STAGE TUBE: Watch the Trailer for RSC's HENRY IV Parts I & II, Screening in the U.S. July-Aug 2014June 20, 2014Below, watch the trailer for the Royal Shakespeare Company's Henry IV Part I & II! Henry IV Part I can currently be seen in cinemas across the U.S. through July 3. Henry IV Part II can be seen from July 5 - August 4. They were filmed for 'Live from Stratford-upon-Avon,' the RSC program that screens the world's greatest classical theatre company from Shakespeare's home town around the world through a continued partnership with Picturehouse Entertainment.
STAGE TUBE: Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson Talk Broadway-Bound THIS IS OUR YOUTHJune 19, 2014THIS IS OUR YOUTH by Kenneth Lonergan is headed to Chicago, then Broadway this summer, guided by producer Scott Rudin and directed by Anna D. Shapiro. It will star Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson. THIS IS OUR YOUTH will be staged in the round with Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in June and re-worked for the Cort Theatre on Broadway in August. Click below to watch an interview with the show's three stars!
STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek at Playhouse on Park's THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, Opening TonightJune 11, 2014Put on your thinking caps and get ready for an entertaining competition! Playhouse on Park is finishing its 2013-2014 season with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. In this hilarious hit musical, six quirky adolescents have their eyes on the spelling championship. Along the way they learn that winning isn't all you expect.and neither is losing. In 'an utterly charming look at one of the screwier manifestations of the American Dream' (TIME), audiences will cheer on a whole group of underdogs. Click below to get a sneak peek at the cast!
STAGE TUBE: Behind the Scenes - Marsha Mason Talks CHAPTER TWO at Bucks County PlayhouseJune 10, 2014Below, get an in-depth, intimate look into Marsha Mason's direction process involving her personal story and experiences with famous playwright, Neil Simon, as she beautifully directs CHAPTER TWO at Bucks County Playhouse. Find out what makes this personable show fun-loving and thoroughly entertaining, all the while inspiring for love the second time around. Click below!
STAGE TUBE: 'We Go Together' - Paper Mill Playhouse's GREASE Audience Tries to ScatJune 10, 2014Paper Mill Playhouse concludes its 75th Anniversary Season with America's favorite musical, GREASE. With book, music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, Grease will be directed by Daniel Goldstein with original choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter. Additional songs are by John Farrar, Barry Gibb, Scott Simon and Louis St. Louis. Grease plays the Millburn, New Jersey, theater through June 29, 2014. Click below to watch a fun video of audience members attempting to join in on 'We Go Together'!
STAGE TUBE: Ed Dixon and More in Promo for Signature Theatre's CLOAK AND DAGGER World PremiereJune 6, 2014Virginia's Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre closes out its 2013/2014 season with the world premiere musical Cloak and Dagger, directed by Signature Theatre's Artistic DirectorEric Schaeffer (Broadway's Follies, Million Dollar Quartet). From Helen Hayes Award Winner Ed Dixon (Signature's Sunset Boulevard) comes this screwball musical comedy send-up of the 1950s film noir.
STAGE TUBE: Jonathan Groff on How to Get Free Tickets to the Public's Shakespeare in the ParkJune 5, 2014The Public Theater will begin previews earlier this week on June 3 for Much Ado About Nothing, the first show of The Public's 2014 season of free Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte. Directed by Jack O'Brien, Much Ado About Nothing will run through Sunday, July 6, with an official press opening on Monday, June 16. Below, Jonathan Groff explains how to get free tickets -- and what to do while you're waiting in the queue -- for Shakespeare in the Park!
STAGE TUBE: Jeremy Jordan Visits Visits Jared Zirilli's BROADWAY BOO'SJune 5, 2014Jared Zirilli of Goodspeed's LMNOP, as well as Alley Theatre's A FEW GOOD MEN, off-Broadway's FAT CAMP and BARE, Broadway's LYSISTRATA JONES and WICKED, plus TWILIGHT THE MUSICAL, brings you 'Jared's Broadway Boo's' #67 with Jeremy Jordan. that's right, THE Jeremy Jordan, Zirilli's 'old school chum'.
STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek at Bill Irwin as 'Captain Andy' in San Francisco Opera's SHOW BOATJune 4, 2014Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's SHOW BOAT opens San Francisco Opera's Summer Season, running now through July 2, 2014. A watershed of American musical theater, Show Boat receives its company premiere in director Francesca Zambello's new grand-scale 'beautifully sung, smartly staged and handsomely designed (Chicago Tribune)' production. Scroll down to watch a sneak peek at Tony winner Bill Irwin as 'Captain Andy'!
STAGE TUBE: Highlights from San Francisco Opera's SHOW BOATJune 4, 2014A true classic of American musical theater, this tale of life on the Mississippi from the 1880s to the 1920s is both a poignant love story and a powerful reminder of the bitter legacy of racism. Director Francesca Zambello's grand-scale production is 'a triumph-a stylish, fast-paced and colorful show that had the capacity audience on its feet, cheering loud and long' (Chicago Classical Review). The magnificent Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II score, which includes such classic songs as 'Ol' Man River,' 'Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man,' 'Make Believe' and 'You Are Love,' will sound glorious 'under the authoritative baton of music-theater maestro John DeMain' (Chicago Tribune). 'No one should miss it' (Chicago Sun-Times).
STAGE TUBE: Trailer - Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones in DRIVING MISS DAISY, In Theaters TodayJune 4, 2014With esteemed careers spanning 60 to 70 years long, actors Dame Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones will bring the magic of the stage to movie theaters across the country this June. Screenvision and Broadway Near You have partnered to make the stage production of the Pulitzer-Prize winning Driving Miss Daisy available in more than 500 movie theaters in the U.S. and Canada beginning today, June 4. Click below to watch a trailer for the production!