwest Washington, adding a third performance space to the complex.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMIn the new musical, “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” the gazpacho is laced with Valium, the boyfriends are cads, and Patti LuPone is in full diva glory.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMDoes the physical presence of actors make eroticism less exploitative on stage than on screen?
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMA 21st-century venue is measured on its relationships as well as its output. Now is our chance to encourage collaboration
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMI saw Robert Lepage's Das Rheingold on screen in New York, beset by honking horns, neon adverts and tourists. It was brilliant
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMGlobetrotting directors can produce good work on the move, but it's chiefly those running buildings who enact a vision for theatre
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMWhy do playwrights still adhere to the philosopher's over-simplistic view of drama? It's a Greek tragedy
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMWe tend to think of William Shakespeare as wholly ours. But Stratford's greatest son has a rival fan club across the North Sea
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMA recent adaptation of Richard Milward's debut novel Apples made use of his Teesside accent. Why is it still so rare to hear genuinely local voices on stage?
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMCut some canny deals, fundraise like hell, share resources with others, and go for the bold, brave and new
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMIt's no longer enough for companies to put on plays and hope that people turn up. The most exciting theatre at the moment is interactive, collaborative and out there
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMBloggers debate whether conventional theatres can be spaces to 'think with', while the American actors' union comes in for criticism online
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMThere can't be many theatregoers who haven't slumbered in the stalls. But what if a show consciously sends its audience to sleep?
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMCritics and creatives may snort at our obsession with stories, but the need to know is what keeps us alive ... and in the theatre
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AM"My Soul to Take" has the comic pop-culture references and dreamy shocks of a Wes Craven film, but the director's heart does not seem to be into it.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 12:00AMIf "Ella," the Long Wharf Theater's first production of the season, has a message about Ella Fitzgerald, it is that she was terribly unattractive and a horrible mother. Whether true or not, …
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMAn adaptation of "The Diary of Anne Frank" is being performed at the Westport Country Playhouse, through Oct. 30.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMJeffrey Hatcher's "Mrs. Mannerly" is a two-actor show, with one in the title role and the other playing five children.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMCurrently in noisy residence at Playwrights Theater of New Jersey, "MoM" is an intimate rock musical with a cool concept, so-so songs and an O.K. production that does not completely fulfill …
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMurprise! Not scary or gory or a musical but an elongated comedy sketch, well-directed by Michael Alltop at Philadelphia's Underground Arts
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMThe director Arthur Penn, who died at 88 on Sept. 28, made loose, vital movies that have no place in today's Hollywood.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMIt's a long way from being a Marine officer in Fallujah to acting at the ART. But Ed Walsh says it's not as far as you might think.
Linked From Boston Globe at 12:00AMRude Mechs, an Austin, Texas-based troupe with a thirst for the theatrical edge, make their Boston debut with their play about theater guru Stella Burden's followers, called "The Method Gun."
Linked From Boston Globe at 12:00AMAnnie Baker will have three of her "Shirley, Vt." plays performed in a festival of her work.
Linked From Boston Globe at 12:00AMWHEN Elaine Del Valle was a little girl, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn in the 1980s, she lived in an apartment that required only one key to open the front door. But her mother had …
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMIt may have been the most mortifying night of Amy Ryan's life. She was on Broadway, playing the role of Sonya opposite Derek Jacobi and Laura Linney in Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya."
Linked From Washington Post at 12:00AMThe story of how Ed Shea, who barely graduated from high school in nearby Portsmouth, got to run his own theater company is worthy of its own play.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMDo I sound uncharacteristically mushy? Well, I am, in no small part to my experience over the last four months. At 4:21 a.m. on June 12 I received a call from Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital.…
Linked From New York Daily News at 12:00AMIn this treasure chest of lyrics and essays, Stephen Sondheim appraises his own work with eye‑widening honesty
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