A radioactive “Romeo and Juliet,” set in a dystopian city whose teens are stuck in their current age forever.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:54PMAfter a tragedy, Adam Wayne (Adam Wayne Alumbaugh) turned to photography. The former butcher, 36, sliced off part of his right middle finger at work. He used the compensatory money to buy hi…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:54PMPreservation group plans fete in November on Portland Place
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:54PMSome of India’s biggest film stars have arrived as honoured guests of the 2019 Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM), the southern hemisphere’s largest celebration of Indian cinema. M…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:52PMThe double-bill of monologues, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge, opened August 8 at the Hudson Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43PMThe wrenching (and slyly funny) Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge double-bill of one-act plays, Sea Wall/A Life, has lost none of its intimate power in the move from Off Broadway to Broadway…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMLove and marriage. Birth and death. Sorrows and joys. Loss and renewal. Bacon and eggs. Whoops — sorry! My mind wandered to breakfast plans while I was attempting to think of something i…
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★★★★ Carrie Cracknell forcibly directs tough-minded one-acts by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:54PMRYAN AVALOS made his New York City debut in Dylan Guerra's The Blender at La Mama. That was followed by Guerra’s A Devouring at Dixon Place, also at LaMama. Other recent NYC appear…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:54PM★★★★ Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal turn in stirring performances in monologues addressing parenthood and mortality
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:53PM★★ A bloated musical adaptation of the Meat Loaf opus wastes the album's charms, and the talents of cast members
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:52PM★★ Too bad the show looks cheesier than the state of Wisconsin
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:51PMTom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal are certainly the reason why “Sea Wall/A Life” has now moved uptown to the Hudson… In the lobby of the Hudson, for $20 you can buy a quartet of magnet…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PMScott Silven Connects His Guests to Each Other, Magically by Barry David Horwitz Scott Silven, a consummate storyteller and performance artist, artfully connects an elegant dinner, mind-bend…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:45PMAndrew Lloyd Webber’s and Tim Rice’s bold, brash 1978 ‘rock opera’ Evita is the ultimate star-making vehicle. The triple-threat performer playing Eva
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:04PMThe two actors put the world of grief on delicate display in transferring 'Sea Wall/A Life' to Broadway.
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Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical “feels like stepping back in time,”...
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 07:42PM"There's a giant chip on the shoulder of those who love musics of the world when it comes to klezmer."
The post Music Interview: Klezmer Clarinettist Michael Winograd Does “Kosher Style”…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:18PM“Bat Out of Hell” is a frequently enjoyable jukebox musical running at New York City Center through September 8, using the muscular rock opera anthems from singer Meat Loaf’s trilogy …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PMRare Philip King play turns a farce into a serious drama - and it doesn't work
Theatre legends die hard. Playwright Philip King, who passed away in 1979, was once hailed as the monarch of th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:12PMSummerhall, EdinburghInspirational hashtags, cute dogs and marriage don’t cure depression, says Demi Nandhra in her gleefully silly yet deeply important take on mental health
Every year no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThere’s lots to love about the polished and fizzy scenes of this family drama, but too many themes leave its message unclear
There’s lots to love about this…
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Set in turn-of-the century New York City, Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic news kid and leader of a band of teenaged “newsies.” When titans of publishing raise di…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:44PMWho has legal standing to know the results of an investigation? What about a moral imperative?
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:29PM“After [premiering at] Venice, American Dharma screened at the Toronto and New York film festivals and picked up strong reviews. But the idea of Bannon getting a platform at all ignited a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM“In a cultural medium whose producers, audiences and critics are still predominantly white, [Jackie Sibblies Drury’s] Fairview challenges playgoers to think about how the different backg…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMAs ideas go, human extinction is a comparatively new one. It emerged first during the 18th and 19th centuries. Though understudied, the idea has an important history because it teaches us le…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMLauren Wingenroth: “A Google search of that question will yield hundreds of results of impassioned arguments about whether or not we should consider dance a sport. The fact that breaking w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMPacific Standard has about 20 full-time employees, 25 writers on contract and dozens of freelance writers who contributed to the publication, Nicholas Jackson said, adding that the employees…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMThat’s what most of Seattle’s major arts organizations are doing, writing to protest Washington State proposals that would dramatically increase the number of workers eligible for overti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMRule changes mean that from autumn, employers wanting to recruit non-European artists will no longer have to advertise the role to citizens of the European Economic Area first, and artists w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM“Last May, The Guardian reported that Judith Mackrell would step down from her post after a 23-year run, and Alastair Macaulay announced he was giving up his position as The New York Times…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMInstead of extending promo deals to keep customers from dropping TV service, they’re simply extracting more revenue from those who haven’t formulated an escape plan. Either way, companie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM“He had recently read my book “Contested Will,” about the controversy over the authorship of William Shakespeare’s plays. Like most scholars today, I freely acknowledged that Shakesp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMThe Pew data makes clear how this happens: some people are just uninformed, while others cling to opposing political values. People with a high degree of familiarity with what nutritional, m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMThe 35th summer season at Vassar & New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater marked the end of an era and the beginning of a new one.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:18PMThe American premiere of the Jim Steinman’s musical opens August 8 at New York City Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:05PMIn the beginning, all we had were wood dance floors, and if we were lucky, a basket-weave floating subfloor underneath. Linoleum was used for a time, but it was heavy and very weather sens…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 05:05PMThe casts of Beautiful and Off-Broadway's A Musical About Star Wars were also featured.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PMDEBRA WHITFIELD is an award-winning director, actress, and playwright. Credits include The Mint Theater, Florida Studio Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Dorse…
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This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 8/8/2019 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMSea Wall / A Life, starring Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and Tony Award nominee Tom Sturridge, opens officially tonight, August 8, at the Hudson Theatre (141 West 44th Street). Che…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:31PMLet’s take a moment to stroll down memory lane. For some of you it will be more of a history lesson, but join us anyway as we think about a time when New York had something called “café…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:30PMThe new Michael Jackson musical Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough has been making its controversial way towards Broadway, first announcing a Chicago run then cancelling shortly after the docume…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMThe revival of the Harold Pinter play is set to begin performances at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre August 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PMJohn Gallagher Jr. and Stark Sands, strong-voiced Broadway stars who previously shared the stage in the Green Day-scored musical American Idiot, have been selected to headline the new Avett…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:12PMHarry Hadden-Paton, the celebrated star who recently concluded a Tony-nominated turn as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, will next take on the role of King George VI in the upcoming North Ame…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:12PMNell Benjamin and Laurence O'Keefe, creators of Legally Blonde: The Musical, are currently in the works on an untitled comedy musical at Universal, according to Deadline. The duo will wri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04PMThe evening of back-to-back monologue plays celebrates its Broadway opening at the Hudson Theatre August 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:01PMBroadway is prepping for a number of shows that could almost be called new save for their jukebox music by Alanis Morissette or Tina Turner, but according to the New York Post, a true origin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PM
This week, the Broadwaysted Crew is thrilled to be sitting down with actor, singer, and 'American Idol: Season 1' alum Justin Guarini! We're pouring out Tanteo Tequila as Justin spills about…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:50PMBrowse popular high school productions of the past
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 03:48PMThe Broadway stars will sing at the annual event in Flushing Meadows, New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:42PMJoshua Turchin’s gotten around. He sang as Flounder in a live performance of “The Little Mermaid” at the Hollywood Bowl, toured with the musical “A Christmas Story” and lent his vo…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:32PMMark Larson explains how he created his 700-page behemoth.
For the past few years followers of Chicago author Mark Larson on Facebook have been teased with littl…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:30PMScott Sanders and Mara Jacobs will produce for Scott Sanders Productions.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:23PMWhat can you say about a five year-old on a tobacco farm in South Carolina who thinks he’s Carol Channing, and who plays to the tombstones in a local cemetery as his audience? Only that he…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 03:22PMRoyal Opera House, London Alexei Ratmansky’s choreography – to Shostakovich’s score full of melody and gusto – is agile and substantial and, with its cross-dressing sylph and dog on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMSeattle Times arts critic Moira Macdonald discusses her book club, what inspires her, and why criticism is a vulnerable way to write. This is the 16th edition of Behind the Byline, our serie…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 03:10PMThe upcoming North American tour of Jesus Christ Superstar has announced its full cast! Aaron LaVigne (Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark, Rent), James Delisco Beeks (Kinky Boots, Aida) and Jenna…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:03PMBen Crawford is playing the masked man at the Majestic Theatre. Watch as he lends his heavenly vocals to the iconic number "The Music of the Night."
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:03PMThis is the pop-Broadway-country diva collaboration to rule them all. And no, we're not talking about a new "Lady Marmalade" remix, although that would still be a good idea. Tony winner K…
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Cirque du Soleil’s Volta is a rush of energy and hand-over-mouth gulps of emotions. Currently decamped in Fairfax County, a quick saunter from the raised Metro Silver Line station at Tyso…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PMMr. Ullman represented such productions as Call Me Madam, starring Ethel Merman, as well as the original Off-Broadway premiere of A Chorus Line.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PM“Moulin Rouge,” “Jagged Little Pill” and “Tina: the Tina Turner Musical” are the new Broadway season’s major musical contenders. But keep your eye on a small, original show tha…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:30PMSwept Away will reunite the American Idiot cast members with director Michael Mayer next summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMFind your next job with these Equity calls for Broadway and shows around the country.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:25PMDavid Seidler’s drama will play Chicago Shakespeare Theater before heading to other theatres around the country.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11PMThe solo drama starring the Tony award winner is set to return for a two-week encore engagement at the cell August 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMsuspect this show will have a future, evolving life, and it is well worth checking out if it appears on your radar. I’d certainly be interested in seeing what they do with it next.
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Musician Holly Herndon taught an electronic ‘collaborator’ to sing using the call-and-response hymns of her childhood
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:40PMBefore Jake Gyllenhaal appears in “Sea Wall/A Life” — even before the house lights dim — co-star Tom Sturridge is onstage for a pre-show that consists mainly of him drinking beer. Th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:34PMBorn in Newcastle, Australia, Nicki Parrott started her musical training at age four with the piano, followed, soon after, by the flute. Nicki switched to double bass at the age of 15. At Bi…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:34PMEXCLUSIVE The Tony-winning John Gallagher Jr. and Tony-nominated Stark Sands have joined a team of similarly Broadway-familiar vets in the world premiere of Swept Away, the previously announ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PMThe recording of the acclaimed Playwrights Horizons production will be released on the Yellow Sound Label later this year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PMBy . The Network for Arts Administrators of Color presents their panel Moving On Up: Advancing Leaders of Color in Dance livestre
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:19PMRobert “Bob” Ullman, a longtime Broadway and Off Broadway press agent whose career spanned Ethel Merman, A Chorus Line, Curse of the Starving Class and many others, died of cardiac arre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:14PMThere's going to be a new face in the diner, as Andrew Boyer is joining the cast of Waitress from 12 August as Old Joe.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 01:03PMJulio Martinez's weekly highlights of LA theatre.
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SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:00PMAsk people below a certain age what palliative care is and there might not be recognition for the term. But as one gets older, and family and friends succumb to the effects of time, there is…
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The show will be back in September. In the meantime, keep sending your comments and questions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:34PMWe're counting down to the official opening of the European premiere of Anna Zeigler's Actually. Yasmin Paige and Simon Manyonda star in this provocative new play by the author of Photograph…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMThe tour of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical will officially launch in October in Austin, Texas.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMThe Tony-winning star's latest album will also feature appearances from Dolly Parton, Jennifer Hudson, and Reba McEntire.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMThe actor takes Playbill inside her puppy playtime, offering a peek at how she likes to spend her summer in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMThe play explores a mother’s reaction after her daughter becomes the victim of a sexual assault.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19PMFrom chicken coops to caves, Edinburgh is full of surprising storytelling corners. Lita Doolan discovers five of the best new venues this
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:16PMArriving at the Apollo Theatre on 30 July 2020, until the 29 August, it marks the 9th year in the West End for the Horrible Histories cast and creatives.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:16PMSee Jake Gyllenhaal in Sea Wall / A Life, Tom Hiddleston in Betrayal, Alison Luff in Waitress, and more—all at a discounted rate.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMThe comedy, also starring Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Platt's Dear Evan Hansen co-star Laura Dreyfuss, premieres September 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PMThe Sara Bareilles musical continues at the Adelphi Theatre.
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Physicalising the exhausting, throbbing struggle when parts of your mind do battle with each other, Passengers is a probing look at both
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AMI didn’t read any of the program notes for the Wendy Whelan-Maya Beiser-Lucinda Childs-David Lang piece the day at Jacob’s Pillow. I didn’t even read the spoken text. Why then, did I f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMGetting to know opera via recording is like on-line dating — no reason why it shouldn’t work, and it often does. Then you walk into something like Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMIt’s been two years since I posted my effort at categorizing the benefits of the arts. The subject is an urgent one because of both the social and political pressures to justify funding an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMReporting to the Executive Director, the Development Director (DD) will lead in the engagement, identification, cultivation, and solicitation of major donors and corporations, leveraging the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“A French street art association is the unexpected beneficiary in the years-long legal battle brought by the French schoolteacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas against Facebook over censorshi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMIf they do, they can get €400 tickets. And if they try to wade in the Trevi Fountain the way Anita Ekberg did in La Dolce Vita? €450. Those guys in centurion costumes who pose with touri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMNow that Warren Kanders (“the tear-gas CEO”) has been chased off the Whitney’s board, “which institution might wind up in the crosshairs next? We looked at the makeup of various muse…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMBritain’s biggest bookstore chain was near bankruptcy when James Daunt became CEO in 2011, and “[he] steered Waterstones out of a death spiral by rethinking every cranny of the company, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMIt was the first symphony orchestra in the entire Far East, founded in 1879. (That’s only 37 years after the New York Philharmonic, the United States’ oldest orchestra.) Says music direc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“In almost all the ways that concert promoters measure the success and smooth operation of their events, Woodstock was a failure.” Crowd control. Sanitation. Traffic. Profit. (The produc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMNot David Marchese’s writing; he does a fine job. But Cage showed up for the interview wearing “oversize sunglasses, a dragon ring the size of a walnut and a black velveteen jacket over …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“The program at Curtis is one of the most intense and stressful of any educational programs in the world. My cousin [a former director of the school] believed in its mission. It will and m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMSix the musical has announced that Cherelle Jay, Zara MacIntosh and Hana Stewart are to be the new alternate Queens in the West End cast from October.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 11:32AMThis queer collective proves there’s a place for comedy that isn’t straight or male with a heart-rendingly hilarious Edinburgh show
Jodie Mitchell is slowly moving around the stage, blow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMDid you miss Fosse/Verdon, the most-anticipated limited series of the spring, when it aired on FX? Well fear not, Hulu is now streaming all eight episodes of the limited series starring Sam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMOf course, everyone has been freaking out about the amount of closings announced in recent months. From the acclaimed musical THE PROM to the cult show BE MORE CHILL to the big-budget musica…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMScotland’s film and TV funding body is partnering with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time in a bid to uncover
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AMMean Girls at the August Wilson Theatre
Review by Mo Brady
Erika Henningsen (Cady Heron), Krystina Alabado (Gretchen Wi…
SOURCE: www.theensemblist.com at 11:04AMby Gabie Barnes. @anacrusisnt. ITHACA, New York. — Local uncle Joel Watterson, 38, attempted to sneak out of Ulysses S. Grant Middle School’s production of “Seussical the Musical JR.�…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:03AMPeople ask me all the time why Broadway doesn’t change. The answer is the same as to why most things don’t change. Fear. See, our business model is super fragile. It’s like carryin…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThere are probably not many people left alive who remember the controversial coast to coast US tour of Othello from 1944. It was remarkable for two reasons. Singer and political firebrand, P…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMBat Out of Hell star Andrew Polec blows the roof off the studio with his performance of Meatloaf's classic "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)".
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Watch the song from the Season 4 episode.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMNearly 3,400 productions benefitted from £78 million worth of theatre tax relief last year, new statistics show. This represents a £1 million
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMWith plays and musicals folding left and right, Broadway stars impart wisdom they gained when it happened to them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54AMBreffni Holahan is the first winner of this year’s The Stage Edinburgh Awards. She was given the accolade for her performance in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AMOpening this fall, Costume at the National Theatre will explore the art and construction of theatrical costumes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMTony D. Head is an actor and inspiration. He is known for his recurring role as “Major Bobby Reed” on HBO's The Wire. He has recurring roles on Amazon's PRIDE the SERIES, Amazon's Asunde…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 10:48AMActor and National Campaign for the Arts chair Samuel West has written an open letter to Boris Johnson, warning of the “grim”
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMThe Edgar Wright-helmed psychological thriller also stars Broadway alum Terence Stamp.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMAnya Tate-Manning’s charming and gentle storytelling show is about the loss of a friend, but also more generally about the bonds that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:32AMThe Anna Ziegler-penned play Actually made its highly anticipated premiere on Tuesday and production photos for this thought-provoking piece have finally been released. Having premiere…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 10:30AMPhoebe Waller-Bridge was a guest on Wednesday night's episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. During the interview, Waller-Bridge and Jimmy play 'Think Fast.' The game involves …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMThe Hadestown Original Broadway Cast Recording is already topping charts! The album debut at #1 last week on the cast albums chart.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMJosh Gad stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday to talk about his upcoming projects, including Angry Birds 2 and Frozen 2.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMComplete casting and select tour dates have been announced for the National Tour of the Tony Award-nominated roller-skating smash hit musical XANADU, starring previously announced 'RuPaul's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09AMReview: When He Fell, Chapel Playhouse1.0starsWhen He Fell is a play which takes the Chinese legend of Pan Gu and tries to use it as some sort of grand metaphor for the grieving process. On …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:06AM
The best three years of your life. That’s what people ceaselessly say about university. What they don’t mention is the anxiety, loneliness
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:59AMThe play made its U.K. premiere at London’s Kiln Theatre in February.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMProduced by Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.
Written by Bryan Williams
Directed by Justy Kosek
Nominations: Outstanding Choreography/Movement – Alex Johnson, Outstanding Lighting Design �…
SOURCE: The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation at 09:55AMBy Douglas Mayo
Casting announced for the Derby Theatre and Queens Theatre Hornchurch production of Richard Bean's classic farce One Man, Two Guvnors.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:48AMThere is A LOT going on in the Bay Area this weekend -- here are 7 ways to enjoy it all, from Outside Lands to San Jose Jazz to mouthwatering piri-piri chicken.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:45AMThe Emmy-nominated Fleabag creator-star sat down with Jimmy Fallon August 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMThe tour of the cult favorite musical based on the Olivia Newton-John film will launch in September.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMSome important information about changes to music performance rights came to my attention today and I wanted to share it with readers. Apparently the consent decrees under which ASCAP & …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:32AMIn an era of virulently born-again 'white supremacy' in the US, we have Nicholas Wright to thank for coming to the topic of Othello, show business, and race anew
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:32AMThe shortlist has officially been announced for the 2019 The Stage Debut Awards with Matthew Broderick (The Starry Messenger) and Ryan Hutton (Only Fools and Horses The Musical) among the…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 09:30AMReady, steady...go! 80 Days, a real-world adventure is an immersive and different treasure hunt by Fire Hazard Games, based on Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBy: Isa Goldberg
August 8, 2019: It may be changing, but there aren’t a lot of roles for women actors of a certain age. At least, not interesting ones. Watching Marsha Mason in her po…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00AMAmong the 20 productions scheduled are a play about the friendship between Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin; an immersive show set in the world of film noir; and a musical written by a 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMBy Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Lisa Steindler. Playwright Peter Nachtrieb and artistic director of San Francisco’s Z Space, Lisa Steindler, talk about the National Playwright Residency Program, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM
Two years ago, Welsh company Dirty Protest Theatre brought Alan Harris’ one-man play Sugar Baby to the Paines Plough Roundabout. It was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMShostakovich’s ballet about a farm workers’ collective in the Russian Steppes was briefly popular in 1935 until an article in Pravda damned
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:13AMAssembly Rooms, EdinburghFrances Barber stars as Zelig-like chanteuse Billie Trix, in this one-woman spinoff from the band and Jonathan Harvey’s 2001 musical Closer to Heaven
Despite her g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMFull disclosure, I was not excited about seeing a show about Boris Johnson. Frankly I’m feeling a tad Boris-ed out these days, but fortunately, given a lively and plentiful audience, not e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMAhead of the August re-release of Hello, Dolly! on the big screen, the movie’s Cornelius Hackl and Broadway’s original Phantom of the Opera spills secrets from the set, his famed career,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AM
The character Billie Trix first appeared in the 2001 musical Closer to Heaven written by Jonathan Harvey with a score by Pet
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMReview: The Patient Gloria, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe4.0stars“Can you see me” asks Gina Moxley, cheekily taking centre stage before she leisurely fashions a make -shift penis us…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:54AMBy Paul T Davies
Paul T Davies reviews Meghan Tyler's play Crocodile Fever now playing at the Traverse Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:54AMSadie Clark’s Algorithms is a romcom with more com than rom. Using movie references, pop music, and online dating as its framework,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:47AMEvery year, St Martin in the Fields holds a memorial service to commemorate the deaths of homeless people in London in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMChess played the Imperial Theatre - Spring 1988
The last article in this series (about Rags) got me to thinking about another musical that starred Judy Kuhn. I guess you could say Chess didn…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:12AMCommunity Circle isn’t really a show. Or rather, it is a show – of course, it is – but it’s a show
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AMA project to increase gender representation across more than 250 music organisations has received €1.4 million to expand its work over the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMThe untapped award has made a name for itself as a pretty reliable indicator of interesting shows
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:06AMA theatre company that specialises in creating work for d/Deaf audiences has become embroiled in a row with the Edinburgh Fringe, over
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMLondon fringe venue the Bunker has scaled back a production to a series of rehearsed readings, after admitting its planned staging of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMA new initiative has been set up to encourage donations to black-led arts organisations. Yvette Griffith, executive director of music organisation Jazz
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMLove London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Mr Gum & the Dancing Bear, Andy Stanton and Jim Fortune’s musical based on the children’s books. It continues in rep at the Nationa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM
By Douglas Mayo
Reasons to Stay Alive Tour - Casting announced for Sheffield Theatres' and English Touring Theatre's Co-production.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:44AMWith appropriate safety warnings dispensed outside, the audience are ushered into a corner of the stage. The theatre is darkened and a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMAssembly Roxy, Edinburgh The unflinching artist skewers prejudice against working-class people as he puts the audience through an uncomfortably abrasive hour of soul-searching
This is a deli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghBrigitte Aphrodite and Quiet Boy’s colourful show follows a trio of teens in Margate who form a punk band and campaign to save a tree
Planting saplings ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMMinerva, Chichester Based on a true story, a new play tracks a backstage affair with big repercussions for Robeson, played perfectly by Tory Kittles
Nicholas Wright’s compelling new play i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AM"Another corker", "beautiful, warm and moving" - audiences have taken to social media to share their love of Crowded Room's new play about facing up to death, The Colours. See what's being s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:32AMToday's top stories: Sea Wall/A Life and Bat Out Of Hell officially open tonight!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18AMPantomime excess in Meghan Tyler's wild but unconvincing new comedy
Chekhov famously pronounced that if you’re going to bring a gun on stage, you’ve got to use it. Is the same true for a…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:12AMAdopting a child is a complicated and emotionally testing process, as Daf James’ play for Paines Plough’s Roundabout space makes clear. It’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMAfter last week’s runaway success with The Girl on the Train post-show Q&A, director Anthony Banks and I had to squeeze in another one together to his second current hit, Games for Lo…
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The full cast is announced for Florian Zeller’s The Son, in a translation by Christopher Hampton, as it transfers to the Duke Of York's Theatre, London.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:55AMFrom Stoke Newington via Portugal, Fiona Spreadborough's one-woman comedy Adventures of a Trip Advisor Seaside Guest House Keeper has enjoyed a circuitous route to the Camden Fringe. Find ou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:44AMIago only suspected it. Broadway star José Ferrer knows it: his wife is having an affair with his friend, and they’re barely
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMBence Vági has honed his circus acrobat troupe to a Zen-like level of movement-through-stillness in this dark and atavistic vision of masculinity
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMIf a student disco is your personal nightmare, look away now. Tree starts and ends with a throbbing onstage party to wish the audience is persuasively invited. The last time this many Waitr…
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American Blues Theater opens its 2019-2020 Season by welcoming home Ensemble member Rick Cleveland with the [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:24AMThe long-awaited New York premiere of the hit Meat Loaf musical Bat Out of Hell officially opens at New York City Center on August 8. The production began previews on August 1 and will cont…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24AMSea Wall/A Life, a moving pair of monologues about grief, officially opens at Broadway's Hudson Theatre on August 8. Carrie Cracknell repeats her work as director from a recent Public Theate…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24AMThere’s a scene in an episode of The Young Ones where Neil is in the backyard digging. He pushes his spade into the dirt and we follow the edge of the tool as it breaks into an underground…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:01AMDarting between the fringe and the Edinburgh International Festival, the difference in resources and scale is striking. The gloss of some EIF
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AMThe Stage today (8 August 2019) announces the shortlist for The Stage Debut Awards 2019. The awards, now in their third year and presented in association with Access Entertainment, celebrate…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00AMThe Stage today (8 August 2019) announces the shortlist for The Stage Debut Awards 2019. The awards, now in their third year and presented in association with Access Entertainment, celebrate…
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This historical documentary about this extraordinary woman will forever remain fresh and relevant. Originally released in 2005, it is rich with poignant images and interviews providing some …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:53AMA sensory overload of colour, shapes and cavernous tunnels, Katena Luminarium by Architects of Air will take up residency at Bunjil Place from 27 September 2019. This inflatable walk-in inst…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:10AMAs his hit play prepares to open in London’s West End, the French writer discusses parental dynamics — saying the unsaid on stage
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMAndrew Polec, Christina Bennington, Lena Hall, and more star in the Jim Steinman rock musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Tony winner returns to the New York stage and her first love: rock and roll---When asked how she's been prepping for her part in Jim Steinman's over-the-top fantasy Bat Out of Hell &ndas…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMThe evening of back-to-back monologue plays celebrates its Broadway opening at the Hudson Theatre August 8.
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