Mask-wearing and proof of vaccination for artists, staff, and audiences will be required at least through July 31, 2022.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:52PMBy Sandi Durell . . . As with so many shows caught in the pandemic so was Romeo & Bernadette. We happily welcome back this new spin on Shakespeare . . . A Musical Tale of Verona and Bro…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30PMThe Tony-nominated revival co-stars Tony winners (and 2022 Tony nominees) Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster.
SOURCE: Google at 09:18PMI really don;’t understand what the Drama Desk is, except their nominations make for a lot of drama. They kind of ignore
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:18PMPlaybill and the Times Square Alliance host the weekend-long event. ... You'll get to dance to disco tunes all around the Playbill Pride float ...
SOURCE: Google at 09:18PMShaina Taub's Suffs world premiere has faced difficulties throughout its run at The Public's Newman Theater due to COVID-19, with performances now ...
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Nominations have been announced for the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards, honoring the best in Broadway, off and off-off-Broadway theater in the 2021-22 season. George Takei announced the nomi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMThe new musical “Harmony” is eyeing a Broadway production, according to press representatives. “Harmony” premiered Off-Broadway in a National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene production wh…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 05:53PMThe Off-Broadway run at The Public continues to face difficulties due to the virus.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:36PMFor Chicago-based director Donterrio, the late-00s musical Passing Strange represents a road map for how an artist—no matter the medium in which they create—can live their life. The sh…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:34PMThe nominees for the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Play Cullud Wattah, by Erika Dickerson-Despenza, The Public Theater English, by Sanaz Toossi, Atlantic Theater Company Prayer …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:27PMFanny Brice is alive and well and appearing in New York City. No, I’m not referring to the current Broadway revival of Funny Girl, which has received mixed reviews at best. I’m talking a…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:19PMMay 16, 2022: Nominations for the 66th AnnualDrama Desk Awards were announced today, and the full list of nominees is available below.
In keeping with the Drama Desk's mission, the no…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:18PMProductions With Multiple Nominations – – – Six: 10; Kimberly Akimbo: 9; Company: 8; Intimate Apparel: 8; MJ: 7 Nominations for the 66th AnnualDrama Desk Awards were announced today…
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2022 Tony nominee Billy Crystal stopped by The View to reveal what inspired him to revisit a character he's been playing since the '80s for Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PMThe Tony-nominated revival co-stars Tony winners (and 2022 Tony nominees) Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PMPaola Lázaro’s scintillating script about two sexual abuse survivors is astonishingly entertaining and deeply moving.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:41PMBy ALAN SMASON Jason Petty strides onto the stage of BB’s Stage Door Canteen wearing a classic white country and western suit. On the sleeves and lapels are black musical notes and staffs …
SOURCE: TheatreCriticsm.com at 04:39PMSix and Kimberly Akimbo lead in the nominations for the 66th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PMDorcas Leung, Teresa Avia Lim, John Yi, more star in the Off-Broadway production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMThe panel discussion will explore the real-world connections to the Richard Greenberg revival, which follows a baseball star as he navigates coming out of the closet.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMThere are two kinds of people in the world. Those who can dance, and those who wish they could. At least, that’s the way it seems to most of us showbiz types. The Broadway musical “A Cho…
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TheaterWorks Hartford will be premiering a sequel to one of its signature hits, "I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti," in July, featuring the original writer, star and director.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:59PMIn one movie-packed weekend, PFS SpringFest screened 22 films at the Philadelphia Film Center, from a full-length treatment of a viral shell with shoes to the film Apple hopes will be the ne…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:51PMThe production features a cast and creative team comprised of Deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing artists.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PMAfter earning seven Tony nominations, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has extended its run at the Booth Theatre through June 5. Camille A. Brown garner…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMThe Awards consider outstanding productions on and off-Broadway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:42PMDive deeper into the works of the MTI catalog with Dramatic Moments™. Licensable versions of a single scene and song, each Dramatic Moment includes a short script of the scene, sheet music…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:36PMLloyd Suh’s play “The Chinese Lady,” now in its Chicago premiere, has a spectacular central performance from Mi Kang.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:25PMThe revered American choreographer looks back at his political family life and the inspiration of his mother’s movement ahead of a rare UK production with Rambert
During the endless screen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMBy . Antoine Hunter presents #DeafWoke with John Autry II livestreaming on the commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 20 May 2022 at 5 p.m.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:23PMCelebrating the Tony nominations this year held special excitement: it’s the 75th anniversary, the first in-person comeback after Covid, a year of
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:03PMBroadway’s “Girl From The North Country” has been professionally filmed for future use. The production was filmed in April before its recent reopening on Broadway. The announcement did…
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In a new exhibition, longtime collaborators Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger created an immersive multimedia installation that explores intimacy, distance, and the fluctuations between. Th…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:57PMWith 3 plays opening within as many months of each other, the prolific writer talks about comedy, empathy, and his deep love for television.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:57PMIn this new work commissioned by Roundabout, three generations of men live under one roof and grapple with their own truths of what it means to be Black and gay. It’s an exploration of pri…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:54PMIn this new work commissioned by Roundabout, three generations of men live under one roof and grapple with their own truths of what it means to be Black and gay. It’s an exploration of pri…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:54PMThis charming show comes from the acclaimed Spanish troupe, Kulunka Teatro. The ensemble of Jose Dault, Garbiñe Insausti and Edu Cárcamo all offer awesome physically commanding silent port…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:36PMOn May 22, 2022, Candlelight Concert Society will present “American String Quartet with Octavio Vazquez, Composer and Pianist.” The Quartet and Vazquez will perform his “Piano Quintet.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:32PMBijayini Satpathy, a MetLiveArts artist in residence, pushed the borders of her Odissi classicism to meet the art around her.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMFrom its world premiere off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons to a pre-Broadway run at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, the Pulitzer Prize winning musical, A Strange Loop, has now arrived on Broadway,…
SOURCE: PLSN at 02:14PMWhen you hear a ballad sung by a dragon, watch a dynamic and funny fight scene between the dragon and a powerful wizard, have your whole body resonate with heavy metal guitar when the dragon…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:07PM"On Your Feet!," the Gloria and Emilio Estefan jukebox musical, is making its Spanish language debut at GALA Hispanic Theatre.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:03PMFrank DiLella will host the ceremony May 20 at 12 PM at The Ziegfeld Ballroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMAn uplifting vision is at the heart of new play by local playwrights Awa Sal Secka and Dani Stoller.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:03PM
The awards, set to be handed out the week of June 6, honor outstanding achievement on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMThis is a column about worries.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:49PMEmmy Award-winning journalist Frank DiLella will be hosting the 88th Annual Drama League Awards alongside theatrical legends and Tony Award winners, Patti LuPone, Ben Vereen, Sutton Fost…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMFrom June 22-26, The Joyce Theater returns to Lincoln Center to present Pacific Northwest Ballet, led by former New York City Ballet principal dancer Peter Boal. The anticipated return of PN…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:42PMJust last month, Matcham Books released Troy David Johnston's Going Dark- a new book featuring a series of photographs that document the closure of theatres across the West End and Greater …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:33PMVoting is open for the 19th Annual Theater Fans' Choice Awards through June 3rd! The Theatre Fans' Choice Awards are the biggest New York Theatre Awards, where YOU, the fans, get to have yo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMThis month we talk to the administrator, activist, and casting professional about amplifying trans talent, rethinking the canon, and prioritizing mental health.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:29PMPFLAG National has announced additional star power to the lineup for its second annual PFLAG Parent Day on Sunday, May 22, 2022, including actors Busy Philipps, Harvey Guillén, Bravo�…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMThe work opened at Off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre May 5 and was originally slated to close June 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PMThe awards honor outstanding achievement on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PMThe limited engagement of Alison Leiby’s Oh God, A Show About Abortion has been extended through June 30 at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:22PMOn Friday, May 27, producer Stephen Hanks and the performers of the series’ CABARET CAMPAIGNS: BLUE WAVE 2018 and THE VOTING RIGHTS SHOW 2020, will reunite at the Laurie Beechman Theater a…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:21PMThe Actors’ Equity Foundation announced the recipients of its 2022 awards.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMFrom Rachel Dratch to Jesse Williams, take a look at this year's nominees.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:12PMThe series stars Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denée Benton, Debra Monk, Kristine Nielsen, Taylor Richardson, Douglas Sills, Celia Keenan-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:09PMSince January 2020, vocalist Julian Otis and Elastic Arts executive director Adam Zanolini have programmed AfriClassical Futures, a series offering an antidote to the overwhelming whiteness …
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The feature film comes from co-producer-directors Dori Berinstein and Sammi Cannold.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMCheck out new photos from the musical, which finds Shakespeare's Romeo in 1960 Brooklyn courting a gangster's daughter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMNew works by Samuel D. Hunter and by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire were named best play and best musical of 2021-22.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:47PMThe Joyce Theater will honor Pride 2022 with the debut of acclaimed, boundary-shattering movement artist Christopher Williams.
The post Joyce Theater Will Honor Pride 2022 with Queer Reimagi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:37PM“Eyeth—get it? In the Deaf storytelling tradition, utopia is called Eyeth because it’s a society that centers the eye, not the ear, like here on Earth.” That’s the opener to “Ear…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:33PM“ “It’s the gift that keeps on giving,” reveals Sharon D. Clarke of “Caroline, or Change.” The British theater veteran made her Broadway debut in the title role of the recent rev…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30PMDelaware Theatre Company’s production of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs provides nostalgia and some light laughs. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:18PMThe movie will also star stage veterans Jennifer Jason Leigh, Annette Bening, and Danny DeVito.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMThe Conor McPherson-Bob Dylan musical was recently nominated for seven 2022 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMThe play dramatizes an interview between poet Nikki Giovanni and novelist James Baldwin.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:12PMTony nominee Jaquel Spivey leads the cast of Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:12PMChip Zien and Sierra Boggess were along the cast of the recent off-Broadway musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:12PMThree of the production's Tony nominated designers share the secrets of this massive production at Lincoln Center Theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:12PM“As a human being, I always enjoy Shakespeare. But as a young Black person, I didn’t always see myself reflected in it, and if I’m being completely transparent, sometimes it would feel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMIt’s unlikely that Handel imagined his Baroque opera Agrippina, rooted in the Roman transfer of power from Claudius to Nero, quite like this: Set in Regency England, staged with laughter a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:03PMThe 2022 Tony Award nominations have been unveiled and, per usual, we have opinions! Susan Haskins joined us in a lively discussion to dissect this crop of nominees. We reveal what we thin…
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Sean Holmes will direct the Alan Parker-Paul Williams musical based on Parker's 1976 film.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMYou know summer has officially begun when you see the double-decker hop-on hop-off buses all over Toronto. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has now taken over one of the buses! You can make…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:42AMModeled after the Tony Awards, the Bobby G award ceremony includes performances from Outstanding Overall Production nominees and a medley featuring the nominees for Outstanding Performance b…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:23AMMoulin Rouge! The Musical and Lincoln Center Theater’s The Skin of Our Teeth canceled performances over the weekend due to Covid cases within their companies, another sign that the virus i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:17AMDry hire rental partner Main Light, LLC recently added Chauvet Professional’s Color STRIKE M LED strobe/wash luminaires to its inventory. These new units are already in stock in Main Light…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:13AMMitchell is joined by Gemma Whelan, who also starred in the stage adaptation of the BBC sitcom prior to the pandemic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMA Chicago-bred director, producer, and teacher, Berry will join Penobscot executive director Jen Shepard to lead the company's 49th season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:00AMThe touring Cluedo at the King’s is billed as a ‘brand new play’ and ‘an exciting comedy thriller’. It is certainly possible to quibble with those descriptions as there is little e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMNPR's weekly hour-long quiz program will resume live audience recordings this June, hosted by Bill Kurtis and Peter Sagal.
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Whether you want to go far out or snoop at someone else’s home, our critics will keep you busy for the next seven days
Everything Everywhere All at OnceOut nowFirestarter notwithstanding, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMFrom Shakespeare’s dithering Dane to Desperate Housewives’ steely-eyed Bree, our critics serve up the coldest revenge dishes
In Desperate Housewives, when her gay son, Andrew, sleeps wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMDon Reed’s Wit & Brilliance Charm Hometown Crowd by Jennifer Ann Charron Don Reed truly does it all. Star of TV and film, he writes, acts, produces, directs, and does standup comedy—…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:40AMThe Tony winner will perform at select performances in June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMThe festival is curated by Safe Harbors NYC to present works from Indigenous artists.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMBrief mention this morning of John W. Vogel (1863-1951). Born in Chillicothe, Ohio just months after the Emancipation Proclamation, Vogel was to succeed J.H. Haverly as America’s pre-emine…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:18AMThe Newsies and Bonnie and Clyde star will perform at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMToday we invite you to join our friends of the British Music Hall Society in celebrating British Music Hall & Variety Day. How can you do this? Why, you could share your favorite relevan…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:18AMThis year’s 76th Annual Theatre World Awards Ceremony, directed by Tom D’Angora and Michael D’Angora, returns to a live in-person presentation on Monday, June 6, on the set of the Bro…
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The annual ceremony will be held in June at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMA SHINY BEACON OF LIGHT FOR (INNER) THEATRE KIDS EVERYWHERE by Matt Smith . . . “I need to get to Manhattan. It’s a matter of life, death and dreams.” They say the neon lights are brig…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:50AMTwo friends delighted half a million kids with a tiny production in a cardboard box. Now they’re sizing up the much-loved bulbous bear for the Little Angel theatre
‘We made nearly half a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM5 Reasons Why American Buffalo Has Lost its Shine
By: Iris Wiener
May 23, 2022: David Mamet’s work is notably controversial and quite often meant to rile up li…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:23AMMandy Gonzalez, Judy Kuhn, Anika Noni Rose, and more are announced performers. By Raven Brunner. May 16, 2022.
SOURCE: Google at 09:12AMBy Douglas Mayo
David Mitchell and Gemma Whelan return in Ben Elton's comedy The Upstart Crow. The hit stage adaptation will run from 23 Sept - 3 Dec at the Apollo Theatre.
This post Ben El…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:05AM5 Reasons Why We Can Forgive Mr. Saturday Night for Being a Musical
By: Iris Wiener
May 22, 2022: The musical adaptation of Billy Crystal’s Mr. Saturday Night features a score by To…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:04AMBy Eseovwe Emakunu, Josephine Odunze. In 2021, Nigerian director Josephine Awele Odunze directed a powerful production of Wedlock of the Gods by Zulu Sofola.
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Harold Prince, victorious with Tony #20 for “Showboat,” with Gregory Hines (1995).Now that the 2022 Tony Awards nominations have been announced and campaigning is in full swing, as usua…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 08:53AMIn What happened last week at “Girl from the North Country” and “for colored girls…” might not be miraculous, precisely, but they’re the kind of stories in the face of adversity …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48AMBy Adam Cohen . . . While we all strive to obtain and surpass our aspirations, few of us are afforded the opportunity . . . even if it’s a terrible goal. Success, failure. Living or dyin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AMYasen Peyankov’s translation and trimming of the script plays up the comedy, letting it flow from the Chekhovian checklist of dreadful character traits.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"I’m not gonna make anybody question anything. You’re gonna have some dumb fun times, that’s it.”
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“Doubtfire” to Close, “North Country” Extends, Lizzo Needs to Be on Broadway “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMWestfield News/Mass Live ArtsBeat 5/16/22. Tony Award nominees with local ties, a New Works Festival at TheaterWorks Hartford, Varla Jean Merman returns, plus a musical benefit for Ukraine.
SOURCE: www.masslive.com at 07:44AMNaomi Wallace's writing is brave and uncompromising
Jude is the kind of girl that no-one would want to mess with – she can dance like a demon to Eric Clapton, skewer an ego in seconds and …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:24AMBroadway Update: Beautiful Noise, Kimberly, Mask Mandates, Etc.
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May 22, 2022: As the 2021-22 Broadway season comes to a close, 2022-23 is taking shape. A Beautiful Nois…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:21AMÁrpád Schilling doesn't think of himself as Hungarian. "I'm European, or I'm a human," he says.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThere is a stillness that descends over a theatre audience when they are gripped and fidgeting when they aren’t. In the first half of The Breach at Hampstead Theatre, the audience was fidg…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMLondon-based Touch isn’t a record label in the traditional sense; it’s far more multifaceted. It might be more accurate to describe Touch as a collective that also extends into publishin…
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SYNOPSIS: The Weismann Follies showgirls reunite before their old theatre is torn down, singing and dancing their old numbers and confronting past ...
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SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:28AMBack to Back Theatre shocked when it took out one of the most prestigious prizes in theatre, but, says artistic director Bruce Gladwin, ‘they deserve it’
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
May 24, 2022: Remember the postman’s motto? “Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the postmen from their appointed rounds.” These words coul…
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Mandy Gonzalez, Judy Kuhn, Anika Noni Rose, and more are announced performers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33AMThe stage veteran replaces Katie Hall, who played her last performance May 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33AMThe lauded 2019 production will be available on demand from Red Bull Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33AMThe evening features Tedd Firth on piano.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33AMMargaret Vandenburg's satire kicks off a week of theatrical action in defense of abortion rights.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33AMby Dan Kozuh. @dankozuh. NEW YORK, NY - A group of family and friends who had gathered together to confront renowned theatre director...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 12:00AMTheatre's return season has been triumphant and rocky. Because of COVID-19, schedules are constantly changing, not just for individual productions but for theatre awards, too. Traditionally,…
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