Jada Pinkett Smith And Spike Lee Protest All-White Nominees
An Oscars boycott is in order following the announcement of only white nominees for major categories, according to reports from CNN and others. That’s the decision of Jada Pinkett-Smith and Spike Lee....
View ArticleTony Award Winning All the Way Comes to the Alley Theatre
It’s a historic negotiation between LBJ and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. starting in 1963 as President Johnson concentrates on getting the Civil Rights Act passed, with only a hint of Vietnam on the...
View Article'West Side Story' returns to Actors’ Playhouse in Coral Gables on Jan. 17
"West Side Story" returns to Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre almost 20 years since the company won South Florida regional theatre’s Carbonell Award for “Best Production of a Musical.” The show...
View ArticleMeow! Musical 'Cats' to return to Broadway this summer
Click photo to enlarge FILE - In this July 7, 2014 file photo, British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, center, director Trevor Nunn, left, and choreographer Gillian Lynne, center right, pose for...
View ArticleBlog: Pleasure, Pomp, and Play Writing (Hedgerow Theatre)
(Source: Hedgerow Theatre) 'Pleasure,' is the one word actor Kittson O'Neill uses to describe the 'heart' of Liz Duffy Adams' farce Or,in which O'Neill plays the pioneering female playwright Aphra Behn...
View ArticleNot your average Joe: Haj makes Guthrie directing debut
Click photo to enlarge In this Jan. 12, 2016 photo, new Guthrie Theater artistic director Joe Haj leads a rehearsal of Shakespeare's ?Pericles,? as he prepares to make his...
View ArticleFormer Navy man Harris hopes to sail higher
ST. LOUIS -- Having already been honored at the St. Louis Baseball Writers' Dinner earlier this week for realizing his Major League dream after five years of service in the United States Navy, Mitch...
View Article‘Cats’ is a musical with the power to end friendships
“Cats” — well, that’s another matter. The Internet hates that show! When a Broadway revival was announced Thursday morning, the scorn was immediate. Even neutral articles had hostile headlines....
View ArticleDaniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Live! Brings Mister Rogers’ Legacy to Life On...
(Source: City of Frederick, MD) Media Contact: Ashley Birdsell, Manager of Marketing 301-600-2868 | abirdsell@cityoffrederick.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Live! Brings Mister...
View ArticleBette Midler returning to Broadway in Hello, Dolly!
The Divine Miss M is back where she belongs: on Broadway. Bette Midler will return to the Great White Way next year in a new production of Hello, Dolly! directed by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry...
View ArticleCongressman Joaquin Castro Joins FHLB Dallas and Broadway Bank for Retirement...
SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) and Representative Justin Rodriguez (TX-125) today joined representatives from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB...
View ArticleSCR's 'Red' delves into the challenges of artist Mark Rothko
Painter Mark Rothko faced a series of struggles: He left Russia when he was 10, his father died seven months after the family arrived in Portland, Ore., he dropped out of Yale after two years and bouts...
View Article‘Cats’ is coming back to Broadway for first revival
Cats, the beloved Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, will be heading back to Broadway for its first ever revival since closing in 2000. The show will open on July 14 at...
View Article'Wonderful and intense': a Syracuse University grad on his big off-Broadway...
Syracuse, N.Y. -- Tyler Jimenez graduated from Syracuse University's theater program in May and started working "survivals jobs." After waiting tables or working a catering gig, he'd get up the next...
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Bette Midler to return to Broadway in ‘Hello, Dolly!’ NEW YORK — It’s a match made in musical theater heaven — Bette Midler will star in a Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” Producer Scott Rudin said...
View ArticleShakespeare 400 Chicago Line-up Announced Barbara Gaines' Tug of War Casting...
CHICAGO, Jan. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Shakespeare 400 Chicago announces today the festival line-up for 2016, featuring 850 events on stages and in museums, restaurants, parks, schools and...
View ArticleUH Playwrights Earn Regional, National Honors (University of Houston)
(Source: University of Houston) Several student playwrights from the University of Houston's School of Theatre & Dance have kicked off 2016 in a big way. Their plays - written and developed in UH's...
View ArticleWhat Broadway's 'Hamilton' Can Teach Hollywood About Diversity
Imagine a film about one of our nation's great forefathers. He's a bootstrapping young man, born to white parents in the Caribbean, who came to New York to study. But, soon after his arrival, he leapt...
View Article'Cats' Musical Returning to Broadway This Summer
Cats will soon be more than just a memory. Producers The Shubert Organization and The Nederlander Organization announced Thursday that the blockbuster musical will return to Broadway next season....
View ArticleClassic Hollywood: Tom Stoppard recalls how he turned his ‘Rosencrantz’ play...
Tom Stoppard became an overnight success at age 29 when his play “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead” was staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1966. A year later, the National Theatre...
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