'I don't have the actor's anxiety dream of being naked on stage - I have driving anxiety dreams'
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMRecent events in Hungary, Belarus and Iraq show that governments find theatre dangerous enough to think it's worth banning. So what should we be doing in response?
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMJohn Burgess, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 77, was a versatile and highly intelligent character actor who appeared in several productions at the National Theatre in London.
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AM3D Theatricals will produce financially strapped FCLO's season.
Linked From www.ocregister.com at 12:00AM"It's what I've been waiting for for the past two weeks — to see my friends and finally watch the show," Christopher Tierney told The Associated Press after the performance. Wearing a …
Linked From www.google.com at 12:00AMI have a suggestion for Taymor: fire the special effects team and hire actor John Lithgow. His one-man show, "Stories by Heart," which opened Wednesday at the Mark Taper Forum, contains more…
Linked From www.ocregister.com at 12:00AMMichel Altieri takes on the title role, making him the first person since Ezra Pound to fly from Italy to America expressly to be humiliated in public.
Linked From Time Out New York at 12:00AMIn the latest challenge to the much-delayed "Spider-Man" musical, Bill de Blasio, the New York City public advocate, warned that the production may not be clearly distinguishing its preview …
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMDes Keogh will star in Thomas Kilroy's My Scandalous Life, to run February 2 - March 6 in the Irish Repertory Theatre's W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre. John Going will direct the productio…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe HBO film of Laurence Fishburne's performance in Thurgood will premiere on the network on Thursday, February 24 at 9pm (ET/PT). Michael Stevens has directed the project, which preserves …
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMHelen Hunt and Tom Irwin will participate as jurors in the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles' The Trial of Hamlet, to be held on January 31 at 7:30pm at Bovard Auditorium at the University o…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMTony Award winner Jane Krakowski is pregnant with fiancé Robert Godley's child. People.com quotes a representative of the actress as saying, "Jane and Robert are indeed expecting …
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMAzuka Theatre has announced casting for Jacqueline Goldfinger's the terrible girls, to run March 17 - April 3 at The Latvian Society. Allison Heishman will direct the production.The play ce…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMOn Thursday, January 6, The New Group celebrated the start of their 2011 season, which opens with a production of Tommy Nohilly's Blood From A Stone at Theatre Row's Acorn Theater starring G…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Alfred Molina will be among the participants in Theatre of NOTE's 16th Annual Hollywood Performance Marathon, to take place on Saturday, January 15 beginning at 3pm and co…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMSepia Records has announced its lineup of March releases.The 24-track Gypsy Meets Gypsy will bring two LP recordings to one CD. The first half of the disc will be comprised of the numbers f…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMTony Award winner Barbara Cook will now perform her cabaret show, which is part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, in The Allen Room on Tuesday, February 15, at 8:30pm, rather tha…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMBroadway veteran Charlotte Cohn will present her cabaret show, Simply Complicated: The Elegant Escapades of a Danish-Israeli Opera-Singing Tank Commander, February 24-27 at CENTERSTAGE as pa…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe longlists for the BAFTA Awards, chosen by members in the first round of voting, have been announced, according to a report in Variety. Nominations will be revealed on January 18, with th…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMBill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Judy Davis, Michael Gambon and Ralph Fiennes will star in the BBC's new spy thriller Page Eight. David Hare is writing and directing the project, which begins film…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMOn Thursday, January 6, The New York Times 10th Annual Arts & Leisure Weekend featured talks with Tony Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey and CBS News anchor Katie Couric.As previously rep…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMComplete casting has been announced for Southwark Playhouse's production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1970 musical Company, February 2-March 12, according to Whatsonstage.com. The…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMComplete casting has been announced for the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Rob Ashford will direct and choreograph the production, which will begin per…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMLeslie Mann and Paul Rudd will reprise their roles as married couple Debbie and Pete, which they played in the 2007 film Knocked Up, according to Variety. Judd Apatow will write and direct t…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMOn Thursday, January 6, Playwrights Horizons celebrated the opening of its production of Adam Bock's A Small Fire.Opening night guests included Annie Baker, Marylouise Burke, Michael Chernus…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMAustin Pendleton will direct a one-night-only performance of Susan Stein's solo show Etty, to be offered at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on February 2 a…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMBroadway veteran and three-time Emmy nominee Ron Raines will be the special guest star in Marc Kudisch's one-night concert, The Lower Depths: In Defense of the Baritone Voice, at Town Hall,…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe Tony Award-winning actress discusses starring with Alan Rickman and Fiona Shaw in John Gabriel Borkman at BAM.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMEmmy Award-winner Camryn Manheim will guest star on NBC's Harry's Law, according to a report on TVGuide.com.The show stars Kathy Bates, who plays a recently fired attorney who starts a pract…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMInitial plans have been announced for Imagine Ireland, a year-long multidisciplinary season of Irish arts in America, to be offered at theaters across the country. Among the cities and venu…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMEthan Hawke, ever passionate about the theatre, returns to the New York stage in The New Group's Blood From a Stone.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMActress Margot Stevenson, whose Broadway career spanned several decades, died at her home in Manhattan on Sunday, January 2, according to The New York Times. She was 98.Stevenson made her Br…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMCasting has been announced for a staged reading of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, to be offered on January 9 at 7pm at The Cherry Lane Theatre. Frank Whaley will direct the performance, which…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe 92nd Street Y's 2011 Lyrics & Lyricists season launches Jan. 8 with Frank and Tony and Peggy and Me: Making Music with the Great Singers.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMMeital Dohan, recently seen in the Tribeca Film Festival winner "Monogamy," stars in Alan Bowne's apocalyptic love story Beirut, which officially opens at The Lion at Theatre Row Jan. 8.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMEthan Hawke, ever passionate about the theatre, returns to the New York stage in The New Group's Blood From a Stone.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe West End revival of Oliver! and Martin Sherman's new play Onassis -- playing within yards of each other on the same London block in Covent Garden's Catherine Street - both end their runs…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMA cast of 17 will celebrate the release of composer-lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver's first published songbook with performances Feb. 7 at Joe's Pub.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMShakespeare's Hamlet will take the witness stand in The Trial of Hamlet, which will feature Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and actors Helen Hunt and Tom Irwin.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AM1900 Blanche Bates, who will go on to play Cho-Cho San in Madame Butterfly, now stars in David Belasco's Naughty Anthony. Oliver Redpath co-stars in this comedy at the Herald Square Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival is now accepting submissions for the 2011 Next Link Projects, which will provide 12 new works with full New York City productions next fall.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThis year's British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) - to be presented Feb. 15 in a ceremony at London's Royal Opera House - have completed the first round of voting amongst their members, to pro…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMBill de Blasio, public advocate for the City of New York, has raised legal questions about the advertising of the new Julie Taymor musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, which has been in pre…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMAtlanta's Horizon Theatre will stage Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts and Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ruined during the 2011 season.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThurgood -- the one-man show based on the life of the late Civil Rights great and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall starring Tony winner Laurence Fishburne -- will debut on HBO in Febr…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winning soprano Barbara Cook, who is recovering from recent surgery, has postponed her Jan. 12 American Songbook concert at the Allen Room.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMTheatre of NOTE will present its 16th annual Hollywood Performance Marathon Jan. 15, beginning at 3 PM and continuing until dawn in Hollywood. Proceeds from the evening will benefit the thea…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe Off-Broadway revival of the gothic stage classic Dracula, starring Italian actor Michel Altieri and Tony Award winner George Hearn, which was scheduled to run through March 13 at the Lit…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMRon Raines, who will be seen in the Kennedy Center's spring production of Follies, will join Marc Kudisch for his upcoming Town Hall concert.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMStage and screen actors Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon and Ewen Bremner will appear in "Stage Eight," a spy thriller written by veteran playwright David Hare that wi…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMMargot Stevenson, a stage actress who appeared in George S. Kaufman plays in the 1930s and opposite Ray Milland in the 1960s, died Jan. 2 at her home in Manhattan. She was 98.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe New Group held a Jan. 6 party for the world-premiere staging of Tommy Nohilly's Blood From a Stone. The show, starring Ethan Hawke, Natasha Lyonne and Daphne Rubin-Vega, opens Jan. 12 at…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMProduction: Priscilla Queen of the Desert, based on the Oscar-winning film The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert with book by Stephen Elliott & Allan Scott, direction by Simon Phil…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe life of Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, will be explored in Thomas Kilroy's My Scandalous Life at the Irish Repertory Theater in February.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMStage and screen star Jason Alexander will make a guest appearance on the upcoming TNT series "Franklin & Bash," which will begin airing this summer, according to tvguide.com.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com has learned that the Collegiate Chorale's upcoming starry concert presentations of Kurt Weill's Knickerbocker Holiday will be recorded.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMCasting is now complete for the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying starring Daniel Radcliffe. Performances will begin Feb. 26 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMNew year, fresh start.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMNew year, fresh start.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMNaked Angels is teaming with the Epic Theatre Ensemble to present a free reading of Tony Award-winning playwright Warren Leight's latest work, Home Front, Jan. 10 at the D-Lounge.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe Huntington Theatre Company production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ruined, starring Tonye Patano as brothel proprietress Mama Nadi, began performances Jan. 7 in Boston.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company will host a free open rehearsal of its upcoming production of Cymbeline Jan. 9 in Washington, D.C. Seatings will take place at 3 PM and 4:20 PM.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMA Small Fire, Adam Bock's play about a family wedding and its impact on the mother of the bride, opened Jan. 6 in its world premiere at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons. Tony Award winner…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMA star-studded reading of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, which will benefit PS 3, will be presented Jan. 9 at 7 PM at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMAcademy Award-winning actor Matt Damon will present the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Robert De Niro at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards, which will be h…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMCharles McNulty, chief theatre critic for the Los Angeles Times, has been named the winner of the 2009-10 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, administered by Cornell University'…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMJeff McCarthy, Jay O. Sanders and Harris Yulin have been announced to join Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave for "Torture Team," Philippe Sands' account of the U.S. sanctioning of …
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMSongwriting duo Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk (The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, Henry and Mudge) will celebrate the launch of their debut album, "Our First Mistake," wi…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMReadings of Bedbugs!, a hit at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, will be presented Jan. 17 at 3 PM and 7 PM at Pearl Studios in Manhattan.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMOn March 13 the eighth and final ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will be presented in Manhattan at Town Hall. To date, the benefits have raised $1.6 million for the fun…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMImelda Staunton, best known for playing the title role in Mike Leigh's film "Vera Drake," for which she was Oscar-nominated for Best Actress, will return to the London stage in the Almeida's…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMEnd of the Rainbow, a new play by Peter Quilter featuring Tracie Bennett as Judy Garland during the last months of her life, is extending its run at the West End's Trafalgar Studios.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMKick-off 2011 with a theatre-filled, spectacular WEEK AHEAD!Wilde women start off Broadway’s New Year… four Main Stem departures… Rent men take up residence at Town Hall…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMOn Jan. 7 the Irish government announced details of a large financial investment aimed at presenting Irish arts in New York City and the United States in 2011.The government is investing $5.…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMVideo of Zachary Quinto’s answers to questions from Twitter and Facebook fans of the Signature Theatre Company production of Angels in America has been posted. Quinto is currently play…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Dec. 27, 2010-Jan. 2, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.MUSICALSWicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $2,228,235The Lion King (Mins…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMOn January 8, 2011, the world's most famous burlesque performer turns 100 years old. Join LIVE from the NYPL for a centennial celebration of the birth of Gypsy Rose Lee novelist, playwright,…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMDavid Hyde Pierce, Mark Rylance and Joanna Lumley star in the revival of this Moliere-inspired comedy (in verse!) about the battle that ensues when a princess insists upon allowing a low-bro…
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMThe Seattle Times is reporting that The 5th Avenue Theatre has apparently forged a deal with the Walt Disney Company to stage the world premiere of a new Disney musical, Aladdin, in the summ…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMAll it takes is a little lipstick, hairpins and some coaxing from Seth to get Colleen Ballinger to tap into her crazy YouTube alter ego Miranda.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMChristopher Tierney was back at SPIDER-MAN evening, as an audience member. He told the press before the show that he believed in the production, and the crew, wasn't mad at anyone and was ho…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMWord has hit Twitter that tonight's performance of SPIDER-MAN was stopped at least twice. These malfuctions would be the latest in a long line of problems for the new musical, which began pr…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMTHURGOOD, filmed in front of a live audience at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater in Washington, D.C., will debut THURSDAY, FEB. 24 900-1045 p.m. ETPT during Black History Month, exclu…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMFilm and television icon Pee-Wee Herman Paul Reubens brought his signature brand of hilarious mayhem to Broadway for a special limited engagement of the acclaimed stage play, The Pee-Wee Her…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMIt looks like off-Broadway's DRACULA, playing at the Little Shubert might have a shorter run than originally announced. The show, which just opened on January 5, was originally scheduled to …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMBWW Discounts is offering you the chance to save on tickets to the Roundabout Theater's production of THE MILK TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE for performances from January 11 through April …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMRoundabout Theatre Company will present Joel Grey and Sutton Foster in Anything Goes in 2011 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. We heard that the marquee is now up and hoofed it right over to …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMBarbara Cook's American Songbook performance, previously scheduled for January 12, has been postponed to allow the singer to recover from a medical procedure to remove a hernia. Ms. Cook wil…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMAccording to Radaronline.con, stage and screen star Jane Krakowski and fiance Robert Godley are expecting a baby. Her rep said, Jane and Robert are indeed expecting a baby Both soon-to-be fi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMAccording to a report by BBC News, Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon and Ewen Bremner are all set to star in BBC2's Stage Eight. The film is based on a thriller by p…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMThe legendary Liza Minnelli, whose latest CD Confessions was released to universal acclaim, will appear on OWN's Season 25 Oprah Behind The Scenes on January 7. The appearance spotlights Liz…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMAccording to Variety, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann will reprise their Knocked Up roles for a new comedy that remains untitled. Director Judd Aptow will bring their characters, 'Debbie and Pete…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMBroadway star Harvey Fierstein and celebrity chef David Burke join Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert Steel, NYC amp Company CEO George Fertitta and corporate partners American Exp…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMWe've got light flurries at the moment here in New York City and there's a Winter Weather Advisory in effect until 5pm tonight, but all Broadway shows are still on for tonight, Friday, Janua…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMPreview performances begin tonight for Roundabout Theatre Company's The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, by Tennessee Williams, directed by Michael Wilson.The cast includes Curtis Billi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMThe producers of the 50th Anniversary production of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING are excited to announce complete…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMAccording to the Ny Times, Broadway actress Margot Stevenson passed away in her Manhattan home on Sunday, January 2. She was 98 years old. Stevenson is survived by her daughter, Margot Avery.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMAccording to TVGuide.com, Camryn Manheim is set to guest star on NBC's Harry's Law.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's new The Wizard of Oz promises to be the biggest theatre event of the year, combining all the much-loved songs from the Oscar-winning movie score with new songs. Now, th…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMAccording to Telecharge.com, Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Billy Crudup, Wallace Shawn, Louie CK, Alessandra Nivola, Mario Cantone, Emily Mortimer and Jonathan Marc Sherman are set to star in a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMROCK OF AGES star Constantine Maroulis has gone on the record about SPIDER-MAN, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Maroulis says, It was the most poetic, provocative and beautiful piece of…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMTony, Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winner Lithgow offers a touching and humorous reflection on storytelling as the tie that binds humanity in Stories by Heart. In this piece he traces his roo…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMPerformances by multi-GRAMMY-winning artistsTony Bennett, Seal, Donna Summer, BeBe Winans, and Stevie Wonder multi-GRAMMY-winning artists and current GRAMMY nominees Jeff Beck and Herbie Han…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMIn the spring on 1987, James Earl Jones and Courtney B. Vance teamed up as father and son in the unforgettable Broadway premiere of August Wilson's Fences. (Jones won the Best Actor Tony Awa…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMSure, he's a new daddy ever since he and partner David Burtka welcomed twins into their Hollywood home, but that's not going to keep Broadway fan and self-professed geek Neil Patrick Harris …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMDoes Lin-Manuel Miranda ever stop moving? As his Tony-winning musical In The Heights wraps up a stellar run on Broadway, Miranda has a new musical (Bring It On) in the works, he's getting a …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMThe New Group's production of Blood From a Stone, starring Ethan Hawke, has extended its off-Broadway run. The new play by Tommy Nohilly, which was scheduled to close on February 5, will now…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMSpider-Man, Turn Off the Dark composer, U2's Bono, paid his first visit to the show on January 4 and the rocker gave Spidey a thumbs-up, according to the musical's star Jennifer Damiano. "He…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMBlessed with an irresistible grin and a bucketload of singing and dancing talent, Hayley Podschun is currently giving a winning star turn in Freckleface Strawberry, the off-Broadway musical …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMThe working class landscape of gritty family drama Blood From a Stone may be a bleak place, but the opening celebration of The New Group production was a different story. On January 6 the sh…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMCelia Keenan-Bolger, Michele Pawk and the cast of off-Broadway's A Small Fire brought the dramatic heat to Playwrights Horizon on January 6 when the new play from Adam Bock opened. The drama…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMTony winner and 30 Rock star Jane Krakowski is pregnant. The star and her fiance, clothing designer Robert Godley, are having a baby, the actress' representative confirmed to Us Weekly. "Bot…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMEnd of the Rainbow, starring Oliver winner Tracie Bennett as Judy Garland, is extending its run at the West End's Trafalgar Studios. The Terry Johnson-helmed show, which was scheduled to clo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMNews broke earlier this week that Oscar winner Barbra Streisand is gearing up to play the mother of all stage mothers, Momma Rose, in a new film adaptation of Gypsy. While Streisand is sure …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMCasting for the upcoming Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring Harry Potter headliner Daniel Radcliffe, has been announced. The musical, directed and…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMThe first act of this satire on American political extremism sizzles and is as irreverent as "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," but the fire is soon snuffed out in Act 2.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMThe actor badly hurt at the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" plans to go back to the show this week — as a spectator.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMTwo actors pick up where Sophocles'' "Antigone" left off, in a stimulating and innovative theatrical experience that deconstructs the power contests of the play and applies them to father-so…
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMOne has to admire the Belarus Free Theatre for its dedication and courage, but its offstage story of getting to the Under the Radar festival is more gripping than its Harold Pinter program.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMThe Tony-nominated actor and 'American Idol' alum reveals that the producers "implemented several Act 2 changes" and are doing "everything they can to make the environment safe."
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMMajor stars shine for the Belarus Free Theatre on January 19
Linked From Time Out New York at 12:00AMHelen Shaw reviews the Coil festival: Ouverture Alcina
Linked From Time Out New York at 12:00AMBeing Harold Pinter is brutally efficient about getting its word out
Linked From Time Out New York at 12:00AMListen in: David Cote about Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Linked From Time Out New York at 12:00AMA new show challenges the definition of a conversationIs it natural to have a conversation? Is it human? Does our ability to swap phrases with other people prove that we’re not machine…
Linked From Theatre Development Fund at 12:00AMLegit News: Well-established names dominate year's Top 10 -- While one look at the Broadway B.O. for the 2010 calendar year proves that, typically, shows either got it, or they don't, it als…
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMLegit News: Brooklyn band takes liberties with 'Sound of Music' -- When Julie Andrews sang about "The Sound of Music," she probably wasn't thinking about Aerosmith. But licks from those rock…
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMStar, writer and director all agree on the importance of the original producer Garth Drabinsky to its success.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:00AMLegit News: Quinn show extends for another month -- Colin Quinn's Broadway show "Long Story Short" has posted a second extension, with the solo outing now playing through March 5.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMLegit News: New play to open at the Cherry Lane -- Wilson Milam ("The Lieutenant of Inishmore") will helm a commercial Off Broadway production of "A Perfect Future," a new play by David Hay.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMStar, writer and director all agree on the importance of the original producer Garth Drabinsky to its success.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:00AMThree administrators and the building's designer are all Canucks at Arena Stage in Washington.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:00AMThe 17th-century French comedy has been transposed to modern-day London, but its British references make it less accessible
Linked From The Globe and Mail at 12:00AMIreland’s fresh woes make Martin McDonagh’s horrific and hilarious assault on every Irish cliché all the more painful
Linked From The Globe and Mail at 12:00AMAbove is a link to an Arts Beat blog post by Charles Isherwood which mentions the fact that I took issue with Jeremy Gerard covering Spiderman and noting that Jeremy has succeeded me at Bloo…
Linked From John Simon at 12:00AMThe performing arts are burgeoning in suburban Washington despite the region's economic struggles.
Linked From Washington Post at 12:00AMA total of 12 Students from the Anita Deprey Studio of Dance & Performing Arts Center from East Hartford will perform the roles of "munchkins" in the national touring production of "The Wiz…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AM"Sing out, Louise...and you, too, Louie." Goodspeed Musicals will hold auditions for non-Equity local actors on Saturday, Feb. 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and for local Equity actors on Sunday…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMI just finished a book that I recommend. And it has nothing -- and everything -- to do with theater in Connecticut -- and everywhere for that matter. All arts groups, really. I am not a big…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFor one night at USC, the big question in "Hamlet" won't be "To be, or not to be" but "Is he or isn't he?" For one night at USC, the big question in "Hamlet" won't be "To be, or not to be" b…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMHe is, according to one biographer, "a household name throughout the world", who can "boast a series of pop-chart successes and lengthy stage runs over a long career that must be the envy of…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMIn February, the play will be coming to television screens thanks to HBO, in honor of Black History Month.In February, the play will be coming to television screens thanks to HBO, in honor o…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMPeople will be able to view Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Mike Figgis, in cinemas around the country as well as on TVNew ground will be made in the increasingly competitive field …
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMWith his acclaimed 1983 opera "Nixon in China" coming to New York's Metropolitan Opera, composer John Adams talks about procrastination, isolation and how he does his best work.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:00AMYes, “Mad Men” has been renewed for a fifth season–this is not a surprise, folks–and negotiations continue between the show’s creator, Matt Weiner, and AMC. But…
Linked From ShowBiz 411 at 12:00AM"If a critic's job is to assess the total merits of a work of art -- or at least a gaudy chunk of entertainment -- reason also argues that the entertainment should be allowed to achieve the …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"The dress worn by Nurse Poltis in the Pavilion Theatre production of Robin Hood originally had red crosses on the hat and tunic. Unauthorised use of the emblem violates the Geneva Conventio…
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Linked From bbbblogger.wordpress.com at 12:00AMPREVIEWS BEGIN TONIGHT!Roundabout Theatre Company presents THE MILK TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE By Tennessee Williams Directed by Michael Wilson With Curtis Billings, Elisa Bocanegra, Ol…
Linked From bbbblogger.wordpress.com at 12:00AMPerformance Space 122 Plays Host to 17 Companies From All Over the World
Linked From Broadway Bulletin at 12:00AMAndy Hammerstein on the latest revivals of R&H musicals, what his grandfather would advise musical makers today, and the theatre that doubled as a stable.
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:00AMa new solo show at the Mark Taper
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