For those clamoring to snag a role on a Broadway stage, book a gig at a reputable nightclub, or simply get feedback on their performance style, a three-night master class is being offered by…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AMIt’s been a harrowing week for the entertainment industry with the sudden loss of Robin Williams followed by yesterday’s passing of Lauren Bacall. Like Williams, Bacall was known for her…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:40AMMany will question the untimely death of one of our most beloved comedians and actors, Robin Williams. Here at the Broadway Blog we’d like to celebrate a career that spanned decades and br…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:53PMOn the evening of August 24, San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts Theatre will play host to a genre- and generation-spanning array of musical talent at Help is on the Way XX, the 20th annua…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:43AMAre you seeing double? Nope – that’s just the return of the cult favorite musical, Side Show, which opens this fall on Broadway at the St. James Theatre. Directed by Academy Award and G…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AMThe Broadway Blog’s editor Matthew Wexler rounds up three of our favorite picks for August. The dog days of summer are here so what better time to ensconce yourself in a cool, dark the…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:07PMPerhaps your high school days were filled with pranks and hijinks… or late-night rehearsals of The Music Man, Grease, or some other teen-friendly production. Whatever your memories, relive…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:48PMNearly 80 years after it took The Great White Way by storm, You Can’t Take It With You—the timeless comedic three-act play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart—will start previews on…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AMIt’s calm waters this summer in New York City as the theater scene rejuvenates for openings this fall. But head west to the Tony Award-winning Goodman Theatre in Chicago you’ll be witnes…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:29AMCelebrity Autobiography returns this August, welcoming to its cast stars of stage & screen Mario Cantone (Sex and the City), Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live), Scott Adsit (30 Rock), D…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:12PMMusical theater gets a bad rep, and go figure, with today’s landscape of shimmering esoteric music, there is a glassy-eyed artifice to it all that hasn’t—shockingly enough—permeated …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:05AMCalling all southern Californians! Head to the Old Globe this Saturday for the 2014 Globe Gala in support of the theater’s education and artistic programs. The annual event will feature a …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:08AMIf you’re looking for a little summer romance with a twist, we’ve got our eyes on a new play opening at the Cherry Lane Theatre. What happens four weeks after a one-night stand? That’s…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:36AMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival is in full swing. We caught two shows this week that capture varying degrees of success in the development of new work. As We Lie Still is a musical fan…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:32PMOne of Broadway’s bawdiest broads, Elaine Stritch, passed away today at the age of 89. Her early career included the 1952 revival of Pal Joey and Bus Stop in 1955, for which she was nomina…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:22PMTwenty years before receiving his first Broadway production, Nicky Silver scorched onto the New York scene with Pterodactyls, a blazingly prophetic play that seems more urgent by the day. T…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:56PMNow in it’s 11th year, the New York Musical Theatre Festival returns for three weeks of ingenious works in progress, all vying for the tiara of best musical, in hopes they will get picked …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:01AMIt won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2008 and was made into a feature film starring Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep in 2013. Fans of August: Osage County can hear members of the original …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AMStars of stage and screen will descend upon Shubert Alley for the 16th Annual Broadway Barks! Founded by Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters, the organization helps many of New York City�…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:34PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival opened this week, celebrating 11 years of America’s greatest art form by providing an affordable way for artists to mount professional productions. Fi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:40PMBroadway’s On The Town and FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance are teaming up to offer the winner of Season 11 a role in this fall’s highly anticipated Broadway revival, marking an ex…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:55AMWe’re at midsummer and while Broadway is looking a bit dormant these days with the recent closings of After Midnight, Casa Valentina, Mothers and Sons and the closing notices for Violet (A…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:00AMWriter Lindsay B. Davis hit the streets of NYC to catch the best of Broadway at Inside Broadway’s Beacon Awards and the final concert of Broadway by the Year at Town Hall. Sometimes …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:00AMAfter a sold-out benefit run for BC/EFA this February, Pageant – The Musical returns for a limited Off-Broadway engagement at The Davenport Theatre beginning June 29 with an official openi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:57AMIn many ways, gangsta rap messiah Tupac Shakur was the new world order of hard-boiled post-Reaganomics fury. Shakur, a hip-hop raconteur who painted surround sound portraits of African-Ameri…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AM“One of the best things Orange is the New Black has given me is straight boys,” says Lea DeLaria, who plays butch Big Boo on the hit Netflix series. “I spent many years having teenage …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:17PMIn The Bullpen, Joseph Assadourian’s wickedly facetious 18-character play, the audience is dropped into the lion’s den of the American prison system and the ass-backwards legal procedure…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:26PM“Craft is the basic thing in the beginning of this work for you to understand; it is your handle. It is not your talent. But you must have it,” Stella Adler expressed in her book, …On …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:34AMWho wants to see one Broadway show when you can see dozens on one night? The critically acclaimed series, Broadway by the Year, presents its final installment of the season, featuring Broadw…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:59AM“Whenever I’m back in San Francisco, I love to shake my parts at [popular drag-and-dancing extravaganza] Trannyshack,” notes Justin Vivian Bond, when a recent conversation turns to the…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AMThere has been lots of buzz about the monumental production of Macbeth, currently playing through June 22 at the Park Avenue Armory. And that includes its hefty price tag. At $350, it’…
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