The Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, seeks 8-10 puppetry performances for a one-day Family Puppet Festival on Sunday, April 1, 2012. The Festival will feature a wide range of puppetry,…
Linked From Bitter Lemons at 10:50PMI am pleased to welcome our new fall intern, Anthony Host. Anthony will be with us for the rest of the year, at which point he will be moving to New York and joining those of us who ar…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 10:20PMReview by Greg WaagnerThe sound of water is not unusual on Cape Cod. There’s the sound of the waves on the shore, a sprinkler in the garden, the battering rain of a…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 10:01PMThe other day, I shared my thoughts on one of the two new musicals that are a part of the 2011 New York Musical Theatre Festival. That production, while not quite ready for the bi…
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Producers Jean Doumanian and Sonia Friedman confirmed today that tonight's Friday performance of The Mountaintop is completely sold out. Tonight, and for all future sold-out performances, 25…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:29PMBCEFA unveiled the fourth ornament in the Broadway Legends series is the incandescent two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:15PMStewart F. Lane received the John Denver Spirit Award in Central Park, NYC on Tuesday, October 12, 2011. On Tuesday, October 12th the John Denver Spirit Award was presented to Stewart F. Lan…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:15PMByron Perry's new dance work Double Think opens in complete darkness in the vast space of the North Melbourne Town Hall. To the rhythms of Luke Smiles's electronic score, blindingly bright g…
Linked From Theatre Notes at 08:07PMThe Art of Time ensemble likes to merge all kinds of performing disciplines, sometimes throwing in some non-performing ones as well. Canadian Stage is giving its Berkeley Street platform to …
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #93: Once in a Lifetime, American Conservatory Theater, September 28.
By Sam Hurwitt
American Conservatory Theater has kicked off its season with an oddit…
Linked From The Idiolect at 07:56PMThis week we are shining our brightest of spotlights on one of the most successful composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - thanks in no small part to his classic scores for G…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:43PMA few hours after and just down the street from the opening performance of the Denver Center Theatre Company's "American Night," officers in riot gear cleared out the Occupy Denver encampment
Linked From Denver Post at 07:22PMJosie Long wonders what the world would be like if Simon Cowell was a bit nicer
Linked From The Guardian at 07:16PMThe Village Social, nr CaerphillyAnyone who was at the 2009 Edinburgh fringe will remember My Name Is Sue, a barmy music show by composer and writer Dafydd James and director Ben Lewis. They…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:16PMFrisky & Mannish: Pop Centre Plus, On tourOffering a show that's part traditional musical cabaret, part live mash-up, Laura Corcoran and Matthew Floyd Jones are Frisky & Mannish, a cult sens…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:16PMReview: The Denver Center Theatre Company's comic history mash-up shows how the powers that control America often respond to perceived threats to the status quo: Broken promises. Fire hoses…
Linked From Denver Post at 07:16PMMichael Boyd is to stand down next year as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Linked From The Independent at 07:15PMIt was first performed in a tiny 65-seat theatre above a pub in Battersea.
Linked From The Independent at 07:15PMThe Greek-US comic has gone from Edinburgh fringe survival lessons with Jimmy Carr to working with Steven Soderbergh and Ang Lee. 'You have to be a crazy person,' he saysJimmy Carr may not s…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:08PMI don't think Michael Grandage has quite grasped the size of the Metropolitan Opera. His new "Don Giovanni" is so minutely detailed that it comes across looking under directed. A fabulous ca…
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Beleaguered By DeadlinesI am beleaguered. I am beset. I am surrounded.I am using a thesaurus.Yowzers. Deadlines are fast fast fast approaching and thankfully my back is feeling in better sha…
Linked From Variations On A Theme at 06:32PMBy Jamie Portman In London’s West End theatre scene, shows open and shows close — and some last forever. That’s the norm. So why did the Sept. 24 demise of a new musical called Betty B…
Linked From National Post (Canada) at 06:30PMThe first-ever Broadway revival of Godspell has decscended upon the Circle in the Square Theatre, and Broadway.com has a first look at production photos of the Stephen Schwartz musical. Led …
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:23PMAllie Bateman'swedding is Sunday. When Dinah, her precocious younger sister, returns to their parents' home for the festivities, she brings more than anyone expected: a new boyfriend, whose …
Linked From YouTube at 06:20PM...But they could be even better with an outside eye. So join us this month for ourIn-Depth Performance Critique & WorkshopTaught by Mary Fons and Bilal DardaiCost: Just $55 (due in full…
Linked From The Neo-Futurists at 06:12PMConsumers urged to buy tickets only from websites displaying new security markAn initiative to fight concert ticket fraud was launched this week.Industry trade body STAR, the Society of Tick…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:08PMThe world premiere of Hands on a Hardbody, a previously reported commission by La Jolla Playhouse, will debut at the theater on April 27, 2012. The new musical features a book by Pulitzer Pr…
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An exemplary biography of a comic geniusBen Jonson was a big man. In his hungry early years as a bricklayer, soldier and actor he was tall and lean – a "hollow-cheeked scrag", Thomas Dekke…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:57PMAn obsession with the looks and love lives of actresses is nothing new, as an exhibition of portraits of the first women on the stage makes clearIs it any wonder actresses are neurotic about…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:57PMUnlike the typical cosy portrayal of life in rural England, Jerusalem has the ring of truthWilliam Blake lived most of his life in London. According to Peter Ackroyd, if he had been living t…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:57PMSteve Guttenberg, Marlo Thomas and Julie Kavner are just a few of the comedic heavyweights bringing Relatively Speaking to life on Broadway. Considering that the writers of the evening&rsquo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:57PMAudiences are being lured to The Mountaintop by the star wattage of Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett in a play about the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. But Katori Hall…
Linked From Cititour.com at 05:53PMFor Broadway stars it’s “Another Op’nin, Another Show,” and for Broadway.com it’s another week, another 10 lessons! Read on for a rundown of what we learned in …
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:50PMNY1's Frank DiLella checked in with the companies of "The Mountaintop" and "Man and Boy" on their respective opening nights.
Linked From NY1 at 05:44PMThe Westport Country Playhouse has cancelled the Oct. 14 8 PM performance of Twelfth Night, or What You Will following a serious injury sustained by one of the cast members.
Linked From Playbill at 05:30PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Oct. 3-9, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
The Lion King (Minskoff Theatre), $1,660,023
Wicked (Gerswhin Thea…
Linked From Playbill at 05:29PMThe first Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell, the rock musical that relates parables of Jesus, began previews Oct. 13 at the Circle in the Square Theatre, with an offic…
Linked From Playbill at 05:17PMKara DioGuardi Bonus Questions
Kara DioGuardi, who is currently making her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in CHICAGO, discusses her transition to the stage and the difference between Musical …
Linked From YouTube at 05:16PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes will begin previews for KING LEAR, directed by James Macdonald, on Tuesday, October 18. KING LEAR wil…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMCivil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was known for his incredible ability to engage audiences through his powerful words. Now Samuel L. Jackson is playing the iconic historical figur…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:15PMThe Music Box Theatre box office opens Oct. 17 for the Broadway revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives, starring Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross. The comedy about a still-burning love a…
Linked From Playbill at 05:09PMThe play I wrote 20 years ago about Chile's torture and trauma has a painful, global relevance todayIt happened yesterday but it could well be today. A woman awaits the return of her husband…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:08PMIn its world premiere, Peter Quanz’s Rodin/Claudel reveals many clever choreographic ideas and a new full-length ballet of much potential
Linked From The Globe and Mail at 05:02PMJeff Gardner’s Winnipeg stop on the scenic route to the Great White Way
Linked From The Globe and Mail at 05:02PMThere are intriguing tidbits, but mostly the actor’s train of thought flies by too quickly for viewers to jump on board
Linked From The Globe and Mail at 05:02PMThe best movement is the period dancing - the jitterbugging and the disco routine to a soundtrack that reflects each era
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THEATER REVIEW: "Dartmoor Prison" at the GoodmanTheatre ★★
"Set in a bleak naval prison in Devon, England" is just the kind of description I can get behind. For those interested…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 04:57PMEd Begley Jr. has revised his 2003 musical Cesar and Ruben for a student production at Santa Monica College. All of the songs are now in Spanish, but as before, the main subject is Cesar Cha…
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 04:57PMOn today's All Things Considered, film critic Bob Mondello takes a contrarian angle on the question of Hollywood remakes, arguing that they're not always evidence of a lack of imagination. …
Linked From WNYC at 04:44PMDid Shakespeare write all his plays himself, or were others responsible? Director Trevor Nunn and actor Mark Rylance disagree – passionatelyDirector Trevor Nunn believes Shakespeare wrote …
Linked From The Guardian at 04:36PMWhether you've been living under a rock for the past week, or you're just in the mood for a recap of everything theatre, BroadwayWorld's feature, 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy y…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMBruce Graham's new play is more about philosophy than football. It ultimately fails to score a touchdown, proving to be as indecisive as its protagonist.
Linked From Backstage at 04:36PMThe venerable LIFT Festival plays host to an innovative new experimental platform for work exploring distance and dislocation with a digital invitation to anyone around the world
Linked From Culture Bot at 04:35PMThere are two institutions for which St. Louis is known around
the country and outside it: The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and
the St. Louis Cardinals.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 04:28PMGeva Theatre Center has announced the productions set for its spring 2012 Nextstage season.
Jenny Allen's I Got Sick Then I Got Better, to run March 7-11, is a comic riff on one woman&…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:22PMIn a recent interview, singer Janet Jackson noted that there's one thing that she still hasn't had the chance to do within her career Broadway.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMChristian Cavallo, Phoebe Coupe, Zack Anthony Curran, Madeleine Featherby, Laura Fitzpatrick, Sam Rabbone and Cameron Thomas will appear in a concert of John Bucchino's It's Only L…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:15PMAs the Godspell team worked until midnight each day to ensure they'd be ready for the first week of previews, cast members armed themselves with loads of sugary treats to keep their ener…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:15PMTheatre task force puts the spotlight on three civic-owned performance venues.
Linked From Toronto.com at 04:10PMHands on a Hardbody, the new musical by Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright, Amanda Green and Phish band member Trey Anastasio, will have its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse beginning…
Linked From Playbill at 04:09PMBroadway's new musical comedy Lysistrata Jones is set in the competitive world of college basketball, which means that the cast needs skills on the court that are just as solid as their …
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:08PMHugh Jackman, BACK ON BROADWAY begins previews on October 25, and in celebration of the Tony-winner's return the the Great White Way, BroadwayWorld will feature a daily countdown of his grea…
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It was an emotional night on Broadway as Katori Hall's inspiring Martin Luther King Jr. drama The Mountaintop, directed by Kenny Leon, officially opened at the Jacobs Theatre. A sle…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:58PMDavid Eldridge's "Under the Blue Sky" is a closely observed, carefully built and rather sad play — and thus ideal for Chicago's intimate and unstinting Steep Theatre — about the …
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 03:50PMCasting has been announced for the aya theatre company's production of George Orwell's Burmese Days, to run November 9-December 4 at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off-Broadwa…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:50PMLee Hall's play is a rich, absorbing drama that tells a story well on the importance of culture and learning for all, writes Sarah Hemming
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 03:44PMAlthough Morgan James is temporarily sidelined from the first Broadway revival of Godspell, which is currently in previews at Circle the Square, she will be able to flex her vocal muscles in…
Linked From Playbill at 03:30PMThe picture of Bill Cosby in the middle of the crowded and hectic Town Hall lobby, giving advise to a young ART START youth says it allART START is an organization dedicated to providing cre…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:29PMBroadway's Music Box Theatre box office 239 West 45th Street will open this Monday October 16 for Noel Coward's PRIVATE LIVES starring Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross and directed by Richard Eyr…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:29PMWATCH BROADWAY’S TONY AWARD WINNING HIT MUSICAL PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT’s PERFORMANCE ON “THE ROSIE SHOW” PREMIERE WEEK CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE PERFORMANCE The Tony Aw…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:29PMThe La Jolla Playhouse will present the world-premiere musical Hands on a Hardbody, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright and featuring a score by Amanda Green and Trey Anastasio, to …
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:23PMThe 40th Anniversary production and first-ever Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical GODSPELL began performances last night and we've got a first look at the show's cast in per…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:23PMSully waxes Shakespearean, including a gratifying shout-out to D.C.'s theatrical riches.
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 03:21PMBy Hal Brooks This summer, I attended PlayPenn, the new play development conference held in Philadelphia, for the third straight year. Associate Artist Rick DesRochers led a symposium entitl…
Linked From Arena Stage at 03:14PMIt's hard to remember the last time Frank Langella appeared on a New York stage without the critical corps not appreciating him being there. Ever since his reemergence in the late '9…
Linked From Playbill at 03:09PMThe British are coming! The British are coming … for the 11th edition of the Just for Laughs Comedy tour, that is. The annual event returns this year with its first-ever British editio…
Linked From National Post (Canada) at 03:01PMThis is a charming and upsetting play. It has the flavor of Our Town with a little Alfred Hitchcock tossed in. Small town America with a little ground glass stuck inside your shoe.Harry (T…
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OMG are you sick of me writing about this stupid show yet? Well, there’s the door, kiddo. No, that’s the closet. Nope, that’s the way to the robot collection. Oh gosh. Neve…
Linked From Chicago Theatre Addict at 02:57PMFor a play that has no beginning, middle or end – this one ain’t bad at all. The Lyons patriarch is in the hospital. Ben Lyons (Dick Latessa) is dying of cancer. He doesn’t look or …
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Linked From YouTube at 02:43PMCongratulations to the US national touring production of MEMPHIS, which begins previews tonight at the Orpheum Theatre in, where else, but the rocking city of Memphis, Tennessee! The tour …
Linked From The Hartman Group at 02:37PMIf hearing about The Broadway Dolls makes you think of another all-girl group of dolls -- the Pussycat Dolls -- that won't last long if you catch their show.
Linked From Boston Globe at 02:37PMProducers Julian Schlossberg and Letty Aronson present the world premiere production of RELATIVELY SPEAKING, three one-act comedies by the prolific writing trio of Ethan Coen, Elaine May and…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMThe University of Miami and the Arsht Center deliver a unique and mostly convincing rendition of this tale of parental oppression and carnal repression.
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 02:35PMBroadway star Anthony Rapp will perform in concert at Hofstra University's John Cranford Adams Playhouse on Saturday, October 29 at 4pm.
Rapp originated the role of Mark Cohen in Jon…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:29PMBroadway vets from AMERICAN IDIOT to XANADU have come together and created a dance film entitled REWRITE - A Dance Film.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:23PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival (more popularly referred to by its acronym NYMF) has, for the last eight years, become a highlight at the start of the city's theatre season every autum…
Linked From NiteLifeExchange at 02:22PMAll photos courtesy of the Adrienne Arsht Center Photos by Justin Namon for WorldRedEye.com
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 02:18PMChicago Shakespeare Theater has extended Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies through November 12. Gary Griffin will direct the production
In the musical, when former members…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:15PMPeter Mattei, who opened on October 13 in Tony Award winner Michael Grandage's new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera, will also sing the performances on…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:15PMAlex Sanchez, who also choreographed the Broadway production of Fosse, offers a glimpse into the rehearsal process for Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies, which recently open…
Linked From Playbill at 02:15PMTwo words Carl Kissin doesn’t want to hear: GREAT START!!Well too bad for him because he has written what may become a great show. This is the story of two people looking for, and sort of…
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 02:14PM(Oct 15, 2011) It’s time. And it’s been time for some time now. Time to change the conversation. It’s time to look to the future.As it turns out, there are a lot who can step up to thi…
Linked From Arena Stage at 02:14PMNow entering its ninth season, the Goodman’s New Stages Series has birthed 47 new plays, more than half of which have gone on to receive full productions at Goodman or other venues around …
Linked From Arena Stage at 02:14PMMeet the first-nighters at the opening of The Mountaintop at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 02:09PMThe Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, which officially opened Oct. 12 following previews from Oct. 4, has extended its limited engag…
Linked From Playbill at 02:09PMMirvish production notches $5 million in single ticket sales.
Linked From Toronto.com at 02:07PMLyric Hammersmith, London; Theatre Royal BathPeople go to Saved thinking they know what they will see. They've been told often enough. A baby is stoned to death in a park by a group of youth…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:02PM42nd Street Moon will present the 1934 musical Three Sisters, with music by Jerome Kern, and book and yrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, to run November 30-December 18 at the the Eureka Theatre.…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:02PMA friend's sudden death inspired Brett Neveu to start writing the play that would become 4 Murders. It was originally produced by Chicago's A Red Orchid, where Neveu is an ensemble member. I…
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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced the lineup of companies that will be participating in the 12th New Visions/New Voices festival, May 18-20. This biennial even…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:57PMGrammy and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights) will be the guest of honor at the first ever Morris-Jumel Mansion Culture and Arts Festival, MJM CAFé, kicking off Oct. 15 a…
Linked From Playbill at 01:57PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, the Tony Award winning musical from the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and the co-creator of Avenue Q, Robert Lopez will be featured on SiriusXM's ne…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:50PMWestport Playhouse Twelfth Night FlipCam Confessions 2
See what audience members have to say after Westport Country Playhouse's production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What Yo…
Linked From YouTube at 01:50PMA good cause from a good theatre company. Sounds like a good combination. Check out their new production of Double Falsehood tonight if you can.
Linked From Bitter Lemons at 01:50PMTony Award-winning Book of Mormon authors Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez will launch the new SiriusXM series "Mormon Mondays" Oct. 17.
Linked From Playbill at 01:45PMDaniel Radcliffe stars in the upcoming film, The Woman in Black, based on Susan Hill's novel of the same name. The Woman in Black film adaptation was overseen by Jane Goldman. The release da…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:43PMHockadoo The 2010 Tony winning Best Musical MEMPHIS will celebrate its second anniversary on Broadway on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at the Shubert Theater.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:43PMWestport Playhouse Twelfth Night FlipCam Confessions 1
See what audience members have to say after Westport Country Playhouse's production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What Yo…
Linked From YouTube at 01:43PMLowry, SalfordAmerica in the 1850s was fertile ground for hucksters, snake-oil salesmen and colourfully obsolete verbs – "swandangled", for instance. Penny Dreadful's melodramatic medicine…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:37PMSadler's Wells, LondonWhen Wang Yuanyuan was resident choreographer of the National Ballet of China, she earned her place in Chinese dance history through her work on the internationally suc…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:37PMLast year, BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theater website on the Internet, launched a comprehensive Student Database listing college and university performing arts programs across the countr…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMWell. This is mighty unfortunate. Mighty unfortunate. With the dearth of black actors, directors and playwrights on Broadway, this show came in with a lot of high hopes piled on top of th…
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 01:35PMJohn Walch's "The Dinosaur Within" has a few interesting ideas going for it. It talks of fossils, history, and evolutionbut not necessarily in the way you might think. Walch draws parallels…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 01:33PMIt should work, and I bet it reads great. The play itself is both smart and clever. It deals with themes of love, lust, instinct, worth, revolution and sacrifice; and it does so in an allego…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 01:33PMLeviathan Lab has announced complete casting for its production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to run November 3-19 at Arclight Theatre. Nelson T. Esuebio III will direct the p…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:29PMOn vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary Jason Segel and Mary Amy Adams from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMCelebrate 10 years on Broadway by joining in on the anniversary event
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:15PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, the Tony Award winning musical from the creators of “South Park,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and the co-creator of Avenue Q, Robert Lopez will be featured on SiriusX…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:15PMUp playing at the Chance Theatre through Oct. 23. A simple, soft video trailer for your viewing pleasure.
Linked From Bitter Lemons at 01:14PMACT ONE. SCENE ONE..
Playwright sits at a kitchen table in pink T-shirt and jeans, rewriting the second act of a play that will be produced in two weeks at a major Washington theater. Playw…
Linked From Washington Post at 01:14PMCanadian Jason Hall’s new play Third Floor received its European premiere at Trafalgar Studios 2 last night (13 October 2011), directed by Russell Labey and starring The Inbetweeners' Emil…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:09PMA two-time Tony Award nominee, De Shields, whose prolific career spans more than four decades, was a member of the original company of Ain't Misbehavin' which initially opened at the Manhatt…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:08PMFrom the opening of the new Bush Theatre in London to Glasgow's Glasgay! festival, it's an exciting week aheadLondonThere's plenty to take your pick from over the coming week. If you didn't …
Linked From The Guardian at 01:07PMThis is the Mission Paradox Blog. I'm your friendly host, Adam Thurman Since 2007 this has been a place where artists and those who work within artistic organizations get insight on marketin…
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Obie Award-winning actor Hamish Linklater's new play The Vandal will receive a special Oct. 17 reading, as part of a partnership between New York Stage and Film and Barnard College.
Linked From Playbill at 12:59PMWhenever I think that marketing a Broadway show is hard, I think . . . well, it could be worse . . . I could be trying to market an opera. Opera just sounds old, right? It's like Museum. Or.…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 12:57PMThis week's guest blog comes from Lanie Zipoy, An amazing producer who wants to let all the playwrights know about a remarkable new program. Take it away Lanie! "How does one adequately…
Linked From One Producer in the City at 12:53PMShakespeare Theatre Company has announced casting for its concert staging of the musical The Boys From Syracuse, to run November 4-6 at Sidney Harman Hall. Alan Paul will direct the piece, …
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:50PMTony Award winner Nikki M. James, who currently stars in The Book of Mormon, and Chester Gregory, who can be seen in Broadway's Sister Act, have joined the cast of A Good Man, which will…
Linked From Playbill at 12:45PMSteve Marmion's RSC co-production, Fit and Proper People opened at the Soho Theatre this week 12 October (previews from 7 October) where it runs until 5 November 2011.
A new play by Georgia…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 12:45PMBroadway star Anthony Rapp will perform in concert at Hofstra University's John Cranford Adams Playhouse on Saturday, October 29 at 4pm.
Rapp originated the role of Mark Cohen in Jon…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:43PMBerkeley Repertory Theatre has extended Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup through November 12. David Galligan has directed the production, which has choreography by Lee Martino and musical d…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:43PMKara DioGuardi Bonus Questions
Kara DioGuardi, who is currently making her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in CHICAGO, discusses her transition to the stage and the difference between Musical …
Linked From YouTube at 12:38PMLinda Purl and Lee Lessack will offer a one-night-only performance of Steppin' Out With My Baby: The Songs of Irving Berlin at the Firehouse Arts Center on November 6 at 2pm as part of…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:37PMBright, sunny, clarion-voiced leading lady Liz Callaway is not only known for her roles in the Broadway productions of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, BABY, CATS, MISS SAIGON and THE LOOK OF LOVE, bu…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMThe Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Angela Bassett, directed by the Tony-nominated Kenny Leon Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, officially opened tonight a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMOn Twitter Watch, Lea Michele wrote Having another one of those beyond thankful moments at work.. When west side story came to bway a few years ago I wanted to do it SO bad When I didn't get…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMTickets are now on sale for Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly, the upcoming Broadway play which includes Grammy winning artist Alicia Keys among its lead producers. Directed by Kenny Leon, St…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:37PMMichael Grandage's new Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart's classic opera is mostly well-sung, but crudely directed.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:29PMAt this point, it’s impossible to not have heard or read about the rave reviews of recent revival of Sondheim’s Follies, directed by Eric Schaeffer. The New York Times calls it, …
Linked From The Broadway Critic Blog at 12:23PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, the Tony Award winning musical from the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and the co-creator of Avenue Q, Robert Lopez will be featured on SiriusXM's ne…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMAs Rosie O'Donnell kicked off the first week of The Rosie Show (her new talk show on Oprah's OWN network), the Broadway-loving funny lady invited the cast of Priscilla Queen of the D…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:22PMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
Linked From Playbill at 12:09PMThe California world premiere of Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup, a music-kissed biographical show created specifically for the Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner that opened Sept. 7…
Linked From Playbill at 12:09PMPeter Mac's Judy & Company, which was scheduled to run October 8-9, 2011 at the Gardenia Theatre in Los Angeles, will now run on October 21-22. The previous shows had been cancelled…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:08PMFive musical performers get to show off their spectacular talents in this immensely enjoyable concert-style production, loaded with show tunes, pop and exhilarating dancing.
Linked From Backstage at 12:08PMAfter a stint as Simba on the national tour of Disney's The Lion King, Adam Jacobs recently roared into the long-running musical's Broadway production. This has been a Disney-filled …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:08PMPreviews begin tonight for Roundabout Underground’s (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) Suicide, Incorporated, a new play by Andrew Hinderaker directed by Jonathan Berry. Suicide, Incorpora…
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Linked From corinescorner.com at 12:02PMIn celebration of its 50th anniversary TCG has partnered with The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space to present TCG Playwrights in Conversation – a series of readings and discussions – t…
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Months after moving into renovated theatre, Boyd and executive director Vikki Heywood to stand down by the end of 2012, a 'planned and slow departure'The duo who have carried the Royal Shake…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:58AMThe New York Post's Michael Riedel writes today that the show, which will offer 30 tickets for students, already has a 6 million dollar advance through premium tickets selling for upwards of…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:57AMMamma Mia! will get a new home in London beginning next fall. In September 2012 the ABBA musical will gets its second West End transfer, this time to the Novello Theatre. Mamma Mia! made its…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:57AMTony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is among the authors of the new musical Bring It On, will join cast members from the musical about competitive cheerleading for a special Oct. 22 ev…
Linked From Playbill at 11:52AMTony Award winners Chita Rivera and John Cullum will headline a one-night-only Actors Fund benefit concert performance of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Visit at the Vineyard Theatre on…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:51AMChicago's Congo Square Theatre Company is moving to Stage 773. The African-American theater company, known for the quality of its work and its administrative struggles, was formerly workin…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 11:44AMRobert Pattinson, best known for playing Edward Cullen in the "Twilight" movie series, may test his vocal abilities on the big screen when American Idiot, the 2010 stage musical base…
Linked From Playbill at 11:43AMActors' Equity Association and David E. Talbert Presents have negotiated the Urban Broadway Series Contract, which will be used for Talbert-produced tours on what is considered the urban…
Linked From Playbill at 11:37AMOlivier winners Lindsay Duncan and Jeremy Northam will lead the cast of Noel Coward’s Hay Fever at the West End’s Noel Coward Theatre. Joining Northam and Duncan on stage will be…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:36AMJason Holtham and Keith Josef Adkins present the latest installment of their festival celebrating boundary-breaking emerging black theater artists
Linked From Culture Bot at 11:35AMOne of the hardest transitions to make is from an artists (or organization) that is used to spending very little to create and market work . . . to one that needs to spend more. Sometimes sp…
Linked From Mission Paradox at 11:34AMNew plays by Marcus Gardley and Bekah Brunstetter will be developed and showcased as part of Hartford Stage's 13th annual "Brand:NEW" festival in November.
Linked From Playbill at 11:30AMKatori Hall's Olivier Award-winning drama The Mountaintop, directed by Tony Award nominee Kenny Leon (Fences, A Raisin in the Sun), officially opened at the Bernard B. Jacobs Oct. 13.
Linked From Playbill at 11:30AMDo you know your entrechats from your fouettés? What Beyoncé learned from Betty Page? In a new weekly column looking at dance in detail, Luke Jennings takes a closer look at the dazzling f…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:29AMFlorida Rep will open its 2011-2012 season with Neil Simon's Rumors, October 25-November 19. Producing Artistic Director Robert Cacioppo will direct.
The play takes place at a lavish …
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:29AMTony winners Chita Rivera and John Cullum will star in a one-night-only Actors Fund benefit performance of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Visit on November 30 at the Ambassador Theatre. …
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:29AMGillian Bevan and Deka Walmsley will join the West End production of Billy Elliot on November 14, as Mrs Wilkinson and Dad, respectively. Ann Emery who originated the role of Grandma in 2005…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:29AMDebbie Allen, Harry Belafonte, Alicia Keys, Justin Long, Phylicia Rashad, and Gabourey Sibide join Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett and the company of Broadway's The Mountaintop on their op…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:22AMAt the Opening Night of 'The Mountaintop' on Broadway, Samuel L. Jackson gives an update on how Twitter (https://twitter.com/samuelljackson) has been treating him so far.
Linked From YouTube at 11:22AMA tableau on the Isle of the Dead. Photo: Gary Sloan.José Mateo remains as dependable as ever. His latest program, "Broken Shadows," (at the Sanctuary Theatre, near Harvard Squa…
Linked From The Hub Review at 11:22AMDavid Bar Katz
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Current Town: New York City
Q: Tell me about your upcoming show with LAB.
A: The play is called The Atmosphere of Memo…
Linked From ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 11:21AMTony Award winners Chita Rivera and John Cullum will headline a one-night-only Actors Fund benefit concert performance of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Visit at the Vineyard Theatre on…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:15AMThe New York premiere of Andrew Hinderaker’s Suicide, Incorporated is coming to life on October 14, when it begins previews at Roundabout Underground, the off-Broadway company's bl…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:15AM “Mangella” imagines a desktop-human romance For as long as there have been machines, there have been stories about machines replacing people, and that tradition gets a sly…
Linked From Theatre Development Fund at 11:08AMGodspell began previews at the Circle in the Square Theatre Oct. 13 and will officially open on Broadway Nov. 7. Here, composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz talks about the Tony-nominated score…
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The Actors Fund and the Vineyard Theatre will present a one-night-only benefit concert performance of Kander & Ebb’s The Visit Nov. 30 at 7:30 PM at Broadway's Ambassador Theat…
Linked From Playbill at 10:59AMThe Normal Heart, Larry Kramer's 2011 Tony Award-winning drama, will be presented in a special staged reading at Maryland's Forum Theatre Nov. 7.
Linked From Playbill at 10:59AMGet £10 tickets for TERROR 2011: LOVE ME TO DEATH at the Soho Theatre Downstairs space. Offer valid for performances between 21-27 October.
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 10:59AMThis landed in my inbox yesterday, and the timing is perfect. I’m teaching three courses right now, and all of them are at the point of the course where we are learning about Facebook.…
Linked From Rebecca Coleman at 10:51AMWildly imaginative, extremely funny and poignant these two stars shine over Broadway. Director Kenny Leon has supplied a spectacular and inspirational finish to this fantasy of Dr. King's l…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 10:50AMMichael Boyd and Vikki Heywood have announced their intention to step down as artistic director and executive director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2012.
Also announced in the RSC…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 10:45AMThe Actors Fund and the Vineyard Theatre have announced details for their upcoming one-night-only benefit concert performance of Kander amp Ebb's THE VISIT, starring Broadway stage legends a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:44AMActors' Equity Association and David E. Talbert Presents David E. Talbert, producer have successfully negotiated the ground breaking Urban Broadway Series Contract. This contract will be use…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:44AMDon't miss these FULL HIGHLIGHTS from 'The Lion King' in Madrid, the first SPANISH production of the show, which opens next week at Teatro Lope de Vega. Check out performances by Carlos Riv…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:44AMThe Mountaintop has opened on Broadway, which means that Angela Bassett is officially back on the boards. Considering the Oscar-nominated actress' pedigree on film and TV, her current tu…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:44AMFlorence Henderson, Ralph Macchio, Lucie Arnaz, Marsha Mason, Jennifer Tilly and Lanie Kazan will headline upcoming New York City presentations of Celebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter, …
Linked From Playbill at 10:38AMOlivia Newton-John, who famously played Sandy opposite John Travolta's Danny in the blockbuster film of the Broadway musical Grease, will launch a mini-tour in December that will bring h…
Linked From Playbill at 10:31AMPlaywright Katori Hall, director Kenny Leon and composer Branford Marsalis join stars Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett in celebrating the Broadway opening of The Mountaintop, Hall's O…
Linked From Playbill at 10:29AMLast night, Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of WE LIVE HERE by Zoe Kazan, directed by Sam Gold opened to a star-studded crowd at MTC at New York City Center – Stage I (131 West 5…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:29AMToday’s the birthday of Lillian Gish (1893-1993). She was the principal muse of one of my favorite film directors D.W. Griffith, starring for him as early as 1912, back when the pictur…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:29AMThe 1960s collages that sent two young writers to prison remind us that in today's Britain, no real dissident art is possibleIn May 1962 a pair of would-be writers were each sentenced to six…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:24AMMichael Boyd and Vikki Heywood will step down from their respective roles as Artistic Director and Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company by the end of 2012. No successors have …
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:23AMIn Lee Breuer’s avant-garde staging of Henrik Ibsen’s landmark “A Doll’s House,” Nora — the wife who famously walks out on her husband — practically has to crawl to look up at …
Linked From Washington Post at 10:21AMCool Hand Luke has posted closing notices at the West End's Aldwych Theatre for 19 November 2011. The play, adapted from Donn Pearce's 1965 novel, had initially been booking to 7 January 201…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 10:16AMInstinct Magazine will celebrate the release of singer-songwriter and stage actor Matt Zarley's latest CD, "Change Begins With Me," with a listening party Nov. 8 at Here Lounge…
Linked From Playbill at 10:10AMBill Cosby, Chita Rivera and Mark Nadler were the headline performers of Laugh, Sing, Dance!, a benefit for Art Start at Town Hall, Thursday, October 13.
Art Start is an organization that a…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:09AMChris Mullin, the retired N.B.A. All-Star, plays host at a basketball camp for the cast of the coming Broadway musical “Lysistrata Jones.”
Linked From Broadway's Best Shows at 10:08AMBack in 1984, the news hit the dance doubles hard: “Footloose” was going to have more story than dancing. But that choice has served fans of the original film well — we got more of Kev…
Linked From Washington Post at 10:05AMSeveral years ago, a friend insisted I had to see Gashole. I actually misread his e-mail invitation as Gash Ole. Turns out, it was not a Mexican drag act. I was too sick to go to the theatre…
Linked From Show Showdown at 10:04AMTrevor Project Benefit Performance at HOW TO SUCCEED...
On Thursday, October 6th there was be a special fundraising performance of HOW TO SUCCEED... for The Trevor Project, which received:
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Linked From YouTube at 10:02AMThe new musical The Blue Flower, starring Broadway favorites Teal Wicks, Sebastian Arcelus and Marc Kudisch, begins previews on October 14 at Second Stage Theatre. The Jim and Ruth Bauer-cre…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:02AMTHE producers of “Relatively Speaking” (which opens at the Brooks Atkinson on Oct. 20) have asked me to conduct an in-depth interview with Ethan Coen and Woody Allen, with whom i…
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The cast of PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT made an appearance on OWN Network's new talk show, 'The Rosie Show', starring Rosie O'Donnell. The cast performed a medley of It's Raining Men and …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:57AMIn musical theater land, 2010 was all about Stephen Sondheim, as we all celebrated his life and work during his 80th birthday year. And now it's time to honor another great composer/lyricist…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 09:57AMWhen the Metropolitan Opera started broadcasting its performances live in high definition back in 2006, it sparked what is now a maturing modern industry than spans artistic genres.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:53AMFriday October 14, 2011 PITTSFIELD
Film, dance, music, poetry, short stories, theater -- the range of art forms making up the inaugural Made
Linked From The Berkshire Eagle at 09:53AMThe time to see Betty Buckley's new cabaret show "Ah Men! The Boys of Broadway" is now! Come see Betty live on stage at Feinstein's at Loews Regency in NYC until October 29! In this new show…
Linked From Adaumbelle’s Quest at 09:53AMNot all that much happens in the cozy, book-strewn Manhattan living room that serves as the setting of New Repertory...
Linked From Boston Herald at 09:53AMIt’s a daunting task to play lawyer Atticus Finch in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
Linked From NJ.com at 09:53AMCourtesy Busting Out!Emma Powell and Bev KillickAlso check out this week's Stage Features on John Leguizamo's Ghetto Klown and Catherine Trieschmann's How The World Began; plus all the ca…
Linked From LA Weekly at 09:53AMGrammy-nominated singer Marilyn Maye will celebrate the 80th birthday of composer-lyricist Jerry Herman during her upcoming engagement at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
Linked From Playbill at 09:52AMLisa McMillan leads the st. Petersburg premiere of August Osage County for the Palladium, and the St. Petersburg Times created a portrait of the actress in character. Check it out below
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:50AMThe Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson DR. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Angela Bassett, directed by the Tony-nominated Kenny Leon Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, opened last night, October …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:50AMOne of the revolutions theorized in a new Theatre of Revolt must be a revolution not only in society or politics, but also in the realm of consciousness: in the perspective from which one se…
Linked From Superfluities Redux at 09:40AMBased on Green Day's groundbreaking rock opera American Idiot, Billie Joe Armstrong and the band collaborated with one of the theatre's most acclaimed creative teams, led by the Tony Award-w…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMThe Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson DR. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Angela Bassett, directed by the Tony-nominated Kenny Leon Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, opened last night, October …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMKIKI I want all the dolls in the world. MOTHER Yes, I will give you all that, and I'm sure it won't make you spoiled at all. STROKE-RIDDEN GRANDMA WWWWAAAAIIIILLLL. KIKI I want unlimited can…
Linked From Broadway Abridged at 09:34AMThe Boy from Oz has yet to begin performances, but the limited engagement of Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway has a $6 million advance, according to the New York Post.
Linked From Playbill at 09:31AMUpdated casting has been announced for Billy Elliot the Musical, playing at the West End's Victoria Palace Theatre.
As of November 14, the role of Billy will be played by Ryan Collinso…
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:29AMLindsay Duncan and Jeremy Northam will star in a new production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever that will begin performances Feb. 10, 2012, at the London theatre that bears the playwrigh…
Linked From Playbill at 09:24AMAnn Emery, who originated the role of Gandma in the original production of Billy Elliot at London's Victoria Palace in 2005 and stayed with the show for five years before leaving in 2010…
Linked From Playbill at 09:24AMThe long-running London production of the hit musical Mamma Mia! will move to the West End's Novello Theatre on September 6, 2012. The production will continue playing at Prince of Wal…
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:22AMby Michael Wheeler I realize it is a little strange as the Co-Artistic Director of Praxis Theatre and Editor of praxistheatre.com to publish a blog post about the best play I’ve worked…
Linked From praxistheatre.com at 09:21AMThe original West End production of Mamma Mia! will move to its third West End address in September 2012.
Linked From Playbill at 09:16AMTony Award winner Lindsay Duncan will star alongside Olivia Colman, Jeremy Northam, and Jeremy Northam in Noel Coward's Hay Fever, to run February 10-June 2 at the West End's Noel …
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:15AM
Tony award winning director-choreographer Bill T. Jones will be conducting a pre-show question-and-answer session Sunday, Oct. 23 at 1 p.m., just prior to the final show at 2 p.m. of the r…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 08:57AMGoodbye Barcelona, a new musical, will run November 24-December 23 at the Arcola Theatre. Karen Rabinowitz will direct and choreograph the production.
The show, with book by Judith Johnson…
Linked From TheaterMania at 08:50AMGillian Bevan and Deka Walmsley will join the West End cast of Billy Elliot as Mrs Wilkinson and Dad from 14 November, with Ann Emery returning play Grandma, the role she originated in 2005 …
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:40AMChoreographer Collaborates With Alfred Uhry For Show Playing At Jorgensen Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageMartha Clarke opens t…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 08:37AMThe Beatles hit the West End, SuBo limbers up for showtime and Beyoncé boogies into a plagiarism row. The Stage's Alistair Smith on this week's big theatre newsAlistair Smith
Linked From The Guardian at 08:37AMCBS has bought a new comedy project from actor and writer Aasif Mandvi.
Mandvi will write and star in the series, in which he would play a recently divorced marriage counselor.
Mandvi won…
Linked From TheaterMania at 08:37AMAngela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson give electrifying performances, igniting the dialogue and setting the stage of the Bernard Jacobs Theatre afire in the provocative, wildly imaginative, e…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 08:32AMThe national tour of THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams is now on tour. Check out the first…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:30AMLove! How do you define it? An insane passion kept Lope de Vega (1562-1635) churning out plays, sometimes a play a day. Nothing could stop this 17th century genius, once called “a monster …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 08:03AMIago, the great deceiver of Othello, is 28 according to Shakespeare – but actors have a habit of tweaking the lines ...Watching Dominic West's superb performance as Shakespeare's consummat…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:00AM
Legit News: Northam, McNally, Colman co-star in Coward comedy -- Lindsay Duncan will headline a new West End revival of Noel Coward's comedy "Hay Fever" from Feb. 10 next year.
Linked From Variety at 07:57AMIt's a situation that most London flat-dwellers have experienced at
some point - a neighbour does something annoying, like leaving their
rubbish outside their door or making noise in the ear…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:51AMAccording to a report from The Daily Mail, actress Lindsay Duncan, a two-time Olivier winner, will lead Noel Coward's HAY FEVER at the theatre named for the playwright himself.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:50AMBack in the 1990s in L.A., I got to know a brilliant singer/songwriter, Kevin Ray, at several open mikes, chiefly Highland Grounds' "Open Mind" Wednesdays; we who plied our tunes on piano, a…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 07:50AMJacobs Theatre, Broadway
By Terra Vetter
BOTTOM LINE: A play about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. which leans more towards sentimental far-fetched fable than historical reflection.
Taki…
Linked From Theatre is Easy at 07:49AMWant to attend the press night of Marat/Sade at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon? Well, here is your chance, as we are offering you to attend the press night with a £5 t…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 07:30AMIf, by any chance you happened to read my last review, you will have discovered that I am, to my own detriment, quite the EastEnders fan. So when I heard that two of its popular characters, …
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 07:23AMPurcell’s The Fairy Queen is a lighthearted opera that uses text from an anonymous source based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The setting is nineteenth-century mental ins…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 07:23AMSought Ethics Advice for $165,000 Hartford GigAs I worked the phones talking to area arts leaders about the appointment of Cathy Malloy -- who also happens to be First Lady of the state as…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 07:15AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 14 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:01AM
Katori Hall's starry Broadway debut mixes historical realism and something a bit more cosmic.
Linked From Time Out New York at 06:58AMSamuel L. Jackson makes an impressive Broadway debut Katori Hall's faction about Martin Luther King's last night on earth.
Linked From CurtainUp at 06:58AM‘Liquidity and confidence’ is the motto of Gregor Antonescu - the Bernie Madoff of the nineteen thirties – featured as the leading character in the Roundabout’s revival of "Man and B…
Linked From Cititour.com at 06:58AMGet top-price tickets to see the celebrated Ealing comedy The Ladykillers at
the Gielgud Theatre, plus enjoy a three-course dinner with a glass of
champagne at The Ritz Restaurant for …
Linked From The Independent at 06:49AMPretty soon, every season will be Fringe Season. What once was solely a summer phenomenon has blossomed into an all-year producing organization. This November, FallFRINGE is back! This year…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 06:43AMLast night (13 October 2011) 100 Whatsonstage.com theatregoers, drinks in hand, settled into their seats for an evening of classic Gershwin numbers, tap dancing and colourful costumes as Reg…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:24AMToday is the birthday of Pert Kelton; among many other credits, she was the original Alice in The Honeymooners. For the full bio on her go here. To learn more about the roots of variety ente…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 06:22AM****Well Lookee Here!Last month, I performed my first story at The Moth (in their second Chicago location over at Haymarket Pub on Randolph). Apparently, I wasn't supposed to record it…
Linked From Don Hall at 06:14AMLet’s get one thing clear. Nearly 50 years on, Saved still has the power to shock. Rarely have I been so aware of the silence in an auditorium as the one that followed the ending of th…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:09AMGiven that Edward Bond, that most austere of playwrights, has refused to allow a London production of his most notorious play Saved for over a quarter of a century, it’s neither surprising…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 06:00AMInspired! Samuel French Celebrates New Plays by Emily DeVoti, Jessica Dickey,
and Crystal Skillman
Daniel Talbott and Jessica Bauman direct moments from The Amish Project,
Milk, Birthday a…
Linked From Drama Book Shop at 06:00AM
Although it’s been written so many times, the new play The Lyons makes the statement ring truer than ever: You cannot choose your family. The titular clan is gathered at the hospital bedsi…
Linked From Stage Rush at 01:57AMLooking for love in show places? Every night, it seems, is Date Night at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. But the Denver Center's two newest romantic offerings — the similarly title…
Linked From Denver Post at 01:35AMShow #96: Bellwether, Marin Theatre Company, October 11.
I reviewed Steve Yockey’s creepy new play at Marin Theatre Company for today’s Marin Independent Journal, so go over yond…
Linked From The Idiolect at 01:28AM"Equity is calling for the right to launch employment tribunal cases on behalf of members who have been underpaid, claiming individuals are too 'afraid of damaging their employment prospects…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:15AM"There they go again, stealing the spotlight from their cowed and embittered progeny, the unforgivable but unforgettable monsters Mom and Dad. These Freudian demons have been showing up all …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:09AMGuess who Adam Pascal hooked up with while starring in Rent? Host Paul Wontorek (who knows just about every Broadway tale worth repeating) couldn’t help being surprised when the Tony-n…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:08AM"So You Think You Can Dance" winner Melanie Moore never saw
herself as the likely champ on the show this year, despite everyone
else's predictions.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 01:08AMDoesn’t time fly? The month is already half-gone, and we’re now at the Ides of October. You’d think that the powers-that-be would have released the film The Ides of March e…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:02AMFifty years ago this week, critics were seeing a film about which they’d rave: West Side Story. The next week, audiences would begin to embrace it, and the following April, the Academy…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:01AMWildly imaginative, extremely funny and poignant these two stars shine over Broadway. Director Kenny Leon has supplied a spectacular and inspirational finish to this fantasy of Dr. King's l…
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Stage Rush things you could use a good night of laughing at the theater, so we’re giving away three free pairs of tickets to see the off-Broadway comedy The Judy Show. Emmy-winning com…
Linked From Stage Rush at 12:43AM"The End of the Affair" is a terrific play. But what sort of a play is it? Start with the title, which naturally makes us wonder what went wrong. You expect something like a psychological my…
Linked From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:43AMOne of history’s greatest ironies is that Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his soaring “I’ve have been to the mountaintop” speech on the very night before his death.…
Linked From Scheck on the Arts at 12:37AMAlthough I love all theater, I have a soft, melty, mushy spot for musical theater (I was once memorably harangued by a neighbor in the hi-rise I used to live in for singing showtunes at nigh…
Linked From From the Ledge at 12:37AMIt’s a stormy night in Memphis on April 3, 1968, and Martin Luther King Jr. has only a few hours left to live.
Earlier that evening, he delivered his famous “I’ve been to the mountaint…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AMBetter, stronger, faster -- Hugh Jackman is Broadway’s $6 million dollar man!
His one-man show -- “Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway” -- doesn’t open until Nov. 10, but he’s already p…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AMOn October 14, 2011 at 800pm, The New York Pops orchestra - famous for presenting popular music with a symphony orchestra of the highest quality - celebrates the music of Irving Berlin in a …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:36AMSWEET For those who don’t believe a 99-seat theatre on a Hollywood side street can put on a quality show, you’re about to be pleasantly surprised. With a title like Tick Tick Boom, some …
Linked From Bitter Lemons at 12:35AMWhat a night on Broadway: “The Mountaintop” opened, with incendiary performances from Samuel L. Jackson respectively as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Angela Bassett as a maid (…
Linked From ShowBiz 411 at 12:26AMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AMMemphis, the Broadway musical, begins its national tour in — where else? — Memphis, a city with a complicated racial and musical past.
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AM1893 Lillian Gish, film acting pioneer whose Broadway career lasted from 1913 to 1976, is born today. Her stage shows will include Camille, The Trip to Bountiful and several versions of Uncl…
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AMThe George Street Playhouse's 2011-2012 season-launcher, the new musical It Shoulda Been You, which features direction by Tony winner David Hyde Pierce, officially opens at the New Jerse…
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AMJoel Rooks, who starred in the recent national tour of Say Goodnight Gracie: The Life, Laughter & Love of George Burns, reprises his performance as George Burns at Off-Broadway's St.…
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AMActor-writer Chris Lemmon, son of Hollywood star Jack Lemmon, shares his memories and his original music in a new one-man show, Twist of Lemmon: A Musical Memoir, at 7 PM Oct. 14 at the Metr…
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AMAndrew Hinderaker's dark comedy Suicide, Incorporated, featuring Mike DiSalvo, Gabriel Ebert, Corey Hawkins, James McMenamin, Toby Leonard Moore and Jake O'Connor, begins Oct. 1…
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AMRainn Wilson (London Assurance, The Tempest) hosts the first episode of PBS' multi-platform arts festival, "PBS Arts from Minnesota: Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore," w…
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AMAcademy Award nominee Haley Joel Osment of "The Sixth Sense" and "Pay It Forward" plays opposite Broadway veteran Stephen Rowe in the resident Philadelphia production of …
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AMThe Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Memphis, the 1950's-set musical tracing an interracial love affair and the tumultuous world of the music industry, launches its national tour Oct…
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AMThe Blue Flower, the new musical about artists and thinkers in the first part of the 20th century, begins previews Oct. 14 at Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre. The cast includes Sebas…
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AMBruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, which takes a page from Lorraine Hansberry's Tony and Pulitzer-winning classic A Raisin in the Sun, begins performances Oct.…
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AMRyan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans take the American Repertory Theater's Club Oberon through a time warp with The Rocky Horror Show, beginning Oct. 14 in Cambridge, MA.
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AMStephen Adly Guirgis' Tony-nominated play Motherf**ker with the Hat makes its U.S. regional premiere Oct. 14 at Hartford's TheaterWorks.
Linked From Playbill at 12:09AMHedy Weiss, the longtime and indefatigable theater and dance critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, is to receive a special Joseph Jefferson Award in November in recognition of her years of covera…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 12:08AMThere are three larger-than-life personalities on stage in Katori Hall’s two-person play, The Mountaintop: Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Of course, Jack…
Linked From Stage Rush at 12:08AMFive Comments Actors Love To Hear After a PerformanceJust saw someone you know perform in a play? Struggling to think of something to say about it? Well turn that struggle upside down into a…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:07AMLa MaMa celebrates 50 years with a World Block Party on Sunday October 16 from 2-6PM.
Linked From Culture Bot at 12:07AMAlthough the number of African American audience members has increased slightly on Broadway in the past decade, black ticketholders still make up the smallest percentage of the Great White W…
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