As I get ready to re-launch my blog, I need your help! Many of you who are my followers on Twitter already helped by Tweeting your nominees for the first Mr and Ms Broadway of the New …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 08:48PMThe last time Sandra Bernhard partied on New Year’s Eve was more than a decade ago, in Palm Springs, Calif., and the experience was “just dreadful,” she says. “New Year’s Eve is no…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:42PMReviewed by Judd Hollander"I don't know how to want less", exclaims Hazel (Deborah Findlay) in Lucy Kirkwood's dystopian drama The Children. This Londontransfer currently having its North Am…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:24PMThe Queen's list of 2017 New Year honorees has been announced. Among those being honored are director John Tiffany, actor Hugh Laurie, and Rosemary Squire, co-owner and joint chief executive…
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Film editor, Thomas Stanford, who was an Academy Award-winner for his work on the musical West Side Story, passed away on Saturday at the age of 93.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54PM The wildly wicked and funny Desperate Measures, currently at the York Theatre, celebrated its 100th Performance on December 28th. With music by David Friedman and book…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:42PMAn award-winning playwright argues that the in-the-moment interplay between actors and audience can help us cope with an increasingly virtual world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMA pack of ultra-hot shows, combined with the rising prominence and price tags of premium seats, will push the Broadway box office to a new calendar-year record of more than $1.6 billion in 2…
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Don’t miss new musicals, world-premiere plays, and rarely seen revivals—all kicking off in January.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PMThe set for the opera was itself a living, organic phenomenon; it functioned as an additional character in the opera. IONE sat near the moveable stage-flats; her back was to the audience, ye…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:51PMVoting will run through December 31, 2017. Additionally, five Editor's Choice Awards recipients, including Cabaret Personality of the Year, will be announced after voting has completed. Foll…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMAmy Schumer, currently starring in METEOR SHOWER on Broadway, stopped by Theater Talk to chat about her exciting new adventure on stage. Check out the interview below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMThe Broadway Loves series will return to Feinstein's54 Below on May 28th when over a dozen of Broadway's most distinctive voices will celebrate the two-decade long, multi-platinum career of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41PMThe rise of improv comedy means the joke is most certainly on us all
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:30PMJanuary at Links Hall is an intensive course in the complexity of our American identity.
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BroadwayWorld has teamed up with renowned caricature artist Ken Fallin, a life-long theater enthusiast, who has drawn many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Below, check out his latest …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMEarliet this month, The Trevor Project hosted its 2017 TrevorLIVE Los Angeles gala at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., where it honored Tony Award winning actress, singer and aut…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMThe Tony-nominated actor will bring his solo show to Japan in April 2018.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PMWell, Good Riddance to 2017! If you’re all like me, you got the wind knocked out of you on November 8, 2016, sending you spinning in unanticipated directions, like in the iconic Coney …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:18PMCobble Hill Theatre will soon be hosting the screening of the 2017 crime-drama, "Molly's Game", from January 4, 2018. Based upon the memoir 'Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:17PMThese images, some of the best we took in 2017, capture the power of the artists and performers we covered — and offer plenty of beauty on their own.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:04PMSpongeBob Squarepants the Musical: 2017 was full of nasty shocks, so I’m happy to report that one sweet surprise came in sponge form. Well, not quite (costume designer David Zinn thinks we…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:04PMThe actress and singer began her career as child performer Baby Rose Marie.
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Sir David McVicar’s staging, starring Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo, and Željko Lučić, premieres December 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMNew additions to the lineup include Colton Ryan, Dan DeLuca, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMSee which celebrities took in shows on and Off-Broadway this past month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 12292017.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:35PMIn this week's edition, we caught up with Q. Smith, who is currently starring in COME FROM AWAY at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33PMAs 2017 comes to a close, we can't help but look ahead to the 2018 Broadway season, which is bound to be filled with countless star-making and star-preserving performances. Who should you ke…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33PMBy Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, December 29, 2017 For critics, the end of the year represents a time to look back on the shows they’ve covered. We fondly reminisce about the …
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 12:09PMReleased in time for Christmas, From The Top contains zero surprises. If you were thinking of getting for someone who likes him, then they are going to be satisfied.
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Chen Yi’s music is, in the best possible sense, powerful: it affirms. Musicians and audience alike, at the end of each piece, are strengthened in the continuing determination to do one’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50AMClapham Picturehouse is currently screening the 2017 American musical comedy film, "Pitch Perfect 3". Directed by Trish Sie and written by Kay Cannon and Mike White, the movie is the th…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:50AMCurzon Cinemas is currently screening Will Smith's and Joel Edgerton's "Bright". The 2017 American urban fantasy action crime film has been directed by David Ayer and written by Max Lan…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:49AMFilm Forum will soon be hosting the 2017 biography/documentary "Anatomy of a Male Ballet Dancer."Directed by James Pellerito and David Barba, the biography/documentary is based on Marcelo Go…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:49AMThe usual suspects dominate many lists of the best albums of 2017, both those compiled by critics and listeners. Kendrick Lamar gets multiple mentions in these lists, as does Jay-Z, LCD Soun…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:48AMCobble Hill Theatre will be playing the 2018 science fantasy adventure film "A Wrinkle in Time."Directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Jennifer Lee, the movie is based on the 1962 nov…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:48AMBarbican Theatre is currently hosting the stage production of Royal Shakespeare Company's "Titus Andronicus". Written between 1588 and 1593, by William Shakespeare, "Titus Andronicus" i…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:48AMAbaton is currently screening the 2017 drama "Der lange Sommer der Theorie (The Long Summer of Theory). The movie is a collection of staged episodes for a movie the three women are shoo…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:47AMHer career started when she was a toddler, stretched nearly a century and included success in theater, radio, nightclubs, movies and TV.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 11:46AMWenzel will give a solo performance at Freiheit 15, Berlin.The first solo CD by Wenzel was titled “Wenzel: Solo: LIVE.” He is like a one man band. His hand-plays and mouth-sings in…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:45AMMark Padmore along with other resident artists will perform at Berliner Philharmoniker, Berlin.The other artists are Pekka Kuusisto and the students from the Karajan Academy. The show will b…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:45AMSew and Sew Productions and the Horse Trade Theater Group present the return of Jack Fry’s highly-acclaimed Einstein! to New York City in January. Performed again at Under St. Marks Thea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38AMA throwback gallery in honor of The Dick Van Dyke Show star, who died December 28, 2017, at age 94.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMFor decades, the theaters of Broadway — now numbering 41 — were the moneymaking breeding ground for these plays. But what was once the rule on Broadway is now the rare exception. And the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:31AMDisney World hotels are aiming to ensure the safety of their guests by getting rid of their ‘do not disturb’ signs. Veuer's Susana Victoria Perez (@susana_vp) has more.
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SOURCE: USA Today at 11:18AMBorn December 29, Claire Dodd (Dorothy Dodd, 1908-1973). Born in Iowa, raised in Arkansas, it was often given out that she’d gotten her start in the Ziegfeld Follies, although there is…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:06AMPleasance, EdinburghI like comedy with ambition, and saving the world is as ambitious as it gets. Such is the goal that John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman have teamed up to achieve. If the news p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMThe musical begins performances at London’s Noël Coward Theatre following an acclaimed world premiere at the Old Vic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMAfter 250 or so shows across London and Edinburgh, these are 2017’s top ten (and a few runners up) from The Play’s the Thing UK’s founding editor.
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The Broadway.com staff is crazy for Culturalist, the website that lets you choose and create your own top 10 lists. Every week, we’re challenging you with a new Broadway-themed topic t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMWant to know how the cast of off-Broadway's Avenue Q makes magnificent mayhem eight times a week? You're in luck! Broadway.com has your exclusive backstage pass to see what goes on d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMFrom New York to London, take a look at the productions that critics listed among the best of the theatrical year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMChris White directs the world premiere of the new play
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:36AMBroadway legend Chita Rivera is currently on tour with Tommy Tune, but she took time to chat with SouthFlorida.com about her upcoming performances in the area, including 'Night of Stars' wit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMColton Ryan Dear Evan Hansen, Dan DeLuca Newsies, Kaitlyn Frank Newsies, Jennafer Newberry Freaky Friday, and Ximone Rose Beautiful The Carol King Musical have joined 54 Sings Jason Mraz at …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMThe limited Off-Broadway engagement began September 19 and has since extended three times due to popular demand.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMThe Hamilton tour’s Aaron Burr has announced his next role: dad.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMThe late Roswell Rudd tried every sound a trombone could make, all of his efforts marked with a natural musicality.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMWe say a final farewell to Barbara Cook, Sam Shepard, Martha Swope, and many more from onstage and behind the scenes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMThe Grinning Man is an astonishing piece of theatre which will appeal to anyone with an appetite for an entertainment which is piquant, curious, original and just a little bit macabre.
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In Liverpool and London, theatres are celebrating Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. Cue thrills, invention – and howls of laughterThere is a medical term that takes its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMCrucible, SheffieldThis delightful production boasts a wonderful, wide-eyed Dorothy, a riotous bunch of munchkins – and a scene-stealing turn from Toto the dogPublished in 1900, Frank Baum…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThe destructive nature of unchecked power-lust and political ambition in Shakespeare’s play speaks to us urgently still today“A drum! A drum! Macbeth doth come.” So say Shakespeare’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThe comic presenter and actor on the things that make him laugh the most, from Big Train to Airplane!I don’t go out of my way to see standup but I caught Micky Flanagan’s set on TV a whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMJem Hulbert struggles to stay on his unicycle in Ulverston, December 1992In 1986, aged 22, I left Durham University with a degree in psychology and started my own business – as a juggler. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMIt might be the Christmas holidays, but the theatre rolls on
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:33AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, has hit the road, making recent stops in Durham, NC, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Orlando, FL, Atlanta, GA, Ft. Myers, F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:17AMBy Douglas Mayo
We asked our review team to nominate their 2017 theatre highlights. Douglas Mayo nominated his favourites. 42nd Street (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) Never did I ever think I wou…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:12AMYou folks are in the best place in NYC to be tonight' A more accurate announcement was never given by Broadway at Birdland host Jim Caruso as he introduced Christine Ebersole and Billy Strit…
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Bam Rose Cinemas will be hosting the screening of the 2017 American documentary, "The Opera House", from January 17, 2018. Directed by renowned documentarian Susan Froemke, The film fol…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:57AMFeaturing plenty of local jokes, a star turn from Jimmy Chisholm as the dame and a gentle rewriting of the fairytale, Snow
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AMThe Dutch photographer started documenting daily life in Israel in 1993, the beginning of a project that has lasted almost 25 years
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:16AM“Jubilee” will be presented at Lyric Hammersmith, London.The original screenplay was written by Derek Jarman & James Whaley for a film by the same name. It has been adapted by Chris …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:10AMTake a look at what's on in Theatreland in 2018, including transfers, world premieres and highly anticipated revivals. Now booking!
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 08:07AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 29 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06AMIt’s been a long time since I last saw Robin Hood And The Babes In The Wood performed, and it was a very different incarnation to the Rock ‘N’ Roll version currently being staged at St…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMReading all of the year-end lists and wishing there was a way to relive your favorite Chicago theater performances? Here are some of the star turns of 2017, all featured in the Theater Loop�…
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For a 20th century adaptation of a 19th century ballet, Peter Wright’s Nutcracker has endured remarkably well. Created in 1990 for Sadler’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:58AMElectronic musician employs synthesiser riffs, gothic industrial beats and fragments of electro, hip-hop and rock
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:55AMOld horror tropes are recycled to fearsome effect in this revamp of Stephen King’s horror about a demonic clown
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:54AMThe filmmaker will be widely celebrated in his centenary year, but there are dissenting voices, especially in Sweden
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:43AMThe New Zealand-based singer-songwriter has cancelled a concert which was planned earlier to be held in Israel, after an online back-lash of a pro-Palestinian campaign.The New Zealand based …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:15AMThe Spitalfields Music Festival takes a quirky turn in London celebrating the musical feast with captivating and brilliant Schumann Street. The performance is but unique musical moments of l…
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Pangea October 30, November 30, December 15 & 27, 2017 Music Direction & Accompaniment by Tex Arnold No one likes being late to a party, but that’s how I felt recently watching the…
SOURCE: New York Arts Review at 06:35AMBarbican Cinema is currently hosting screening of the 2017 sci-fi film, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi". Written and directed by Rian Johnson, this is the second film in the Star Wars sequel…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:21AMYorck Kino Berlin is currently hosting the screening of the 2017 American flick "The Big Sick". Based on the real-life courtship between Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, "The Big Si…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:14AMEiszeit Kino is currently hosting the screening of the 2017 documentary, "In Pursuit of Silence". Directed by Patrick Shen, the documentary is an exploration of our relationship with si…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:04AMBroadwayWorld presents a comprehensive weekly roundup of regional stories around our Broadway World, which include videos, editor spotlights, regional reviews and more. This week, we feature…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMAnne Washburn (she of the extraordinary Mr Burns) has fashioned this play out of eight of the stories told by The Twilight Zone and presents them as if shuffling a pack of cards.
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Good morning BroadwayWorld Today's top stories CONCERT FOR AMERICA, featuring Jessie Mueller, Vanessa Williams, and more, was broadcast live on Facebook last night, Lin-Manuel Miranda rememb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54AMCinenova is currently hosting the screening of the 2017 psychological horror film, "The Killing of a Sacred Deer". Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, the movie tells the story of a cardiac s…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:53AMFilm Forum will be hosting the screening of Jean Rouch's 1958 drama, "Moi Un Noir", on January 21, 2018. Set in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, the movie depicts young Nigerien immigrants who lef…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:45AMFrom HiddleHamlet to Peter Hall passing, we round up some of the biggest news stories on WhatsOnStage in the last year
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:04AMCelinde Schoenmaker is a West End name and superstar StageFave with a CV chock-full of West End credits but this year she's spending Christmas at the Menier Chocolate Factory alongside Marcu…
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24AMThe downtown NYC “alternative supper club” Pangea will host their No Thrill From Champagne concert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMIn REFLECTIONS: Jennifer Homans Was Wrong: Ballet Is Experiencing a Mini-Renaissance, "Like many rash and dire warnings, Homans’ has been discounted in the best way — by not coming t…
SOURCE: www.dancenthusiast.com at 12:00AMIn IMPRESSIONS: ONEOFUS’ "Jack and the Beanstalk" at Abrons Arts Center, "Let’s be clear. This is no Nutcracker. This is pantomime or 'panto' as the cool, cultured kids call it. The f…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIn REFLECTIONS: Jennifer Homans Was Wrong: Ballet is Experiencing a Mini-Renaissance, "Like many rash and dire warnings, Homans’ has been discounted in the best way — by not coming tr…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMA theatre lover shares her favorite post-show interactions with stars---This past summer, there was much ado surrounding stage dooring after Dear Evan Hansen Tony winner Ben Platt and rock s…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMAct fast. These five new shows are bound to be the toughest Broadway tickets to snag this spring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFrom The Present to Farinelli and the King; how many did you collect this year?
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