'Tootsie' Tony- nominee Lilli Cooper joins her brother, Little Shop of Horrors star Eddie Cooper for 'Meat Truck,' a song parody of Tiger King, inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:55PMBroadway and television star Sutton Foster is set to appear on an upcoming episode of ABC's hidden camera morality test What Would You Do?.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:44PMAfter more than 3,000 people tuned in for their first virtual concert...
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 08:42PMDad’s Garage Theatre Company celebrates its 25th anniversary this weekend with 25...
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 08:42PMOut Front Theatre Company in West Midtown, which focuses exclusively on work...
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 08:42PMPete Hampton (1871-1916) was a ground-breaking African American singer, actor, harmonica player and banjoist from Bowling Green, Kentucky. After several years with medicine shows, all-black …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:12PMTonight, the folks over at Hamilton are celebrating the legacy of its #Ham4Ham lottery shows with a highlight reel featuring all your favorite moments from its run featuring members of the o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:09PMDMV rapper “Litty Official” releases their mixtape He Could Never on Spotify, Soundcloud, and iTunes. Jade Jones, the artist behind Litty, has crafted a standout lo-fi trap mixtape for t…
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It is hard to think of a leading critic under fifty. There is no new generation in sight. This is unprecedented. Billington was barely thirty when he began at The Guardian, older than Nighti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMThe chaotic creativity of remixed internet memes and the new linguistic structures that rapidly evolve from them allow us to express certain states of mind and have others immediately get it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMIn Hoppla!, Achterland and Mitten, the Belgian dance legend manages a dynamic mix of composition and choreography
The Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has always been engross…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMAward-winning actor who brought intensity to roles ranging from Shakespeare to feminist comedyThere was nothing hidden or mysterious about Alison Fiske, who has died of cancer aged 76; as an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMLITTLE-KNOWN CHICAGO DISASTER BECOMES TOWERING MUSICAL; THE BRILLIANT LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE PRODUCTION STREAMS ONE NIGHT ONLY FOR FREE In 2012, Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company presen…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:08PMBroadway star and Emmy-nominated actor, Tituss Burgess, performs Bobby Freeman's a?oeDo You Want to Dancea?? as part of Live with Carnegie Hall.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:08PMFoolish Fridays Faction of Fools Friday, Aug 7, 7pm Free Click to watch Faction of Fools, Washington’s commedia dell’Arte theater company, resumes its Foolish Fridays beginning tonight a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:06PMToday we asked our readers to share their favorite viral theater videos!
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Plus: Theatre siblings Eddie Cooper and Lilli Cooper perform the newest Tiger King parody.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PM“Loneliness…is that a sin? It feels like one.” Eden Theater Company’s third and final installment of The Room Plays, titled The Bathroom Plays, takes a penetrating look at the seclus…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:54PMTwo of theater’s heavy-hitters are squaring off in a legal battle that could be Broadway’s biggest drama during the pandemic shutdown: Ad agency Spotco is suing producer Scott Rudin for …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:37PMAt issue: payment for media buying and marketing strategy for the Broadway revivals of “West Side Story” and “The Music Man.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMIn a book called Weird Wisconsin: Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin’s Local Legends, Burrows’s name was listed under a chapter called “The Worst Novel Ever Published in the English Langu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMThe tourist, on a trip to celebrate his 50th birthday, was visiting an art museum in northern Italy last week when he posed with the statue of a reclining Pauline Bonaparte. Her husband had …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMTaken en masse, the books paint a damning portrait of the 45th president of the United States. But the sheer volume of unflattering material they contain can have the paradoxical danger of b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMKevin Kline won a Tony Award for his performance in this Noël Coward classic. Watch it for free through August 29.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:32PMThe season, which will now begin in November, will feature two world premieres and a Pulitzer winner.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:28PMMy relationship with the great theatre critic began with a wary interview but soon gave way to a lifetime of anecdotes, confidences, and laughter.
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Advertising agency SpotCo is suing producer Scott Rudin for what it says is more than $6 million in owed payments. At issue is unpaid work the agency says it has done on Rudin’s Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 03:57PMOver the past decade, and at almost every step — from the design competition to the groundbreaking in 2017 — the project was dogged by controversy, subject to congressional hearings and,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMHaving listened to recent online offerings from North America and Europe (where concerts are carefully starting to move back into halls), David Patrick Stearns predicts that “innovation an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMSifting evidence and debating whodunit with strangers turns out to be an especially successful way for theater to be enjoyed from a laptop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMWatch Billy Porter speak the words of Toni Morrison for INTO ACTION.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMBroadway moms, Cara Cooper (The Prom) and Jessica Rush (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical) of the hit podcast 'Mamas Talkin' Loud', in association with the Broadway Podcast Network, have announc…
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Based on American folk material, the work was given its premiere in 1934 by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:51PMThe entire slate will be presented using one flexible set that can be adapted to each show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PMWhen experts and pundits can’t or won’t say ‘I don’t know’, the consequences can be dire. In the short term, bad advice leads to bad decisions. In the context of admitting uncertai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM“In addition to their pioneering role as women on the jazz circuit, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm were an interracial band in the era of Jim Crow. Their extensive itinerary throu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PMThe Tony Award®-winning Alley Theatre and Artistic Director Rob Melrose have announced updates to the Theatrea??s 74th season. The 2020-21 season programming, the second season curated…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMAs BroadwayWorld reported yesterday, Tony Award winning actor Brent Carver has passed away at age 68. This evening, Carver's Broadway colleagues took to social media to celebrate his life an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMMirvish Productions will mark the life of Brent Carver by dimming the marquee lights of two theatres on Friday August 7 at 8PM - the Royal Alexandra, in which he performed his solo show of s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMActors' Equity Association released a statement regarding continued inaction in the U.S. Senate on the HEROES Act.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMBelow are my recommendations for three plays with starry casts “opening” and available only this weekend, two documentaries about theater, and a theater festival that New Yorkers can s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PMGo behind the scenes of the creation of Wicked, Kinky Boots, and more when the two-time Tony winner takes your questions live on The Broadway Q&A from Playbill and The Growing Studio.
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The one and “onliest” James Jackson, Jr. is a New York City-based actor, performance artist, Kabarettist, vocal coach, producer, and everything else a fabulous entertainer should be. Fro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:34PMThe free stream will benefit The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMNo day like August 7th, director Alex Timbers' birthday, to have a stroll down memory lane visiting seven of his memorable Broadway productions. Happy Birthday Alex!
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 01:30PMAleshea Harris’s Is God Is was the last show of the season at theWilma Theater in Philadelphia, and when the shutdown came, there was still time to figure something out. “We then went th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMIt was a dance moment that went viral: Photos of two young dancers, Ava Holloway and Kennedy George, both 14, turned out and on their toes, each raising a fist against the backdrop of the st…
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The League’s 700-plus members include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and general managers who present in nearly 200 markets across North America.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PMAaron Lazar wants to help you to fall asleep. Lazar, who was most recently seen as Larry Murphy on the Dear Evan Hansen national tour, has announced his new project, Broadway Lullabies, an a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently.
Cyrano Musical, Starring Peter Dinklage, to Become Feature Film
Emmy winner and stage veteran Peter Dinklage will reprise h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMThe Broadway League, the trade group representing Broadway and regional theater owners and producers, has added producer Brian Moreland and Kendra Whitlock Ingram, president and CEO of Milwa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:20PM“The more text to which an algorithm can be exposed, and the more complex you can make the algorithm, the better it performs. … The model that underpins [the AI software] GPT-3 boasts 17…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM“With the calamities facing the world, rebuilding what has been is no longer our most pressing goal — reimagining the future moving forward is. The ever-changing present requires the art…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMCatch streaming performances of Fela!, Dutchman, and more.
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The musical "Cyrano," which was workshopped at the Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre in 2018, will become a star-studded MGM movie featuring Peter Dinklage and Haley Bennett directed by Joe W…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:58AMRolling Stone has reported on a conversation they had with one Disney World employee, pulling the curtain back on issues of safety, whether social distancing is being enforced and more.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMTwo new members were voted to the League’s Board of Governors: Kendra Whitlock Ingram, President and CEO, Marcus Performing Arts Center, and Broadway producer Brian Moreland of B.More…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMThe first musical in the United States to be approved by Actors' Equity Association has officially begun performances. Berkshire Theatre Group's Godspell is being presented outdoors in an o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:47AMBroadway artists and theatre professionals from around the globe took to social media to share their memories of the Tony winner, who died August 4 at 68.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMThe Broadway League has voted Broadway producer Brian Moreland and Kendra Whitlock Ingram, president of the Marcus Performing Arts Center, to its board of governors. They join the about 50-p…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:21AMAaron Lazar checks in to chat about Filthy Rich, his Broadway Lullabies album and more!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMLiving near the theater district during the Broadway shutdown, photographer and performer Matthew Stocke has been haunted walking past the empty theater palaces sitting in repose, waiting fo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMHere’s one instance from last month: “Standing at the base of the three-story pedestal supporting the Confederate general’s likeness, [Janine] Bell, the artistic director of Elegba Fol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM“‘Sold down the river.’ ‘Cakewalk.’ ‘Master and slave.’ American English is riddled with words and phrases with racist origins or undertones. Since the killing of George Floyd …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMRisa Shoup is the company's interim executive director, with Virginia Louloudes on leave after concerns were raised about her leadership.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:02AMAnnan was also recently seen Off-Broadway in Hall's The Hot Wing King at Signature Theatre
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMDid you enjoy your intermission? Yesterday, I gave you Act I of this two-parter with 3 of the 6 top skills Broadway Producers must have now . . . and forever. To give you a recap, that…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMYou'll love the 8 videos we found to ring in Karen Olivo's birthday. Some are classics you might not have seen in a while, some you might not have ever seen!
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:00AM
Stars in the House continues today (8pm) with Brenda Braxton's Birthday Bash! Guest Host Brenda Braxton is joined by Donna Marie Asbury and Amra-Faye Wright and surprise special guests.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMThe creators were advised by Telly Leung, Stafford Arima, and Mariko Kojima, with Rob Rokicki as a mentor.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMGoodspeed Musicals has arranged a fortnight of outdoor concerts by The Playbillies, on the lawn outside the Goodspeed Opera House. These are the first public performance the Goodspeed has ho…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:34AMThe Jermyn Street Theatre productions are available through December 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMProfile of Young Vic artistic director could go still further
Filmed, as one would, well, imagine, prior to lockdown, Imagine .... My Name is Kwame hearkens to what now seems a bygone era …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:24AM“In recent months, several people working on the committee to revise the body’s definition of what a museum is have resigned, and there have been accusations of ‘back-alley political g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM“Making waves is what Hunan Broadcasting System does best. … That is striking for an outfit run by the government of a province that is better known as China’s largest producer of rice…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMAnthony Tommasini: “Elements of dismaying ageism run through the chronic bemoaning over the graying of classical and opera audiences, something that bothered me even before I entered this …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMThe vote tally was 181 to 22. “While organizers said there were many reasons behind the union drive, complaints against two Art Museum supervisors provided the movement with energy. Organi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMMartin Di Caro, an award-winning transportation correspondent at Washington’s public radio news station from 2012 to 2017, was outrageous enough in hitting on junior employees at WAMU, loc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMMusical theatre has always found the music in, and makes music from, the latest styles of speaking.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMThe first piece Moment Of Grace by Bren Gosling takes us back to the 1980s and the last time the country faced a crisis over a virus.
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Norm Lewis performs "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel at the 35th Annual AIDS WALK New York on July 19, 2020.
2020 marks the 75th Anniversary of Rodgers &a…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:58AMWe’re firmly in what would have been Edinburgh season and like many theatre lovers, we miss it terribly. But was it perfect? Hardly. Nikita Karia writes about her love, hate and nostalgia …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:48AMBlindness is an exciting new piece of theatre at the Donmar Warehouse. Check out the innovative set that accompanies the unique sound installation.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:37AMWhile Broadway remains shut down, BroadwayWorld is keeping up with your favorite stars and giving you a peek at what they have been up to! Check out yesterday's highlights from some of your …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMAlan Cumming has announced via Instagram that his club, Club Cumming, is launching a series of virtual variety shows.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMToday (August 7) in live streaming: Tonya Pinkins visits Backstage Live, Brenda Braxton celebrates her birthday on Stars in the House, and so much more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMTo all theater people out there who have suddenly found themselves spending endless amounts of time scrolling through TikTok... you are not alone! If you are a fellow theater nerd looking fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33AMThe daily series from Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley benefits The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMMarco Island Academy students whip up original plays
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:25AMWe're excited to announce a new series of exclusive content in partnership with Sky VIP to fill that theatre gap in your lives!
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:00AMWhile researching videos for Karen Olivo's birthday, we got to searching for BKLYN and this jaw-dropping cover fell into our path. Friends. Samantha O'Donnell sang the BKLYN's signature tune…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 09:00AM
The original documentary film 'Howard' premieres exclusively on Disney+ today, August 7, 2020. The film, which first premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, follows the captivating LIF…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32AMJennifer Grey is set to star in and executive produce a new dance movie at Lionsgate. According to Deadline, the film, which is set in the 1990s, could potentially be a new Dirty Dancing …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:25AMNew ArtsBeat TV/Radio features conversation with two area theatre artists: WAM Theatre co-founder Kristen Van Ginhoven and Taneisha Duggan of TheaterWorks. They discuss the changes theatres …
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:07AMMany, if not most, of our favorite musical theater stars have also spent their fair share of time trodding the boards in straight plays, too. Take one of the greatest of all time, Angela Lan…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:03AM“Stories of a Lifetime” jumps from off-Broadway to Audible, revealing glimpses of the CBS newsman on and off the job.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:03AM
Tony Winner Brent Carver Dies, WTF Announces Additional Casting, ’36 Questions’ to Be Adapted to Film “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top t…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, Kinky Boots is returning to Seoul, South Korea! A video was recently shared on Instagram, showing cast members featured in a news piece in South Korea.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24AMThe concert staging of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar will be presented Friday 14 August - Sunday 27 Se…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24AMToday's top stories: Netflix will released a film adaptation of the podcast musical 36 Questions, and more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:08AMCelebrity tattoo artist Doctor Woo shared the artwork on his Instagram page
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:03AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review a PBS webcast of Kenny Leon’s 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing. Here’s an excerpt.
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PBS continues to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMPablo Picasso paints for the camera in 1949 in a scene from Visit to Picasso, directed by Paul Haesaert:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMFaculty from the two theatre programs will take questions during the streamed interview.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AMThis film takes a look at the life and work of the book writer-lyricist behind Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”
G.K. Chesterton, interview, New York Times (November 21, 1930)
Continue reading Almanac: G.K. Chesterton on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThis film takes a look at the life and work of the book writer-lyricist behind Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM
Who is Jay Laga’aia? Is a father of eight who suffers from imposter syndrome. What would you do differently from what you do now? Listen to my teachers and don’t be in such a rush to gro…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:56AMIt is with enormous regret that we have had to inform employees working for the TKTS operation that their roles will be made redundant as a result of the unavoidable decision to keep our f…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:55AMBy Douglas Mayo
This Summer London will get to experience the UK Premiere of C-O-N-T-A-C-T, a socially distanced outdoor experience featuring live performance and 3D sound design in public s…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:49AMThe #WeMakeEvents are hosting a major outdoor event in London on Tuesday 11 August to demonstrate the crisis faced by the live events industry.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:37AMWith galleries, museums and public art spaces closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from across the globe, artist and non-artists have responded to MUMA’s call out to put art front and cen…
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