On the Great White Way, ticket sales were up by 28 percent the week ending Feb. 19, which is the highest level of gross sales since the week ending Jan. 15 when sales reached $20.9 million. …
Linked From Ticket NewsThis morning, the Going Out Gurus gave us a glimpse of the Howard Theatre's entertainment schedule thus far. The lineup is star-studded—almost guaranteed to pack the house every night.…
Linked From Washington City PaperA BLUEPRINT FOR ACTIVISM The Occupy Wall Street movement would do well to take a tip from the longest running show in Chicago, Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (TML). The event may tak…
Linked From Stage and CinemaStar Studded Cast Party Comes to Town Hall: Now in its ninth star-studded year at Birdland, Jim Caruso will bring his celebrated Cast Party back to the big stage at Town Hall for a second ye…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles“CQ/CX” Makes us Aware Plagiarism Affects Everyone. Gabe McKinley’s new play “CQ/CX,” at the Atlantic Theater Company, title makes no sense unless you know it is the lingo related…
Linked From Times Square ChroniclesWhen Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" opens on April 1, no fewer than nine Tony Awards will be represented on the stage, but it may be Broadway neophyte Candice Bergen who is generating the most …
Linked From The Wall Street Journal SubscriptionPerhaps you have seen the trailers for the new cinematic adaptation of The Lorax that are making the rounds. Here's one: This marks yet another chapter is ongoing descecration of Dr. Seuss's…
Linked From Parabasis Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr. – February 21, 2012 Nothing To Lose But Your Heart is a new show conceived and directed by award winning cabaret artist and director Er…
Linked From Times Square ChroniclesActors Conrad John Schuck, Lee Roy Reams, and Don Most discuss their summer stock experiences.
Linked From BackstageActors and directors flock to summer theater programs and camps, such as Stagedoor Manor and Idyllwild Arts Summer Program.
Linked From BackstageThe actor along with folk singers Becky Stark and Tom Brosseau has released several singles via Jack White's Third Man Records label.
Linked From BackstageThe national Council of Actors Equity voted unanimously Tuesday night to endorse the planned merger of SAG and AFTRA.
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Argentinian theater auteur Mariano Pensotti has staged performance pieces on a Cologne train station platform, on the sidewalk of a Buenos Aires street and inside a b…
Linked From LA WeeklyMark Swed reviews the San Diego Opera production of Jake Heggie's "Moby-Dick."
Linked From Los Angeles TimesAaron Morgan"Candida," produced by Crysalis Stage at The ComplexChrysalis Stage's revival of G.B. Shaw's Candida at The Complex nabbed this week's Pick of the Week. Our critics also l…
Linked From LA WeeklyEarthy stories are at core of play’s appeal
Linked From NJ.comTensions build effectively in the play, running in West Orange through March 11.
Linked From NJ.comApricot Sky Productions will return professional theater to Grove Street in April.
Linked From NJ.comIt has been made abundantly clear that Stephen Sondheim doesn’t like opera. This is fortunate, because this post isn’t about him. And because no matter how strongly he dislikes o…
Linked From The Craptacular"It would be difficult to prove that saints do not enjoy the trouble they make." William Maxwell, Ancestors: A Family...
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“Early Plays,” three Eugene O’Neill seafaring one-acts, are directed by Richard Maxwell for the Wooster Group at Ann’s Warehouse.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionThe Wooster Group and Richard Maxwell's New York City Players team up to present three early works by Eugene O'Neill.
Linked From TheaterManiaRob Ackerman's problematic new play deals with a 40-something electrician who becomes obsessed with Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Linked From TheaterManiaOn tonight's episode of AMERICAN IDOL, the final judges' eliminations began after weeks of cuts. Whittling down the numbers from 42 to 24 is no easy task - who made the cut and who didn't Fi…
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The most baffling thing about this defiant "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" is that it's a Cheek by Jowl production directed by Declan Donnellan: He and his comp…
Linked From Variety SubscriptionSecondStory Repertory, located in the Redmond Town Center about 20 minutes east of downtown Seattle, has been selling out most performances with the tantalizingly tawdry tale of murder and a…
Linked From TalkinBroadwayDoug Wright is a compelling playwright who loves to write about fascinatingly bizarre folks, from the Marquis de Sade in Quills to the batty Beales of the musical Grey Gardens to the notorio…
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Kings Theatre, PortsmouthPaul Daniels' show is ostensibly not much different to the version he toured with all autumn. However this is his first return to the stage in 2012, and the first si…
Linked From The GuardianTeam Starkid, the Chicago entertainment company known for its relationship with "Glee" star Darren Criss and for its hugly popular series of musical parodies broadcast on YouTube, has come u…
Linked From Chicago TribuneThe new leaders of Antaeus, the classical theater company, include John Sloan, Rob Nagle and Bill Brochtrup. Discussing the changes at the company and its future prospects are Sloan and Nagl…
Linked From LA STAGE TimesThe Paramount Theatre in Aurora has enjoyed immense success so far with its newly initiated Broadway Subscription Series. But despite its 13,000 subscribers and solid to glowing reviews, it …
Linked From Chicago Sun-TimesOPENING ABSOLUTE HELL. Gift Theatre presents the U.S. premiere of Rodney Ackland’s play, which takes place one month after World War II has ended. Directed by Sheldon Patinkin. Previews Ma…
Linked From Chicago Sun-TimesIf there is one thing that is certain to be bursting out all over in the early spring, it is the theatrical mastery of Michael Frayn. In March, Sheffield Theatres unveil a mighty Michael Fra…
Linked From The IndependentIn 2007, a group of theatre professionals in the Bay Area, me among them, decided it was time to get some rigorous, honest discussion going about the local performing arts scene beyond the d…
Linked From Chloe VeltmanTony Award nominee Kate Baldwin, pianist Rob Berman and 19-year-old ragtime pianist Adam Swanson will join singer-pianist Michael Feinstein for the Feb. 29 performance of Standard Time with …
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As Alan Menken and Glenn Slater’s new musical Leap of Faith readies to hop onto stage April 3 at the St. James Theatre, Broadway.com has your first look at co-stars Raúl Es…
Linked From Broadway.comAlice Bailey Johnson and Lucy Briggs-Owen have joined the cast of the West End transfer of Noises Off, as Poppy Norton-Taylor and Brooke Ashton respectively. Directed by Lindsay Posner, Mich…
Linked From Broadway.comIn the latest installment of Gotta Dance!, Broadway.com catches up with a familiar Broadway face Justin Bohon, the missionary who stands out from the pack in The Book of Mormon. Bohon, who m…
Linked From Broadway.comTony winner Tonya Pinkins and the cast of Hurt Village have moved into off-Broadway’s Signature Center, and we’ve got an intense first look at Katori Hall’s newest drama. S…
Linked From Broadway.comBroadway veteran and The Hangover star Justin Bartha will play the husband to The Book of Mormon’s Andrew Rannells in the new NBC pilot The New Normal, according to The Hollywood Repor…
Linked From Broadway.comIs there a more evocative location than Essex? In his 2000 play Under the Blue Sky, one of David Eldridge’s characters shouts the unforgettable words: “I’m from Essex and I’m dancing…
Linked From The Arts DeskPLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO VOTE IN THIS MONTH'S POLL AND IN ROUND 4 OF HOT AND HOTTER (LOOK TO YOUR LEFT)!The Broadway Box Office Top Ten for the 38th week of the 2011…
Linked From JK's TheatreSceneJill Charlotte Thomas became curious about one of the victims of the first night of the 1969 Manson murders -- coffee heiress Abigail Folger. Did Folger have any previous acquaintance with…
Linked From LA STAGE TimesDanielle Ferland, who originated the role of Little Red Riding Hood in the
1987 Broadway production of Into the Woods, prepares to return to Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's fairy tale m…
Linked From PlaybillBob Glaudini and Kevin Corrigan will co-star as father and son in the world premiere of Brett C. Leonard's Philadelphia-set drama Ninth and Joanie, which will begin performances April 5 …
Linked From PlaybillTony Award-winning Avenue Q and Book of Mormon writer Robert Lopez is at work on a new television series, according to Deadline.com.
Linked From PlaybillThis play is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and absurdly devastating, and the actors aren’t afraid to use the entire space of the theater, creating a blur between the worlds of actors and a…
Linked From chicagotheaterbeat.comOf late, there has been a great deal of conversation in the new play sector around the need to apply technology to solving the problems of both playwrights and literary departments: to addre…
Linked From HowlRoundStage and screen star Justin Bartha will co-star with the previously reported Tony nominee Andrew Rannells in the NBC pilot, The New Normal, according to Deadline.com.
This comedy project f…
Linked From TheaterManiaCandice Bergen, Kerry Butler, James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, John Larroquette, Eric McCormack, Michael McKean, and Michael Wilson preview the Broadway revival of The Best Man.
Linked From TheaterManiaThe contestants for the sixth annual The Broadway Beauty Pageant have been announced. Participants include Andrew Chappelle Mamma Mia, Wilkie Ferguson Porgy and Bess, Corey Mach Godspell, Je…
Linked From BroadwayWorldProducers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig announced today that Kinky Boots, the new musical that brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein Book and Grammy Award-winning rock ico…
Linked From BroadwayWorld“Nothing to Lose but Your Heart,” a show by Eric Michael Gillett and La Tanya Hall, features the songs of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
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Five of Broadway’s finest actors are in the running for 2012 Academy Awards! In honor of their stellar work onscreen, Broadway.com is looking back at the most unforgettable stage roles…
Linked From Broadway.comAs John the Baptist in the Broadway revival of Godspell, Wallace Smith calls out to Jesus’ disciples while preparing the way for the Lord. Later, Smith flips the script, taking on the …
Linked From Broadway.comAlice Bailey Johnson and Lucy Briggs-Owen have joined the cast of the West End transfer of Noises Off, as Poppy Norton-Taylor and Brooke Ashton respectively. Directed by Lindsay Posner, Mich…
Linked From Broadway.comTyne Daly has won a Tony Award and multiple Emmys and interspersed her TV renown with stage work in the classics (The Seagull), musicals (Gypsy), and new plays (Rabbit Hole). Now she has add…
Linked From Broadway.comJesse Tyler Ferguson is the latest famous face at the Richard Rodgers Theatre taking in the popular revival of Porgy and Bess. A vet of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, On th…
Linked From Broadway.comSpider-Man, Turn Off The Dark star Christina Sajous has signed on as Broadway.com’s newest video blogger. In Spin City: Behind the Scenes at ‘Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark&r…
Linked From Broadway.comOscar winner F. Murray Abraham has returned to the New York stage to star in Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo at Classic Stage Company. Abraham plays the larger-than-life title character, a 17…
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Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWNLife can be tough when you're an orphan, a cripple, and you live on one of the impoverished Aran Islands during the worldwide depression in 1934 and everyone calls you Cripple Billy
Linked From TalkinBroadwayToronto director and photographer Bruce LaBruce has provoked a minor outrage in Madrid with an exhibition of his photographs that depict various Catholic icons in racy, often overtly sexual …
Linked From Toronto.comFor visual spectacle the Metropolitan Opera's "Aida" is second to none. Its triumphal march ranks as one of the most eye popping creations imaginable. An opera consists of rather more than v…
Linked From The Tyro Theatre CriticBarbra Streisand and Columbia Records announced on Feb. 22 that Streisand's recording contract with the label has been extended, and revealed that Columbia will release a 12-set DVD, &qu…
Linked From PlaybillPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share ten of the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.…
Linked From PlaybillTheater veterans Dan Fogler and Janeane Garofalo will be among the guest stars for upcoming episodes of Comedy Central's Ugly Americans, which will resume on March 14.
The show feature…
Linked From TheaterManiaPeople's Light & Theatre, based in Malvern, PA, will present Donald Margulies' Shipwrecked! An Entertainment--The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself),…
Linked From TheaterManiaThe run of Githa Sowerby's Rutherford & Son at the Mint Theater has been extended one week, and will now close on April 8.
In the play, John Rutherford rules home and business wit…
Linked From TheaterManiaLabyrinth Theater Company will present the world premiere production of Ninth and Joanie, written by Brett C. Leonard and directed by Mark Wing-Davey. Performances will begin at Bank Street …
Linked From TheaterManiaTelevision and movie superstar William Shatner will guest on NBCs Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tomorrow night, Thursday, February 23. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon airs locally on Channel 4 b…
Linked From BroadwayWorldTablet Magazine and 92YTribeca present Dont Cry for Me, Ahasuerus, a Broadway-cabaret Purim shpiel. Starring Jackie Hoffman as Esther, the beautiful Jewish girl who becomes queen, and Seth R…
Linked From BroadwayWorldWalking Shadow nearly sold out for closing weekend of its Oscar Wilde play.
Linked From StarTribuneLargest production in the theater's history exceeded its revenue goal by 41 percent.
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James Corden can juggle a lot as the star of the Broadway-bound farce One Man, Two Guvnors, but on February 21 he had trouble with an on-air balancing act: Hosting the Brit Awards and keepin…
Linked From Broadway.comWhat happens when the secrets of the newsroom find their way to the front page? Gabe McKinley’s world premiere drama CQ/CX tells the story of Jay, an up-and-coming African America repo…
Linked From Broadway.comWhen your first professional job becomes a career-defining smash hit, where do you go from there? In the case of Adam Pascal, who created the role of Roger in Rent at age 25, the answer has …
Linked From Broadway.comIt’s Broadway Week on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and on February 21 the funnyman welcomed the cast of the lush revival of Porgy and Bess to perform. David Alan Grier d…
Linked From Broadway.comGlee is going on a short hiatus, but before the McKinley High crew say farewell, the winter finale episode delivered plenty of plot twists to keep fans buzzing until April. In addition …
Linked From Broadway.comThe off-Broadway revival of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive has extended its run at Second Stage Theatre. The Kate Whoriskey-helmed production, starring Ton…
Linked From Broadway.comJoyce Van Patten and longtime standby Karyn Quackenbush complete the final cast of Love, Loss and What I Wore at the Westside Theatre. The duo join previously announced stars Sierra Bog…
Linked From Broadway.comThe Book of Mormon and Avenue Q co-creator Robert Lopez has signed a blind script deal with ABC Studios, according to Deadline.com. The script will be used for an upcoming comedy that Lopez …
Linked From Broadway.comEveryone knows some variation of the old joke: you take four Jews, you get five opinions. And if you take fifty Jewish theater makers, you get over a hundred opinions. The math may not be as…
Linked From HowlRoundThe Paramount Theatre in Aurora said Wednesday that it will stage four well-known musicals during its 2012-13 season. This will be the historic venue's second year of producing its own Equit…
Linked From Chicago TribuneTHEATER REVIEW: "A Catered Affair" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "A Catered Affair" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★★½ ... This Broadway musical by …
Linked From Chicago TribuneTen leaders of major Shakespeare theaters and festivals throughout Europe — including those in Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Romania, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic — gathered W…
Linked From Chicago Sun-TimesSierra Boggess and Joyce van Patten will be part of the final New York cast of Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which will end its run March 25 Off-Broadway.
Linked From PlaybillLeap of Faith, the new Broadway musical about a flim-flam preacher who blows into a small town, begins previews at the St. James Theatre April 3.
Linked From PlaybillWILLIAM SHATNER ON “LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON” TOMORROW, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Television and movie superstar William Shatner will guest on NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” …
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWNLa Jolla Playhouse has announced the addition of Blood and Gifts to their 2012/2013 season. Written by J.T. Rogers and directed by Lucie Tiberghien, the play will perform in the Mandell Wei…
Linked From TheaterManiaNew Repertory Theatre and Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT) will present the world premiere of Bakersfield Mist by Stephen Sachs in the Black Box Theater at the Arsenal Center for the A…
Linked From TheaterManiaThe Irish Repertory Theatre continues its sixth season of the Irish Rep Reading Series, with a free reading of Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats on Friday, February 24 at 3pm.
By the Bo…
Linked From TheaterManiaBarbra Streisand has re-signed with Columbia Records, which will release a 12 set DVD, containing never before seen footage directly from Streisand's archives, as well as milestones fro…
Linked From TheaterManiaThe Arena Players will present A Steady Rain by Keith Huff at the Vanderbilt Estate Carriage House Theater (Little Neck Road in Centerport, NY), March 2 - 25.
Recently on Broadway starring…
Linked From TheaterManiaPS 122 will hold its Spring Gala on Thursday, March 15 at St. Ann's Warehouse. Mx Justin Vivian Bond will host the event.
The event will honor Lucy Sexton, and also feature the present…
Linked From TheaterManiaGatChu productions will present the world premiere of Ovation Award-winning playwright Damon Chua's 1969: A Fantastical Odyssey Through the American Mindscape. Performances will be held…
Linked From TheaterManiaNational Theatre of Great Britain and Bob Boyett present War Horse from June 13 thru 29 at the Ahmanson Theatre in LA.
Linked From BroadwayWorldBroadways LEAP OF FAITH stars four-time Tony nominee Ral Esparza as Jonas Nightingale, Jessica Phillips as Marla Humes, Kendra Kassebaum as Sam Nightingale, Kecia Lewis-Evans as Ida Mae Robi…
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Linked From BroadwayWorldBarbra Streisand has re-signed with Columbia Records, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actress and singer, who has been with the label for nearly five decades, is gearing up to relea…
Linked From BroadwayWorldTwo-time Drama Desk Award nominee Margaret Colin and four-time Tony Award winner Boyd Gaines have signed on for the world premiere of The Columnist. The two will join Tony and Emmy Award win…
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They simply don’t write plays like they used to. They really don’t. Born in 1915, Arthur Miller was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, until his deat…
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Linked From Toronto.comComedian Gilbert Gottfried, known for Aladdin and The Aristocrats, brings his bad taste standup routine to Richmond St. W. club.
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Linked From YouTubeHear the stars of the revival of Gore VIDAL’s THE BEST MAN talk about working with this star-studded cast, what this play means today and many other questions.
Linked From Broadway's Best ShowsThe new hourlong NBC drama-with-music "Smash" continues Feb. 27 with an episode titled "The Cost of Art." Here is a sneak peek at the installment which will feature Nick …
Linked From PlaybillThe Second Stage Theatre revival of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive will get an extra week, now to March 18, the not-for-profit Off-Broadway company announced.
Linked From PlaybillLa Jolla Playhouse announced the addition of J.T. Rogers' Blood and Gifts, the play about international military intervention in Afghanistan, as part of its 2012-13 season. Lucie Tibergh…
Linked From PlaybillThe production is somewhat downsized from the Broadway version, but smartly so.
Linked From TalkinBroadwayThe lines land as well here as in any Neil Simon comedy. I had to check to see if Hermia's insult of the tall and slender Helena as a "painted maypole" was in the original, and indeed it is.
Linked From TalkinBroadwayThe world premiere of Cages, by Leonard Manzella and directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera, will be held at the Stella Adler Theatre, on the Gilbert Stage, 6773 Hollywood Blvd., 2nd floor.
Cages …
Linked From TheaterManiaThe Antaeus Company will present staged readings of six classics in Classics Fest 2012, Part I, March 18-April 22.
The festival's staged readings will include Eugene O'Neill'…
Linked From TheaterManiaThe 5th Avenue Theatre is set to present a return engagement of Les Misérables, June 27-July 7.
During its previous run at The 5th Avenue Theatre, producer Cameron Mackintosh&apo…
Linked From TheaterManiaSecond Stage Theatre has extended its production of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive by one week, with the final performance now on March 18.
Kate Whoriskey directs the revival, …
Linked From TheaterManiaCasting has been announced for Working by Studs Terkel, Stephen Schwartz, and Nina Faso at The Production Company's Lex Theatre in Hollywood. August Viverito will direct the production …
Linked From TheaterManiaAn updated list of presenters has been announced for the 84th Annual Academy Awards, to be held on Sunday, February 26 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and aired live on ABC-TV. Tony Awar…
Linked From TheaterManiaNBC has released a teaser trailer for Nick Jonas' guest appearance on the February 28 episode of Smash.
Jonas is set to play Lyle, a young performer who ends up putting the moves on …
Linked From TheaterManiaJoyce van Patten and Karyn Quackenbush will join the previously reported Sierra Boggess, Ally Walker and Erica Watson as the closing cast for the Off-Broadway production of Love, Loss, and W…
Linked From TheaterManiaUpdated casting has been announced for The Best of Jim Caruso's Cast Party, at Town Hall on Thursday, February 23 at 8pm. The event will be presented by TheaterMania contributor Scott S…
Linked From TheaterManiaSecond Stage Theatres production of Paula Vogels Pulitzer Prize-winning play, How I Learned to Drive, directed by Kate Whoriskey, has extended one week though March 18th at Second Stage Thea…
Linked From BroadwayWorldLa Jolla Playhouse announces an additional show for its 20122013 season Blood and Gifts, by J.T. Rogers, directed by Lucie Tiberghien, running in the Mandell Weiss Forum June 12 July 8, 201…
Linked From BroadwayWorldProducer Daryl Roth just announced the complete cast for the final month of the long-running hit show Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Karyn Quackenbush, who has been associated with the show as…
Linked From BroadwayWorldNewsies will move to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre for a strictly limited 101 performance run this spring, following its critically-hailed run at Paper Mill Playhouse in fall 2011. The musi…
Linked From BroadwayWorldThe heroine of Euripides' Medea is half martyr, and half murderess - and not just any murderess, but a killer of her own children. This makes her - special, shall we say. But these day…
Linked From The Hub Review16 Projects Funded By CityThe City of Hartford and the Greater Hartford Arts Council named the 16 recipients of the 2012 Arts & Heritage Jobs Grant Program, Phase 1.
Linked From Hartford CourantLee MacDougall’s one-off wonder provides an opportunity for four offbeat performances
Linked From The Globe and MailNoel Kelehan was one of Ireland's most accomplished musicians and conductors. A jazz pianist hailed as the best to emerge on the island, he was also the most successful conductor in the 56-y…
Linked From The StageLet's dance for Sport Relief? No, let's not.
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On Sunday night I flew back from New York in Virgin’s economy class, tightly squeezed into an upper deck corner of the 747 (but at least I was against a window, so had a little room to …
Linked From The StagePlayhouse, LiverpoolIt may seem perverse to praise a production of Tennessee Williams's classic on account of its lighting. But if you get the illumination right for A Streetcar Named Desire…
Linked From The GuardianBarbican, London"Try everything once except incest and folk-dancing," runs an old Scottish adage. In fact there is plenty of both in Declan Donnellan's revival of John Ford's 1633 tragedy, a…
Linked From The GuardianBAC, LondonLeadership is a prized quality in these rudderless times, but we seldom think hard about what it means. Performance poet-turned-comedian Tim Clare has done that thinking for us, a…
Linked From The GuardianWatford PalacePlaywright Charlotte Keatley has always been ahead of the game. In 1985 she wrote My Mother Said I Never Should, one of the first plays about mothers and daughters, a big, bold…
Linked From The GuardianIndie Theater Now has been creating an on-line collection of plays, and today LOCAL STORY is live on the site.You can read it for a pittance. Then you can dream of tiny Betsy and learn the …
Linked From Daily PlaysA comic collection that includes a staggering array of some of the most prized issues ever published was headed for auction Wednesday.
Linked From Toronto.comJessica Love will play Anna Christie, the estranged prostitute daughter of a crusty sailor in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, March 10-April 15 at The Old Globe in San …
Linked From PlaybillGary Wilmes, who recently starred as an American abroad in the Broadway production of Chinglish, will return to the role of Tom in the Public Theater's encore presentation of Elevator Re…
Linked From PlaybillProducer Ken Davenport (Godspell, Chinglish, Oleanna, You're Welcome America...) will present a private industry reading of the new musical Garage Band, featuring music by Mark Allen, Ma…
Linked From PlaybillPlayhouse, Liverpool: In the ever-growing pantheon of fine productions staged by the Everyman Playhouse to have been directed by Gemma Bodinetz, this raises the bar and some.
Read the full …
Linked From The StageWatermill Theatre, Bagnor, Newbury: Peter Shaffer may reputedly have written Lettice and Lovage for Dame Maggie Smith but had he written it 25 years later, perhaps he may have considered Sel…
Linked From The StageBarbican Silk Street, London, February 16-March 10: A young woman's bed, crimson-sheeted, sits in the centre of the stage. Above it designer Nick Ormerod has hung a True Blood poster, w…
Linked From The StageTheatre Calgary is going out on a limb next year and presenting a six-play season that should cost the company a pretty penny. It includes two musicals (Next to Normal, opening the season, a…
Linked From The Charlebois PostEmma Galvin, Eija Ranta, Katey Parker, and Dan Vidor will star in the world premiere of Swell, based on the graphic novel by Juliacks. As previously reported, Kathleen Amshoff will direct th…
Linked From TheaterManiaOdyssey Theatre Ensemble will present actor Julian Sands in A Celebration of Harold Pinter, March 9-11, directed by John Malkovich.
With personal anecdotes and reflections drawn from their …
Linked From TheaterManiaThe nominations for the inaugural Chicago Theater Critics' Beat Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced in late March.
Nominations have been made in 19 categories, w…
Linked From TheaterManiaJackie Hoffman and Seth Rudetsky will star in Don't Cry for Me, Ahasuerus, a Broadway-cabaret Purim shpiel to be presented at 92YTribeca on Wednesday, March 7 at 7:30pm. Michael Schiral…
Linked From TheaterManiaSignature Theatre presents the world premiere production of Katori Hall's HURT VILLAGE, directed by Patricia McGregor. HURT VILLAGE runs February 7 - March 18, 2012 with a February 27th open…
Linked From BroadwayWorldOut Magazine has just announced their 'Most Eligible Bachelors of 2012' and a handful of Broadway favorites have been honored with spots on the list. Included this year are Jonathan Groff, N…
Linked From BroadwayWorldDance Moms - Season 2 Episode 7 - Bullets and Ballet - Todrick Hall & Ashely Everett Recap
Dance Moms Season 2 Episode 7 - "Bullets and Ballet" In this episode of FYI, Todrick…
Linked From YouTubeLauper joins forces with writer Harvey Fierstein and director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell for a Chicago test run of their stage adaptation of the 2005 Miramax release.
Linked From The Hollywood ReporterWe hear rumour the Royal Shakespeare Company is in negotiations to transfer its current production of David Edgar’s new play Written on the Heart::E8831320746747 to the West End.The pl…
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Producers announced yesterday that Off Broadway hit “The Lyons” will be transferring to Broadway in April, in time for eligibility for the 2012 Tony Awards. The play opened in the fall a…
Linked From broadway.meUConn Also To Produce "Winter's Tale" at the Same TimeRob Campbell and Susannah Schulman head the cast in the Yale Repertory Theatre production of William Shakespeare’s "The Wint…
Linked From Hartford Courant“Kinky Boots,” a new musical by Harvey Fierstein (book) and pop music legend Cyndi Lauper (score), will have its pre-Broadway debut at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre in October. Fie…
Linked From Chicago Sun-TimesTony Award winner Stew and his Passing Strange collaborator Heidi Rodewald are at work on a musical adaptation of the graphic novel "Stagger Lee," based on the true-life criminal L…
Linked From PlaybillThe complete song list for the new Disney musical Newsies, which begins previews on Broadway March 15 at the Nederlander Theatre, has been announced.
Linked From PlaybillTony Award nominee David Alan Grier and the cast of the Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess visited "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" Feb. 21—the second night …
Linked From PlaybillThe Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) will present the 26th Annual MAC Awards Show March 29 at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in Manhattan.
Linked From PlaybillMarin Mazzie, who plays the religiously fanatical mother Margaret White in the current Off-Broadway production of Carrie, will miss the Feb. 22 performance at MCC Theater's Lucille Lorte…
Linked From PlaybillThe works of playwright-songwriter Noël Coward — and his contemporaries and U.K. successors — will be presented in Manhattan in a monthly reading series dubbed Noël and…
Linked From PlaybillOn Tuesday, February 21, We Love Soaps held the 3rd Annual Indie Soap Awards at New World Stages, honoring the very best in scripted, serialized programming for the web.
Attendees at the ev…
Linked From TheaterManiaDisney Theatrical Productions has announced the song list for the upcoming Broadway production of Newsies, to play a limited engagement at the Nederlander Theatre, March 15-June 10, with an …
Linked From TheaterManiaThe New York Philharmonic has announced its 2012-2013 season.
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Linked From TheaterManiaSilk Road Rising has announced casting for Re-Spiced: A Silk Road Cabaret, to run April 4 - May 6 in Pierce Hall at The Historic Chicago Temple Building. Steve Scott will direct the show, w…
Linked From TheaterManiaFull casting has been announced for Elevator Repair Service's Gatz, for its return engagement at The Public Theater, March 14-May 6. John Collins directs.
This award-winning theatrical…
Linked From TheaterManiaThe Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein written musical Kinky Boots will get an out of town tryout in Chicago this fall before high kicking on the Great White Way. The musical inspired by the 2005…
Linked From TheaterInTheNowCanal Park Playhouse will launch their weekly Spook Show series with House of Ghostly Haunts, March 27-April 17.
Created and performed by Cardone the Magician, House of Ghostly Haunts kic…
Linked From TheaterManiaNational Theatre Live continues its third season with Dominic Cookes modern dress production of William Shakespeares comedy THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, starring comedian and actor Lenny Henry in h…
Linked From BroadwayWorldThe New York Phiharmonic has just announced the 2012-13 season, which is set to include a staged production of Rodgers amp Hammersteins Broadway hit Carousel, February 27March 2, 2013, direc…
Linked From BroadwayWorldJames Corden will soon lead the Broadway production of the National Theatre of Great Britain's acclaimed comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, but before opening on the Great White Way, Corden hosted…
Linked From BroadwayWorldOn Friday, March 2, 2012, producer Ken Davenport Godspell, Chinglish, Oleanna, You're Welcome America... will present a private industry reading of the new musical GARAGE BAND at a private l…
Linked From BroadwayWorldAccording to DarkHorizons.com, actors Dominic Cooper and Karoline Herfurth will be co-starring in Brian DePalma's upcoming remake of Alain Corneau's 'Crime d'amour'. The reboot version of th…
Linked From BroadwayWorldA new exhibition reveals how Chinese artist Fu Baoshi withstood the turbulent political storms that raged around him, writes Ariella Budick
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Four-time Tony Award nominated and Drama Desk Award-wining actress Tovah Felshuh will host the event scheduled to take place on Monday, March 19th at 8pm at Symphony Space. The event is the …
Linked From Theater AdvisorIn 2008, arts marketer Chad Bauman was handed one of the toughest marketing jobs in town. Arena Stage would vacate its SE home base for two years, while crews moved in to construct a brand n…
Linked From DC Theatre SceneIn her latest solo concert special, Idina Menzel Live: Barefoot at the Symphony, Tony winner Idina Menzel shares the hilarious story behind her performance of Lady Gaga's “Pok…
Linked From Broadway.comOff-Broadway’s The New Group will honor playwrights David Rabe and Nancy Manocherian at its 2012 Gala, Cabaret Soiree. Janeane Garofalo and Morgan Spector are set to host the February …
Linked From Broadway.comBroadway.com’s resident artist Justin ‘Squigs’ Robertson took a break from sketching portraits of the Main Stem’s finest to take on a special commission: poster art f…
Linked From Broadway.comEver since the mesmerizing British period drama Downton Abbey ended its second season on February 19, we've been going through severe withdrawal. If you are like us, you were i…
Linked From Broadway.comSeveral Broadway favorites have landed spots on Out magazine's annual list of the top 100 eligible gay bachelors. Among the handsome men are Priscilla Queen of the Desert headliner …
Linked From Broadway.comCasting is complete for The Public Theater’s return engagement of Gatz, the epic theater piece adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The show will begin previews o…
Linked From Broadway.com Kinky Boots, the new musical by four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein and Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper, will make its world premiere at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre this fall…
Linked From Broadway.comThe Manhattan Theatre Club announced recently that Boyd Gaines and Margaret Colin will join John Lithgow in the cast of David Auburn’s “The Columnist.” The drama will begin performance…
Linked From broadway.meREVIEW: While it's more "Glee" than Green Day, the touring musical is as exciting as rock gets on Broadway.
Linked From StarTribuneVanessa Redgrave will narrate a Lebanese woman's life story on stage as part of Brighton Festival 2012, of which she is this year's guest director.
Linked From The StageThis year's Brighton Fringe will feature more than 675 events at nearly 200 venues, with an increased international element.
Linked From The Stage“Kinky Boots,” a new musical by Harvey Fierstein (book) and pop music legend Cyndi Lauper (score), will have its pre-Broadway debut at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre in October. Fie…
Linked From Chicago Sun-TimesEvery fourth Wednesday of the month, the “VIP Access” column will serve up advice on how to make your theater-going experiences cheaper, easier and more fulfilling with inside scoop from…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.comIt Shoulda Been You, the new musical about the perfect wedding that quickly unravels, will play Washington's Village Theatre beginning March 14.
Linked From PlaybillIdina Menzel, who took home the Tony Award for her performance as Elphaba in the Broadway musical Wicked, covered Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" at her concert, "Barefoot at the…
Linked From PlaybillTony Award winner Dan Fogler will co-star with Josh Duhamel in the upcoming film "Scenic Route," according to Deadline.com.
Linked From PlaybillThe New York City premiere of Leslye Headland's Assistance, about those in service of nightmare bosses, began performances Feb. 3 with a cast that features Tony Award nominee Bobby Stegg…
Linked From PlaybillThe complete song list for the new Disney musical Newsies, which begins previews on Broadway March 15 at the Nederlander Theatre, has been announced.
Linked From PlaybillThe musical Kinky Boots, about a shoe company that finds new life when its owner is inspired to switch to manufacturing fetish footwear, will get a pre-Broadway tryout this fall at Chicago&#…
Linked From PlaybillThe New York Philharmonic's 2012-13 season, which was announced Feb. 22, will include a staged production of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.
Linked From PlaybillPop star Nick Jonas has returned to Broadway in the Tony Award-nominated revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Here, he kicks off Broadway Week on "Late Night Wit…
Linked From PlaybillLibra Theater Company presented Songs You Should Know, a concert of new and rarely performed songs by some of todays most prolific music theater writers on Monday, February 6th at The Laurie…
Linked From BroadwayWorldRoundabout Theatre Companys Anything Goes will perform on NBCs Late Night with Jimmy Fallon between 1235AM-135AM tomorrow night. Tune in to see Sutton Foster and company members from Anythin…
Linked From BroadwayWorldDisney Theatrical Productions has just announced the song list for the upcoming Broadway production of Newsies, beginning performances at the Nederlander Theatre 208 W. 41st Street on March …
Linked From BroadwayWorldBased on user demand, BWW is taking our commitment to arts education one step further with the launch of the BWW Student Center - High School Edition. This directory features upcoming show l…
Linked From BroadwayWorldThis Thursday, Cast Party will move down the block from Birdland for a repeat engagement at Town Hall. We caught up with creator and host Jim Caruso to talk about the show and the event.
Linked From BroadwayWorldPlaywrights Horizons Tim Sanford, Artistic Director Leslie Marcus, Managing Director presents the New York premiere of ASSISTANCE, a new play by Leslye Headland Bachelorette. Directed by Tri…
Linked From BroadwayWorldProducers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig announced today that Kinky Boots, the new musical that brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein Book and Grammy Award-winning rock ico…
Linked From BroadwayWorldThe Manhattan Association of Cabarets amp Clubs MAC is pleased to announce the 26th Annual MAC Awards Show. The event will be held on Thursday, March 29th, at the world-famous B.B. King Blue…
Linked From BroadwayWorldSteve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon will present a sign language interpreted performance for the hearing impaired, April 15 at 5pm at Club Fugazi.
The world's longest running mus…
Linked From TheaterManiaRob Campbell and Susannah Schulman will head the cast of Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Obie Award winner Liz Diamond will direct the …
Linked From TheaterManiaPrincipal casting has been announced for Soul Sister, to run April 15 - May 5 at the Hackney Empire, according to a report on the website for the U.K. magazine The Stage. Bob Eaton will dir…
Linked From TheaterManiaGeorge Mount, Artistic Director of the Seattle Shakespeare Company, has announced the company's programming schedule for 2012-2013, including their Wooden O outdoor productions.
The W…
Linked From TheaterManiaOn Tuesday, February 21, We Love Soaps held the 3rd Annual Indie Soap Awards at New World Stages, honoring the very best in scripted, serialized programming for the web.
Attendees at the ev…
Linked From TheaterManiaHarvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper's musical Kinky Boots will play the Bank of America Theatre in October 2012. Jerry Mitchell will direct and choreograph the production.
With music an…
Linked From TheaterManiaJason Graae will host the 26th annual MAC Awards Show, presented by The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, on Thursday, March 29.
The evening…
Linked From TheaterManiaThe musical adaptation of the 2005 British film about a drag queen named Lola would be the Broadway debut of Cyndi Lauper as a composer and lyricist.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionFulton Street Sessions - TUTA Theatre Chicago at Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago Ave, is offering $15 industry tickets to all Thursdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. through March 25th…
Linked From Collective LeverageYou know spring is almost here when it's time to present the annual list of Western Pennsylvania high school musicals. If this list is missing performances, please send an e-mail to magazine…
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Let me get to the bottom line about Jason Grote’s Civilization (all you can eat), now playing at Woolly Mammoth. I like it a great deal, and I don’t know why. Civilization is one of thos…
Linked From DC Theatre SceneWilliam Shatner Explores Strange New "World"
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video From Shakespeare to Captain Kirk to Priceline, Emmy-winning actor William Shatner sat down wi…
Linked From YouTubeAll-Star Cast of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" Mines Humor in Political Strife
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video With a starry cast boasting James Earl Jones, Angela Lans…
Linked From YouTubeHey, Old Friend! A Musical Sneak Peek at the Encores! "Merrily We Roll Along" Concert
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Just three days into rehearsal toward a Feb. 8 launc…
Linked From YouTubeThis post is one of a series honoring Black History Month. Today is the birthday of a pioneering African American musician James Reese Europe (for my full bio go here). And here he is with h…
Linked From Trav S.D.Their Time: Meet the Encores! "Merrily We Roll Along" Cast
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video "Merrily We Roll Along," the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical th…
Linked From YouTubeHighlights From "The Toxic Avenger" Starring Constantine Maroulis
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Former "American Idol" contestant and Tony-nominated star of &…
Linked From YouTubeThe American premiere of jazz and blues musical The City Club will begin previews April 3 at off-Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre and officially open on April 23. Directed by Mitch…
Linked From Broadway.comTony Award winner Dan Fogler is set to star in the big screen road trip comedy Scenic Route, according to Deadline.com. Directed by Kevin and Michael Goetz and written by Kyle Killen, the fi…
Linked From Broadway.comHighlights From "Richard III" Starring Kevin Spacey
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey takes the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey sta…
Linked From YouTubeHighlights From "Wit" With Cynthia Nixon
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Manhattan Theatre Club presents Tony winner Cynthia Nixon in "Wit," Margaret Edson'…
Linked From YouTubeJames Corden can juggle a lot as the star of the Broadway-bound farce One Man, Two Guvnors, but on February 21 he had trouble with an on-air balancing act: Hosting the Brit Awards and keepin…
Linked From Broadway.comResearch shows that theatres are prejudiced against female playwrights. What can be done about it?What would the playwriting landscape look like if all submissions to theatres were done anon…
Linked From The GuardianFour strong contenders: production values are high, the actors excellent, and four are beautifully grounded in their settings –- Norway, Calcutta, and two in Ireland.
Linked From The Arts FuseSteppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member John Malkovich will give the "international message" on World Theatre Day, March 22, in Paris. This will be the 50th anniversary of the event, r…
Linked From Chicago TribuneIt's confirmed: "Kinky Boots" will work out its kinks in Chicago. Producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig announced Wednesday that the new Broadway-aimed musical with music and lyrics by pop sta…
Linked From Chicago TribuneThe United States is a multicultural nation, and nowhere is that truer than in the arts. However, the full range of the diverse cultures working in the arts often occurs out of the spotlight…
Linked From Theatre Communications GroupClip 37:11 – 42:00 — “It Ain’t Necessarily So” -- David Alan Grier and the Company of The Gershwins’ PORGY AND BESS -- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon &ndash…
Linked From Broadway's Best ShowsThe American premiere of The City Club, billed as "an original blues and jazz musical about the indisputable intoxication of music," will begin Off-Broadway April 3, prior to an of…
Linked From PlaybillThe New York Musical Theatre Festival has announced that A Letter to Harvey Milk, Prison Dancer: The Musical and Living With Henry are among the musicals selected for the 2012 Next Link Proj…
Linked From PlaybillFour-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh (Golda's Balcony, Lend Me a Tenor, Sarava, Yentl) will host the sixth annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, which will be held March 19 at Sym…
Linked From PlaybillCast members from The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess teamed with Givenik.com for a special Feb. 21 post-show reception at B. Smith’s to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AI…
Linked From PlaybillRoundabout Theatre Company’s Anything Goes, will perform on NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” between 12:35AM-1:35AM on channel 4 tomorrow night! Tune in to see Sutton Foster and …
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWNWhat a Saturday seminar we had this week! Not sure if I've mentioned this before, but we lowered the number of seminar participants a couple of sessions ago to give even more attention to th…
Linked From The Producers PerspectiveThe contestants for the sixth annual The Broadway Beauty Pageant have been announced. Participants include Andrew Chappelle Mamma Mia, Wilkie Ferguson Porgy and Bess, Corey Mach Godspell, Je…
Linked From BroadwayWorldLast night, The Trevor Project's new life-saving, life-affirming public service announcement PSA featuring Daniel Radcliffe premiered on FOX during the network's hit series GLEE.
Linked From BroadwayWorldSteven Spielberg adapted War Horse into a feature length film, which was released in movie theaters in December. The Oscar nominated film will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 3.
Linked From BroadwayWorldThis week, Theater Talk welcomes award-winning bookwriter and his SILENCE The Musical stars, David Garrison and Jenn Harris. Along with hosts Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins, they focus on …
Linked From BroadwayWorldIn its ninth star-studded year at Birdland, Jim Caruso will bring his celebrated Cast Party back to the big stage at Town Hall for a second year. The Best of Jim Carusos Cast Party will take…
Linked From BroadwayWorldHappy Birthday, Lea Salonga Salonga in best known for originating the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon, for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Theatre …
Linked From BroadwayWorldWillem Dafoe, Colin Farrell, Anna Kendrick, John Waters, and Olivia Wilde will serve as presenters at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, according to a report on Deadline.com. The event wi…
Linked From TheaterManiaEdinburgh International Festival favorite The City Club will have its American premiere, opening April 23 at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Mitchell Maxwell will direct.
Written by a British an…
Linked From TheaterManiaJSP Records will release Creations 1936-1962 - Songs She Sang First in 2013. Lawrence Schulman will assemble the box set of remastered Judy Garland recordings.
The set will feature tunes G…
Linked From TheaterManiaContestants have been announced for the sixth annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, to be held on Monday, March 19 at 8pm. As previously reported, Tovah Feldshuh will host.
The contestants and th…
Linked From TheaterManiaPlayer King Productions is set to present the Los Angeles premiere of mystery writer Dennis Lehane's Coronado, to run March 4-27 at The Holding Company. Drew Shirley will direct.
Leha…
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New star of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Nick Jonas, headed to the studio last Sunday, February 19, to record a new Broadway cast album of the 50th anniversary revival o…
Linked From Theater AdvisorBig dreams start small. Just think of that dollhouse you had growing up. Inside that diminutive frame is a multiverse of stories. In a child’s hands, a new version of reality is brought to…
Linked From DC Theatre SceneWhen we set out on our State of the Artist Documentary Project, working with some of the McKnight Artist Fellows of the past 30 years, we immediately saw a chance to satisfy our own curiosit…
Linked From State of the ArtistA new musical based on the story of Ike and Tina Turner and featuring their music will premiere at the Hackney Empire this April.
Linked From The StageThe staging at the Orpheum is superior to the Broadway production.
Linked From StarTribuneTexas Music Educators Assoc. Conference 2/9/12 Reported by: Cindy Ripley, Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher Tim McDonald, MTI’s John Prignano and I all met in San Antonio…
Linked From Music Theatre InternationalSteven Spielberg's film adaptation of War Horse will arrive on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital and On-Demand April 3.
Linked From PlaybillSoul Sister, a new musical inspired by the life and times of Ike and Tina Turner, is to receive its world premiere at London's Hackney Empire, beginning performances April 14, prior to a…
Linked From PlaybillCasting is now complete for the Friends in Theater Company and Story Pirates one-night-only benefit performance of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's Little Shop of Horrors, which is schedu…
Linked From PlaybillBets Malone, who was seen Off-Broadway in The Marvelous Wonderettes, will play Princess Winnifred in Cabrillo Music Theatre’s upcoming production of Once Upon a Mattress.
Linked From PlaybillAlton Fitzgerald White, who can currently be seen on Broadway as Mufasa in Disney’s The Lion King, has released his debut solo recording.
Linked From PlaybillAll the excitement of the Broadway stage will be broadcast into viewers' homes this week, as Broadway Week has returned to LATE NIGHT WITH Jimmy Fallon 1235 a.m. ET on NBC featuring a new mu…
Linked From BroadwayWorldTony Award winner and Broadway favorite Kristin Chenoweth will soon star in GCB, premiering on CBS on Sunday, March 4 from 1000-1100 p.m., ET. The soap opera format returns to Dallas in this…
Linked From BroadwayWorldFriends in Theater Company and Story Pirates has announced update casting and creative team for its benefit performance for Little Shop of Horrors at the Lucille Lortel Theater on Monday, Ma…
Linked From TheaterManiaTony Award winner Chita Rivera will be a special guest performer at DO40 Cares: It's Not Where You Start, a song-and-dance performance benefit presented by Dancers Over 40. Carol Lawren…
Linked From TheaterManiaMoira Buffini will write the screenplay for the movie The Night Circus, according to a report on Deadline.com.
The film, based on the novel by Erin Morgenstern, will center on two young ill…
Linked From TheaterManiaThe Atlantic Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2012-2013 season, which will include a number of Broadway veterans as part of its "SuperPOPS!" programming.
Tony Award nominee an…
Linked From TheaterManiaTony Award winner Martin Short will join Kelly Ripa as co-host on Live! With Kelly for two episodes, March 8-9, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Other upcoming guest hosts on the show…
Linked From TheaterManiaI was in Ann Arbor last weekend for the first-ever conference on queer dance, co-organized by Clare Croft (whose dissertation I was pleased to advise at the University of Texas at Austin) a…
Linked From The Feminist SpectatorSpecially for you, the people who nominate, vote and make the Whatsonstage.com Awards possible, here are some more pictures from this year's Concert, which was held on Sunday (19 February) a…
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Second production of play based on the manifesto of the Norwegian mass murderer is to be staged in the city where his attack beganA controversial play based on the manifesto of Norwegian gun…
Linked From The GuardianA quarter of British children have never been to the theatre, according to a new study of "culture-starved" young people.
Linked From The StageQuite a few people collect old movie stills, postcards, and book and magazine illustrations, but John Stezaker doesn't stop there.
Linked From St. Louis TodayCymbeline (1913): As they do with all the aggressively adapted scribblers, filmmakers—and theater troupes, for that matter—tend to gravitate to the same small, safe bunch of William Shak…
Linked From Philadelphia WeeklyScoBar Entertainment will present Heather MacRae, back on Broadway in Songs & Stories with Musical Director Mark Nadler, at The Iridium on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 8pm, FOR ONE PERFORMANCE …
Linked From NiteLifeExchange"Chekhovek" Does Not Get Into The Heart Of Its Author: "Chekhovek" - nine short stories by Anton Chekhov by the Actors' Ensemble and GoShow Entertainment is light on fare.
Linked From Times Square ChroniclesThe New Musical “The City Club,” Comes to Minetta Lane With a Blues and Jazz Score:
Linked From Times Square ChroniclesNight Life with Rose: Outside the Theatre with Alan Rickman and More: Bonnie and Stewart F. Lane
Linked From Times Square Chronicles“Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War,” Needed More Time Like “War of the Worlds” with the alien invasion, “Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles"Blood Knot" is Indeed Knotted: I wanted to like Athol Fugard’s “Blood Knot,” but two and half hours of exposition is not for me.
Linked From Times Square Chronicles“The Broken Heart,” is a Worthwhile Journey: John Ford‘s 17th-century drama “The Broken Heart,” is being presented at the Duke on 42nd Street by Theater for a New Audience.
Linked From Times Square Chronicles"Call Me Adam" chats with rising performer Ashley Dawn Mortensen who was recently cast as the "Elphaba" understudy and in the Ensemble in the first National Tour of "Wicked." Here we discuss…
Linked From Call Me Adam*Winter Fire* is a testament to the open minds of the Joffrey’s artistic staff, and their willingness to resist the ever-tempting comfort zone. Tradition is wonderful and safe. The unknown…
Linked From chicagotheaterbeat.comAccording to a report on nypost.com, the musical GIANT, which played last month at the Dallas Theater Center, will be heading to the Public Theater in Fall and has potential to transfer to B…
Linked From BroadwayWorldAccording to a report by Michael Riedel of nypost.com, The Public Theater is already considering a Broadway transfer for the revival of INTO THE WOODS which plays the Delacorte in Central Pa…
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Linked From BroadwayWorldUpdated casting has been announced for Billy Elliot the Musical, playing at the West End's Victoria Palace Theatre.
As of February 22, the role of Billy will be played by new cast memb…
Linked From TheaterManiaA Walk On Part, the play adapted from the diaries of former MP Chris Mullin, will stage a special performance in the House of Commons next week (28 February) following an invitation from Spe…
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North London's Almeida Theatre has appointed Lucy Morrison as its new artistic associate.
Linked From The StageFebruary 21, 2012Bryan HuntPhoto by Kathleen O'RourkeBy Bryan HuntAssistant Director, Into the WoodsWell here we are two weeks into rehearsal for Into the Woods. The staging of this play has…
Linked From Westport Country PlayhouseYellowman
By Dael Orlandersmith, directed by Kasi Campbell
Through Feb. 26 at Rep Stage
A recent evening marked one of the few wintry days of the season. Snowflakes whipped around…
Linked From citypaper.comStaging Over Manipulation
At Guest Spot through March 3
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The current show at Fells Point’s intimate Guest Spot space is, and is not, a typical art sh…
Linked From citypaper.comWhen we first started handing out the Alties™, our annual alternative Academy Awards in 2002, Wes Anderson was wowing movie nerds everywhere, not just his own dwindling cult; people were a…
Linked From citypaper.comSam Mendes was a hard act to follow as inaugural artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse. But Michael Grandage overcame that difficulty with flamboyantly flying colours.
Linked From The IndependentNY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the February 18, 2012, edition of On Stage.
Linked From NY1INTERVIEW: BRIAN LOGAN and JENNY PATON The new co-directors of the Camden People's Theatre introduce Aleks Sierz to the wonderful world of experimental theatre which goes beyond boundaries w…
Linked From Theatre VoiceThe epic emotion in Crystal Pite’s choreography In Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite’s The You Show, dancers are superheroes. While they may not be literally scaling walls of b…
Linked From Theatre Development FundLatter-day William Shatner—Capt. James T. Kirk boldly gone into the Priceline era, with his self-parodying pitchman’s routines and so-bad-they’re-not-so-bad, spoken-word-meets-crooner …
Linked From The New York ObserverLast year, I wrote a post about Facebook introducing the Subscribe Feature. This particular post was focused on subscribing to people who were NOT your friends. It basically is a really cool…
Linked From Rebecca ColemanPart of the mission of New York’s Signature Theatre Company, the Off-Broadway company founded in 1991, is to give season-long attention to the work of living American playwrights. With i…
Linked From WQXRAre critics double-checking "CQ/CX"?
Linked From StageGradeThe Brimmer Street Theatre Company has announced its 5th Anniversary Gala event, An Evening at the Hilgard House, on Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 8pm. The evening will include a silent auctio…
Linked From gofootlights.comJohn Tiffany and Steven Hoggett, the team behind “Black Watch,” take on a quieter project: a musical adaptation of the film “Once,” about young musicians falling in love.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionNo joke: The worldview in Warrior, the fighting movie that scored an Oscar nomination for Nick Nolte, makes me shiver. It’s terrifying. And I just wrote about why at NPR’s Monkey…
Linked From The Critical Conditionhe wild range of roles played by William Shatner over the past half-century goes well beyond Captain Kirk. Host Scott Simon speaks with the pop culture icon, who's returning to Broadway for …
Linked From National Public RadioReports on 20 new discs, including Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, Robert Creighton's Ain't We Got Fun, The Nunziatas' Make Someone Happy, and many more.
Linked From TheaterManiaUnless you've been under a stone for the past 48 hours, you'll know that the winners of the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards were announced on Sunday (19 February) during our annual all-star Con…
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The UK’s Mark Shenton wrote an enlightening article recently that I was compelled to pass along to you: http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/shenton/2012/02/from-sondheim-and-lloyd-webber-to-ivor-n…
Linked From Make MusicalsWe've all seen this at the store. Have a penny? Leave one. Need a penny? Take one. It seems really simple, but I'd argue that is one of the largest challenges out there for anyone who produc…
Linked From One Producer in the CityIn cased you missed him last night, here is Nick Jonas singing “I Believe in You” from the Broadway musical How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Jimmy Fallon!
Linked From The Hartman GroupASPEN - Bobcat Goldthwait has been working on a screenplay about Bigfoot for several years. Recently he ran a bit of the script by his wife to see if she thought there was any danger of offe…
Linked From Aspen TimesNB: Serious spoiler warnings.
After I left Teatro de los Sentidos's Oráculos last night, I wandered back to my hotel room through the Perth streets feeling as if my skin were luminous, as …
Linked From Theatre NotesThe off-broadway Signature Theatre Company is back in business, and "Blood Knot" is a notable first show to debut in the new theater complex on 42nd Street.
Linked From NY1This show would be much easier to Abridge if it didn't start at 10PM....
Linked From Broadway AbridgedHoliday Weekend RecapThere's a lot to summarize, so I'll forgo a narrative and just stick to bullets ('cause I kinda have a headache this morning).Here's what happened this weekend:Friday ni…
Linked From Variations On A ThemeTontlawald at Cutting BallHow could I forget to mention in my blog post this morning that I went to see a preview of Tontlawald last Saturday? Did my Sunday transit mishap truly erase …
Linked From Variations On A ThemeI'm very excited to team up with NineDaves (follow him on Twitter @NineDaves) to bring you the SMASH Reality Index. Here's a little explanation from Dave about how this came about:One of my …
Linked From Pataphysical ScienceThe Paper Birds' Jemma McDonnell chats about new show Thirsty, which features real women's stories of boozy nights out, sore heads and brusied knees.
Linked From A Younger TheatreCrimes of the Heart at the Bridewell Theatre Contemporary theatre has a tendency to consider life’s big questions. Especially if a play has a political motive, theatre can seek to confront…
Linked From A Younger TheatreNuns on Ice at CitiPond
On February 16th, CitiPond, along with Broadway's Sister Act & God's Love We Deliver, presented Nuns On Ice. Skaters kept their ears warm with flowing nu…
Linked From YouTubeYou're a Good Man, Charlie Brown: Lucy's Booth | Behind the Scenes | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Scenic Carpenter Stephen Morgan gives us a behind-the-scenes look at Lucy's B…
Linked From YouTubeThe Matchmaker: Wardrobe First Look | Behind the Scenes | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Cutter Kim Crossley gives us a first look at some of the materials, trim and costumes for the 2012 p…
Linked From YouTubeWar Horse Puppetry Rehearsals
Associate Puppetry Director Mervyn Millar talks about puppetry rehearsals for War Horse in Toronto. In this exclusive behind the scenes footage you'll see …
Linked From YouTubeMeet the Newsies: Henry
Meet Kyle Coffman, playing Henry in Disney's newest Broadway production, NEWSIES.
Watch Kyle in a live YouTube chat along with other NEWSIES cast members, recor…
Linked From YouTubeMark Ford Stars as Great DaneAnd what did you do your final year at college? Oh, I played “Hamlet”.
Linked From Hartford CourantTheater Shelf, a recurring feature, will review recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some will be popular titles like a new Original Cast Recording, others wi…
Linked From Florida Theater On StageToday, 22 February 2012, 13 year old Harris Beattie from Aberdeen, Scotland and 9 year old Dayna Dixon from Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne will join the West End cast of Billy Elliot the Musica…
Linked From BroadwayWorldHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 22 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorldThe playwright Simon Stephens has complained that the recession has made theatre audiences more conservative, and he's been backed by David Hare and Mark Ravenhill expressing disquiet o…
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The Public Theater just can’t shake its Broadway habit.
Once an engine of risky, innovative work, the downtown nonprofit theater is now so enamored of the Great White Way that much of its …
Linked From The New York Post SubscriptionArtistic director Maria Caruso remembers when her company, Bodiography Contemporary Ballet, was just an idea.
Linked From Pittsburgh Post-GazetteWriter and Director New York, New York USA The play that changed my life would be Antigone. I was cast as Ismene for a radio production at Purdue University, where one of the theatre departm…
Linked From The League of Professional Theatre WomenCailín Heffernan (Director/Writer) ForBoomerang Theatre Company: Ten readings including “Rebel Hearts”, “LovelessTexas” and “Bloodrinker”, two workshops, two benefits…
Linked From Visible SoulCARYHOFFMAN (Playwright/Actor) is finallyachieving his dream with his autobiographical one-man memoir musical, MySinatra, about his Sinatra obsession, opening Off-Broadway this spring.Ironic…
Linked From Visible SoulIn 2010, artist Marina Abramovic spent 700 hours in a chair at MoMA, staring into patrons' eyes. A film of her experience makes its Canadian premiere in Toronto Wednesday.
Linked From Toronto.comGiven the international success of Lee MacDougall’s High Life, it’s surprising that the new Soulpepper production is the first revival here since the original burst on the scene at World…
Linked From Toronto.comWilliam Shatner talks about Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It, his one-man Broadway show.
Linked From Toronto.comA look at what the critics say about William Shatner's new Broadway show
Linked From Toronto.comThe world premiere of Early Plays, a collaboration between the Wooster Group and the New York City Players, officially opens Feb. 22 at St. Ann's Warehouse. The fresh look at Eugene O…
Linked From PlaybillThe Long Wharf Theatre opens the doors on 1940's Brooklyn bohemia in February House, the new musical by Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley, which officially opens Feb. 22 prior to an Off-Br…
Linked From PlaybillPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share ten of the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.…
Linked From PlaybillZach Braff begins his West End debut run in his own play, All New People, Feb. 22, prior to an official opening Feb. 28 at the Duke of York’s Theatre. The production is sched…
Linked From PlaybillPromo for Soulpepper's production of Lee MacDougall's High Life - a deliciously dark work about losers and a heist
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