Who is Frances Rings? Frances is an award-winning Aboriginal dancer and choreographer, known for her work with Bangarra Dance Theatre. She has recently been appointed as Head of Creative St…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:44PMFrom the producers who brought you the Tony-Award winning Broadway hit A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDERcomes EASTER MYSTERIES,an original, and wholly entertaining musical theater depic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:38PM by: Carol Rocamora Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s aide, ice-fishing in Minnesota? Yes, it sounds like a mixed metaphor, but that’s the kind of jo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:21PMColman Domingo examines the delicate time when children and parents switch roles.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PM
By Sandi Durell Ah, the joys of family and the holidays as the Shealys gather for Christmas in the neat little home where Dotty’s memory (Dot play…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:38PM by Susan Hasho Based on true events, The Body of an American by Dan O’Brien begins with an interview on podcast and an email, with visuals on a screen behind the actors. Paul…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:37PMJoin Australian singer, musician and comedienne Chelsea Plumley in a witty live musical variety show, Follow Spot at Chapel Off Chapel for three nights from 26 February 2016. Chelsea focu…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:23PMOne of Tennessee Williams’ bleaker, darker plays,– the one-act dramatic cry of despair, Suddenly Last Summer (which was expanded beyond its more compressed scope in the famous Elizab…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06PMDot -- which was first presented at the 2015 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, with Johnson in the title role -- is not yet quite in a finished state. The first act could use…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:03PMDOT(Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre)review by Ben FerberColman Domingo’s Dot centers on West Philadelphia siblings dealing with their
mother’s escalating dementia at Christmastime. …
SOURCE: reviews250.tumblr.com at 10:01PMDOT
(Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre)
review by Ben Ferber
Colman Domingo’s Dot centers on West Philadelphia siblings dealing with their
mother’s escalating dementia at Christmastim…
SOURCE: reviews250.tumblr.com at 10:01PMThe man behind the camera takes a bow.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
It really isn't a spoiler to quote the last line of Stephen Sondheim's "Road Show," which is enjoying a rare and welcome revival at Signature Theatre: "Sooner or later we're bound to get it …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:46PMBenjamin Walker will put his moneymaker to use on Broadway in “American Psycho,” based on Brett Easton Ellis’ savage novel.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:46PMLarge dumpsters, the kind often seen at construction sites or behind restaurants, play a prominent role in Dámaso Rodriguez's kinetic modern-dress production of William Shakespeare's "Romeo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:46PMby Samuel L. Leiter The body of an American referred to by the title of Dan O’Brien’s darkly compelling play, being given a sharply acted and staged production by Primary Stages a…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:32PMA third theatre space and a new education center are in the works for one of the country's most respected regional theatres.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21PMA family copes with its matriarch's worsening dementia in this comedy-drama written by 'Fear the Walking Dead' actor Colman Domingo. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
The Mobile Unit tour is set to make a stop at the Library for the Performing Arts for the first time.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30PMFew would dare dispute that the effects of war can linger long, even for those who've never taken a weapon onto a battlefield.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:30PMProfessional Children's School alumni Arlene Shuler and Robert Fairchild will be on hand to receive the PCS LEGACIES AWARD at a gala benefit featuring a cabaret performance by some of the sc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:19PMLincoln Center's free concert series The History of the World in 100 Performances with Adam Gopnikkicked off on February 17 with Leonard Bernstein's 1943 takeover of the New York Philharmoni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:19PMECLIPSED is a Broadway rarity a story about African women written by an African woman.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:19PMBroadwayWorld is excited to introduce the star-studded cast of Theatre Under The Stars TUTS' production of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's MARY POPPINS. EVITA's Christina DeCicco and DAMES A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:19PMA bit of harsh truth here that I think is pretty much widely recognized, but also generally remains unspoken. A lot of the correspondence I get from artists and agents goes directly into the…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:04PM
Given that Edmond Rostand’s 1897 tragicomic verse play Cyrano de Bergerac gave the word "panache" to the English language, it’s an irony that panache is the quality most woefully lacking…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:50PMIt’s nearly March and we’re still getting panto. Well, sort of panto – more like the cold, corporate, Disney-fied product that is children’s theatre. Pick a fairytale, get some famo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:46PMFantastical extravaganza: The Southern Light Opera Company charm and fascinate as they take the trip over the rainbow every day until Saturday at the Kings Theatre, Edinburgh.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:45PMTOWARD A SAFE THEATER In 2015 Bathsheba Doran’s The Mystery of Love & Sex opened to mixed notices Off Broadway, which seems to be the exact pipeline for shows to get produced at L…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:42PMTHIS LOSS IS OUR GAIN William Inge knew the human heart better than a surgeon. In Bus Stop, Picnic, Come Back, Little Sheba, and Dark at the Top of the Stairs, this closeted author exposes o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:42PMYou know what I love about the end of Q3? It means two things are coming . . . warmer temperatures and . . . The Tony Awards. If the Broadway season were a drama, we’re be ramping up t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 07:42PMIt's a safe bet the only thing standing between children and their ability to absorb the most challenging art is the adult with a limited imagination. There was no danger of that happening S…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 07:42PMThe ancient Greeks had an enviable knack for understanding human nature and, especially, human misjudgments, the kind that can set off wave after wave of tragedy. A multilayered case in poin…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 07:42PMTheater lovers convened at New World Stages in New York City for the fifth annual TEDxBroadway earlier this week.
Curated for the TED Talks format to inspire artists, shed light on pressing …
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:42PMColumbia University and Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith named Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “Hamilton” the recipient of the 2016 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by …
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:42PMHistory-loving musical theater buffs rejoice: These hit shows (including one super-hot Grammy winner) offer more than entertainment value. Get thee to a theater for these eight musicals base…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:42PM"What would happen to a pop culture narrative pushed past the fall of civilization?"
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:42PMPlaywright Samuel D. Hunter hears Middle America’s quiet desperation, the low moan of people who have lost their connection to the past, to loved ones, to the lives they thought they’d l…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:42PM
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SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:40PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The Vineyard Theatre's annual gala will have a starry lineup including Sally Field, Santino Fontana, Ann Harada, Bill Irwin, John Kander, Bill Pullman, Molly…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:39PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Hundreds of young women from across the U.S. are vying for a chance to become a Rockette in New York City....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:39PMHis partner, Taron Egerton, had absolutely NO idea what was going on.
SOURCE: USA Today at 07:38PMIn the wake of #OscarsSoWhite, the actress addressed her hand in Hollywood's whitewashing.
SOURCE: USA Today at 07:38PMGeorge C. Wolfe, the director-writer at the helm of the upcoming, starry Broadway musical “Shuffle Along,” will be honored by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center with the 201…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:37PMExpress Media has announced Brisbane-based freelancer and Founding Editor of Hot Chicks with Big Brains, Bri Lee as the recipient of the inaugural Kat Muscat Fellowship. The Kat Muscat Fe…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:08PMTake cover! Outside of the David Mamet oeuvre, it is rare indeed to find a play that begins as speedily and forcefully as Colman Domingo's new piece for the Vineyard Theatre, Dot.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMLike Liza Minnelli’s in Cabaret, the unforgettable image of Marlene Dietrich hovers over Kabarett & Cabaret, a production of the 2015-16 In Series at the Source Theatre. Kabarett &…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:01PM"he kicker, so to speak, is that one of the dancers is moving live, before us, and the other is moving in a studio somewhere else in the world, from Europe to Japan," Mindy Aloff, New York.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 07:00PMSirius XM Radio's Seth Rudetsky will join Hilty and O'Hara as pianist and host.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00PM
The Inwood Film Festival has just announced the jury for its ShortShorts program as part of its inaugural Short Film Festival in Inwood, NYC, on March 2 and 3, 2016 at Casandra Hall. In a ne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:57PMPlaywrights Horizons presents the New York premiere production ofFAMILIAR, a new play by Obie Award-winnerDanai Gurira, directed byRebecca Taichman. FAMILIARwill have its Opening Nighton Thu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:57PMQuinn VanAntwerp stops by Broadway.com HQ for a chat before his evening show.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:56PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Matt Doyle & Beth Behrs Make a Dent
Matt Doyle and his childhood bestie Beth Behrs will launch Dents, a digital comic w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:56PMLyric Opera general director Anthony Freud's bringing in directors from the theater world to help breathe new dramatic life and contemporary relevance into an old art form thus far has produ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:25PMPhoto by Meredith ZinnerROMANA SOUTUS(Playwright/Performer) is a New York based actress, playwright & producer. She graduated in May 2014 cum laude from Fordham University's prestigious …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:25PMName: Zach LibrescoHometown: Mineola, NYEducation: Wesleyan UniversitySelect Credits: The Shakespeare Forum's The Merchant of Venice (Lorenzo); dell'Arte Opera Ensemble's The Fairy Queen (De…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 06:19PMKlea Blackhurst will play the wisecracking maid.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:15PMLisa Horner is sublime in the dual roles of mother and daughter Big and Little Edie Beale in the musical Grey Gardens at Berkeley Street Downstairs Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:01PMCheck out Gurira's latest production, directed by Rebecca Taichman.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PM
In the madcap comedy Noises Off, Kate Jennings Grant plays the charming actress Belinda Blair. In the show, she tries to be a pillar for the ragtag company of actors in this play within a p…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:54PMSeth Rudetsky has an exclusive interview with the Republican front-runner... sort of.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:50PMThe Broadway at Birdland concert series was proud to present NY1 theater journalist Frank DiLella in the third episode of his new talk show, Show Biz After Hours with Frank DiLella.' Frank's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:50PMIn true Monty Python spirit, The 39 Steps takes an overly serious Alfred Hitchcock film, underscores its classic absurdity, then adds in numerous ridiculous elements and a few pop culture re…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:43PMAlthough everyone agrees that Sarah Kane was one of the most influential British playwrights of the 1990s, revivals of her work have been few and far between. Now, at last, some 17 years aft…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:43PMBoeing Boeing is a real trip back to the swinging 60s, when men dressed in jackets and ties around the house, flight attendants (only women) were called stewardesses, and were hired more for…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:39PMFRIDAY | "Flanagan's Wake": Chicago Theater Works remounts the improvisational comedy about an Irish town in mourning. Open run at Chicago Theater Works, 1113 W. Belmont Ave.; 312-391-0404 a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:36PMSydney Lucas, Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess led starry concert staging of The Secret Garden.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:34PMHere’s Johnny! Colt Prattes, a Broadway alum who appeared in the ensembles of West Side Story and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, will star in the previously announce…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMMary-Arrchie Theatre Co.'s "American Buffalo," the company's final production, will extend an additional two weeks.
David Mamet's fast-talking drama set in a Chicago junk shop, directed by…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:22PMTony Award-winning director George C. Wolfe will receive the 16th Monte Cristo Award.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PMEXCLUSIVE: A UCLA-sponsored study of Hollywood’s favorite subject — itself — concludes that expanding opportunities for women and minorities behind and in front of the came…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:16PMLyric Opera general director Anthony Freud's bringing in directors from the theater world to help breathe new dramatic life and contemporary relevance into an old art form thus far has produ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:08PMThe celebrated stage and film director, playwright, and actor will receive the award this spring.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:07PMThe musical will return to New York City.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMCharles Messina's new play is set to open at the June Havoc Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM
Ted Chapin reflects on a star-studded musical escape with Broadway on the High Seas.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMWhat was the inspiration behind Samuel D. Hunter's POCATELLO, and especially its setting in an Olive Garden? Read here to learn more.
The post When You’re Here, You’re Family: Sa…
SOURCE: breakingcharactermagazine.com at 04:42PMThe Dramatists Guild of America presented their annual awards on Monday, February 22, 2016, at The American Airlines Theatre Penthouse Lobby in New York. Preceding the awards event was the r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39PMThe company also announced casting for Blue\/Orange.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PMIt's a separate project from the Chlo\u00EB Grace Moretz Little Mermaid shooting at Universal
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PMThe tenth annual FRIGID Festival is underway in New York City's East Village, and in our first of two dispatches from it; our first trio of plays under discussion includes a twelve year-…
SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 04:35PMA wildly successful entrepreneur, Stuart received two Emmys, 13 Emmy noms and an ACTRA Award for lifetime achievement
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 04:31PMIn the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through an exit interview with HR about their time at the company. That concept doesn’t exist for Broadway perfor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:31PMFri, February 26 thru Sat, March 12 @ Reston Community Center, presented by Reston Community Players
SOURCE: Culture Capital at 04:31PMThe theatre company's 50th anniversary spring gala will celebrate the six-time Tony winner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PMCongratulations to CARRIE THE MUSICAL at?Southwark Playhouse for winning?'Best Off-West End Production' at 16th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards that took place at the Prince of Wales Theatre on S…
SOURCE: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 04:24PMThe eponymous heroine of the early-17th-century play “The Maid’s Tragedy” could teach Ophelia a thing or two about rejection. Like Hamlet’s ex, Aspatia of Rhodes sees her relationshi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:12PMScott Siegel’s Broadway by the Year returned on February 22 for its landmark 16th season at The Town Hall, and with it came a new format, and one of the most memorable nights in 2016 music…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:06PMTeachers in Virginia are working together with artists in a program that increases understanding of non-artistic subjects.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:05PMA girl who is deemed inferior to the damaged and/or questionable men surrounding her is the subject of Eimear McBride’s award-winning novel, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, now adapted for …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:02PMHidden in the murky depths, we are brought into the dystopian town of Ashley Combe where we are taken on a journey to, and past, the world’s end. The inventive combination of theatre and g…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:02PMPhoenix Dance create some truly outstanding pieces of dance theatre. They make full use of theatre as a storytelling medium, utilising all of its production aspects to enhance the superb per…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:02PMIf you’re coming to the show expecting a reenactment of Whoopi Goldberg and company’s feel-good film where a wayward woman finds God and changes her life as well as the lives of others i…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMSimply delicious. That’s perhaps the best word to describe the Adventure Theatre’s new production of James and the Giant Peach, which made its triumphant opening this past weekend at Gle…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:00PMTheater historian Jennifer Ashley Tepper, Deaf West artistic director David J. Kurs, and autism advocate Katie Sweeney were among this year's speakers.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
The company has announced its first spring season since it relit in January.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PMThe first conclusion you might reach after watching Lyric Opera's production of "Romeo and Juliet" - the 1867 opera by Charles Gounod, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michael Carre base…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:54PMThe stars of the acclaimed two-hander The Body of an American talk about working together.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 03:34PMMary-Arrchie Theatre Co.'s "American Buffalo," the company's final production, will extend an additional two weeks. David Mamet's fast-talking drama set in a Chicago junk shop, directed by …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:26PMBroadway's leading ladies will perform songs from the composer's canon.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PMCorine Cohen: I Loved Jerry’s choreography in ” Kinky Boots” it was very inventive. Particularly during the fashion show and on the machine making boots scene, and the R…
SOURCE: broadwayshowbiz.com at 03:11PMThe Shuffle Along director will be honored by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMLenny Wolpe, Rob McClure, and more will also take part.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
Now in its 5th season of self-producing an immensely successful Broadway musical series, Aurora's Paramount Theatre has announced the appointment of Chicago director Amber Mak - a fixture on…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 02:57PMBy Mary Houlihan | For the Sun-Times Beloved books and films have long served as ...
The post ‘Heathers’ stage musical a timely and relevant take on high school life appeare…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 02:52PMLights, camera, action: The 5th annual TedxBroadway took over New World Stages on February 22, 2016, celebrating Broadway and New York City with a stellar lineup of top influencers in the …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:52PMThe Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced that award-winning stage and film director, playwright, and actor George C. Wolfe will receive the 16th Monte Cristo Award.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:49PMToday, Bobby Lopez turns 41, which seems as good a time as any to resurrect this article I wrote about him and Jeff Marx on September 10, 2009, just as their hit Tony-winning musical Avenue …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PMThe Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace has announced the complete cast for the world-premiere of "Hazel," the 1960s-set musical based on the Saturday Evening Post comic strip character a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:42PMIn Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Greg Keller plays Seth, an obituary writer who discovers his mother Anna (Linda Lavin) had a torrid affair when he was a teenager. The discovery sends him dow…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:38PMthe Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace has announced the complete cast for the world-premiere of HAZEL, the 1960s-set musical based on the Saturday Evening Post comic strip character and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMTia is fourteen and lives with her foster mum in Rochdale. She’s had a rough life growing up the care system, and no one seems to care about her. When she meets “youth worker” AJ in a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:35PMIn October 1980 a daring new play opened at the National Theatre. News of its graphic violence and simulated male rape soon had Mary Whitehouse up in arms. No surprises there. But no one cou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34PMUnwin will start his post at the drama school in London this September.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:32PMDisaster! is ready to make its dent on Broadway. The raucously funny ’70s disaster movie spoof is now a musical, which is in previews at the Nederlander Theatre. The show officially o…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:23PMThe original film star shows he can still 'Step in Time.'
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PMThe Kleban Foundation recently announced the winners of its 26th annual Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre lyricist -- Stacey Luftig -- and its 26th annual Kleban Prize for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMA host of Broadway stars will join the composer in a benefit for Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMWest End alum Meera Syal has joined the cast of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company’s Romeo and Juliet. Syal will take on the role of the Nurse, joining Richard Madden as Romeo, Lily J…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMMarroquín will play Anita in Carnegie Hall's West Side Story next month.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
The hit Broadway and West End musical will open in Leicester later this year
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:51PMSolo artist and theatremaker Tim Etchells will receive a commission for a new work and four productions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:49PM“The DOMA Diaries,” a new play about the gay rights movement will have its world premiere this July in Washington DC, as part of the Capital Fringe Festival. Kevin Michael Smith, a fre…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:49PMShirley MacLaine, Poppy Drayton and Loreto Peralta will star in theupcominglive-action family film A LITTLE MERMAID,based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:46PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone has joined the star-studded Broadway roster for The Ladies Who Sing Sondheim, a gala benefit for Off-Broadway's esteemed Classic Stage Company on Mond…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMBlue Man Group will release their third studio album, THREE, on April 22, 2016, featuring 14 new instrumental tracks.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMRoundabout Theatre Company will host the 50th Anniversary Gala Spring Gala 2016 Celebrating 50 Years of Extraordinary Theatre on Monday, February 29, 2016 in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMMore than halfway through the second season, YOUNGER continues to be a must-see with fans and critics alike, hitting series highs with women and total viewers, and matching a series high wit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMThe city game and Broadway's historic hip-hop musical seem like a perfect match.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMEnter to win a pair of tickets to Dakshina’s performances Dakshina is giving away 5 pairs of tickets to the performances at the Atlas Performing Arts Center on: Saturday February 27th …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:36PMThe Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace has announced the complete cast for the world-premiere of "Hazel," the 1960s-set musical based on the Saturday Evening Post comic strip character a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:34PMThere are people in our lives that shape us into the people we become later in life. For Laura Force Scruggs, it was her grandpa. In Punk Grandpa, Scruggs offers a loving homage to the man w…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:33PMBy James McMaster. James McMaster on the politics of Hamilton and the need for a musical theatre revolution.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:31PMLast week, his show Nice Fish—a play Mr. Rylance wrote with prose poet Louis Jenkins, and directed by his wife Claire van Kampen, opened at St. Ann's Warehouse.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:30PMPaper Mill Playhouse will be hosting an invite-only, industry reading of Paul Slade Smith's The Outsider this March in New York City. In line with Paper Mill Playhouse's mission of fostering…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMThe LA Philharmonic announces its 2016-17 season, including a re-interpretation of 'Alice in Wonderland.'
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PMEXCLUSIVE Sally Field– we really, really like her. She has two Oscars (“Norma Rae” and “Places in the Heart”– rent ’em now) Categories:
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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:08PMThe actress also shares backstage stories, including one about Tony winner Betty Buckley.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PMRECOMMENDED A stage swathed with oriental rugs. On it a tambourine, a tape deck, a table lamp, a silicone-sleeved glass water bottle, an electric guitar, an amp and a suitcase. Harmonies: ra…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMThe Tony-winning actress may be coming to a city near you.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMVictoria Camblin, the editor and artistic director of the Atlanta-based magazine and contemporary art nonprofit ART PAPERS, has been selected as one of the five
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:00PMKate Whoriskey directs Greg Pierce's new drama at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe evening will be directed by Tony winner John Doyle.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMMichael Urie and Ryan Spahn will host the annual event.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
Leap Day only comes once every four years, and in 2016 we know how to celebrate: by watching the live-streamed TimesTalks of Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and playwright/co…
SOURCE: breakingcharactermagazine.com at 12:55PMWelcome to the celebration of immigrants who have enriched America. The posters hanging on an upstage backdrop at Source are photos of famous composers who lived in Germany and Austria dur…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:52PMTwo plays recently seen on Washington area stages were honored in London yesterday. On February 22nd at London’s National Theatre, Lynn Nottage received the prestigious Susan Smith B…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:52PMThe in-demand Philly writer chatted with us about her new musically-infused work produced by Azuka Theatre.
SOURCE: www.phillymag.com at 12:46PMThe collective is committed to producing eight new plays by area writers over three seasons.
SOURCE: www.phillymag.com at 12:46PMThe award-winning West End production of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Sam Mendes, continues to capture the imagination of audiences as it enters its fourth a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:45PMRomana SoutusHometown: Kyiv, UkraineCurrent Town: Brooklyn, New YorkQ: Tell me about Hyena.A: HYENA is interactive one-woman show about the beast within. The protagonist, Hy, exa…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 12:45PMToday is the birthday of Miss Juliet (Juliet Delf, 1889-1962). She appears to have been a musical impressionist in the mold of Elsie Janis and to have begun her career in the 1910s. She was …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:42PMThe 14 amateur actors playing Bottom in the RSC's latest touring production of A Midsummer Night's Dream introduce themselves
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:38PMManchester Royal Exchange artistic director Sarah Frankcom talks about the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and running the theatre
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:38PMSometimes an idea on paper sounds like brilliance but when it becomes a reality, it doesn’t quite work as well as you thought. That may be the case with The Golden Smile. Written by Y…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:38PMParticipatory theater is like being a door-to-door salesman. The pitch needs to start off so strong that the potential customer doesn’t slam the door on your face. If the pitch isn’t goo…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:38PMBroadway comes to New England in a big way when Tony Award-winning singer and actress Betty Buckley takes the stage in both Boston on February 26th and Old Saybrook on February 27th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMThe word 'kinky' doesn't usually come to mind when thinking about family-friendly entertainment. However, with the Tony-winning musical KINKY BOOTS, playing at Orlando's Dr. Phillips Center …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMLegitimate theatre and NASCAR racing make a rare marriage March 3-May 7 with the world premiere of White Lightning, playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s imagining of the moonshine-runnin�…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:29PMThe actor is starring in the world premiere of a play he's written, 'Burning Desire', in Connecticut.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:26PMAtlantic Theater Company will present their Annual Gala on Monday, March 7, 2016 at The Pierre 2 East 61 Street. Actors' Choice will celebrate Atlantic's actors with a fabulous evening of un…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:26PMVineyard Theatretoday announced that their 2016 Gala honoring award-winning actress and Vineyard Board President Kathleen Chalfant and New York theatrical press agent Sam Rudy will be hosted…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:26PMToday, the talented actress speaks exclusively with BWW about survivingthe greatest DISASTER musical to ever hit the Great White Way
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25PMNot to be outdone by Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit stage adaptation of the 2003 film SCHOOL OF ROCK, Nickelodeon will premiere a small screen version of the film on Saturday, March 12 at 930 p.m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMThe actress who plays Eliza Schuyler opens up to Seth Meyers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PMThe Paramount Theatre in Aurora, known for producing large-scale Broadway hits, will be the latest suburban theater to embark upon the development of new musicals. The company announced Tues…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:23PMThe critics are filing their reviews for Noah Haidle's newest work, starring Zachary Quinto.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMIf you’re not familiar with Julia Pascal’s 2003 play Crossing Jerusalem, that’s because the play has only had two productions in the U.S. Or perhaps it is more correct to say that …
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 12:04PMIn Liverpool a group of young people aged 16-22 are working on a play with a massive claim; The Environmentalists is the UK’s first carbon neutral play. How this is possible is one of the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:03PMTony Award winner Betty Buckley was the latest celebrity to take a trip to Broadway's Disaster!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMThe musical has been running continuously since 1996.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMPlaywright Kirsten Greenidge explores a pregnancy pact between three impoverished teenaged girls.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMMarc Vietor will direct the off-Broadway production at the Red Bull Theater.
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The talented actress (Bad Jews, The Heidi Chronicles; on TV: Difficult People, Orange is the New Black) currently co-stars as the lovable Poppy Norton-Taylor in the hilarious Roundabout Th…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:52AMDive into Broadway's new comedy Disaster! Take a look at the first shots of the show here!
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMNottage, whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award, has been well represented in Houston in recent years - with her "Intimate Apparel" produced at Main …
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 11:50AMFind out the influences behind one of New York's funniest, scene-stealing comedians, Tracee Chimo.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:45AMFrom the creative mind of Roald Dahl who created such masterpieces as “Matilda,” “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and lots mor…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMNominees for the $25,000 US prize honouring female playwrights include Brits Anna Jordan, Sam Holcroft and Bea Roberts
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:34AMEmmy and Oscar winner Sally Field is eyeing a return to Broadway in The Glass Menagerie. According to Showbiz411, a revival of the Tennessee Williams play (which was last on Broadway in 2013…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMWith Hamilton’s big win on February 15, Renée Elise Goldsberry is officially a Grammy winner. Oddly, no one bothered to tell Renée Elise Goldsberry. While visiting Late N…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMAudra McDonald is far more than a history-making, six-time Tony winner just an O away from an EGOT. She’s a humanitarian. She’s the keeper of the keys at Eggfartopia. Above all t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMIf you love stars and mayhem, you better get your tickets to Broadway's Disaster! Click through the gallery for a look at Adam Pascal, Roger Bart, Faith Prince, Kerry Butler, Rachel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMBroadway is getting some more Boe. Audiences were thrilled to hear renown vocalist Alfie Boe would return to Broadway in 2015 to star in the most recent revival of Les Miserables taking on t…
SOURCE: lunerontheatre.com at 11:34AMBroadway’s mega-hit Hamilton has managed to score another accolade months before the theatre awards season in New York City has even begun. Following a fresh win on The Grammy Awards l…
SOURCE: lunerontheatre.com at 11:34AMby Ryan Leeds Chazz Palminteri’s father had a consistent message for his son: “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent. Don’t waste yours, son. Promise me.” Palminteri, a born and…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:25AMNeil Patrick Harris is featured on tonight's episode of PBS's FINDING YOUR ROOTS. In the sneak peek below, the Tony and Emmy winner finds out about his ancestors who arrived in America in 16…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMThe playwright uses her Susan Smith Blackburn Prize win to highlight the lack of diversity onstage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMThe prize awards dramatic literature inspired by the history of the United States.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:17AMFun Home's Sam Gold may direct the Oscar-winning actress.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 2162016 - 2232016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AMToday in 2006, The Pajama Game opened at the America Airlines Theatre, where it ran for 129 performances. The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7 Cents by Richard Bissell. It featu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AMChicago, Broadway's longest running American musical,now in its 20th year, just celebrated another milestone at theAmbassador Theatre 219 W. 49th St., NYC. Last night the company gathered to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AMThe cast also features Faith Prince, Rachel York, Max Crumm, and others.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMNoah Haidle's new play also stars Robin Tunney and Taylor Richardson.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMField might head back to the Great White Way in this Tennessee Williams classic.
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Joel Grey, who got his start at the Cleveland Play House, recently published a memoir documenting his life as an actor.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:59AMBy Doug Mayo
In a luxurious bedroom, two maids fantasise about killing their employer, playing out dangerous and sadistic scenarios as they plan her violent death. An intense psychological t…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:57AMSpring is traditionally a time of fresh beginnings, and the new London theater season is already bustling with change and bursting with promise. In the West End, a clutch of big shows are pr…
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SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:54AMIf you missed “Beautiful— The Carole King Musical,” which just wrapped up its three-month run ...
The post Carole King ‘Beautiful’ stage musical to return to Ch…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 10:52AMTheatres are stepping into new territory with site-specific dance---but then again, is there any other kind?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:50AMAs if running a Manhattan arts center weren’t enough, Mikhail Baryshnikov has two new solo shows on his dance card.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:49AMFrom Martha Clarke at Signature Theatre to Third Rail Projects at the Denver Center, resident theatres are partnering with dance-theatre companies to create genre-bending bodies of work.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:48AMHow Megan Trout and Mark Jackson created the dance/theatre/social media duet ‘Now for Now.’
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:47AMWe offer a first look at Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman's The Robber Bridegroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMThe transition from writing for nothing to writing for a paycheck has been smooth. But is stage work now a dream, or just a daydream?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:33AMPunchline Theatre Company’s adorably scruffy puppy of a msuical comedy about modern relationships, I Love You Because succeeds because every aspect -- from the performances to the directi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:32AMThe 1978 revue Eubie! celebrates the work of Eubie Blake.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AMThe Humans, Stephen Karam’s critically-acclaimed play, opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on February 18 after a hit run at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre fro…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:25AMThe artistic director of the Bush Theatre spoke out about diversity at the launch of the venue's new season
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:19AMThat golden tcket’s good for one more year. The West End production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is set to close in 2017. The production, which began in 2013 at London’s …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:19AMThe playwright is currently represented on Broadway with The Humans.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMThe musical seen Off-Broadway pokes fun at the world of fairtytale princesses.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMBroadway's new musical comedyDisasteris currently in previews at the Nederlander Theatre 208 West 41st Street, directed byJack Plotnickwith a book by three-time Emmy Award nominee and Grammy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07AMBy Emily Hardy
Transferring to the King’s Head Theatre following successful runs in Wales and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015 is Scriptography Productions’ To Kill a Machine. Catri…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:06AMSignature Theatrepresents ANGEL REAPERS, written by Residency Five playwrightMartha Clarkeand Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winnerAlfred Uhry, directed and choreographed by Ms. Clarke. The produc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMMCC THEATER presentsNoah Haidle'sSmokefall, playing through Sunday, March 20th. It was previously scheduled through March 13th. Smokefall byNoah Haidle, directed byAnne Kauffman, stars Emmy …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMIn a new interview with Adweek, NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt shares his thoughts on the live programming presented thus far on the network, as well as plans to present HAIRSP…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMGood 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 ECLIPSEDbegins on Broadway tonight, an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMAs BWW previously reported, ABC is at work on adapting the hit 1987 film DIRTY DANCING into a three-hour musical broadcast starring Abigail Breslin as Baby and Debra Messing SMASH as Baby's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMBroadway by the Year, now in its 16th season at The Town Hall, once again re-invents itself to bring a fresh and exciting new perspective to The Great White Way's classic show tunes. This se…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMIt hasn't been long since the last revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, but that won't stop Sally Field from bringing it back. According to Showbiz411, Field will soon return …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMPrepare to travel to a galaxy far, far away as Charles Ross brings his “One Man Star Wars Trilogy” to Raue Center For The Arts at 8 p.m. on February 26, 2016. Experience the original “…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:04AMRECOMMENDED Shakespeare’s problematic play “The Tempest” is a heady undertaking for any theater company. Never mind the need to replicate an onstage shipwreck. Culminating in the playw…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMLen Stuart, one of the owners of Second City which saw the troupe gain television success, remembered as a larger-than-life personality that was ‘born to be a businessman.’
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00AM
The Hamilton star gets presidential over a game of pool with Broadway Style Guide.
SOURCE: Broadway Style Guide at 09:52AMA U.K. tour and Broadway planned next.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMBy Emily Hardy
Curve’s artistic director, Nikolai Foster, has revealed the full company for his new production of the award-winning West End and Broadway smash hit musical comedy, Legally…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:52AMBy HowlRound TV. The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presents a discussion of theatremaker Reza Abdoh livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV ne…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:43AMBy Emily Hardy
After eight years at Tobacco Factory Theatres, director Ali Robertson has announced his new appointment as executive producer at the acclaimed Kneehigh Theatre. Robertson said…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:40AMPlaybill visited School of Rock \u2013 The Musical star Sierra Boggess backstage at the Winter Garden Theatre to find out what Broadway means to her. She looked back (in song!) at The Little…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AM"Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? She settled down with Waldo in Boca Raton, Florida."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:39AMBy Emily Hardy
David Aula and Simon Evans have teamed up to create a ground-breaking piece of theatre, The Vanishing Man, described as a “time-hopping, misdirection-abusing, mind-bending…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:20AMNorthcott, Exeter Director Paul Jepson overplays the pauses but there are fine performances in this cleverly designed revival of the playwright’s anatomy of egotism There are many differen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonThe shape-shifting actor brings poetic wit to her swashbuckling hero, though this all-female staging of Glyn Maxwell’s adaptation makes no sharp pointsReduced Ed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMThe director on Jean Genet’s enduring relevance, working with TV stars – and why Kit Harington and Marlowe is a dream combinationJamie Lloyd, 35, is in the front rank of theatre director…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMUnicorn, LondonThe dialogue in Tim Crouch and Gary Owen’s show consists solely of the names of its heroes – the result is a smart and subtle take on family lifeJeramee, Hartleby and Ooog…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMBroadwayWorld brings you a first look at thefirst image released of double Emmy Award winner Uzo Aduba Orange is the New Blackstarring in Jean Genet's masterpiece, THE MAIDS. Check it out be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMThe complete original cast from The Public Theater's acclaimed, sold-out production of the new American play ECLIPSED by Danai Gurira are reprising their roles on Broadway this spring. ECLIP…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMIn a new interview with Adweek, NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt shares his thoughts on the live programming presented thus far on the network, as well as plans to present HAIRSP…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMThe Public Theater presents the new musical SOUTHERN COMFORT that tells the true story of a group of transgender friends living life on their own terms in the back hills of rural Georgia. SO…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMIt all started with 13 Going on 30.At least, it did for me. This makes it sound like I'm about to write a cheesy romantic novel. My apologies. I, along with basically every girl in my 8th gr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMBy Emily Hardy
Eggs is a dark comedy about female friendship, fertility and freaking out. This intimate two-hander by Florence Keith-Roach, which premiered to great acclaim at the Edinburgh …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:12AMA new Playbill.com, 20 years in the making. Take a look back at where it all began.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AMMeera Syal will star as the Nurse in Kenneth Branagh's staging of Shakespeare's tragedy
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:09AMLearn how the revolutionaries got their signature looks!
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08AMDOT by Colman Domingo - currently starring as Strand on AMC's FEAR THE WALKING DEAD and also in The Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner THE BIRTH OF A NATION by Nate Parker -…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:07AMAerialists, acrobats and circus artists join singers and actors for Paramour, the first ever Broadway offering by Cirque du Soleil.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AMIt's not just you\u2014musical theatre is better than ever before.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMThe Oscar winner thought he'd debut in an original work, but he chose Eugene O\u2019Neill\u2019s Hughie instead.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMThe redesign of our website has been a passion project for everyone at Playbill, and we are excited to finally share it with you.
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For more than 300 years, children have performed kabuki, Japan's classical theater, in the village of Damine. But as residents age or leave for cities, Damine is running out of young perform…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:51AMStage and screen legend Debbie Reynolds discusses her upcoming concert at Drury Lane Theatre as well as great moments that shaped her career, including memories of filming Singing in the Rai…
SOURCE: Showbiz So Cal at 08:11AMThe McCallum Theatre presents Igudesman & Joo on Friday, March 18, at 8:00pm. It’s an evening of more infectious lunacy and musical mash-ups from the YouTube faves; virtuosos in music …
SOURCE: Showbiz So Cal at 08:07AMTwo-time Olivier Award winner Michael Ball, who has won the Best Actor in a Musical Award for Hairspray in 2008 and Sweeney Todd in 2013, is to host this year's Olivier Awards, being…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:06AMIt's not every day than an Oscar winner makes her Broadway debut in a history-making production! Lupita Nyong’o and more will begin performances in Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed on…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:04AMThe 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
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On last night's LATE NIGHT, Renee Elise Goldsberry, who portrays Angelica Schuyler in the hit Broadway show HAMILTON, stopped by talk about the musical's recent Grammy performance
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:59AMThe evening will consist of short plays by Caryl Churchill, David Hare and Mark Ravenhill
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:59AMPaul Jepson directs Pinter's play about a seven-year affair
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:59AMThe Mack and Mabel star will helm the 40th anniversary celebrations
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:59AMAioffe Duffin gives a searing performance in this intense monologue
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:59AMFour other shows have also also been announced at the Young Vic
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:59AMOn last night's TONIGHT SHOW, Jimmy has Tony Award-winning Audra McDonald sing replies to real Yahoo Answers to questions like, 'Should I tell my parents I'm adopted'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58AMThe award-winning West End production of Roald Dahl'sCharlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Sam Mendes, continues to capture the imagination of audiences as it enters its fourth and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58AMNBC has announced that on Monday, February 29th, Steve Martin andEdie Brickell will visit the TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON to talk about their new Broadway musical BRIGHT STAR. The cas…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58AMOn last night's TONIGHT SHOW, Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton teamed up against Jimmy and Steve HIggins for a game of Catchphrase.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58AMMaybe death isn't a subject that you typically warm to in the heart of winter. But if you visit Greg Pierce's new play at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater, you will discover that the Grim…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:47AMJust in time for the planned Broadway production of Eubie Blake's Shuffle Along, the Kritzerland record label is releasiing the orignial cast album of the 1978 revue of Blake's songs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:46AMNoah Haidle's "Smokefall" is an abstract family portrait.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:36AMCHICKEN SOUP FOR THE STAGE Every time I see Leon Russom I wish I had his body. Lean like a dancer, he uses the solidity of his shoulders, the slimness of his hips to create character and emp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:36AMIn the ancient world, long before modern psychology domesticated sex, Eros was considered a fearful, destabilizing, often ruinous force. In "The Mystery of Love & Sex," a recent play by Bath…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:36AMNEW YORK (AP) -- If you conjure up memories of scenes from your life and narrate them with hindsight, you would begin to have the structure of Noah Haidle's bittersweet, idea…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:36AMMidway through its 10th anniversary season, Los Angeles Ballet added another full-length classic to its repertory, a three-act "Don Quixote," which the company premiered at the Redondo Beach…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:36AMAs Pippin, the Tony-winning 1972 musical about the fictitious life of King Charlemagne's son and his struggles to claim the throne, comes to the Academy of Music stage Tuesday through Feb. 2…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 07:35AMChicago swooned over an earlier production of “Smokefall,” a work written by playwright-screenwriter Noah Haidle (“Stand Up Guys”) and pristinely directed at Off Bro…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:34AMSerious naturalism is the New York house style this season, with works like The Humans, Eclipsed, and Blackbird highlighting the spring Broadway lineup. What a surprise, then, that for the l…
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:33AMPlaywright Alfred Uhry and director-choreographer's Martha Clarke's dance=theater piece focuses on the struggle-filled life of the Shaker community's founder Ann Lee and the fallout of the g…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:30AMNoah Haidle's magical realism–infused family drama prioritizes thinking over feeling.
SOURCE: at 07:30AMIt’s awards season and the Mates are back with our own contribution: the #AlsoRecognised Awards. These prizes are not about celebrities or black tie ceremonies, but simply about givi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:29AMFrom 2006: Blizzards mean different things to different people at different times in their lives. To a fifty-year-old drama critic recovering from congestive heart failure who has to make hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“This work, which everyone had been impatiently waiting to hear, sickened me by its pretentious vulgarity. I did not realize that what I felt was merely the reaction of a Latin mind, unabl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 23 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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In 2016, as part of artistic director Madani Younis’ stated aim of creating a theatre that truly reflects the community in which it sits, the Bush Theatre will undergo a major redevelopmen…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:51AMThe Olivier Awards with MasterCard, the UK’s most prestigious stage honours, have today announced that Michael Ball will host this year’s awards ceremony. The awards, which this year cel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:42AMMost Olympians pick up their sports at a very young age. Not so for Michael “Eddie the Eagle” Edwards, who was 22 and cursed with vision problems when he learned ski jumping. A mere 20 m…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:30AMBy Jessica Wretlind
There is promise in this piece. The hallucinatory nature of exhaustion allows the tired pair to swerve through time and space, offering a great basis for metaphysical con…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:23AMFollowing a sold out run at Hampstead Downstairs, Firebird transfers to Trafalgar Studios 2
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:20AMKathryn Hunter leads an all-female cast in Glyn Maxwell's adaptation of Rostand's classic play
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Flying V’s hilarious but poignant musical comedy, You, or Whatever I Can Get examines love (or the lack thereof) in four Millenials’ lives. Collaboratively written by the four ma…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:28AMCaroline Hewitt is currently making her Arena Stage debut in The City of Conversation in which she portrays the strong willed Anna Fitzgerald. Recent area credits include Baltimore’s Cen…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:18AMMaybe the witch in Snow White isn’t that bad. Or, maybe her badness is justified, like she had a traumatic childhood or suffers from a mental illness. Siobhan McMillan proposes just that: …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:01AMThe folk and bluegrass-inspired musical exploring transgender life makes its New York debut.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00AMDan O'Brien's award-winning new play about war and journalism makes its New York debut.
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Last week there was an article on Salon with the click bait-y title, “Stop buying old Bob Dylan albums: “Every time somebody buys a reissue, they’re just taking money away from new…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:58AMHeath Ledger Theatre, Perth international arts festivalFrench theatre director Aurélien Bory manipulates light and space in this warping and at times overindulgent star vehicle for Japanese…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMBOY, a co-production with the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Ensemble Studio Theatre William Carden, Artistic Director, Paul A. Slee, Executive DirectorAlfred P. Sloan Foundation Project …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14AMDance Dialogues, Brisbane, February 20. Classical ballet is the oddest thing. It has a tiny core repertoire – fewer than 20 works; perhaps less than 15 if you’re being very strict – th…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:01AMWe have a great community of amazing playwrights here at Theatrefolk that contribute to our collection of middle and high school plays. We hope you’ll enjoy this peek behind the curtain…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 01:00AMJack & Jack on Touring and Meeting Fans Around the World
YH catches up with our buddies Jack and Jack at a "top-secret location" in San Francisco during Super Bowl Weekend as they prep for a…
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Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry’s dance-theater piece follows a band of worshipers in stringent religion who are seeking refuge from worldly suffering.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32AMThe characters’ lives in Noah Haidle’s comedy-drama are defined by their eccentricities and flights of odd lyricism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32AMIn Greg Pierce’s new play at the Claire Tow Theater, a young composer’s great gift may come with costs for the entire family.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32AM“Her Requiem,” Greg Pierce’s improbable if skillfully acted new drama, now at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater, is supposedly about a 17-year-old high school student’s decision …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30AMFrom Adelaide fringe to a week of literary events and an art biennial, South Australia claims its title as the festival state this autumnEach March South Australia claims its title as “the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AMFirst things first. One should not miss a chance to discover, or for some re-discover, a rarely produced Stephen Sondheim work. This is especially true for an appealing musical production …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:07AMPreviews begin Feb. 23 for the Public Theater production of Southern Comfort, a folk and bluegrass-inspired musical that explores transgender life.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe New York premiere of Dan O'Brien's The Body of an American, an exploration of war and journalism, officially opens Feb. 23 following previews that began Feb. 10. The Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDanai Gurira's Eclipsed begins previews on Broadway Feb. 23 at the Golden Theatre. The new play, about a group of women being held captive in the African nation of Libe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMColman Domingo's Dot, a comedy-filled drama about family and memory, officially opens Off-Broadway Feb. 23 at the Vineyard Theatre. The New York premiere began …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPittsburgh Public Theater continues to mix classic and up-to-the-minute offerings plus a twist for the 2016-17 season.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe theater scene in Oakland has Carnegie Mellon University, Point Park University and the University of Pittsburgh theater departments all in full swing as February leaps into March.
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