The Homecoming

Photo Flash: ROPE Begins Rehearsals At The Almeida Theatre

Roger Michell will direct Patrick Hamilton's classic thriller Rope running from 10 December 2009 - 6 February 2010, with press night on 16 December. (more...)

'Call Me Home' at MBA's Paschall Theatre

The world premiere of a new musical is always cause for excitement, whether the stage is on Broadway or in Nashville, and it was with great anticipation that we approached Call Me Home (more...)

Photo Flash: Vassar & New York Stage And Film's Powerhouse's VERA LAUGHED

Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse season will continue through Sunday, August 2, with the Mainstage play Vera Laughed (through 8/2); the Martel Musical Tina Girlstar (7/31 - 8/1); the ever-popular Readings Festival 2 (7/30 - 8/2); and a free concert reading by the Powerhouse Apprentice Company of the new musical Hello! My Baby. (more...)

Photo Flash: VERA LAUGHED At The Powerhouse Theater

The third offering on Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater Mainstage this season will be Keith Bunin's funny, sexy, romantic, and moving story Vera Laughed, about a great writer living in exile - with his wife and his mistress. Vera Laughed will open on Wednesday, July 22, and run through Sunday, August 2, at the Powerhouse Theater on the Vassar College campus. (more...)

Michael McKean Will Reprise SUPERIOR DONUTS Role On Broadway, Previews Begin 9/17, Opens 10/1

Theatre, film, television and music star Michael McKean will reprise his role as donut shop owner Arthur Przybyszewski in the Broadway premiere of Steppenwolf Theatre Company?s new American play Superior Donuts, by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning ensemble member Tracy Letts, directed by ensemble member Tina Landau. Mr. McKean originated the role during Superior Donuts? sold-out, world premiere at Steppenwolf last summer. Full casting will be announced shortly. (more...)

Review - Shafrika, The White Girl & Euan Morton at The Metropolitan Room

While collectors of musical theatre trivia may be quick to mention that Anika Larsen - the cherubic-looking blonde with the belty R&B voice - was the only performer to be in both the original Broadway cast of Xanadu and the original Off-Broadway cast of Zanna, Don't!, it's her unusual upbringing that supplies the real fun facts in her very enjoyable and even thought-provoking bio-musical, Shafrika, The White Girl. (more...)

Photo Coverage: Euan Morton - Caledonia: Songs for the Homecoming

Euan Morton is homesick-but he sure picked a good year if he needed help getting over it! 2009 marks the 250th anniversary since the birth of Scotland's most famous songwriter and poet, Robert Burns. Burns (world famous for penning Auld Lang Sine) wrote hundreds of beautiful songs and poems. To celebrate, Scotland is calling '09 the Year of the Homecoming. With musical and theatrical events taking place all around the globe it's a fine time to be Celtic! (more...)

Photo Flash: Khadime, Kelly and Anderson in UK WICKED

The smash hit musical WICKED, which recently celebrated its 1000th performance, recently welcomed Sam Kelly as The Wizard and Natalie Anderson as Nessarose on Monday 11 May 2009. (more...)

Photo Flash: WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING At The Almedia

Michael Attenborough will direct the European premiere of Andrew Bovell's When the Rain Stops Falling which runs at the Almeida from 14 May - 4 July 2009 with press night on 21 May. Designs are by Miriam Buether with lighting by Colin Grenfell, music by Stephen Warbeck, sound by Paul Arditti and movement by Imogen Knight. (more...)

Photo Flash: West End WICKED Welcomes Kelly, Anderson on 5/11

The smash hit musical WICKED, which recently celebrated its 1000th performance, is pleased to welcome Sam Kelly as The Wizard and Natalie Anderson as Nessarose from Monday 11 May 2009. The production also welcomes back Alexia Khadime as Elphaba. (more...)

Photo Flash: WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING At The Almedia

Michael Attenborough will direct the European premiere of Andrew Bovell's When the Rain Stops Falling which runs at the Almeida from 14 May - 4 July 2009 with press night on 21 May. Designs are by Miriam Buether with lighting by Colin Grenfell, music by Stephen Warbeck, sound by Paul Arditti and movement by Imogen Knight. (more...)

McDonald, Esparza, Pittu & More Join Hathaway In Shakespeare In The Park's TWELFTH NIGHT

The Public Theater announced initial casting today for the Shakespeare in the Park production of TWELFTH NIGHT, directed by Daniel Sullivan and featuring the previously announced Anne Hathaway as Viola. TWELFTH NIGHT will run June 10-July 12 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park with an official press opening on Thursday, June 25 at 8 p.m. Bank of America will return as lead sponsor of Shakespeare in the Park 2009. (more...)

Review - Mourning Becomes Electra: My Heart Belongs To Daddy

It was believed by many back in 1932, as it still is today, that the only reason Eugene O'Neill was not awarded that year's Pulitzer Prize for his Mourning Becomes Electra, an epic retelling of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy that declares Sigmund Freud as the true victor of the American Civil War, was that after granting him top honors for Beyond The Horizon (1920), Anna Christie (1922) and Strange Interlude (1928) the gang at Columbia figured enough was enough. So history was made that year when the Gershwin, Gershwin, Kaufman & Ryskin lark Of Thee I Sing became the first musical so honored, leaving O'Neill waiting until after his death to nab another, for Long Day's Journey Into Night. (more...)

Playwright Harold Pinter Dies at 78

The Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter has died at 78 of liver cancer on Christmas Eve. (more...)

Photo Flash: ASTEP Holiday Benefit Concert

Skylar Astin (Spring Awakening) Andy Karl (Legally Blonde, Altar Boyz, 9 to 5)and Sally Wilfert (Make Me a Song and the national tour of ...Spelling Bee) complete the company of performers who appeared at the Dec. 15 benefit concert A New York City Christmas, in support of ASTEP (Artists Striving To End Poverty). (more...)

Butz Steps In For SPEED-THE-PLOW, Piven Back In LA

The New York Post is giving more details regarding Piven's exit from the show, and reveals that Norbert Leo Butz will step in to help the production for now. Variety reported last night that Jeremy Piven would abruptly end his run in Broadway's Speed-the-Plow, after missing Tuesday evening's performance and a Wednesday matinee. (more...)

Piven Exits SPEED-THE-PLOW, Mamet Comments on Illness

Variety is reporting that Jeremy Piven will abruptly end his run in Broadway's "Speed-the-Plow," after missing Tuesday evening's performance and a Wednesday matinee. Sources revealed to Variety that Piven has informed the producers that he hasn't been feeling well and that the condition is attributable to a high mercury count. (more...)

Photo Flash: TREASURE ISLAND at the Royal Haymarket

Starting Sunday December 7th, the producers of TREASURE ISLAND starring Keith Allen at the Theatre Royal Haymarket will be introducing Sunday matinees at 3.00pm. (more...)

Photo Flash: IN A DARK DARK HOUSE

Michael Attenborough will direct Steven Mackintosh and David Morrissey in the European premiere of Neil LaBute's three hander, In a Dark Dark House, which runs at the Almeida from November 20th -January 17th, with press night on November 27th. In a Dark Dark House is designed by Lez Brotherston, with lighting by Howard Harrison and sound by Howard Wood. Final casting will be announced shortly. (more...)

Photo Coverage: Piven Theatre Workshop Benefit

On Saturday, November 15, 2008 the Piven Theatre Workshop hosted an exclusive party with current Speed-The-Plow star and three-time Emmy Award winner Jeremy Piven at Manhattan's trendy Level V (675 Hudson Street). (more...)

Keith Allen to Make West End Debut in 'Long John Silver' 11/17

Keith Allen will make his West End stage debut starring as 'Long John Silver' in Ken Ludwig's new stage adaptation of "TREASURE ISLAND" by Robert Louis Stevenson at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. (more...)

'TREASURE ISLAND' Debuts Sunday Matinee Showings 12/7

From Sunday 7 December, the producers of TREASURE ISLAND starring Keith Allen at the Theatre Royal Haymarket will be introducing Sunday matinees at 3.00pm. (more...)

Photo Coverage: 24th Annual Artios Awards

At its yearly coast-to-coast gala honoring excellence in casting, the Casting Society of America announced the New York award-winners at the 24th Artios Awards® held at Caroline's on Broadway on November 10, 2008. (more...)

Coming Up This Week in Theatre - 11/11/2008

BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 11/11/2008. (more...)