(11/22/2009) Are you one of the thousands already following BroadwayWorld.com, the biggest theatre site on the net on Twitter and Facebook? (read story...)
(11/22/2009) Phyllis Spear has appeared in California Suite, Why We Have a Body, Plaza Suite, Lovers and Other Strangers, Rumors, Barefoot in the Park and Social Security. She studies with director Michael Leeds and is a board member of the Boca Raton Theatre Guild.
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(11/22/2009) After entertaining millions of fans across the world with
their thrilling magic and illusions, the internationally acclaimed
Fercos Brothers return to perform on the Las Vegas Strip at the
Theatre for the Performing Arts at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino
Dec. 22, 2009 through Jan. 3, 2010. (read story...)
(11/22/2009) A spellbinding drama with pitch dark humor about a writer accused of perpetrating the very acts depicted in his murderous stories. The Pillowman is a vicious whirlpool of dazzling storytelling at the hysterical edge of creepy and encroaching, despair and doom.
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(11/22/2009) Kassie DePaiva, Kathy Brier, and Bobbie Eakes portray three of the most complicated women in the soap world, but harmony abounds at the Broadway Theatre of Pitman as this trio joins forces as the Divas of Daytime TV!
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(11/22/2009) Circle Theatre, a professional theatre located in Sundance Square, presents the world premiere of A Lone Star Christmas Carol by Gary Moody & Gary Taylor. Preview performances for the show are Thursday, November 19; Friday, November 20; and Saturday, November 21 (matinee). The production will officially open Saturday evening, November 21 at 8:00pm, followed by a post-show party with the cast & crew.
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(11/22/2009) Children's Playhouse of Maryland will host a vendor and craft fair, The Holiday Bazaar, as its winter fundraiser. The event will be held on Sunday, December 6, from 11am to 5pm on the campus of CCBC Essex, in the B Building upper lobby. Over 20 tables of vendors and craft people will display their wares and handmade items for sale. A percentage of all proceeds will go to the theatre's operating budget.
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(11/22/2009) DO JUMP!'s new holiday show is based on the memoirs of Sunny Lu (a beautiful orange tabby). See the extraordinary human members of DO JUMP! create a one room feline circus. This show includes trampoline furniture, flying human cat toys and live music from rock and roll to classical performed by Klezmocracy. Artful athletic and hilarious, Sunny Lu and Tiger Lilly is great for audiences of all ages. (read story...)
(11/22/2009) Rogue Machine takes a group of local (vocal) writers, gives them a topic, and then a time limit. It always proves to be an evening of laughter, tears, some cathartic thinking, and wonderful discovery...with some of the most dangerous minds in the city.
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(11/22/2009) Set in the autumn of 1919 in the Berkshires close to the Ice Glen (a real place), this play combines warm humor with the intensity of suppressed emotions in a series of scenes that invite us to ponder the nature of beauty, the purpose of art, the privacy of personal expression, the artist's responsibility to the world, and other mysteries of the human heart. The story that emerges is suspenseful, poignant, and ultimately highly satisfying. (read story...)
(11/22/2009) Internationally acclaimed Galleon Theatre Company presents a joyous seasonal celebration of Oscar Wilde’s devastatingly funny and enduring play The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde’s hilarious comedy of two men whose lives deliciously unravel when they fall in love with two witty women with a partiality for the name ‘Ernest’, is set in the early 1930’s, at Christmas and to the exciting sounds, fashions and dances of the period.
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(11/22/2009) The Chief Executive and Producer of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo Major General Euan Loudon CBE, has confirmed that Russia's prestigious Moscow Military Conservatoire and the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Steel Orchestra are coming to Sydney. This spectacular addition means that the Sydney 2010 Tattoo will boast the greatest ever line up of international bands to perform in an Edinburgh Military Tattoo. There will be over 1,500 performers from Australia and around the world marching on to the Sydney Football Stadium on 4, 5, 6 and 7 February.
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(11/22/2009) As part of the San Francisco Mime Troupe 50th Anniversary Exhibition Birthday Bash at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Mime Troupe will revive GHOSTS, seen only once at the December 1981 opening of the Moscone Center, adjacent to Yerba Buena. The revival features several members of the original cast, including Arthur Holden, Dan Chumley, and Lonnie Ford in their 1981 roles, and will be followed by music, and anniversary toasts and roasts. The evening begins at 7:30pm, Thursday, December 10 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, and is free and open to the public. (read story...)
(11/22/2009) Four of San Diego's most exciting entrepreneurial arts organizations are announcing a joint relationship in support of each other and their guests in a ground-breaking announcement for the county's arts community.
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(11/22/2009) Dick Clark productions President Orly Adelson announced this week that Jay-Z will perform at the 2009 American Music Awards along with a starry roster including Adam Lambert, Jennifer Lopez and many others. A 'special preview' first look will be presented on the film version of NINE during the broadcast as well.
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(11/22/2009) The colorful Gypsy Robe, embellished with mementos from Broadway musicals, is presented to the cast member who has the most Broadway chorus credits. Recent Gypsy Robe honoree, FINIAN'S RAINBOW's Lisa Gajda passed the special Broadway garment on to Michael X. Martin backstage at the Neil Simon before the opening night performance and we were there too! (read story...)
(11/22/2009) 'There Was Such A Lot Of Askin' To Do' with our new 'BWW BIRDIE' Q&A feature and the exciting thing for all you 'BYE BYE BIRDIE' fans is that...Conrad Birdie himself is answering your questions! (read story...)
(11/22/2009) The all new 20th Anniversary Season of Broadway Beat has begun! This week catch up with the recent production of The Neil Simon Plays, meet the starry cast of the upcoming A Little Night Music and celebrate the magic of Broadway favorite Bernadette Peters as she wows the crowd at the Minskoff. (read story...)
(11/22/2009) Frank Scheck of the New York Post has an interview up today on the Post's web site with the legendary Liv Ullmann, in which she talks about directing Cate Blanchett in one of the greatest parts of all time (and one of the few that Ullmann herself would have liked to play and never did.) Click here to read the full story about the production which comes to Brooklyn starting on Friday.
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(11/22/2009) Wonderland, the first initiative of the Broadway Genesis Project at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, features a score by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlett Pimpernel, The Civil War), lyrics by Jack Murphy (The Civil War) and a book by Murphy and Gregory Boyd. Boyd, the artistic director of the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, will direct the production.
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(11/22/2009) Susan Boyle will appear on the Today Show on Monday, November 23, 2009 in New York's Rockefeller Plaza to sing to promote her debut album I Dreamed a Dream which is being released this week. The show will be Susan's first public performance in the USA. She is expected to perform her signature tune I Dreamed a Dream, as well as Wild Horses, Cry Me A River and a surprise selection.
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(11/22/2009) Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical is playing at Palace Theatre, Cambridge Circus, London W1 through May 2010. The cast performed 'I Will Survive' on the BBC's Children in Need Benefit.
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(11/22/2009) Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical is playing at Palace Theatre, Cambridge Circus, London W1 through May 2010. The cast performed 'Colour My World' on the BBC's Children in Need Benefit.
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(11/22/2009) Currently starring in the Roundabout production of Ordinary Days, Lisa Brescia has given a wide-ranging interview to the Rockland Journal news, talking about her break into musical theatre, what it was like working on WICKED, stepping in for Maria Friedman during THE WOMAN IN WHITE, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and lots more. (read story...)
Photo Coverage: RAGTIME Brings 'New Music' Back to Broadway - Opening Curtain Call
BWW TV: GLEE Peek - Matthew Morrison & Lea Michele Sing 'Endless Love'
Photo Flash: The Cast of THE ADDAMS FAMILY in Rehearsal
BWW TV: Broadway Beat Sneak Peek of RAGTIME's Opening Night
Photo Flash: 'Rhythm and Rhyme' - RAGTIME Opens on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre
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Photo Coverage: Opening Night for ON THE TOWN at Paper Mill Playhouse
STAGE TUBE: LOVE NEVER DIES - Creating The Phantom's New Look
'Heaven On His Mind' Lambert Aims for Judas Role in Rumored 'SUPERSTAR' Remake
Photo Coverage: RAGTIME Returns - Opening Night Arrivals
BWW TV: Extended Video Show Preview - DREAMGIRLS
STAGE TUBE: John Barrowman Dances 'Single Ladies'
BWW TV: GLEE Peek - Matthew Morrison Reveals A Secret
Photo Flash: Ben Crawford is SHREK THE MUSICAL's 'Big, Bright & Beautiful' New Leading 'Ogre'
Photo Coverage: The 8th Annual GLAAD OUTAuction NYC
Photo Flash: 'They Got Rhythm', The Cast of Encores! GIRL CRAZY at City Center!
Photo Flash: Nicholas Brendon in THE SANTALAND DIARIES
Photo Coverage: MARY POPPINS Stars Laura Michelle Kelly and Christian Borle Meet the Press at Sardi's
STAGE TUBE: GLEE - 'Hairography' Sneak Peek
Next Up for NINE's Rob Marshall? Pirates of the Caribbean 4!
Are You Following BroadwayWorld Yet on Twitter & Facebook?
A.R. Gurney's 'Love Letters' At The Boca Raton Theatre Guild 
Untamed Illusions Starring the Fercos Brothers Hit Planet Hollywood Dec. 22 - Jan. 3
The Pillowman Opens at Redtwist Theatre in Chicago; Runs Through Dec. 27
Divas Of Daytime TV Join Forces At Broadway Theatre of Pitman Featuring Blair And Marcie From One Life To Live And Krystal From All My Children Dec. 5
SHOW BIZ: Estimated Weekend Movie Box Office: November 20 - November 22, 2009
The Flaming Dames in Naughtier & Nicer Come to The Spot in Dec.
Photo Flash: A LONE STAR CHRISTMAS CAROL at Circle Theatre
Children's Playhouse of Maryland Hosts Craft Fair Fundraiser Dec. 6
Tickets on Sale for DO JUMP's Holiday Show 
Rogue Machine's RANT & RAVE Chapter 7 Takes Place Dec. 7 at Theatre Theater
Westpost Community Theatre Holds Auditions for ICE GLEN Dec. 1 and 2
Cast and Creative Announced for Greenwich Playhouse's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
More Bands Join Edinburgh Military Tattoo Festival
Tony-Winning San Francisco Mime Troupe Revives 'GHOSTS'
'Group of Four' San Diego Arts Organizations Join Forces With Member Offers
Adam Lambert, NINE Film, Alicia Keys, Jay-Z and More Perform Tonight on AMAs
Photo Coverage: RAGTIME's Return: Opening Night - The Gypsy Robe Ceremony!
BWW TV: Backstage with 'BIRDIE' - Nolan Gerard Funk Answers Your Questions!
BWW TV: Broadway Beat - Bernadette Peters in Concert, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and More!
Liv Ullmann Chats About Blanchett and Blanche with NY Post
BWW Reader Feedback - 11/22/09
DVR Alert: Talk Show Listings Friday, November 27 - Neil Patrick Harris & More
DVR Alert: Talk Show Listings Thursday, November 26 - Pee Wee Herman & More
DVR Alert: Talk Show Listings Wednesday, November 25 - Adam Lambert, Natalie Portman & More
DVR Alert: Talk Show Listings Tuesday, November 24 - Carrie Fisher & More
DVR Alert: Talk Show Listings Monday, November 23 - Robin Williams & More
STAGE TUBE: WONDERLAND - Through the Looking-Glass: Neil Patel
Hottest Articles on BWW 11/15/2009 - 11/22/2009
STAGE TUBE: Penelope Cruz Talks NINE on Regis & Kelly
Susan Boyle to Perform on Today Show November 23
STAGE TUBE: Priscilla Queen of the Desert Cast Performs 'I Will Survive'
STAGE TUBE: Priscilla Queen of the Desert Cast Performs 'Colour My World'
STAGE TUBE: New NINE Movie Television Spot
Lisa Brescia Chats with Journal News about WICKED, Ordinary Days and Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Girl Crazy
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GLEE and Barbara Cook?
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'Empire' Rising
