Piyush Mishra’s Gagan Damama Bajyo centers around the young freedom fighter’s ideology of universal brotherhood, anarchism, atheism and fierce patriotism. The shenanigans of the past wee…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:58PMTootsie, the new Broadway musical based on the beloved 1982 comedy flick, will play its final performance at the Marquis Theatre on January 5, 2020. The celebrated tuner began previews on M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54PMThe Lost Virginity Tour, produced by Pigs Do Fly Productions, tells of four senior women who take a roadtrip across the country to revisit the sites where they.... well, read the title.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:36PMThe full Asia TOPA: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts 2020 program has been unveiled with an astonishing 54 works – many of those featuring intercultural collaborations – spannin…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:17PMThe new dean will play a key role in formulating and enacting strategies to position the School of Theater as a global leader for unique and distinctive programs reflective and inclusive …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12PMThe Signature Theater revival of Anna Deavere Smith’s drama about the Crown Heights race riots confirms this play’s status as an enduring work of art.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PMAnn and Amy Roth share the secrets to successful costume design, plus a close-up look at Amy's design for Ed Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn.
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The Australian Musical Theatre Festival today announced a New Musical Theatre Residency, a week-long residency for the purpose of developing and supporting new Australian musical theatre. It…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:59PMThe plays of George Bernard Shaw are, to be honest, an acquired taste. Erudite in the extreme, filled with Shaw’s unique sense of his own intellectual superiority—which is expressed with…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:56PMThe Producers of the critically acclaimed West End hit, SIX the Musical have announce the Australian Queens that will presents a 75-minute celebration of 21st-century girl power at the Sydne…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:45PMThe Australian producers of the musical SIX have announced the Australian Queens set to join SIX as it embarks on its Australian tour.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:40PMMarie Osmond fell last week for the second time while performing in Las Vegas — but she’s proving that the show must go on!
Marie, 60, revealed on The Talk on Monday that she “chipped …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:39PMEvery month, BookFilter picks the best new theater book, exclusively for Broadway Direct readers. The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando By William J. Mann $35, Harper Out now The revolut…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 07:34PMAvant-garde director Ivo van Hove is gearing up to present main-stem audiences with a fresh take on the classic American musical West Side Story next month. The Tony winner whose triumph…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:33PMGrand Hotel original cast members Karen Akers, Keith Crowningshield, David Jackson, Ken Jennings, Timothy Jerome, Charles Mandracchia, Penny Worth and Walter Willison are reuniting on Novemb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:33PMOn opening night of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, the cast and guests take on a melodic Red Carpet Challenge in Proud Mary-oke!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:33PMThe kids might be back in school, but Mean Girls is still a hot ticket with Broadway audiences. The cheered musical comedy based on Tina Fey's hit film is having a strong fall, most especi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:33PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today.
To Days of Inspiration! Anthony Rapp & Ken Ithiphol Announce Engagement
Anthony Rapp, the beloved actor who originated th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:33PMIt was announced today that the Tony-nominated musical TOOTSIE will play its final performance at at the Marquis Theatre on Sunday, January 5, 2020.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:31PMIt’s time for Santino Fontana to hang up his heels.
On Monday, producers announced a closing date for Broadway’s Tootsie, the musical based on the 1982 film of the same name. The produ…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:30PMTootsie, the Broadway musical that had an easier time charming critics than winning potential ticket buyers, will play its final performance on Sunday, January 5, 2020. The musical, based on…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:30PM“Tootsie” will play its final Broadway performance on Jan. 5, 2020. At that point, the musical will have played 293 regular and 25 preview performances at the Marquis Theatre. The clos…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 07:30PMThe Santino Fontana-led comedy opened at the Marquis Theatre in April.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:29PMAs managers assume a greater variety of responsibilities, the longstanding earnings model – a 20% commission – is viewed by many as “anachronistic and unfit for purpose”. – Arts Pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMBecoming the first woman to top the list of most-produced playwrights (in the 2017-18 U.S. season) was a feat, and this year’s return to the No. 1 spot might be even more impressive. But t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMIn an era of limitless on-demand entertainment, the timeworn art of French marionette theater continues to capture minds and hearts in this country in ways that smartphones, video games and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMThe parties reached the settlement Friday, according to a one-page filing in the Federal District Court in Manhattan. Details of the deal remain under wraps, but individuals whom Deadline ch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMBecause of biology’s track record, Kenneth Stanley and others have come to believe that if we want algorithms that can navigate the physical and social world as easily as we can — or bet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMPublished in the Journal of Human Evolution, the critique, led by New York University archaeologist Randall White and co-authored by 44 international researchers, suggests that the dating te…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMWith a divisive election looming and rising rates of hate crime, the question of how best to engage with opposing views is, says David Shelley of the publishing giant Hachette, hotly debated…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMAfter an unprecedented expansion in recent years, third-party guarantees may have lost their magic. Their use appears to have peaked. Now, the trade is left wondering: Have guarantees become…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM“Genuinely, I think the internet and the smartphone have been a disaster for civilisation,” he says. “I think it would be very helpful for us to see it as a disaster, see it as somethi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMThe violence, the hopelessness and the misery in the slums of Rio de Janeiro are all a direct result of the lack of guidance, role models or future prospects — except drug trafficking — …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMMore than 35 years after winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play is at long last headed to Broadway. The cast is led by a pair of veteran stage and screen…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 07:22PMWe’ve heard the old adage “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” and Broadway musical scores have proven to be no exception. Matching vibrant, emotion-inducing melodies to w…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 07:07PM
The Rep extends run of supernatural comedy-drama.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:42PMSIX THE MUSICAL’S AUSTRALIAN QUEENS CONFIRMED! The Australian producers of critically acclaimed West End hit musical SIX are thrilled to announce the Australian Queens set to join SIX as i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:33PMHELLO TO GOODBYE The Musical Theatre Guild should be proud of this fine, coherent, splendidly cast reading of The Goodbye Girl, with principals Wendy Rosoff and Will Collyer charismatically …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:28PMAzuka Theatre’s production of Dominique Morriseau’s ‘Sunset Baby’ benefits from a sensational central performance. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:19PMTootsie , the Broadway musical adapted from the 1982 movie about a struggling actor whose career takes off when he plays a woman, will close on Jan. 5, the production announced tonight. Cap…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:14PMThe musical comedy Tootsie, currently playing at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre, will play its final performance just after the New Year rings in. The closing curtain for the Tony-winning show…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 06:05PMElla Hickson’s Oil explores the underlying greed of society, and the global implications of our reliance on the titular fossil fuel. Set across the span of 150 years, the play deals with…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMMelbourne Shakespeare Company returns to St Kilda Botanical Gardens this December with an ambitious production of The Taming of the Shrew where each night the audience chooses who plays the …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PM
In a convent of cloistered Catholic nuns, a baby lies in a wastebasket. She has lived for less than an hour, before being strangled with her own umbilical cord. In another part of the room, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:48PMJagged Little Pill, the Alanis Morissette musical that’s not about Alanis Morissette, joined the Million Dollar Club in its first full week on the Broadway grosses chart, taking in $1,107,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:28PMPhiladelphia Heritage Art Ensemble’s latest album is a musical tribute to 1950s/60s hard bop Philly jazz history. Suzanne Cloud reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:26PMElla Rubin talks about making her Broadway debut in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, juggling high school and Broadway, and her passion for the environment.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 04:25PMThe return of Tony Kushner’s “A Bright Room Called Day” prompted us to ask leading writers: How did it go for you? And what did you learn?
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The new play by Dep Kirkland, about sexual assault in the legal field, begins performances November 14 at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PMWhich bio-musical are you, according to your astrological sign?
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:38PMThe general manager for shows including Little Shop of Horrors, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Boy From Oz looks back on his storied career.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PMI loved the recent outrageously lavish West End production of 42nd Street at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, but was annoyed I didn't get a chance to return to see the recast before it finishe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:30PMKathryn O’Reilly’s new play, her second after 2016’s Screwed, follows two sisters as they seek to find their place in the world.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:21PMThe Fairy Princess is not going to ‘Cancel Madama Butterfly“. No one can. “We” have to find a way to have the conversation about what is the issue, for all the shows and musicals and…
SOURCE: fairyprincessdiaries.com at 02:09PMFind your next job with these Equity calls for Broadway productions and shows across the country.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PMLaurel Griggs, who debuted on Broadway at age 6, was born with asthma and died after suffering a 'massive' attack while she was at home doing her homework.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:05PMBased on the film of the same name, Billy Elliot the Musical is a funny, gritty, heart-warming and feel-good celebration following the journey of a young boy raised in a small British mining…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:00PM
This week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Seth gets the deets on the Harriet stars, spills the beans behind a old Broadway feud, and shares what to expect from the upcoming Actors Fund benefit.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMBy Douglas Mayo
Nativity the musical London Flash Sale - Book by Friday 15th November 2019 and save up to 35% when Nativity returns to the Eventim Apollo this Christmas.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:46PMThe Piccadilly Theatre has confirmed it will reopen today (November 11), with performances of Death of a Salesman resuming. Ambassador Theatre Group,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:36PM“What artists can do is bring stories to the table that are unshakably true—the sort of stories that, once you’ve heard them, won’t let you return to what you thought before.” – …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PMBetween 2011 and 2018, the 264 independent local NPR stations (plus 150 unaffiliated) added 1,000 full-time and part-time journalists, having started that timeframe with just over 2,000 jour…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PMTony winner Kristin Chenoweth returned to Broadway on November 8 with a star-packed concert engagement titled For the Girls. The production will continue for a limited engagement through …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMTony-winning composer Marc Shaiman has been recruited to pen original music for the upcoming Broadway revival of Neil Simon's 1968 comedy Plaza Suite. The previously announced production, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMAfter an event on November 6 during which part of the Piccadilly Theatre's ceiling crashed down during a performance of Death of a Salesman, theater owner Ambassador Theatre Group has announ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMTickets are now on sale for upcoming main-stem revival of Caroline, or Change. Director Michael Longhurst's new production, a transfer from London's West End, will begin previews on Marc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMThe performers will all bring their musical talent through the month of November.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PMSammi Cannold discloses the discoveries from her recent trip to Eva Perón’s home country and how they impact the storytelling in her Encores! production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PM"The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley" is a new "Pride and Prejudice" sequel playing at City Lights Theater in San Jose.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:00PMLove London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, show based on Tina Turner’s life and career, which has transferred to Broadway.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMA new musical by local production team of Gosz & Fotos tackles the personal effects of mental illness with generosity and insight.
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Kate Baldwin will present the award at the Fred Ebb Foundation's ceremony December 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMHow much do you know about gestational surrogacy? Jane Cafarella's comedy-drama e-baby explores a relationship between a would-be mother and her surrogate. Sneak a peek inside rehearsals as …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:44PMOn Veterans Day, a reminder from Adam Driver, Broadway veteran and military veteran, and the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that brings theater to the military: “The …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PMeven if death is on everyone’s menu, lurking somewhere after dessert, this evening, we survived
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:33PMA show that is both hilarious and heart-wrenching; The Girl Who Fell by Sarah Rutherford is currently playing at the West End’s Trafalgar Studios 2 until 23 November. This poignant play …
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 12:30PMTwo twists on the typical range of possibilities for the musical theater writing process are playing out in two recent musicals.
The post Review: <em>Broadbend, Arkansas</em> and…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:28PMThe overture to “Guys and Dolls” is unique in that it is scripted as well as orchestrated. It is a street scene collage danced – acted-out really – by the ensemble: floozies, society…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 12:27PMA trust set up by actor Michael Jibson to help young people in Hull and East Yorkshire access drama school training has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMYoung Vic bosses have described the “miraculous” process of bringing three scratch performances of Death of a Salesman to their stage with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMHadestown Tony winner André De Shields, Donna McKechnie, Ann Reinking, and more will be honored November 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMCorman's solo show, seen Off-Broadway earlier this year, is now available for download.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMThe best news of the week was that not only were mercifully few people injured in last Wednesday’s frightening partial ceiling collapse
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:14PMOn the agenda for Tuesday’s Los Angeles Supervisors board meeting: Having the L.A. Philharmonic take over the outdoor Ford Theatre. According to the supervisor who made the proposal, “It…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMWell: “That depends on how much you value your time — and what you expect of art in the age of Instagram. The smartphone, with its ever-finer cameras and ever-shinier screens, now shapes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMApparently, it’s not the money. There’s diplomacy, there’s prestige, and there’s the desire of areas of the world – China definitely included – to be seen as supporting Western c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMSeriously, it seems to be almost a new genre. “These performances were rendered with a disarming, self-interrupting casualness, suggesting a happy ham at home among friends. And they often…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMBut is it worthy? The sculpture started out with the name “We’re No. #1” and moved to, uh, “Unity,” a little less focused on the longstanding animosity between Brooklyn and Manhatt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMVijay Seshadri, who became poetry editor for the legendary literary magazine in August, says that going through the Review‘s slush pile is invigorating. “You kind of feel that something …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMHolly Mulcahy hasn’t performed with the orchestra since April because of a contract dispute – a dispute so intense that one board member has resigned over it. That board member, film com…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMWas it kids? Maybe, if they truly love music. It was shiny, with a ton – a ton – of celebrity appearances, as befits, well, a show that’s on HBO. That’s a problem: “The celebration…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMImagine photographing the people lining the streets for 28 different parades in the U.S. – in 2016. “The very existence of each group portrait produces an illusion of unity, as if the pe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMThe director says, “At the end of the day, what we really want people to know is the movie is about love and friendship, the veterans that served in the Vietnam War and especially the dogs…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMShe’s at the intersection of race, gender, and social media. “Kim’s particular fame derives from a cherished place in the American racial imagination that, combined with wealth, preven…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMHere’s the deal: It’s a movie that laughs at the Nazis and laughs at Hitler. “The controversy — or, at least, the orchestrated illusion of it — is built into the film’s faux outr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMThe person doing it takes nonfiction books about Trump or guns – specifically the ones that aren’t favorable to the 45th president or gun enthusiasts – and hiding them. “‘I am goin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMThe 2019 BP Portrait Award will still take place in December, but that will be the last time NGS will host that show (at least, as sponsored by BP). The holdouts, that is, those arts organiz…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMBumbershoot, the Labor Day arts festival is almost 50 years old. But it’s changed significantly over the years and in its latest configuration began to resemble just another generic expens…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMGriggs, who played Ivanka in ONCE: The Musical for 17 months after making her Broadway debut at age six in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, died from a massive asthma attack. – Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMCircus performer and dancer Symoné is currently preparing for the preview of her first theatre show at London’s Hoxton Hall as part
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMBooking tickets for a show is key to the audience experience, but the importance of an efficient operation can be overlooked. Box
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Producer Eva Price ("Jagged Little Pill) and director Sammi Cannold ("Evita") share insights about their upcoming productions.
The post Inside Perspectives: Producer Eva Price (“Jagged Lit…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:54AMThe Disney-Cameron Mackintosh musical plays the Prince Edward Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AMAbstinence and sex. Sex and abstinence. They’ve long vexed the masses, from noble to peasant as far back as the 1700s, when British writer Elizabeth Inchbald translated a German play rough…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMIn White Pearl, playwright Anchuli Felicia King quickly throws the audience into a keenly contemporary conflict: a viral social media PR crisis, with a company accused of racism. Inspired by…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMThe Disney+ series debuts as the streaming service launches November 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMBelieve it or not, Buddy Holly is on tour with another deceased rock ’n’ roll pioneer -- Roy Orbison.
The post Music Preview: “Roy Orbison & Buddy Holly: The Rock ’n’ Roll Dre…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMNosedive, by physical theatre company Superfan, is a well-meaning show about intergenerational burdens featuring three adult performers and two young children. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:35AM“I have to be the music for every moment, every gesture, every bit of eye contact,” said Manfred Honeck of the Pittsburgh Symphony.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:29AMThe festival will showcase the work of NJ Agwuna, Chika Ike, Rebecca Marzalek-Kelly, Lindsey Hope Pearlman, Ben Randle, Hannah Ryan, and Christian Bakalov.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMScotland, PA star Alysha Umphress will have you cackling as you follow along with her two-show day adventures.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:23AMThe Broadway-bound revival of Neil Simon’s classic comedy Plaza Suite will have an original score when it arrives at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre this spring. Marc Shaiman (Hairspray, Mary …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:20AMby Zach Raffio. @zachraffio If anyone has established themselves as a centerpiece of the last decade’s musical theatre zeitgeist, it’s beloved Hamilton wordsmith Lin-Manuel Miranda. When…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:19AMThe Tony-winning composer joins the creative team for the 2020 Broadway production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMAnthony Roth Costanzo sings the title role in the Phelim McDermott production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMThis Broadway loyalty program brings theater lovers backstage, on stage and behind the scenes
SOURCE: Forbes at 11:15AMAn all-female cast takes on politics, racism, colonialism and cricket in Kate Atwell's world premiere of "Testmatch" at American Conservatory Theater in S.F.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:15AMRevolutionary War patriots Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin are eerily represented by male and female black performers wearing tweaked 18th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:14AMToday we are celebrating the lives of those who have fought for our country.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:11AMAnthony Rapp put a ring on it!
On Saturday, the Broadway and Star Trek: Discovery star announced his engagement to longtime boyfriend Ken Ithipholon on social media.
“So something happen…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:09AMThis new musical is livin' it up on top! Hadestown, winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards including Best Musical, has recouped its Broadway investment of $11.5 million. The celebrated show is the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AMIf hygge means you're friendly then Austin Colby, F. Michael Haynie and Mason Reeves must be drinking hygge gloog for breakfast! It's true, the three talented performers, who are playing Han…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AMBroadway alum Paul Whitty will head into the main-stem production of Come From Away on November 12. He will take over the role of Oz from original cast member Geno Carr, who will play his f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AMLooks like Jagged Little Pill is the talk of the town these days. So, you ought to know that we are gearing up for the first of two Broadway Heat rounds in our quest to name the show's h…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 11:03AMThis special cinema release of the recent West End revival of 42nd Street captures even more detail of this spectacular production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMhttp://traffic.megaphone.fm/BPNET7244948827.mp3 Here’s a fun fact of Charlotte Wilcox’s career that will give you an idea of who she is and the scope of her career: Charlotte has work…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHere’s a fun fact of Charlotte Wilcox’s career that will give you an idea of who she is and the scope of her career: Charlotte has worked on every single Broadway production of Grease si…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMChicago Shakes delivers a vision of their namesake's most well-known tragedy anchored in today’s headlines.
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The new adaptation began performances November 6 at the Los Angeles venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMMarc Shaiman, the composer and lyricist behind “Hairspray” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” in addition to numerous film credits, will write original music for the revival of …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:53AM“A Chorus Line is still one of those musicals you will sing about to your grandchildren,” wrote theater and dance critic Clive Barnes in his 1975 New York Times review for A Chorus Line.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43AMSee who has recently joined the team at arts institutions and publications across the pond.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMHundreds attended the funeral of Laurel Griggs, a 13-year-old Broadway and movie actress who died last week after an asthma attack.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:12AMThe young actor appeared in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Once, as well as Saturday Night Live and more on the small screen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AMBy Sophie Adnitt
Sophie Adnitt reviews William Shakespeare's The Taming Of the Shrew presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre London.
This post REVIEW: The Taming O…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:05AM
The latest season at Sadler's Wells is action-packed, to say the least. Featuring emerging talents, final farewells, and thrilling revivals, there's absolutely no excuse not to head to Ros…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 09:55AMThe Tony and Emmy winner is playing a limited engagement at the Nederlander Theatre to celebrate her new solo album.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:51AMThe Broadway actor and co-founder of BroadwayCon proposed to his longtime partner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AMLilian Baylis Studio, LondonIt’s hard not to warm to this bright Welsh company, but some of the more experimental works were confused in design and execution
It takes a lot of grit and plu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMThe Anaïs Mitchell musical recouped its initial investment after playing six months at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AMHadestown, the Tony-Winning Best New Musical, has become the first musical of the 2018-2019 Broadway season to recoup its initial investment of $11.5M, producers said today. The announcement…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:32AMStop Kiss is the first production programmed by Above the Stag’s new artistic director Andrew Beckett. Although written in 1998, Diana Son’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMThe Olivier Award-winning production begins performances at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06AMBroadwayWorld recently reported that Michael Billington is stepping down as the Guardian's chief theatre critic. According to The Stage, Arifa Akbar will succeed Billington.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04AMDirected by Mary Zimmerman, this ardent and wide-eyed holiday show returns, albeit with at least one noteworthy blind spot.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMBy Mark Ludmon
Mark Ludmon reviews the revival of Sean Mathias’s A Prayer for Wings at King’s Head Theatre, London
This post REVIEW: A Prayer For Wings, King’s Head Theatre, London ✭…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:00AMShortly after a fundraising gala brunch earlier this month, Intiman announced it had raised $130,000 toward its goal of $200,000 by the end of 2019, and reconstituted its board.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMKathryn O’Reilly’s second play Poisoned Polluted focuses on the fragmenting relationship between two women – in this case, sisters.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM
'Successiona?? star Brian Cox sat down with Ryan Seacrest and guest co-host Carrie Underwood to talk about playing Lyndon B. Johnson in 'The Great Society' on Broadway on today's a?oeLive wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:59AMThe Guild of Misrule’s immersive version of The Great Gatsby is currently the longest-running immersive theatre show in the UK. Previously playing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:58AMHadestown, the Tony Award-winning Best New Musical has become the first musical of the 2018-2019 Broadway season to recoup its initial investment of $11.5M.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AM“Hadestown” has recouped its $11.5 million capitalization, the production announced Monday. The musical, which won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Musical, recouped its initial investment…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:44AMOver the past two years, John Oliver has been involved in a lawsuit with coal company CEO Robert Murray, after Oliver called Murray a 'geriatric Dr. Evil' and made fun of his energy corporat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:44AMLatina love goddess Raquel Torres (Paula Maria Osterman, 1908-1987) poured unsuspected amounts of showmanship into her screen presence. While indeed born in Hermosillo, Mexico to a Mexican m…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:36AMTwo creative people in two different fields in one wide-ranging conversation. This time: the producer and the musician.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18AMOne Dance UK Awards 2019, which celebrate achievement in dance across the UK, took place at the Imperial War Museum North in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:12AMA ticketing company attempting to disrupt the industry by using booking fees to fund arts projects is launching a series of grants
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:12AMPleasance, LondonTheir tongues firmly in their cheeks, Figs in Wigs’ boisterous parody ranges from pun-filled comedy skits to cocktail-making in hazmat suits
You probably won’t remember…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMA dancer on Instagram can live anywhere. All she needs is the camera on her phone and some clear floor space to record videos.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AM
Ivo’s Doing WHAT with “West Side Story”? “KPOP” Announces Broadway Casting Search, Reviews for Peter Dinklage in “Cyrano” 1) Ivo van Hove is Bringing Massive Changes to “West…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMreview of new musical with two performers at the Duke on 42nd Street.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:52AMIn our profile series, Tell Us In 10, we ask cast members and creatives of top London shows to tell us all about themselves in just 10 questions.This week we’ve got a special takeover from…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:44AMRarely is a political party both the subject of an opera and the author of its own libretto. With apposite timing, in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMBoth the Piccadilly Theatre and its current show Death of a Salesman made headlines last Wednesday for all the wrong reasons when the ceiling collapsed on several audience members mid-perf…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 07:15AMIndustry bodies have warned that actors and theatre staff could end up being disenfranchised in next month’s snap election because of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMCaridad Svich’s excellent adaptation of Isabel Allende’s 1982 modern classic The House of the Spirits is an epic and emotional evocation of South American history.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThe changing demands for Broadway dancers means the special skills portion of a résumé becomes a focal point.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AMIn this exclusive interview, Howard Ashman’s family shares why the intimate production is the show at its best.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AMTest your knowledge of theatrical choreography with this quiz.
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Review: Endless Second, Pleasance Theatre4.0starsThe media has almost always portrayed rape as a back-and-forth tennis match of he said-she said. Coverage focuses on the individual’s backg…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:48AMNew production photos for Mary Poppins have been released and they're absolutely, positively scrumdiddlyumptious! Mary Poppins The Musical starring Zizi Strallen and Charlie Stemp is now…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 06:20AMThe Voila! Festival in London, now in its seventh year, provides audiences with an opportunity to see an eclectic range of work
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMProforca Theatre's At Last, which received both OffWestEnd.com Offies and London Pub Theatres Award nominations for its premiere in September, returns by popular demand in December with new …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:14AMVarious forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03AMI posted this for the first time on November 11, 2008. It’s still relevant, and (I suspect) always will be. * * * On October 9, 1918, an HMV sound engineer named Will Gaisberg set up a pri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:02AMBritish Pathé newsreel coverage of the hearing of the House Committee on Un-American Activities on August 25, 1948, during which Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers publicly confronted one an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01AM“Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (trans. Constance Garnett)
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Acclaimed for his work in Australia, Broadway, London’s West End and beyond, performer Hayden Tee, has released his first album dedicated to musical theatre, Face to Face. Featuring songs …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:59AMAugustine’s Dream was presented in July 2019 at the Providence Fringe by AnomalousCo. An interdisciplinary theater collective, the troupe develops new productions working with direc…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:46AMWhat does it mean to be an “ordinary” Australian in anatomizing and globalized world economy? Anthem brings together the writers behind the celebrated 1998 Melbourne Workers’ Theatre p…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:14AMThe Akamba people of East Africa have a saying: “The visitor has the best tobacco.” But what happens when the hosts are anxious to sample the visitor’s tobacco but, after giving them a…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:11AMTony winner Judy Kaye is one of the special guests for the evening, dedicated to the memory of Liliane Montevecchi.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe York Theatre Company honors the Hadestown Tony winner at its November 11 gala.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe landmark Anna Deavere Smith play, written in response to the 1991 Crown Heights riots, is revived at Signature.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMProduction based on 2010’s Arab Spring appreciates the sacrifices happening around the world to attain what many Canadians already have.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00AMThe unusual development of Broadbend, Arkansas---It's ironic that Broadbend, Arkansas -- the new two-person musical about an African-American father and daughter grappling with the personal …
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