There are plenty of romantic Broadway musicals. But "Once," the gorgeously crafted and intensely moving new show that opened on Broadway on Sunday night after a seamless transition from down…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 10:51PMWas ever a charmer of fabric and wire more aptly named than Basil Twist? This master twister of stuff you find in hobby drawers and hardware stores into winsome shapes and figures seems to h…
Linked From Washington Post at 10:47PMHow many songs with the same plaintive, repeating chords and the same melancholy lyrics about your same lovelorn self can you string together to make a Broadway musical?
Linked From Philly.com at 10:33PMBroadway frequently gives way to fairy tales, but they don’t all end with a “happily ever after.”
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:33PMTracy Letts, Johanna Day, Glenn Fitzgerald and Parker Posey will portray suburban couples who share the same last name in “The Realistic Joneses,” a new play written by Will Eno.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:15PM“Once,” based on a hit movie about two musicians, an Irishman and a Czech, who fall in love, reaches Broadway after an Off Broadway run.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:15PMThe musical about the unlikely friendship between a man and woman in Dubil will move audiences.
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Less a finished plot than a set of dramatized calling cards, Northlight's *Ten Chimneys* delivers an intimate inside look at the private lives of America’s First Couple of the theater, Alf…
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 07:57PM"The Realistic Joneses" Bows at Yale RepTony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts , indie film fave Parker Posey , Johanna Day (Edward Albee's "Peter and Jerry") a…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 07:46PMWed, April 11 @ Reston Community Center, presented by Reston Community Center -- Renowned puppeteer and political satirist Paul Zaloom unleashes his latest solo comic puppet extravaganza at …
Linked From Culture Capital at 07:44PMFri, April 13 @ John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, presented by John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts -- With Broadway credits including The Full Monty, Side Show, and …
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Linked From Variety at 07:42PMFrank Tangredi’s disorienting new play “Lifeline,” at Abingdon Theatre Company, suddenly switches from sitcom to Lifetime two-thirds of the way through.
Linked From Backstage at 07:34PMThe Pearl Theatre Company offers an intimate staging of Eugene O'Neill's oft-produced romantic tragedy that is more like a caress than a knockout blow.
Linked From Backstage at 07:34PMI shall have more to say when I am dead. Edwin Arlington Robinson, "John Brown"...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:33PMThings have been more than a little bit crazy around here, as you'll have guessed if you've read my latest...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:33PMGary Burton plays an unaccompanied solo version of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Chega de Saudade" in Copenhagen in 1968: (This is...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:33PMEnda Walsh's intimate romantic tuner based on the Oscar-winning film survives the transfer to Broadway. Cristin Milioti and Steve Kazee are heartbreaking.
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*MeTube* tells the story of YouTube beatbox sensation Yuri Lane's internet stardom, and the ramifications and consequences after the notoriety. But while the performer and production values …
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 05:55PMYou mustn’t take theater seriously. You must do it seriously.—Jan Grossman (1925–1993), Czech dramaturg and director and frequent Havel collaborator I think theater should always be so…
Linked From HowlRound at 05:42PMUnlike most plays and movies which depict similar experiences which show deeply sympathetic and achieving educators relating to their charges and providing hope and sustenance to them, Summe…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 05:39PMIf you listen to a new CD that tries to capture the original pronunciation of Shakespeare, you might think soI'm not a great fan of "authenticity" in Shakespeare: partly because tastes chang…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:39PMQ. I get these three theatrical clubs confused. Could you please explain the difference among the Lambs, the Friars and the Players?
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:39PMGhosts, gay love and acting get stuffed into Ferzan Ozpetek’s roomy, well-crafted dramedy that re-examines the divide between theater and real life. read more
Linked From The Hollywood Reporter at 05:39PMOne Night Only, The Broadway Beauty Pageant March 19th: The Broadway Beauty Pageant's celebrity judges have been announced. Jackie Hoffman (The Addams Family), columnist Michael Musto, and T…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 05:39PMJennifer Brown/The Star-LedgerCristin Milioti stars in "Once" on Broadway Leaning over the piano, ripples of notes flowing from her fingers and a clear, confident alto pouring out …
Linked From NJ.com at 05:39PMAccording to the Tokyo Graph, actress Yonekura Ryoko will join the hit revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Tony Award-winning musical CHICAGO this July. She is set to star as Ro…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMGingold Theatrical Groups GOLDEN SHAMROCK GALA was held last night at The Players Club 16 Gramercy Park South, honoring the talents of playwright, Terrence McNally, actor, Brian Murray and, …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER stars Broadway veteran Benjamin Walker as the title role. The film is set to open in theaters on June 22nd from 20th Century Fox. The horror, thriller film, di…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMNew Federal Theatre’s production of Jeffrey Sweet’s play about a court-martial of black WACs hits hard at our sense of ethics but is emotionally distancing.
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An authentic Jackson Pollock, Lavender MistBakersfield Mist, the new play by Stephen Sachs, currently in a "rolling" national premiere at the New Rep, is a long meditation on a single painti…
Linked From The Hub Review at 01:48PM"Lucky Duck," with songs by "Side Show" authors Bill Russell and Henry Krieger, aims to teach children important life lessons but muddies its messages.
Linked From Backstage at 01:34PMThis American Life's retraction questions personal experiences in my show. I've made changes but I stand behind my workThis American Life is airing an episode this weekend that calls into qu…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:06PMOrange Tree, RichmondThere's something old, something new in this double bill by Martin Crimp. What is odd is that the new piece, Play House, shows the mature Crimp evoking impassioned youth…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:06PMSecret location, London"Did you get it?", asks a caption on a wall as we exit A Tender Subject, Mark Storor's new performance installation for Artangel. Well, yes and no. The event, which ta…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:06PMSometimes my friends go on tour. This time, when I found out a particular friend was going on tour, I said to them…you should blog for my site! Thank goodness this friend was willing t…
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The McCarter Theatre serves up a stylishly directed and beautifully acted production of Tom Stoppard's intellectual comedy.
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:54AMUta Hagen went underneath the skin of Martha in the original production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Linked From Backstage at 11:52AMToday is the final day of the SXSW Festival. If I ever attend this event again, I would do two things differently: I would come to the music festival without a badge and I would most likely …
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Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:28AMToday in 1965, Do I hear a Waltz opened at the 46th St. Thetare Now the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 220 performances. Do I Hear a Waltz is a musical with a book by Arthur Laure…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMAccording to the Mirror, actress Amanda Holden is set to host 'Superstar,' the new reality show in which Andrew Lloyd Webber will search for the character of Jesus in the JESUS CHRIST SUPERS…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMToday, multiple outlets reporting on the cancellation of THE ROSIE SHOW on the Oprah Winfrey Network report that when the news was revealed, O'Donnell was in New York, taking a meeting for a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMAMELIA PEDLOWhails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she was Valedictorian of her highschool class before coming to New York in 2006 to attend the Juilliard School.Favorite roles at scho…
Linked From Visible Soul at 11:24AMIf you hadn't yet realized, the starting bell has rung on the start of the Spring season of new Broaday musicals. They are off and running! For how long, that's the big questions. One of the…
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CBS News runs an Associated Press story here, and Daisey himself commented on the controversy during yesterday’s performance of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs; a recording of …
Linked From Superfluities Redux at 09:55AMA swift kick to Uncle Sam's rear. . .a sharp broadside doesn't sting, but leaves a boldly entertaining mark. . .
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:31AMThe verdict of this critic on David Saint's production: It's guilty of being a resounding success
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:31AMTwo shows that are coming to Seattle-area stages, "First Date" and "It Shoulda Been You," aim to include modern-day mores with good old-fashioned romance.
Linked From The Seattle Times at 09:31AM Reviewed by Linda Amiel Burns Carnegie Hall was the setting for a remarkable concert on March 16, 2012 entitled “Patti Austin Sings Ella Fitzgerald’s Gershwin Songbook” accompan…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 09:31AMAfter a year and a half hiatus, Seth Rudetsky's famed Seth's Broadway Chatterbox has returned to Don't Tell Mama. Seth's Broadway Chatterbox includes interviews and performances by noted Bro…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:23AMPatina Miller who originated the role of Deloris Van Cartier will play her final performance in SISTER ACT tonight, March 18th. Miller made her Broadway debut in the production and was nomin…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:23AM“The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” Mike Daisey’s well-reviewed monologue currently at the Public Theater, is the subject of an expose in This American Life, the radio program t…
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“You are who you can prove you are. You are what people think. And that’s the easiest thing in the world to change.” Or is it? In Theater Alliance’s DC-area premiere of the i…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57AMThe veteran Broadway star discusses her work in the Playwrights Horizons production of The Big Meal.
Linked From TheaterMania at 08:48AMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Merchants, No Nude Men.
By Sam Hurwitt
Cyndi Lauper sang that “money changes everything,” but Susan Sobeloff’s debut play Merchants seems to indicate that…
Linked From The Idiolect at 08:46AMIn 1975, Antonia Fraser, biographer of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Henry VIII's six wives, and Harold Pinter, renowned playwright, fell madly in love, pretty much at first sight. Over the next…
Linked From Show Showdown at 08:46AMA Moon for the Misbegotten is a tense, character driven play that demands great acting and this excellent production provides it: Kim Martin-Cotton is as fine an actress as I’ve seen anywh…
Linked From Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 08:42AMI have heard from a couple people involved with the Counting New Beans book that was just released with information that pertains to my previous post. Clayton Lord, the director of comm…
Linked From Theatre Ideas at 08:42AMToday is the birthday of beloved character actor Everett Edward Horton. To mark the day, here he is being gulled by Fred Astaire into believing he’s seasick in Shall We Dance?: To lear…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 08:23AMTonight The Ukuladies! Live at THE RODEO BAR! 375 3rd Ave at 27th st, NYC 9pm 2 Sets. Totally and completely FREE! Join the “ladies” in a fun-filled evening sure to delight even …
Linked From Trav S.D. at 08:23AMAfter a year and a half hiatus, Seth Rudetsky's famed Seth's Broadway Chatterbox has returned to Don't Tell Mama. Seth's Broadway Chatterbox includes interviews and performances by noted Bro…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:22AMJean Genet was the enfant terrible of French writers. And, as a convicted thief and a defiantly openly gay man, he reveled in his status as an outsider. So it was perfectly in characte…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 08:16AMA quick pointer to George Hunka's excellent roundup of the scandal unfolding around Mike Daisey's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, in which journalistic and theatrical ideas of truth…
Linked From Theatre Notes at 08:14AMEulogyA Love StoryChapter one. There is a bird a love bird singing in the peach tree.My grandfather a skinny man always dress shoes and a buttoned-d…
Linked From Variations On A Theme at 08:13AMNew York theater goers can currently see two plays permeated with steamy sado-masochistic games. One made new again by its star an…
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The Vocabulary of Dance: Choreographers 2010 (Working In The Theatre #392)
Our panel of choreographers - Christopher Gattelli, Liza Gennaro, Ken Roberson and Sergio Trujillo - discuss their…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMGetting the Show on the Road (Working In The Theatre #394)
The panel of producers, presenters and bookers -- Meredith Blair, Mike Isaacson, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Steven Schnepp and A…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMEmbracing Process: Directors 2010 (Working In The Theatre #393)
A panel of directors - Stafford Arima, Anne Kauffman, Rebecca Taichman and Henry Wishcamper - discusses the dynamic between t…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMThrough Their Eyes: Actors 2011 (Working In The Theatre #396)
Actors Colman Domingo, Elizabeth Marvel, Michele Pawk, Daphne Rubin-Vega and David Zayas discuss the influence of their early t…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMCompelling Stories: Playwrights 2011 (Working In The Theatre #395)
The panel of playwrights - Kristoffer Diaz, Kate Fodor, Rajiv Joseph, Young Jean Lee and Tarell Alvin McCraney - discuss h…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMLeading Ladies (Working In The Theatre #380)
Our four Tony Award winning Leading Ladies -- Laura Benanti, Beth Leavel, Bebe Neuwirth and Alice Ripley - discuss performances they've seen…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMDon't Be Afraid: Stage Veterans 2011 (Working In The Theatre #398)
The panel of stage veterans - F. Murray Abraham, Stacy Keach, Estelle Parsons and Lois Smith - discuss the rehearsal a…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMThe Characters Start Talking: Playwrights 2011 (Working In The Theatre #397)
The panel of playwrights - Annie Baker, Rinne Groff, Karen Hartman and Alfred Uhry - talk about their writing pr…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMNext To Normal: The Road to Broadway (Working In The Theatre #384)
The creative team behind the hit musical "Next To Normal" - Director Michael Greif, Composer Tom Kitt, Producer …
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMRegional Theatre (Working In The Theatre #381)
The role of Regional Theatre in supporting and presenting new works to their communities was among the topics discussed by our panel: Christop…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMProducing's New Voices (Working In The Theatre #386)
Injecting new energy and a new perspective into both commercial and not for profit theatre was among the topics discussed by our pan…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMThe Play That Changed My Life (Working In The Theatre #385)
What was "The Play That Changed Your Life?" Not only the title of a new American Theatre Wing book, which posed that qu…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMRoles for Ourselves: Playwrights 2010 (Working In The Theatre #388)
Our distinguished panel of playwrights -- Charles Busch, David Ives, Donald Margulies and Suzan-Lori Parks -- discuss the…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMWaiting In The Wings (Working In The Theatre #387)
Their roles as understudies on Broadway was the focal point for this panel of actors -- Tony Carlin ("Lend Me A Tenor"), Bryan F…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMThe Next Generation 2010 (Working In The Theatre #391)
Our panel of some of Broadway's brightest new performers - Jennifer Damiano, Robin de Jesús, John Gallagher, Jr., Jon Micha…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMEqual Exchange: Actors 2010 (Working In The Theatre #390)
Our panel of leading actors - David Alan Grier, Anthony LaPaglia, Laura Linney, Jan Maxwell and Alfred Molina - shared their proces…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMDeveloping Musical Theatre (Working In The Theatre #389)
The development and production of musical theatre was the focus of the discussion with our panel of producers - Sue Frost, Robyn Goo…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMThe State of Theatre: Institutions and Producers (Working In The Theatre #404)
Thomas Schumacher talks with guests, Ben Cameron and Kevin McCollum, about the state of theatre today in a wid…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMBehind The Curtain (Working In The Theatre #403)
Disney Theatrical President and Producer Thomas Schumacher takes us behind the curtain and gives us an up close and personal view of how thi…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMRegional Theatre (Working In The Theatre #405)
Our guests -- representatives from theatres receiving the American Theatre Wing 2011 National Theatre Company Grants: Buntport Theater Company…
Linked From YouTube at 07:52AMAdam Pascal on New York Live
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Linked From YouTube at 07:43AMMeet the Newsies: Davey
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Linked From YouTube at 07:35AMFinally, Fela! is coming to Philadelphia.
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Linked From Philly.com at 07:30AMThe Curve, LeicesterAs the brass and percussion strike the opening bars, period posters, their colours bleached to shades of grey, descend from the flies. The most prominent pictures a happy…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:30AMSt Leonard's Church, LondonDavid Edgar's award-winning 1994 play tries to fit a lot under one roof. It's not merely an art-historical detective story: Pentecost is also a hostage thriller an…
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Linked From New York Daily News at 07:30AMRoyal Opera House, London; Sadler's Wells, LondonWhen she was 16, Melissa Hamilton was turned down by the Royal Ballet School. A late starter, she had grown up in Northern Ireland, where goo…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:30AMThough as funny as ever, Alan Bennett never quite breaks out of his trademark cosiness with these talesAlan Bennett recently attributed the sexual content of this book to the urge to "outfla…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:30AMCottesloe; Lyttelton; Southwark Playhouse; all LondonIn 1957 Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, by Errol John, a young Trinidadian, won an Observer drama contest. The task was to write a play set afte…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:30AMThe actor who made his name in The Office talks about Jerusalem, playing against type in The Recruiting Officer, and his debut as a children's authorHaving risen to fame in The Office, Crook…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:30AM"Call Me Adam" once again chats with award winning composer/lyricist Bobby Cronin. This time around we discuss his award winning new original musical "Daybreak" which will be have two produc…
Linked From Call Me Adam at 07:30AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 18 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:19AMPlays Mark Twain In Los Angeles in Solo ShowVal Kilmer as Batman, OK.
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LPTW’s Blog30 was created to highlight the diversity, passion and brilliance of the individual members of the League of Professional Theatre Women in celebration of the organization…
Linked From The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:58AMThe final edition of the Broadway Bears fundraisers to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is presented March 18 at 8 PM at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill on West 42nd Street.
Linked From Playbill at 12:36AMTalk about your tight-knit company. The cast of Broadway's Jesus Christ Superstar includes father-and-son Sandy and Jonathan Winsby and brothers Jason and Julius Sermonia. Here are their…
Linked From Playbill at 12:36AMThe Pearl Theatre Company revival of Eugene O'Neill's classic A Moon for the Misbegotten, featuring Dan Daily, Kim Martin-Cotten and Andrew May, officially opens Off-Broadway March 1…
Linked From Playbill at 12:36AMOn March 18 cast members from the ABC hit "Grey's Anatomy" offer Grey's Anatomy: The Songs Beneath the Show at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus.
Linked From Playbill at 12:36AMOnce, the new stage musical based on the Oscar-winning film about an Irish singer-songwriter named Guy, who meets a muse in the person of a Czech immigrant named Girl, opens at Broadway'…
Linked From Playbill at 12:36AMPatina Miller, who earned Olivier and Tony Award nominations for originating the role of street-wise nightclub singer Deloris Van Cartier on stage, ends her run in the Broadway production of…
Linked From Playbill at 12:36AMThis month's selection of new releases includes Daniel Craig in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," James Stewart in Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" and Der…
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Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:35AMMaking the Bouillion CubeThey won’t care how good my show is, if they don’t get the gestalt in 5 seconds or less. Gah!by Cameryn MooreImagine that you’ve just pulled this beautiful roa…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:35AMMike Daisey, right, with his wife and director Jean-Michele GregoryThe swirling meta-drama around Mike Daisey's solo show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs has often competed with the …
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