No excuses now! You can catch up on the latest off Broadway participating shows offering $20 tickets to the public 20 minutes before curtain for 20 days. Get a sneak…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:51PMStephen Karam’s drama moves to Broadway without losing any of its power. Much credit goes to its remarkable cast, intact from its Off Broadway run.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMThe veteran stage clowns Bill Irwin and David Shiner bring back their sketches to the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMNEW YORK -- The challenges they face are so commonplace you could be eavesdropping on Thanksgiving dinner at your cousins': A daughter with a college degree working odd restaurant jobs; a m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:48PMToday, Center On The Aisle (#COTA) got a peek inside rehearsal for the upcoming Manhattan Concert Productions two-night presentation of the hit Broadway musical, The Secret Garden (February …
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 10:45PMMelbourne Theatre Company launched its Foundation with the announcement of a $ 1 million gift from The Little Foundation, the largest single donation from a private donor in MTC’s history…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:42PM By Brian Scott Lipton Clearly, there are a bunch of New Yorkers who miss the Broadway megahit “Mamma Mia!” Plus, the Big Apple houses many fans of ABBA, the S…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:40PMHelen Hayes Theater, New YorkThe pressures of family, work and keeping a roof over one’s head simmer slowly in this superbly acted play about a beleagered family meeting in a tumbledown ap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31PMBroadwayWorld is excited to report that LES MISERABLES starRamin Karimloo and IFTHEN's Jenn Colella will play 'Che' and 'Eva Peron' in Vancouver Opera's spring production of Tim Rice and And…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24PMThere is so much love, dread, tenderness and brutality in "The Humans" that it is hard to believe just 90 minutes pass through Stephen Karam's deeply-felt family tragicomedy thriller.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 10:24PMBell Shakespeare’s 2016 season will open with one of the greatest love stories ever told, Romeo And Juliet at the Sydney Opera House on 24 February, before touring to the Canberra Theatr…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:22PM by Brian Scott Lipton The “dysfunctional family gets together for a holiday” play (or movie), no matter how brilliant or funny, usually descends into u…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:01PMThink back to the last event you attended where you met someone new. Did you make a good impression, or did you totally blow it? Will you never talk to that person again, or could they becom…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:00PMThis is your life…and it is petrifying.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMBill Irwin and David Shiner are at it again, with singer-songwriter Shaina Taub adding some new tricks.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Who is Hissy Fit? Hissy Fit is a collaboration between Sydney-based artists, Jade Muratore, Emily O’Connor and Nat Randall, making work across video, performance and sound. Their work inve…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:48PMThe Humans, Stephen Karam’s nuanced slice-of-life drama that unfolds during a family’s Thanksgiving dinner, has transferred intact to the Helen Hayes, in a production that has become eve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42PMTremendously tuneful: Next Stop Broadway, the new production from A-Team that is touring to various parts of Edinburgh, features a huge and impressive cast, with inventive and accomplished s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:32PMManhattan Concert Productions presents The Secret Garden at Lincoln Center on February 21 and 22.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:21PMKids keep it creepy in the poster for an adaptation of Ibsen’s “Little Eyolf” at the Aurora Theater Company in Berkeley, Calif.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:21PMBartlett Sher will stage a new production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, and Julie Taymor will recreate her staging of The Magic Flute as part of the Metropolitan Opera&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16PMAMERICAN PSYCHO, the American premiere of a new musical based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis -- which celebrates the 25th anniversary of its publication this March -- has just begun rehea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:08PMMeow Meow, Australia’s wicked-witted Queen of Cabaret, dunks us deep into the underwater wonderland of her own magical mind in a feminist submersion of Hans Christian Anderson’s 1837 The…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:03PMBill Irwin and David Shiner reprise their New Vaudeville comedy show, with singer-songwriter Shaina Taub providing musical support. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
The “Book” is back — and if you haven’t yet been entertained/dazed/scandalized by this raunchy scriptural satire, now might be the time. Almost two years after its first tour visit t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:42PMTony winner Harvey Fierstein to adapt script, with 'The Wiz Live's' Kenny Leon directing.
SOURCE: USA Today at 08:42PMTAKE A TRIP TO POCATELLO Since this is a Samuel D. Hunter play, its setting is a nondescript town in Idaho whose business district is beseiged by big-box stores and chain restaurants —…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:42PMBroadway by the Year has become one of the most beloved musical traditions in the New York theatre scene, for 16 years now, lovers of musical theatre gather to listen to selections from Broa…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:33PMFollowing an acclaimed Off-Broadway premiere last fall, the Broadway transfer of Stephen Karam’s family ensemble drama The Humans officially opened Feb. 18 at the Hele…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30PM Beautiful, talented Television and Broadway star Megan Hilty, best know for starring roles in Smash, Wicked, 9 to 5: The Musical, lit up the stage celebrating Valentine’s Day with…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:23PMAfter starring in shows like Wicked, Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera around the world, Carmen Cusack is ready for Broadway.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:20PMKnown for her dazzling performances in James Joyce’s The Dead, Billy Elliot, The Full Monty and her Tony-nominated work in Side Show, Emily Skinner has had one of the most impressive stage…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:09PMMost great American dramas of familial anguish and conflict are driven by outrageous individual behavior. But what distinguishes Stephen Karam's inestimably kind, rich and beautiful new play…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00PM
Mr. Volpe, a former general of the Metropolitan Opera, was named interim managing director of the ballet company while it searches for someone to fill the position.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:55PMOnce again, Oz Showbiz Cares / Equity Fights AIDS gathers the stars of Australia’s music theatre and cabaret industry to raise funds for the fight against HIV and AIDS. Hats Off! returns t…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:55PMMark your calendar for noon this Saturday (Feb. 20) at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State. That's when the Chicago premiere of "My America Too (Taking Theater to the Streets"), an int…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 07:52PMVisionary musical theatre writer Jonathan Larson (of RENT fame) passed away tragically 20 years ago but his work still resonates with audiences across the world. Today, Melbourne company Pur…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:52PMBroadway's Finding Neverland will officially be following the second star to the right and flying back to London in January 2017, as rumored over the weekend. The show's official website lis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:40PMHit musical about singer-songwriter Carole King includes many songs that she and her colleagues created
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:40PMFormer "Days of Our Lives" and "Biggest Loser" star headlines the Working Women's Survival Show
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:40PMWho needs ghost stories when city living is frightening enough
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:37PMMaybe it's not so much that you can't teach an old dog new tricks as that an old dog knows when he doesn't need them?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PMThe Broadway production of Stephen Karam's much-raved-about new play, THE HUMANS, opens tonight, February 18, 2016. Directed by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello and featuring its entire acclai…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36PMManhattan Concert Productions is presenting an all-star staging of The Secret Garden on February 21 and 22. Broadway.com got a peek at a recent rehearsal for the well-loved show.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:24PMThis would be practically perfect casting! Into the Woods star Emily Blunt is circling Disney's new live-action musical film of Mary Poppins, reports The Wrap. The actress would reunite …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:24PMThe Humans, Stephen Karam’s nuanced slice-of-life drama that unfolds during a family’s Thanksgiving dinner, has transferred intact to the Helen Hayes, in a production that has become eve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24PMCareening seamlessly between the goofily sublime and the utterly ridiculous, "Sister Act" is pure musical comedy "nunsense" - a show (like the 1992 film that inspired it) designed to supply …
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 07:19PMThe production, poetic yet unpretentious, explores the friction between siblings and a former prison mate near a Louisiana bayou.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMHorror occurs in countless forms and at varying degrees, describing a sweeping range of experiences that define who we are.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PMThe Melbourne Art Foundation has regretfully announced that the Melbourne Art Fair 2016, due to be held in August at the Royal Exhibition Building has been cancelled following the withdrawa…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:04PMAfter a justly celebrated off-Broadway run, Stephen Karam‘s knockout drama The Humans has moved to Broadway, courtesy of everywhere-these-days producer Scott Rudin. A smart decision wa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PMBroadway's Rob Marshall is set to direct the film.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00PM
Forest Whitaker’s co-star for the first week of previews of “Hughie” on Broadway was . . . a water cooler. During those rocky early performances, Whitaker didn’t stray too far fr…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:47PMSisters are doing it for themselves — with a glitzy assist from an on-the-run disco queen wannabe — in Lincolnshire. And unless you've given up silly-but-soulful musicals for Lent, Marri…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:46PMManhattan Concert Productions will present the 25th anniversary concert of The Secret Garden this weekend, February 21 and February 22, 2016, at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center. The concer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40PMLook out, Broadway The most groundbreaking musical comedy ever is now in previews at the Nederlander Theatre Disaster Set in the wildest decade ever, Disaster delivers earthquakes, tidal wav…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:37PMBroadwayWorld has learned that host of THE LATE LATE SHOW and this year's Tony Awards, actor and comedian James Corden,will also host MICAH'S VOICE, being held at the Warner Center Marriott …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:37PMINTO THE WOODS star Emily Blunt may re-team with Disney once more.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:27PMCortney Wolfson stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat with Imogen Lloyd Webber.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:27PMBenjamin Walker, Alice Ripley, Heléne Yorke and American Psycho's killer cast reveal the on-screen psychos—apart from Patrick Bateman—that freak them out!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:27PMTCG's core program aimed to transform the national theatre field into a more equitable, inclusive, and diverse community will expand to more theatres.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:22PMSeason of Concern shares office space in Chicago with The Actors Fund's Central Region office. If illness or injury has deprived you or someone you know in Chicago's theater or performing ar…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 06:22PMTony Award winner Beth Leavel, one of Broadway's brightest stars,will serve as the guest star and co-host for the 17th Annual COLUMN Awards Gala.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:20PMWinterson will share The Gap of Time, which revisits The Winter’s Tale, while Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name will be his release
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:15PMCheck out these captivating, stunning photos from Ivo van Hove's previoys NYC productions.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 06:13PMAdditional cast members have been announced for the pre-Broadway Chicago production of "The SpongeBob Musical." The newly announced members of the Bikini Bottom cast are Gavin Lee as Squidwa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:09PMGrab a coffee (or a summer cocktail!) and join Matilda Moran and Joel Granger as they ponder how to respond to the obligatory “what do you do?” question… We’ve all been …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMThe season will open with the New York premiere of Julia Cho's Aubergine.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PM
Stockard Channing has landed the lead role in NBC comedy pilot “Me & Mean Margaret,” Variety has learned. The pilot is described as an unlikely buddy comedy that follows a f…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:53PMNBC’s latest live musical “Hairspray Live” will premiere on Wednesday, Dec. 7, the network announced today. Much of the original stage production’s creative team from…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:53PMThe Public Theater has announced the season line-up for Public Studio, which will present two new plays this spring:, Pretty Hunger by Patricia Ione Lloyd and Teenage Dick by Mike Lew.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:47PMThe Public Theater has announced the season line-up for Public Studio, which will present two new plays this spring:, Pretty Hunger by Patricia Ione Lloyd and Teenage Dick by Mike Lew.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:47PMLIFE IS TOO SHORT WHEN ART IS THIS LONG A dozen years ago, dying at 50, Roberto Bolano left his unfinished 2666 as his valedictory. It was, quite simply, the swan song of a spellbinding crea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:38PMDiversity is not just about people, as the Harlem Quartet demonstrates. Its members are African-American, Puerto Rican, Cuban and heartland American. A diverse group, yes, but they take it f…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:38PMThe University of Maryland, College Park is staging a play that explores racial tensions on a college campus that was loosely inspired by a poem written during the Harlem Renaissance by the …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 05:38PMOn its surface, the play sounds pretty ordinary: A young woman and her boyfriend have her family over for Thanksgiving dinner. Then things start to get weird.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:38PMFaith and reason, spirit and matter, head and heart — all are aspects of a division so constant throughout history that it seems to be genetically hard-wired. Exploring this inherently con…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:38PMThis week, romance is in the air in “The Mystery of Love & Sex,” "Sex, Faith and Jason Wexler" and the classic farce "The Importance of Being Earnest." Backstory Spoken-word series featu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:38PMThough tickets are nigh-impossible to get for the smash Broadway hip-hop musical "Hamilton," we can live vicariously through Kamille Upshaw. The Baltimore School for the Arts alumna, who has…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 05:38PMFour short comedies by area writers return for encore performances... Read more »
SOURCE: ticket.heraldtribune.com at 05:38PMFINDING NEVERLAND recentlywelcomed anew leading man Tony Award nomineeTony YazbeckOn The Town recently took over the role of Peter Pan creatorJ.M. Barriein the smash hit, record-breaking Bro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMSandy Duncan, one of Broadway’s most memorable Peter Pans, will be taking a temporary leave of absence from Finding Neverland, the musical about the creation of the boy who wouldn̵…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:32PMTheatre Communications Group TCG, the national organization for theatre, has just announced the launch of two new cohorts in the Equity, Diversity amp Inclusion EDI Institute.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:29PMTHE MEETING hosted by Justin Sayre, the acclaimed comedyvariety show, will return to Joe's Pub at The Public Theater to continue the WinterSpring 2016 season on Sunday, February 21 at 930 PM…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PMThe final work in the phenomenal 17-year collaboration between composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, "The Sound of Music" has been an audience favorite since it premiered …
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:20PMPlaywrights Horizons has announced the six new productions that bow during its 2016-17 season. The slate features five world premieres including the debut of Bella: An American Tall Tale…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PMA project developed by Bette Midler's Jeckyl Foundation, Stages For Success renovates outdated high school auditoriums.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16PMAn all-new episode of THEATER TALK features an interview with actor Brian d'Arcy James - now in thehit Broadway show SOMETHING ROTTENand in the Oscar-nominated Best Picture SPOTLIGHT - and a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMThe Old Globe's world premiere of Anna Ziegler's THE LAST MATCH, directed by Gaye Taylor, stars real-life fiancesPatrick J. Adams Tim SAG Award-nominated star of TV's 'Suits,' Garland Award …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:13PMNBCjust announced anall-star team of Broadway's finestcreatives -- featuring familiar faces Kenny Leon, Jerry Mitchell and Harvey Fierstein --for its upcoming production of HAIRSPRAY LIVE,th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:13PM"A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," in its national tour, is a cleverly designed, smartly directed musical romp that benefits from some fine acting talents.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:07PMRead on to catch up on this past week's trends February 12-18.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:07PMBased on the writing of L. Frank Baum, The Woodsman tells the tale of how the Tin Man came to be. The play with songs returns to NYC at New World Stages Stage 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PMActor-turned-director Joe Mantello is among New York’s most regularly employed stage directors, but even so, things are unusually busy for him this spring. His critically lauded staging of…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:04PMTickets are now on sale to see Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham and Tony nominee Stark Sands in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Nathan the Wise off-Broadway. Directed by Brian Kulick and adap…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:02PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Joseph Fiennes & Hugh Bonneville's Stage Return
The U.K.'s Chichester Festival Theatre has announced its 2016 s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:02PMNBC’s previously announced Hairspray Live! will welcome a creative team of Tony winners to the ‘60s. Kenny Leon, who directed last year’s The Wiz Live! for t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:02PMOn its surface, the play sounds pretty ordinary: A young woman and her boyfriend have her family over for Thanksgiving dinner. Then things start to get weird.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:02PMThe critically acclaimed new play The Woodsmanisa uniquely inventive retelling of the origins of Oz's Tin Woodsman, currently playing atOff-Broadway's New World Stages - Stage 5 340 West 50t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:02PMIN THE NEWS
Center Theatre Group and Cornerstone Theater Company have both been accorded $115,000 grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s (DDCF) 2016 Building Demand f…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:01PMThe play is the first in Nelson's the-play cycle The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMThe cast of this Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa musical also features Alice Ripley, Jennifer Damiano, and Heléne Yorke.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMNBC will produce the live TV event.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM
Director Kenny Leon, who won praise in December for starting The Wiz Live for NBC, will return in December for the Peacock web’s fourth live musical venture, Hairspray Live. The show w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:53PMWe hear the words, ‘never again’ many times and yet we still live in an age where war is constantly looming over us. Valiant, based on the book Valiant Women in War and Exile by …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:51PMThe slate includes new works from Julia Cho, Adam Bock, the Debate Society, Dan LeFranc, Zayd Dohrn, and Kirsten Childs.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:51PMIn celebration of the 200th anniversary of the world’s most loved comedic opera, Rossini’s The Barber of Selville, Opera Australia is offering 200 tickets for 200 cents for under 30 year…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:44PMTake a trip to the Kit Kat Klub in this week's Theater Loop Showcase video.
Andrea Goss, the star of the "Cabaret" national tour, performs the title song from John Kander and Fred Ebb's Wei…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:39PMIn Annie Baker's wonderful play "The Flick" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the very gifted actor Danny McCarthy is doing the best work of a New York and Chicago career that, at once, ha…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:39PMThis Russian production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music plants actors amid the audience to heighten a sense of trepidation and exasperation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:39PMThe Know: Don't miss out on this week's must-see shows and events, Feb. 18-28!
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PMPlans are underway for the BBC to film the acclaimed London revival of Guys and Dolls staged by American director Gordon Greenberg.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PMThe Getty Villa Theater Lab will continue its support of experimental interpretations of classical plays with four workshop performances of “intimate devised theater duet” – aka
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:16PMA chance meeting at a seaside retreat led to a unique collaboration between two Connecticut artists, the fruits of which can be heard at the Mark Twain House on Saturday, Feb. 20. Elizabeth …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:14PMJoin Theatreworks USA on Monday, March 14th 630 PM to 930 PM, for a One-Night Only Benefit Cocktail Party at the dazzling Standard Hotel East Village Penthouse 25 Cooper Square. Mix and ming…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:08PMFollowing the success of The Wiz Live, NBC has announced that its next musical production, Hairspray Live, will air Dec. 7 at 8 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMMy wife wrote an essay about her father dying when she was 17 while she was playing Emily in Our Town. It's all about why we do what we do. The escapism and the catharsis. …
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 04:03PMTwo-time Tony nominee Stark Sands (Kinky Boots) has joined the cast of the upcoming Classic Stage Company production of Nathan The Wise, starring previously announced Oscar winner F. Mur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:01PMThe companion pieces add performances to their off-Broadway run at Dixon Place.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
Age: "A lady never tells."
Hometown: Palo Alto, California, although she spent part of her childhood in France and calls herself a "lover of all things French" on s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:51PMGet those chainsaws ready! Benjamin Walker and the cast of American Psycho took a break from rehearsals to meet the press on February 18 and they look like they're ready for a bloody goo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:51PMWe enter the old, disused Victorian house and our photos are taken by the door while Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is playing in the background, juxtaposing with the almost depressi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:42PMTake a thrilling first look at the new musical American Psycho, which offered a sneak peek for the media Feb. 18! Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, it will begin performances at Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMIn Annie Baker's wonderful play "The Flick" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the very gifted actor Danny McCarthy is doing the best work of a New York and Chicago career that, at once, ha…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:34PMThe Humans, Stephen Karam’s critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway play, opens tonight at the Helen Hayes Theater. The Roundabout Theatre Company production played at the Laura Pels Theatre…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:30PMAfter years without the anchor of a home base, the leader of New Orleans’s preeminent theatre is steering the company to a snug new harbor.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:28PMTwo middle-aged men sit in a run down office. They’re police officers, Denny and Joey. This is Chicago in the 1990s, and Denny, a family man, does what he needs to do to support his wife a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:11PMThe Diamond Horseshoe, the space several levels beneath Manhattan's Paramount Hotel that served as a Broadway theatre in the 1970s, reopens Feb. 18 as a "glittering and decadent nig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMThe 65-minute dance performance, choreographed by Koen Augustijnen, combines Arab folk dance and
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:04PMThe New York-based director will make his move to the Windy City to helm American Theater Company.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:03PMAMERICAN PSYCHO, the American premiere of a new musical based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis -- which celebrates the 25th anniversary of its publication this March -- has just begun rehea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02PMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Managing Director Jeff Griffin, announced today that two-time Tony Award nominee Stark Sands Kinky Boots, Jo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01PMThe Broadway tap legend explores his life and career in the new stage show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMTony Award winner Chuck Cooper joins the company of the iconic musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMM. Bevin O'Gara will direct Carla Ching's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMF. Murray Abraham joins Sands in the new production directed by Brian Kulick.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMThe Encores! production starred Jonathan Groff, Ana Gasteyer, among other Broadway favorites.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
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Willy Russell and Bill Kenwright speak to Elaine Peake about Blood Brothers EP: How did you come up with the idea of writing a full-scale musical? WR: The kind of theatre …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:54PMDue to overwhelming demand, the producers of the Off-Broadway smash, RUTHLESS! THE MUSICAL, today put a new block of seats on sale through June 18th. RUTHLESS! opened on July 13, 2015 to una…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:53PMGreenidge's newest play, which is inspired by Black Lives Matter, is being produced on college campuses across the country.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:50PMMaurice Hine’s Tappin’ Thru Life will play its final performance on February 21 at New World Stages off-Broadway. At the time of closing, the show will have played 21 previews an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:40PMArmed with a moisturized face, razor abs and the hottest Sony Walkman, Patrick Bateman is ready to slay Broadway as the anti-hero of the new electro-rock musical American Psycho. Broadway.co…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:40PMGary Shteyngart, the award-winning Russian émigré author who is known for his self-mocking and wildly humorous novels, will give a free talk and reading on Thursday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m., at…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:36PMEvery month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out editor Matthew Wexler’s nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:34PMFRIDAY | "Cocked": Sarah Gubbins' new play is about an anti-gun Andersonville couple forced to confront the opposing viewpoints of a surprise guest. Through March 13 at Victory Gardens Theat…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:28PMAmerican Theater Company has hired a new artistic director — Will Davis, a 33-year-old, New York-based director and choreographer who will now become one of the very few transgender creati…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:28PMChicago's innovative American Theater Company has named Will Davis, a New York-based director and choreographer, as its permanent new artistic director, effective immediately. He suc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PMThe witches in Macbeth are the most interesting and powerful characters in Shakespeare’s play, and the easiest to reconceptualise. I’ve seen them as nurses, children, old men, dancers an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:02PMSongs by Trevor Bachman, Eric March, and more will take the stage of the Metropolitan Room.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMUnderrated standup and TV writer, who plays Comedy Bar Feb. 18 to 29, is fine with not being widely known.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:00PM
“Look, look, look” to Live Arts Maryland’s production of Finian’s Rainbow for a wide variety of song genres and performances. Live Arts Maryland, the name for the Annapolis Chorale a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:52PMJoviality and waggishness may not be traits you immediately associate with the Stalinist secret police. But then you probably haven’t met Vladimir, the NKVD operative in John Hodge’s pla…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:48PMImagine a world where disease has destroyed a population and has forced regulation on human interaction and intimacy. And imagine that humans are forced to work as matrons for sex robots who…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:48PMTake a beloved classic sitcom and a cop show franchise and what do you get? CSI: Mayberry. Written and directed by Genny Yosco, the characters of "The Andy Griffith Show" are transported int…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:48PMAndy’s world is just that – a world!
Quiet on plot, loud on character, this devising cast (Rook Theatre company) has created some magical realism for
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:45PMIt appears Finding Neverland is ready to fly across the pond. The Broadway.com Audience Choice Award-winning musical will head to London in January 2017. It was initially reported that …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:39PM1. Cabaret is a landmark. When it opened in 1967 it was arguably the first Broadway hit to deal with subject matter that had been repressed, or at least buried, by the trauma of World War…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:30PMIn a remarkable effort to support the improved reading skills of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) elementary students, Emerald City Theatre has joined forces with Mary Pope Osborne – autho…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:26PMTonight, Artistic Director Mark Clements and Managing Director Chad Bauman announced Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s 2016/17 Season to a group of The Rep’s subscribers, donors, community l…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:26PMThe iconic Apollo Chorus, Chicago’s oldest musical organization and premier volunteer chorus, announces its 2015-2016 season, celebrating the power of live musical performance through cho…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:26PMHell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to announce its 2016 Season, and this year no holy cow is too sacred. What could be better than kicking off summer with the Chicago premiere o…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:26PMSara Bareilles (music and lyrics), Diane Paulus (director) and Jessie Nelson (book) took the stage at BroadwayCon to chat with Playbill's Blake Ross about the gestation of the screen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMIn Stephen Karam's The Humans, a Thanksgiving dinner serves as the catalyst for family tensions to rise to the surface. The new play comes to Broadway after an acclaimed run at Roundabo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMEXCLUSIVE: Election cycles always make for strange bedfellows, entertainment-wise. Why should this year’s be any different? Here’s an exclusive look at a new political mockumenta…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:20PMRegularly an ensemble member, Sanders fulled in for Kelli O'Hara for the first time at Wednesday's matinee.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:19PMSome unpleasant emotions are at the heart of “Hughie,” “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” “The Crucible” and “Hold On to Me, Darling.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:15PMBroadway has had some success lately with shows that ignored tired templates. This spring offers worthy additions to that encouraging trend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:14PMHolly Hunter, Annie Parisse, Ed Harris and more celebrate the opening of New Group's revival of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child Feb. 17. The Off&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PMUsing formations that shift between solos, duets and unified ensemble work, the piece has a delightfully charming messiness
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:09PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, SHUFFLE ALONG cast member J.L. Williams, who was reported missing last week, was found on Sunday. Cast member Adrienne Warren tweeted, 'THANK YOU For al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05PMBy Carlos Morton. Carlos Morton on the recent Los Angeles production of José Sanchis Sinisterra’s Ay Carmela .
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PMAmerican Theater Company has hired a new artistic director — Will Davis, a 33-year-old, New York-based director and choreographer who will now become one of the very few transgender creati…
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On tonight's AMERICAN IDOL, Season four contestant turned Broadway star Constantine Maroulis will return to the Idol stage to perform a reprise of one of his most memorable performances of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMWhen Woman of the Year opens at Dad’s Garage Theatre Company tonight (through March 12), the scripted comedy will challenge some deeply entrenched notions of
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:52PMHuman Head Performance Group’s Due to Events, a curious collection of play pieces that have been constructed by Jean Ann Douglass and Eric John Meyer into a performance that runs through F…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:45PMIn an all-new interview with Yahoo News anchor Katie Couric, LATE LATE SHOW host James Corden shares his excitement over being named the host of the 2016 TONY AWARDS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMIn Stephen Karam's The Humans, a Thanksgiving dinner serves as the catalyst for family tensions to rise to the surface. The new play comes to Broadway after an acclaimed run at Roundabo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMThe season includes a mix of dramas, comedies, farces, musicals, and holiday favorites.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:41PMA RESTORATION OF HIGH SPIRITS.. Looking back at this play’s first outing – in the outdoor, summery, rackety pleasure that is Shakespeare’s Globe – I remember actually liking …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:33PMThe new touring production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, now playing at the Academy of Music, doesn’t offer many surprises. But for the show’s devoted fans – and judging from the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32PMby STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Azadeh Ahmadibaseri and her husband, Mohammad (Mo) Faraji, are both in their early 30s, and, at the time we met, were celebrating their 43rd day of living in the U…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 12:32PMTake a trip to the Kit Kat Klub in this week's Theater Loop Showcase video. Andrea Goss, the star of the "Cabaret" national tour, performs the title song from John Kander and Fred Ebb's Weim…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30PMOn the next episode of TV Land's YOUNGER titled 'Beyond Therapy', Josh and Liza's relationship becomes strained after he is included in a New York Times profile.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:29PMJ.L. Williams, a cast member of the upcoming Broadway musical Shuffle Along who went missing for four days before winding up in a New York hospital, has thanked his well-wishers and prom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMThe Ordway Center for the Performing Arts presentsA Chorus Line, now playing through Feb. 28. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the cast in action below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:26PMEXCLUSIVE: Former CBS Evening News anchor and NBC Today Show co-host Katie Couric is roaming the country as Global News Anchor for Yahoo News, insulated from the upheavals ongoing in the oth…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:24PMThe return engagement of Tune in Time, the game show for musical lovers, is set to feature guest artists Daisy Eagan and popular performance group The Skivvies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMDirector who worked with Tom Stoppard and was associate to Peter Hall at the National TheatreIn a long and illustrious career, the stage director Peter Wood, who has died aged 90, etched his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:20PMTony winner Chuck Cooper, a handful of fellow Broadway alums, 14 high schoolers and more will join the previously announced Skylar Astin, Bianca Marroquín and Morgan Hernandez for Ca…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:19PMNewly engaged Phillipa Soo stopped by The Today Show on February 18 to chat about a musical you might just have heard of called Hamilton. How is she enjoying playing Eliza Hamilton in Lin-Ma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:19PMA stage adaptation of Jeff Wayne's classic opened in the West End last night
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:19PMFollowing the opening of Norma, Michael Coveney reflects on the controversy surrounding the English National Opera
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:19PMThe producers of the new Off-Broadway musical DADDY LONG LEGS, and Paul Gordon Music amp Lyrics have released The Secret of Happiness sheet music from DADDY LONG LEGS for free.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMThe Denver Center for the Performing Arts DCPA is proud to announce full casting and creative team for the Theatre Company's upcoming production of Sweeney Todd, featuring new orchestrations…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09PMA cash infusion of more than $6 million is heading to Chicago's arts community.
For the first time, the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will direct all of its Ma…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:07PMThe London transplant "Graeme of Thrones" — not to be confused with the Emmy-award winning HBO television series "Game of Thrones" — is coming to the Broadway Playhouse this fall.
This…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:07PMThe Sunday April 24, 300pm matinee performance of Lincoln Center Theater's Tony Award-winning production of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's The King and I at the Vivian Beaumont Theater 150 West 6…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMStage and screen actress Diane Lane is helping fund a new grant for female arts educators in honor of late composer, writer and director Elizabeth Swados, according to The New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMTony winner Nina Arianda, Reg Rogers, Carson Elrod, and more to star alongside Kline.
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Meet Alice Murphy. If you knew her story, you wouldn't believe it. Inspired by an astonishing true event, the wholly original new musical BRIGHT STAR tells a sweeping tale of love and redemp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMOn a recent New York afternoon, Joel Grey, 83, was in high spirits, marking the publication of his memoir, "Master of Ceremonies." For a performer who hid who he was for decades, Grey is now…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 11:57AMFinding Neverland, the new musical at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre that explores J.M. Barrie's creation of the tale of Peter Pan, will arrive in London in January 2017.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMThe Oscar-nominated film star began her theatre career in plays with music by the pioneering composerwriterdirector.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:55AMBy Danny Coleman-Cooke
Julie Atherton is a true musical talent and this cabaret evening provides a brilliant opportunity for her to demonstrate this. It’s running for a few more days, and …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:55AMHey there, ho there, Fantasy Broadway Players! It’s time for another season of the only game on the web that lets you play Producer . . . Will . . . It . . . Recoup? (said to the rhy…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:52AMNEW YORK (AP) -- At a cafe the other day, Joel Grey was drawn to an item on the menu that was both confusing and intriguing....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:52AMTheater-goers might not realize it, but Carole King did not write or produce the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical named after her, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. In fact, she was opp…
SOURCE: PBS at 11:52AMUniversity of Colorado athletics officials have agreed to pay about $100,000 to buy out three of four Colorado Shakespeare Festival performances that were scheduled to occur on the same wee…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:52AMThe BROADWAY SINGS concert series will present its 10th show this February with Broadway Sings Billy Joel. A cast of 20 Broadway stars will sing completely new arrangements of the Piano Man'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMAdam Kantor shares how he put his original stamp on this beloved Fiddler character.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:48AMThese Tony-nominated Broadway legends and TV stars sing and dish about the Golden Age of Broadway, their triumphs, disappointments, romances, co-stars and much more. See Anita Gillette and P…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:44AMChicago's The New Colony has announced the world premiere of Merge by Spencer Davis; the new play is inspired by the real-life story of the 1970's Atari programmers who fought ag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMWelcome to our very first original Theatre Guide comic! Story Submission: Submit your story idea for a future comic! If we use it on our Theatre Guide family of websites, you get author cred…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:29AMIn the Broadway hit HAMILTON, Phillipa Soo plays Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, wife of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York City.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:28AMOver the summer,Jonathan Groffled the Encores Off-Center production ofWilliam FinnandJames Lapine's A NEW BRAIN, and fans who didn't make it to the show need not worry any longer. The produc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMJim Quinn (Timothee Chalamet) standing in for the full-of-himself playwright at age 15 tells his tale of woe from “a room in hell.”
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 11:17AMHappy Birthday, Christopher Sieber Sieber made his Broadway debut as Agis in the musical Triumph of Love with Betty Buckley and F. Murray Abraham. Following this role, he appeared as a repla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMAccording to GoogleTrends, viewers appeared to be much more interested in learning who exactly was Alexander Hamilton
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMThe project marks the 11th full-length album for the 62 year old music icon who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame last year.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMBefore he heads to London's St. James Theatre, Ben Rimalower will perform his two Off-Broadway solo shows, Patti Issues and Bad with Money, at KTCHN at 42West Feb. 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMHines performed on Broadway in Sophisticated Ladies and Uptown...It's Hot!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMScott Elliott directs the New Group's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
The London transplant "Graeme of Thrones" — not to be confused with the Emmy-award winning HBO television series "Game of Thrones" — is coming to the Broadway Playhouse this fall. This …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:43AMAhead of this year's WhatsOnStage Awards, we look back at some of the 2006 winners to see what they are up to now
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:42AMBy Seamus Sullivan. Playwright Seamus Sullivan writes about the process of remaking Hamlet as a noir-infused web series.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:41AMComplete casting has been announced for Carnegie Hall's large-scale revival of West Side Story, which will be presented March 4-6 at the Knockdown Center, a restored 50,000-s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMBuried Child
Off Broadway, Pershing Square Signature Center, The New Group
Reviewed by Michael Hartung
BOTTOM LINE: An abrasive and fascinating look at an American family, Sam Shepard’s …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:27AMWhen Josh Lamon and Noah Racey were at what would be director Gary Griffin’s final callback for Signature’s upcoming performance of Road Show, both actors felt an immediate bond wit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMWe have seen Nancy Robinette and Lee Mikeska Gardner don the costumes of infamous singer Florence Foster Jenkins in Stephen Temperley’s wickedly funny Souvenir. Now comes news that M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMCarnegie Hall today announced the full cast for its upcoming production of West Side Story, to be presented in three performances on March 4, 5, and 6, 2016 at the Knockdown Center, a restor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22AMActress Ann Sanders made a bit of history this week when she stepped into the role of Anna Leonowens in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of The King and I, replacing Tony winner Kelli O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMThe Broadway production of Stephen Karam's much-raved-about new play, THE HUMANS opens tonight, February 18, 2016. Directed by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello and featuring its entire acclaim…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMDue to demand, The New Group has announced a second extension for Sam Shepard's Buried Child, now playing through April 3. Originally set to play through March 13, an extension through Sunda…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMSHOW BOAT will be sailing from Sheffield to London when the Crucible's hit production transfers to the West End this spring. The Daily Mail writes that stars Gina Beck, Emmanuel Kojo and Reb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AMDynamic Broadway and Disney starAnneliese van der Pol That's So Raven, Beauty and the Beast, Vanities teams up with frequent Feinstein's54 Below headliner and vocalist extraordinaireTyce Gre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AMDynamic Broadway and Disney starAnneliese van der Pol That's So Raven, Beauty and the Beast, Vanities teams up with frequent Feinstein's54 Below headliner and vocalist extraordinaireTyce Gre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AMLike going to a well-reviewed famous restaurant and having a mediocre, hard to digest meal while at the same time being shortchanged. That’s PRODIGAL SON – the newest play from our awa…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:06AMBroadway’s Future Songbook Series — presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul — will continue Feb. 29 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Libr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMCyndi Lauper, who won a Tony Award for her score to the hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots, will release her latest solo recording in May, according to showbiz411.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMFollowing the loss of its black box space in the theatre district, Musical Theatre Factory (MTF) has announced that its 2016 season will take place at a number of partnering venues throughou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMTraverse, EdinburghFrom Anton Lachky’s cartoonish Dreamers to Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar’s sensual Process Day, this talented company puts on a powerful performance Chalking up 30 years, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMThe Court Theatre’s production of Satchmo at the Waldorf closed on Sunday. Barry Shabaka Henley’s final performance was, by all accounts, a knockout. Meanwhile, the American Conservatory…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:01AM
The deputy artistic director of the National Theatre (NT) has said they have a ‘responsibility’ to be diverse, after launching their new season earlier this month. It includes a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:54AMStray Dog’s latest production, a two-act play written in 1979 by Peter Colley, has a familiar assortment of promising, hair-raising set-ups. The Sanderson couple, Greg and Jan (Jeff Kargus…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:54AMLauren Ambrose (Awake and Sing!, Exit the King, "Six Feet Under") has landed a leading role in the Amazon drama pilot "The Interestings," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMJenny Rachel WeinerHometown: I grew up in South Florida, or as I affectionately call it “Hot New York”. It’s the part of Florida where all the Jews from the Northeast retire to. …
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 09:31AMYou've got to treat yourself to this glorious YouTube find.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 09:28AMJust yesterday, star ofMauriceHines Tappin' Thru Life, Maurice Hines himself, was honored with his very own portrait at Sardi's. BroadwayWorld was there for the special celebration and you c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:28AMThe world of Roald Dahl is a fantastical place that stretches the boundaries of imagination. One of his best known works, next to Charlie and Chocolate Factory, is James and the Giant Peach.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23AMThe writer of King Charles III debuts a new piece which will run in a season featuring another new work by Howard Brenton
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:22AMAn October 2016 opening that could fill some of the gaps created by the shuttering of Johnny D's next month.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:03AMPeggy Schuyler finally gets the spotlight! Jasmine Cephas Jones, who plays Peggy in the Broadway phenomenon Hamilton, takes center stage in the latest Ham4Ham, part of the series of imprompt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AMGood morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it Today's big news THE HUMANS opens on Broadway,OLD HATS …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01AMTony-winner Len Cariou is the rare actor who has mastered both Shakespeare and Sondheim, his love for musical theatre and the Bard coming together in a delightful show titled Broadway and th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:01AMFrom the outside, the state of Bulgarian theatre looks in fine health. Indeed, a foreigner might even think it is booming. Half
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe air is heavy inside the studio where Aoife Duffin has just finished a rehearsal for A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFrench painter alternated between impressionism, modernismLegion of Honor exhibit shows his role in the history of French modernismMore than 70 works in show span artist’s career … …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 09:00AM‘Happy Armenians’ presents alternative version of Armenian historyIn the imaginative work, everything goes right rather than what actually occurred: genocideLocal premiere is joint produ…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 09:00AMExperienced collaborators share directing of ‘Twelfth Night’Mid 18th-century Caribbean is setting for love-triangle comedyCo-directors believe Shakespeare is relevant to modern audiences…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 09:00AM
EDITOR'S NOTE: Welcome to CT Poet's Corner, a monthly feature highlighting poetry by Connecticut authors. This month's poem by Margaret Gibson captures not only the sadness of Alzheimer's di…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:36AMThe World Premiere of BURNING DESIRE, a play written by and starring Lou Diamond Phillips THE KING AND I will be staged at Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury, CT. The production, directed by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:33AMRoundabout Theatre Company, in association with Daryl Roth Productions, presents thefirst-ever New York revival of Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman's musical comedy THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM.The p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:30AMSignature Theatre presents a special return engagement of Old Hats, created and performed by Bill Irwin and David Shiner, with music and lyrics by and featuring Shaina Taub, directed by Tina…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:22AMTheBroadway production of Stephen Karam's much-raved-about new play, THE HUMANS, recently named 'The Best Play of the Year' by New York Magazine, opens tonight, February 18, 2016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:20AMShakespeare's Globe has announced the initial casting for their film series
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:08AM
I recently finished working on a show with my university theatre. Although (at writing) we’ve only just opened, my role as the props manager came to a close as the show started on opening …
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 07:55AMWe caught of with the stars of The New Group's production of the Sam Shepard classic on opening night!
SOURCE: Broadway Style Guide at 07:51AMCenter for the Art of Performance at UCLA is proud to present Noura Mint Seymali, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania’s defining artist on the international stage, along with her band. …
SOURCE: Showbiz So Cal at 07:46AMAfter helping to put on performances in the Jungle refugee camp, I’ve seen how theatre can become a shelter, literal and emotional. With the camp now under threat, British and French autho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMAbbey, DublinStephen Rea is riveting as a troubled Ulster loyalist whose hatred of ‘the Fenians’ drives him to breakdown in this compelling Irish playThe therapist in David Ireland’s l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMWith such an abundance of grand guignol, it’s best perhaps to let the music propel you through the three indulgent hours. Although not peppered with telly advertising favourites, Vincenzo …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:42AMAward-winning playwright Bathsheba Doran’s heartfelt new work, “The Mystery of Love & Sex,” opens Sunday, February 21, 2016, at 7 p.m. at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum.…
SOURCE: Showbiz So Cal at 07:40AMI guess it was The Bachelor or The Bachelorette or one of those “non-scripted” (ahem!) reality shows that started it. But it’s now a thing. I’m talking about The Pos…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 07:36AMEd Harris heads Sam Shepard's creepy American gothic family in the New Group's riveting revival.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:36AMSOMEWHAT FORCED, WE STILL GET THE GLORY OF WEST SIDE STORY Strangely enough, West Side Story feels more dated than Romeo and Juliet, its 500-year-old inspiration. Compared to Shakespeare…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:36AMBURIED BETWEEN THE LINES In Scott Elliott’s surefooted staging of Sam Shepard’s imperfect Buried Child, watching Ed Harris sitting on a raggedy couch under an old blanket in front of a l…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:36AMThe opera company enters the coming season with six new productions, a slimmed-down budget and looming questions about when its ailing maestro, James Levine, will step aside.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal at 07:36AM'The Brothers Size' from Tarell Alvin McCraney feels like a folktale, and its three characters are based on Yoruban deities
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:36AMCall Redialed: Sometimes you go months to a few years without speaking to someone and the minute you reconnect, you pick up right where you left off. Well, that’s what happened when "A…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 07:36AMNEW YORK — Sandy Duncan's return to Broadway — and in a musical about Peter Pan — will be short-lived.The actress, who played the boy who won't grow up on Broadway from 1979-81, has l…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 07:36AMMale characters sing to toy dolls and everyone seems to wind up under the covers of a young girl's bed.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:36AMA beautifully executed new play. Review also appears in other North Jersey Media Newspapers.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 07:36AMCelebrate Belize's birthday or see a wordless retelling of a story you already know.
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 07:33AMThe host of “Bar Rescue” on the power of transformation television, abstaining from alcohol and the two times he cried in a bar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:31AMThe sheer amount of acting schools across the country can be overwhelming to the aspiring theater star. By investing in a training program that is also tied to a professional company produci…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMFor better or worse, casting notices often call for an actor with specific physical features: hair color, height, weight, race, etc. And while determining these casting restrictions is usual…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMMr. Rudetsky is so immersed in New York theater, he’s sometimes known as the mayor of Broadway. His latest project is a spoof of ’70s disaster films.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:28AMSandy Duncan left the “Peter Pan” prequel “Finding Neverland” after just five performances in the musical.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:26AMNew Group revival of Sam Shepard's "Buried Child" features a stand-out Ed Harris.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:26AMAnd on the 1,944th day, He rested. David Javerbaum will no longer post as God on @thetweetofgod.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:26AMMusical about life at the turn of the 20th century speaks to today... Read more »
SOURCE: ticket.heraldtribune.com at 07:24AMTony-nominated musical about contestants vying to win a new pickup truck... Read more »
SOURCE: ticket.heraldtribune.com at 07:24AMHaving hit the big screen in 1991, animated Disney classic Beauty and the Beast — based off a mid-1700s French fable — really is a tale as old as time. Now, 25 years later, that old stor…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 07:24AMNEW YORK (AP) -- There's more than one way to damage a child, as evident in Sam Shepard's "Buried Child," a darkly surreal comedy about the decline…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:23AMSam Shepard had already been writing for the theater for 14 years when Buried Child won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979. The play—his 23rd or so, depending on how you count—was both a distill…
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:20AM"That's the thing about corsets," Keira Knightley mumbles to her agent. "Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in." Knightley, who recently appeared as 19th …
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:20AMSandy Duncan has made a hasty exit from Broadway musical “Finding Neverland,” with its producers — led by Harvey Weinstein — battling rumors that she quit with a stat…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20AMDirector Robert Icke has become the great hope of British theater. The 29-year-old has a rare talent for tapping into a text’s driving forces. He staged “1984” not as a possible future…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20AMWe know “a Sam Shepard actor” when we see one. He’s lean and weather-beaten and never far from a bottle. A mean look in his eye suggests he might be dangerous, or maybe jus…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20AMHand to God is a humorous look at sex and religion from extreme puppets and not suitable for children
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:14AM“Circle Mirror Transformation” ran at Playwrights Horizons, opening on October 13, 2009 and closing after several extensions on January 31, 2010. It was a remarkable debut for pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08AMDespite game performers this fails to provide a sense of the cumulative power of O'Neill's magnum opus or the complexity of the Mannons.
SOURCE: at 07:06AMEnglish National Opera imports Opera North's 2012 staging of Bellini's bel canto masterpiece
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:01AMThe production kicks off its tour in Liverpool in April
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:01AMThe production kicks off its tour at the Leicester Curve
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:01AM“Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one’s life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues.” Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWhen I was a little girl, I decided that I wanted to show my wonderful mum just how much I loved her.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 18 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Irish actor Lorcan Cranitch has carved a career out of moving between theatre and screen work, and between the UK and Ireland.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMHG Wells’ prose is the hero of Jeff Wayne’s full-blown musical revival, which has enough bombast to drown out any ringtones in the audienceThere was always an overlap between the concept…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM[Click any photo to enlarge. All photos by Michael Pittman] By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III www.ThePeoplesCritic.com Old timers will remember early television’s Ed Sullivan and his long-running v…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 06:32AMHugh Bonneville, best known nowadays for playing Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham, in TV's 'Downton Abbey,' is to return to the stage to star in Ibsen's An Enemy of t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:02AMHugh Bonneville, best known nowadays for playing Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham, in TV's "Downton Abbey," is to return to the stage to star in Ibsen's An Enemy of the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:02AMA cash infusion of more than $6 million is heading to Chicago's arts community. For the first time, the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will direct all of its Mac…
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Scan the Chicago cultural landscape and you will notice that in many cases it is ...
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SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:59AMJeff Wayne's musical version opened at the Dominion last night
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:51AMFollowing critical acclaim and announcing an extension in the West End, the Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls will tour throughout the UK, opening at the Liverpool Empire…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:29AM by Joe Regan Jr. Broadway Inspirational Voices is a Grammy nominated multi-racial gospel choir whose mission is to give hope, inspiration, and changed live…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:20AMSimon McBurney journeys up the Amazon into the heart of darkness and and finds light and enlightenment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:01AMRita Davies, who has died after a short illness aged 82, enjoyed a golden autumn as a much in-demand presence on television
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWhen Melissa Bayern put herself forward to understudy the role of the Witch in Into the Woods at Manchester’s Royal Exchange, the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMStage Entertainment has, for some time, been the biggest commercial theatre operator in mainland Europe. Formed in 1998, after it was spun
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMEight months ago I made the move from London to Leeds to become executive director and joint chief executive at West Yorkshire
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM
Ageing seems to be all about loss: physical ability, looks, and sharpness-of-mind’ and for those that have known the adoration of ‘the public’, they also lose their talent, their ident…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:56AMThe Joffrey Ballet announced its 2016-17 season Thursday, highlighting the results attained over the last nine years by artistic director Ashley Wheater in his ongoing quest to create a "wor…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:05AMThe Joffrey Ballet makes no small plans. And anyone who has caught its current "Bold Moves" program - running through Sunday at the Auditorium Theatre - will know that its sensational dancer…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 01:01AMNFL Stars (and Jiffpom) Suit Up for Super Bowl Party
YH hits up the Suits and Sneakers party in San Francisco during Super Bowl 50 where we chat with NFL stars past and present, and even a v…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMReed Birney, Jayne Houdyshell, and more star in the production tonight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMTroye Sivan on the Meaning Behind 'Blue Neighbourhood'
YH is at the iHeart Radio Theater to sit down with singer, songwriter, and YouTube personality Troye Sivan to get the scoop on his debu…
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A fine but wayward cast led by Ed Harris and Amy Madigan makes an almost unwatchable mess of Sam Shepard’s ferocious drama Buried Child. I can report this with some confidence not onl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:58AMFamily tensions reach boiling point over Thanksgiving in off-Broadway hit The Humans, which will officially open on the Main Stem on February 18. Written by Stephen Karam and directed by Joe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:52AMChicago Shakespeare Theater CST presents Shakespeare's intimate tragedy of heartbreak and revenge, OTHELLO. Staged by UK award-winning director Jonathan Munby, the production features James …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMNew York City's CORE club will host a special advance screening of SHE'S THE BEST THING IN IT, Ron Nyswaner's documentary on Tony winner Mary Louise Wilson, tonight, February 18, 2016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMThe Old Globe's world premiere of Anna Ziegler's THE LAST MATCH, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch who directed Bethany at the Globe in 2014, opens tonight, February 18, 2016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMPiccolo Theatre presents The Misanthrope, in a new version by British playwright, Martin Crimp. The production serves as a new exploration of modern comedy for Piccolo, known historically …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:26AMContinuing with their successful run of fun, affordable weekend entertainment for all ages, Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Avenue, Chicago, is proud to extend their cheeky, family-friendly quart…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:26AMThe Montana Repertory Theatre production of Arthur Miller’s classic, “All My Sons” comes to the McAninch Arts Center, located at 425 Fawell Blvd. on the campus of College of DuPage, Sa…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:26AM Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, announces its 42nd season, including three World Premieres and two Midwe…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:26AM Broadway In Chicago is pleased to announce ONE-MAN STAR WARS TRILOGY will play the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut) for a limited one-week engagement April 19…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:26AMBurning Desire, a new play written by and starring Tony nominee Lou Diamond Phillips, makes its world premiere beginning Feb. 18 at Connecticut's Seven Angels Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14AMBill Irwin and David Shiner return to Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre with their family-friendly show Old Hats, which officially opens Feb. 18. The show, which played a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14AMIt may be a revival, but director Alex Timbers' take on Roundabout Theatre Company's Robber Bridegroom is anything but nostalgic. He and star Steven Pasquale talk about inje…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14AMFollowing an acclaimed Off-Broadway premiere last fall, the Broadway transfer of Stephen Karam’s family ensemble drama The Humans officially opens Feb. 18 following pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14AMPreviews begin Feb. 18 for the Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman’s musical comedy The Robber Bridegroom, starring The Brid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14AMTony winner Victoria Clark, most recently on Broadway in a Tony-nominated turn in Gigi, performs on the Feb. 18 broadcast of NBC's "Today."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14AMNew York's Core: Club is hosting a private advanced screening of the Mary Louise Wilson documentary "She's the Best Thing In It" Feb. 18, celebrating the film's digital…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14AMBill Irwin and David Shiner return to Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre with their family-friendly show Old Hats, which officially opens Feb. 18. The show, which played a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMInjecting grit and guts into the 40-year-old bluegrass musical.
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