Playwright Stephen Belber offers an intricate character study comprised of a barrage of brief nonlinear scenes chronicling the eventful existence of a woman from childhood to the age of 62. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58PMIf you look at Caroline Lee's online biography, you'll find reference to her audio book narrations at the very end - following the synopses of her work in theater, film and television. And, …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:50PM‘Awake and Sing!,’ too often written off as a Depression-era period piece, becomes a poignant and timely experience in the American winter of 2019. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:24PMCamp theatre has always given its audience permission to laugh at even the darkest of subject matter and Truly Madly Britney allows its audience to do this in spades. From gun violence to ce…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:19PMA prizewinning play by Leah Nanako Winkler puts the traditional “crazy family” dramedy in a new social and racial setting.
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"I'm happy. My cancer bring everyone together," exclaims a joyful Masako (Ako) as she lays in her hospital bed surrounded by her husband James (Jay Patterson), and their daughters Sophie (Em…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:46PMListen: David Mamet’s Harvey Weinstein Play is Actually Happening, “Alice by Heart” Extends, “Anastasia” Star Extends “Today on Broadway” is a daily…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:39PMWith rousing gospel songs and a talented cast of newcomers, the acclaimed new play Choir Boy tells of the students in a prep school struggling with the institution’s deep roots in trad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:18PMBig hat tip to Thomas Cott for linking to an article about how quickly people will abandon a webpage if it is loading slowly. The title tells pretty much everything you need to know about …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:06PMLena Hill is an actor, voice over talent and singer in Austin, Texas. She’s also a mama, partner, friend, confidant, shoulder to cry on and sister.She has over 15 years of performance expe…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:06PMInto the 21st-century woods we go with the Resident Ensemble Players' premiere of ‘Minor Fantastical Kingdoms’ at the University of Delaware. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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Joe Orton’s Sixties Black Comedy Still Makes Us Laugh by Maya Rath You would think that a play opening with a coffin and a body would be sad, but instead, “Loot” at Novato Theater Co…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:59PMIsabella Rossellini used all of her skills as an actor, writer, filmmaker, artist, director, model and budding animal behaviorist to thoroughly enchant a capacity audience at the Broad Stage…
SOURCE: www.laweekly.com at 08:59PMNYC amp Company, New York City's official destination marketing organization, today announced thatNYC Off-Broadway Week2-for-1 tickets are on sale to the public atnycgo.comoffbroadwayweek.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48PMPreviews begin tomorrow for the New York premiere of the musical Alice By Heart with book by Steven Sater with Jessie Nelson, music by Duncan Sheik, lyrics by Steven Sater and directed by Je…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48PMLincoln Center'sAmerican Songbookkicks off Wednesday, January 30 with a thrilling performance of classic Broadway song and dance numbers byTony Yazbeck. See Tony dancing his way to his lates…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48PMYoung Victorians keen to read and learn will be the main beneficiaries of the most recent $2 million donation to State Library Victoria from John and Pauline Gandel, through Gandel Philanthr…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:47PMLike many of the plays WSG produces, this one is a quiet barn-burner. It takes two families from the mid-1950s and puts them through some bedrock-deep changes, set against the backdrop of ra…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:41PM‘The Mystery of Love and Sex’ at Iron Crow Theatre. “…Thomas and Vicks displayed some interesting chemistry that kept the performance fluid and organic…” – JV Tor…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:32PMStripped down staging of Barry Hines' iconic novellaRobert Alan Evans’ adaptation of Kes is a dark, expressionist reworking of Barry Hines’ novella. It pays lip service to Ken Loach…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:24PMDemetri Bonaros’ (translator, actor, producer) theater credits include Agamemnon, Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of the Shrew, the NYIT-nomi…
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Imagine sitting in your home watching a rerun of “Gilligan’s Island” when suddenly, the characters come through the screen, stand in your living room, and sing about their adventures w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:46PMPhoto courtesy of The Black Rock Center for the Art In conjunction with BlackRock’s partners at The Signature Theatre, two-time Helen Hayes Award winner TRACY LYNN OLIVERA is bringing BROA…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:43PMPlayhouse @ Westport Plaza presents musical comedy with puppets.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:32PMBartlett Sher also worked on 'My Fair Lady.' 'South Pacific.'
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:32PMDuring Sunday night's broadcast of "Rent: Live" I found myself tweeting like a madman. Dozens of tweets. Cranky tweets, snarky tweets, tweets full of praise: "Brandon Victor Dixon is the rea…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:32PMUpstream Theater stages play featuring Hamlet and Faustus.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:32PMEvidently enough, when dancers get significantly injured, their body needs to heal before they can get back at it again. What may be less apparent are the social, emotional and mental challe…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:30PMFuse writers Lucas Spiro and Matt Hanson once again bang their heads against the walls of some of art's big questions.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:18PMWhether you're a casual fan of the franchise or you can make a convincing case for Jar Jar Binks being a Sith Lord, this is the play you're looking for.
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It was a good week to test your view of New York — the 1990s Bohemia presented in Rent Live on Fox (which was largely Rent Recorded), or the grittier view expressed by the city’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:42PM“We find consistently that people are wary of marketers tracking them, don’t understand the complexities of data mining, and don’t like to be discriminated against based on informa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMCold weather has officially squelched the city’s hottest show. Due to extreme weather conditions, the Jan. 30 matinee and evening performances of “Hamilton” in Chicago have been cancel…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30PMActors’ Equity has approved a fund for members who may lose out on work during the strike against developmental work, according to a letter sent to its members Tuesday. In the letter, Equi…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 06:10PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today.
Lindsay Mendez & Gavin Creel to Sing on Three Points of Contact Concept Album
An impressive lineup of theater stars h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PMJesse JP Johnson stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about Wicked and more with Paul Wontorek.
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At a recent Drama Desk Q&A event at Ripley Grier Studios, we learned some interesting facts about the soon-to-be star of one of the most highly anticipated shows of 2019.
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 05:57PMIf you're headed to New York to see a Broadway show this winter, here are some important things to consider.
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 05:52PMThis TV and film star has deep roots in musical theater.
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 05:52PMDelusion, the Los Angeles interactive theater experience, has remixed its current show into “The Blue Blade – Director’s Cut” for its newly expanded spring run. ̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PMFor this essential New York choreographer’s centenary, a Public Library exhibition full of the joy and anxiety of postwar Manhattan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMInspired by Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria, SWEET CHARITY explores the turbulent love life of Charity Hope Valentine, a hopelessly romantic but comically unfortunate dance hall hostess…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMJoey McIntyre is set to don the white coat of Dr. Pomatter in Waitress next week Monday February 4, starring through April 7. Eddie Jemison, who played Ogie in the 2007 film of Waitress, is …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMPretty Woman cast member Nico DeJesus is welcoming us to Hollywood as he takes over the BroadwayWorld Instagram Story tomorrow, January 30th. Make sure to head over to tune in for this two-s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMAs we’re now about halfway through the Broadway season, there are currently eight productions of plays (four new, four revivals) set to open this spring. Could we be seeing any of them con…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:32PMIf one looks around the website of The Neil Simon Festival, a yearly theatre event held in Cedar City, Utah, there’s a list of donors to the company. On that list are seven entries at the …
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 05:31PMBruce takes over for Kate Wetherhead January 29, while Wake will take over for Hannah Elless in February.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMAndrew Barth Feldman is not only making his Broadway debut at 16 years old, but this is his first professional acting gig ever. “I have never been in a process where literally the show is …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:27PMThe Wicked and Lempicka star celebrated the release of her new album Revelation at Sony Hall January 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMStuart Murphy recalled joining the company and and finding it “really shocking” that 39 of ENO’s 40-strong chorus were white. “We weren’t true to our values, we didn’t represent …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMLet us start with some genuine philosophical questions about truth in science. Here are three: 1) Does science aim at truth? 2) Does science tell us the truth? 3) Should we expect sc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM By Ron Fassler Last night, I attended “We’ll Have Manhattan: Rodgers & Hart in New York,” the inaugural show of 2019 for the 92nd Street Y’s “Lyrics & Lyricis…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:19PMBroadway Backwards returns on March 11. The benefit performance will feature gender-reversed and star-studded twists on classic and modern showtunes.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:04PMThe new play from Matt Williams is set to begin performances February 27 at Cherry Lane Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03PM'The beauty and grace comes from performers making performance work (play) on their own terms': Emily Davis writes on Ellie Dubois' feminist deconstruction of circus.
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A pair of new players are stepping into the celebrated musical comedy The Other Josh Cohen. Jane Bruce (Jagged Little Pill) will join the company tonight and Cathryn Wake (The Great Comet) w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMBarrow Street Theatricals has announced a talent-packed new slate of rotating guest actors for the American premiere of Nassim by celebrated Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour (Whit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMIt’s not often that a rehearsal room has a stage. And an audience bank. And theatrical lighting. But as I walk into the Giant Dwarf Theatre in Redfern, that is exactly what the company…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:45PMThe season will also include the premiere of the new musical Pure Country, the national tour of Once On This Island, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PMThe new play by Nassim Soleimanpour invites a new actor to perform the play each night (without seeing the script).
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:39PMTime Warner had kept HBO on a tight leash, allowing an estimated $1.5 billion annual budget for original content in 2018—play money when compared with Netflix’s reported $10 to $11 billi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PMIn stepping back, Robert Redford is acknowledging the welcome ways in which the festival continues to evolve: Some 40 percent of this year’s movies were directed by women, and 36 percent w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PMWisconsin-born and New York-based award-winning actor Kyle Taylor Parker is well known to lovers of musical theater and to all loyal KTPEEPS for his featured roles in the original Broadway c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:25PMCasual strolling was suddenly punctuated by dancers bumping and grinding at each other, these full-bodied movements resonating in slightly different ways in each dancer, sometimes leading to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:21PMThe Waterwell production has added three performances to its run after playing two-day engagements at both Fordham University Law School and the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PMThe Other Palace, LondonComedy’s rational surveyor of the political scene fires a centrist shot at easy targets from Boris Johnson to Jeremy CorbynThe left/right divide is no longer a usef…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMThis WorldStage Production at Chicago Shakespeare Theater renders trauma, memory and youth in its own exquisite language.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM
This new production of the Howard Ashman-Alan Menken musical will celebrate the 125th anniversary of Bool's Flower Shop in Ithaca.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:52PMOff-Broadway Public Theater has announced casting for the upcoming world premiere staging of Ain't No Mo'. Playwright Jordan E. Cooper (americanmother) will star in the previously an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMTalented understudy Stephanie Torns will play another regular stint as Jenna in the hit musical Waitress next month. Joey McIntyre broke the news to Broadway.com at a recent press …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PM“We draw from a lot of things that are happening politically,” says Lewis, who takes on the title role in the Kennedy Center production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:43PMThe evening will feature special performances from upcoming Broadway shows 'Oklahoma!' and 'Hadestown.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:38PMJohn Malkovich will grace the London stage this summer to play an unpleasant yet prominent Hollywood movie tycoon accused of sexual misconduct. On Tuesday, producers announced that the Oscar…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:30PMYou can make a killing in the theater, but not a living, goes the theatrical cliche. The playwright Steven Dietz, whose work never has been seen on Broadway, has achieved precisely the rever…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:25PMOpera is no stranger to crimes of passion. However, opera also portrays the best of humanity alongside all of the human folly. The Atlanta Opera presents Jake Heggie’s production of Dead …
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:18PMDanielle de Barbarac, the central figure of the musical Ever After, isn’t the typical fairy tale heroine. She isn’t looking for a man to sweep her off of her feet or rescue her — f…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:18PMTo the seven young performers who tell the stories of their lives in “Generation NYZ,” New York means subways and pizza and opportunity, but also cops and catcalling and homelessness. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PMThe latest about Jagged Little Pill, David Mamet's new play and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PMFor the second time in Encores history-and to honorCity Center's75th Anniversary Season-the series isrevivingone ofitsown revivals.Ahighlight of the second season of Encores 1995and featurin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12PMCNN offers some great demonstrations of how fake videos in which people can now say and do things they never did will challenge one of the bedrock truths of our time – that you can bel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMThe flyer says the place offers a “journey back to socialism.” You can get a picture taken in an old restraining chair, or at a commissar’s desk in his coat; you can dial-a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMRecruited by his cousin, resistance leader Georges Loinger (who recently passed away at age 108), Marceau used his mime and acting skills to convince German and Vichy authorities that he was…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMThough I was but a teenager, I think I was a little scornful of Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988) when it debuted. “There’s already Hawaii 5-0,” I reasoned, as though there could on…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:06PMMichael Mayer will direct the gala evening at the Edison Ballroom.
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Call it inspired, a perfect storm of creative ideas or even perfection—but no matter how you describe it, the first of this year’s Lyrics and Lyricists programs at the 92nd Street Y was …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:57PMStevie Walker-Webb directs the upcoming play, a satirical odyssey portraying a great exodus of Black Americans.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PMGet a first look at this Nina Simone bio-musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:50PMThe January 26 concert was the latest installment in the Tony-winning, Boston-based company’s Broadway @ The Huntington series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMNew Kids on the Block band member Joey McIntyre and original movie Ogie Eddie Jemison talk joining the Broadway company of Waitress.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMFinley appears in Bartók’s dark opera through February 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:41PMCONSIDER CREATION CAUGHT IN THIS SEMINAL WORLD PREMIERE It’s a tour-de-force to take home and reverently recall: A Goodman Theatre world premiere, How To Catch Creation lives up to a lov…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:36PMThe ambition inherent in Christina Anderson’s heady, poetic and ambitious new play at the Goodman Theatre is right there in its title: “How to Catch Creation.” That’s quite a challen…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:30PMYes, But I Have To, a new drama, will premiere at Hard Bargain Amphitheater in Accokeek, MD from February 15 to 18, 2019. Written and directed by emerging DC playwright Addison Janney, and s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:23PMRay Yamanouchi's New Light New Voices Award-winning play began performances January 25 at 13th Street Repertory.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PMJoey McIntyre is set to don the white coat of Dr. Pomatter in Waitress next week Monday February 4, starring through April 7.Eddie Jemison, who played Ogie in the 2007 film of Waitress, is s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMTaylor Trensch recently took his final bow in the Broadway smash hit Dear Evan Hansen. Check out the video below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMMatthew Broderick was a guest on today's episode of 'Live with Kelly and Ryan.' During the interview, Brodericktalks about heading to London to make his West End stage debut inhe Starry Mess…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PM“If more and more working people were reading the classics, if they were closing the cultural gap between themselves and the middle classes, how could intellectuals preserve their elit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMLewis Carroll's classic story is transported to WWII London—with unexpected results.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PMThe Hamilton Tony Award winner will offer an evening of musical theatre favorites and jazz standards.
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Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents La Cage Aux Folles, with Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman and Book by Harvey Fierstein. Based on Jean Poiret’s farcical play by the sa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:56PMSimilar to a flatly serious youth exploitation flick circa 1970, playwright Phoebe Nir’s utopia-in-the-wilderness yarn "Eco Village," is likeably inept. There’s a hallucinogenic drug din…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:54PMBack when “The Prom” opened on Broadway in the fall, critics swooned over the musical comedy with a message. But for a while there, the creators had begun to think that their sho…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:54PMAli Ewoldt and I first connected when she was performing with The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall in 2017. Now, it’s very exciting to speak with Ali about one of her theatrical endeavors. A…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 01:52PMRose is being honored for her play America v. 2.1: The Sad Demise & Eventual Extinction of the American Negro.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMBy Editorial Staff
John Malkovich is to star in the world premiere of David Mamet’s Bitter Wheat at London’s Garrick Theatre. The play based on Harvey Weinstein will be directed …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:44PMOff-Broadway's MCC Theater has announced an extension for the world premiere musical Alice by Heart, inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Originally…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PMRed ink has dogged the Toronto theatre company for 30 years but now, thanks to an American ‘turnaround king,’ artistic director Brendan Healy says it will soon be able to think bigger.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:26PMJason Sherwood shares the Easter eggs you missed and the hidden meaning behind his set for Rent Live.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 01:22PMPreviews begin January 30 at MCC Theater’s new performance space.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMWhen Charles III commissioned the building in the 1780s, he intended it to become a natural science museum; by the time it was ready to open in 1819, his grandson Ferdinand VII decided it wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMThe ATB Fellow supports the administration of the Arts Transcending Borders program while gaining experience in all aspects of managing a visiting artist program in an academic setting.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMAnalysts estimate that smart TVs now make up about 70 percent of all new TV sales. The television is no longer a mere display, but a full-fledged computer, for good and f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMThe novel was adapted for film three times, but none were considered successes. (Hemingway hated the first one, saying that Spencer Tracy looked more like Gertrude Stein than a Cuban fisherm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMCan the team behind Broadway's 'Jagged Little Pill' craft a rousing, edgy tribute to the once-reigning Queen of Angst?
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:07PMRoundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production ofSam Shepard's Tony amp Pulitzer Prize-nominated dramaTrue West, directed byJames MacdonaldThe Children, opened last week at the America…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMOn Tuesday, November 27th, New World Stages hosted the first-ever TRENDING BROADWAY. It was a day spent fully immersed in conversation about key trends across culture, technology, and media …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PM'Dear Evan Hansen' is currently playing at the Curran in San Francisco, following its tour stops in Denver, Los Angeles, and Arizona. Let's see what the critics are saying about the recent t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported,Three Points of Contact, a new conceptual album featuring songs from a musical of the same title by Ryan Scott Oliver,will be released in mid-February vi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMPart of the International Puppet Festival, this "one person" show from Compagnie Non Nova disturbs as much as it delights.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMTo Kill a Mockingbird. Oh dear. The production which originated at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park in 2015 before touring nationwide including to the Barbican, is now dead. It was due …
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The new musical from David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori played Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson last year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PMOn her website, Jennie Buckman described herself as “acting coach, playwright, activator”, that last epithet pointing to her increasing engagement with political
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:51PMWant to know what the most powerful man in the world is really like? Why not ask the man who plays him on stage? We may judge and condemn others with abandon, but there is one character with…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMThe show, written and directed by Paul Calderon, begins intensely and continues on a harrowing, one-way trip to hell.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMby Stephen Sachs I’m used to it by now. I expect it. I wait for it. Whenever I travel anywhere in the country, to any state in our union, whether on a personal vacation with my wife or…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:44PMAs Battery Sergeant-Major Williams in David Croft and Jimmy Perry’s It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, Windsor Davies’ booming voice could be heard
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMRed State Blue State, the new solo comedy written by and starring comedian Colin Quinn, has been extended at off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre through March 16. Bobby Morseco directs th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMThe celebrated world premiere production of Soft Power, a new musical by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home) and David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), was honored with six L.A. Ovation Awards on January 2…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMWatch show clips from the first Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's True West starring Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMThe playwrights, both MacArthur fellows, will start at U.T. in the fall.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:31PMThe two are heading to Broadway in February.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMSee Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano in a new video montage from the acclaimed revival, now playing the American Airlines Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMThe Emmy-winning star reveals his All About Eve moment that put him on the path to acting.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PM“Of course it might upset people who’ve experienced the kind of treatment that the play describes,” Malkovich told the BBC. “But what can I do about that?”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMTony Goldwyn’s steamy scene in the play brought up some memories for Lowes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMTickets to Hamilton: The Exhibition will go on sale to the general public at 10AM on Friday, [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:12PMBroadwayWorld has a first look at Paper Mill Playhouse's world premiere of My Very Own British Invasion with book by Tony award-winner Rick Elice Peter and the Starcatcher. My Very Own Briti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMProducer Stacey Mindich announced today that the North American tour of Dear Evan Hansen, which launched September 25, 2018 in Denver, has recouped its investment at a remarkable pace-after …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMMore than 150 of New York City's most talented dancers will unite for an extravaganza of sensational striptease on Sunday, June 16, 2019, whenBroadway Baresreturns toHammerstein Ballroom
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMOn Tuesday, February 19 730pm IFC Center will feature aone-time only presentation of director D.A. Pennebaker's 1970 classic Original Cast Album Company that documents inside the studio reco…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMJohn Johnson and Very Intensive Productions have just announced the release of Three Points of Contact, a new conceptual album featuring songs from a musical of the same title by Ryan Scott …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMBroadwayWorld has an exclusive, interactive, inside look at renovations at The Muny as the venue gears up for it's 101st season of bringing St. Louis audiences first-class Broadway productio…
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Off Broadway, Elevator Repair Service at NYU Skirball
Reviewed by Ed Malin
BOTTOM LINE: An epic, 8-hour staging of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby that is arguably more entertaining tha…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 12:06PMAn increasing amount of the time spent working with clients via my web development firm is understanding the differences between cloud based and hosted software and apps. There are no shorta…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 12:05PMWith FilmStruck having closed and Criterion’s planned service limited to the titles admitted to its Collection, serious cinephiles who stream were feeling a bit bereft. “Enter OV…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PMMs. Lousada was a cast member of many central works created by Balanchine, including “The Four Temperaments,” which had its premiere on City Ballet’s opening night, Nov. 20, 1946, at t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PMThe William & Catherine and Younger star reveals his theatre firsts as he makes his directorial debut with Off-Broadway’s Whirlwind.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMAfter releasing their album Vision of You, back in December, Rob Fowler and Sharon Sexton have taken their exploration of the backstories of Falco and Sloane (the pair's characters in Bat Ou…
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At the center of "Secret Identity" is Keith Weiss who plays JT. The proverbially baby-faced Mr. Weiss is physically, emotionally and vocally entrancing. With his rumbling low voice and expre…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58AMMetroStage’s Three Sistahs is a marvelous musical, an evening of vocal and dramatic excellence. Written and directed by Thomas W. Jones II – with a story by Janet Pryce – and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AMGreat news! The award-winning, critically acclaimed horror film I’m in The Moose Head Over the Mantel is now available for home viewing through all manner of media: DVD, Blu-Ray, strea…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:42AMThe terrific director Archie Mayo (1891-1968) was born on this day. Originally a stage actor, Mayo began directing silent L-KO comedy shorts in 1917. Later he would direct shorts for Christi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:42AMBen Levi Ross currently stars in the title role of the touring Tony-winning musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMTwo South Africans, desperate to escape the impoverished futility of their lives, break into the home of an aging academic who walks in on them as they're ransacking the place for money. A p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:39AMConsider this a friendly public service announcement from a concerned theater critic: Please, unless there's a truly compelling reason, let's agree to a moratorium on revivals of "Hamlet," "…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:39AMAs I was leaving the theater the other night, an older gentleman with a lapel-grabbing voice and a friendly jack-in-the-box manner stopped me dead in my tracks.
"What was the point of that?…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:39AMTo a certain generation of theatre kid, “Rent” is a landmark, a seminal work that is also a personal milestone, akin to “A Chorus Line” a generation before and “Hamilton” a gener…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:38AMIt might be heresy for a theater critic to admit, but Hollywood has done a better job of skewering the theater than the theater has done skewering Hollywood. Give me "All About Eve" over "On…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:33AMJohn Malkovich will take on the role of a lifetime in David Mamet's new play Bitter Wheat, making its world premiere this spring at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End. Doon Mac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMShemika Berry, a former Air Force officer, is a WATCH award winning makeup artist, a WATCH award nominated actress, a costumer, and historical interpreter. She has performed on the local s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:31AMTwo friends since childhood, Charlotte and Jonny (played by Amandine Thomas and Quincy Vicks), discover a great deal about themselves and their primal (as well as carnal) needs in Bathsheba …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:27AMThe annual strip-athon benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMJohn Malkovich is set to portray a Harvey Weinstein-like “depraved Hollywood mogul” in a world premiere UK production of David Mamet’s new play Bitter Wheat.
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SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18AMThe playwright is the inaugural winner of the national contest at Barrington Stage Company.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:06AMThe Miss Saigon and Once On This Island star’s upcoming U.K. concerts have been postponed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMToday CHOIR BOY's Jeremy Pope speaks to BroadwayWorld about making his Broadway debut in a play that celebrates the power of storytelling.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMThere is a depth and grit to Touching The Void at the Lyceum that threatens to carry all before it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending January 21, 2018.
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SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe Broadway favorite talks about his new Off-Broadway play and an onstage injury from his time in Cabaret.
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The second play in Jordan Jaffe’s Energy series began performances January 23 at The Wild Project.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM“Women can jump higher and complete more turns than ever before, skills traditionally associated with male dancers. For their part, men are training to incorporate the stretch and fine…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMThis student of Martha Graham came to London in the late 1960s, founded The Place, and started up the UK’s first contemporary dance company, school, and theatre there. And you probably…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMThe My Fair Lady star and Tony Award winner's show Tales From Soprano Isle features songs and stories from her life on the stage and screen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMThe musical theatre-centric double feature will take place in February ahead of the IFC premiere of Original Cast Album: Co-op, with John Mulaney, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMThe Broadway musical sensation Hamilton continues to thrill audiences and invites whole new generations into the world of the Broadway musical and American history. The piece, by Lin-Manuel …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:42AMKate Prince’s ZooNation commissioned to create ‘uplifting story’ called Message in a BottleIt is not, for some music lovers, the most obvious material for a hip-hop dance show, but the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMThe Swedish producer’s debut musical sees Juliet ditching Romeo to move to Paris. We use his hits to plot the narrativeA jukebox musical based on Swedish super-producer Max Martin’s bigg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMThe comedian will now continue his solo show—about America's political divide—through March 16 at the Minetta Lane.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMMarc Acito will direct the reading of his new play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMIn the theater world, there’s that magical phenomenon known as the “showmance” — a love affair that sparks when two people meet in a stage production. Of course, not all of those rom…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:30AMDeafinitely Theatre has teamed up with Birmingham Stage Company to produce the first Horrible Histories show specifically for D/deaf children and their
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AMTheater Breaking Through Barriers will present Brunstetter's play shortly after MTC's run of The Cake.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMThe musical continues at the Broadhurst Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AMUC Davis is paying homage to two former professors with a newly-opened exhibit, “Weaving and Woodwork: A Scandinavian Design Partnership.” The exhibit is housed in the university’s Des…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 10:04AMThis new production of American Idiot from Selladoor is as brash, raucous and punchy as you might expect and opens with all guns blazing into the title song. T
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMImagination contends with plot in this co-production from Adventure Stage Chicago and Rough House Theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMAriana Grande has made frequent appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, but a number-one hit eluded her for most of her career. Now she has gone two-for-two. Her last single R…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMAn emphasis on storytelling rather than star performances or staging pyrotechnics drives a crisp production of the macabre musical "Sweeney Todd" at South Coast Repertory.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMPick your favorite Broadway baddie and see how your opinions rank in the Theatre Nerds community… More
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The producers of Anastasia have announced that Cody Simpson has extended his engagement in the hit musical for eight additional weeks. Simpson made his Broadway debut as Dmitry on November 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMFilms are one of the most accessible kinds of art for people all over the world. While watching a film, viewers get scooped and occupied completely, so they see and listen to every tiny bit …
SOURCE: theatrenerds.com at 09:53AMAfter 18 years as the paper’s art and architecture critic, Schumacher has taken a buyout; her position is being eliminated. The Journal Sentinel is a Gannett newspaper, and Schumacher …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM“The purchase is an opportunity to position the university, literally, to better contribute its expertise to national- and international-policy discussions. … It is also a power move…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMThe statement in question comes from the director’s 1972 book about his breakout 1970 film El Topo: “After she had hit me long enough and hard enough to tire her, I said, ‘…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM“When an orchestra faces an existential threat — that’s understandably how the players see this — you have to deal with it in a fundamentally different way. You don’t j…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMAs of February 24, “anyone who believes the gender pay gap has negatively impacted their earning potential” may pay $12 for admission to the MCA. That’s 80% of the normal t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMAssuming love and sex are an intertwined riddle to be solved and you want an answer to the mystery —you’re not going to get it here. If you want to walk away deep in thought, contemplati…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AMSunday night’s opening at MetroStage was a fanfare affair. Not only did the press come out in full force (not always easy to get in the crowded local theater market,) being in the audi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AMFor school leavers who have their minds set on a career in the performing arts but are not ready for the transition
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:38AMMatthew Lopez’s epic drama wins three prizes, while Marianne Elliott’s production of Company is named best musicalThe Inheritance, an epic seven-hour drama about young gay New Yorkers, h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMThis started out to be a post about Cecil Spooner (1875-1953) an important actress and theatre manager of her day, but it makes no sense to tell her story without telling that of her entire …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:32AMThe “Dear Evan Hansen” tour has recouped after 12 weeks on tour, producer Stacey Mindich said Tuesday. The tour launched on Sept. 25 in Denver and later broke box office records at the A…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 09:17AMHow U.S.-trained director Jon Kellam has adapted global influences into a new theatrical form with the Italian company Bämsemble.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:15AMContinuing the exploration of women in the arts who also own businesses, we speak with four women with diverse backgrounds—some arts related, some not—who run Bohemia Realty Group, a rea…
SOURCE: The Interval at 09:11AMContinuing the exploration of women in the arts who also own businesses, we speak with four women with diverse backgrounds—some arts related, some not—who run Bohemia Realty Group, a rea…
SOURCE: The Interval at 09:11AMMatthew Lopez's epic two-part play The Inheritance and Marianne Elliott's reinvention of Company led the way at this year's Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards.
The post The Inheritance and Co…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:06AMEden Espinosa releases 'Revelation,' a new album featuring original songs, and is about to hit the road in the national tour of 'Falsettos.'
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:06AM'It might upset people. But what can I do about that?'
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:06AMHolly Williams travelled to Moscow to discover the troubled history of the theatre, and how it's discovering a fresh sense of purpose with productions like 'The Good Person of Szechwan'
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:06AMMatthew Lopez’s epic two-part drama The Inheritance was the big winner at the 2018 Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards held today at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London’s West End, hosted…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:05AMCurrently one of London’s hottest tickets, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical is a solid entry in the bio-musical genre, combining an inspiring story with a terrific catalogue of hit songs.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMost promising newcomer Chris Walley for The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Noel Coward Theatre Best Shakespearean performance Sophie Okonedo for Antony and Cleopatra,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIt seems that Marianne Elliott’s production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company at the Gielgud Theatre, featuring a female lead for the first time, hasn’t just been a favour…
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Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 29 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMWith hedge fund the Man Group having announced that it will end its sponsorship of the English-speaking world’s leading literary award after this year, the literati are all wondering w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AMThis is the second Caldecott win in the span of four years for Blackall, whose Finding Winnie took the prize in 2016. Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X was given the Michael L. Printz Awa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM“With a career spanning over six decades, Smith’s credits include eight Broadway shows, hit TV shows, feature films and major domestic and international tours (including West Sid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AMAs well as sharing the first glimpse of the cast in costume, Only Fools And Horses The Musical's creators have spoken about how the stage show came to be.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 08:22AMThey say confession is good for the soul. Sharing my struggles with collecting all things Broadway with you has, in fact, been very cathartic. Today, I bring you #MyBroadwayThing for so…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 08:04AMGableStage’s rendering of Paula Vogel's Indecent is freshly distinctive from Rebecca Taichman’s New York staging and from the rapturously received version that Palm Beach Dramaworks del…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:04AMDavid Thame has created a neat drama in Kompromat, but its explicit relationship to such a complex story, with real consequences for people who are very much alive, leaves a lingering sense …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMAs the founding artistic director of the Place and the London Contemporary Dance School, Brooklyn-born Robert Cohan revolutionised dance in Britain. As
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AM
The 35-year-old Italian, currently chief conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana in Florence and the Opéra National de Lyon, succeeds Rafael Payaré, who leaves in July for his new job as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AMIn the first of our three-part SHOWSTOPPER! The Improvised Musical interview series, co-founder Dylan Emery told us about he and Adam Meggido brought The Showstoppers to life, with influence…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 07:30AMTheatre 503, LondonVíctor Sánchez Rodríguez’s play stylishly shows how confrontation with the colonial past can lead to self-discoveryLiving European writers are so rarely seen on the i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMBitter Wheat – ‘a black farce about a badly behaved movie mogul’ – to open at the Garrick theatre, London, on 7 JuneJohn Malkovich is to star in a “farce” inspired by the Harvey …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMRebecca Trehearn has been cast in a new version of Stephen Schwartz’s musical Rags at the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester. Trehearn,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMThe new drama, inspired by the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, will premiere in the West End this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:09AMFrom 2009: A great man (or woman) is too big to cram into a book-sized box. The best that you can do is offer a summary of the current state of knowledge about him, written from your own poi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.” Jean Kerr, Mary, Mary
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMEveryone loves an Agatha Christie tale. Unlike the films and programmes involving Ms Marple or Poirot that are often repeated on television, Witness For The Prosecution (which is directed by…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM
Reviews of ‘Where Did We Sit on the Bus’ at City Theatre and ‘In the Heights’ at Pittsburgh Musical Theater.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:59AMSome of Broadway's best came out for the 61st Grammy nominee celebration in New York City last night. In attendance were Lynn Ahrens, Adam Kantor, Cody Simpson, Joshua Henry, Etai Benson, Ar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36AMSadler’s Wells is to premiere a new dance production set to the music of Sting and choreographed by Kate Prince. Message in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMA trip to South America that is supposed to heal a couple’s failing relationship instead exposes its fault-lines in Spanish playwright Victor
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMWinner of Best Fringe Theatre in the 2019 Stage Awards, The Barn Theatre has announced its line-up of five in-house productions for the upcoming 2019 season, including Michael Morpurgo’s T…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:06AMWelcome to the UK is an emotional, engaging and – most importantly – vital piece of theatre. If only the government could be made to watch this, perhaps it will see that its inhumane pol…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM
John Malkovich is to make his first West End appearance in 30 years in a new work by David Mamet, inspired by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMListen to the live recording session from the New York Theatre Workshop production of Hadestown. Hadestown follows two intertwining love stories — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydi…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:45AM'Queer politic as positive philosophy': James Varney on how Gareth Cutter's solo show fits in a wider culture of Queerness and performance.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:38AMGood morning, BroadwayWorld Check out today's top Broadway stories
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:36AMDuring its journey to Broadway, the buzzy Hadestown wasn’t just establishing an ardent fan base. It was also growing and developing from a rousing concert staging into a full work of music…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:34AMThe glamour of Hollywood is coming to Theatreland, as multi-award winning actor John Malkovich is returning to the West End. And it’s been a much-anticipated return too, as John hasn’t t…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:32AMDo you believe in divine inspiration? Talk to indie singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell about Hadestown, and you just might. To hear Mitchell tell it, the first flash of what would become Hade…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:17AMHere’s LLLC’s monthly guide to some of the best theatre openings in February 2019.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWhere do you teach? I’m freelance – as well as leading workshops, I work as an acting and voice coach in film
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMeet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details… Albert
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMy first job was a great experience, but I came very close to not doing it. A lecturer at my university told
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Eric Dolphy fully deserves the renewed attention that this important release demands.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:36AMThe Gift Theatre is pleased to launch its 18th season with a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer and [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:04AMNetflix has acquired global rights to Taiwanese dark family comedy “Dear Ex.”“Dear Ex,” the winner of multiple awards across Asia, will premiere globally on Netflix starting February…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:03AMThe year-long musical project concludes with the video for “Desidero.”
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMChannel 4 and PBS Frontline have commissioned Waad Al-Kateab’s feature documentary “For Sama,” produced by Channel 4 News/ITN Productions.“For Sama” follows one woman’s inspirati…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:01AMMorgan Gould directs the Primary Stages production at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMKamilah Forbes directs the Signature Theatre production, set to officially open February 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIn IMPRESSIONS: Never Before Never Again at Triskelion Arts, "While the bar(re) might not be set high, or even exist in this festival, how great that a dog-eat-dog town like NYC can hold…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMJoJo Smith, Famed Choreographer To The Stars, Passes Away at 80.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMLeah Nanako Winkler's on her new play God Said This---Leah Nanako Winkler started writing God Said This while keeping her cancer-stricken mother company during chemotherapy sessions in Kentu…
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