The Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino as Shylock, has announced a final extension. The production, at the Broadhurst Theatre, will go on hiatus on January 9 (…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:00PMBroadway veteran Lewis Cleale has joined the cast of the upcoming Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon, by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Tony Award winner Robert Lopez. …
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:00PMMark Rylance will reprise his Olivier Award-winning performance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron in a Broadway production of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem. The production is scheduled…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:00PMVaudeville, LondonSo silly it's just one long joke, Potted Panto is the latest offering from the duo who gave us Potted Pirates and Potted Potter. The latter was a deceptively simple but wit…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:00PMLeicester Square theatre, London"A big proportion of the world is thick as shit," says Australian standup Jim Jeffries. And so it may seem to him: with an act like this, he's unlikely t…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:00PMIn the following video, Tempe's AZFamily visits the cast of the national tour of HAIR. The musical played ASU's Gammage Auditorim December 7 - 12. Click below to check out the video
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMWatch Lisa Brescia, star of Broadway musical Mamma Mia, discuss diversity and its role in the theatre world and beyond. The interview is part of the I AM THIS LAND video contest on diversity…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMThe Merchant of Venice, led by Al Pacino as Jewish moneylender Shylock and Lily Rabe as heiress Portia, has announced it will extend its Broadway run. Originally scheduled to close January 9…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:00PMJez Butterworth’s West End hit Jerusalem will bow on Broadway with original star Mark Rylance reprising his Olivier Award-winning role as Johnny “Rooster” Byron, according …
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:00PMKyle Dean Massey begins performances at Fiyero in the Broadway production of Wicked.
Massey joins Wicked directly after playing Gabe in the Broadway production of Next to Normal. Other Br…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:00PMLegit News: Production will not close on Jan. 9 -- Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," starring Al Pacino as Shylock, will not close Jan. 9 as previously announced.
Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 05:00PMLegit News: Rylance, Crook to reprise roles -- The long-planned Broadway transfer of hit London play "Jerusalem" has locked in a spring run with Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook set to repri…
Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 05:00PMThe play will go on hiatus while Al Pacino works on a film, then resume performances for three weeks beginning Feb. 1.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PMAlfred Hitchcock’s
THE 39 STEPS
TO CELEBRATE FINAL PERFORMANCE JANUARY 16th
BY GIVING AWAY A TRIP TO LONDON!
“The new four person cast has enlivened the show with their own brand …
Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 05:00PMThe Public Theater
(Artistic Director Oskar Eustis;
Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson)
Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel
Announce the Final Extension of
Daniel Sullivan’s
Critical…
Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 05:00PMThe City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs insists that none of its arts programming is expecting to change as a result of recent staffing changes and the transfer of some employee…
Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 05:00PMAn additional performance has been added to the run of Willy Russell's "Shirley Valentine," starring Judith Ivey at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre. The extra show will be presented Sunday, J…
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Mark Rylance will reprise his Olivier Award-winning performance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron in a Broadway production of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, according to a report in The…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:00PMAmerican Idiot stars John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands and Michael Esper recently braved the freezing temperatures and hit the streets of NYC to bring some good will and holiday cheer to fans…
Linked From Playbill at 04:00PMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsLeeds's Grade I-listed market hall is one of the oldest and largest in Europe, with a colourful history of traders including Cheap Jack, purveyor of miracle pi…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:00PMIn a video Christmas card from 20th Century Fox, chairmen Dana Walden and Gary Newman welcome GLEE stars Jane Lynch and Matthew Morrison to spread the holiday spirit to their loyal fans. Th…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson, Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel announced a final extension today of Daniel Sullivan's critically…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMCheck out this video of Reeve Carney, star of Julie Taymor's original Broadway production, SPIDERMAN Turn Off The Dark, and of her new film The Tempest, singing 'O Mistress Mine.' This song …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMAudiences showed their desire to get into the holiday spirit by snapping up more than $1.46 million in tickets to Elf, setting a record at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre while earning the new tun…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:00PMJez Butterworth’s West End hit Jerusalem will bow on Broadway with original star Mark Rylance reprising his Olivier Award-winning role as Johnny “Rooster” Byron, according …
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:00PMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending Dec. 19, 2010: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A FREE MAN OF COLOR $214,439 4,253 50.97% $50.42 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC …
Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 04:00PMSHATTERS OWN BOX OFFICE RECORD AT THE AL HIRSCHFELD THEATRE
GROSSING $1,464,912.50
FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 19, 2010
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures in association with Unique Feature…
Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 04:00PMWICKED
WELCOMES BROADWAY’S NEWEST ELPHABA
TEAL WICKS
BEGINS PERFORMANCES FEBRUARY 1, 2011
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Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 04:00PMMILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
TO WELCOME LEE ROCKER TO BROADWAY CAST
FOR 12 PERFORMANCES ONLY
GRAMMY NOMINEE TO ASSUME ROLE OF ‘JAY PERKINS’
JANUARY 21-31
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the hit B…
Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 04:00PMIt was only on about my 13th visit to the new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts that I noticed this pitcher. It was made around 1876 and would have been used to serve beer …
Linked From Boston Globe at 04:00PMLook closely and perhaps you’ll see yourself in one of the 40 black-and-white shots at “On the Streets: Photographs by Russell duPont . ’’ Since the ’60s, the W…
Linked From Boston Globe at 04:00PMThe play will go on hiatus while Al Pacino works on a film, then resume performances for three weeks beginning Feb. 1.
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A hit in Stratford, it seems to have lost something en route to Toronto
Linked From The Globe and Mail at 03:00PMRed Dog Squadron held a holiday party on Saturday, December 18 as a fundraiser for its upcoming production of Karl Gajdusek's greedy, which will run January 8-29 at El Centro Theatre. …
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:00PMNothing says Christmas like Sue Sylvester, right? She might be the Scroogiest character on “Glee,” but she’s also one of the funniest. The folks at Fox are hoping you’…
Linked From Playbill at 03:00PMTo celebrate the final performance of Off-Broadway’s The 39 Steps, the production will raffle a trip to London that includes two round-trip airline tickets, a three-night breakfast-inc…
Linked From Playbill at 03:00PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 12192010
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMTony and Olivier Award winning star Mark Rylance La Bte, Boeing-Boeing will recreate his wildly acclaimed, multi award-winning performance as Johnny Rooster' Byron on Broadway in the Royal C…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMSweet! That’s the verdict of the cast of Freckleface Strawberry, who gathered at Serendipity 3 on December 20 to sample a new sundae created in honor of their family-friendly off-Broad…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:00PMReeve Carney is currently flying high as the title character in Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, but you can also catch the rising star on the big screen in his other Julie Taymor-directed pro…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:00PMEverybody's buzzing about the highly anticipated Broadway extravaganza Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark—and now Broadway.com has your first look at Julie Taymor's stage spectacle …
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:00PMThe 35-member cast of the forthcoming Broadway production of War Horse has been announced. The acclaimed drama, adapted by Nick Stafford from the novel by Michael Morpurgo, will begin previe…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:00PMNeed ideas for wintertime family fun? Follow the lead of celeb moms such as Brooke Shields, Mary-Louise Parker and Donna Murphy and take the kids to see Dear Edwina, the family-friendly tune…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:00PMMark Rylance will reprise his Olivier Award-winning role as Johnny "Rooster" Byron, the drug-fueled former daredevil, in Jez Butterworth's play.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:00PMLegit News: His work was produced Off Broadway -- Playwright Max G. Weine died Dec. 18 in New York City of complications from Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer. He was 89.
Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 03:00PMEric Idle, the creator of "Spamalot," is expected at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace Tuesday, where he plans to watch a rehearsal of the theater's licensed production of his Broad…
Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 03:00PMMark Rylance will reprise his Olivier Award-winning role as Johnny "Rooster" Byron, the drug-fueled former daredevil, in Jez Butterworth's play.
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As previously reported on TheaterMania, former New York City First Lady Donna Hanover will return to the stage next month in the play Hillbilly Women at the Arclight Theatre. Sondra Lee will…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:00AMTeal Wicks will assume the role of Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked, playing at the Gershwin Theatre, on February 1. It has also been announced that Kyle Dean Massey will repris…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:00AMStage veterans Sarah Jessica Parker and Kelsey Grammer will headline the film I Don't Know How She Does It, based on Allison Pearson's first-person comic tale of a high-powered fin…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:00AMHans Altwies, Denis Arndt, Bhama Roget, and Amy Thone will star in the Alley Theatre's production of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play, God of Carnage, January 7-30. Wilson Mi…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:00AMOn Monday, December 20, 2010, the Tony Award-winning production of WEST SIDE STORY becomes the longest running incarnation of the groundbreaking musical, playing its 733 performance surpassi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMThe Social Network took the prize for the Best Motion Picture Drama at the 2010 International Press Academy's Satellite Awards ceremony held on Sunday, December 19 in Los Angeles' Hyatt Rege…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMAs the curtain goes down on 2010, Broadway.com is looking ahead to the new year. We’ve asked the brightest stars on Broadway to reflect on their personal highlights from the past year …
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:00AMTeal Wicks will be Broadway’s newest green girl when she steps into the role of Elphaba in Wicked on February 1, 2011, and former Broadway.com video blogger Kyle Dean Massey will take …
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:00AMAs 2010 comes to an end, Broadway.com editors chose our top five Broadway shows of the year—and we asked readers to chime in and vote for your favorites, too. Turns out that great mind…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:00AMAmerican Ballet Theatre puts a vivid twist on a holiday classic
As the holidays approach, the dance world offers its annual flurry of The Nutcracker, that classic holiday tale about a little…
Linked From Theatre Development Fund at 11:00AMThere was some great Spider-Man coverage in Variety over the weekend that looked at the show from a bunch of angles, from branding, to storytelling and yes, to spectacle. (The show actually …
Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 11:00AMSunset Boulevard is not the best musical that Andrew Lloyd Webber ever composed. While its primary storyline—the decline and fall of an aging silent film diva–is oddly compelling, it…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:00AMThe British office that regulates television is looking into risqué performances by Christina Aguilera and Rihanna drew more than 4,000 complaints from viewers.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMNew Haven native Jill Eikenberry and her husband Michael Tucker (both of TV's "L.A. Law") will give a one-night-only reading of Mark Twain's "Diaries of Adam & Eve" at Hartford's Mark Tw…
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The stage version of the children’s favourite is no new Christmas classic, but it has its moments
Linked From The Globe and Mail at 10:00AMArs Nova has announced five of the theatrical offerings that it will be offering over an extended period during 2011.
The first of these will be The Wii Plays (February 1-12), which will be…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:00AMThe bill allows producers to deduct the cost of qualifying expenditures in the year they occur rather than having to amortize those costs over several years. This is great news for independe…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 10:00AMSenator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is attacking GOP claims that he’s rushing the treaty through, alleging there has been more than ample time to review it and raise questions.
His office circ…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 10:00AMBarbara Walters made some TV insiders cringe when she told NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on Larry King's final CNN show Thursday, "You see, if I hadn't left, I would have your job t…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 10:00AMDanny Boyle: "One of the things I believe in is to be extreme. I don’t mean do things for shock value, but to tell a story as extremely as possible. People go to the cinema to see the whol…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 10:00AMFederal authorities shut down five Web sites last month on suspicion of copyright infringement, they gave no warning and offered no details of their investigation, and they have not filed an…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 10:00AMOnce, the sight of a Hollywood star's bottom or breasts was rare and exciting. Now they're all at it – and the results bore us. It's time for the marketing men to think more cleverly, says…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 10:00AMMaking a Difference segments highlight good news and people who give their time to help others. The segments began in 2009 and are suggested by viewers and NBC News staffers.
"It just resona…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 10:00AMIn 2009 Madonna donated almost $2.5 million to Karen and Phillip Berg’s Kabbalah efforts: $2.25 million to Raising Malawi, the Kabbalah fronted organization run by the Bergs’ son, Michae…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 10:00AMEver since giving birth to daughter Aviana in May, the actress has been aware of the pressure Hollywood puts on new mothers to lose the weight gained during pregnancy.
The actress, 36, refu…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 10:00AMBeginning performances on Tuesday, February 1, 2011, TEAL WICKS will assume the role of Elphaba in the Broadway company of WICKED. Ms. Wicks is making her Broadway debut after playing the ro…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMBetty White has won the title of AP's Entertainer of the Year. The 88-year-old actress, currently starring in the sitcom Hot in Cleveland, received more votes than Fox's popular TV show GLEE…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMThe cast of the hit Broadway show LOMBARDI celebrated the season yesterday, December 19, with a holiday celebration during the Green Bay PackersNew England Patriots game. The company kicked …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMHe’s tweeted (teasingly!) about Kristin Chenoweth’s popularity in Broadway.com fan polls, but now Sean Hayes of Promises, Promises is getting his very own portrait on the “…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:00AMIt looks like Stephen Sondheim’s recent guest appearance on The Colbert Report awakened thespian dreams in host Stephen Colbert. The TV host and his wife, Evelyn McGee-Colbert, will jo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:00AMDavid Pittsinger and Carmen Cusack may not be household names in the annals of theater, past or present. For sure, they can’t be called theater legends, even in the age of instant hyperbol…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:00AMThis year's special, a science-fiction tribute to Dickens's "Christmas Carol," will also be the first "Doctor Who" episode to have its premiere in the United States and Britain on the same d…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMJames Daily and Ryan Davidson are the dynamic duo behind "Law and the Multiverse," a new blog that looks at the legal issues in comic books.
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The Jonah Hex actress and her husband, Brian Austin Green, were spotted on a beach in Hawaii where Megan sizzled in a tiny black bikini.
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 06:00AMYogi Bear wasn't better than your average talking-animal movie, snaring an estimated $16.7 million. Despite the presence of big-name actors, How Do You Know was the biggest bust, collecting…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 06:00AMThe 29-year-old socialite ensured the attention was well and truly on at the Supermartxe VIP Party at Fabrik. She took to the stage at the party in Madrid and cavorted with dancers clad in A…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 06:00AMThe duo helped close out the year with a fun rendition of Silver Bells, which included the famous blue cookie critter giving Santa a pitch for an iPad -- for the digital cookies, naturally.
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 06:00AMAccording to the rumor mill, the 26-year-old's private video was leaked online. Although too grainy to completely make out, the flick features a topless woman, resembling Minaj, who just hap…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 06:00AMThe band announced that guitarist Josh Farro and drummer Zac Farro -- two founding members of the multi-platinum pop-punk group -- were leaving the band, confirming speculations that hit the…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 06:00AMTheir ghost stories may not be entirely trustworthy, but tour guides recondition the world we see. Surely that counts as theatreWhen I was younger, I had a job as a ghost tour guide. Dressed…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 20 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMLegit News: Frankel, Korie, Greenberg to pen musical of Haynes pic -- Todd Haynes' 2002 pic "Far From Heaven" is getting the tuner treatment, with "Grey Gardens" songwriting pair Scott Frank…
Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 06:00AMLegit News: Delay still keeps opening ahead of the rush -- The latest delay for Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" pushes the musical's opening night closer to the spate of big, spla…
Linked From feedproxy.google.com at 06:00AMThanks to the televised antics of Snooki, the Situation, and the rest of those budding Rhodes Scholars on “Jersey Shore,’’ it’s been a rough year, image-wise, for the…
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The decades-overdue debut of Sir Simon Rattle at the Met Friday night demonstrated brilliantly just what we've been missing: His conducting of "Pelléas et Mélisande" is the musical pinnacl…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMIt's not often that you hear Schubert's melan choly song cycle "Win terreise" ("Winter Journey") in a down town theater. And not with classical musicians, either, but with three scruffy dude…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMOn Monday, December 20, 2010, the Broadway company of the international musical smash CHICAGO is pleased to welcome back Bianca Marroquin to the starring role of merry murderess Roxie Hart, …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMMichael Cumpsty one of the recent stars of the hit film Eat, Pray, Love joins the cast of Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw presentation of HEARTBREAK HOUSE, a light comedy about the r…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMThe Broadway Boys will host the 5th annual BROADWAY SINGS FOR TOYS on December 20th at 7pm. The benefit concert for Toys for Tots will be held at Symphony Space's Thalia Theater and will cel…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMPromises, Promises star and Broadway performer extraordinaire, Kristin Chenoweth, is getting her Christmas wish.
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 12:00AMthis Royal Shakespeare production will be at New York's Lincoln Center next summer . . .
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMIn the Afterword to Stage Money: The Business of the Professional Theater the impact of the recession on the theater, particularly the not-for-profit theater, is examined. We write that stat…
Linked From Stage Money at 12:00AMIf John Belushi were alive today, he probably would have quit Hollywood and might be directing on Broadway instead, says his old comedy partner, Dan Aykroyd.
Linked From beaconnews.suntimes.com at 12:00AMActress Marilu Henner is becoming known for more than just "Taxi." She's one of the handful of people who scientists say can remember their entire lives.
Linked From CBS at 12:00AMNot a banner year by any stretch, but good work will always out. This year, the advantage fell decidedly to directors who weren't afraid to let their artistry show.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMthis hard to classify 3-man show is probably one of the most unusual approaches to serious music as theate
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AM"The other Broadway? The one with the new musicals and modern plays? It is in a Grinch-worthy slump. More than a dozen shows with high hopes but meager ticket sales are poised to close by th…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"John Cariani's 'Almost, Maine,' an earnest 19-character play about the romantic happenings one cold night in northern Maine, has since been produced around the world, including in Australia…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:00AMHank Ratner launched the Garden of Dreams Foundation four years ago in an effort to combine the considerable power of some of the company's biggest pieces into one charitable endeavor.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:00AMWho is the real person of the year? On a skit on "Saturday Night Live," WikiLeaks' Julian Assange (played by Bill Hader) presented his case on why he should have beaten out Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg.Linked From The Wall Street Journal at 12:00AM
With "Three Pianos," three local artists turn a Schubert song cycle into a hilarious, yet wise, examination of friendship, depression and classical music.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:00AMWhat is the Democratic leadership dreaming about during this holiday season? The writers at "Saturday Night Live" think that they know.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal at 12:00AMA theater group has mounted a production of the Charles Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol" in Chicago, but with a twist--this version is in Klingon, the language of an alien race in the sci…
Linked From The Wall Street Journal at 12:00AM"60 Minutes" had a fascinating piece on tonight about folks with "superior autobiographical memory"--the ability to recall, in some detail, almost every day of their lives. And, in an intere…
Linked From The Wall Street Journal at 12:00AMThe Oscar and Tony Award winner was an accomplished photographer whose pictures are included in a four-volume set.The Oscar and Tony Award winner was an accomplished photographer whose pictu…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMEvery weekend I'm going to post some of the youtube clips that I come across that I especially love -- those that give me goosebumps, touch my heart or make me laugh. Oscar, Emmy and Tony Aw…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMNEW YORK — Producers once again have delayed the opening of the troubled Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” the show's fourth major delay this year. The dat…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 12:00AMSignature Theatre's "Sunset Boulevard" does its best to dazzle
Linked From Washington Post at 12:00AMWhen Florence Lacey's Norma Desmond steps uncertainly into the spotlight on the Hollywood sound stage in "Sunset Boulevard" and sings the first notes of "As If We Never Said Goodbye," Andrew…
Linked From Washington Post at 12:00AMBruce Dow far more suited to the leading role than Sean Cullen.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:00AMThe Calgary comic’s one-woman show at Ars Nova drew gushing praise
Linked From The Globe and Mail at 12:00AMLegit News: Delay still keeps opening ahead of the rush -- The latest delay for Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" pushes the musical's opening night closer to the spate of big, spla…
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMLegit News: Frankel, Korie, Greenberg to pen musical of Haynes pic -- Todd Haynes' 2002 pic "Far From Heaven" is getting the tuner treatment, with "Grey Gardens" songwriting pair Scott Frank…
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMNot for nothing is there an "official wine sponsor" at New York Theatre Workshop these days. Mass quantities of bottle red are passed down the rows of theatergoers, thus sharing the party mo…
Linked From Newsday Subscription at 12:00AMWhile this unique combination frat party and musical history lesson is sometimes entertaining and informative, it's way too loosey-goosey to be ultimately satisfying. Plenty of free booze, though.Linked From Backstage at 12:00AM
That thumping sound you hear is my heart in overdrive. I've fallen head over heels for the young British physical-theater company Inspector Sands and its anarchic sense of humor.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMBonnie Langford has taken the traditional autobiographical approach. The result is mostly, to paraphrase a song from Langford's only Broadway credit, friendly and funny and fine.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMThe all new 21st Season of Broadway Beat is here This week catch it's Broadway Beat's Christmas Special with ELF, Ann Harada as Christmas Eve and more
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMLaura Bell Bundy, country music and Broadway star of HAIRSPRAY and LEGALLY BLONDE fame, has been working on a sketch web series called Cooter County. Cooter County is home to some crazy peop…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMJujamcyn has created a holiday video, highlighting their 2010 accomplishments and milestones including births, weddings, charities and of course shows like AMERICAN IDIOT and ELF.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMHere is the second part of our three-part discussion, in which Esparza and I analyze his roles and performances in plays, as well as a thorough discussion of the art of acting - and, additio…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMMichael Cumpsty one of the recent stars of the hit film Eat, Pray, Love joins the cast of Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw presentation of HEARTBREAK HOUSE, a light comedy about the r…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMSeth Rudetsky Broadway host on SIRIUSXM radio will team up with TonyEmmy Award winner Andrea Martin YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, MY FAVORITE YEAR, SCTV, MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING for the first of his …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMOn Monday, December 20, 2010, the Broadway company of the international musical smash CHICAGO is pleased to welcome back Bianca Marroquin to the starring role of merry murderess Roxie Hart, …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMThe Broadway Boys will host the 5th annual BROADWAY SINGS FOR TOYS on December 20th at 7pm. The benefit concert for Toys for Tots will be held at Symphony Space's Thalia Theater and will cel…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMChristina Ricci, who is making her Broadway debut in TIME STANDS STILL, will appear on the Monday, December 20 episode of Rachael Ray.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMA special holiday video has been released by Jujamcyn Theaters. Set to American Idiot’s “Good Riddance (The Time of Your Life),” the video features nods to the Broadway sho…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 20 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMHere are the best-selling theatre CDS, as reported by billboard.biz, issue date Dec. 18, 2010.Jersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast RecordingWicked, Original Broadway Cast RecordingRock of Age…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe third annual New York City Christmas, a benefit concert at Joe’s Pub at 7 PM Dec. 20, will not be a mere repeat of previous years, or just a rehash of the lively album of the same …
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AM1912 Laurette Taylor stars in Peg O' My Heart, written and directed by her husband, J. Hartley Manners. This story of a winsome orphan becomes a vehicle for Taylor, and she will revive it of…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway company of Chicago welcomes Bianca Marroquin back to the production at the Ambassador Theatre Dec. 20 for a three-week limited engagement through Jan. 9, 2011, in the role of Ro…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe 5th annual Broadway Sings for Toys benefit, hosted by The Broadway Boys, plays Symphony Space's Thalia Theater Dec. 20.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe Project Shaw series continues Dec. 20 with a reading of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House, which is billed as a "comedy about life, love, longing and laughter."
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMA free reading of the new musical Ocean in a Teacup will be presented Dec. 20 at 7 PM at Roy Arias Theater in Manhattan.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMDirector John Cameron Mitchell, screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire dug deep to bring the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole to the screen.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Raul Esparza (Company) hosts New York City Christmas, the third annual benefit concert featuring Broadway folk singing new, hip and stirring arrangements of Christmas clas…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThis ambitious mash-up of schoolboy humor and classical music is often touching, but ultimately feels overextended.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe British musical theater star's cabaret act at 59E59 Theaters proves she's got the whole package.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMInspector Sands, a smartly off-kilter British company, is making an attention-getting introduction to New York with two shows in repertory.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AM'Black Nativity," the all- black retelling of the Na tivity story, has been a holiday staple since 1961. This year's edition -- an updated, retitled "Black Nativity Now" -- commits the Scro…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMOver two dozen celebrities, including Nick Adams, Lorna Luft, Donna Murphy, Brad Oscar, Lea Salonga, and Karen Ziemba, share their recollections of the season.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMIt's not often that you hear Schubert's melan choly song cycle "Win terreise" ("Winter Journey") in a down town theater. And not with classical musicians, either, but with three scruffy dud…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMWhen Stephen Sondheim was in his 30s, he would get approached, occasionally, by out-of-town theatre companies, struggling with a production. He was the hot new thing, the lyricist of West Si…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AM“American Rose,” a biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, often focuses more on its subject’s times than her life.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMThe British entertainer Bonnie Langford delivers a compendium of songs and showbiz anecdotes in “Bonnie Langford Spends Christmas in New York.”
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMLauren Class Schneider talks to Bess Glorioso about transitioning from theatre to medical school, then back to theatre again.
Linked From BroadwayStars at 12:00AMIt started on Thursday, when "geof" on All That Chat noted that Dec. 16 was the 50th anniversary of the opening of Wildcat - the N. Richard Nash-Cy Coleman-Carolyn Leigh musical that starred…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMJames Marino, Matthew Murray and Michael Portantiere discuss The Break of Noon, as well as this week's news from around Broadway (Spider-Man, Scottsboro Boys, Thora Birch, Sondheim on Colber…
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