Two legends met up in a London backstage this evening,after Chita Riverapaid a visit to palPatti LuPone following a performance of COMPANY at the Gielgud Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48PMMillennial Notes Jordan Tannahill’s Intimate, Piercing Play Burrows Deep by Svea Vikander Sometimes, I lie in bed awake at night and imagine what might happen if one of my childr…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:35PMCould everything be coming up roses again for a new big-screen adaptation of Gypsy? According to Deadline, TV queen Amy Sherman-Palladino (The Gilmore Girls, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) is in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:18PMTwo shows enlist their spectators as witnesses, exhorting the Americans in the room to consider what our nation is doing in our name.
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:12PMThe first single from the upcoming TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL cast album is released today, [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:12PMThe U.S. Postal Service honored iconic entertainer Gregory Hines with a Black Heritage Series stamp in a ceremony on January 28th. As the 42nd entry in the series, the stamp featuring a 1…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:06PMGypsy (no, not that Naomi Watts Netflix thing, purge that from your mind) the musical may finally be making its way back onto the silver screen. Variety reports that Amy Sherman-Palladino, t…
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More than half a century has passed since the Berrigan brothers, both of them priests, along with seven other Catholic activists, broke the law to protest the Vietnam War. On May 17, 1968, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PMToday, King Kong on Broadway celebrated one hundred Broadway performances See Christiani Pitts, Eric William Morris, and the rest of the company celebrating below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36PMAccording to Deadline, the Emmy Award-winning creator of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Gilmore Girls, Amy Sherman-Palladino is currently in talks to directa revived film remake of the musica…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36PMCritic Elisabeth Vincentelli chatted with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage about her career and influences.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:18PMI always love interviewing recording artist Kim David Smith. His talent, humor, and dedication to his craft always shine through!Here we discuss Kim’s upcoming return to Joe’s Pub as Kim…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 09:15PMThe box office for the new Broadwaymusical, TOOTSIE, will open on Friday, February 8 at 10am at the Marquis Theatre 210 West 46th Street. The Marquis Theatre box office will be open Monday t…
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The musical inspired by the life of the deceased pop icon Michael Jackson has found its title, Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough. Still in development after a reading in June of…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 08:51PMListen: Stage Adaptation of Disney’s “Hercules” to Premiere this Summer, “The Height of the Storm” Coming to Broadway this Fall, “Beetlejuice Confirms Pri…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:50PMA cough, a gasp, the sound of a heartbeat. A sudden flash in the darkness. These sounds and images begin “Lazarus,” the brand-new work from hip hop master Rennie Harris, which opened a g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45PMOUR LOVELY FRIEND RETURNS AT LAST I have never seen Julia Sweeney on film or television. Okay, almost never: there’s Pulp Fiction and Stuart Little. Yet while Sweeney is notable for …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:19PMThe Pittsburgh playwright’s “Run the Rabbit Path” features a familiar family story with an unexpected payoff in its premiere production.
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In an age of growing mistrust, the Chinese-Australian artistic collaboration One Infinity demonstrates the ability of dance and music to navigate tensions between different cultures. As the …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:39PMJamie Lloyd’s lavishly cast and intelligently programmed season of Harold Pinter’s one-act works draws to a close with a double bill of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34PMThe Tony Award-winning musical In The Heights is headed to the big screen thanks to Warner Bros., And according to Deadline the Straight Outta Compton star Corey Hawkins has been cast in th…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 07:33PMPresenting diverse works of art drawn exclusively from the Newcastle Art Gallery Collection, a new exhibition, Floribunda will feature mediums such as drawing, painting, photography and scu…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:19PMProduction at the Source is a vivid, often bracingly stylized epic.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:12PMGovernment disability champion for the arts and culture Andrew Miller speaks of his experiences as a disabled person struggling to get work
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The museum instead put the images on Twitter on Friday with the French word for “censored” over the statues’ presumably private parts, adding: “Maybe it’s time that this platform c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMC.Y. Lee, author of the novel Flower Drum Song, passed away last month at age 102.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24PMAcademy will given Kain its Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award for her 50 years with the National Ballet of Canada, making her the first recipient outside the U.K.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:11PMApplications are now open for Good Music Neighbours – the Victorian Government’s program to help Victoria’s live music venues be better neighbours by managing the sound that go…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 06:08PMWestfield News Group ArtsBeat 2/6/19. Dominique Morriseau's "Detroit '67" comes to Hartford Stage, "Charlie and The Chocolate Factory" plays The Bushnell, and arts news for WMass and No.CT.
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 06:03PMHe currently serves as the managing director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia.
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Beetlejuice, the highly anticipated new musical based on the hit film, has firmed up lead casting for its Broadway premiere at the Winter Garden Theatre. The production has also set a first …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:48PMColton Ryan stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about Alice By Heart and more with Beth Stevens.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:48PMThe performance, filmed at London’s Royal Opera House, will screen across the U.S. February 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:46PMThe study conducted by Dr. Stacy L. Smith found that the number of women working as artists remained stagnant at 17%. Of songwriters, women represented 12.3% of the credits affiliated with…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMThere is so much brio in his sheer commitment to his many apparent lies that it’s hard to avoid feeling delighted. He comes off like a classic con artist, as smooth and consistent as his b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM12 New York City theatres will receive funding from the New York Community Trust and the Jerome L. Greene Foundation for ticketing programs.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:37PMAlex Brightman, Sophia Anne Caruso and four other principal stars of the pre-Broadway run of Beetlejuice will repeat their roles when the new musical begins previews March 28 at BroadwayR…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:32PMBy Douglas Mayo
The award-winning, critically acclaimed production of Titanic the musical recently seen at London’s Charing Cross Theatre and on tour around the UK will tour Eur…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:25PMSMASH is a musical drama that celebrates the beauty and heartbreak of the Broadway theater as it follows a cross-section of dreamers and schemers who all have one common desire - to be a Bro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:18PMPart of the tradition is the audience’s response. There was hooting and hollering from the audience, sounding like they were at a rock concert, but it was impossible not to get caught up i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:11PMLaura Benanti s performance should silence any critics who say she s too old for the lead role.
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Six principals from the musical’s Washington, D.C., world premiere will reprise their performances in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMThe evening will feature performances by Alice Ripley, Anthony Rapp, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:51PMFor 16 years, Paris-based photographer Stephan Zaubitzer has been seeking out old movie palaces and photographing them. – The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMPoking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense. They stand like naked elevator shafts awaiting their floors, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMTogether with an 18th-century directory of sex workers in the Covent Garden area of London, and the violent erotic works of the Marquis de Sade, the Merryland books are among the 2,500 volum…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMKnoxville, a new musical from the songwriting team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, will make its world premiere at Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, FL next year. Frank Galati, who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMCall Me Madam will run from February 6-10 at New York City Center.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMThe latest about Anastasia, Disney's Hercules, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PMHaving seen it at least four times before, I can say with certainty that Sam Shepard’s "True West" (1980) is a firm and solid play: a play to be pondered both while you’re watching it an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:30PMIf you’re looking for someone to blame for the #RentNotLive controversy that happened after star Brennin Hunt broke his foot last month, look no further than Charlie Collier. The new Fox E…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:23PMHenry Timms, current president and chief executive of 92nd Street Y, has been appointed the new president and chief executive of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. In the new role, Timm…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 04:13PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis Executive Director, Patrick Willingham announced the line-up today for the 2019 Free Shakespeare in the Park season, continuing a 57-year t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMAsolo Repertory Theatre will proudly present the world premiere of KNOXVILLE in spring 2020. This moving and innovative musical will feature lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMThe Australian Discovery Orchestra, the world's first solely digital streaming orchestra, has just launched 16 STORIES- a worldwide online vocal competition.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMFind your next job with this selection of upcoming auditions for Broadway and shows around the country.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PMWatch Carmen Cusack and Jason Gotay perform the famous duet from Call Me Madam.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 04:09PMThe concert production at CIty Center runs through February 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PMFrom show openings and closings to one hysterical Justin Timberlake backstage encounter, here's your fast pass to what's currently buzzing on Broadway.
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 04:08PMDisney’s next movie-to-theater adaptation is arriving in an unexpected format. After premiering big, yet conventional, movie-to-theater adaptations like Frozen and Aladdin on Broadway (and…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:08PMAlan Menken and Kristoffer Diaz will adapt the Disney movie for a free production at Shakespeare in the Park.
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The newest feat to be undertaken by the Public Theater’s Public Works program will be an adaptation of the Disney musical “Hercules.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMA new adaptation of Hercules based on Disney’s 1997 animated film and featuring additional music by Alan Menken and David Zippel, a new book by Glow writer Kristoffer Diaz and choreog…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:54PMBy Cason Murphy. Cason Murphy speaks with Jill Stevenson of the American Society for Theatre Research about the last-minute cancellation of their 2018 conference due to a strike held by the …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:46PMLiz Carlson has been promoted to artistic producer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:43PMLansbury took home a Tony Award for her performance in the Jerry Herman musical, which opened on Broadway 50 years ago today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PM“There’s nobody I know who does words for a living who doesn’t adhere to certain either odd or essentially irrational preferences or distastes. I think you simply need to s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMEzra Brain: “Even as representation increases, there doesn’t seem to be much evidence of a truly and uniquely queer theatrical culture — which, for this argument, I am defining…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMSherman theatre, CardiffEvery emotion is tangible as Elgan Rhys’s play about a 30-something gay couple races to a violent climaxWoof is a triumph for the Sherman theatre. In Elgan Rhys’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMThe Public Theater will go the distance this summer. The off-Broadway nonprofit has announced a Public Works staging of Hercules, the musical based on Disney's 1997 animated film, slated…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PM'Believing deep down that things are, should be, can be fair': Hailey Bachrach reviews Cressida Brown's production of a new take on the high-flying myth.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 03:20PMAsolo Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere in spring 2020 following a workshop in June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PMChristopher Burney, whose tenure at New York’s Second Stage Theater included such hits as Dear Evan Hansen, Next to Normal and Lobby Hero, will be the new artistic director of the New …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:11PMOn this episode of BroadwayWorld's theatre business podcast, 'The OHenry Report,' Broadway producer and investor Oliver Henry Roth talks with Leonard Jacobs the founder and executive editor …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMWe knew it was coming, we just didn’t know when. Back in 2017, we reported that a musical adaptation of the Disney movie Hercules would be headed to Broadway. Now we can confirm that …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 03:06PMThe Southwark production of Maury Yeston and Peter Stone's musical will play Moscow, Munich, and more.
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SOURCE: jonsobel.com at 02:54PMAbrupt decapitations. A chatty, fiendish cat. Magical sorcery onstage and off. An epic costumed ball thrown by Satan himself. On its surface, The Master and Margarita doesn’t seem like the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54PMFarce is not as easy to pull off as it looks. Add mounds of glorious text inspired by the freedom spouting French philosopher Francois-Marie Arouet, a.k.a Voltaire, and you’ve got quite …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54PMLear deBessonet will direct the Public Works presentation; the Shakespeare in the Park season also includes a Kenny Leon-helmed Much Ado About Nothing.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMThe new London production of the Tony-nominated musical began performances January 28 at the Savoy Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PMAmtrak’s Northeast Corridor has long been a feeder line for pilgrimages by aspiring performing artists to Juilliard and other New York institutions. Not everyone realizes, though, that the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:34PM“Don’t forget to show love!” Austin Perine reminds us, as he distributes food across the nation to homeless individuals. “President” Austin’s caped crusad…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PMIt was recently reported that Lady Gaga would be attending the Grammys on February 10 instead of the BAFTA Awards on the same day. Now the recording academy and CBS have officially revealed …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:30PM“Nation-states, when they form, imagine a past. That, at least in part, accounts for why modern historical writing arose with the nation-state. For more than a century, the nation-stat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“Wally Feresten, who runs the cue card department for the show and has been there for decades, explains everything from how cast members can tell their lines apart, why they’re w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThis post is one of a series honoring Black History Month. Today we celebrate a TV show on the opposite end of the spectrum from Beulah, which we wrote about yesterday. It would make more se…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:24PMWhat a lineup! A talent-packed slate of stars have been assembled to offer gender-bending takes on their favorite tunes at the 14th edition of Broadway Backwards. Hosted by Tony nominee Jenn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMTo describe a play or musical as ‘dated’ might indicate that the piece is no longer relevant by virtue of evolved social or moral standards. (You won’t see Neil Simon’s play about th…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 02:15PMThe upcoming Second Glance at Alexandria’s Athenaeum promises to cross artistic boundaries to produce the uniquely dramatic in a highly original venture. So what is Second Glance? It is st…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:13PMHercules goes from zero to hero in NYC this summer!
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:10PMFor the second time in Encores history-and to honor City Center's 75th Anniversary Season-the series is reviving one of its own revivals. A highlight of the second season of Encores 1995 and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:03PMTony Award nominees and winners, iconic Broadway legends and beloved stars of stage and screen will come together to celebrate the LGBTQ community at this year's Broadway Backwards.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:03PMEthan Slater has just releasedRichmond Rewrites,the first single from his upcoming project Write Me In.The blues infused song is about one man's night in Virginia, and the way it changed his…
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The play, by Florian Zeller, is slated for Manhattan Theater Club’s 2019-20 season, along with works by Jeff Augustin and Qui Nguyen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMYour favorite celebrities have been hitting the red carpets with serious style in 2019. Here are some of the stars' best looks so far this year.
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SOURCE: USA Today at 01:52PMJulia Murney, Alex Wyse, and Brittney Johnson are among those who will appear in the March 18 event.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMEXCLUSIVE: Ticketmaster and Telecharge say they refund theatergoers for cancelled performances. It’s a different story for investors in shows that get cancelled before opening night. …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:37PMThe evening of gender-reversed twists on classic and modern favorites will take place March 11 at the New Amsterdam Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PMJordan Jaffe
Hometown: Houston, Texas.
Current Town: New York, NY
Q: Tell me about Whirlwind.
A: I would describe Whirlwind as an romantic comedy set against the backdrop o…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 01:12PMBusiness models for virtually every industry are changing – and many industries are seeing their foundations rocked. So how to find new ways to support the arts? In the UK the Cultural…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMPhilosopher Simon Critchley visits the Athens park that’s still called “Akadimia Platonos” and ruminates on what the site and its ancient proprietor were and were not — a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM“Lincoln Center, which has been buffeted by leadership churn in recent years, has looked to Broadway and academia for its last two presidents. They didn’t take. Now it is looking…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMCirque du Soleil Entertainment Group has announced the acquisition of The Works Entertainment, the creative and production company known for The Illusionists, the theatrical magic show that …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMScarcely had Natalie McQueen finished closing out the hit London engagement of Kinky Boots before she was crossing the road to co-star with Bonnie Langford and Brian Conley in the West End d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMPerformances for the exclusive West Coast production of the Tony and Olivier Award-winning Best Play,Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,will begin onWednesday, October 23,2019at San Francisco…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:04PMFor three years, #ReadaPlayaWeek was a, well, weekly feature of our blog. Starting out as a way to familiarise myself more with the canon, long-established and establishment writers were a r…
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The Tony-winning play makes its West Coast debut in the fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PMThe honor, recognizing comprehensive and engaging marketing plans from NYC-area schools, will be presented at the 2019 Roger Rees Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PMThe new season marks the launch of the Philharmonic’s Project 19, celebrating the centennial of the 19th amendment with a series of world premieres from female composers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMThe recent star of the Broadway-aimed Huey Lewis musical The Heart of Rock & Roll will celebrate his birthday with an all-new show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM” When Jamil Jude met Broadway director Kenny Leon a decade ago, he didn’t know that one day he would take over the Atlanta-based company Leon had founded. In August of this year…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:24PMThe new musical on Broadway follows on the heels of 'Fun Home' and 'Indecent' to show that bi/pan/queer/lesbian women have stories that are worth telling.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:23PMThe devil figure masquerading as Woland, the professor of black magic, in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita loathes skeptics, so much so that he travels around the world with the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:22PMThe hit musical from Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance opened in August 2018.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMThe former 92Y leader and #GivingTuesday founder begins tenure at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts this May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMWritten by Kirsten Childs, the show played an Off-Broadway premiere production at Playwrights Horizons in 2017.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PMAlexandra Pollard looks at how the actor went from 'laughing stock' to sweary national treasure and star of a new Pinter play
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:06PMWhen former movie star Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) was running for president in 1980, I had never heard of him before. I was 14, too young to have known him as star. His last movie role, in Th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06PM“No culture and few individuals live without ritual. … And here’s the thing. Rituals work – even for people who say they do not believe in them. [Researchers have found that]…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PM“On the face of it, the story of how I wrote my fourth novel – which I was lucky enough to sell for my first comfortable yearly salary – could resemble a heartwarming success story…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PMTarell Alvin McCraney’s music-filled play was recently extended through March 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMWritten and performed by Gary Kitching and Steve Byron, Bacon Knees and Sausage Fingers is a bleak and often uncomfortable comic drama
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMWhile not quite a knockout, this Midwest premiere puts femme rage at the center of a cathartic story.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMFiasco Theatre Company combed through archived and original drafts, cut scenes, and extra songs from the George Furth-Stephen Sondheim musical for this re-mounting.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMThe four-time Tony nominee shares stories from the recording studio, working with Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, and what still inspires audiences about Pocahontas.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMInside the Theatre, the series that documents Broadway’s historic playhouses, continues with the Mark Hellinger Theatre, currently functioning as the home of the Times Square Church.
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Hercules is about to go from zero to hero of your 2019.BroadwayWorld has just learned that the Public Theater will present a stage adaptation of the Disney classic this summer at the Delacor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMLynne Meadow Artistic Director and Barry Grove Executive Producer have just announced three productions slated for Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming 2019-2020 season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMThe massively exciting new musical King Kong, currently thrilling crowds at the Broadway Theatre, will soon set up shop in Hokkaido, Japan, reports Forbes. The monster production will b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMFollowing a rumored Broadway transfer, Manhattan Theatre Club has confirmed an upcoming staging of Tony-nominated scribe Florian Zeller's The Height of the Storm, set to a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMRyan Jamaal Swain, the standout actor known for his turn as Damon Richards on FX's Pose, will make his Broadway debut in Choir Boy at the Friedman Theatre on February 26. Swain will…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMRipley will play a conservative Christian widow whose daughter comes out as “gender queer.”
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMThe upcoming season will also include The Band’s Visit and Hello, Dolly!, as well as a new stage adaptation of Room.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMFlorian Zeller’s play “The Height of the Storm” is coming to Broadway this fall, Manhattan Theatre Club announced Wednesday. The play will star Jonathan Pryce, a two-time Olivier and T…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 11:21AMManhattan Theatre Club will also stage premieres of Qui Nguyen’s Poor Yella Rednecks and Jeff Augustin’s The New Englanders.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMLondon’s Almeida Theater has become a home away from home for the New York playwright Anne Washburn. Next: a very American comic drama called “Shipwreck.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06AMMarket Theatre inquiry concludes SOUTH AFRICA/ JOHANNESBURG South Africa’s ministry of arts and culture has concluded its investigation into misconduct, racism and nepotism
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMAudible will support the development of 10 new theatre works.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
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Erik Altemus, Claybourne Elder, and Ali Ewoldt are also among the Broadway performers announced to appear.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMVladimir Mirzoev’s visually striking, psychologically nuanced staging of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, one of three productions being staged in London by Moscow
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:56AMOrange Tree, RichmondThis unsettling portrait of a world and a relationship in crisis breezes through 80 scenes in 75 minutesRose Lewenstein’s play triggers all kinds of associations. Sinc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMMamet’s upcoming play Bitter Wheat centers on a very Harvey Weinstein-like studio head, and Steven Berkoff is preparing a one-man show about Weinstein himself. Lyn Gardner is not havin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMThe piece by conceptual artist Jennifer Rubell is simple enough to describe: an Ivanka-look-alike performer, immaculately dressed in pink, repeatedly vacuums a pink carpet as visitors toss c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMFrom award-winning songwriting team Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler Junie B. Jones, Dear Edwina, and boasting a creative team led by Director Susan V. Booth Troubadour and Choreographer JoAn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMThe Society of London Theatre (SOLT) has announced full partnership details for the Olivier Awards 2019 with Mastercard at the Royal Albert Hall.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 10:46AMIn a pivot to utter humility, beard-growth, and softness, actor, director, and Lady Bird stan Bradley Cooper sat down with Oprah on Tuesday afternoon for a SuperSoul Conversation. Among Coop…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:46AMLondon mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a major trust that aims to boost the number of affordable spaces for dance and theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMTheatre designer Vicki Mortimer has joined the board of the National Theatre, as part of a number of new appointments. She joins
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMIn 2013, Olivier-winning playwright Jessica Swale wrote a play about the life of actress Nell Gwynn, one of the first women to trod the English stage, and who became a celebrated actress dur…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AMGood news to opera lovers, opera is very much alive and growing in its John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (KC) home on the Potomac. While many big and small opera companies in Ne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AMThe Encores! production also features Ben Davis, Carol Kane, and Lauren Worsham.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMThe song is from Slater’s new musical in development, Write Me In.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMPerformances of the international hit musical will begin August 30 at the intimate venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMMusical Connections is an outreach project that offers inmates creative opportunities.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AMThe short film, written and directed by Taylor and produced by Taylor and Kushner, stars Isaac Powell and Alan Filderman.
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“To mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which barred states from denying voting rights based on gender, the Philharmonic has commissioned new works by 19 female composers, eight…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM“According to Drexel, museum, and city officials, the university would oversee pruning the vast number of objects — there are more than 100,000 items in the collection — to a ̵…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMFirst, who was the Dark Lady? Most likely, it was a black brothel owner in London known as Lucy Negro — whom actress and poet Caroline Randall Williams took as the inspiration for her 2015…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM“At first glance it would seem to be the strangest of business models. But when Cassa Pancho, 40, decided to found Ballet Black in 2001, to give much-needed opportunities to black and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM“Roomful of Teeth is a kind of lab experiment for the human voice. Its eight singers cover a five-octave range, from grunting lows to dog-whistle highs. Three have perfect pitch, all h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMAt the museum on Monday, “[the three partners] present[ed] five digital prototypes that harness artificial intelligence to make use of images of objects in the Met’s collection. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMI came across the above item in an old TV Guide recently, and it blew my mind. This item advertising a network showing of Disney’s The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (1964) was from the ear…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:54AMA salute today to an important Dead End Kid/ East Side Kid/ Bowery Boy, David Gorcey (1921-1984). The son of character actor Bernard Gorcey, David started out as a child actor, appearing in …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:54AMThe theme is a 'Franco-American arch' of music, performers and the city
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:48AMOne of Off-Broadway's most beloved cult musicals, BIRDS OF PARADISE, will return to New York City, with a star-studded Broadway cast, many from the hit musical WICKED, at Feinstein's54 Below…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AMCirque du Soleil Entertainment Group has just announced the acquisition of The Works Entertainment, the world-class creative and production company known for The Illusionists franchise and o…
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:38AMCirque du Soleil Entertainment Group announced today the acquisition of The Works Entertainment, the production company behind The Illusionists stage magic franchise and other variety shows.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:26AMDiana Ross’ Diamond Jubilee! Are You Ready?
By: Fred Rimando
February 6, 2019: You Can’t Hurry Love. Fans have been waiting for this date ever since Diana Ross first a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:26AMThe Grammys have done what only dummies have dared to do and have crossed Ariana Grande. Variety reports that not only will Grande no longer perform on Sunday’s broadcast, she’s skipping…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:23AMThe company acquired The Works Entertainment, the makers of the Illusionists magic franchise and other shows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMby Lauren Spencer
February is a month for lovers. (At least that is what the greeting card companies invite us to believe.) However, beyond the commodification of partnership, there?s an ex…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 09:17AMBy Julian Eaves
Julian Eaves take a look at Am Dram a new musical comedy by Katie Lam and Alex Parker which recently previewed at The Other Palace Theatre. Am Dram: A Musical Comedy The Othe…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:03AMActress Emma Rigby chatted to LLLC’s Emma Clarendon about her current role in Witness for the Prosecution.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe latest press night parties, events and awards from the theatrical world in pictures. This week’s highlights include the press nights of Kes at Leeds
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBook-It is adapting Tom Hansen's "American Junkie," his precise, raw, plain-spoken memoir about becoming a heroin user and dealer in Seattle's music scene, to the stage.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMDrama school is not the only way I was disappointed at the tone of Susan Elkin’s feature on foundation courses, which implies
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThis year, the great and good of Theatreland descended on London’s Bridge Theatre for The Stage Awards, in association with Integro Insurance
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMRoger Guenveur Smith, whose one-man shows about Rodney King and Huey P. Newton were brought to the big screen by Spike Lee, is bringing his solo show “Frederick Douglass Now" to the stage …
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMCirque du Soleil Entertainment Group has acquired the production company behind “The Illusionists” magic show franchise. The production company, The Works Entertainment, also own…
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Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 6 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54AMSex and technology run like faultlines through this workThere is no doubt that this Cherry Orchard, whirled into town by Roman Abramovich from Moscow, is going to be divisive. If you, like …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMCameron Mackintosh has announced that for 16 weeks only Michael Ball (Javert), Alfie Boe (Jean Valjean), Carrie Hope Fletcher (Fantine) and Matt Lucas (Thénardier) will lead a large cast an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:43AMMichael Ball and Alfie Boe will both return to Les Miserables in the West End later this year for a concert version
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:42AMOpera Underground and Marche Gare present Cyril Cyril + Begayer on February 28, 2019.The two Cyrils — Cyril Yeterian (Banjo, Guitar, Voice) and Cyril Bondi (Percussion, Keyboard, Guitar) a…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:41AMThe playwrights of three new Off-Broadway works on why they chose unprintable titles.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:30AM“[Oligarch Leonid] Mikhelson is spending around $300m to transform a former power plant near the Kremlin into a 20,000 sq. m museum designed by Renzo Piano. … GES-2 will be part of a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM“During an era in which scholars developed increasingly specialized interests, Dr. Rabb adopted a sweeping academic approach, ranging from economic history to politics to painting, emp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMThere are about 30 of these tiny theatres in the city, and they seat 25 to 50 people and can run as small as 170 square feet. And they, along with every other private sector venue, have to p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMA delightful new collection of material from that flamboyant sage. There’s the script of his one-man show, unseen poems and pithy observations galore.
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SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:11AMCharles Atlas, Rashaun Mitchell collaborate with Silas Riener for “Tesseract” that will be on stage from February 28 through March 2, 2019.The website of Barbican describes the show as a…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:11AMDo you hear the people sing? Well if you go and watch Les Misérables when it transfers to the Gielgud Theatre in August, then you’ll see some VERY special people sing. As Michael Ball, Al…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 08:08AMHeaded by Ohad Naharin, the Batsheva Dance Company presents “Venezuela,” at New York’s BAM Howard Opera Gilman House from March 27-30, 2019.According to BAM, acclaimed choreograp…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:00AMWhen the next big artistic job opens up in Chicago theater, I’ve got a name for the recruiters: Vanessa Stalling. In show after show, Stalling keeps making the case that her directing work…
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Music education in England is in crisis and is being destroyed by the English Baccalaureate, a parliamentary report has claimed. The “devastating”
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMHope Theatre artistic director Matthew Parker has announced his intention to step down this year. Parker, who has run the north London
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMThree London drama schools are offering aspiring performers the chance to audition for all of them on one day, for a flat
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMShe's been a Broadway favorite for years. And while she's made quite a name for herself on television with her hilarious Melania impression and appearances on such programs as Supergirl, we …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:54AMA winter-holiday fairytale and heartwarming story, “The Nutcracker” will be on stage at Hong Kong Cultural Centre from March 13-15, 2019.According to the website of HK Arts Festival, to …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:46AMDerby theatreSabrina Mahfouz has impressively distilled the inspired novel about a world where the power rests with the black populationAt the heart of Malorie Blackman’s young adult novel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMBen Lyon (1901-1979) was a major star of the silent and Pre-code eras who is chiefly interesting now in relationship to, and collaboration with, several important women. For real! Born in At…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:42AMHave you ever wondered what life would be like if black people ruled the world? If the status quo went topsy-turvy, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38AMAmerican play from mid-'90s resonates afresh todayIn the history of early photography in the Middle East, it was the Armenian Christian traders and their descendents who became the pion…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:36AMKing Kong is currently taking Broadway by storm, but it appears to have its sights set on new land.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32AMBilly Porter delivered the LGBTQ State of the Union in a video on Twitter.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32AMBradley Cooper revealed his real reaction to being snubbed in the best-director category at the 2019 Academy Awards nominations.
SOURCE: USA Today at 07:30AMOne month to go until Theatre Témoin's latest devised show FEED arrives at London's VAULT Festival. We hear from artistic director Ailin Conant about clickbait capitalism and round up revie…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMRue Morgue Cinemacabre Nights will screen the 1977 horror film “The Sentinel,” at Toronto’s Royal Cinema on February 28, 2019. Released by Universal Pictures in 1977, “The Sentinel,�…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:29AMTony Award nominee Laura Osnes joined theatre fans for the competition in Lower Manhattan February 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:19AMReview: Jayde Adams: The Divine Miss Jayde, Soho Theatre4.0starsHow can someone who worked on the Asda fish counter become a diva? Be Jayde Adams; a dynamic, feisty, wickedly-funny Bristolia…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:12AMJens Kloft brings to stage “Waiting for the Iraq Commission,” a sordid account of Denmark’s participation in the US-led Iraqi invasion, on view from February 28-March 30, 2019, at Det …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:09AMI turned sixty-three today. Tonight Mrs. T, her father, and I are going to see Moses Pendleton’s Momix, a modern dance troupe that’s new to her and which I haven’t seen for longer than…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMPerry Como sings “Lucky to Be Me” (from On the Town), by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green. This performance was originally broadcast on NBC’s Chesterfield Su…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.” François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMHo — Ophelia in Why Not Theatre’s Prince Hamlet and the author of Iphigenia and the Furies — gravitates toward the Greek tragedies because they were his first experience of theatre, he…
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Find out why former Buffy The Vampire Slayer star and fashion-recreating icon Tom Lenk is ecstatic to be playing the eponymous star of Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist, what drew hi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:54AMUnderwriting the heart-rending “Everything Is Wonderful” has prompted a Baltimore couple to learn more about the car crash that killed their son.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48AMLast night, we were throwing it back to the 1950s to become the perfect domestic goddesses for the opening night of West End transfer Home, I’m Darling.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 06:44AMTom Burke and Hayley Atwell will star as John Rosmer and Rebecca West in Ian Rickson’s new production of Rosmersholm, Ibsen’s classic study of a country in political flux, in a new adapt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMGood morning, BroadwayWorld Yesterday was a big day for Broadway news. Catch up on everything below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18AMWhile some commentators might have guessed that Six the Musical would be a big winner at the Offies 2019 Awards presented by Off West End, it was The Rink at Southwark Playhouse that ended t…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 06:15AMBroadway’s beast is heading east.
SOURCE: Forbes at 06:06AMJukebox musicals have become one of the most familiar and popular forms of musical theatre. Producers love them, because they have a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMFor many of us, a free tree sounds like an unequivocally good thing. Why would anyone not want one? It turns out, as a nonprofit in Detroit learned the hard way, that there are a number of r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:04AMLife’s not going great for Sasha Clayton. Her time as the queen bee of secondary school is over, she’s living in her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMWhen Morpheus told us our reality was fake, it sounded far-fetched. Since then, though, the idea has picked up steam. In 2001, two years after The Matrix hit theaters, Oxford University phil…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:00AMRudy Cuellar’s mixed media work “Poema Azteca” is included in an exhibition by members of legendary Sacramento-based art collective Royal Chicano Air Force, among them Melanie Cervante…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 06:00AMThe main subscription series also features Tony winner The Band’s Visit, Hello, Dolly!, the Toronto premiere of Piaf/Dietrich and the stage version of Emma Donoghue’s Room.
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Little monsters have something to look forward at the 2019 Grammys. Lady Gaga will perform for the 61st edition of the annual awards ceremony. A source close to the situation confirmed the n…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:56AMby Velina Brown
Q: Maybe this isn?t actually a business question but it sort of is as it relates to having both a satisfying work life and personal life. Sometimes I feel like I have to cho…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 12:51AMAward-winning actor Hirofumi Arai has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault in an incident involving a masseuse he called to his residence in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward, near Shibuya las…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:28AMREinvent, the Nordic sales company, has taken world rights to “Peacemaker” — AJ Annila’s political thriller produced by MRP Matila Rohr Productions for YLE.As a part of YLE’s expan…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:27AM“Broadchurch” and “Tin Star” producer Kudos is making a four-part crime drama titled “Deadwater Fell” (w/t) for Channel 4.“Deadwater Fell” follows the story of two families i…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:26AMFilming has begun on Lucia Puenzo’s psychological gender thriller series “La Jauria,” a co-production by Fremantle in association with Kapow and Fabula and in partnership with Chilean …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:05AMThe underground troupe whose founders met an early death, and the company bringing revised classics to London
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMIn IMPRESSIONS: L-E-V’s “Love Chapter 2” at The Joyce Theater, "Even when an undulating body breaks off in solo, the eye is drawn by competing forces." Emeri Fetzer, New York
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMA Postcard From Craig Ramsay: My Best Friend & Cancer Patient, Catherine Wreford, Is Proving Science Wrong.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMThe Broadway Center Stage production also features Tony winner Jessie Mueller, Rosie O'Donnell, John Cariani, Veanne Cox, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHow City of No Illusions explores the connection between death and immigration---In City of No Illusions, a young Syrian refugee named Saad takes a job in a Buffalo, NY funeral parlor run by…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMRoyal Opera House Partners with Streaming Service Marquee.TV
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