Thursday, August 14, 2014
For those clamoring to snag a role on a Broadway stage, book a gig at a reputable nightclub, or simply get feedback on their performance style, a three-night master class is being offered by…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
It's been a harrowing week for the entertainment industry with the sudden loss of Robin Williams followed by yesterday's passing of Lauren Bacall. Like Williams, Bacall was known for her gli…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Many will question the untimely death of one of our most beloved comedians and actors, Robin Williams. Here at the Broadway Blog we'd like to celebrate a career that spanned decades and brou…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:53PM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2014
On the evening of August 24, San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts Theatre will play host to a genre- and generation-spanning array of musical talent at Help is on the Way XX, the 20th annual …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2014
Are you seeing double? Nope " that's just the return of the cult favorite musical, Side Show, which opens this fall on Broadway at the St. James Theatre. Directed by Academy Award and Gol…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2014
The Broadway Blog’s editor Matthew Wexler rounds up three of our favorite picks for August. The dog days of summer are here so what better time to ensconce yourself in a cool, dark the…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:07PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
Perhaps your high school days were filled with pranks and hijinks… or late-night rehearsals of The Music Man, Grease, or some other teen-friendly production. Whatever your memories, relive…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2014
Nearly 80 years after it took The Great White Way by storm, You Can’t Take It With You"the timeless comedic three-act play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart"will start previews on Aug…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2014
It's calm waters this summer in New York City as the theater scene rejuvenates for openings this fall. But head west to the Tony Award-winning Goodman Theatre in Chicago you'll be witness to…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:29AM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2014
Celebrity Autobiography returns this August, welcoming to its cast stars of stage & screen Mario Cantone (Sex and the City), Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live), Scott Adsit (30 Rock), D…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 26, 2014
Musical theater gets a bad rep, and go figure, with today's landscape of shimmering esoteric music, there is a glassy-eyed artifice to it all that hasn't"shockingly enough"permeated today's …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:05AM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2014
Calling all southern Californians! Head to the Old Globe this Saturday for the 2014 Globe Gala in support of the theater's education and artistic programs. The annual event will feature a on…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2014
If you're looking for a little summer romance with a twist, we've got our eyes on a new play opening at the Cherry Lane Theatre. What happens four weeks after a one-night stand? That's the q…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 19, 2014
The New York Musical Theatre Festival is in full swing. We caught two shows this week that capture varying degrees of success in the development of new work. As We Lie Still is a musical fan…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2014
One of Broadway's bawdiest broads, Elaine Stritch, passed away today at the age of 89. Her early career included the 1952 revival of Pal Joey and Bus Stop in 1955, for which she was nominate…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:22PM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2014
Twenty years before receiving his first Broadway production, Nicky Silver scorched onto the New York scene with Pterodactyls, a blazingly prophetic play that seems more urgent by the day.…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 13, 2014
Now in it's 11th year, the New York Musical Theatre Festival returns for three weeks of ingenious works in progress, all vying for the tiara of best musical, in hopes they will get picked up…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 12, 2014
It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2008 and was made into a feature film starring Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep in 2013. Fans of August: Osage County can hear members of the origi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2014
Stars of stage and screen will descend upon Shubert Alley for the 16th Annual Broadway Barks! Founded by Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters, the organization helps many of New York City'…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2014
The New York Musical Theatre Festival opened this week, celebrating 11 years of America's greatest art form by providing an affordable way for artists to mount professional productions. Firs…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 6, 2014
Broadway's On The Town and FOX's So You Think You Can Dance are teaming up to offer the winner of Season 11 a role in this fall's highly anticipated Broadway revival, marking an …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2014
We're at midsummer and while Broadway is looking a bit dormant these days with the recent closings of After Midnight, Casa Valentina, Mothers and Sons and the closing notices for Violet (Aug…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Writer Lindsay B. Davis hit the streets of NYC to catch the best of Broadway at Inside Broadway’s Beacon Awards and the final concert of Broadway by the Year at Town Hall. Someti…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2014
After a sold-out benefit run for BC/EFA this February, Pageant " The Musical returns for a limited Off-Broadway engagement at The Davenport Theatre beginning June 29 with an official opening…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:57AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 28, 2014
In many ways, gangsta rap messiah Tupac Shakur was the new world order of hard-boiled post-Reaganomics fury. Shakur, a hip-hop raconteur who painted surround sound portraits of African-Ameri…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2014
"One of the best things Orange is the New Black has given me is straight boys," says Lea DeLaria, who plays butch Big Boo on the hit Netflix series. "I spent many years having teenage boys s…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:17PM[SHARE]In The Bullpen, Joseph Assadourian's wickedly facetious 18-character play, the audience is dropped into the lion's den of the American prison system and the ass-backwards legal procedures th…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
"Craft is the basic thing in the beginning of this work for you to understand; it is your handle. It is not your talent. But you must have it," Stella Adler expressed in her book, …On Amer…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 22, 2014
Who wants to see one Broadway show when you can see dozens on one night? The critically acclaimed series, Broadway by the Year, presents its final installment of the season, featuring Broadw…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:59AM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2014
"Whenever I'm back in San Francisco, I love to shake my parts at [popular drag-and-dancing extravaganza] Trannyshack," notes Justin Vivian Bond, when a recent conversation turns to the blow-…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 19, 2014
There has been lots of buzz about the monumental production of Macbeth, currently playing through June 22 at the Park Avenue Armory. And that includes its hefty price tag. At $350, itR…
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