Peter Pinne and Peter Wyllie Johnston’s The Australian Musical: From the Beginning is a definitive history of a century of musical theatre in Australia, including behind the scenes stories…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:54PMIn celebration of the 2019 production of the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, Magnolia Bakery will again be offering the Rockette Red Velvet cupcake.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:39PMFollowing a comically exaggerated shootout, the two men make out. A cowgirl and a Mexican woman get together. At one point performers blindfold audience members for a brief bit. There’s a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PMMy work in the Pennsylvania city came in the middle of a long-term project of commissioning murals for the city. In October one was completed that impressed me so much I had to share it here…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PMBy . dunaPart—an initiative of Trafó House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest—presents the conversation The (self-)representation of Romas on stage - trends and challenges in today’s H…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:29PMMatthew Warchus directs the new version of the holiday classic from the Harry Potter playwright.
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Xavier Rodney was home grown and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He first started acting as a last minute replacement lead in a kindergarten performance. Since then he has striven to hone and perfe…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:54PMWill Sarratt is a North Carolina raised, New York based actor and resident artist with New Light Theater Project. New York credits include: Everything is Super Great, Omega Kids (New Ligh…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:54PMJack Thorne adapts the Charles Dickens tale for a new production at the Lyceum Theatre, starring Campbell Scott.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48PM“It’s not Ibsen,” I reminded myself, “It doesn’t have to be Sondheim. Just enjoy the show and have fun!”
SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:44PMAs the writer with 28 best-selling mystery novels, James Grippando is usually focused on whodunits. But the Florida author is about to see the world premiere of his first playscript, Watso…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PMThe West Side Story from the Prather family’s new Broadway Palm series at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center has so much to praise, yet, joins local productions to underscore how there…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PMBased on Rusty Lemorande’s classic 80s film, Electric Dreams, Music Theatre Melbourne presents the new stage production, Electric Dreams: The Musical at Gasworks Arts Park this November. E…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:29PMAlan Lightman’s novel loses its charm in Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum’s show, which lacks a sense of a sure artistic voice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMTold as a series of alternating, interlocking monologues, there is a "Rashomon"-esque quality to "Pumpgirl" that grows more obvious as the play's story comes into focus. Not only do the rela…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:10PMThis lively reimagining of Dickens’s yuletide perennial, written by Jack Thorne, returns the story’s social conscience to center stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PM(Photo by Jon Burklund)
Daniel Diaz creates performance works from a queer male perspective to inform audiences and bring clarity on social-political injustices through storytelling, burlesq…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:03PMJack Thorne’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol does not reinvent Charles Dickens’ festive fable but it delivers an enjoyable holiday experience complete
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PMAudience members headed to the Lyceum Theater in New York City for A Christmas Carol should beware: Your holiday spirit is about to be tested. But by story’s end, it’ll shine all the bri…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:00PMThere’s an abundance of treats offered by director Matthew Warchus’ staging of A Christmas Carol – like Andrea Martin dressed as a Victorian caroler mingling with the audience at Broad…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM By Meredith Ganzman Bring napkins and tissues to the new Broadway musical, A Christmas Carol. The first because the cast members, who are not playing holiday music before the show begi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PMIf you don’t respond with a moist eye and a swelling heart to “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens’ classic tale of a miser’s spiritual redemption, I wouldn’t go so far as to cal…
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As Thanksgiving approaches, your anxiety level may be rising at the prospect of spending uncomfortable meals with relatives, engaging in an even shorter official Christmas shopping season th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PM★★★★ Jack Thorne, Matthew Warchus, and Charles Dickens insist that we Scrooges mend our selfish ways, with joyful stagecraft to pull us along
The post A Christmas Carol: God Blast Ye…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:46PM★★★ A chilly Campbell Scott plays Scrooge in a grim rendition of the holiday classic
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM by Marcina Zaccaria The debate floor is appropriately aged, with the orange curtains and the enormous IBM Selectric typewriters are set for Confidence (and The Speech), a play about…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PMOver the last twelves months sustainability and global warming have been at the forefront of our minds and the media but what does this mean for the Theatre? In a notoriously disposable indu…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:18PM
10 Things Every Shakespeare Fan Is Grateful For This Thanksgiving
Written by Rose Helsinger
11/24/19
It’s that time of year for family, food, and being thankful for everything we love…
SOURCE: performerstuff.com at 08:36PMProudly supported by Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne’s premier Southside Arts Hub, international award-winning company Casus Circus bring their much anticipated and exclusive season, You &am…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:32PMJoin the acclaimed Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for a FREE early-morning open-air acapella concert in one of Australia’s most beautiful and iconic locations to celebrate the official launch …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:18PMThe heroine seizes the mic in this Shakespeare-inspired jukebox musical
It’s bright, it’s brash, it’s a gazillion times camper than Christmas: but is it such stuff as theatrical hits a…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:18PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
November 20, 2019: Alan Lightman is an American physicist who has served on the faculties of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has foc…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:13PMPresident Jimmy Carter’s farsighted and cautionary “malaise speech” on the disastrous effects of unchecked climate change on the future of our planet, and the concurrent movement to ra…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PM
PLAYlist is Red Stitch’s annual site-specific spectacle of music and new writing. Join the Red Stitch ensemble and an extraordinary line-up of guest artists for a one-night-only celebratio…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:58PMNow that this summer’s drama surrounding the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s financial woes has quieted, at least for now, we can focus on the significant contributions our home state orc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:54PMWho knew that “A Christmas Carol” could be so dangerous! The assaults begin even before the first line of dialogue in the new, charming if overlong, and extraordinarily well-designed Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:46PMRenowned scientist Marie Curie and radical engineer Hertha Ayrton's friendship comes to life in a new play written for Audible through its Emerging Playwrights Fund.
The post Mulgrew and Far…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:33PMFor the third time in its eight-year history, the Weird Sisters Theatre...
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 07:24PMThe cliché is that the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s apartheid-era Radio Bantu churned out nothing but propaganda to bolster the government’s racial separation policies. That…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMNtozake Shange didn’t write the role of the Lady in Purple in her “choreopoem” for a deaf performer, but she happily approved casting Alexandria Wailes in the current New York revival.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM“These are all cultural products set firmly in the realm of values. They are not concerned with which billionaire son inherits his father’s empire, but rather focus on ordinary people st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMAndrew Norman’s “Sustain” earned Grammy nominations in two key categories: contemporary classical composition, where composer Norman will square off against Julia Wolfe, Caroline Shaw …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMEven at age 89, Walter Cole dons a sequined gown and frizzy wig four nights a week to perform as Darcelle XV. And he does it at his own bar, which he opened with his first wife a few years a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM“Fully 740 out of the 769 occupational descriptions Michael Webb analyzed contain a capability pair match with AI patent language, meaning at least one or more of its tasks could potential…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM“Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack was pulled from West Virginia’s Upshur County public library earlier this week, according to local press reports, after a local church minister calle…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMWe are currently facing a new systemic collapse, one that has built far more swiftly but poses potent risks for all of humanity: the collapse of the information ecosystem. We see it play out…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM“Not even 20 years ago we mostly read about things in lag, on thin slices of tree, whereas now we do — well, this, whatever this is. Yet instead of technology superannuating literature o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM“I feel very disappointed about the way my sculpture is treated, with nothing but contempt and not the appreciation that should be, since Charging Bull became one of the most visited attra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMPhil Kennicott: “The work done by these contemporary portraits is more fundamental. They are about seeing other people, rather than saving them. We are challenged simply to accept their ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM“The large number of arrests and objects seized hints at the massive scale and global reach of the international trade in illicit artifacts,” says Tess Davis, executive director of the A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMMOCA revealed plans to go free at its annual benefit in May, a switch made possible with a $10-million gift from board President Carolyn Powers. So why did the change take eight months to ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMIt’s remarkable that Atwood, who turned eighty in November, has reached this crest after spending six decades writing into an ever-shifting cultural landscape. When she was starting out, w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM“Reproduction” is set in Brampton and explores the nature of family — both blood relatives and chosen family. The writing, as reviewers expect from Williams, is beautiful — he’s wr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM“Over the years I’ve had many opportunities to question people gently about their personal identification and tastes in operas and opera productions. And it turns out that traditionalist…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMWhen Susan Rome bats her eyelashes—as she often does in Edward Albee’s Occupant, now at Theater J—she becomes Louise Nevelson, the iconic sculptor whose life and work were inseparable.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:17PMChris Perondi's Stunt Dog Experience brings its eye-popping, heartwarming show to Palo Alto and Livermore.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:11PMShaftesbury theatre, LondonSongs of the prolific Swedish tunesmith are shoehorned into a silly Shakespeare-derived story for this misguided West End musical
Romeo and Juliet, the starting po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PM★★★★ A new musical (based on the novel) casts the iconic genius as a romantic lead
The post Einstein’s Dreams: Love and Science Merge, with Relative Success appeared first on New Y…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:00PM
Arts Centre Melbourne is thrilled to present a kaleidoscope of life-affirming performances and events as part of Midsumma Festival 2020 in January and February. The diverse line-up will feat…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:50PMBuilt around the powerhouse-pop of songwriting savant Max Martin, the jukebox musical imagines a world where Shakespeare's Juliet survived
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:48PMThe $2 million fundraising goal would go toward the 107-year-old Villa in Saratoga to its original splendor, Montalvo Arts Center executive director Angela McConnell says.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:43PMFrom the producer of such memorable productions as Freud’s Last Session, Howie the Rookie, Blonde Poison, The Time Machine and Lip Service, comes a different experience – a dramatised re…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:40PMLili Roquelin began writing and performing music at a very young age. Her guitar playing father was certainly an influence but the French-born singer/songwriter had no intention of staying h…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:39PMFor the first time in over 40 years, The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare In The Park will be broadcast on PBS' Great Performances, furthering our mission to make Shakespeare accessible to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:30PMShaw had been top staffer at Regional Arts Commission since 2015
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:12PMIf you were to attempt to explain the concept of & Juliet to anyone, it would be very easy to make the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PM
An exquisite Irish Repertory Theater revival captures a trio of lost souls aching to connect in their constricting small town.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMThe Actors Fund will present a one-night-only concert presentation of the Jule Styne-Bob Merrill holiday classic.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:48PMThe best and worst part of toddlers is their Big Feelings. Just the morning of me writing this piece, my toddler (who we call The Shark) has displayed righteous indignation at not being allo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:24PMAntony and Cleopatra is Shakespeare’s saga of love and war, in which — spoiler alert — war wins. Our situation is this: Julius Caesar has been assassinated and, after some skirmishing,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:24PMDespite being one of the last books Roald Dahl ever wrote, Matilda has remained one of the British author’s highest-selling works. Even so, The Guardian notes a significant jump in Matilda…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:24PMWhich publication gave us our "right to lampoon"? Hustler Magazine.
SOURCE: the1a.org at 05:24PMSee how Shakespeare has directly influenced these Tony and Olivier Award-winning musicals.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 05:10PMYesterday the 2020 Grammy Award nominations were announced. 5 cast recordings have been featured in the Best Musical Theatre Album category, including music from Harry Potter and the Cursed…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:06PMEvan Yionoulis has been elected executive board president of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Yionoulis is an Obie Award-winning director, who was recently appointed the Richa…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 05:06PMPlaywright Anna Ziegler drops us deep into an intricate game of high-stakes tennis
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Director Phelim McDermott stages a grand revival of the Philip Glass opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today.
Sierra Boggess & Gavin Lee to Star in Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol Benefit
A talented group of stage stars have signed on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMTo close their highly successful and diverse 2019 season at the Old Fitz Theatre, Red Line Productions presents a Samuel Beckett classic, Krapp’s Last Tape, playing from 26 November to 14 …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:44PMThe musical about the life of the famed Polish painter will be directed by Tony winner Rachel Chavkin.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:44PMAmong their findings: that New York's small theatres and Chicago's storefronts are billion-dollar economic drivers as well as cultural hotbeds.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:40PMThe November 18 event also featured a special performance by Schwartz.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMMembers of the Broadway community came out to celebrate at Sardi’s November 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMThe married Broadway favorites are currently filming on location.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PMThe Tony nominee and The Greatest Showman star is part of a cast that also includes Jessica Rothe and Harry Shum Jr.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PMCalifornia's La Jolla Playhouse revealed four of its six titles that will comprise the 2020–2021 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PMJacob Scott Tischler’s Cosmo Brown steals the show in a safe but crowd-pleasing staging of the iconic musical.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:03PMLa Jolla Playhouse announces four of six productions for its 2020/2021 season, including the world premieres of Bhangin' It, book by Mike Lew (Tiger Style!) and Rehana Lew Mirza (DNA New Wor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:01PM
The holiday masterpiece, A Christmas Carol, opens on Broadway tonight, November 20, following critically acclaimed runs at The Old Vic, London. Playwright Jack Thorne and director Matthew Wa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:59PMThe musical begins performances February 7, 2020, at the Belasco Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PMThe Henry Purcell Society proves that playing mad can be a lot of fun.
The post Concert Review: Henry Purcell Society — The Delights of Going Mad appeared first on The Arts Fuse.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:54PMProlific theatrical songwriter Micheal Friedman died at age 41 from AIDS related complications in 2017, leaving many bereft as the theater community recognized his vibrant creativity was snu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:53PMFlight Deck performing arts space in Oakland will close in March after Ragged Wing Ensemble moves out -- unless someone takes it over.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:53PMThe Smash and Newsies star was born November 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:49PMCelebrity Autobiography returns to LA to the renowned Groundlings Theater direct from a successful limited run on Broadway. This is the critically acclaimed, international smash-hit comedy (…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMOn November 19, 2019, friends and industry colleagues gathered at Sardi's to celebrate the release of the new edition of Thomas Schumacher's book, 'HOW DOES THE SHOW GO ON?' BroadwayWorld is…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22PMOnce in awhile, various things one has been working on for years have an opportunity to converge, separate strands meet, and it all falls into place. As if they'd always been meant to come t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:20PMThe choose-your-own-adventure-style parody features all the best tropes and treats of made-for-TV holiday specials.
'Tis the season for cheesy, made-for-TV holid…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:00PM
By HowlRound Theatre Commons, Madeline Sayet. Theatremakers, companies, institutions, and communities: How are you responding to the history and present reality of colonization and occupatio…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:59PMTHE PLOT THIN-ENS Can lightning strike thrice? Over two decades later, it’s happened again — a third collaboration between author/director Eric Simonson and the world-famous, nine-member…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:40PMThe new Lauren Gunderson play, presented by Audible, opened at the Minetta Lane Theatre November 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PMIn John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch, the comedian "hilariously tackles grown-up topics with his kid pals."
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:36PMThe 18-track holiday album benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:33PMThe art form was banned in the country in 2001.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMBEDLAM's production of Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE opens Off-Broadway at the Connelly Theater (220 E. 4th Street) tomorrow, Thursday, November 21.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:21PMBy . The Martin E.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:20PMLet her be your star—again! As previously reported, Katharine McPhee is getting ready to head back to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre to reprise her performance as Jenna in the Sara Bareilles …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMBen Crawford
in The Phantom of the Opera (Photo by Matthew Murphy)
Broadway’s longest-running show The Phantom of the Opera centers on a mysterious masked man who haunts the Paris Opera …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMAs president of Disney Theatrical Productions and chairman of the Broadway League, Thomas Schumacher has a wealth of knowledge about what makes the Great White Way tick. He has chosen to spr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMSignature Theatre has announced a final extension to its new staging of Anna Deavere Smith's solo play Fires in the Mirror. The off-Broadway production, which stars Michael Benjamin Washing…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMBEDLAM's production of Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE opens Off-Broadway at the Connelly Theater (220 E. 4th Street) tomorrow, Thursday, November 21.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PM
The late, Tony-nominated star was born November 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PMPlayhouses and troupes beyond Broadway generate $584 million in economic benefit. But dependence on volunteer labor is high.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMAlexandria Wailes deftly weaves choreography and American Sign Language in Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMThe annual event supporting school theatre featured performances by Megan Hilty, Matthew Morrison, Brandy, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMSignature Theatre (Paige Evans, Artistic Director; Harold Wolpert, Executive Director) has announced that its sold-out production of Fires in the Mirror, written by MacArthur fellow Anna Dea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:28PMWe unveil newly announced cast for Leopoldstadt, Amy Herzogs' 4000 Miles, Peter Nichols: A Celebration and a first look at Mike Lew's, Teenage Dick.
The post London Theatre News Today: Wedn…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 01:22PMSaheem Ali directs the Anna Deavere Smith play at Signature Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PMBroadwayCon announced today BEETLEJUICE has joined the MainStage lineup at BroadwayCon 2020. As part of MainStage programming, the BEETLEJUICE Spotlight session will feature members of the c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMBush Theatre’s Baby Reindeer certainly courted controversy with its depiction of a man dealing with a stalker, pushed to the limit. After friends, Lou and Toby saw the production they were…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:06PMFor over twenty years, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' holiday CD, Broadway's Carols for a Cure, has been a staple of every theatre-lover's wish list. The beloved series pairs casts from …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05PMAfter a catastrophic fire gutted the building, Melbourne’s theatre community banded together to resurrect one of its most prized spaces
When Betty Burstall, a young Melbourne teacher, put …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMSexy, naughty, playful and energetic, La Clique makes a welcome return to London to make for perfect alternative festive entertainment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM
Amy Herzog's Pulitzer-finalist drama 4000 Miles will receive a starry new staging at London's Old Vic next year. Eileen Atkins and Timothée Chalamet will headline the two-hander, to be dir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMAmerican Utopia is a Broadway sensation. The new theatrical performance piece based on David Byrne's album has been playing to excited crowds nightly since performances began last month at …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMBarbara Streisand, Beyoncé, and others are also nominated in other nonmusical theater categories.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:48PMNikki M. James, Crystal Lucas-Perry, and more star in the Public Theater's new revival of Tony Kushner's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:48PMThe annual event featured performances from Peters, Cheyenne Jackson, and Megan Hilty, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMRehearsal adrenaline
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 12:39PMThe performance, also featuring Claybourne Elder, Kyle Selig, Jennifer Cody, and more, will benefit The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMThis week in Tell Us In 10, we have Mischief Theatre's very own Henry Shields, currently starring in their new production; Groan Ups.
The post Tell Us In 10: Henry Shields appeared first on …
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:35PM"Soul of a Nation" at SF's de Young Museum serves up powerful look at "The Art of Black Power."
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:30PMThe Actors Fund in association with Dreamworks Theatricals, Classic Media and Margaret Styne will present a one-night only concert presentation of the holiday classic Mr. Magoo's Christmas C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:20PMTheatres including the Donmar Warehouse, the Royal Court and the Almeida are among organisations calling for all children to be entitled to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:18PMLiz Stevenson has announced her first season as artistic director at Keswick’s Theatre By the Lake, which features five world premieres. Highlights
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:18PM“CMA Country Christmas” is set to air Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 9/8c on the ABC Television Network. Trisha Yearwood hosts and performs during the holiday special. In addition to Yearwood, t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMOf his nearly 200 screen roles, Robert Armstrong (1890-1973) is known today almost enirely for one. But what a one! Armstrong was born in Saginaw, Michigan where his father and uncle operate…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:03PMThe Brooklyn hub for artistic innovation is a home for artists across the African Diaspora.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMThe Tony nominee and voice of Frozen 2’s Olaf does his best to emulate the Rent and Wicked star.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMPeople ask me all the time what a Producer actually does. My new answer? I get people in a room. That’s it! I get Writers in a room. I get Directors in a room. I get Actors in a room…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 12:00PMIn showcasing black and African culture stripped of any specificity, the question posed by this production becomes: who is this really for?
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PM
The former prison guard-turned-actor discusses how he found his writing voice, and how your biggest advocates can come from the most unexpected places.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:57AMPlaybill offers an extensive selection of available jobs within the theatre industry, serving as the online source for careers in theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMFrom the Chinese scene in Nutcracker to the Moor in Petrushka, are some ballets now offensively outdated? We ask big names in dance if they should be preserved, changed – or binned
It’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMOn the first day of my acting degree, back in 2001, the head of acting gathered all 30 new students into the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:44AMThe American Idol and Smash star once more joins the Sara Bareilles musical November 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMWe are immersed for 70-minutes in a powerful evocation of the destructive culture created by men who treat women as sex objects.
The post Dance Review: “Object.” — Objectifying Women, …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMThe play begins performances January 25, 2020, at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMby Brendan Leonard. @brennylen. WASHINGTON, D. C. - CNN reports that the upcoming Democratic Presidential Debate will nix the usual topics of health care, gun control and the economy for wha…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:17AMThe Icelandic singer’s Cornucopia tour fails to fill the space of London’s O2 Arena despite lavish visuals and a video message from Greta Thunberg
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:13AMThe drama hails from Tony nominee and Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMThe selected city will host events and be twinned with another metropolis, reports Nick Awde The International Theatre Institute is launching the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMUpdated from its original form which premiered in New York in 1996, this revue-style show follows various couples as they navigate their way through dating, relationships and love.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
The actor brings his reworked his one-man show to the National Theatre.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:54AMThe Wicked star also revealed the best and worst parts of working on Broadway while on Watch What Happens Live.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMThe variety special will drop December 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMThe baby news was shared on Instagram November 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AM“Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec were first given two-year suspended terms in 2015 after being convicted of possession of stolen goods over the huge trove of works by Picasso, including nin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM“Perth and Sydney have recognised [their responsibilities] by commissioning diverse local artists working in diverse forms. These festivals are engaging with their place in contemporary cu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMSays Max Hollein, “Art cannot solely be perceived in regard to its beauty and craftsmanship. You also have to evaluate it in light of its political messages. … If you have one of the gre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM“What of the storefronts, those famous Chicago institutions where a full house can mean 80 people and where artists frequently toil for little or even no compensation? Can they claim a sig…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMThe daughter of the late King Sihanouk. she began dancing at age 5; by age 16, she was a leader of the royal dance company and a mainstay of Cambodian cultural diplomacy. She fled the countr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMThe country’s first post-Soviet president, the autocratic and eccentric Sapurmurat Niyazov, banned opera in 2001 as “incompatible with Turkmen mentality.” His successor (and former den…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMSince 1993 the indoor fair has provided discerning shoppers with beautiful, custom gifts for their friends and loved ones.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMTina: The Tina Turner Musical at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Review by Mo Brady
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SOURCE: www.theensemblist.com at 10:34AMNominations were announced on November 20 for the 62nd annual Grammy Awards. Four Broadway musicals and one Broadway play are in the running in the category of Best Musical Theater Album, wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:33AMThe groundbreaking musical opened on Broadway November 20, 1966.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMThe Grammys took a fairly expansive sweep with this morning’s nominations for Best Musical Theater Album, The Motown sound, Rodgers & Hammerstein, the folk-rock music of Anaïs Mitchel…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:28AMThe Talking Heads frontman also taught Jimmy Fallon a few Broadway dance moves.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMThe CMU grad and star of Broadway’s “Aladdin” returns to Pittsburgh with a jazzy set of Broadway and pop standards.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:18AMThe new Lauren Gunderson play, presented by Audible, stars Kate Mulgrew and Francesca Faridany.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AMReview: Works, Sadler's Wells4.0starsI find it really interesting when shows allow you to imagine who the characters may be, what their relationships are like, and what is happening to them.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:06AMThese superbly produced -- and sung, played, and conducted -- holiday music albums are perfect stocking stuffers.
The post Classical CD Reviews: Two Holiday Albums That Strike Like Thunderbo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AMOver the years, Tabard has heard all kinds of stories about poor audience behaviour. A particular favourite is the lady who attempted
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The Wicked Tony winner and her Frozen co-star Kristen Bell were honored November 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMThe Public Theater revival of the Tony Kushner play celebrated its opening night.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMBig Apple Circus: Explodes with WOW! Acts and a Latino Beat
By: Ellis Nassour November 20, 2019: The Big Apple Circus is back with its blue and white Big Top planted in Damrosch Park at…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:48AM“Ain’t Too Proud,” “Hadestown,” “Moulin Rouge!” “Oklahoma!” and the music of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” composed by Imogen Heap, were nominated for Grammy Awa…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:46AMThe production opened at the Noël Coward Theatre November 19.
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My friend Richard Riaz Yoder posted the following on social media:
“Well it happened again. This tall silver fox that is in my acting class (he is really so hot) was tal…
SOURCE: www.theensemblist.com at 09:41AMMatthew Warchus will direct Amy Herzog’s Pulitzer Prize finalist at the Old Vic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AM“What’s new Buenos Aires?!” Eva Perone sings as she crosses the stage and in the latest take on “Evita” playing at New York City Center…
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SOURCE: Medium at 09:23AMI'm not sure why it surprises me that cancel culture has come to Broadway, but it does. Theater has always had its harshest critics and most vehement fans. History has the shown that the Gre…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 09:06AMThe 62nd annual ceremony will be held January 26, 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMDavid Greig's much-lauded mountaineering survival story fails to reach the dizzy heights.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM"Shout Sister Shout!" at Seattle Rep breathes life back into the legacy of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, whose guitar genius and eclectic fusion of blues, jazz, gospel, country, rhythm and blues, a…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMNovember 24, 1994: The Stage recently reported claims of low pay from dancers in the touring version of Thriller Live, but 25
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMDecember dance brings both big holiday spectacles and thought-provoking pieces in Steppenwolf's black box theater.
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SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 08:54AMCall Me By Your Name star to appear in Amy Herzog’s 4,000 Miles at Old Vic theatre
The Old Vic is bringing Timothée Chalamet to the London stage next spring in a production of 4,000 Mile…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMSadler’s Wells, LondonCarlos Acosta’s Havana-based troupe makes no wrong steps in charming, evocative and sharply technical mixed bill
It’s only three years since Cuban ballet star Car…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMA new revival of Amy Herzog's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play 4000 Miles has been announced and will run at London's Old Vic Theatre in April 2020. The production will star Call Me By Your Na…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:40AMRichard Cameron’s hit play is set to return in 2020, produced by London’s Kiln Theatre along with Out of Joint and Cast. It will come to the off-West End theatre for a strictly limited …
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:25AMQuintessential seasonal story A Christmas Carol will be staged as Charles Dickens would have performed it, in a solo production, when A (One-Man) Christmas Carol plays at The Hen & Chick…
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SPONGEBOB’s Best Day Ever is December 7, BROADWAY goes on VACATION, Schreck has Ingenuity (we already knew that!), Vineyard’s next, Idina: east coast, west coast, holday inn… Nathan La…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMFourth Monkey Actor Training Company is to offer a new accelerated degree in acting and will waive audition fees from September 2020.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMShe has tackled plays exploring trauma and state corruption, and now Tinuke Craig is turning her hand to a boldly re-imagined panto
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMI couldn’t agree more with Michele Taylor’s views (Letters, November 14, p6) on how digital tickets could exclude disabled people from visiting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMWhat part do costumes play in branding for The Play That Goes Wrong around the world? How are they made durable enough to survive eight performances a week of one of Theatreland's most physi…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:13AMThe house lights are up. The stage is bare. A woman enters the space. She smiles. She talks about the audience and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:10AMAllegra Kent, Conrad Ludlow, and the New York City Ballet dance the second movement of George Balanchine’s Symphony in C. The score is Georges Bizet’s Symphony in C, composed shortly a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMI’m about to start my first ever pantomime. I have already done a few children’s plays, but I have seen enough panto
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM“In any modern city, a great deal of our energy has to be expended in not seeing, not hearing, not smelling. An inhabitant of New York who possessed the sensory acuteness of an African Bus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMLydia Wilson, Louise Brealey, Matthew Kelly and Sule Rimi are among the actors nominated for the 2020 BBC Audio Drama Awards. Kelly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMIt’s been said that it’s nigh impossible to make a living as a musical theatre writer – do you agree? @Lin_Manuel —
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMFurries aren’t all fetishists—they’re members of a supportive community who (sometimes) don costumes to feel more comfortable in their own skins.
"It's not…
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When you were in high school, did you ever sneak into a girl's house after school? And did her dad h…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMGreg Doran has translated the play’s Viennese setting to the 1900s, but while there has clearly been an imaginative attempt at a credible interpretation of the yarn, this production is ham…
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Bill Kenwright has appointed Sean Mathias as the first artistic director of Theatre Royal Windsor, in a move that aims to make
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SOURCE: The Independent at 06:48AMMy first set design job, which came straight after graduating from Wimbledon School of Art, was assisting Peter J Davison on Whistle Down the
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMFinal casting has been announced for the highly-anticipated world premiere of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. Directed by Patrick Marber, the new stage play opens at Wyndham's Theatre in London…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 06:30AMAlistair Grant – ‘Ali Barrel’ to all who knew him, a nickname he enjoyed enough to take as his online address –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMJames Cundall might not be a name familiar to some UK-based readers, but he has been a key commercial player internationally for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMThe Band Visit’s Zal Owen stars as the engineering genius before he entered the cultural zeitgeist.
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William ‘Bill’ Talbot played a key behind-the-scenes role in the emergence of the Welsh television and film production industry in the 1980s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMTimothée and Eileen will play the lead roles in Amy Herzog’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama nominated play 4000 Miles from 16 April next year.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:58AMBare feet, bare stage, roving musicians — and yes, those suits. Here’s what goes into every performance of the stylish Broadway concert “American Utopia.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54AMTimothée Chalamet is set to star in 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog, as part of Matthew Warchus’ fifth season at the Old
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMThe Old Vic has announced principal casting for Amy Herzog’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play 4000 Miles. Eileen Atkins and Homeland star Timothée Chalamet, making his London stage debut, ta…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:39AMThis spring The Old Vic will present Amy Herzog's Pulitzer Prize for Drama nominated play 4000 Miles, directed by Matthew Warchus with Eileen Atkins and Timothée Chalamet in the lead roles,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32AMIt's officially party season, but the gathering in Charlotte Jones' award-winning comedy Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis is a little different. Take a look at the party preparations wit…
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:23AMThe Illusionists - Magic Of The Holidays will return to Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre (250 W. 52nd Street) for a record fifth holiday season, playing from Friday, November 29, 2019 through S…
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 12:40AMSusan Lambert Hatem’s play stars April Armstrong as U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Rodgers and Hammerstein musical officially opens at the New Jersey venue November 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMatthew Warchus directs the new version of the holiday classic from Harry Potter playwright Jack Thorne.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway veteran reflects on his favorite stage performances, including those given by Elaine Stritch, Gregory Hines, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony-winning scenic and costume designer Rob Howell discusses his nontraditional approach to the holiday staple---When director Matthew Warchus approached his longtime collaborator, scenic a…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMPlaywright Susan Lambert Hatem talks about her unconventional political history play---A young man wants to know how it really went down in "the room where it happened." No, it's not a scene…
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