Des Keogh will star in Thomas Kilroy's My Scandalous Life, to run February 2 - March 6 in the Irish Repertory Theatre's W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre. John Going will direct the productio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMThe HBO film of Laurence Fishburne's performance in Thurgood will premiere on the network on Thursday, February 24 at 9pm (ET/PT). Michael Stevens has directed the project, which preserves …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMHelen Hunt and Tom Irwin will participate as jurors in the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles' The Trial of Hamlet, to be held on January 31 at 7:30pm at Bovard Auditorium at the University o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMTony Award winner Jane Krakowski is pregnant with fiancé Robert Godley's child. People.com quotes a representative of the actress as saying, "Jane and Robert are indeed expecting …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMAzuka Theatre has announced casting for Jacqueline Goldfinger's the terrible girls, to run March 17 - April 3 at The Latvian Society. Allison Heishman will direct the production.The play ce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMOn Thursday, January 6, The New Group celebrated the start of their 2011 season, which opens with a production of Tommy Nohilly's Blood From A Stone at Theatre Row's Acorn Theater starring G…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMTony Award nominee Alfred Molina will be among the participants in Theatre of NOTE's 16th Annual Hollywood Performance Marathon, to take place on Saturday, January 15 beginning at 3pm and co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMTony Award winner Barbara Cook will now perform her cabaret show, which is part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, in The Allen Room on Tuesday, February 15, at 8:30pm, rather tha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMSepia Records has announced its lineup of March releases.The 24-track Gypsy Meets Gypsy will bring two LP recordings to one CD. The first half of the disc will be comprised of the numbers f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMBroadway veteran Charlotte Cohn will present her cabaret show, Simply Complicated: The Elegant Escapades of a Danish-Israeli Opera-Singing Tank Commander, February 24-27 at CENTERSTAGE as pa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMThe longlists for the BAFTA Awards, chosen by members in the first round of voting, have been announced, according to a report in Variety. Nominations will be revealed on January 18, with th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMBill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Judy Davis, Michael Gambon and Ralph Fiennes will star in the BBC's new spy thriller Page Eight. David Hare is writing and directing the project, which begins film…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMOn Thursday, January 6, The New York Times 10th Annual Arts & Leisure Weekend featured talks with Tony Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey and CBS News anchor Katie Couric.As previously rep…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMComplete casting has been announced for Southwark Playhouse's production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1970 musical Company, February 2-March 12, according to Whatsonstage.com. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMLeslie Mann and Paul Rudd will reprise their roles as married couple Debbie and Pete, which they played in the 2007 film Knocked Up, according to Variety. Judd Apatow will write and direct t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMComplete casting has been announced for the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Rob Ashford will direct and choreograph the production, which will begin per…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMOn Thursday, January 6, Playwrights Horizons celebrated the opening of its production of Adam Bock's A Small Fire.Opening night guests included Annie Baker, Marylouise Burke, Michael Chernus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMAustin Pendleton will direct a one-night-only performance of Susan Stein's solo show Etty, to be offered at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on February 2 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMEmmy Award-winner Camryn Manheim will guest star on NBC's Harry's Law, according to a report on TVGuide.com.The show stars Kathy Bates, who plays a recently fired attorney who starts a pract…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMThe Tony Award-winning actress discusses starring with Alan Rickman and Fiona Shaw in John Gabriel Borkman at BAM.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMBroadway veteran and three-time Emmy nominee Ron Raines will be the special guest star in Marc Kudisch's one-night concert, The Lower Depths: In Defense of the Baritone Voice, at Town Hall,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMInitial plans have been announced for Imagine Ireland, a year-long multidisciplinary season of Irish arts in America, to be offered at theaters across the country. Among the cities and venu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMCasting has been announced for a staged reading of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, to be offered on January 9 at 7pm at The Cherry Lane Theatre. Frank Whaley will direct the performance, which…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMActress Margot Stevenson, whose Broadway career spanned several decades, died at her home in Manhattan on Sunday, January 2, according to The New York Times. She was 98.Stevenson made her Br…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:59AMElevator Repair Service will hold a 20th Anniversary gala at the Neue Galerie in New York City, on Tuesday, April 5.The event will feature exclusive after-hours access to the gallery's colle…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters, which will launch a U.K. tour with an engagement at Theatre Royal, Windsor, running April 6-16. Max Roberts has directed the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winner Anjelica Huston and Tony Award nominee Brian d'Arcy James will join Debra Messing, Megan Hilty, Christian Borle, and Katharine McPhee in the musical drama pilot, Smash, which w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAshley Brown, who originated the title role in the Broadway production of Mary Poppins, returned to the production, at the New Amsterdam Theatre, on March 8 and will continue in the show th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMacleod Andrews, Matt Dickson, Natalie Gold, Jan Leslie Harding, Stephanie Janssen, Chris Stack, and Samantha Soule will star in a return engagement of Janssen's The Umbrella Plays, to be pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLove&Madness will offer two performances of Shakespeare's Richard III at Tower of London, April 1-2, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Ben Kidd has directed the production.Shak…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Imperioli, Anthony Rapp, and Scott Shepherd will be among the participants in Selected Shorts' 40th Anniversary Celebration of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe track list for the new CD An Evening With Sutton Foster - Live At The Cafe Carlyle has been announced. The recording, which preserves a performance that the Tony Award winner gave last …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMary Stuart Masterson and husband Jeremy Davidson are expecting twins this summer, according to a report on People.com. The couple welcomed their first child, a son, in October 2009.Masters…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 2nd National Touring Company of Wicked has announced a March 21 performance of a benefit cabaret entitled Wicked Rocks, to be presented at Segerstrom Center for the Arts' Founders Hall i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, at the Laura Pels Theatre, has announced a one-week extension and will now close …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the 2011 Jonathan Larson Grants have been announced by the American Theatre Wing. The grants, given annually to honor emerging composers, lyricists and book writers, help to c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCourt Theatre has announced the plays that will comprise its 2011-2012 season. The year will begin with George C. Wolfe's Spunk, an adaptation of three stories by Zora Neale Hurston, to be p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winner Shirley Jones discusses her new cabaret act at Feinstein's, her favorite co-stars, and working with her family
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn open casting call is being held at Central Casting in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 26 to fill the role of Drew Boley in Adam Shankman's upcoming adaptation of the hit Broadway musical R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation will present Divas and Dames: Bay Area Divas & Friends in Concert to Fight AIDS at 7:30pm on Sunday, May 1 at Marines Memorial Theater in San Francisco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Debbie Allen, Ellen Barkin, Mario Cantone, Terry Kinney, Jennifer Morrison, and Raphael Sbarge have been signed to upcoming pilots, according to recent reports.Allen, who has …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe final epsiode of the second season of FOX's hti series Glee will air on Tuesday, May 24, according to The Hollywood ReporterThe series stars Matthew Morrison, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatthew Murray, Michael Portantiere, Michael Dale and James Marino discuss the shut down and re-conception of Spider-Man, the closing of American Idiot, John Doyle is Merrily, and Gypsy will…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMReally, I planned to be good about it. While many of my fellow critics (or "brother wizards," as I like to call them) had already attended and assessed Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark, I plann…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on new CDs from Harry Connick, Jr. and Linda Eder, Glee: The Music, Volume 5, and nine other discs.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFederico Garcia Lorca's near mythic tale of love and loss is given given an uneven but often worthwhile production from Marvell Repertory Company.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark will now open on Tuesday, June 14 instead of its scheduled March 15 opening in order to implement changes to the show, according to a statement …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater Latte Da has announced casting for Steerage Song, a new musical docudrama created by Peter Rothstein and Dan Chouinard, to play the Fitzgerald Theater, June 2-5.Premiering in partner…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for Jungle Theater's production of Geoffrey Nauffts' Tony-nominated play, Next Fall, to be presented April 8-May 22. Joel Sass will direct. The play examines …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStanding on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays will return to Largo at the Coronet Theatre for a series of Monday night performances, March 28-June 20.Conceived and directed by Brian Shnipper,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award and Academy Award nominee Hugh Martin died in California of natural causes on Friday, March 11. He was 96.Martin was best known for co-writing the score for the MGM musical Meet M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony nominee Douglas Sill has joined the cast of the new rock musical White Noise, at Chicago's Royal George Theatre, which will run April 1-June 5, with an official opening set for April 9…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Original Broadway Cast Recording for Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical will be available for purchase at the Palace Theatre beginning March 15. The album, from Rhino Records, wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, March 10, the Off-Broadway revival of Abe Burrows' classic farce Cactus Flower opened at the Westside Theatre Upstairs, where it will run through May 29. Opening night attendees…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJason Danieley, Marin Mazzie, James Naughton, Bebe Neuwirth and Emily Skinner are scheduled to perform at Encores! Treasures, to be offered on April 4 at The Plaza Hotel. Christopher Fitzge…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharlie Sheen has announced plans for a national tour of a new live show, My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not An Option Show, which will launch with a performance on April 2 at the Fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Jason Butler Harner will star in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's reading of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, to be presented at the Wimberly Theatre of the Boston…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHuntington Theatre Company has announced complete casting for Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, to run April 1 - May 1 at Calderwood Pavilion at the B.C.A. Peter DuBois will direct the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSienna Miller. James Purefoy, and Sheridan Smith lead a fine cast in Trevor Nunn's polished production of Terrence Rattigan's rarely-staged 1942 play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRufus Wainwright will join the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal for a concert on Wednesday, October 5. The program will include songs by Berlioz; Shakespeare sonnets Wainwright h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGodlight Theatre Company's uneven production focuses on the media maelstrom surrounding a teddy bear accused of terrorism.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlenn Seven Allen, Tituss Burgess, Alyson Cambridge, Amy Justman, and Djordje Nesic will perform in Sing for Hope, to be held at the Riverside Church on Sunday, March 20 at 3pm.The benefit w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York Theatre Workshop has announced that Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher, adapted from the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, has extended its run through April 17. Roger Ree…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz will receive the Downtown Urban Theater Festival's first-ever Playwright Master's Award on the opening night of the festival, at the Manhattan Movement & …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 35th Laurence Olivier Awards were held on March 13 at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton hosted the event. Legally Blonde won the award for Best New Musical …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBetsy Aidem, Cecilia Arana, Amelia Campbell, Raul Castillo, Dominic Comperatore, Michael Chernus, Danyon Davis, Maxon Davis, Kathy Hiler, Ruy Iskandar, Greg Keller, Ezra Knight, Alexandra Me…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJenny Bacon and Mark L. Montgomery will star in The Goodman Theatre's production of Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss, to play April 30-June 5. Jessica Thebus will direct. In the play, ex-lovers HE (M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBlythe Danner, Ted Danson, Jomama Jones & The Lisps, Parker Posey, Peter Dinklage, Lili Taylor, and Michael Stuhlbarg will perform at the Soho Rep Spring Gala 2011, to be held on May 2 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRichard Kline, perhaps best known to TV watchers as Larry on the sitcom Three's Company, will host Celebrating Sondheim, a benefit for ElectricTheatre Company, to be held at theater's home i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlison Pill and Jay Baruchel are engaged, according to a report on People.com. The two, who worked together on the forthcoming movie Goon, plan to be married in September 2012.Pill will soo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, March 11, Tony Award nominated Memphis stars Montego Glover and Chad Kimball had their caricatures unveiled at Sardi's restaurant. The pair were joined by many of their Memphis …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Judith Ivey will guest star in a May story arc of the ABC drama, Grey's Anatomy, according to TVGuide.com.She will portray Barbara, the mother of Arizona (series r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarbara Walsh will star in the world premiere of Tony Glazer's Reading Under the Influence: The "Real" Westchester Women's Book Club, to be presented Off-Broadway at the DR2, April 6-May 15,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Harriet Harris and Broadway veteran Mia Barron will join current cast members Saidah Arrika Ekoluna and James Lecesne in the Geffen Playhouse's production of In Mother Word…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Debbie Allen, Ellen Barkin, Mario Cantone, and Jennifer Morrison have been signed to upcoming pilots, according to recent reports.Allen, who has both acted and directed on Bro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJason Alexander and Gina Hecht will star in Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue, to run April 21 - May 15 at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. Glenn Casale will direct the pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLauren Class Schneider talks to Eve Plumb about the pleasure of appearing in Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMJosie Rourke has been named the new artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse in London. She will assume the position on January 1, taking over from Michael Grandage, who as previously anno…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShirley Jones on the Cassidy clan, Frank Sinatra, and her upcoming nightclub debut at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMOn Tuesday while writing my Wednesday column on That Championship Season, I went to check a line in my hardcover edition. That's when I noticed the quotations from the 1972 critics' reviews …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award nominee's sublime new show at DIzzy's Coca-Cola shows off the singer's true musical versatility.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMaxwell Caulfield gives a suave performance in this often monotonous, predictable revival of the once-popular 1960s comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCrayton Robey discusses the filming of his documentary, Making the Boys, about The Boys in the Band.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for HBO's Hemingway & Gellhorn, a new telefilm about the relationship between writers Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, according to Deadline.co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Ellen Barkin, Mario Cantone, and Jennifer Morrison have both been signed to upcoming pilots, according to recent reports.Cantone, whose Broadway credits include both his one-p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBono, the lead singer of U2 and co-author of the Broadway musical Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark, and Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg and are among the nine nominees foe the Mikh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJenn Gambatese, Mamie Gummer, and Hamish Linklater will head the cast of Classic Stage Company's presentation of The School for Lies, to run April 13-May 22, with an opening on May 1. Walter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 2011 Garland Awards, voted on by the Los Angeles theater critics of Back Stage, have been announced.The Center Theatre Group's presentation of the national tour of Lincoln Center Theater…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway in Chicago is set to present Emerald City Theatre's Midwest premiere of Pinkalicious at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, July 8 - September 4.Pinkalicious tells the stor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDesmin Borges and Cheryl Lynn Bruce will co-star in the world premiere of Jennifer Barclay's Freedom, NY, to be presented by Teatro Vista at Theater Wit, May 8-June 12. Joe Minoso will direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for a concert presentation of the musicals The Water Dream and Clear, to be offered on Friday, March 11 at 8pm at The Bushwick Starr.Shawn Cody has written the boo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMScott Porter, who starred in the Off-Broadway musical Altar Boyz, has joined the cast of Maggie Carey's film comedy The Hand Job, according to Variety.The film will star Aubrey Plaza as a st…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Ravinia Festival has announced programming for its 2011 season, which will include a gala benefit celebrating composer George Gershwin, on Saturday, July 23. James Conlon will lead the C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda will appear on ABC's award-winning sitcom Modern Family later this season as the inventor of an innovative dog-training technique, according to TVGuide.c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJill Eikenberry, Chad Hoeppner, Jonny Orsini, and Wrenn Schmidt will star in the world premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's Be a Good Little Widow, to be performed at Ars Nova, April 20-May 14,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThere will be a day-of-performance lottery for both presentations of The People's Improv Theatre's production of The Spidey Project, on Monday, March 14 at 8pm and 10pm. Ten to fifteen tick…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHarry Potter: The Exhibition will open at Discovery Times Square on April 5. The New York engagement of the show, which has been touring the country, will make its final appearance in North…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of the Green Day musical American Idiot, at the St. James Theatre, will end its run on April 24. At that time, it will have played 27 previews and 421 regular perform…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSignature Theatre has announced casting for Yasmine Reza's Art, translated by Christopher Hampton. Matt Gardiner will direct the production, which will run March 29 - May 22.The play focuse…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Wilma Theater has announced its 2011-2012 season, which will begin with the U.S. premiere of Our Class (October 12-November 13) by Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek, in an English v…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBill Cosby's new book, I Didn't Ask to be Born, But I'm Glad I Was, will be released in November, according to published reports.In the book, Cosby will be writing about everything from the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Entertainment Fund for the Cultural Arts has announced participating artists for the 7th Annual Broadway Purim Shpiel, to be held on Monday, March 14 at 7pm at the Hudson Theatr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLisa Howard will celebrate her new CD Songs of Innocence & Experience: The Music of William Finn with a concert at Birdland on April 11 at 7pm. The album will be released by Sh-K Boom R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWriter/performer Daniel Beaty's award-winning solo show, Through the Night, has added two additional performances at the Westside Theatre, and will play Mondays, March 21 and 28 at 8pm befor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New School for Drama has announced the lineup for its New Voices Playwrights Festival, to be held at The New School for Drama Theater March 30-April 9. This series features six original …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, March 9, the Off-Broadway production of Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher opened at New York Theatre Workshop. Roger Rees and Alex Timbers directed the piece, which has mu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of participants has been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2011 spring gala, to be held at the Roseland Ballroom on Monday, March 14 beginning at 7pm. As previou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKeira Knightley will voice the role of Tinkerbell in Syfy's four-hour miniseries Neverland. Nick Willing has written and will direct the projec, which is scheduled to air in December. Knig…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSinger and actress Lea DeLaria will present her new show, Last Butch Standing, at 7:30pm on Sunday, March 13 at Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts.DeLaria is currently appearing in A.R.T.'s …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdam Guettel, David Henry Hwang, John Kander, Stephen Schwartz, and Rufus Wainwright will participate in the New York City Opera roundtable discussion, Opera or Musical Theater?, to be held …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2011 Golden Globe Award winner Steve Buscemi and his filmmaker wife Jo Andres hosted E#@60: A Benefit Concert Honoring Elliott Sharp's 60th Birthday, at Brooklyn's ISSUE Project Room, on Fri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMike Burstyn will once again play the title role in The National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene's musical The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer, based on the play by Moyshe Gershenson, and ad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJoan Benedict Steiger will be honored with the Eternity Award at the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival's opening night gala to be held on Thursday, March 24 at the Electric Lodge. Steige…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole will tour to various U.S. locations this spring.The Irving Texas Symphony will present An Evening With Christine Ebersole, featuring Billy Stri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBryan Batt and Patricia Clarkson will offer two benefit performances of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre in New Orleans on Friday, March 18 at 8pm and Sunday, Ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Eric McCormack will star in the upcoming WWE Studios film, Barricade, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Andrew Currie will direct the film, which features a screenplay b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC)'s 42nd annual awards were announced at a ceremony held Monday, March 14 at the Colony Theatre.Acting winners in the Lead Performan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway's top designers discuss the art of dressing men such as Harvey Fierstein, Brian Bedford, and Nick Adams as women on the stage.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright and novelist Al Morgan has died, according to a report in The New York Times. He was 91.Morgan's theater credits include two shows on Broadway. In 1958, he wrote the book for th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSeason 8 of Fox's hit series So You Think You Can Dance will begin with a two-hour premiere Thursday, May 26 at 8pm.Resident judges for this season will be Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy, Ro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway will be held on May 1, with nominations to be announced on March 31. Additional details on the ceremony will be announced s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Gregg Edelman and Sally Mayes will perform a double concert at Show at Barre in Los Angeles, on Sunday, April 24 and Monday, April 25 at 7:30pm.Edelman received Tony Award …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAkiko Aizawa, J.Ed Araiza, Leon Ingulsrud, Ellen Lauren, Tom Nelis, BarneyO'Hanlon, Makela Spielman, Samuel Stricklen, and Stephen Duff Webber will star in the New York premiere of Charles M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Michele Ragusa will be making several concert appearances this spring.On Friday, April 1, she will join the Kansas City Symphony, singing the role of Marian the Librarian in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Kitchen has announced programming for its Spring 2011 season.Rinde Eckert and Melvin Van Peebles will be among the featured performers in 21C Liederabend op. 2 (April 7-9), a multi-media…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBobby Cronin, Jordan Fife Hunt, Jenn Furman, Meredith Patterson, Brian Charles Rooney, Tricia Tanguy, and Paul Wyatt will be among the performers in Broadway Sings for Japan, to be held at D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe award-winning comedian discusses her first-ever Broadway outing, Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCleveland Play House will present the world premiere of Ken Ludwig's The Games Afoot or Holmes for the Holidays, to play the Allen Theatre, November 25-December 18.Aaron Posner will direct t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThere will be a day-of-performance lottery for both presentations of The People's Improv Theatre's production of The Spidey Project, on Monday, March 14 at 8pm and 10pm. Ten to fifteen tick…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnthony Daniels, the actor who portrayed C-3PO in all six Star Wars films, will provide live narration for Star Wars: In Concert, which will play the Hollywood Bowl, June 3 and 4. Dirk Bross…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Wilson Cruz and Patrick Wilson will be among the presenters at the New York City GLAAD Media Awards ceremony, to be held at the Marriott Marquis Times Square on March 19, h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCAP21 will honor married musical theater composer-lyricists Jason Robert Brown and Georgia Stitt at their Spring Gala, to be held April 11 at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College. There wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristopher Sieber will now assume the role of Georges in the Broadway production of La Cage Aux Folles on March 11 (rather than the previously announced March 15). The production, which won…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSh-K-Boom will record and release the original cast album of the new Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can. The cast will record the CD on April 18, with in-theater, digital, and in-store rel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Judith Light, Brian O'Bryne, Amanda Peet, Jeremy Sisto, Jeffrey Tambor, and Afton Williamson have all been signed to upcoming pilots, according to recent reports.Light, curren…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThomas Meehan, Martin Charnin, and Charles Strouse -- the original creative team of the musical Annie -- will be honored at Goodspeed Musicals' annual gala, to be held on Saturday, June 4. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKimberly Faye Greenberg will reprise her performance in the title role in Chip Deffaa's One Night With Fanny Brice, which will begin previews at St. Luke's Theatre on March 16 in anticipatio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Bartlett Sher will direct J.T. Rogers' Blood and Gifts at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, beginning October 27, with an opening on November 21. The production's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, March 9, Paper Mill Playhouse gave members of the press a sneak peek at their upcoming production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, set to run March 16-April 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHelen Mirren will receive the CinemaCon Career Achievement Award in a ceremony to be held at the close of the CinemaCon festival on March 31 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Mirren's award w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Julianne Moore will play politician and reality TV star Sarah Palin in the HBO movie Game Change, according to New York Magazine.The film, by Jay Roach, is about the 20…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMorlan Higgins and Karen Kondazian will star as the title characters in Phoenix Rising Productions' production of Franco D'Alessandro's Tennessee & Anna, to run April 5 - May 29 at the O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMD.C.'s Arena Stage Theater devotes two months to a thorough, must-see exploration of the work of Edward Albee.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, featuring book by Joy Gregory, music by Gunnar Madsen, lyrics by Gregory and Madsen, and story by Gregory, Madsen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKansas City Repertory Theatre has announced casting for John Kander and Fred Ebb's Cabaret, to run March 18 - April 10. Eric Rosen will direct the production, which will have music directio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the Guthrie Theater production of Arsenic and Old Lace, to play the Wurtele Thrust Stage, April 9-June 5, with an opening on April 15. Joe Dowling will di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLynne Soffer has been named the winner of Actors' Equity Association's 2011 Lucy Jordan Humanitarian Award. She will receive the award, which honors an individual in the theatrical communit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAll My Children stars Walt Willey and Bobbie Eakes co-hosted ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS a special benefit performance on Sunday, March 13 at The Town Hall. The eve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcorn Media will release the DVD of Who Do You Think You Are? Season 1 NBC and Lisa Kudrow's star-studded family history series, on Tuesday, March 15.In the series, guest stars Sarah Jessica…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDigital Theatre will release Timothy Sheader and Liam Steel's staging of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods for online streaming and digital download on March 31. The produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRobert Beltran -- known for his TV roles as Commander Chakotay on Star Trek: Voyager and Jerry Flute on Big Love -- will star in the U.S. premiere of The Devil's Advocate, to play the Los An…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDarrell Hammond, who will star as Truman Capote in Bay Street Theatre's upcoming production of the biodrama Tru (May 31-June 26), will be the special guest at the company's spring benefit, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Boston Pops has announced its 2011 spring season, to run May 11 - June 26. The year for the orchestra will open with Linda Eder Sings Judy Garland, which will be May 11-13. Also schedu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Doyle, Rob McClure, Howard McGillin, Jill Paice, and Lauren Worsham discuss the City Center Encores! production of Where's Charley?
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AME. Faye Butler, Brianna Borger, Mary Ernster, Brandon Dahlquist, Roberta Duchak, Rebecca Finnegan, Nicholas Foster, Jess Godwin, Corey Goodrich, Ross Lehman, Bethany Dawn Lindner, Michael Li…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham will be the guest performer at the Emelin Theatre production of Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell on Friday, April 1 while Tony nominee Kat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMErin Davie, Ann Harada, Kendrick Jones, Burke Moses, and Wesley Taylor will star in The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport's Broadway Tribute, the next special event in the theater's ongoi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of films has been announced for the 10th Tribeca Film Festival, which will take place from April 20 to May 1 at various venues in lower Manhattan. New to the slate are Dori B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe U.S. premiere of John Scott's Fall and Recover, at La MaMa E.T.C.'s Ellen Stewart Theatre, will now run March 25-April 9 (instead of the previously March 17-April 3). Press notes cite th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veteran David Burtka been cast in E!'s in-development Foursome, a sex-themed chat show, according to TVGuide.com.Burtka played Tulsa opposite Bernadette Peters in Sam Mendes' Broadway …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Janet Dacal and Hugh Panaro and Sesame Street's Bob McGrath were among the guest stars at the Young People's Chorus of New York City's fundraising gala, entitled Dreamer, h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Radcliffe and Harvey Fierstein will join Jujamcyn Theaters President Jordan Roth for forthcoming editions of the Broadway Talks conversation series at the 92nd Street Y.Radcliffe, who…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMZach Braff's new play, All New People, will conclude Second Stage Theatre's current season. The show will begin erformances on June 28 before an official opening in mid-July. Peter DuBois w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStars Nick Adams, Tony Sheldon, and Will Swenson, along with fellow members of the Broadway cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical, will appear on NBC's The Today Show on Friday, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYale Repertory Theatre has announced productions for its 2011-2012 season, according to a report in The New York Times.The season will begin in September with Sarah Ruhl's new version of Thr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBillboard chart topper Kelly King and nightlife cabaret star Marti Gould Cummings will perform in concert at New World Stages' Time Out New York Lounge, on Wednesday, March 16 at Midnight. B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJourney of the Bonesetter's Daughter, a documentary about the making of the opera -- which is based upon Amy Tan's bestselling novel -- will air on PBS on Sunday, May 8. The documentary is d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMark Ruffalo will play jazz pianist Joe Albany in the new bio-movie Low Down, according to published reports. Jeff Preiss is directing the film.Low Down has a script by Topper Lilien and Am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Off-Broadway company of Siudy: Between Worlds will offer a benefit performance for AID FOR AIDS International (AFAI) on Thursday, March 10 at 8:30pm. A VIP cocktail reception will follo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Almeida Theatre has announced its programming for the fall, through early 2012.The schedule will include Stephen Poliakoff's My City, to run September 8 - November 5. The playwright wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veterans Wes Bentley and Jennifer Carpenter will join Amanda Seyfried in the upcoming film Gone, according to a report in Variety. Heitor Dhalia will direct, with the screenplay by A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrendan Fraser will star in Whole Lotta Sole, according to a report in Variety. Terry George is directing the project, which is using a script he has written with Thomas Gallagher.The movie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMD.C.'s Arena Stage Theater devotes two months to a thorough, must-see exploration of the work of Edward Albee.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Jeffrey Donovan has signed on to play Robert F. Kennedy in Clint Eastwood's biopic J. Edgar, which has been written by Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black.Leonardo DiCaprio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSteppenwolf Theatre Company will present Next Up, a rotating repertory of three productions showcasing Chicago's next generation of artists at The Steppenwolf Garage, May 31- June 19. Next…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, March 8, Emmy Award winner Kathy Griffin greeted fans outside the Belsaco Theater, where her limited engagement run of her new solo show, Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony, will play Ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMClassic Stage Company's Young Company, which creates classical works specially tailored for young audiences, will present As You Like It, March 17-April 1. James Rutherford will direct.Colum…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for A Very Shamrocky -- Rocky Horror in Concert, to be held at Show At Barre, at midnight on Saturday, March 12. Music direction will be by Christopher Bratten. Jo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner and theater legend Liza Minnelli was honored by double-decker bus and motorcoach tourism company Gray Line New York, as a Ride of Fame dedicatee at a ribbon-cutting ceremon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, March 8, Priscilla Queen of the Desert cast member Thom Allison donned his best cupcake couture to unveil the show's official cupcake at New York City's Magnolia Bakery at Rocke…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winner Robert De Niro will star alongside fellow stage veterans Paul Dano, Julianne Moore, Olivia Thirlby, Dale Dickey, and Lili Taylor in the forthcoming film Another Night, which has…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the world premiere of Epona's Labyrinth, to play HERE, April 7-23, with an opening on April 9. Kameron Steele will direct.Created by the South Wing Theatre Com…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington has announced its 2011-12 season.Theatrical highlights will include a production of the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart music…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArena Stage has announced casting for its production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Ruined, at the Mead Center for American Theater, April 22-June 5. Charles Randolph-Wright …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSinatra: Dance With Me has been extended at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas. The production -- conceived, choreographed, and directed by Twyla Tharp -- will now run through April 30.The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Feinstein and Wilson Cruz are scheduled to perform at PFLAG's annual Straight for Equality Awards Gala to be held on Monday March 14 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square. Carol Leif…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLyrics & Lyricists Downtown will present an evening with award-winning Broadway composer-lyricist David Yazbek at 7:30pm on Monday, April 11 at 92Y Tribeca (200 Hudson Street).Yazbek wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSheila Schwartz's overly talky drama about three notorious political figures benefits from colorful performances and an excellent multimedia design.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGuest hosts have been announced for upcoming performances of the MAC Award-winning show, Broadway's Next H!T Musical, which is currently playing at the Triad Theatre.Julie Halston will appea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Bogardus, Chad Kimball, LaChanze, Kelli O'Hara, and Mary Testa will perform at Playwrights Horizons' annual spring gala benefit, to be held on Monday, May 2, beginning at 6pm.Entitle…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Emmy Award winner Bebe Neuwirth, along with her mother, artist Sydney Neuwirth, will co-host The Mother/Daughter Art Show, to be held on Monday, April 4, 6pm-8pm, at the Rouge Space…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSouth Coast Repertory has announced the works that will be part of its 14th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, to be offered April 29-May 1.Featured in the Festival will be performances of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa has announced its 2011-2012 schedule.The venue's Broadway Series will offer six touring productions including Shrek the Musical (October 4-16…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJean Bartel, who followed her reign as Miss America in 1943 by appearing on Broadway, died on Sunday, March 6, according to published reports. She was 87 years old.Bartel played Clementina i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Hollywood Bowl has announced additional details about its 2011 season.Newly added to the venue's schedule is a one-night only performance of Eddie Izzard, Stripped to the Bowl, to be off…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull programming has been announced for the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival, to run July 5-August 14 at various venues.Among the events will be Peter Brook's A Magic Flute, based on Mozart's o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, March 7, Tony Award winner Beth Leavel and the cast of the new Broadway musical Baby It's You gave members of the press a sneak peek at the show, which is set to begin previews at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Robert Cuccioli and MAC Award winner Baby Jane Dexter will be among the participating artists in Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's fundraising gala, to be held at 6:30pm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGary Beeber's Gotham Burlesque will begin an open-ended run at the Triad Theatre on Saturday, April 2 at 9:30pm. Subsequently, the show will be offered at the venue on the first Saturday of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has announced that the organization has now surpassed a cumulative total of $3 million in grants to South African HIV/AIDS organizations through the tireles…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Chris Carmack, Mo Gaffney, and Nancy Travis have all been signed to upcoming pilots, according to reports on Deadline.com.Carmack, who played the title role in Roundabout Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York Theatre Workshop will present a benefit Monday at the Plaza with James, a tribute to Tony Award-winnng director and playwright James Lapine, on Monday, May 23 at the Plaza Hotel. Da…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames Levine: 40 Years at The Metropolitan Opera, an insider's view of the legendary conductor's career, will be published by Amadeus Press on May 3.The book, which will include many histori…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrian d'Arcy James, Joan Osborne, Mary Beth Peil, and David Pittu performed at the Atlantic Theater Company's Annual Spring Gala, titled Can You Spare a Dime? Dedicated to the songs of the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe acclaimed actress discusses being honored by the USA Network, playing Portia in The Merchant of Venice, and going to see other shows.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDebby Boone, America Ferrera, Marc Kudisch, and Anthony Rapp were among the performers in The 24 Hour Musicals, held at Gramercy Theatre, on Monday, March 7. In this benefit for The Exchange…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDialect coach and speech therapist Sam Chwat has died of lymphoma, according to a report in The New York Times. He was 57 years old.His Broadway credits include the 1990 revival of Tennesse…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRupert Everett will reprise his performance as Henry Higgins when the Chichester Festival's 2010 revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, transfers to the West End's Garrick Theatre, to r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNBC's revamped version ofLaw & Order: Los Angeles will retun to the air on Monday, April 11, according to EW.com.The show's cast members will include Broadway veterans Alfred Molina, Te…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArs Nova has announced its programming for March, which will include The Woman Behind the Voice: An Intimate Evening with Miranda Sings, which will be in residencey at the venue, March 25-2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSheila Schwartz's overly talky drama about three notorious political figures benefits from colorful performances and an excellent multimedia design.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMark Blum, Michael Stahl-David, Donna Hanover, Tom Lipinski and Liz Stauber will be featured in the world-premiere of Christopher Shinn's Picked, at the Vineyard Theatre with previews begin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe acclaimed actress discusses being honored by the USA Network, playing Portia in The Merchant of Venice, and going to see other shows.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAsolo Repertory Theatre has announced its 2011-2012 lineup.The company's season will begin with a revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's My Fair Lady, to run November 18 - December…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNBC's revamped version ofLaw & Order: Los Angeles will retun to the air on Monday, April 11, according to EW.comThe show's cast members will include Broadway veterans Alfred Molina, Ter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull programming has been announced for the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival, to run July 5-August 14 at various venues.Among the events will be Peter Brook's A Magic Flute, based on Mozart's o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArs Nova has announced its programming for March, which will include The Woman Behind the Voice: An Intimate Evening with Miranda Sings, which will be in residencey at the venue, March 25-2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMark Blum, Michael Stahl-David, Donna Hanover, Tom Lipinski and Liz Stauber will be featured in the world-premiere of Christopher Shinn's Picked, at the Vineyard Theatre with previews begin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAsolo Repertory Theatre has announced its 2011-2012 lineup.The company's season will begin with a revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's My Fair Lady, to run November 18 - December…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award-winning Alliance Theatre, in Atlanta, has announced fall and winter offerings for its 2011-2012 season for the Alliance Stage, Hertz Stage and Theatre for Youth and Families s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristopher Sieber will assume the role of Georges in the Broadway production of La Cage Aux Folles on March 15. The production, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival, is directed by Ter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWasatch Theatrical Ventures has announced complete casting for Neil Simon's comedy, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, to be presented at GTC Burbank, March 11-17, with an opening on March 19. K…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCareer Transition for Dancers will present The Second Annual "Heart & Soul" Awards Luncheon on March 31 at Palm Beach's Club Colette, beginning at 11:30am. The luncheon, which will serv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGray Lady Entertainment will present the Off-Broadway premiere of Janie Condon: Raw & Unchained at St. Luke's Theatre, beginning April 4. Gus Kaikkonen will direct.Written and performed …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe second annual Emerging America Festival, presented by The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, has announced its…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLa MaMa and The Public Theater have announced a return engagement by the Belarus Free Theatre, which will present three works in repertory at La MaMa, April 13-May 15, with an official press…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSonia Manzano, Donna McKechnie, Fredi Walker-Browne, Rumer Willis, and Annie Starke will comprise the next cast for the Off-Broadway hit, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, at the Westside Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComedian and solo performer Mike DeStefano has died after suffering a heart attack, according to a report on Punchline.com. DeStefano might be best known as being one of the final five on t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDarren Criss and the fictional singing group, The Dalton Warblers, from FOX's hit series Glee will be featured on a new CD to be released before the end of the show's second season. . On th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWililamstown Theatre Festival has announced the plays that will comprise its 2011 season on its Nikos Stage.The theater's first offering will be a production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFreida Lee Mock will take part in a panel discussion following a screening of her documentary Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner, to be held on Wednesday, March 9 at the Letterma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKathleen Turner will host the 77th Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon, to be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Marquis Hotel, on Friday, May 20 at Noon.The awards pays…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComposer/lyricist Adam Gwon, professor Randy Redd, and the writing team of Kyle Ewalt and Michael I. Walker will take part in the 92YTribeca's Behind the Music-al: Unfinished Business, to be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen stars Daniel Craig and Judi Dench have joined forces for a PSA, running in Great Britain, that champions equal rights for women.The spot has been created by the EQUALS coali…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMInitial selections have been announced for the 10th Tribeca Film Festival, which will take place from April 20 to May 1 at various venues in lower Manhattan. A complete list of films will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Patti LuPone and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe will co-host the sixth annual Opera News Awards, which will take place on Sunday, April 17 at The Plaza Hotel.The awards wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarole J. Bufford, Scott Coulter, Bill Daugherty, Jeffry Denman, Jason Graae, Kendrick Jones, William Michals, Christiane Noll, and Meredith Patterson will perform in The Broadway Musicals o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristopher Jackson, Morgan James, Mykal Kilgore, Kevin Massey, and Antuan Raimone will perform at The Bridge: Where Hope and Respect Come Together, to be offered at New World Stages on Mond…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLisa Banes, Boyd Gaines, and Dana Ivey will star in a staged reading of Jeffrey Hatcher's Ten Chimneys, to be presented by The Acting Company at the Mainstage Theater of Playwrights Horizons…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJim Parsons will play Tommy Boatwright and Lee Pace will play Bruce Niles in the Broadway revival of The Normal Heart. Joel Grey, working with George C Wolfe, will direct the production, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of performers has been announced for Miscast 2011, to be held at The Hammerstein Ballroom, on Monday, March 14 beginning at 6:30pm. Andy Cohen will host the event, which will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJawole Willa Jo Zollar, Carol Maillard, Ntozake Shange, Tamara Tunie, and Glory Van Scott will take part in An Evening with Women of Excellence in the Arts, to be offered on Monday, March 28…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDancap Productions has announced a special series of presentations to be offered alongside its primary Best of Broadway in Toronto series.At the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Vital Theater Company's production of Angelina Ballerina the Musical will end its run at Off-Broadway's Union Square Theater on March 13. Sam Viverito has directed and choreographed the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulie Atherton, Daniel Boys, Ross Hunter, Charlotte Wakefield, and Michael Xavier are among the artists who will be featured on the new album Michael Bruce: Unwritten Songs, to be released b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMValerie Leonard, Hugh Nees, Ian Merrill Peakes, Holly Twyford, and Erin Weaver read selections from Ken Ludwig's Lend Me A Tenor and Other Plays, at a book launch party held at the Arlington…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTom Stoppard will take part in a TimesTalks event to be held at TheTimesCenter on Tuesday, March 15 at 6pm. Patrick Healy will conduct the interview in which the writer will discuss his wor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPatricia Clarkson, Alan Cumming, Whoopi Goldberg, Marg Helgenberger, Julianna Margulies, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Stamos, Paul Wesley, and a host of stars join Chris Noth, Kiefer Sutherlan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM59E59 Theaters has announced productions to be included in its Americas Off Broadway festival.The festival will begin with the 2007 Olivier Award-nominated comedy, Love Song (April 5-May 8),…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJack Gordon and Vinnette Robinson will star in Philip Ridley's Tender Napalm, to run April 19 - May 14 at Southwark Playhouse, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. David Mercatali wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTrue Blood star and Tony nominee Sam Trammell and theater veteran Missy Yager are expecting twins, according to People.com.Trammell received a Tony nomination for Dealer's Choice, with other…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Betty Buckley will offer a one-night-only performance of For the Love of Broadway at Municipal Auditorium Music Hall in Kansas City, Missouri on April 2. Seth Rudetsky wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTom Judson, a.k.a. gay porn star Gus Mattox, proves to be a man of many talents in his entertaining autobiographical solo.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA stellar cast lead by Noah E. Galvin and Tom Hewitt enlivens this sometimes monotonous-feeling adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFour-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore and stage and screen actress Olivia Thirlby will join the previously reported Robert De Niro and Paul Dano in the forthcoming film Another Night, accor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlec Baldwin, Mary J. Blige, Tom Cruise, and Julianne Hough have all been confirmed to star in the film version of Rock of Ages, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film is being direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhil Collins is retiring from music, according to FHM Magazine. He has cited health issues -- including hearing problems, nerve damage to his hands, and a dislocated vertebra -- as among the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 42nd annual NAACP Image Awards were presented in a ceremony on Friday, March 4 at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills and broadcast live on FOX. The awards recognize excellence i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark will now open in summer 2011 instead of its scheduled March 15 opening, according to a statement released by the show's producers. No announceme…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatthew Murray, Michael Portantiere and James Marino discuss Good People, Benjamin Walker, Spider-Man, Book of Moron, Natalie Portman and the Oscars declining ratings.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMIt ain't so much a question of not knowing what to do. If one really wanted to mount Oklahoma! exactly the way it was first done in 1943, it could be done. The original Robert Russell Bennet…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Phoenix Theatre Ensemble serves up a well-acted production of Euripides' timeless Greek tragedy about the cost of war.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth, Jason Patric, and Kiefer Sutherland bring Jason Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama to urgent and abrasive life.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA superb ensemble brings to life this story about the boy who became Peter Pan.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTovah Feldshuh will be the host and Rachel Dratch, Carson Kressley, and Bruce Vilanch will be the judges for the 5th annual Broadway Beauty Pageant!, to be held on Monday, March 21 at 8pm at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Marcia Gay Harden, along with theater veterans Lauren Ambrose, Angela Bassett, Michael Emerson, Pedro Pascal, Sarah Paulson, Aidan Quinn, Miriam Shor, Jean Smart, and Trac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Gary Cole and Fiona Shaw will appear during of the fourth season of HBO's True Blood, according to EW.com. The series is set to return in June.Shaw's character, Mamie, will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner John Doyle will direct a production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, to run March 3-31 at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's Robert S. Marx…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe La Jolla Playhouse serves up a wonderful world premiere production of James Lapine and William Finn's musical adaptation of the Oscar-winning film about a dysfunctional family trying to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBen Brantley made it easy for me. Ever since I saw Gregory Mosher's production of That Championship Season last week, I've had a criticism I've wanted to make. But there was no way I could…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCourtney Balan, Anne Bobby, Jenny Donoghue, Jill Eikenberry, Alexis Field, Alexis Fishman, Brian Gari, Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, Kara Guy, Andrew Hollenbeck, Laura Jordan, Megan Kane, Lauren …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarch highlights include And the Curtain Rises, Art, The Chosen, Photograph 51, King Lear, Liberty Smith, The Trip to Bountiful, What My Husband Doesn't Know, Blue Man Group, and The Agony a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPerfect Pitch, which supports the development of homegrown musicals, will hold a benefit entitled The Great British Musical at the Criterion Theatre on Sunday, April 10, according to Whatson…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of The Importance of Being Earnest, at the American Airlines Theatre, will be filmed live with multiple high definition cameras during pu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUSA Network has released a promotional video featuring Lily Rabe, who will all be featured on the special Character Approved: Honoring 12 Cultural Trailblazers, set to air on the network on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda participated in a conversation with Center Theatre Group's artistic director Michael Ritchie at a special CTG/Artistic Director's Circle Event, held …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFormer Jersey Boys stars Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard, and J. Robert Spencer, who comprise the singing group "The Midtown Men," will offer a one-night-only concert at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Reba McEntire will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame later this year, according to published reports. The announcement was made earlier today in Nashville, Ten…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYork Theatre Company has announced casting for the Off-Broadway premiere of Laurence Mark Wythe's new musical Tomorrow Morning, to run March 21 - April 23 at The Theatre at Saint Peter's. A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMItalian playwright Dario Fo's political farce Accidental Death of an Anarchist has been added to the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's 2011 season, and will run August 3-28. It replaces th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Betty Buckley will offer a one-night-only performance of Broadway By Request as the centerpiece of the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts' annual gala, to be held on A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNicola Stephenson will assume the role of Rose Narracott and Patrick Robinson take over the role of Friedrich Muller in Nick Stafford's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's book War Horse, playi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUpdated casting has been announced for The Civilians' cabaret performance, Let Me Ascertain You: Pretty Filthy, to be performed at Joe's Pub on March 4 at 9:30pm.The presentation, from the a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Michelle Williams, formerly of Destiny's Child, stars in What My Husband Doesn't Know, currently on a national tour and beginning a Washington D.C.-area engagement at the Wa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane hosted the Vineyard Theatre's annual gala on Monday, February 28 at the Hudson Theatre. Five-time Tony Award-winning director and choreog…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for the Broadway revival of John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves, which will begin previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre on April 4. The production, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarnes & Noble has announced its line-up of author signings and readings for April.Stage and screen star Ashley Judd will sign her memoir All Things Bitter & Sweet at 12:30pm on Wedn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShirley Manson's single of "The Hunger," a song form Steve Sater and Serj Tankian's rock musical Prometheus Bound, has been released on iTunes. All proceeds from the sale of the digital sin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChuck Cooper stars in all-black production of All My Sons, with other March highlights including Iron Curtain, The King's Proposal, Ruddigore, The Skriker, Of Mice and Men, Hardball, Distrac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMConstantine Maroulis heads the national tour of Rock of Ages, with local highlights including The Homecoming, Litter, Fuddy Meers, The Busy World is Hushed, The North Pool, Wirehead, Legacy …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarch highlights include the hit Broadway comedy The 39 Steps, Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jef…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrooke Shields in Roger Kumble's debuting comedy Girls Talk, Stacy Keach and Jane Kazcamarek in Death of a Salesman, Michael Learned and Granville Van Dusen in Southern Comforts, and A Raisi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe adult carnival Absinthe makes its Vegas debut, while Celine Dion, Whoopi Goldberg, Lady Gaga, Jay Leno, Barry Manilow, Don Rickles, Ray Romano, Rita Rudner, David Spade, Wanda Sykes, and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTouring productions of 'S Wonderful, Spring Awakening, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, West Side Story, Wicked, Burn the Floor, and Rhythm of the Dance traverse the state with other highlights …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHighlights include the national tour of Hair; a revision of Stephen Schwartz and company's Working; Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of Orlando; Madeline George's new play, Precious Little; Harold Pi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDiane Paulus directs Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera, with area highlights also including Car Talk: The Musical!, The Select (The Sun Also Rises), The Grand Inquisitor, My Wonderful …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHighlights include Sutton Foster and Joel Grey in Anything Goes; Norbert Leo Butz and Aaron Tveit heading Catch Me If You Can; Robin Williams in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Chris Rock i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe national tour of Hair plays the Orpheum, with other Twin Cities highlights including Arms and the Man, Heaven, Oedipus el Rey, A Tale of Twin Cities, American as Curry Pie, Girls Only, A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarch family fare includes Disney Live! Mickey's Magic Show, Thomas & Friends Live! On Stage, Mischief, Skellig, Rapunzel, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Treasure Island with Broadway f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMScreen siren and stage veteran Jane Russell died at her home in Santa Maria, California on Monday, February 28 of respiratory failure, according to a report by The Associated Press. She was …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBilly Crudup, Raul Esparza, Grace Gummer, David Leveaux and the cast of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia discuss the show's new Broadway revival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominees for the 2011 Helen Hayes Awards have been announced.Among the acting nominees are Steel Burkhardt (Hair), E. Faye Butler (Oklahoma!), Carmen Cusack (South Pacific), Ed Dixon (Su…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBetty Buckley is set to direct three concerts, entitled Story Songs, on March 28, 30, and 31 at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The concerts will showcase the work of students of Buckl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Tamara Tunie and jazz vocalist Gregory Generet will host the seventh annual gala for Evidence, A Dance Company, entitled A Breath of Spring on Tuesday, April 12.The eve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch will perform with special guests, The Bev Leslies, at Queens Theatre in the Park on Saturday, May 7 at 8pm.Gagwriter for the Oscars and many Hollwood stars, V…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAward-winning playwright David Henry Hwang will narrate a concert version of the new musical, Great Wall, his collaboration with composer Kevin So and writer/director Kevin Merritt, at 7:30p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNorthlight Theatre will open its 2011-2012 season with the new Stephen Schwartz musical, Snapshots, September 16-October 23. Ken Sawyer will direct the production, which ll feature musical s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Project's Shaw's staged reading of George Bernard Shaw's Great Catherine and Annaajanska, The Wild Grand Duchess, to be offered at 7pm on Monday, March 28 at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle has announced the nominees for its 2010 Awards, which will be presented on April 4. The group will present awards in nearly 75 categories.Nominated …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPadua Playwrights has announced casting for its world premiere production of Murray Mednick's DaddyO Dies Well, to be presented at Electric Lodge, April 2-May 22. Mednick will direct the pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYou've Got Hate Mail, a comedy written by and starring Billy Van Zandt & Jane Milmore, will return to the Triad Theatre at 7pm on Friday, March 18, and continue for each Friday thereafte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFor their inaugural season, Lenny Leibowitz and Amy Estes' Marvell Rep took a giant leap by becoming NY's only professional theater company producing new and classic plays in rotating repert…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMThe Ojai Playwrights Conference will honor playwright Jon Robin Baitz at its benefit gala,Substance of Desire, which will begin at 5:30pm on Saturday, March 26 at the Matilija Auditorium an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Sir Elton John will host NBC's Saturday Night Live on April 2, according to published reports. He will also appear as the show's musical guest along with Leon Russell, his …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCybill Shepherd will star as Dolly Gallagher Levi in North Carolina Theatre's production of the musical Hello, Dolly!, May 7-15 at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Energy Cent…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Jason Danieley and Kelli O'Hara will join the Boston Pops for a performance at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, NY, on Saturday, August 6 at 8pm.The program …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee star and Tony Award nominee Matthew Morrison released his first single, "Summer Rain," which will appear on his forthcoming solo album, due out later this year."I hope people dig it, an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Olivier award nominee Douglas Carter Beane will provide additional book material to the upcoming Broadway musical Sister Act, working alongside Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 83rd Annual Academy Awards were presented on Sunday, February 27 and aired live on ABC. Anne Hathaway and James Franco co-hosted the ceremony. Best Picture was awarded to The King's Spee…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen legend Bill Cosby will host two concerts at the Blue Note in honor of the late saxophonist James Moody, at 8pm and 10:30pm on Monday, March 28.Proceeds will benefit the Jame…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee and legendary comedienne Joan Rivers will appear at Las Vegas' Venetian Showroom, June 2-4, October 20-22, and November 17-19.Rivers is also appearing this month at New Yo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLong Wharf Theatre will present public performances of the Next Stage Company's production of Mac Wellman's tigertigertiger on April 9 at 10:30am and 1pm. Maryna Harrison will direct.This po…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast and creative team have been announced for Berkeley Repertory Theatre's production of Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of: Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters, to run April 8- May 22. The productio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veteran and Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson and his boyfriend Justin Mikita attended Phantom-The Las Vegas Spectacular at the Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino on Saturday, February…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWill Cantler has been promoted to the position of Artistic Director for Manhattan Class Company Theater, and will assume the role alongside existing MCC Artistic Directors and co-founders Ro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Kristen Hanggi's production of the new musical, And the Curtain Rises, to run March 17-April 10 at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. The piece has …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDan Sharkey joins the cast of the Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks, at the Snapple Theatre Center, beginning with tonight's performance, Monday, February 28. He replaces Gene Jones…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Musicals Tonight's presentation of Theodore & Co., to play the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, March 15-27. Thomas Sabella-Mills will direct with musical direction…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFarah Alvin will star in the title role of One Night with Fanny Brice, to be presented Off-Broadway at St. Luke's Theatre, with previews beginning March 16 and an opening set for April 3. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Hartman, Broadway's most handsome press agent, stood before the crowd. "Who went to Catholic schools?" he demanded to know. I dutifully raised my hand with a few others seated before…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, at the Foxwoods Theatre, was cited by The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on March 4 for workplace safety violations, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhil Collins is retiring from music, according to FHM Magazine. He has cited health issues -- including hearing problems, nerve damage to his hands, and a dislocated vertebra -- as among the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Texas-based group's new piece about a 1970s theater troupe affords only fleeting pleasures.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMF. Murray Abraham gives a strong performance as Shylock in Darko Tresnjak's cogent -- and remarkably timely -- revival of William Shakespeare's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeople's Improv Theatre will offer an additional performance of the new show, The Spidey Project, at People's Improv Theatre, which will now play on Monday, March 14 at 8pm and 10pm. The pe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Sondheim will be honored with the 2011 Olivier Special Award at the Olivier Awards ceremony to be held on March 13 at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. As previously reported, Michael B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarry Manilow will perform at the Laurence Olivier Awards ceremony to be held on March 13 at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. As previously reported, Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton will host…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway and cabaret star Ute Lemper will perform her new show, The Bukowski Project, at Abrons Arts Center, April 14-23.The piece is a theatrical poetic project in music. The show features…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMasterworks Broadway will record Wonderland - A New Alice. A New Musical on Sunday, March 6 for an anticipated May 2011 release. The Broadway musical -- featuring music by Frank Wildhorn wit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) will present the 25th annual Easter Bonnet Competition on Monday, April 25 at 4:30pm and Tuesday, April 26 at 2pm at the Minskoff Theatre. The pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway revival of the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, will go dark for performances on Thursday, July 7 at 7pm, Friday, July 8 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBecki Newton has been cast in an as-yet untitled CBS pilot written and executive produced by Jackie and Jeff Filgo, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Andy Ackerman will direct the pilot, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner George C. Wolfe will be acting as a directing supervisor for the Broadway revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart. As previously reported, the production, which will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner David Hyde Pierce will perform at the The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center's Center Dinner 2011, to be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion on Monday,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGavin Creel stars in this surprisingly touching and often deafening musical retelling of the Greek myth.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Alec Baldwin was honored at the Museum of the Moving Image's annual salute, held at Cipriani's 42nd St., on Monday, February 28. The evening, produced by Scott Mauro, i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Kathy Griffin has added two performances to her limited engagement run of Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony, which will play the Belasco Theatre, running March 11-19. The additio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHBO's previously reported special of Colin Quinn's one-man show Long Story Short, which will end its Broadway engagement at the Helen Hayes Theatre on March 5, will air on the network on Apr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Royal Court Theatre has added two productions to its 2011 season. Both shows will run in the company's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs.Anya Reiss' The Acid Test, which will run May 13 - June 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDallas Theatre Center (CTC) has announced its 2011-2012 season, which will include a production of the musical Giant, co-produced by DTC and New York's Public Theater. Michael Greif will di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Love Me Like This: The Parachute Plays, to be offered on March 14 at 7:30pm at St. Luke's Theatre. The show, further subtitled An Evening of Theatre in Suppor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPremiere Stages at Kean University has announced the lineup of plays that will be presented during its annual Spring Readings series, to be offered March 17-20 at University Center Little Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRobin Williams will appear on LIVE! with Regis and Kelly on Tuesday, March 8. He will be discussing his Broadway debut in Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which will begin pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBobby Cannavale, John Gallagher Jr ., Jan Maxwell, Amy Ryan, John Slattery et al. join Frances McDormand, Tate Donovan, Renee Elise Goldsberry, and Estelle Parsons for the Broadway opening o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFrances McDormand delivers a Tony-worthy performance as a working-class mother desperate for a job in David Lindsay Abaire's comedy-laced drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHershey Felder will star in his solo concert theater presentation, George Gershwin Alone, at the Pasadena Playhouse, April 12-May 8. Felder's engagement will also include performances of his…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMelissa Leo, John Goodman, Stephen Root, Kerry Bishé, Nicholas Braun, Michael Angarano, Jennifer Schwalbach, Ralph Garman, and Betty Aberlin will help launch The Red State Tour, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Stamos will guest star on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, according to a report on TVGuide.com. An airdate for the episode will be announced shortly.The stage and television sta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will perform her concert, The Gypsy in My Soul, at Boston's Symphony Hall on Sunday, April 3 at 5pm.Presented as part of the Celebrity Series of Bosto…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChad Miller will star as former Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater in the new comedy, Wild Blue, by Gary Ferrar and Louis Aquiler. The Hyper Aware Theater Company will present this worl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright Stefanie Zadravec and director Daniella Topol are the recipients of New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media, Inc. (NYCWAM)'s 2011 Collaboration Award, for…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHappy Medium Theatre has announced casting for its regional premiere of Sophie Klein's new play The Spitting Image, March 24th - April 2nd. Jared Culverhouse will direct. The Spitting Imag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veterans Lauren Ambrose, Angela Bassett, Pedro Pascal, Sarah Paulson, Aidan Quinn, Jean Smart, and Tracie Thoms have all been signed to upcoming pilots, according to published report…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGeorge Clooney's The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North, will get a theatrical release on October 14, according to The Hollywood Reporter.In addition to Cloo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor, poet, and playwright Dael Orlandersmith has been named the recipient of the 2011 William Inge Theatre Festival's Otis Guernsey New Voices in the American Theatre Award. It will be pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCourt Theatre has announced casting for Porgy and Bess, to run May 12 - June 19. Charles Newell, with artistic consultant Ron OJ Parson, will direct the production, which will have musical …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, March 3, the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of Garson Kanin's classic comedy Born Yesterday met with members of the press at the show's New York rehearsal space. Tony Awa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough has announced plans for its 2011-2012 season, which will include two world premieres from Alan Ayckbourn, directed by the playwright himself, accord…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRock of Ages will begin previews at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre on August 31, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. An opening date as well as casting for the production will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Billy Joel's memoir, The Book of Joel, will be released on June 14 by Harper Collins, according to published reports. The memoir will discuss the writing of Joel's many hi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwyla Tharp will receive the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Spotlight Award at the company's annual Spotlight Ball, to be held at the Hilton Chicago on Thursday, June 2. The award will prese…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania reports on Dame Judi Dench's new memoir, And Furthermore, and other recent books.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Theatre of Scotland's production of Gregory Burke's Black Watch will play a return engagement at St. Ann's Warehouse, running April 16-May 8. John Tiffany has directed the produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBlank Theatre Company has announced casting for Jon Marans' The Temperamentals, to run April 9 - May 22 at 2nd Stage Theatre in Hollywood. Michael Matthews will direct the production.The pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, March 2, The Broadway cast and creative team of Sister Act gave members of the press a sneak peak at the upcoming show, which begins previews at the Broadway Theatre on March 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Lonette McKee will perform her cabaret show Can't Help Lovin', at the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, April 5-30.McKee received a Tony nomination for her performance as J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProfiles Theatre has announced a four-week extension of its production of Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty, which will now close on April 10. As a result of this extension, the theater's p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAuthor Joe Masteroff attended the February 26 performance of The John W. Engeman Theater's critically acclaimed production of the musical Cabaret.This production, directed by BT McNicholl an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCatherine Russell, a longtime cast member of Off-Broadway's Perfect Crime, met Cal Ripken, formerly of the Baltimore Orioles, on Tuesday, March 1 at Borders Columbus Circle.Ripken was at the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElton John will make an appearance at, and perform after, the world premiere of Cameron Crowe's documentary The Union, which will open the Tribeca Film Festival on April 20, with a screening…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Spidermusical, to run March 15-21 at the Mint Theatre. Timothy Michael Drucker, who has co-written the book with lyricist Randy Blair, will direct the product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSteppenwolf Theatre Company has announced its 2011-2012 subscription season.The year will begin with Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, to run September 8 -November 6. The play examines how a Ch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 83rd Annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 27 and be aired live on ABC. Anne Hathaway and James Franco will co-host the ceremony. Presenters are scheduled to include …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKatori Hall has won the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play, Hurt Village. The award was presented to her at a private ceremony held in New York on Monday, February 28. As part of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Independent Spirit Awards were held in Santa Monica, California onSaturday, February 26.Stage veteran Natalie Portman was named Best Actress at for her work in Black Swan. The film was a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLegendary shoe designer Manolo Blahnik has designed an exclusive silver patent leather Mary Jane high-heeled shoe with a Swarovski crystal button that will be the official stiletto of the Br…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGary Cole and Edi Gathegi lead the cast of the West Coast premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts' play Superior Donuts, to run May 31-July 10 atthe Geffen Playhouse. The production, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2010 Ethyl Eichelberger Award winner John Kelly will perform The Escape Artist, at PS 122, April 15-30.In the piece, which includes spoken text and songs, a stressed-out performer has a cata…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn will star in Damage Control, an ABC drama pilot by Shonda Rhimes, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The pilot is based on the career of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has announced the six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. The prize, which carri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTracie Thoms will appear in the March 5 performance of For the Record: Baz Luhrmann, running at Show at Barre. Directed by Shane Scheel and featuring musical direction by Chris Bratten, the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRobert Cuccioli, Suzzane Douglas, Christine Marie Heath, Garth Kravits, Rob Richardson, Joel Robertson, David Sabella-Mills, Matthew Shepard, Julie Waldman and Susan Speidel will perform in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGoodspeed Musicals has announced casting for its production of My One and Only, to play the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, April 15 - June 25, with an opening on May 11. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHBO has released a new trailer for its forthcoming miniseries Mildred Pierce. Along with the trailer, the network has announced the schedule for the miniseries, which will premiere on March…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSienna Miller will star in Just Like a Woman, according to a report on Deadline.com. Rachid Bouchareb is directing the movie.In the film, Miller will play a Chicago housewife who absconds w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLost's Matthew Fox and actress Olivia Williams are featured in a promotional video for Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep, which will run March 3-June 4 at the West End's Vaudeville Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarson Higgins, who was recently eliminated from this season's American Idol, will star in Paul Anthony Storiale's The Columbine Project, to be presented at the Avery Schreiber Theatre in th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Theatre East's New York premiere of Daniel MacIvor's The Soldier Dreams at the Lion Theatre, March 25-April 9, with an opening on March 29. Judson Jones will d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarbra Streisand, Barbara Cook, Bette Midler, Melissa Manchester, Lily Tomlin, and Reba McEntire are among the artists who will be featured alongside Barry Manilow on the new CD Duets, to be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArtists WithOut Limits (AWOL) Theatre Project has announced the artists who will participate in its second annual presentation of 8Minute Musicals, to be offered at the TBG Theatre, March 13…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veterans Steven Pasquale, Annie Potts, and Christina Ricci have all been signed to upcoming pilots, according to Deadline.com.Pasquale will star in USA Network's hour-long pilot Over…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, March 1, the Public Theater's production of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens officially had its opening. Directed by Barry Edelstein, the show is set to run through March 6.Shakespe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSurflight Theatre, in Beach Haven, NJ, has announced preliminary casting for its 2011 season.Paul Iacono, from MTV's The Hard Times of RJ Berger and the film remake of Fame, will star in Jon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Touring Company of Wicked has announced a March 14 performances of jazz cabaret Our Wicked Romance at The Mezz in Orlando. The tour is currently being presented at the Bob Carr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMZach Shaffer will direct a reading of Sara Farrington's Thanksgiving, to be offered on April 11 at the Players Theatre. The offering is part of Gotham Stage Company SPRINGboard Reading Seri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFOX has released a promotional still from the March 8 episode of Glee, which, as previously announced, will feature a second guest appearance by Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow as substitute te…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner and theater legend Liza Minnelli will be honored by double-decker bus and motorcoach tourism company Gray Line New York, as a Ride of Fame dedicatee. A ribbon-cutting cere…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTake Wing and Soar Productions has announced casting for Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, to run March 17-27 at The Poet's Den Theater. Petronia Paley will direct the production.Shakespe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrian Murray will join the previously announced Mia Dillon, Molly Ephraim, Andrea Maulella, and Mark Shanahan in a script-in-hand reading of Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street, to be presented …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe dancing partners for the previously reported celebrity contestants on the 12th season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars have been announced.Pairs will include: Chelsea Kane and Mark Ballas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Jennifer Ehle will join Patrick Wilson in an untitled CBS pilot, according to Deadline.com. As previously reported, Oscar winner Jonathan Demme is executive produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames Marino, Matthew Murray and Michael Portantiere discuss Spider-Man's possible delay, Jeffrey Tambor leaving La Cage and interview Mart Crowley, the Playwright of The Boys in the Band.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMOn Part Two of my Broadway Universe Mid-Term Exam, I asked readers, "What would you like in your gift-bag once you've arrived in heaven?" Donald Tesione replied, "Do I have to die to a get r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe star of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and the upcoming film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer is also the creator and host of a monthly comedy showcase.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMIt was the month that Donald Driver of the Green Bay Packers appeared in the Super Bowl, and - Oh, Brother! He did his own thing in helping his team to win. Not interested in sports? All r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRobert Lepage's production of short works by Igor Stravinsky is both a visual and an aural treat.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe esteemed choreographer discusses his new full-length piece EXIT, working on the new musical Tales of the City, and getting ready to tackle Rent.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLegendary shoe designer has designed an exclusive silver patent leather Mary Jane high-heeled shoe with a Swarovski crystal button that will be the official stiletto of the Broadway musical …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRichard Thomas gives a frequently affecting performance in the title role of Barry Edelstein's lucid staging of this infrequently performed Shakespeare play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBoth boxing aficionados and neophytes are likely to thrill to this joyously kinetic production from Frantic Assembly and National Theater of Scotland.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLogan Marshall-Green bares all about starring in Adam Rapp's The Hallway Trilogy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Ashley Judd will star in the new ABC series Missing, according to published reports.Judd will play former CIA agent and single mom Becca Winstone, who travels around Europe …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMario Cantone, Dick Cavett. Rachel Dratch, Steve Guttenburg, Eugene Pack, Rosie Perez, Dayle Reyfel, and Akan Zwiebel will appear at the February 28 edition of Celebrity Autobiography: In Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCirque du Soleil's new show, Iris, will have its world premiere at Los Angeles' Kodak Theatre, beginning on July 21. Philippe Decouflé will write and direct the show.The piece wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 83rd Annual Academy Awards were presented on Sunday, February 27 and aired live on ABC. Anne Hathaway and James Franco co-hosted tthe ceremony. Best Picture was awarded to The King's Spe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMa href=http://www.theatermania.com/cast/christopher-sieber.html target=_blank>Christopher Sieber will assume the role of Georges in the Broadway production of La Cage Aux Folles; his first p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTom Cruise will play the bad-boy rock star Stacee Jaxx in the film version of the musical Rock of Ages, according to the film's director, Adam Shankman, who confirmed the casting on the red…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Jeff McCarthy will rejoin the Broadway production of Chicago, playing at the Ambassador Theatre, beginning on March 8 and continue in the role of Billy Flynn through March 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 83rd Annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 27 and be aired live on ABC. Anne Hathaway and James Franco will co-host the ceremony. Presenters are scheduled to include …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Gavin Creel and singer-songwriter Lance Horne will be among the performers at A Musical Monday on Monday, June 13 as part of Toronto's annual Luminato Festival, which runs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Acting Company will salute Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize winner Terrence McNally at a beneift on Monday, March 28 at the Longacre Theatre. Tony wunner John Doyle will direct the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPorchlight Music Theatre has announced casting for its regional premiere of the new musical Meet John Doe. Performances are set to run March 4-April 17, with an opening on March 8. James Be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner Meryl Streep and theater producer and critic Robert Brustein are among the 2010 National Medal of Arts honorees, according to a report in The Washington Post. The White…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJacques Brel Returns will perform at The Triad at 8pm on Wednesdays, March 16, 23 and 30. Rick Hip-Flores serves as music director for the production.The rotating cast will include Robert C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSteppenwolf Theatre Comapny will hold its 2011 Gala on Saturday, May 7 at the theater. At the gala, Alana Arenas, Kate Arrington, Jon Michael Hill, James Vincent Meredith, Yasen Peyankov, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFormer New York Times drama critic Frank Rich will join New York Magazine, beginning in June. He will be an essayist for the magazine, writing monthly on politics and culture, and serve as …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSheldon Harnick, Bonnie Comley and Frank Cullen are among the winners of the 2011 Theatre Museum Awards for Excellence, to be presented in a ceremony at the New York Players Club on Monday,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJanet McTeer has been cast as one of the co-stars in FOX's drama pilot, Weekends at Bellevue, according to a report on Deadline.com.The show will be based on Dr. Julie Holland's memoir of th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarch highlights include Joanna Riding in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Betty Blue Eyes, directed by Richard Eyre; Peter Brooks' production of Mozart's Magic Flute; The Hurly Burly Show; Matth…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSalome Jens has joined the cast of Argyle Road Productions' presentation of Tania Wisbar's The Birthday Present 2050, to run March 11 - April 17 at The Skylight Theatre. Jonathan Sanger wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMelissa Leo and Jesse Eisenberg will star as mother and son in Predisposed, according to a report on EW.com. Ron Nyswaner will direct the project.The movie, a remake of a 2009 short film th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTom Shillue will offer a three-week engagement of his new solo show, Supernormal, at P.S. 122, to run March 16 - April 2. The piece explores the performer's middle class Catholic upbringing…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe national tour of Hair plays the Orpheum, with other Twin Cities highlights including Arms and the Man, Heaven, Oedipus el Rey, A Tale of Twin Cities, American as Curry Pie, Girls Only, A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAvery Brooks will offer a one-weekend-only engagement of Philip Hayes Dean's Paul Robeson at the Conant Performing Arts Center, running March 24-27.The show chronicle's Robeson's life on and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA new Off-Broadway production of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent will begin an open-ended run at New World Stage on July 14. It will open officially on August 11 and wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Strathairn, Ken Ruta, Giles Havergal, and Marco Barricelli, along with members of the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) core conservatory, will perform selections from Harold Pint…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Julie White has joined the cast of the ABC comedy pilot Smothered, according to a report on Deadline.com. The show has been created by Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen. Smothere…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Kimmel Center has announced the touring productions that will comprise its 2011-2012 Broadway Season.The subscription series will include Rock of Ages, which will play October 18-23 at t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Eamonn Walker will join Tony and Emmy Award winner Stockard Channing in the NBC pilot 17th Precinct, according to Deadline.com.The show will combine cop drama with supe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSusan Sarandon will guest star on the March 17 episode of NBC's 30 Rock, according to a report on New York Magazine's Vulture blog. The actress last appeared on Broadway in the 2009 product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEric Michael Gillett will offer a one-night-only performance of his show, Widescreen: Songs From and About the Movies on the McCarter Theatre's Berlind stage on Saturday, March 12 at 7:30pm.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUpdated casting has been announced for forthcoming events as part of the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists series.Anderson Davis, Jeffry Denman, Brandon Victor Dixon, Debra Monk, and Be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywrights Horizons has announced casting for David Greenspan's Go Back to Where You Are, to run March 24 - May 1. Leigh Silverman will direct the production.The play focuses on a forgotte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmy Hohn will replace the previously announced Nancy Opel in Ken Ludwig's new farce, The Fox on the Fairway, to run March 22-April 17. David Saint will direct the production, which will open…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHaila Stoddard, a Broadway actress and later Broadway producer, has died of cardiopulmonary arrest, according to a report in The New York Times. She was 97.Stoddard made her Broadway debut …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Old Globe Theater in San Diego has announced complete cast and creative team for Ayub Khan-Din's Olivier Award-winning comedy, Rafta, Rafta..., based on All in Good Time by Bill Naughton…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Berkshire Theatre Festival (BTF) has announced its 2011 lineup.The company will begin the year with The Who's Tommy, to run July 7-16 at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. Eric Hill wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe NT Live Broadcast of Danny Boyle's production of Frankenstein will be filmed in two different versions on March 17. The evening performance, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as the Creatu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrea McArdle will star in TheatreZone's production of Blood Brothers, to run March 10-20 at The G&L Theatre in Naples, FL. Mark Danni will direct the production, which will have chore…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCAP21 will honor married musical theater composer-lyricists Jason Robert Brown and Georgia Stitt at their Spring Gala, to be held at 6pm on April 11 at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College.D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSteven Sater and Diane Paulus, along with Susannah Serkin, deputy director of Physicians for Human Rights, will take part in a panel discussion about Prometheus Bound, to be offered on March…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWalnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3 will continue it's 2010-2011 season with Andrew Bovell's psychological thriller Speaking in Tongues, March 29-April 17.In Speaking in Tongues…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania reports on Frankenstein, The Heretic, Greenland, Season's Greetings, Company, and Clybourne Park.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDillie Keane of Fascinating Aïda fame, the cabaret duo Kit and the Widow, and rising performers Stuart Neal and Savannah Stevenson will star in the first major revisiting of Coward…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Katie Finneran and Dan Fogler have both been cast in television pilots, according to reports on Deadline.com.Finneran will be one of the leads in Fox's comedy I Hate My Te…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Debra Messing, Megan Hilty and Christian Borle have been cast in the musical drama pilot entitled Smash, which will focus on the putting on of a Broadway musical, according to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSix Follies logos! Isn't that enough to get you to "Design: Fraver," subtitled "Four Decades of Theatre Poster Art"? As soon as you saunter into The New York Public Library for the Perfo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNeil Cuthbert's comedy about a dysfunctional family lacks bite.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA committed and consistently engaging ensemble cast brings Adam Rapp's ambitious three-play cycle to vivid and oftentimes discomfiting life.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA new Off-Broadway production of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent will begin an open-ended run at New World Stage on July 14, according to The New York Times. It will op…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular actor takes on the role of Frank Ginsberg in the La Jolla Playhouse's new musical, Little Miss Sunshine.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames Earl Jones will play Arthur Hockstader in the forthcoming Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man. As previously reported, Michael Wilson will direct this production, which plan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, February 24, Drama Desk Awards Executive Producer Robert R. Blume and Drama Desk President Isa Goldberg held a news conference to announce plans for the 56th Annual Drama Desk A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeople's Improv Theatre will offer a one-night only performance of the new show, The Spidey Project, at People's Improv Theatre on Monday, March 14 at 8pm. The performance will be offered f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Harvey Fierstein will host the 56th Annual Dram Desk Awards, which will take place at 8pm on Monday, May 23 at the Hammerstein Ballroom.The awards honor the best of Broadwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Urie and Lance Horne will make special guest appearances at GAYFEST INC.'s Spring at Last!, to be held on Monday, March 21 at Loews Regency Hotel. Wanda Sykes will headline the event…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeccadillo Theater Company's production of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is now in rehearsal. It will begin previews on March 12 at Theatre at St. Clement's in anticipation of an official opening…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristopher Sieber will assume the role of Billy Flynn in the Broadway production of Chicago, playing at the Ambassador Theatre, beginning on March 8 and continuing through March 25. He wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Tituss Burgess will host the tenth anniversary gala for The Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC), to be held at Cienna (2818 31st Street in Astoria), on Thursday, March 24 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe world premiere of David Hay's A Perfect Future will end its Off-Broadway run at the Cherry Lane Theatre on March 6. Tony Award-nominee Wilson Milam has directed the production.In the pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMax Wilk, a playwright and long-time dramaturg for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, passed away at his home in Westport, Connecticut on Saturday, Feb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright Lydia R. Diamond will be honored by Huntington Theatre Company at its 2011 Spotlight Spectacular! gala benefit at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel, on Monday, May 9. The evening…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAbsinthe, an imaginative combination of an adult circus, magical carnival and burlesque, will make its West Coast premiere Strip-side at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, beginning March 21.This …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the 37th Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) TV Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on March 25 at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMark Linn-Baker, Jimmy Ray Bennett, Pamela Bob, Steven Booth, Kate Fisher, Julian Fleisher, Christa Justus, Richard Maltby, Jr., Cassie Wooley, and Karen Ziemba will be among the performers…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeople's Light & Theatre, in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has announced casting for its production of Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder. Performances are set to run March 23 - April 17. Usin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Joel Grey's career and his life in New York will be showcased in the new exhibit Joel Grey / A New York Life, to be on view at the Museum of the City of New York April 12 -…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 2011 edition of Broadway Bears will be held on Sunday, March 6 at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, beginning at 6pm.Bryan Batt will host the event, which raises money for Broadway Cares…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA complete lineup of performers has been announced for Miss Polly Rae's The Hurly Burly Show, which will play a limited engagement at the West End's Garrick Theatre, running March 3 - May 1.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Transport Group's upcoming production of Michael John LaChuisa's musical Hello Again is now in rehearsal. The show will run at 52 Mercer Street, March 4-April 3 with an official opening …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Pearl Theatre Company has announced complete casting for David Davalos' Wittenberg, to run March 11 - April 17 at New York City Center Stage II. J.R. Sullivan will direct the production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Carol Channing celebrated her 90th birthday at a special Musical Monday Tribute concert, held in the lobby of Los Angeles' Pantages Theater, on Monday, February 21. She too…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKathryn Stockett, bestselling author of The Help, participated in the concluding event for Driving Miss Daisy's February talkback series, on Wednesday, February 23 at the Golden Theatre.The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis dense, sometime mysterious new work at P.S.122 proves to be an impressive exploration of King Lear.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSimon Callow has won the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography for My Life in Pieces, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. The £2,000 prize, established in 2008, is giv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn will star in Damage Controll, and ABC drama pilot by Shonda Rhimes, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The pilot is based on the career o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGary Cole and Edi Gathegi lead the cast of the West Coast premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts' play Superior Donuts, to run May 31-July 10 at the Geffen Playhouse. The production,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis dance set to popular songs from the Great Depression is an engaging mix of joy and sorrow.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeffrey Tambor has withdrawn from playing the role of Georges in the Broadwauy revival La Cage Aux Folles, at the Longacre Theater. He began performances on Tuesday, February 15, along with…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announed for the Broadeway revival of Garson Kanin's comedy Born Yesterday, to play Broadway's Cort Theatre with previews beginning March 31, and an opening date set fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCenter Theatre Group has announced casting for Lanford Wilson's Burn This, to run March 23 - May 1 at the Mark Taper Forum. Nicholas Martin will direct the production.The play focuses on An…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2010 Tony nominee Kelsey Grammer married Kayte Walsh in a private ceremony on the stage of the Longacre Theatre on Friday, February 25, according to People.com.Grammer recently ended a run a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 83rd Annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 27 and be aired live on ABC. Anne Hathaway and James Franco will co-host the ceremony. Presenters are scheduled to include …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTrey Parker, Matt Stone, Casey Nicholaw, Robert Lopez, Josh Gad, Andrew Rannells, Nikki M. James, Rory O'Malley, and Michael Potts discuss the controversial new Broadway musical, The Book of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBOBBY the middle-aged celebrity -- the nvr 2 L8 2 b famous musical will play a series of late night shows at the WorkShop Theater, running March 18 - May 27. Natalie Mosco will direct the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe clever duo of Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez guarantee you will find yourself laughing at St. Ann's Warehouse.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMark-Anthony Turnage and Richard Thomas' new opera Anna Nicole has officially opened at London's Royal Opera House. Directed by Richard Jones and featuring music direction by Antonio Pappan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStacy Keach will play Willy Loman and Jane Kaczmarek will play Linda Loman in L.A. Theatre Works' presentation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, to perform at the Skirball Cultural Cen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRinne Groff's Compulsion officially opened at the Public Theater on Thursday, February 17. Oskar Eustis directed the production.The play centers on Sid Silver (played by Mandy Patinkin), a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPaper Mill Playhouse has announced casting for its production of the musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, to run March 16-April 10, with an opening on March 20. Mark Wald…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, February 17, the cast of Broadway's Anything Goes met with members of the press for a sneak peak at pieces of the upcoming revival. Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall is direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Leguizamo and Fisher Stevens discuss bringing the solo show Ghetto Klown to Broadway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Emerson will star in the CBS crime drama pilot Person of Interest, according to published reports. The series will be created by J.J. Abrams, creator of Lost, and Jonathan Nolan.Eme…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress Evelyn Page died of natural causes in New York City, on Sunday, February 6, according to a report in Variety. She was 90.Page's Broadway credits include Tattle Tale, Hold Your Horse…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony- and Emmy Award-winning actor John Mahoney will be among the actors participating in the previously reported encore benefit performance of Belarus Free Theatre's production of Vladimir …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Eddie Redmayne will co-star along with Blake Lively and Chloe Moretz in the independent film, Hick, according to a report in Variety. The film will feature a screenplay by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Alyson Reed will reprise her performance as drama teacher Ms. Darbus on the Disney Channel pilot with the working title Madison High. Production on the pilot, which has b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIn anticipation of his Broadway musical theater debut in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, playing at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, Daniel Radcliffe has been photographed by Ann…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway stars Andrew C. Call, Kendra Kassebaum, and Kyle Dean Massey will be among the performers for FOOTNOTES, a joint showcase of Missouri State University graduating students and alumni…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater promoter and author Mark Brennan Rosenberg will preview selections from his upcoming memoir, Eating My Feelings, at The Kirk Theatre on Theatre Row on Thursday, March 3 at 7pm. A coc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway's Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical has released a video montage previewing the show, which will begin performances at the Palace Theatre on February 28, before an official …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe songlist for the New York Philharmonic's Classic Broadway concert, to be held on March 21 at Avery Fisher Hall, has been announced. As previously reported, Nathan Gunn and Kelli O'Hara …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKevin Chamberlin, Alison Fraser, Montego Glover, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Ralph Howard, Leslie Kritzer, Marc Kudisch, Sally Mayes, Michael McCormick, Lindsay Mendez, Noah Racey, Sherie Rene Sc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway Green Alliance (BGA) will present its next E-Waste Collection Event on Wednesday, February 23rd in the walkway of the Minskoff Theatre (45th & Broadway) from 11 am to 1 pm. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBoston University will present its fourth annual InCite Arts Festival in New York City, to be held in venues throughout Manhattan, March 10-14.The festival will feature the work of students,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHenry Winkler was the special guest at the Wednesday, February 16 installment of The Fix-Up Show, at the ACME Theatre in Los Angeles.The weekly show is hosted and created by J. Keith Van Str…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRachel Dratch, Carson Kressley, and Bruce Vilanch will be the judges for the 5th annual Broadway Beauty Pageant!, to be held on Monday, March 21 at 8pm at Symphony Space. Conceived by Jeffe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe company for the world premiere production of David Hay's A Perfect Future celebrated its opening Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre, on February 17. Tony Award-nominee Wilson Milam…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWhen I asked readers "What Broadway songs have you tired of?" I got a number of fascinating answers: Richard Brock: "'Being Alive.' Every singer seems to try to 'improve' it and only end u…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, to run May 5 - July 2 at the Almeida Theatre. James Macdonald, as previously announced, will direct the production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe producers of the new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, at the Foxwoods Theatre have hired theater veteran Paul Bogaev as a consultant to help improve the performance, vocal…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArena Stage has announced that its critically acclaimed production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! will return July 8-October 9 in the Fichandler Stage. Molly Smith will once again di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlayfulness and seriousness disturbingly intermingle in Jonas Hassen Khemiri's satisfying play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe five-time Emmy Award-winning actor discusses making his Broadway debut in How to Succeed In Business (Without Really Trying).
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the new rock musical White Noise, at Chicago's Royal George Theatre, which will run April 1-June 15, with an official opening set for April 9.Two-time Drama De…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway stars Lauren Kennedy and Alan Campbell will be the performers at Bubbles, Baubles and Broadway, a fund-raising gala benefiting the Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples, Florida, to be held…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Allison Janney will duet with five-time Grammy Award winner James Taylor on the March 16 episode of the new ABC sitcom Mr. Sunshine, according …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Laurie Beechman Theatre at West Bank Cafe has announced addition to its schedule.On Monday, February 28, Sondheim Unplugged will feature Kristy Cates, Eric Comstock, Stephanie D'Abruzzo,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCirque du Soleil's new spectacle Zarkana will play Russia's Kremlin Palace in Moscow for a nine-month run in 2012, according to published reports.The show will debut at Radio City Music Hall…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Irish Repertory Theatre's acclaimed revival of Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney will now run until April 10 instead of March 13., according to The New York Times Charlotte Moore directs the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnnette Bening, Halle Berry, Cate Blanchett, Russell Brand, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Hanks, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Marisa Tom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNeil Goldberg's new show Cirque Dreams Broadway, featuring Broadway stars Linda Eder and Marc Kudisch, will be seen on Thursday, March 24 at 8pm in the Au-Rene Theater at the Broward Center …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew casting has been announced for the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, currently running at the West End's Adelphi Theatre.The musical features music by Webber, a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOprah Winfrey will interview legendary singer and actress Diana Ross on her February 25 show, according to Access Hollywood.Ross will be joined by all of her five children,including actresse…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSasha Regan's critically acclaimed all-male version of Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe will play Wilton's Music Hall, March 30-May 7 The work, which was originally staged at the Union Theatr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKyle Fabel and Aaron Roman Weiner will star in TheatreWorks Hartford's production of Keith Huff's A Steady Rain, March 25-May 8. Tazewell Thompson will direct the production.The play focuses…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSoHo Think Tank, the company that ran the Ohio Theater at 66 Wooster Street for almost 20 years, will open the Ohio West in the Archive Building at 666 Greenwich Street this fall. according …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDominic West will return to the West End stage in the title role of Simon Gray's Butley, which will begin performances at the Duchess Theatre on June 1, following a brief run at the Brighton…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLisa O'Hare gives a glorious performance in the title role of Reprise's production of the beloved Lerner and Loewe musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMandy Patinkin gives an engrossing performance in Rinne Groff's troubling play about a writer's obsession with Anne Frank.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award winner discusses her new CD, Daily Practice, Volume 1 and performing in the tour of Next of Normal.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Hay's play about a gathering of Manhattanites is muddled and often unbelievable.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis Spanish-language play set in a NYC barbershop is full of humor and heart that can be appreciated by all audiences.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe talented playwright discusses her new biodrama at the Public Theater about a writer's obsession with Anne Frank.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner John Gallagher, Jr. will play the role of Lee in the Broadway cast of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem. As previously reported, Ian Rickson will direct the production, which is…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast of Stephen Cole and David Krane's new musical The Road to Qatar!, currently playing at the York Theatre Company, will record the original cast album of the show for Jay Records on M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJim Broadbent, Helena Bonham Carter, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones, Garrison Keillor, Terence Stamp, and Meryl Streep will be featured as poetry readers on the album Words For You, to be releas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Chichester Festival has announced its 2011 season, according to Whatsonstage.com.The Festival Theater season opens with a revival of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York Pops Music Director Steven Reineke will conduct the world premiere of his new piece for concert band as part of the The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps (LGBAC) Symphonic Band's co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRaissa Katona Bennett, Tituss Burgess, Natalie Joy Johnson, Trent Armand Kendall, Rosemary Loar, Mel & El Molly Pope, Sarah Rice, Mary Testa, and Joshua Warr are set to perform in a bene…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Public Theater has announced casting for the world premiere of Mona Mansour's Urge for Going, to be presented as a Public LAB production, March 25-April 17, with an opening on April 10. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComposer and sound editor John Strauss has died after a long battle with Parkinson's disease, according to the Hollywood Reporter. He was 90.On Broadway, Strauss provided orchestrations, as…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEric Simonson's Magic / Bird, a new play about basketball Hall of Famers Larry Bird and Earvin 'Magic' Johnson, will play Broadway in 2012, with a theater and specific dates to be announced.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJ. Bernard Calloway, Victor Trent Cooke, Robert Fowler, Andre Garner, Beth Glover, Alix Korey, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Tim Jerome, Michael Mandell, Patricia Noonan, and Destan Owens will join th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the McCarter Theatre production of Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart. Liesl Tommy will direct the production, which will run March 8-27, with an opening o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Repertory Theatre's brief and bloody rendition of Sophocles' tragedy features strong work from Ron Cephas-Jones and Linda Powell.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg will host The Public Theater's forum, Imagination and Memory, to be held on Monday, March 7 at 8pm.The evening will explore Anne Frank's legacy and Holoc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCameron Mackintosh has announced plans to expand the orchestra for the West End production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's Les Miserables, playing at the Queen's Theatre, acco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Grammy Award winner Duncan Sheik will collaborate on the music for Carson McCullers Talks About Love, which as previously reported will be written and performed by Suzanne Vega. Kay…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndy Blankenbuehler will direct and choreograph the national tour of Bring It On: The Musical, which will launch with a six-week engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre, running November 1 - Dece…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Tod Machover and Robert Pinsky's Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera, to run March 18-25 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. Diane Paulus will direct the prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 83nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will honor 10 nom'd "best" from 2010 on Sunday 8 P.M. [with red carpet arrivals], telecast on…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMSteve Martin will perform with The Steep Canyon Rangers in An Evening of Bluegrass & Banjo at Joe's Pub, March 15-17 at 7pm. He will be celebrating the release of his second full length …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe veteran actor returns to the stage in the Off-Broadway revival of Cactus Flower.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmily Ackerman, Gibson Frazier, Daoud Heidami, Nina Hellman, Jenny Morris, Dael Orlandersmith, and Brian Sgambati will be featured in The Civilians' cabaret performance, Let Me Ascertain You…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPaper Mill Playhouse has announced its 2011-2012 season which, as previously reported, will open with the premiere of the new Disney stage musical, Newsies (September 15-October 16), featuri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York Festival of Song (NYFOS) has announced the singers who will perform Spanish Gold: Songs of the Iberian Peninsula, to be offered March 13 at 4pm at The Music Room at Caramoor in Kato…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndre Previn and Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour will be presented as part of the Spring for Music Festival, to run May 6-14 at Carnegie Hall. Directed by Cornel Gabara, the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhoenix Theatre Ensemble has announced casting for Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, to run March 3-13 at the Wild Project. Amy Wagner will direct the production, which will be the first insta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEric Michael Gillett's beautifully considered new show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency is a loving tribute to the world of cinema.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, February 16, former U.S. Congressman and frequent "Morning Joe" contributor Harold Ford, Jr. participated in a talkback following a performance of Broadway's Driving Miss Daisy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAtlanta's Serenbe Playhouse has announced the lineup for summer 2011, its second season.The season will open with the Southeast premiere of Ordinary Days (June 2 - 25), a new musical by Adam…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veteran Christine Lahti will star in the CBS pilot, The Doctor, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project is executive produced and written by Rina Mimoun, with David Nutter set…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA sing-along screening of the movie musical The Wiz will be offered as part of OutFest's Fusion 2011 Festival on March 4 at 8pm at the Rigler Theater in Los Angeles.The movie, adapted from t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheatreWorks in Palo Alto has announced its 2011-2012 season.The year will begin with Fly By Night, to run July 13 - August 13. Conceived by Kim Rosenstock and written by Will Connolly, Mic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, February 16, The Paley Center for Media honored Hearst Corperation Vice Chairman and CEO Frank A. Bennack, Jr. at its annual Gala, which was held at the Waldorf-Astoria.Bennac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTrudie Styler will appear alongside Russell Barr and Ian Redford in Out of Joint's A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson, when the production plays the Customs House in South Shields on Tyneside on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Laura Benanti is set to star in NBC's drama pilot Playboy, according to Deadline.com.The project is set at the Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963, and Benanti will play Carol-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGeoffrey Rush delivers a must-see performance in this superb adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's short story about a bureaucrat's decent into insanity.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLaura Bell Bundy has been cast in Ron Shelton's TBS minor league baseball pilot Hound Dogs, according to a report in Variety.The show centers on a fictional Nashville baseball team whose pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis dense, sometime mysterious new work at P.S.122 proves to be an impressive exploration of King Lear.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA sale of possessions from the estate of legendary stage and screen star Lena Horne brought a sales total of $316,000 on Wednesday , February 23, at the Doyle New York auction house, accordi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe world premiere musical Dangerous Beauty, at the Pasadena Playhouse, has extended its run until March 13. Tony Award nominee Sheryl Kaller directs the production.Featuring book and verse …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEllen Barkin, Joe Mantello, and John Benjamin Hickey will star in a Broadway revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, according to a report in The New York Times. Joel Grey will direct th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Entertainment Fund for the Cultural Arts have announced participating artists for the 7th Annual Broadway Purim Shpiel, to be held on Monday, March 14 at 7pm at the Hudson Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for a staged reading of the new musical, Becoming Tennessee, to be presented by The Directors Company at Baruch Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, March 2, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMike Oquendo Events will present the comedy Made in Puerto Rico at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, March 18-May 1. Written, directed, and performed by Elizardi Castro, the piece…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Marva Hicks will star as Camille in a concert presentation of Pat Holley's all original R&B/Pop musical, Me & Caesar Lee, at the Triad Theatre, on Sundays, March 27,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Flea Theater has announced casting for Laurel Haines' Future Anxiety, to run April 15-May 26, with an opening on April 28. Jim Simpson will direct.In the play, set in the not-too-distant…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Tod Machover and Robert Pinsky's Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera, to run March 18-25 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. Diane Paulus will direct the prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeremy Lawrence's A Lonely Man's Habit and Bob Jaffe's ...And Then You Go On, An Anthology of The Works of Samuel Beckett will be performed in repertory as part of the See-Saw Solo Festival,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCraig Wright has developed Underemployed, a half-hour comedy, which will be shot as a pilot for MTV, according to a report on Deadline.com. The project focuses on five 20-somethings in Chica…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDoes Patti LuPone realize how many men imitate her? Well, yes, she probably does. I really didn't. But when I asked readers "Which performers did you imitate when you were a kid - or, for …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDances Patrelle has announced casting for Francis Patrelles' new full-length dance work Gilbert & Sullivan, The Ballet!, to play May 12-15 at the Dicapo Opera Theatre. Warren Helms will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright James McLure has died from cancer, according to a report in The New York Times. He was 59.McLure's double bill of one act plays Lone Star and Pvt. Wars were seen on Broadway in 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Fugelsang, Jim David, Dean Obeidallah, Baratunde Thurston, Negin Farsad, Lee Camp, Katie Halper, and Elon James White are among the comedians who will be featured in a rotating roster f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMark Moraghan will assume the role of Bob in the West End production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical on March 7. As previously reported, Richard Grieve will also join the produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFord's Theatre has announced cast and creative team for the world premiere of the musical Liberty Smith, to run March 23-May 21. The production will be directed by Matt August, with choreogr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJavier Bardem, Annette Bening, Halle Berry, Kathryn Bigelow, Cate Blanchett, Russell Brand, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Sandra Bullock, Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Hanks, Jennifer Hudson, Hugh Ja…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGary Griffin will direct a revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, October 4-November 6, according to The Chicago Tribune.The musical features a book by James …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKate Baldwin, Tituss Burgess, and Lauren Kennedy will perform at an event celebrating the release of Thirteen Stories Down: The Songs of Jonathan Reid-Gealt, to be held on Wednesday, March 3…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOrlando Bloom, Malcolm McDowell, and Matthew Rhys will join the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a concert series featuring Tchaikovsky's Shakespeare-inspired music, according to a report in Los…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Alliance for Women in Media has announced the winners of its 2011 Gracie Allen awards, according to a report in Variety. The prizes, which recognize excellence in programming created by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSecond Stage Theatre has announced the two world premiere comedies it will present as part of its 2011 Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series, at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre.In Michael Mitnick's S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMandy Gonzalez, America Ferrera, Julian Fleisher, Richard Kind, Marc Kudisch, Nellie McKay, Anthony Rapp, and Nat Wolff will be among the participating artists in The 24 Hour Musicals, to be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMViolinist Itzhak Perlman will perform music from Vienna and Hollywood with the New York Philharmonic on April 11 at 7:30pm at Avery Fisher Hall. Alan Gilbert will conduct the performance.Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDesperate Housewives star James Denton and Emmy-nominated writer Dwayne McDuffie discuss the animated original movie All-Star Superman.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Green Day musical American Idiot will launch a national tour in Fall 2011, with additional details to be announced at a later date.The musical features a score by Green Day. It is direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe RRAZZ Room at Hotel Nikko San Francisco will host their 3rd Annual RRAZZiversary Gala Celebration & Benefit For St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on Thursday, March 17 at 8pm. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, to take place April 25-May 1 in various venues in New York City, has announced its line-up, according to The New York Times.Theater…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Patrick Wilson will play a surgeon with a direct line to the afterlife via his ex-wife in an untitled CBS pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Oscar winner Jonat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRuby Dee, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, George Faison, Woodie King, Jr., Phylicia Rashad, Tamara Tunie, Jeffrey Wright, Irene Gandy, Donna Walker- Kuhne, Patricia Cruz, and Howard Dodson, along wit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKathy Griffin and Loretta Devine will guest star in an upcoming episode of FOX's hit series Glee, as judges for the series "Regionals" competition, according to TVLine.comGriffin will make h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBlue Man Group will add new material into its long-running production at New York's Astor Place Theatre, beginning with its Thursday, March 10 performance at 8pm.The new material places the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting and creative team have been announced for South Coast Repertory's production of Conor McPherson's The Weir, to run on SCR's Julianne Argyros Stage March 13- April 3. The production w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrian Murray, Jayne Houdyshell and Jessie Austrian will join The Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed Broadway revival of The Importance of Being Earnest beginning March 22. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristina Bianco, Carole J. Bufford, and Scott Coulter will star in the new musical revue, 11 O'Clock Numbers at 11 O'Clock, at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency beginning February 24. The eveni…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVampire Cowboys Theatre Company has announced casting for Qui Nguyen's The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, to run March 24 - April 16 at Incubator Arts Project. Robert Ross Parker will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Theatre has announced complete casting for its production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, which begins previews on March 10 in the company's Olivier Theatre. Alongside t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe former American Idol star smoothly blends Broadway, R&B, and pop into a solid hour of entertainment.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlfie Boe will assume the role of Jean Valjean in the West End production of Les Miserables, running at the Queen's Theatre, on June 23, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. He will c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on new discs from Broadway stars Barbara Cook and Michael Feinstein, Christopher Jackson, Alice Ripley, Ben Vereen, and more.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Two River Theater's production of Candida, to run March 22-April 10. David Staller will direct.In the play, the title character is married to an eloquent and s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Wooster Group presents a frequently captivating staging of Tennessee Williams' lesser-known play set in a New Orleans boarding house.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMManhattan Theatre Club has announced an extension for David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, which is currently in previews at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, in anticipation of an official ope…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Morgan Karr will celebrate his 24th Birthday with a concert at Rockwood Music Hall, on Saturday, March 5 at 7pm.Karr will play his original music as well as his own twist on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Flea Theater will offer a second installment of its #serials@theflea, to run Fridays at midnight and Saturdays at 11pm and 1am beginning March 11. Created by Bat company members Dominic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMike Birbiglia, Aya Cash, John Lithgow, and David Rakoff will perform in the March 2 installment of Selected Shorts, to be held at Symphony Space's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre on Wednesday, Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLorna Luft will join the previously reported Ashley Brown, Heather Headley, and Karen Olivo for the New York Pops concert on Friday, March 11 at 8pm. The concert will pay tribute to Luft's m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColleen Ballinger, Alex Brightman, Catherine Brookman, Allison Case, Kate Morgan Chadwick, Brian Justin Crum, Jeanna de Waal, Meghann Fahy, F. Michael Haynie, Greg Hildreth, Morgan Karr, Ra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNominations for the 2011 Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Awards have been announced. Acting nominees include Leigh Barrett (Trailer Park Musical), Noah Bean (Bus Stop), D. B. Bon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRising Phoenix Repertory has announced casting for Lucy Thurber's Named, the seventh play in its Cino Nights series, to be presented on Sunday, February 27 at 7pm. Jenna Worsham will direct.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAntony Hagopian, Mfundo Morrison, and Ned Schmidtke will star in Old Globe Theatre's production of Ian Bruce's Groundswell, to be presented March 12 - April 17, with an opening on March 17. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Lorey Hayes' Haiti's Children of God, to play the Dwyer Cultural Center, February 24-March 13. Fulton C. Hodges will direct.The play follows two young lovers …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFashion/lifestyle reporter Jeanne Beker and actor Barry Flatman will host the seventh annual Scrabble With The Stars, to be presented at the Arcadian Court in Toronto, on Monday, April 4.Mor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree-time Tony Award winner Robin Wagner has won the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design for his work as a scenic designer, and costume designer Lewis Brow…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNancy Opel will assume the role of Mama and John Jellison will assume the role of Mr. Simmons in the musical Memphis, playing at the Shubert Theatre. They will replace, respectively, Cass M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSoho Rep has announced casting for debbie tucker green's Born Bad, to run March 31 - April 24. Leah C. Gardiner will direct the production.The play focuses on a family that is trying to mak…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe producers of the new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, at the Foxwoods Theatre have hired theater veteran Paul Bogaev as a consultant to help improve the performance, vocal…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMind The Gap Theatre has announced casting for David Eldridge's Under the Blue Sky, to run May 19-June 5 at the Kraine Theater.Paula D'Alessandris will direct the production, which will be d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Lea Michele will deliver "Get It Right," one of two new original songs on the March 15 episode of FOX's hit series Glee. This number, along with Max Martin's "Loser Like Me,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the League of Professional Theatre Women's New Play Festival, to be held at New World Stages on Monday, March 7, Support Women Artists Now Day (SWAN Day).The e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPatch Darragh, Matt Dellapina, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Pemberton, Darren Pettie, Brian Smith, and Greg Stuhr will participate in a reading of Victor Lewnieski's Where Bison Run, to be …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of the new musical The People in the Picture, to play Studio 54, with previews beginning April 1 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnnette Bening, Halle Berry, Cate Blanchett, Russell Brand, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Sandra Bullock, Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Hanks, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Nicole Kidman, Jude La…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAshley Brown, who originated the title role in the Broadway production of Mary Poppins, will return to the production, at the New Amsterdam Theatre, from March 8 through July 17. She replace…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Bettis, Garth Brooks, Leon Russell, Allen Toussaint, and the team of Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 16 at the Marriott Marquis …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArena Stage has announced that its critically acclaimed production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! will return July 8-October 9 in the Fichandler Stage. Molly Smith will once again di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaytime drama stars Kristen Alderson, Ellen Dolan, Marnie Schulenberg, and Brittany Underwood will join Daytime Emmy Award nominee Ilene Kristen in Anthony Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wed…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Jonathan Hadary will take over the role of Roy Cohn in the Off-Broadway production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, beginning March 29. He replaces Tony Award winner F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award-winning broadcaster Larry King will launch a national tour of Larry King: Standing Up with an engagement at The Warner Theatre in Torrington, Connecticut on April 14. Jim Millan …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Bedella will assume the role of Billy Flynn in the West End production of Chicago the Musical, playing at the West End's Cambridge Theatre, on February 28, and continue with the produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTodd Cerveris, Ken Forman, Liz Larsen, and Lenny Wolpe will star in the world premiere of Andrew Gerle's Renovations, to be presented at White Plains Performing Arts Center, March 17-April 3…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCalvin Remsberg will direct Nick Blaemire and James Gardiner's Glory Days, to run March 17 - April 24 at the Lillian Theatre. The production will have music direction by James May.The music…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Goodman Theatre has announced casting for its world premiere production of Tanya Saracho's El Nogalar (translated as "Pecan Orchard"), to run March 26-April 24. Cecilie Keenan will dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the London production of Shrek the Musical, which will begin performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on May 6, in anticipation of an official openin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKiefer Sutherland, who is currently starring in the Broadway revival of That Championship Season, has signed up to star in the FOX drama pilot Touch, according to TVGuide.com.In the show, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, Matthew Murray, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about Spider-Man bringing in a new book writer and a new director, Encores! adds extra performances next year, new D…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMCelebrity photographer and reality TV star Mike Ruiz will be the guest host of the February 26 edition of The Ultimate Drag Off, to be held at 10:30pm at The Times Square Arts Center. Proce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSome years ago, Jennifer Strome was spending New Year's Eve with friends in California, hoping that the next year would be better. "I'd felt that I'd recently been betrayed, and I poured o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCirque du Soleil's new spectacle Zarkana will play Russia's Kremlin Palace in Moscow beginning February 2012. The Kremlin Palace has a capacity for 5,000 spectators which will allow over 35…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWill Swenson, Nick Adams and Tony Sheldon have become the first performers to be featured in a television public service announcement for the "It Gets Better" campaign, which had previously …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Brooklyn-based Gallery Players has announced casting for its production of August Wilson's Jitney, to run March 19 - April 3. Gregory Simmons will direct.Set in 1977 in the Hill District…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPittsburgh Public Theater has announced casting for Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation, to run March 3 - April 3. Jesse Berger will direct the production.The play involves five indi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular actress discusses her return to Broadway opposite Frances McDormand and Tate Donovan in MTC's Good People.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis romantic comedy about two political aides from opposing parties who fall in love is far too heavy-handed.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe producers of the new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, at the Foxwoods Theatre have officially denied that they are bringing a co-director to work with director Julie Taymo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Laurie Beechman Theatre at West Bank Cafe has announced its March schedule.Joan Rivers will return to the club on March 3, 8, 23, and 30 at 8pm. Charles Busch will be among the artists a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe superstar talks about working on the new film Gnomeo & Juliet; his life as a new father, and his next big project.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLegendary actress Betty Garrett died Saturday morning of natural causes at UCLA Medical Center following a brief illness, according to L.A. Weekly.. She was 91.Garrett appeared in numerous B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Eugene Pack, Rosie Perez, Dayle Reyfel, and Akan Zwiebel will appear at the February 28 edition of Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words at the Triad Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFeinstein's at Loews Regency has announced additional performers for its sping line-up.Among the artists who will appear at the club are Kate Shindle (February 20), Annie Dinerman (February …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmerging Artists Theatre has announced the lineup for its annual EATfest, running March 7-20, 2011 at TADA Theatre.This year's festival features a production of Mark Finley's campy comedy Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Loretta Devine to the ABC drama Grey's Anatomy for five episodes, beginning on February 17, according to EW.com.The actress plays Adele Webber, wife of Chief of Staff Richar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSeattle's Intiman Theater will close unless it can raise $500,000 by the end of March and another $250,000 each by June and September, according to The New York Times.According to the paper,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEric Michael Gillett's beautifully considered new show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency is a loving tribute to the world of cinema.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe talented playwright discusses her new biodrama at the Public Theater about a writer's obsession with Anne Frank.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJ.C. Chandor's film Margin Call, which features theater veterans Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey, Stanley Tucci, and Zachary Quinto, will open the annual New Directors/New Films series, which wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUpdated casting has been announced for the all-star ensemble comedyNew Year's Eve, to be directed by Garry Marshall, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The movie tells intertwining stories …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Michael Learned and Granville van Dusen will co-star in International City Theatre's production of Kathleen Clark's two-character play, Southern Comforts, March 15-April 10…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarc Masterson has stepped down as artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville after 11 years, and will join South Coast Repertory in April as its new artistic director A search is no…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, Matthew Murray, Michael Portantiere and James Marino discuss Black Tie, The Whipping Man, The Road to Qatar!, Catch Me If You Can, Spider-Man Focus Groups and Valentines.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMAlice Ripley will make her Midwest concert debut in Daily Practice: The Acoustic Sessions, at the newly revamped Stage 773 Theatre in Chicago, on May 2.Ripley is currently performing in the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHere's your chance to party with Liza, Chita, and other fab folks as Jim Caruso's Cast Party migrates to The Town Hall for one night only.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMIlleana Douglas, Florence Henderson, Jennifer Tilly, Lainie Kazan, Laraine Newman, Bob Oedenkirk, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Jonathan Silverman, and Julian Sands will perform in Celebrity Au…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA-14 is an almost great seat to a Broadway show. Depending on the theater, you're in the first or first few rows, but terribly off to the side. But that's not my experience at the press pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVickie Tanner will star in five free-of-charge performances of her new one-woman play, Running Into Me, to be presented at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre, February 23-27. Bruce McCarty will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBorders, the 40-year-old bookstore chain, has filed for bankruptcy protection, according to a report in The New York Times. The company currently operates more than 650 stores, many of whic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, February 16, the cast of the Off-Broadway premiere of Between Worlds gave members of the press a sneak preview of the show, which is scheduled to run at New World Stages, March…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJabbawockeez will digitally release its debut, full-length album Jabbawockeez MÜS.I.C. digitally on iTunes on March 1.The recording has been created in collaboration with Bay Area D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBerkeley Repertory Theatre has announced the local winners whose work will be showcased in the company's annual Teen One-Acts Festival, April 1-9. The ensemble for each show is comprised of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRoundabout Theatre Company has announced three productions that will be part of its 2011-2012 season.Graciela Daniele will direct a new Broadway production of Bob Fosse's Dancin' at Studio 5…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2011-2012 season.A highlight of the season will be the world premiere of The Enchanted Island on December 31. This new work, featuring a libretto by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNorthlight Theatre will open its 2011-2012 season with the new Stephen Schwartz musical, Snapshots, September 16-October 23. Ken Sawyer will direct.Described as "a musical scrapbook," it fea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Daisy Eagan will present her cabaret show, Still Daisy After All These Years at The Laurie Beechman Theatre on Monday, March 28 at 9:30pm. Eagan will take the audience on a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRaymond Bokhour and Roz Ryan will return to the Broadway production of the musical Chicago, at the Ambassador Theatre on February 24 and 28, respectively.Chicago has been directed by Walter …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBryan Batt, Jerry Dixon, Harriet D. Foy, and Brian Charles Rooney will be featured in a staged reading of the new musical, Becoming Tennessee, to be presented by The Directors Company at Bar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York City Center will increase the number of Encores! performances next season from five to seven during the 2011-2012 season, adding Wednesday evening and Sunday matinee performances.Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New York Philharmonic has postponed the previously reported Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario, which was to have been offered on Monday, April 11 at 7:30pm at Avery Fisher Hall. A replace…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Women's Liberal Democratic Club, Jim Owles Democratic Club, Broadway Speaks OUT, and Yetta Kurland will present The 5th Annual Women's Awards at the historic Stonewall Inn on Wednesday, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcclaimed storyteller Mike Daisey will bring his new solo show, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, to Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, March 21-April 10. Jean-Michele Gregory will direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReprise Theatre Company has announced two of its three productions to be presented during its 2011-2012 season. All performances take place at the Freud Playhouse. The season will begin with…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTabatha Coffey will now return to the Off-Broadway production of Anthony Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding, playing at St. Luke's Theatre, for one weekend only, March 3-5, instead of th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReprise Theatre Company will present a series of benefit concerts this spring, beginning with a performance by Tony Award winner Betty Buckley on Tuesday, February 21 at UCLA's Freud Playhou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast and creative team for the Broadway production of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo met the press at an event held on Wednesday, February 16.Moises Kaufman will direct Rajiv Joseph's p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania takes a look at some of the theater world's most glamorous and talented twosomes.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArena Stage has announced its 2011-2012 season at the Mead Center for American Theater. Additional productions will be announced in the near future.The Arena Stage season will begin with th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe original cast recording of American Idiot, produced by Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, has won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. The Grammy Awards were held on February 13…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe White House will host a concert in connection with Black History Month on February 24. The event, which "will include tributes to Motown's distinctive soul-infused pop music sound that s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Joan Cusack, Jane Lynch, and Anna Paquin will provide guest voices during the coming season of the Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb, according to a report in Variety. The sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSurflight Theatre, in Beach Haven, New Jersey, has filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, so that it can restructure its finances. The theater currently has a $4 milli…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe King's Speech won seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film, Best Actor for Colin Firth, Best Supporting Actress for Helena Bonham Carter, Best Supporting Actor for Geoffrey Rush, and Best…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe American Repertory Theater will partner with Theater of War Productions, a social impact company that presents readings of ancient Greek plays to military communities as a catalyst for t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the 35th annual Carbonell Awards have been announced, according to a report in The Miami Herald. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on April 4 at 7:30…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOrlagh Cassidy, Kelley Greene, Andy Paris and Mary Beth Peil will take part in a reading of Christine Evans' Can't Complain, to be presented by Irish Repertory Theatre as part of its New Wor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTrinity Repertory Theatre, in Providence, Rhode Island, has announced its 2011-2012 season, which will showcase a roster of plays that explore themes of truth and the nature of justice.The s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMACT's ninth annual Young Playwrights Festival, which will take place March 10-12, has announced its line-up. The Young Playwrights Festival provides young writers ages 13-18 with the oppor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM42nd Street Moon has announced its 2011-2012 season.Among the musicals the theater will offer is Nymph Errant (October 5-23), with songs by Cole Porter and a book by Romney Brent. The show, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDiane Amos, Alison Arngrim, Tippi Hedren, and Kate Linder will star in a benefit production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Los Angeles, February 18-20.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Radcliffe will star in the movie The Amateur Photographer, according to a report in Variety. Christopher Monger has written the screenplay and will direct the film, which is based on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Alan Ayckbourn's Haunting Julia, to run May 25 - July 2 at London's Riverside Studios, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Andrew Hall will direct the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRon Schroeder said, "Okay Peter, if a lot of people answer, you've got a lot of reading. The problem with the essay questions is that there are too many answers." He was referring to the s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe legendary singer's annual show at the Cafe Carlyle once again displays her brilliant musicality paired with her refreshing anything-can-happen approach to performing.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMelissa Ross' often powerful new play focuses on how a highly dysfunctional family deals with loss.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRob Benson's new play about a family reunion suffers from awkward dialogue and uneven acting.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Daytime Emmy Award winner discusses joining Love, Loss, and What I Wore and her current role on One Life to Live.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, February 15 members of the press visited the cast of Broadway's Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical for a preview of some numbers from the show, which will begin previews a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Living Theatre has announced that it will offer eight free, live-streamed performances of writer/director Judith Malina's Korach, February 16-26 at 8pm.The play is based on the Biblical …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Wilson will direct a planned revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man on Broadway in the spring of 2012. No casting has been announced.The play, first seen on Broadway in 1960 and revive…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Sam Rockwell, and Mark Ruffalo will co-star with Brad Pitt in the forthcoming film Cogan's Trade, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Andrew Do…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlec Baldwin will be honored at the Museum of the Moving Image's annual salute, to be held at Cipriani's 42nd St., on Monday, February 28 beginning at 7pm.The evening will include remarks by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Park Service has endorsed the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation's plan to transfer the Brooklyn Tobacco Warehouse to performing arts presenter St. Ann's Warehouse, according to p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Café Carlyle has announced an updated line-up for its 2011 Winter/Spring season.Newly added engagements include 2010 Tony Award-winner Douglas Hodge (March 15- 26); internatio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominated playwright Craig Lucas will direct a reading of Chana Porter's Leap And The Net Will Appear, on March 14, as part of a reading series from AliveWire Theatrics to be held…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeff Talbott has won the inaugural Laurents / Hatcher Foundation Award for The Submission, according to a report in The New York Times. The honor, named for Broadway director Arthur Laurent…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHugh Nees, Ian Merrill Peakes, Holly Twyford, and Erin Weaver will offer readings at a book launch party celebrating the release of Ken Ludwig's Lend Me A Tenor and Other Plays, to be held o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBelarus Free Theatre's production of Vladimir Shcherban's Being Harold Pinter, will receive an encore benefit performance Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare on February 21, at 7:30pm.The play,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNAACP award-winner Debra Ehrhardt's solo show, Jamaica, Farewell, will play The Falcon Theater, March 16-April 17, with an opening on March 25. Tony nominee Joel Zwick will direct.Based on a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Flying Karamazov Brothers, who are currently performing at the Minetta Lane Theatre, teamed up with the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) on Tuesday, February 15 to film a public servi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMia Dillon, Molly Ephraim, Andrea Maulella, and Mark Shanahan will be among the actors featured in a script-in-hand reading of Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street, to be presented at Westport Co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Hartford Stage's production of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean, to run May 12-June 5. Hana Sharif will direct.Set in 1904, this play is the first installment …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAaron Ramey will assume the role of Lieutenant Joseph Cable in Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific in the national touring company during its Toronto engagement at the Toronto Centre f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJared Mason will take over the role of Jerry Lee Lewis in the Broadway production of Million Dollar Quartet at the Nederlander Theatre, beginning with the Tuesday, March 15 performance. Levi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominees for the inaugural Comedy Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on March 25 at the Hammerstein Ballroom, which will subsequently be b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, February 14, Naked Angels celebrated its 25th Anniversary with its One Big Ball gala at the Roseland Ballroom. Participating artists included Jane Alexander, Patrick Breen, Ned Ei…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMExcerpts from Andrew Gerle and Royce Vavrek's The Beach and Arlene Sierra and Lucy Thurber's Faustine will be presented as part of New York City Opera's annual new music festival, VOX Contem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts has announced complete casting for Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, to run May 7 - June 19 in the Eisenhower Theatre at the Jo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColin Hanlon will join the cast of the first North American tour of Wicked, beginning today, February 15, in Appleton, WI.Based on Gregory Maguire's novel of the same name, Wicked features a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPolly Draper and Maggie Siff will star in Emmy Award winning playwright Jane Anderson's world premiere of The Escort, at the Geffen Playhouse, April 6-May 8. Lisa Peterson will direct.The pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Emmy Award nominee Colleen Zenk will premiere her new one-woman cabaret show, entitled Colleen Zenk: Live! at Bob Egan's New Hope, on Friday, April 8. A national tour will follow, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarol Channing, Rita Moreno, and Robert Morse will headline Original Cast 2, to be offered on Saturday, April 2 at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angeles. David Galligan will direct t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOBIE Award-winner James Saito will star opposite Joel de la Fuente in The National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) production of Caryl Churchill's A Number, to be presented at Cherry…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Flea Theater has extended its production of Trista Baldwin's American Sexy, which will now close March 6. Mia Walker has directed the production.The play focuses on four college student…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New Group has announced complete casting for Wallace Shawn's Marie and Bruce, to run March 14 - May 7 at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row. Scott Elliott will direct the production, whic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBlue Griffin Records will release Bric-a-Brac, its second installment of a series of discs featuring songwriter Ricky Ian Gordon performing his own work, on March 8. The 19-track disc inclu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Olivier Award winner Margaret Tyzack will join the cast of the popular BBC soap opera, EastEnders.She will play the role of Lydia Simmonds, the maternal grandmother of Janine (playe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Tyler Maynard and Max Von Essen will co-host the 2011 Column Awards gala, to be held at the Irving Arts Center in Dallas, Texas on Monday, March 14 at 7pm. In addition, Ton…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnnette Bening, Halle Berry, Cate Blanchett, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Hanks, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Oprah Winfrey, and Reese Wither…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPan Asian Repertory Theatre has announced casting for Nguyen Thi Minh Ngoc's We Are and Derek Nguyen's Monster, to be presented under the rubric of the Vietnam Project II: Past and Present, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEzra Barnes, Stephanie Berry, Terria Joseph, Marcus Naylor, Maria Silverman and Jay Ward will star in the Off-Broadway premiere of Bill Harris' Cool Blues, to be presented at Henry Street Se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Stewart Allen, Craig Baldwin, Kate Forbes, Jacob Fishel, Jason Butler Harner, Randy Harrison, Robert Stanton, and David Townsend will star in Red Bull Theater's Raw Develepmental Lab…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2011 Academy Award nominee Aaron Sorkin will play himself in an upcoming episode of 30 Rock to air in March or April, according to EW.com.Sorkin is nominated for the Academy Award for his sc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPaper Mill Playhouse will open its 2011-2012 season with the premiere of a new Disney stage musical, Newsies, to run September 15-October 16, with an opening on September 25. Jeff Calhoun w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYoung Jean Lee will star in a one-person cabaret show with band, entitled We're Gonna Die, to be presented at Joe's Pub April 1-30. Paul Lazar will direct.The piece -- which features Lee tel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharacter actor Kenneth Mars has died of pancreatic cancer, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter. He was 75.On Broadway, Mars appeared in The Affair, Any Wednesday, and The Best …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSteven Hauck will join Chad Hoeppner and Steven Rattazzi in Sheila Schwartz's new play, Spy Garbo, to be presented Off-Broadway at 3LD Art & Technology Center, March 1-April 10, with an …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM42nd Street Moon has announced casting for its production of Strike Up the Band, to be presented at the Eureka Theatre, April 6-24, with an opening on April 9. Zach Thomas Wilde will direct,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons will return to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on March 30, according to TVGuide.com.Irons will reprise his role from earlier this season as …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Eddie Izzard and John Turturro will voice new characters in the animated 3-D film Cars 2, according to The Hollywood Reporter. John Lasseter is directing the movie, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRyan O'Connor, who recently finished fourth in The Oprah Winfrey Network's Your OWN Show: Oprah's Search For the Next TV Star, will star in Ryan O'Connor Eats His Feelings for a series of Mo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Jesse L. Martin has landed a part in the ABC pilot Hallelujah, which is being written by Desperate Housewives' creator Marc Cherry, according to EW.com.The show will ta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColumbia Pictures has released the first photo of stage veteran Andrew Garfield, who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man, in the complete superhero costume, including the mask. The company has al…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSeattle's 5th Avenue Theatre has announced the line-up for its 2011-2012 season, which will opens with the critically acclaimed 25th Anniversary production of Les Misérables, Augu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMeeting Spencer, a new film starring Jeffrey Tambor, will get a theatrical release on April 8 in New York.The film is directed by Malcolm Mowbray and features a screenplay by Andrew Kole, An…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Matt Cavenaugh and Jenny Powers, who are husband and wife, have announced the track list for their debut album, Gonna Make You Love Me, which will be released in March. Pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPassage Theatre has announced the lineup for its 10th Annual Solo Flights Festival, to be offered March 4-27 at the Mill Hill Playhouse. The event highlights a variety of one-person perform…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGrammy Award-winning jazz pianist Sir George Shearing has died at age 91, according to published reports.Shearing, who was born blind in England, had great success in his native country befo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Rock of Ages, which will resume performances on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre on March 24. The company will feature MiG Ayesa (Stacee Jaxx), Adam Dannhe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2011 Olivier nominee Sierra Boggess will join the previously reported Tony Award winner Tyne Daly in the Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's Master Class, to begin performances on May 24 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Douglas Thompson and Annika Boras will star in the Theatre for a New Audience production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, as the title character and his ambitious wife. Arin Arbus will direct …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSonia Manzano and David Rakoff will join host Isaiah Sheffer for Selected Shorts, a celebration of the short story, to be performed live on Long Wharf Theatre's Mainstage on March 14.This on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Hollywood Bowl has announced two additional events, to be part of its 2011 season. MGM HD will present West Side Story with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Friday and Saturday, July 8 an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo performances have been added to the The Public Theater's run of Rinne Groff's Compulsion, currently in previews with an opening on February 17. The run, which must close on March 13, has…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJenny Powers gives a seductive performance as a Venetian courtesan in this surprisingly uninspired musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend will play The Barrow Street Theater, beginning March 18 with the official opening scheduled for March 31. Seth Barrish will direct the production, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPaul Iacono, star of MTV's The Hard Times of RJ Berger, will present a reading of his new play, Prince/Elizabeth, at the Teatro Latea Theatre on the Lower East Side on Tuesday, February 15 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeremy Irons and Kim Cattrall will co-star in the movie, The Treehouse, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Lajos Koltai is directing the project.The movie, which has a screenplay by Paul …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Michael Sheen will co-direct and star in the Port Talbot passion play The Passion for National Theatre Wales, according to WhatsOnStage.com.The production is a three-da…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2011 Oscar nominee David Seidler will be the honoree for Our Time Theatre Company's annual gala, to be held at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU on Monday, April 11 at 7pm. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Janet Dacal and Hugh Panaro and Sesame Street's Bob McGrath will be among the guest stars at the Young People's Chorus of New York's fundraising gala, entitled Dreamer, whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM3-D Theatricals serves up a mostly enjoyable production of the award-winning Broadway musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYussef El Guindi has won the 2010 Middle East America Distinguished Playwright Award. The prize, which is granted every other year to an American writer of a Middle Eastern background by a c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New School has announced the lineup and participating artists for it's first arts festival, entitled Noir, which will explore the relevance of the classic genre of Noir and evaluate its …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrian Conley will star in Malcolm Spencer's theatrical concert Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show, which will begin a U.K. tour at Cheltenham Racecourse, running April 8-10. Craig Re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, playing at the West End's Comedy Theatre has extended through May 7. Ian Rickson has directed the production.The play focuses on the events that transp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony nominee Harry Connick Jr. will star in the upcoming holiday film, When Angels Sing, according to Variety. Tim McCanlies will direct.Adapted by Lou Berney from the Christmas no…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDigital Theatre has announced the next trio of taped stage productions that will be available for online streaming and download. On February 14, the site will release video of Michael Boyd'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeff Cohen's deeply satisfying play imagines what might have happened to Nelson Rockefeller's son on his fateful trip to New Guinea.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony-nominated star discusses her upcoming shows at Lincoln Center's American Songbook and Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee and Glee star Matthew Morrison will headline the Goodman Theatre's gala, "One Enchanted Decade, on May 21.The black-tie event begins with a cocktail reception at the Goodm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe York Theatre Company has announced casting for two upcoming readings of new musicals, to be presented at the company's home at the Theatre at Saint Peter's.Frank Basile, Ryan Boda, Vivie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTransport Group has announced two upcoming "Dark Night Events," to be held during the run of the company's revival of Michael John LaChiusa's Hello Again, at 52 Mercer Street.On Monday, Marc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPatina Miller and cast members from the new Broadway musical Sister Act performed a number from the show on the ABC Daytime talk show The View on Wednesday, February 9. The musical is slate…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLynda Carter has been added to the Virginia Arts Festival Line Up, and will appear at the Williamsburg Lodge on May 29 in two cabaret performances. She replaces the previously reported Jane …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veterans John Kassir, Bill Nighy, and Stanley Tucci have been cast in New Line/Legendary's upcoming film, Jack the Giant Killer, according to a report in Variety.The film will featur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, February 9, cast members from David West Read's new play, The Dream of the Burning Boy met members of the press at their New York Rehearsal studio.The cast features Reed Birne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMManhattan Theatre Club has announced the plays that will be presented as part of its "7@7" reading series, to be offered on consecutive Mondays February 28 - April 11 at New York City Center…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy-winning actor Richard Thomas and director Barry Edelstein will be among the participants in the Public Theater's next "Public Forum" event, entitled "Too Rich To Fail: A Town Hall Meeti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSinger and actress Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, who portrayed Roxie Hart in the Broadway amd West End productions of the musical Chicago, has filed for divorce from her husband of two years, Fall O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarbra Streisand has joined the lineup of artists who will be performing at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, according to an Associated Press report. The ceremony will be held on February 13 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe shortlist for the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography has been announced, according to a report on the website for the U.K. magazine, The Stage. The £2,000 prize, esta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Debra Messing and Megan Hilty have been cast in the musical drama pilot entitled Smash, which will focus on the putting on of a Broadway musical, according to Deadline.com. NB…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the Evening Standard Awards for film were announced in a ceremony held on Monday, February 7, according the BBC News website. Stephen Mangan hosted the event, which was held …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPreliminary casting has been announced for The Old Globe Theatre's 2011 Shakespeare Festival, to be presented May 29 - September 25.Miles Anderson will star as Prospero in Shakespeare's The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnnette Bening, Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Hanks, Hugh Jackman, Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, and Oprah Winfrey will be presenters at the 83rd Annual Academ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominees Nancy Opel and Mary Testa and stage and screen star Peter Scolari will star in Ken Ludwig's new farce, The Fox on the Fairway, to run March 22-April 17. David Saint will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPodcast: Michael Riedel, Matthew Murray, Michael Portantiere and James Marino discuss the Spider-Man reviews and the how it will impact the show.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMPaul Dano and real-life girlfriend Zoe Kazan will co-star in the new film He Loves Me, featuring a script by Kazan, according to The Los Angeles Times. The movie will be directed by Jonatha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Actors Studio presented an encore performance of its production of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie as a special benefit for The Actors Fund on Monday, February 7.Wilson Milam directed the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Kristin Chenoweth and Ricky Martin will be the Special Honorees for this year's GLAAD Media Awards.Martin will receive the Vito Russo Award which is named after one of GLAA…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Kerry Washington will star in an as-yet-untitled ABC drama pilot by Shonda Rhimes, according to Deadline.com.The pilot is based on the career of crisis management consultant…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAudra McDonald will leave ABC's Private Practice at the end of Season 4 in order to spend more time with her family, according to a report on TVGuide.com. On the series, McDonald plays Naom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Jason Danieley and Kelli O'Hara will join the Boston Pops for a March tour of Florida, in a program honoring composer Cole Porter.The program will feature songs such as "Ni…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Glyn Maxwell's After Troy, which will begin a U.K. tour with an engagement at the Oxford Playhouse, running March 2-5. Alex Clifton will direct the production,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Oscar Wilde's social and political satire, An Ideal Husband, to play Sidney Harman Hall, March 8-April 10. Keit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Cerveris, Dan Baum, Paul Sanchez and Colman deKay will appear at Symphony Space on February 27 to discuss the creation of and perform selections from the concept recording Nine Lives…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor and playwright Sam Shepard is among the newly announced cast members for the Universal thriller Safe House, according to a report in Variety. The film will star Ryan Reynolds and Denze…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM¡Sí Cuba!, a festival showcasing the diversity of Cuban arts and culture from the traditional to the contemporary, will be held in multiple venues in New York City, Marc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShowtime has released a trailer promoting the third season of the series Nurse Jackie, which stars stage veteran Edie Falco in the title role. As previously reported, the show will begin it…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJonathan Ansell and Daniel Boys will join Helena Blackman as she celebrates the release of her new CD, The Sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein, with a concert at the Delfont Room on February …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPrimary Stages celebrated the opening of its world premiere production of A.R. Gurney's Black Tie, performing at 59 E59 Theaters, on February 8.The production is directed by Mark Lamos, and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSinger Clint Holmes will appear at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, April 19-22, as well as take part in a special edition of Jamie deRoy & friends, to be held at the famed club on Sunday, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFantasia Barrino will play the title role in a feature-film adaptation of the 1993 book Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter. Eu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIt all started in late 2001, after I read A Cat's Diary: How the Broadway Production of 'Cats' Was Born by Stephen Mo Hanan. Near the end of the book, he noted that Cats won seven Tonys -- a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVictory Gardens has announced selections for its 2011-2012 season, which will open with Sarah Ruhl's Tony-nominated In the Next Room or the vibrator play (September 9-October 10), directed…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLincoln Center Theater has announced casting for the new musical, A Minister's Wife, which will begin previews on April 7 at Lincoln Center Theatre's Mitzi Newhouse Theater, in anticipation …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIntiman Theatre has announced casting for Arthur Miller's All My Sons, to run March 18 - April 17. Valerie Curtis-Newton will direct the production.The play focuses on a family coming to te…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDiane Keaton and Ed Harris will star in The Look of Love, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Arie Posin will direct the movie, which has a screenplay he has co-written with Matthew McDuff…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYale Repertory Theatre has announced casting for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, to run March 11 - April 2 at the University Theatre. Shana Cooper will direct the production, which will hav…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Kristin Chenoweth and Ricky Martin will be the Special Honorees for this year's GLAAD Media Awards.Martin will receive the Vito Russo Award which is named after one of GLAA…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA.R. Gurney's latest exploration of WASP culture proves to be a beguiling experience.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKim Cattrall, best known for her work in the television and film versions of Sex and the City, will star as Amanda in a Toronto production of Noel Coward's Private Lives, to be presented by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Emmy Award winner LaChanze will host Love is in the Air, the White Plains Performing Arts Center's annual gala, to be held at the theater on Sunday, February 13 at 6pm.LaChanze will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe John W. Engeman Theater has announced casting for its production of Rapunzel - A Tangled Fairytale, to play weekend performances, February 12-March 27. Mark Adam Rampmeyer will direct, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for the New York Philharmonic's concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, which as previously reported will star Neil Patrick…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree-time Tony Award nominee Harry Groener will play the title role in Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III, to run April 13 - June 12 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Penny Metropulos w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSpencer Aste, Ben Bergin, Jonathan Blakely, Christine Bullen, Griffin DuBois, Michelle Kafel, Laura King, Jessica Levesque, Sawyer Mastrandrea, Jenny McGuinness, Ted McGuinness, Nicola Murph…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCAP21 Theatre Company has announced casting for Shaina Taub's folk-funk opera The Daughters, to run March 2-20 in the company's Black Box Theatre. Sam Pinkleton will direct the production, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner and Broadway veteran Julia Roberts will play the Evil Queen in the upcoming film, The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, according to a report in EW.com.The project features a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Brad Garrett will emcee the National Hospice Foundation's seventh annual gala, to be held at the Gaylord National Resort at National Harbor, MD on Friday, April 8 beginning…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Idol veteran Sanjaya Malakar will join the cast of the Off-Broadway family musical, Freckleface Strawberry, performing at New World Stages, beginning with the February 23 performanc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWillard Morgan will star in the multimedia performance musical Saint Hollywood, which will begin an open-ended run at Ideal Glass on May 5. Jenny Lee Mitchell will direct the production, whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarbra Streisand has joined the lineup of artists who will be performing at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, according to an Associated Press report. The ceremony will be held on February 13 i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarbra Streisand will play the role of Momma Rose in a film remake of the musical Gypsy, according to an interview she gave to The Los Angeles Times. Warner Brothers and Joel Silver will be …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCynthia Nixon and her fiancé Christine Marinoni have announced the birth of their son, according to a report on People.com. Marinoni gave birth to the boy, Max Ellington Nixon-Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard will star alongside the previously reported Jim Belushi and Nina Arianda in Garson Kanin's comedy Born Yesterday, to play Broadway's Cort Theatre with p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for the Theatre for a New Audience's tour of its widely acclaimed 2007 production of The Merchant of Venice, which will play a New York engagement at Pace…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNick Adams, Laura Benanti, Chris Burke, Boyd Gaines, Montego Glover, Chad Kimball, Audra McDonald, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Sieber, Emily Skinner and a host of stars come out to salute …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee André De Shields will direct and star in a reading of The Sovereign State of Boogedy Boogedy, to be presented by The Negro Ensemble Company at the June…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Kevin McHale, Heather Morris, Chord Overstreet, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., and Jenna Ushkow…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lineup of offerings that will comprise Bard SummerScape 2011 has been announced.The schedule will include Noel Coward's operetta Bitter Sweet (August 4-14), which will be directed by Mic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTabatha Coffey will return to the Off-Broadway production of Anthony Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding, playing at St. Luke's Theatre, for one weekend only, February 24-26. Teresa A. Ci…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Benjamin Hickey will guest star on CBS' The Good Wife according to a report on TVGuide.com. He is scheduled to play the CEO of a social networking site.Hickey currently plays Sean, the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe contestants for the the 5th annual Broadway Beauty Pageant!, to be held on Monday, March 21 at 8pm at Symphony Space, have been announced. Christopher Denny will serve as musical directo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlex Davis will offer two performances of Alex Davis: Man of the Year at the Knitting Factory on Saturday, February 19 at 8pm and Sunday, February 20 at 2pm. Thomas Caruso will direct the pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Kennedy has replaced the previously reported John Rando as the director for Westport Country Playhouse's season opener, Beyond Therapy, by Christopher Durang. Rando has withdrawn from …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, February 7, Tony Award winner James Earl Jones met Max Page, star of Volkswagen's Darth Vader-themed Super Bowl commercial, at the Golden Theater, where Jones is currently starrin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArgyle Road Productions has announced complete casting for Tania Wisbar's The Birthday Present 2050, to run March 11 - April 17 at The Skylight Theatre. Jonathan Sanger will direct the produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMClay Aiken, Hinton Battle, Dan Butler, Robin De Jesus, Jose Llana, Debra Monk, Brian Charles Rooney, Bobby Steggert, Lillias White, Kirsten Wyatt, and Tony Yazbeck were among the performers …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFinal casting has been announced for Broadway by the Year's The Broadway Musicals of 1921, to be held on Monday, February 14 at 8pm at Town Hall. The series is created, written and hosted by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDennis Boutsikaris, Aya Cash, Laurie Metcalf, and John Schiappa will star in Sharr White's The Other Place, to be presented by MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, March 11-April 24, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree-time Tony nominee Marc Kudisch's one-man show, entitled The Lower Depths: In Defense of the Baritone Voice, has been canceled a second time, and will not perform on Monday, February 14…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMusicals Tonight! will present the latest editions of At This Performance on Sunday, February 13 and Monday, February 14 at 8pm at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre. The series, which is hosted by S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMeryl Streep is playing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the new movie The Iron Lady. Phyllida Lloyd is directing the project, which has a screenplay by Abi Morgan and is currentl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Douglas Hodge performed in concert at Birdland on Monday, February 7. The evening included songs from Hodge's two albums, Nightbus and Cowley Road Songs, as well as a previ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSecond Stage Theatre celebrated its annual All-Star Bowling Classic at Lucky Strike Lanes and Lounge, on Monday, February 7. Participants included Dylan Baker, Alec Baldwin, Stephanie J. Blo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York Pops musical director Steven Reineke will become the new Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in September 2011. In his new role, he will oversee the NSO's po…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lineup of presenters for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony have been announced, according to an Associated Press report. The event will, as previously announced, be hel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSelections from the 16-piece song cycle Mr. President will be broadcast on NPR in February in celebration of Presidents month. The song cycle is scheduled to be released on CD later this yea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJon Peterson and Kate Fahner headline the John W. Engeman's sensational production of the classic Kander and Ebb musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavis Gaines discusses his upcoming benefit concert, saluting Carol Channing on her 90th birthday, and memories of Phantom of the Opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Emmy Award winner Stockard Channing will star in the NBC pilot 17th Precinct, according to Deadline.com.The show will combine cop drama with supernatural elements, and is set in the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEllen Lauren will reprise her performance in Jocelyn Clarke's Room, to run March 12-27 at Women's Project. Anne Bogart will direct the production, which the company premiered eleven years a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTom Cruise is in final negotiations to play the bad-boy rock star Stacee Jaxx in the film version of the musical Rock of Ages, according to published reports. As previously announced, Adam S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNickelodeon has announced the nominations for the 2011 Kids Choice Awards. Jack Black will host the award ceremony, which will be held at the Galen Center at USC in Los Angeles on Saturday,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAl Pacino will star as French painter Henri Matisse in the forthcoming film Masterpiece, according to a report in Variety. Deepa Mehta will direct the film for Escape Artists, with the scree…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarrie Manolakos and Starr Busby will join the previously announced Ben Arons, Nick Blaemire, Katrina Rose Dideriksen, Ian Kagey, Eric William Morris, Mike Pettry, Lance Rubin, Jason "Sweet …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Production Company has announced casting for the LA premiere of Horton Foote's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Young Man From Atlanta. August Viverito will direct the production, to play a si…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Center Theatre Group's production of writer/director Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations, opened on Febrauary 9 at the Ahmanson Theatre. The production stars two-time Academy Award…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMaripat Donovan's 'Til Death Do Us Part: Late Night Catechism 3 will play the Pasadena Playhouse's Carrie Hamilton Theatre, beginning previews on March 3 in anticipation of an official openi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Wooster Group has extended its multimedia staging of Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carré, running at the Baryshinikov Arts Center, through March 13. Along with news of the additi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRalph Fiennes' film version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus will be distributed domestically by The Weinstein Co., according to a report in Variety. The film is currently having its world premi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLea Michele and Amber Riley will sing "Take Me or Leave Me" from Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent on the Tuesday, February 15 episode of FOX's hit series Glee. The song…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMZooey Deschanel will play the lead character in an untitled comedy pilot by Elizabeth Meriwether, according to a report in Variety. Jake Kasdan is set to direct.The project is described as a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Las Vegas production of Jabbawockeez' new show MÜS.I.C., at Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, has been extended through November 2011.The critically acclaimed show is described as …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Emmy Award-winning actor David Hyde Pierce will appear in conversation with Guthrie Theater director Joe Dowling at the theatre's Wurtele Thrust Stage on Sunday, March 13 at 7pm.Pi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater star Rebecca Caine will play Ottavia in Mark Ravenhill's production of Monteverdi's 1640 opera, The Coronation of Poppea, which will be presented in repertory by the Little Opera Hou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHBO has released a trailer for the television adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's play The Sunset Limited, starring Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. The movie will premiere o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, February 10, the LCT3 world premiere production of Nathan Louis Jackson's When I Come to Die officially opened at The Duke on 42nd Street.The cast, which includes Michael Balder…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Alec Baldwin will receive the Jason Robards Award for Theatrical Excellence at the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2011 spring gala, to be held at the Roseland Ballroom on Mon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, February 10, Judith Light, who is currently staring in Broadway's Lombardi at Circle in the Square Theatre, had her caricature unveiled at Sardi's restaurant.She was joined at t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, February 10, Oscar winner Morgan Freeman came to Broadway's Driving Miss Daisy to visit Tony Award winner and Oscar nominee James Earl Jones, who plays the role of Hoke in Alfre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUpdated casting has been announced for Live, Laugh, Love& A Broadway Benefit for Dana Lewis, to be held at 7pm on Monday, February 14 at St. Malachy's Church (239 W. 49th Street). Kevin Crew…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Savion Glover will star in his latest creation, SoLo iN TiMe at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, in the Bronx, on Sunday, March 6, at 4pm.The piece uses tap as sound,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnnette Bening, Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Hanks, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, and Oprah Winfrey will be presenters at the 83r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veterans Samuel Barnett, Alex Jennings, and Antony Sher, along with Hugo Docking, are all set to play Charles Dickens in Michael Eaton's Dickens' London, according to a report on the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDominic Cooper will join the previously reported Benjamin Walker in the upcoming 20th Century Fox film, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Adapted by Seth G…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMaria Friedman will join the English National Ballet (ENB) for a limited engagement of Strictly Gershwin, to play June 9-19 at Royal Albert Hall, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKeira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss star in Ian Rickson's utlimately effective revival of Lillian Hellman's quasi-tragedy about two women facing rumors of lesbianism.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe original London cast recording of Harold Rome's musical version of Gone With the Wind will be issued in a limited edition CD release by Kritzerland in March. The release will mark the fi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPrimary Stages has extended A.R. Gurney's Black Tie, playing at 59E59 Theatres. The production, directed by Mark Lamos, will now run through March 27.In the play, Curtis simply wants to mak…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCelebrate Valentine's Day in memorable fashion as Town Hall and Scott Siegel begin Broadway by the Year's 11th season February 14 at 8 P.M. with Broadway Musicals of 1921. "And it's going to…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMSo did we all stay in on Sunday night and watch those Super Bowl commercials? So many loved six-year-old actor Max Page, the mini-Darth Vader in a VW ad. Good Lord, the kid didn't have to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMZach Helm's one-of-a-kind piece in which he talks to theatergoers proves to be a fascinating experience.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChester Gregory will release a new music video, "If U Only," on February 14.In anticipation of this, he has created "If U Only...The Mixtape," a fusion of songs that have inspired him, as he…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Emmy-winning actress talks about her new film, Cedar Rapids, her HBO series Hung, and working with Alec Baldwin.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChris Chalk delivers a powerful central performance in Nathan Louis Jackson's absorbing drama about a death row inmate who survives a lethal injection.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the 31st London Film Critics' Circle Awards have been announced, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The Social Network won for film of the year, as well as for screenwriter A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Jason Robert Brown and Anika Noni Rose will offer three concert performances at New York City's Henry Street Settlement, April 28-30 at 8pm. The concert will include songs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWilliamstown Theatre Festival has announced its 2011 summer mainstage lineup. This year, only three productions will be presented.The mainstage season will open with a revival of Moss Hart …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage stars Jesse Eisenberg and Paul Rudd, along with film stars Zoe Saldana and Mia Wasikowska, will present at this year's Spirit Awards, according to a report on EW.com. Joel McHale will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen stars Annette Bening and Morgan Freeman will co-star in the film The Third Act, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Rob Reiner will direct the film, which will feature a sc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJack Ferver, Jenn Harris, and Randy Harrison will star in a reading of Ferver's Swan!!!, a parody of the Oscar-nominated film Black Swan, to be presented for four performances at PS 122, Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, February 10, the cast and creative team of the new Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can met with members of the press. Previews for the show will begin at the Neil Simon Theatr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met today for the second time this season to decide the eligibility of six Broadway productions for the 2011 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, pre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) has announced casting for The Trumpet of the Swan: A Novel Symphony, to be offered in the Concert Hall at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, and Mark Ruffalo are among the artists who are participating in an online auction sponsored by the Clothes Off Our Back Foundation, which raise…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the U.S. premiere of director Robert Lepage's production of Stravinsky's The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, to be presented at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Ruffin's Gospel play The Ideal Husband will be broadcast on GMC on February 26 at 7pm (ET), with encore presentations at 9pm and 11pm. Ruffin has directed his the project.The piece foc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnna Deavere Smith will perform her solo play, Let Me Down Easy, at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, running May 28-June 26. Leonard Foglia has directed the production.Smith's show is replacing …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Village Voice has officially announced the judges for the 56th annual Obie Awards, which will be held at Webster Hall on Monday, May 16. Names of the ceremony's hosts, presenters and ent…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrew Long and Jane Pfitsch will star in Willy Russell's Educating Rita, to run March 11 - April 10 at the Huntington Theatre Company. Maria Aitken will direct the production.Educating Rit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen legend Julie Andrews will be honored with the Distinction in Theater Award at Backstage at the Geffen, a fundraising benefit to be held on Monday, May 2. Carol Burnett wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeccadillo Theater Company has announced casting for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which will begin previews on March 12 at Theatre at St. Clement's in anticipation of an official opening on Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe producers of the upcoming Broadway musical Baby It's You have a released a first look at the show, which features an interview with the show's star Beth Leavel. Conceived by Floyd Mutru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, Matthew Murray, Michael Portantiere and James Marino discuss Lost in the Stars, Three Sisters, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, The New York Idea, Other Desert Citie…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMAlison Pill, Tony Roberts, Samantha Soule, and Martin Vidnovic will head the cast of a benefit reading of Jennifer Strome's new play The Idealist, to be presented at The Times Center on Wedn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFilm and television star Mackenzie Astin will join the cast of David L. Ray's Caught, at the Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles, on February 19. Three-time Ovation Award winner Nick DeGruccio ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company has announced the line-up and directors for its 2011-2012, 25th Anniversary season. The company's annual Free For All production will be Shakespeare's Julius …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHeidi Armbruster, Michelle Beck, Annika Boras, Laura Esterman, Christopher Gerson, Ruth Maleczech, Charlotte Parry, and Alexandra Szczepanowska will be featured in a staged concert reading o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Kathy Griffin will bring her new stand-up comedy show, Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony, to Broadway's Belasco Theatre for an eight-show run, March 11-19.The show will feature Gr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJustin Guarini, Van Hughes, and Libby Winters will take on leading roles in Broadway's American Idiot on March 1. They will respectively replace Michael Esper as Will; John Gallagher, Jr. as…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTelevision magician and mind control expert Derren Brown will bring his latest live stage show Svengali to the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre, June 8-July 16, following a 73-date national to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShakespeare's Globe has announced preliminary casting for its 2011 season. Entitlled "The Word Is God", the season will launch with a cover-to-cover unstaged reading of The Bible around the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress Peggy Rea, who originated the role of Eunice Hubbell in the Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire, has died at age 89 according to published reports.Rea also played the par…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Bradley Cooper will star in The Words, according to a report in Variety. Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal will direct the film, which they have also written.The movie cente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Andrew Garfield and Jennifer Garner and Tony Award winner Marcia Gay Harden will star in a film adaptation of Tawni O'Dell's novel Back Roads, according to a report in Variet…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMInteresting, isn't it, that when Robert Buckner got the assignment to write Yankee Doodle Dandy -- that 1942 biopic of George M. Cohan -- he decided to start with I'd Rather Be Right? Buck…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLynn Rosen's absurdist comedy gets a first-rate production at the Women's Project.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSusan Mosakowski's play about a nun and a priest who fall in love suffers from shallow writing.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular actor discusses returning to hit Broadway musical, his experience in Next to Normal, and his new Off-Broadway role.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Adams and Alice Goodman's remarkable historical opera makes a long-overdue debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Peter Sellars' thrilling production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThomas Kilroy's two-character play about Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, never truly catches fire.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner and stage veteran Marisa Tomei will host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The cerem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArchitect and set designer David Rockwell was among the winners of the Art Directors Guild Awards, which were held in Beverly Hills on Saturday, February 5. Rockwell won for his work in desi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristie Brinkley will take on the role of Roxie Hart in the Broadway production of Chicago, at the Ambassador Theatre in April, according to announcement made on The Oprah Winfrey Show.In r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Rob Ashford will direct and choreograph the La Jolla Playhouse production of the new musical Finding Neverland, with a, book by Allan Knee, music by Scott Frankel, and lyri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKathleen Chalfant, Eric T. Miller, Rebecca Nelson, Larry Pine, and Josh Segarra will participate in a staged reading of David Koteles' The Cook's Tour, to be offered on Tuesday, February 8 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJoey Fatone attended the Thursday, February 3 performance of Jabbawockeez' new show MÜS.I.C. at Monte Carlo Resort and Casino. The critically acclaimed show is described as an audio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Richard Thomas has been named the recipient of the National Meningitis Association's Nancy Ford Springer Inspiration Award, which will be presented to him at a gala benefit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJane Seymour will guest star on ABC's Castle, according to a report on TVGuide.com. The actress will be joining other guest stars including All My Children's Cameron Mathison and Rebecca Bu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Black Ensemble Theater has announced casting for All In Love Is Fair, written, produced and directed by Jackie Taylor, to run March 12-May 8, with an opening on March 20.The show tells …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Morrissey and Jemma Redgrave will star in the Liverpool Everyman's production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, to run May 6-June 4, according to Whatsonstage.com. The production will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShared Experience's Brontë will play London's Tricycle Theatre from April 5-30, according to Whatsonstage.com.The play, which evokes the real and imagined worlds of the legendary B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPerformers have been announced for the 83rd Academy Awards telecast, according to published reports. The ceremony will take place on Sunday, February 27 and be aired live on ABC. Anne Hathaw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlec Baldwin, Zoe Caldwell, Michael Cristofer, Olympia Dukakis, Zoe Kazan, Tony Kushner, Jessica Lange, Jeremy Lawrence, Marian Seldes and Angelica Torn will participate in Celebration of Te…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Maltz Jupiter Theatre has announced selections for its 2011-2012 season, with the theme being "The Best of Broadway."The season will open with the stage comedy treatment of Alfred Hitchc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Friday, February 4, the press met the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, which will begin previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 26 with a limit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristopher Jackson will celebrate his debut solo CD, In The Name Of Love, with a day-of-release concert at The Canal Room on February 15, which will feature special guests Arthur and the Ge…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMahaiwe Performing Arts Center has announced programming for its 2011 season.Opera great Deborah Voigt will headline the Mahaiwe Gala, to be held on Saturday, May 21 at 8pm. She will be acc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrooke Shields will star alongside Andréa Bendewald, Leslie Bibb, and Constance Zimmer in Roger Kumble's Girls Talk, to run March 15-April 24 at the Lee Strasberg Theatre. Kumble …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLindsey Alley, Kim Huber, Alet Taylor, Shannon Warne and Jennifer Leigh Warren will star in the musical Having At All, to run February 26-April 24 at the NoHo Arts Center, in North Hollywood…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures, which will be co-produced by Signature The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Actors Fund held a special pre-show cocktail party at Sardi's prior to the Thursday, February 3 performance of the new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which performs at t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRed Bull Theater's production of The Witch of Edmonton, at the Theater at St. Clement's has announced an extension through February 20. Jesse Berger has directed the Off-Broadway production,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlympia Dukakis, Grace Gummer, Carey Mulligan, Denis O'Hare, Dianne Wiest and more join Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Juliet Rylance, Jessica Hecht, Marin Ireland and the rest of the c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHeidi Blickenstaff, Adam Grupper, Brad Oscar, Rachel Potter and Jesse Swenson will join the Broadway cast of The Addams Family, playing at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre, on March 8. They will b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe French Institute Alliance Française has announced two upcoming theater presentations to be offered at Florence Gould Hall, both New York premieres.On February 24, Carole Bouqu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCity Center Encores! offers a workmanlike production of Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill's musical adaptation of Cry, the Beloved Country.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Sheldon Harnick's musical adaptation of Moliere's A Doctor in Spite of Himself will be presented in a concert reading at the 30th annual William Inge Theatre Festival on Ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVeteran stage and screen actor Michael Tolan has died at age 85 of heart disease and renal failure, according to The New York Times.Tolan appeared on Broadway in five shows, including Will S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRomantically inclined theater fare includes The Fantasticks, How I Fell in Love, La Cage Aux Folles, Mamma Mia!, My Big Gay Italian Wedding, The Phantom of the Opera, and Spider Man: Turn O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharlayne Woodard gives an outstanding performance in Red Bull Theater's production of this rarely performed Jacobean tragedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis autobiographical tuner about a pair of songwriters trying to quickly write a musical is relentlessly unentertaining.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania untangles the web of classic, pop culture and theatrical traditions that have gone into the making of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnton Chekhov's classic play about a trio of unhappy Russian siblings gets an uneven production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarbara Cook will offer a one-night only performance of Barbara Cook in Concert for Reprise Theatre Company on Monday, May 16 at 8pm at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. Cook most recently appeared on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn initial lineup of performers has been announced for For the Record: Baz Luhrmann, to run February 4-April 30 at Show at Barre. Shane Scheel will direct the production, which will have mu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFOX has released a promotional video for the special episode of Glee, scheduled to air on February 6, immediately following the Super Bowl.As previously reported, Katie Couric will guest sta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Virginia Arts Festival has announced programming for its 15th anniversary season, to include performances and special events over 50 days in nine cities including Norfolk, Virginia Beach…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of the new musical The People in the Picture, to play Studio 54, with previews beginning April …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnnette Bening, Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Robert Downey, Jr., Hugh Jackman, Marisa Tomei, and Oprah Winfrey will be presenters at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, which will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Idol 10th Anniversary -- The Hits, a CD to commemorate the FOX series first decade, will be released on March 15, according to EW.com. Many of the Idol contestants have Broadway and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlan Gilbert and The New York Philharmonic have announced programming for the orchestra's 2011-2012 season.Highlights include the opening night gala featuring Deborah Voigt (September 21); t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Amy Ryan will perform a song at a concert of new music by Todd Almond. The event will take place at St. Mark's Church in Manhattan on Wednesday, February 16 at 8:…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMusic Director Gustavo Dudamel has extended his contract with the Los Angeles Philharmonic through the 2018-2019 centennial season of the orchestra. Dudamel's original contract with the orc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJSP Records has announced that it will issue a double-CD of the original double LP recording of Judy at Carnegie Hall in early 2012. The release will include all of the music heard at the e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames Cromwell and Ed Harris will take part in a reading of Being Harold Pinter to be offered on February 25 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. The reading will be part of The Global Theatr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award Winner Chris Cooper and wife Marianne Leone will now star in a script-in-hand presentation of Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class, rather than the previously reported Bur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMErich Bergen will celebrate the release of his debut solo CD The Vegas Sessions with a one-night-only concert at the Rrazz Room on February 7 at 8pm. The concert will feature selections fro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans James Gandolfini, Brad Garrett, and John Magaro are set to star in the a new film, which is being written and directed by The Sopranos' David Chase.The work, set in the 1960s,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlec Baldwin will return for his third season as co-host of The Essentials on Turner Classic Movies (TCM), beginning on March 5. Baldwin and TCM host Robert Osborne have jointly selected 14…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee and legendary comedienne Joan Rivers will appear at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts at 8pm on March 11.Other performers during the month include country sing…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Howard McGillin and Rebecca Luker will appear in the City Center Encores! production of Where's Charley?, featuring a book by George Abbott and music and lyrics by Frank Lo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Colony Theatre Company has announced its 2011 - 2012 season.First up will be Michael Golamco's Year Zero (June 1 - July 3), which looks at two young Cambodian-Americans trying to figure …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStreep Tease: An Evening of Meryl Streep Monologues performed by an All-Male Cast will re-open at the Bang Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, on March 12. Ezra Weisz has directed the piece, whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for the Off-Broadway production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, at the Westside Theatre. Based on Ilene Beckerman's 1995 book about clothes and the memo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRoger Daltrey will offer a one-night-only performance of the rock opera The Who's Tommy at Royal Albert Hall on March 24. The event will be part of the Teenage Cancer Trust's annual week of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Colin Hanks and wife, publicist Samantha Bryant, are now the parents of a baby girl, according to People.com. Olivia Jane Hanks, the couple's first child, was born on Tuesda…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMManhattan Theatre Club has announced guests for upcoming sessions of the company's Saturday matinee discussion series After Words, to be held in conjunction with the current production of Go…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLaura Eason, Gregory Hischak, and Marc Bamuthi Joseph have been selected as the winners of the Humana Festival's National Ten-Minute Play Contest, with their entries to be performed during t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArts and Crafts: A New Musical, with a book by Sandra Bernhard and Justin Vivian Bond, and music by Bernhard, Bond, Lance Horne and Jake Shears (of Scisssor Sisters fame), will have two perf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatthew Kelly and Gerard Kearns will co-star in Tim Firth's Sign of the Times, which will begin previews on March 7 at the West End's Duchess Theatre, in anticipation of a March 11 opening, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Sunday, February 6, Broadway Kids Care and members of various shows participated in Fan Festival, which helps kick off The Broadway League's annual "Kids' Night on Broadway!" The event wa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, and Gregory Mosher discuss the upcoming Broadway revival of That Championship Season.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFormer Dancing With The Stars celebrity dancer Jane Seymour was the celebrity host for this past weekend's performances of the dance spectacular Ballroom with a Twist, at the El Portal Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and Grammy Award-winning singer Cyndi Lauper will perform at a benefit concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland on May 14, according to the Associa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJill Furman has won the The Commercial Theater Institute's Robert Whitehead Award. Lin-Manuel Miranda will present the honor, which recognizes outstanding achievement in commercial theatre …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe world premiere of Adam Rapp's The Hallway Trilogy, to be presented by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, will now begin previews on Tuesday, February 8 (rather than the previously announce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhylicia Rashad will receive the lifetime achievement award at the 19th annual Pan African Film Festival, according to a report in The New York Times. The festival runs February 16-23 in Lo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBlue Man Group will offer a quartet of 15-minute performances at the Super Bowl XLV Game Day Fan Plaza at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas on February 6, prior to the kick-off of the game between t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlan Blumenfeld has replaced the previously reported James Harper in the role of patriarch Cornelius McCorkle in the Fountain Theatre's production of Tennessee Williams' A House Not Meant to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional performers and presenters have been announced for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, which will be held on February 13 in Los Angeles and aired live on CBS.Grammy night performers are…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Campbell, along with his father Australian rock star Jimmy Barnes, sisters Mahalia and EJ Barnes, brother John Swan, uncle Diesel, and brother-in-law Ben Rodgers, is featured on the ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia will now begin previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 26, one day later than previously announced. Tony Award nominee David…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLauren Pritchard will celebrate the release of her debut solo CD, Wasted in Jackson, with a month-long U.S. tour, slated to begin with an engagement in Little Rock, AR on March 17. The albu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe previously reported NT Live Broadcast of Danny Boyle's production of Frankenstein will now be filmed in two different versions on March 17. The evening performance, featuring Benedict Cu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Emmy Award nominated television version of Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests trilogy will be released in a 3-DVD set by by Acorn Media on March 1. The trilogy -- comprised of Table …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMManhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man, at New York City Center - Stage I, has announced a third extension, and will now close on April 10.Doug Hughes…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTracy Letts, Amy Morton, Elaine Stritch, and Kathleen Turner are scheduled to offer tributes to Edward Albee when he receives Arena Stage's the American Artist Award on Monday, March 14, at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Conservatory Theater has announced casting for two benefit performances of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, to be offered on Sunday, February 13 at 5:30pm and Monday, February 14…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans and All My Children stars Michael E. Knight, Susan Lucci, and Darnell Williams will be among the guests on the February 9 of The Oprah Winfrey Show, according to TVSquad.com.T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlivier Award winner and Tony nominee Daniel Evans will star Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride for Sheffield Theatres, according to WhatsOnStage.com. Richard Wilson will direct the production,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmily Bergl, Matt Letscher, Marsha Mason, Mandy Siegfried, and Josh Stamberg will star in the L.A. Theatre Works' presentation of Obie Award-winner Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, to perform a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSh-K-Boom Records has announced the lineup of performers for two concerts to be offered on Monday, February 7. The events, to be held at 7pm and 10pm at (Le) Poisson Rouge, will celebrate t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony nominee Josie de Guzman will play Barbara Fordham and Broadway veteran Jennifer Harmon will portray Violet Weston in the Alley Theatre's production of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Pri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDel Shores will direct a film version of his play The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The movie, like the play, is set in the South,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe York Theatre Company's production of the new musical The Road to Qatar, opened on Thursday, February 3. Phillip George has directed the production. With book and lyrics by Stephen Cole …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMia Barron, Emily Swallow, Sam Trammell, Steven Weber, Rutina Wesley, and Bess Wohl were among the performers who participated in A Pretty Filthy Evening, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre on Satu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast members from FOX's hit series Glee, along with the show's producer Ryan Murphy, will be honored and appear at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, on March 16. The special event will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone was the guest at the February 6 edition of Jordan Roth's Broadway Talks series, at the 92nd Street Y.LuPone most recently appeared on Broadway in Wome…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional performers have been added to the lineup of artists who will appear in a special edition of Jim Caruso's Cast Party which will play Town Hall on Thursday, February 17 at 8pm. Caru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole will perform at The Mayo Center for the Performing Arts, on Friday, March 4 at 7pm.Ebersole will be accompanied by her musical director John Odd…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast members from RAIN - A Tribute to The Beatles On Broadway appeared on February 7 on ABC's Good Morning America. The production, which recently played a three-month run at the Neil Simon …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced its 2011-2012 season which will open with a gala concert to be held on September 27 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The program for the evening w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe gay and lesbian cable network Logo has announced the nominees for its 2011 NewNowNext Awards. The awards, to be decided by a public vote, will be broadcast on Monday, April 11.Stage vete…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFamed neurologist and writer Dr. Oliver Sacks attended the Irish Repertory Theatre's revival of Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney at the Saturday, February 5 performance. The production, directed …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGotham Chamber Opera will present the world premiere of Dark Sisters, an opera with music by composer Nico Muhly and libretto by playwright Stephen Karam. This co-commission and co-productio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristie Brinkley will take on the role of Roxie Hart in the Broadway production of Chicago, at the Ambassador Theatre, April 4-June 19.In related news, Brent Barrett will return to the role…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMime Bill Bowers will star in his solo show, It Goes Without Saying, at Two River Theater Company, February 17-20.Taking audiences on a scenic, and spoken, tour of his life so far -- from hi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and Emmy Award winner Jai Rodriguez will headline the City Theatre's 16th annual Summer Shorts Festival in Miami, and will also appear in a special fundraiser for the festiv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCorky Hale, Barbara Morrison, and Tricia Tahara will perform in A Tribute To Billie Holiday, to be presented at the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, on S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLynn Rosen's absurdist comedy gets a first-rate production at the Women's Project.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the 2011 Laurence Olivier Awards have been announced, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on March 13 at the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSinger and actress Mary Cleere Haran has died at age 58 in Florida, according to The New York Times. She was hit by a car while on her bicycle on Thursday.Haran appeared on Broadway in The 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAaron Sorkin has won both the Writers Guild of America Award and the Scripter Award for his screenplay for The Social Network.Sorkin is nominated for the Academy Award for his screenplay for…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Jennifer Coolidge will perform at the The Wilbur Theatre in Boston on Saturday, February 12, at 7pm.Coolidge appeared on Broadway earlier this season in Elling and co-s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Arlington, Virginia-based Signature Theatre has announced two upcoming cabaret engagements.Tony Award nominee Euan Morton will present Where Have I Been (All Your Lives)? (February 10 an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Reba McEntire is nominated in the Top Female Vocalist category for the Academy of Country Music Awards. She will also co-host (with Blake Shelton) the awards broadcast live …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMManhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man, at New York City Center - Stage I, has announced a second extension, and will now close on March 27.Doug Hughe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames Barbour will offer a one-night-only concert, Love Songs, at Birdland on Sunday, March 6 at 6pm. This concert is part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series, featuring stars and c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBen Lewis and Anna O'Byrne will star as the Phantom and Christine Daaé, respectively, in the Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies. Simon Phillips will di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFebruary L.A. fare is highlighted by Kevin Anderson in Neil Labute's The Break of Noon, Jenny Powers in the world premiere musical Dangerous Beauty, Constantine Maroulis in the Broadway hit …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUpdated casting has been announced for the Drama League's A Musical Celebration of Broadway, to be held on Monday, February 7 at the Pierre Hotel. As previously reported, the event will hono…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA reworked version of Vanities: A New Musical, Alice Ripley in the national tour of Next to Normal, Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size, the world premiere of Michael Mitnick's Babs Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Anika Noni Rose discusses the DVD release of For Colored Girls; her upcoming American Songbook concert, and returning to CBS' The Good Wife.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTen finalists have been announced for the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, which honors outstanding new English-language plays by women. A ceremony honoring all finalists and announcing th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGavin Creel stars in Steven Sater and Serj Tankian's Prometheus Bound musical, with other highlights including Ajax, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Terminus, Pussy on the House, Mary Poppins, RAI…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for American Repertory Theater's production of the new musical, Prometheus Bound, to run February 25 - April 2 at Oberon. Diane Paulus will direct the product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Sullivan and David Esbjornson will direct Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure, respectively, for the Public Theater's 2011 Shakespeare in the Park season, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway star Karen Mason will perform her new cabaret show, Setting New Standards, at Davenport's in Chicago, February 9-14. The act is directed by Barry Kleinbort and features musical dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen stars Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell will headline Showtime's comedy pilot House of Lies, according to EW.com.The project, which is based on the book House of Lies: How Manage…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComedian Judy Gold, Broadway actress Meredith Patterson and Guiding Light star Kim Zimmer co-hosted The Huntington's Disease Society of America's 4th annual Curtains Up For A Cure at the Vil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Wilma Theater has announced casting for its production of Sarah Ruhl's 2010 Tony-nominated play, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, to run March 2-April 3, with an opening on March …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrian Justin Crum, Trista Dollison, Morgan Karr, and Cassie Wooley will star in Barrington Stage Company's The Big V-Day Cabaret, to be presented in the company's Stage 2 space, February 11-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmy Pietz will join Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Jane Kaczmarek, and James Lecesne in the West Coast premiere of In Mother Words, to play the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Anika Noni Rose discusses the DVD release of For Colored Girls; her upcoming American Songbook concert, and returning to CBS' The Good Wife.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA reworked version of Vanities: A New Musical, Alice Ripley in the national tour of Next to Normal, Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size, the world premiere of Michael Mitnick's Babs Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSesame Street Live returns to New York City with Elmo's Green Thumb, while this month's family-friendly fare also includes Circus Incognitus, Sky Boys, 8-Minute Madness Youthfest, Knuffle Bu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, January 26, members of the press visited the cast recording session for Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical, which will begin previews at Broadway's Palace Theatre on Feb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHighlights include Lynn Nottage's Ruined, the national tour of Avenue Q, Theresa Rebeck's What We're Up Against, Paul Rudnick'sRegrets Only, Christopher Titus' solo Neverlution, Holly Hughes…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Kate Burton will guest star on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in February. The episode will also feature a cameo appearance by opera star Renee Fleming, as well as…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway shows starting up this month include Daniel Radcliffe in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Book of Mormon by South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Priscilla Q…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, January 26, the Atlantic Theatre Company's production of The New York Idea had its opening night at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. The show, which is adapted by David Auburn from …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe national tour of Shrek the Musical makes a Twin Cities stop, with local highlights including Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963, Adrift on the Mississippi, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Ring…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, January 26, the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera celebrated it's 23rd anniversary on Broadway in its current home, the Majestic Theatre. Director Harold Prince j…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFebruary L.A. fare is highlighted by Kevin Anderson in Neil Labute's The Break of Noon, Jenny Powers in the world premiere musical Dangerous Beauty, Constantine Maroulis in the Broadway hit …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Dexter star discusses her return to the theater in Second Stage's Gruesome Playground Injuries.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHighlights include Michael Crawford in Andrew Lloyd Webber's revamped Wizard of Oz, the London premiere of Million Dollar Quartet, Julie Atherton in Ordinary Days, Benedict Cumberbatch and J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, January 26, Broadway veteran and Today show co-host Kathie Lee Gifford joined the Broadway cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet for a special encore performance. The perf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReba McEntire and Lee Ann Womack join George Strait at the MGM Grand, Rita Rudner preforms at the Venetian, Tim Allen's at the Hard Rock, Joey McIntyre plays The Palms, Barry Manilow continu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMClassic Stage Company has announced casting for Double Falsehood, to run March 11-April 3. Brian Kulick will direct the production.The play, written by Lewis Theobald, is believed to be an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBilly Elliot the Musical dances its way into Tampa, Wicked flies into Orlando, The 39 Steps travels to Fort Myers, Dinner With Friends is held in West Palm Beach, Big Love is felt in Miami, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAtlanta Lyric Theatre has announced casting for Leader of the Pack to run February 18-March 6 at the Strand Theatre in Marietta. Brandt Blocker will direct the production, which will feature…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTracy Letts and Amy Morton star in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, with other highlights including At Home at the Zoo, Charming Billy, Owl Moon, Basra Boy,The Weir, The Cripple of Inishmaan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNorbert Leo Butz, Brian d'Arcy James, Ana Gasteyeer, Laura Osnes, Nicole Parker, and Steven Pasquale will perform at MCC Theater's Miscast 2011, to be held on Monday, March 14 at The Hammers…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHighlights include John Leguizamo's warm up for his Broadway-bound Ghetto Klown; the Belarus Free Theatre'sBeing Harold Pinter; the new musical Starship featuring songs by Glee's Darren Cris…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Eigenberg will guest-star in an upcoming episode of ABC's Private Practice according to TVGuide.com.The actor appeared in the Broadway productions of Take Me Out and Six Degrees of Se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGavin Creel stars in Steven Sater and Serj Tankian's Prometheus Bound musical, with other highlights including Ajax, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Terminus, Pussy on the House, Mary Poppins, RAI…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHalle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Hugh Jackman, Marisa Tomei and Oprah Winfrey will be presenters at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, which will take place on Sunday, February 27 and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSam Waterston, Brian Murray, and Shirley Knight deliver first-rate performances in Simon Gray's compelling play about the art world and an unusual domestic arrangement.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColin Quinn's one-man show Long Story Short will be shot for an airing on HBO in April. The production, directed by Jerry Seinfeld, will play through March 5. In the show, Quinn comically ex…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJennifer Carpenter and Pablo Schreiber give terrific performances in Rajiv Joseph's two-hander about an unusual 30-year relationship.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBoy George's new album Ordinary Alien will be released digitally by Ultra Music, on February 1.His first artist album in more than ten years, Ordinary Alien is a collection of tracks featuri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis fast-paced exploration of America's obsession with self-help seminars is well performed but somewhat underdeveloped.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKate Walsh will return to ABC's Grey's Anatomy for a forthcoming musical episode, according to TVGuide.com.The actress currently stars as Dr. Addison Montgomery in ABC's Private Practice, a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFebruary highlights include The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Big Love, Nocturne, Lidless, Love Lessons from Abu Ghraib, Blasted, and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSouth Coast Repertory has announced the lineup for its Studio Series, to be offered over the course of eight weekends, March 4 - June 19 in the company's Nicholas Studio. The series will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFeinstein's at Loews Regency has announced some of the acts for its winter/spring 2011 season.Engagements will include Brooke Shields (February 1-12); Eric Michael Gillett (February 15-19); …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Fountain Theatre's production of Tennessee Williams' A House Not Meant to Stand, February 19-April 17, with an opening on February 26. Simon Levy will direct t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlácido Domingo will star in the title role of the LA Opera production of Giuseppe Verdi's Simon Boccanegra (February 11-March 4, 2012). James Conlon will conduct the production, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKrystina Alabado and Marissa O'Donnell deliver dynamic performances in this musical about two teenagers who fall in love at an all-girls Christian summer camp.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony award winner Levi Kreis and Eric Himan will offer a concert at Joe's Pub on February 28 at 7pm. The performance will feature songs from Himan's newest album, Resonate, as well as a sol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast and creative team have been announced for writer/director Willard Beckham's new musical comedy Lucky Guy, which will play Off-Broadway at the Little Shubert Theatre, April 28-July 24, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can will now begin previews at the Neil Simon Theatre on March 11 (rather than the previously reported March 7), with the opening date remaining Apri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames Purefoy and Sheridan Smith are among newly announced cast members who will be joining the previously reported Sienna Miller in Terence Rattigan's Flare Path, to run March 4 - June 4 at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPBS will air the Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert at The O2 on March 6, 7:00-11:00pm ET (check local listings). The principal company for the performances at the O2, which…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Michael Cerveris will perform at Theatre UNO's Night of Broadway Lights, to be held at the University of New Orleans' Robert E Nims Theatre on Saturday, January 29 at 7:30p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFOX has released a promotional photo for the Valentine's Day edition of Glee, scheduled to air on February 8 at 8pm (ET/PT). As previously announced, the episode, entitled "Silly Love Songs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Auburn's adaptation of Langdon Mitchell's 1906 comedy about a divorced couple makes for a mostly satisfying evening of theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for several New York City Opera productions and special events.In addition to the previously reported Lauren Flanigan and Kim Josephson as medium Myra F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular actress discusses her starring role in the George Street Playhouse's production of The Subject Was Roses.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTACT/The Actors Company Theatre has announced complete casting for Three Men on a Horse, by John Cecil Holm & George Abbott. Scott Alan Evans will direct the production at Theatre Row's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlympia Dukakis gives a grounded yet juicy performance in Michael Wilson's sharp staging of Tennessee Williams' rarely-performed drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Actors Fund is offering special benefit tickets to the February 3 performance of the new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, at the Foxwoods Theatre.In addition, tickets are …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLaura Benanti, Lainie Kazan, Julia Murney, Sarah Silverman and Lillias White will all share the role of Fanny Brice in a one-night-only Actors Fund benefit concert of Funny Girl, to be offer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPreliminary casting has been announced for 24 Hour Hollywood Rush, to be presented on Sunday, February 20 at the Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. The benefit will support The Baby Dragon Fund a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEpic Theatre Ensemble will present a free-of-charge limited run of Shakespeare's Othello at the Five Angels Theater, February 11-13. Ron Russell will direct.A swift, brutal, and darkly humor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRemy Zaken will assume the title role in Gary Kupper and Rose Caiola's Freckleface Strawberry The Musical, playing at New World Stages, on February 4. She replaces Hayley Podschun, who orig…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Brave New World Repertory Theatre's production of the Arthur Miller play, The American Clock, to be presented at The Brooklyn Lyceum in Park Slope March 3-13. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarey Anderson, Whitney Bashor, Jody Flader, Nathan Tysen, and Emily Walton are featured on Daniel Zaitchik and the Blue Bottle Collection's Summer of the Soda Fountain Girls, to be released…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Sunday, January 30, the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore opened at the Laura Pels Theatre. The production is directe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Sunday, January 30, Broadway's Chicago celebrated with their Facebook fans by giving away the entire matinee house to fans who recruited 10 of their friends to "Like" Chicago on the popul…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Sunday, January 30, Red Bull Theater held its benefit gala, which featured a performance of the company's The Witch of Edmonton at Theater at St. Clement's. The show, directed by Jesse Be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristine Pedi will be the guest host of the February 5 edition of The Ultimate Drag Off, playing at The Times Square Arts Center. Described as an 'interactive musical game show comedy,' the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPatrick Stewart will reprise his portrayal of William Shakespeare in Edward Bond's Bingo, to run February 16 - March 31 at the Young Vic in London, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Davis, Alison Fraser, George S. Irving, Daniel Jenkins, Jonathan Monro, Tom Viola, and Karen Ziemba will perform in the February 14 edition of Project's Shaw's monthly series, to be o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFive-time Academy Award-winning composer John Barry has died at age 77, according to published reports.Barry worked as a composer and/or conductor on over 100 movies and television projects,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMErin spoke to me about “Broadway Saturdays,” her upcoming movies, raising two girls, and other things that keep her busy and happy.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMCongratulations to Fred Abramowitz, Val Addams, Peter Alfano, AnyaToes, John Atkins, Susan Berlin, Brigadude, Richard Brock, Jeremy Fassler, Lara Fodor, Laura Frankos, John Greene, John Grif…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFran Drescher, Rita Moreno, Robert Walden, and Tichina Arnold have been cast in the TV Land comedy pilot Happily Divorced, according to TVGuide.comBased on Drescher's real-life former marria…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of presenters has been announced for the 17th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be presented in a ceremony to be held on January 30 at the Shrine Exposition Cente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has announced additional details for its two-month Edward Albee Festival.The festival kicks off with Steppenwolf Theatre Company's highly …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMy Funny Valentine, Broadway's Greatest Love Songs, will take place at The 5th Avenue Theatre on Saturday February 12 at 8pm and Sunday February 13 at 3pm/The 90-minute concert, to be conduc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLarry Bryggman and David Lansbury will headline a staged reading of Neil Koenigsberg's new play, Off the King's Road, to be presented at the Westside Theatre on Thursday, February 3 at 2pm. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatthew Murray, Michael Portantiere and James Marino discuss The New York Idea, Waiting for Godot, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Knickerbocker Holiday, Fascinating Rhythm and Jam…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMModern But Classical Theatre (MBCT) has announced casting for Three Sisters: a tale of dreams and woe, the company's bare bones staging of Anton Chekhov's play. Directed and adapted by Miria…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIt was the month Chicago lost in football but was still winning on Broadway. How does it do it? And to think that in only six months, it'll pass in number of performances the show that origi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrew Hamingson has stepped down from his position as Executive Director of The Public Theater for personal reasons.Joey Parnes, who was the Executive Producer at The Public Theater from 19…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDancing with the Stars' veterans Alec Mazo, Jonathan Roberts, Edyta Sliwinska, and Anna Trebunskaya will appear at The Grove on Feb 5 from 12-1pm to offer a free Master Dance Class.The fours…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVivienne Benesch, Daniel Jenkins, Deanne Lorette, and Stephen Barker Turner will star in Keen Company's revival of Michael Frayn's Benefactors, to perform at The Clurman Theatre at Theatre R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Eddie Izzard and Donald Sutherland will star in a two-part Treasure Island miniseries for Syfy, according to a report in Variety. Steve Barron is directing the project, whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhysicist Stephen Hawking attended a preview performance of writer/director Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations, at the Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre, on February 1.The prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHarriet Harris, Rachel Harris, John Benjamin Hickey, John Michael Higgins, Kathy Najimy, Romy Rosemont and Stephen Root will perform in Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays at Largo …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDue to scheduling conflicts, the previously announced Actors Fund concert presentation of Funny Girl, originally scheduled for March 14 in Los Angeles, has been canceled. In a statement rele…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Saana Lathan will join Stephanie J. Block, Daniel Breaker, Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Kevin Isola, and Karen Olivo in the world premiere of Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Mee…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Jane Lynch and stage and screen star Kiefer Sutherland will lend their voice to the 23rd season of FOX's animated series The Simpsons, according to published reports.Suther…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans John Goodman and Chris Messina will join the cast of DirecTV's Damages, according to a report on TVGuide.com. The series stars Tony Award winner and Emmy Award winner Glen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated slate of performers has been announced to play Joe's Pub in February.Among the highlights is the Uberbowl featuring Emilie Baltz, Zachary Booth, Michael Cyril Creighton, Lauren Ez…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York Theatre Workshop has released a promotional video for Rick Elice's Peter and The Starcatcher, to run February 18 - April 3. Roger Rees and Alex Timbers are directing the production.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNigel Gore, Jacob Knoll, Michael Milligan, Lori Prince, Tijuana Ricks, Dale Soules, Greg Thorton and Brandy Zarle will be featured in Thomas Middleton's The Witch, to be offered as part of R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony-nominated actress discusses starring in Classic Stage Company's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Alan Cumming will star in a staged reading of Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin, to be presented by Classic Stage Company on Sunday, February 13, at 7pm.A free a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Culture Project has announced the line-up for its 2011 Women Center Stage festival, which will play The Living Theatre, March 5-April 2.Among the highlights is FUQs: Frequently Unanswere…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran John Stamos will be honored at Project Cuddle's 2011 annual Dinner by the Bay event, to be held at The Hilton Long Beach and Executive Meeting Center on Saturday, March 19 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA new company has begun performances in the West End production of The 39 Steps, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. The production, booking through October 22, has been directed by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional performers and presenters have been announced for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, which will be held on February 13 in Los Angeles and aired live on CBS.Grammy night performers are…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMImogen Stubbs, Simon Robson, Joanna Page, and Clive Hayward will star in a revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives, to run February 23 - April 9 at the Manchester Royal Exchange, according to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarbra Streisand will star opposite Seth Rogen in the new film My Mother's Curse, according to The Hollywood Reporter..Anne Fletcher will direct the movie. It features a script by Dan Fogelm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar nominee James Franco is intending to star opposite previously confirmed star Nicole Kidman in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, planned for Fall 2011, acco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSherry Boone, Daniel Breaker, Chuck Cooper, Quentin Earl Darrington, Daniel Gerroll, Patina Miller, and Sharon Washington preview City Center Encores! production of Lost in the Stars.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, February 1, Oscar winner and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge joined Broadway's American Idiot in the role of St. Jimmy for a one-week-only engagement, Fe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHBO has ordered a pilot for a new series by playwright and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, which is set behind the scenes of a nightly cable news show, according to Deadline.com. Sorkin and film …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe superstar offers up an effervescent, thoroughly worthwhile cabaret act at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdam Poss and Remi Sandri will star in the world premiere of Rajiv Joseph's The North Pool, to be presented by TheatreWorks at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto, March 9-April 3, with an …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRichard Grieve will assume the role of Tick in the West End production of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical on March 7. Based on the Oscar-winning film, and written by Stephan Ellio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSony MASTERWORKS will release Linda Eder's new CD Now, featuring songs from Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn on Tuesday, March 1. Wildhorn and Eder were previously married to each other, an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlympia Dukakis gives a grounded yet juicy performance in Michael Wilson's sharp staging of Tennessee Williams' rarely-performed drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright John Guare has been awarded the 2011 Greenfield Prize in Drama. It will be presented to him at a Celebration dinner on Sunday, March 27 at Michael's on East in Sarasota. Oskar Eus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeannie Affelder, Atra Asdou, Kareem Bandealy, Kevin Christopher Fox, Tim Gittings, John Lister, John Reeger, and Karen Janes Woditsch will be featured in Writers' Theatre's presentation of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Wooster Group will hold a benefit performance of its production of its latest multimedia stage work, Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carré at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, on Tuesday…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for Dallas Theater Center's production of Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace. Scott Schwartz will direct the play, which runs February 4-March 13.Broadw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNorthlight Theatre has announced casting for its world premiere of Sense & Sensibility, a new adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, written and directed by Jon Jory. The production will run…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGeraldine Hughes, Ciaran O'Reilly, and Jonathan Hogan deliver excellent performances in the Irish Rep's excellent revival of Brian Friel's mesmerizing work.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnna Deavere Smith's solo play, Let Me Down Easy, will be videotaped in February during its run at Arena Stage. The show will air on PBS as part of its Great Performances series during the 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLiterally Alive Children's Theatre's new production of Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell's musical The Little Mermaid will perform at The Players Theatre, February 5-May 22. Stefanie Smith wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeri Gilpin, Rachel Harris, John Michael Higgins, Richard Kind, Kathy Najimy and Jon Tenney will perform in Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays at Largo at the Coronet on Monday, J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMParticipants have been announced for Brainwave 2011, The Rubin Museum's conversation series exploring the human mind. This year's focus is on the relationship between dreams and creativity, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMauricio Perez will join star Eve Plumb in the Off-Broadway production of Ken Davenport and Sarah Saltzberg's Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage, playing at the Downstairs C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJoel Feld's well-acted, well-written romantic comedy is a delightful theatrical experience.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the new musical Betty Blue Eyes, which will begin performances at the West End's Novello Theatre on March 19, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Austin, Texas-based Rude Mechs will present the New York premiere of Kirk Lynn's The Method Gun, to be presented at Dance Theater Workshop, March 2-12. Shawn Sides will direct.The piece …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Academy Award winner Liza Minnelli will join the line-up for a special edition of Jim Caruso's Cast Party which will play Town Hall on Thursday, February 17 at 8pm. Caruso will host…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLarry Bryggman and David Lansbury will headline a staged reading of Neil Koenigsberg's new play, Off the King's Road, to be presented at the Westside Theatre on Thursday, February 4 at 2pm. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFinal casting has been announced for Lance Horne: First Things Last, to take place on Sunday, January 30 at the Garrick Theatre. The show, which is based on his CD of original songs of the s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of presenters has been announced for the 17th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be presented in a ceremony to be held on January 30 at the Shrine Exposition Cente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and Glee star Lea Michele will sing "America the Beautiful" before the start of The Super Bowl on Sunday, February 6, according to EW.com. The game will air on FOX.Christina…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFebruary programming has been announced for Barnes & Noble Upper East Side (150 E. 86th Street).Theater-related highlights include Tony Award winner Ben Vereen, who will be interviewed b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJonathan Lincoln Fried, Chad Hoeppner, and Steven Rattazzi will star in Sheila Schwartz's new play, Spy Garbo, to be presented Off-Broadway at 3LD Art & Technology Center, March 1-April …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSo Encores! is getting pretty serious. The wonderful series at City Center has since 1993 allowed us to see a panoply of musical styles: operetta (The New Moon), revue (The Ziegfeld Follies …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTyler Perry's film For Colored Gilrs, which has been adapted from Ntozake Shange's award-winning 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf,, will be r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmily Bergl, Matt Letscher, and Marsha Mason will star in the L.A. Theatre Works' presentation of Obie Award-winner Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, to perform at the Skirball Cultural Center F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBenjamin Walker, who recently starred on Broadway in the title role of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, will play a different President in the forthcoming film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 17th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were presented on Sunday, January 30 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles and simulcast on TNT and TBS. The awards honor outstanding acti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMManhattan Theatre Club will present the world premiere of Daniel Goldfarb's The Extinction Method, to begin previews at May 10 at Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center - Stage I. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChita Rivera, Hunter Bell, and Jeff Bowen will be among the artists taking part in Live, Laugh, Love& A Broadway Benefit for Dana Lewis, to be held at 7pm on Monday, February 14 at St. Malac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBritish stage and screen star Felicity Jones has won The Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize for her work in writer-director Drake Doremus's Like Crazy, which was also awarded the Gr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlen Weiss was presented with the Directors Guild of America Award for his work on the 64th Annual Tony Awards in a ceremony held on January 29 in Los Angeles.Other DGA Award winners were To…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania selects 14 original cast recordings to enhance your Valentine's Day listening pleasure
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndre Braugher heads a superb cast in Mathew Lopez's compelling Civil War-era drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmily Bergl, Matt Letscher, Marsha Mason, Josh Stamberg, and Missy Yager will star in the L.A. Theatre Works' presentation of Obie Award-winner Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, to perform at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Kennedy Center will present its 19th annual Kennedy Center Spring Gala, Michael Kaiser at the Kennedy Center: A Celebration of Ten Years, at 8:30pm on Sunday, April 3.The event will be …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHannah Whitney, winner of NYMF's Next Broadway Sensation contest, will perform in concert at Joe's Pub on Saturday, February 12 at 11:30pm. Anika Chapin will direct, with musical direction b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRick Burkhardt, Andy Gricevich, and Ryan Higgins will star in The Nonsense Company's Storm Still, to play PS 122, February 19-March 6.In the piece, created by the company, three kids have be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Victoria Clark will co-star as Mother Superior in the Broadway production of the new musical, Sister Act, which will play the Broadway Theatre, beginning previews on March …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, February 1, Jenni Barber, Maxwell Caulfield, Lois Robbins, and director Michael Bush met with members of the press to talk about the Off-Broadway revival of Abe Burrows' classic …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulia Roberts will receive the American Society of Cinematographers 2011 Board of Governors Award, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter. The honor, given to individuals for advan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Kennedys, an eight-hour miniseries starring Broadway veteran Katie Holmes as former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Greg Kinnear as President John F. Kennedy, will begin airing on Apri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn initial lineup of performers and presenters has been announced for the Recording Academy's pre-telecast Grammy Awards ceremony on February 13 at 1pm (PT) to be held at the L.A. Convention…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarnes & Noble has announced its line-up of celebrity events in New York City for March.Highlights include Meredith Baxter and Joy Behar discussing Baxter's book United: A Memory of Fami…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAvery Clyde, Liz Herron, Tom Knickerbocker, and Mark St. Amant will perform in the world premiere of Keith Huff's Pursued By Happiness, to be presented by the Road Theatre Company at the His…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, February 1, the cast of Transport Group's upcoming production of Michael John LaChuisa's musical Hello Again, met the press. The show will run at 52 Mercer Street, March 4-April …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, January 31, Second Stage's production of Rajiv Joseph's play Gruesome Playground Injuries opened at Second Stage Theatre. The production stars Jennifer Carpenter and Pablo Schreib…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMia Barron, Chris Butler, Kathryn Hahn, Rashida Jones, Paul Provenza, Emily Swallow, Sam Trammell, Steven Weber, Rutina Wesley, and Bess Wohl will perform in A Pretty Filthy Evening, to be h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has announced the individuals who will comprise the 2011 Next Link Project Grand Jury, which serves as the advisory board in the selection of par…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLincoln Center has announced the participating artists for its 2011-2012 Great Performers season.Among the performers will be Thomas Ades, Joshua Bell, Ian Bostridge, Christine Brewer, Sir C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarvell Repertory Theatre has announced casting for its inaugural season, to be offered February 18 - April 3 at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex. As previously announced, the repertory sc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlivier Award winner Chiwetel Ejiofor will co-star in the historical drama Savannah, according to a report in Variety. Annette Haywood-Carter is writing and directing the film, which begins…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPaper Mill Playhouse's production of the William Finn-Rachel Sheinkin musical is F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award-winning star talks about his solo concert and CD, his plan to return to Broadway, and working on How I Met Your Mother.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the all-star ensemble comedyNew Year's Eve,, to be directed by Garry Marshall, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The movie tells intertwining stories of a gr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Doug Hughes will direct the world premiere musical Death Takes a Holiday, featuring a book by Peter Stone & Thomas Meehan, with music & lyrics by Maury Yeston. Roun…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKurt Weill's last completed work before his death, the musical Lost in the Stars, written with Maxwell Anderson, lyricist, will be the second Encores! production of the City Center season. T…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMPop star Adam Lambert and Emmy winner Bradley Whitford -- both of whom are theater veterans -- visited backstage at the national tour of the Tony Award-winning revival of Hair, at the Pantag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThey did the first musical for money, and wrote the second one for the love and the fun of it.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrothers Will and Anthony Nunziata will launch a national tour of a new concert act at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, February 1-5. Eric Michael Gillett will direct, with musical d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Beth Leavel will star in the new Broadway musical Baby It's You, to play the Broadhurst Theatre, with previews beginning March 26 in anticipation of an April 27 opening. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, January 24, the cast of the new Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can met with members of the press during the show's first day of rehearsal at New 42nd Street Studios. Previews fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominees Sally Mayes and Bobby Steggert will be featured in the benefit concert Songs of Spirit, to be held at Joe's Pub on Monday, January 31at 7pm. James Monroe Iglehart, of Bro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNaked Angels and the Furious Theatre Company will collaborate on the new series, Mondays LA: Naked and Furious, in which on the last Monday of the month, a new play, screenplay, or TV pilot …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Michael Cumpsty, Robert Stanton, and Wendy Rich Stetson will participate in a "Discovery Day" dedicated to composer/pianist Franz Liszt, to be held at Carnegie Hall on Satu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRené Augesen, Anthony Fusco, Adam O'Byrne, Andrew Polk, Jack Willis, and Kenneth Welsh will star in American Conservatory Theater's production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and Reno 911 star Mary Birdsong will join the previously reported Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Jane Kaczmarek, and James Lecesne in the West Coast premiere of In Mother Words, to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulie Atherton, Daniel Boys, and Lisa Faye will perform solo concerts following performances of the Trafalgar Studios run of Adam Gwon's Ordinary Days, according to WhatsOnStage.com. The mus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Mint Theatre serves up a beautifully acted production of Arnold Bennett's 1909 play about a scheming newspaper mogul.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReed Birney, Michael Chernus, Terry Donnelly, Rebecca Harris, and Polly Lee will star in a reading of Kaite O'Reilly's The Almond and the Seahorse, to be presented by Irish Repertory Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGrammy Award winner Sergio Mendes will offer four performances of Sergio Mendes - Celebration: A Musical Journey at the Geffen Playhouse, March 10-13.The concerts, which will feature the art…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEshan Bay, Francesca Choy-Kee, Michael Cullen, Laura Esterman, Sam Ghosh, and Gergana Mellin will be featured in the Long Wharf Theatre's world premiere production of Agnes Under the Big Top…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting is now complete for the Off-Broadway revival of Abe Burrows' classic farce Cactus Flower, to be presented at the Westside Theatre Upstairs, beginning February 24, with an opening set…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGloucester Stage has announced its 2011 summer season, which will begin with the second installment of Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests trilogy, Living Together June 9-26. The productio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of presenters has been announced for the 17th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be presented in a ceremony to be held on January 30 at the Shrine Exposition Cente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe previously reported special Actors Fund performance for the Broadway production of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer-Prize winning drama, Driving Miss Daisy, will be dedicated to the memory of sibl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Wilson will direct the world-premiere of Christopher Shinn's Picked, at the Vineyard Theatre with previews beginning April 5 in anticipation of an April 20 opening. Cast and creative…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKaren Akers, Jim Caruso, Billy Stritch, and The Rescignos will join the previously announced Liz Lark Brown, Hannibal Buress, Charles Busch, Christine Ebersole, Julie Halston, Mark McCombs, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSteffanie Leigh assume the title role in the North American tour of Mary Poppins, on February 8, as the production plays an engagement at the Orpheum Theatre in Omaha, NE. She replaces Carol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames DeMarse, Cecilia DeWolf, David Gelles, Delphi Harrington, Matthew Minor, Mickey Solis, and Jennifer Joan Thompson will star in the world premiere of Neil Cuthbert's White People, to be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 92nd Street Y has announced casting for the 2011 line-up for its Lyrics & Lyricists American Songbook series, under the overall artistic direction of Deborah Grace Winer, with differ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional performers have been announced for The Songs of Bobby Cronin, to be offered at London's New Players Theatre on Sunday, February 27, at 8pm.Simon Beck will provide musical directio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Pearl Theatre serves up a problematic production of Moliere's caustic comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Joe Namath has been named one of the 25 "Coolest Athletes of All Time" by GQ Magazine.Namath, nicknamed "Broadway Joe," during his time as a player for the New York Jets, wa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veterans Christine Lahti, David Rasche, Tobias Segal, Eddie Kaye Thomas, and Michael Urie will co-star alongside Thora Birch and Brittany Snow in the upcoming film Petunia. Ash Chris…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatthew Murray, Michael Portantiere and James Marino discuss Other Desert Cities, the need for naked actors on a stage, a white Ragtime, Theoni Aldredge, and the Kerrigan-Lowdermilk new CD O…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMLauren Class Schneider talks to Robert Creighton, currently Amos in Chicago and soon to be seen as the Purser in Anything Goes, about creativity as an actor.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMDavid Auburn's adaptation of Langdon Mitchell's 1906 comedy about a divorced couple makes for a mostly satisfying evening of theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular actress discusses her starring role in the George Street Playhouse's production of The Subject Was Roses.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Jude Law, and Chris Pine will lend their voices to the new 3D animated film Rise of the Guardians, according to Variety. Isla Fisher will also lend…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Will Ferrell will guest star on four episodes of NBC's hit comedy, The Office, this season, according to EW.com.He'll play a branch manager who arrives from the home of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJim Belushi and Nina Arianda will star in Garson Kanin's comedy Born Yesterday, to play Broadway's Cort Theatre with previews beginning March 31, and an opening date set for Sunday, April 24…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and Today show co-host Kathie Lee Gifford joined the Broadway cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, playing at the Nederlander Theatre for a special encore performanc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veteran and Brothers & Sisters star Luke MacFarlane will be among the honorees at The Family Equality Council's 2011 awards dinner, to be held at the House of Blues in West Holly…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSally Kellerman will return to Upstairs At Vitello's Jazz & Supper Club to offer a single performance of The Anti-Cabaret, on Thursday, February 3 at 8pm. She will be accompanied by pian…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFOX has released promotion photos of the special episode of Glee, scheduled to air on February 6, immediately following the Super Bowl. Among the songs to be performed on the show that even…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Metropolitan Opera's new production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov will be broadcast on PBS as part of the series, Great Performances at the Met. In New York, the program will air on THIR…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReed Birney, Josh Caras, Matt Dellapina, Jake O'Connor, Jessica Rothenberg, Kristie Dale Sanders, and Alexandra Socha will star in David West Read's new play, The Dream of the Burning Boy, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Stew is among the artists who has contributed additional music for Paul Oakley Stovall's new musical Clear, which will be given a workshop production at Dixon Place, Februa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Zimmerman and Lauri Landry will star in Westchester Broadway Theatre's production of I Do! I Do!, to run February 10 - March 20. Richard Sabellico will direct the production, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSean P. Diddy Combs will guest star on CBS' Hawaii Five-0 this spring, according to a report on TVGuide.com. The performer is slated to play a New York police detective who heads to Honolul…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway star Josh Gad will launch a new online comedy series, entitled Gigi: Almost American. It will be the first original digital series from BBC Worldwide Productions, and is set to debu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony nominee Liz Callaway will join the Columbus Symphony for a concert featuring music by Stephen Sondheim and Frank Loesser. The event will be held at the Ohio Theatre on Saturday, Februar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMusic legend Patti Smith has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. her memoir Just Kids. The winners of the awards will be announced on March 10.The book centers on her…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth will be among the honorees at the Women's Porject's "Women of Achievement" gala, to be held at ESPACE, on Monday, March 7, at 6:30pm. Stage and scree…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStarkid Productions will present Starship: The Musical at the Hoover-Leppen Theater, February 11-23. The show, which features music and lyric by Glee star Darren Criss, is written and direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Hollywood Bowl has announced its 2011 season.Offerings will include a production of the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray (August 5-7), and sing-along versions of the movie musicals G…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Academy Award-winning costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge has died at age 78. Broadway will dim its marquee lights in her honor at 7pm on Tuesday, January 25.Aldredge, who had over …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Michael Cerveris, Wendell Pierce and Harry Shearer are among the artists featured on the new CD Nine Lives, A Musical Adaptation (Volume 1). The two-CD set will be released b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFOX has picked up the pilot for the drama Exit Strategy, which stars Ethan Hawke as the leader of a team of experts who help the CIA with extractions. Antoine Fuqua is set to direct the pilo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winners Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are now parents to a baby boy, according to published reports.The pair, who were married earlier this year, worked together on Woody Allen's Vic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNBC has ordered a musical drama pilot entitled Smash, which will focus on the putting on of a Broadway musical.The pilot script was written by playwright Theresa Rebeck; Tony Award winners M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional hosts and performers have been announced for the 2011 Whatsonstage.com Awards Concert, to be held on February 20 at 7pm at the West End's Prince of Wales Theatre.Russell Labey wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and television star Annie Potts will headline the world premiere of Elliot Shoenman's comedic drama AfterMath, which will play the Oddysey Theatre, February 4-March 13. Mark L. Taylor …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNBC has released a promotional clip for the January 29 episode of Saturday Night Live , which will be hosted by Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg. The show's musical guest will be Nicki Minaj. E…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull cast and creative team have been announced for the new Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia will play the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, February 25-June 19. Tony Award nominee David…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Theatre has announced that it will premiere a new musical with songs by Tori Amos in April 2012. The show, suggested by a story by George MacDonald, will have a book and additi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway Veteran Davis Gaines will present Music of the Night: AnEvening with Davis Gaines, at the Alex Theatre in Glendale on Saturday, February 19, at 8pm. The concert will benefit SOSMent…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKristin Hanggi will direct the Signature Theatre's production of And the Curtain Rises, to run March 17 - April 10. With music by Joseph Thalken, lyrics by Mark Campbell, and a book by Mich…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway stars and real-life married couple Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley will perform a one-night cabaret to benefit The Pearl Theatre Company, to be held at B.B. King Blues Club, on Mond…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSeven performers from the resident production of Cirque du Soleil's KÀ, at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, will participate in the 2011 Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade in New York City on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner Olympia Dukakis, who is currently starring Off-Broadway in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and author Suzanne Corso will now appear at Borders Columbus Circle …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMary Testa will be the guest host of The Ultimate Drag Off, when it moves to a new venue, The Times Square Arts Center, on January 29. Described as an 'interactive musical game show comedy,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Debbie Gravitte and Bill Irwin will be among the performers at a benefit for the children of PS 166 - The Richard Rodgers School, to take place in the school's auditorium …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBashville. Not Nashvile. Bashville. Ever heard of it? It's a 1983 London musical that's based on The Admirable Bashville, a 1902 play by George Bernard Shaw.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChuck Cooper and Ted Sperling on the upcoming concert revivals of Lost in the Stars and Knickerbocker Holiday,
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMLauren Class Schneider talks to Lynn Cohen, who share's her thoughts on playing a range of roles.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMAt the after-party at of The Little Dog Laughed at the Bickford Theatre in Morris Township, New Jersey, people were talking, and Liz McCartney's name came up. And I realized I never have iss…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed Broadway revival of The Importance of Being Earnest will extend its run at the American Airlines Theatre through July 3. Due to the exte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and Today show co-host Kathie Lee Gifford will join the Broadway cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, playing at the Nederlander Theatre for a special encore perform…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM3-D Theatricals has announced complete casting for The Drowsy Chaperone, to run February 11-27 at the Historic Plummer Auditorium. TJ Dawson will direct the production which will feature ch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee star and Broadway veteran Matthew Morrison will perform a free live concert at The Grove in Los Angeles on Saturday, January 29 at Noon.The concert will be presented by Oscar Meyer, whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright Richard Alfieri, director Arthur Allen Seidelman, and choreographer Kay Cole are at work on a stage musical and film version of Howard Richardson and William Berney's play Dark of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominees de'Adre Aziza and Jon Michael Hill will co-star alongsideAlana Arenas, Kate Arrington, Sean Allan Krill, James Vincent Meredith, TaRon Patton, Yasen Peyankov, Molly Regan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast members from The Addams Family, Billy Elliot and Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles will take part in Broadway Day at the Intrepid Sea, Air, & Space Museum on Tuesday, February 22 betwe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominees for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held at 8pm on February 27 in Los Angeles and aired live on ABC. Anne H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Jay Garner died in New York City from causes relating to pneumonia on January 21, according to published reports. He was 82.The actor originated several roles on Broadway, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, at the Foxwoods Theatre, has put a new block of tickets on sale, and is now selling through May 8. In addition, the show is also selli…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNominations for the Kevin Kline Awards, honoring the best in St. Louis-area theater, have been announced. The awards will be presented in a ceremony to be held on Monday, March 28 at the Lor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Brent Barrett and cabaret star Anna Bergman will be the guest vocalists for the Princeton Symphony Orchestra POPS! concert, to be held at Richardson Auditorium on February 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Pearl Theatre serves up a problematic production of Moliere's caustic comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDame Judi Dench and Bruce Norris were among the winners at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards. The awards were presented at a lunchtime ceremony at the Dorchester Hotel, and will be broadcast in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on the Million Dollar Quartet Broadway cast recording, new discs from Alfie Boe, Eric Comstock, Lance Horne, and more&
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChildren's Theatre Company (CTC) has received a $50,000 Joyce Award to support Naomi Iizuka's The Last Firefly. The prizes are designed to recognize exceptional new works by artists of colo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMusicals Tonight has announced casting for its production of I'd Rather Be Right at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, February 8-20. The production will be directed by Thomas Sabella-Mills, with mu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe dance spectacular Ballroom with a Twist celebrated its LA premiere at the El Portal Theatre, on Friday, January 21.First nighters included Donzaleigh Abernathy, James Avery, Ferras Alqa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Nathan Lane will return to the Emmy Award-winning hit ABC sitcom Modern Family in the spring according to TVGuide.com. Lane will once will play Pepper, a flamboyant friend …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBilly Joel: Live at Shea Stadium will be released as a CD/DVD set as well as a stand-alone DVD and stand-alone Blu-ray disc by Sony Music on March 8, and will be seen on PBS' Great Performan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Producers Guild Awards have been announced. Judd Apatow hosted the awards ceremony on January 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.The King's Speech won Best Picture; Toy Story 3 won Best Ani…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree-time Tony nominee Marc Kudisch's one-man show, entitled The Lower Depths: In Defense of the Baritone Voice, will be presented as a benefit for The Actors Fund at New World Stages, on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Liev Schreiber will deliver the Elizabethan Club's 20th Annual Maynard Mack Lecture at Yale University on Monday, January 31 at 5pm.The event will be moderated by James Bun…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, January 25, John Leguizamo and director Fisher Stevens met with members of the press to talk about Leguizamo's new solo play Ghetto Klown, set to begin a 12-week run at Broadway'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the 42nd annual Los Angeles Drama Critic Circle Awards have been announced, according to a report in Backstage. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of performers has been announced for the Nightlife Awards, to be held at Town Hall on Monday, January 31 at 7pm. Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch will host. The Nightlife Awar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCountry superstar Larry Gatlin (of The Gatlin Brothers) and Broadway and nightclub star Lucie Arnaz have been added to the line-up for a special edition of Jim Caruso's Cast Party which wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo River Theater Company has announced directors for its final two shows of the company's current season.Project Shaw founder David Staller will helm George Bernard Shaw's popular comedy Ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Atlantic Theatre Company's production of The New York Idea, adapted by David Auburn from the original play by Langdon Mitchell, has extended its Off-Broadway run at the Lucille Lortel Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarvell Repertory Theatre has announced the plays that will comprise its inaugural season, to run February 18 - April 3 at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex. The company's season will begin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPreliminary casting has been announced for Things to Ruin: The Songs of Joe Iconis, which will have a four performance run at (Le) Poisson Rouge, playing February 28 at 10pm, March 7 at 7:30…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2011 Oscar nominee David Seidler will be the honoree for Our Time Theatre Company's annual gala, to be held at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU on Monday, April 11 at 7pm.S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the Critics Circle Theatre Awards have been announced, according to a report on WhatsOnStage.com. The prizes were presented in a ceremony held on January 25 at the Prince of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Ken Howard will play U.S. Attorney General Harlan F. Stone opposite Leonardo DiCaprio's J. Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood's biopic J. Edgar, according to The Hollywood Repo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans James Gandolfini, Brad Garrett, and John Magaro are set to star in the film Twylight Zones, according to Deadline.com.The film, which is being written and directed by The Sopr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRehearsal images for the star-studded London revival of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour have been released. Ian Rickson is directing the production, which is currently in previews at t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Kathleen Turner will return to Broadway in Matthew Lombardo's High, which will play the Booth Theatre, with previews beginning March 25 and an opening set for April 19.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular comedian lives up to her billing with her sublime new show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Academy Award-winning costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge has died, according to a report in The New York Times. She was 78.Aldredge, who had over 80 Broadway credits to her name, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMario Cantone, Tate Donovan, Rachel Dratch, Susie Essman, Dayle Reyfel, and Sherri Shepherd will join co-creators Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel for the January 24 edition of Celebrity Autobio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEd Begley, Jr., George Chakiris, Ken Davitian, Cher, Tippi Hedren, Stella Stevens, Billy Bob Thornton, and Lily Tomlin were among the celebrities in attendance at the premiere of the documen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJudy Blazer, Shuler Hensley, Eugene Brancoveanu, and Ronit Widmann-Levy will be featured in the previously reported two-concert engagement of Michael Tilson Thomas' The Thomashefskys: Music …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlec Baldwin, Linda Emond, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Taylor Mac, and Mandy Patinkin participated in an event celebrating the release of Lapham's Quarterly's Winter 2011 issue "Celebrity," held…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for The John W. Engeman Theater's production of the musical Cabaret, to run February 3-March 27, with an opening on February 5. This production is based on the 199…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 1975 album Bing Crosby - A Southern Memoirwill have its first American and CD release on January 25 by Collectors' Choice Music and the Bing Crosby Archive. Previously available on viny…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEric C. Bailey, Alex Bond, Christopher Borg, Ron Bopst, J.Stephen Brantley, Marc Castle, Johnathan Cedano, Desmond Dutcher, Rick Hinkson, Oliver Houser, Robert Locke, Nick Mathews, Jim Nugen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWriter/performer Fernando Gambaroni's Just Don't Touch me, Amigo will be presented by INTAR as part of its NewWorks Lab at the company's studio space (500 West 52nd Street, 4th Floor), Janua…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeff Daniels and Piper Perabo have joined the cast of the sci-fi film Looper, according to a report in Variety. Rian Johnson is directing the project which he has also written.The film cent…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSienna Miller will star in a revival of Terrence Rattigan's Flare Path, to run March 4 - June 4 at the West End's Theatre Royal Haymarket. Trevor Nunn will direct the production, which have…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCaroline Aaron, Julie Hagerty, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Gale Harold, Richard Kind, Kathy Najimy and Mary Lynn Rajskub will perform in Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays at Largo at t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater professionals have teamed up with kids from Hell's Kitchen to create Friends Like These: The Enemy Plays, which will be presented by The 52nd Street Project at Five Angels Theater, J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLizan Mitchell will star as Carrie Watts in a new production of The Trip to Bountiful at Cleveland Play House, February 4-27. Timothy Douglas will direct the production, which will be the fi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFive-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman will be honored at the New York City Ballet's annual luncheon benefit to be held on February 2 at the David Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Katie C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRevised dates and venues have been announced for the Chicago run of Belarus Free Theatre's production of Vladimir Shcherban's Being Harold Pinter, which will now perform in three locations, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2011 Golden Globe Award winner Steve Buscemi and his filmmaker wife Jo Andres will host E#@60: A Benefit Concert Honoring Elliott Sharp's 60th Birthday, to be held at Brooklyn's ISSUE Projec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTaylor Mac's uneven new play chronicles the nine-month protest walk of a ragtag band of activists.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Michael Shannon, along with Benicio Del Toro and James Franco, will star in The Iceman, according to published reports. Ariel Vromen will direct the film, which he has…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for DRUID and Atlantic Theater Company's production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, which will begin a U.S. tour in Boston at the Paramount Theatre,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, January 19, the Broadway cast of Eric Simonson's Lombardi celebrated their 100th performance at the Circle in the Square Theatre. The show is directed by Thomas Kail.The work i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJane Alexander, Michael Cerveris, Alan Cumming, Victor Garber, Debra Monk, Donna Murphy, Estelle Parsons, Sherie Rene Scott, and more stars join Brian Bedford and company for the opening of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2010 Dancing With the Stars winner Jennifer Grey came out to support her father, Tony Award winner Joel Grey, at The Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, on Tuesday, January 18.The program…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Repertory Theatre has announced casting for Charles Connaghan's new version of Sophocles' Ajax, to run February 12 - March 13. Sarah Benson will direct the production. The play cen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, January 19, The Public Theater and Amnesty International USA hosted a rally to show solidarity with the persecuted Belarus artists and activists, including Belarus Free Theater…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasey Nicholaw will direct and choreograph the musical Aladdin to run July 7-31 at The Fifth Avenue Theatre. Adapted from Disney's 1992 animated feature film of the same name, the show is d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Goodman will join the cast of DirecTV's Damages, according to a report on TVGuide.com. He will play the CEO of a military contractor who is put on trial in a wrongful death suit. Goodm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPaul Dano and Robert De Niro will star in the forthcoming film Another Night, according to a report in Variety. Paul Weitz is writing and directing the project. The movie, based on Nick Fly…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKneehigh has announced casting for a new adaptation of Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, to run March 5 - October 1 at the West End's Gielgud Theatre. Emma Rice …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLauren Ambrose will join the BBC/Starz series Torchwood, according to a report on EW.com. The actress is scheduled to appear in seven of the 10 episodes in the show's upcoming season, playi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMToo early to be thinking about Toronto in June? Not after you hear what's happening theatrically in the city that's often referred to as Broadway North. Actually, a more popular nickname…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTaylor Mac's uneven new play chronicles the nine-month protest walk of a ragtag band of activists.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Claire Danes, Judith Light, Lucy Liu, Christina Ricci, Brooke Shields, B.D. Wong, Catherine Zeta-Jones and more show their fashion sense on the red carpet.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSarah Treem's two-hander about a woman meeting her mother for the first time is unconvincing, despite an effective performance by Mercedes Ruehl.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe GLAAD Media Award nominations have been announced. The awards recognize excellence nationally in a wide variety of entertainment and journalism categories, including theater in both New…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis vaudevillian meditation on mortality is alternately moving and frustrating.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Usher will perform with Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, according to published reports. The ceremony will be held on February 13 in Los Angel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNorm Lewis discusses his role in London's Les Miserables and performing in Lincoln Center's American Songbook series.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMF. Murray Abraham, Brooks Ashmanskas, Hinton Battle, Ward Billeisen, Colman Domingo, Mandy Gonzalez, Bebe Neuwirth, Karen Olivo, Jason Tam, and Lillias White have joined the line-up for Bro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEvan Handler and Nadia Dajani will star in staged readings of Jacquelyn Reingold's Acapulco, to be presented in South Beach, Florida at the Little Stage Theater @ SoBe Arts, on January 30 an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA new aerial finale was unveiled for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark at the show's Wednesday January 19 matinee and evening performances, according to a report in The New York Times. The new …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChad Goodridge, best known for his work in the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Passing Strange, will join Stephen Brown, Brian Miskell, Laura Ramadei, Jelena Stupljanin, and Haynes …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLee Rocker, bassist and vocalist for the Grammy nominated band The Stray Cats, will participate in an on-stage jam session during his final performance in the Broadway musical, Million Dolla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStefanie Zadravec's compelling play set during the 1992 war in Bosnia uses both comedy and violence to keep the audience on its toes.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM11-year-old actress and singer Carly Rose Sonenclar -- who is featured as Chloe, Alice's daughter, in the upcoming Broadway musical Wonderland - A New Alice. A New Musical -- will appear in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe six-actor Fiasco Theater troupe approaches Shakespeare's opus with ingenuity and a sense of fun.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHeather Jane Rolff will play Helen, the titular character, in the Broadway production of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig. LaBute will direct the show, which will begin previews on April 12 at the Bela…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Kristin Chenoweth, Shirley Jones, and Matthew Modine will be featured in the upcoming film comedy Family Weekend, according to a report in Variety. Benjamin Epps will direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the Off Broadway premiere of La Barbería (The Barbershop), a new Spanglish comedic drama by David Maldonado and Ari Maniel Cruz. Waddys Jacquez wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFrancis Benhamou, Andrew Guilarte, Bobby Moreno, and Debargo Sanyal will star in Swedish playwright and novelist Jonas Hassen Khemiri's Invasion!, to be presented by The Play Company at Walk…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSeth Rudetsky conducted a master class on musical theater audition technique for The Broadway Workshop, an acting program for young artists, on Monday, January 17.Rudetsky was featured as th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Metropolitan Room has announced programming for February. Extended engagements will include Annie Ross (February 1-29), Yvonne Constant (February 3-22), and T. Oliver Reid (February 10-1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Watermill Center has announced its spring season of artist residences, which will include public performances.Among the offerings will be a performance by Theatercombinat, Inc., from Aus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRick Burkhardt, Andy Gricevich, and Ryan Higgins will star in The Nonsense Company's Storm Still, to play PS 122, February 12-27. In the piece, created by the company, three kids have been p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar Andrew Hammerstein III, the grandson of Oscar Hammerstein, will discuss his family's theatrical history in a program entitled The Hammersteins, at the 92Y Tribeca on Tuesday, March 19 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater and dance programming has been announced for the 2011 Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity. This fifth anniversary season, to run June 10-19, will celebrate the art of s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJamie Bennett, Nora Chester, Francesca Di Mauro, Cynthia Harris, Victoria Mack, Timothy McCracken, James Murtaugh, Scott Schafer, and Jeff Talbott will perform in a benefit concert reading o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColumbia Records will release Harry Connick, Jr. In Concert on Broadway, recorded during Connick's 2010 run at the Neil Simon Theatre, on DVD, Blu-Ray and CD on March 1. The show will also b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon will star in the world premiere comedy The Painkiller, at the Lyric Theatre Belfast, September 23-October 16. Sean Foley will direct, with design by Alice Powe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Musto and Sweetie (aka Daniel Booth) co-hosted the January 15 edition of The Ultimate Drag Off, which plays Saturday nights at 10:30pm at Comix. Described as an 'interactive musica…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new musical Fela!, which will end its current run at London's National Theatre on January 23, will transfer to Sadler's Wells for a summer run, July 19-August 28. The production is direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Alec Baldwin will be featured in a benefit event for ArtsRock and Arts Angels, to be held at Nyack High School on Saturday, March 19 at 7:30pm. Baldwin will appear in conv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe San Francisco-based American Conservatory Theater has announced three productions for its 2011-2012 season. Additional shows and exact run dates will be announced at a later date.David M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway stars Sally Mayes, Chita Rivera, and Christopher Sieber will be among the performers at a special edition of Jim Caruso's Cast Party which will play Town Hall on Thursday, February …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe San Francisco engagement of the tour of Billy Elliot the Musical will now play the Orpheum Theatre, June 27-September 17. The run was previously announced to play the venue beginning Sep…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLiz Lark Brown, Hannibal Buress, Charles Busch, Christine Ebersole, Julie Halston, Mark McCombs, Nellie McKay, Jessica Molaskey, Karen Oberlin, Aaron Weinstein, and the Harvard Sailing Team …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOskar Eustis, artistic director of New York City's Public Theater, will be the recipient of the 2011 Robert Brustein Award, which will be presented to him at American Repertory Theatre's ann…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Lauren Kennedy and Kevin Gray will star in the Casa Manana Theatre's production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Evita, to run February 5-13. Richard Stafford wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Original Broadway Cast Recording for Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical will be recorded next week in New York City, and be released by Rhino on March 15.Stephan Elliott and Allan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Laurie Beechman Theatre has announced its programming for the month of February. Highlights will include comedian Joan Rivers, who will perform Tuesdays throughout the month and the prev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDisney Live! will present Mickey's Magic Show at Madison Square Garden, March 17-20.Mickey and Minnie Mouse will join forces with professional illusionists for a magical stage production. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the second leg of the 2011 UK Tour of Calendar Girls, which will open at the Swan High Wycombe on April 18. Jack Ryder has directed the production. Written by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWill Smith is exploring the potential for a movie remake of the musical Annie to star his daughter Willow Smith, according to a report in Variety. Rap artist Jay-Z is in talks to collaborat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Douglas Hodge will perform in concert at Birdland on Monday, February 7 at 7pm. He will be joined by musical director Sonny Paladino and a four-piece band. The evening will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran William Sadler will guest star in an upcoming two-episode arc of the NBC series, Chase, according to a report in TVGuide.com. His first appearance will be in the March 2 epi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony-nominated director Michael Langham died on January 15 in his home in England from complications from a chest infection, according to published reports. He was 91. Langham received a Ton…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA preliminarly list of presenters has been announced for the 17th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be presented in a ceremony to be held on January 30 at the Shrine Exposition C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHartford Stage has confirmed casting for the world premiere of Michael Kramer's Divine Rivalry, to run February 24-March 20. Michael Wilson will direct.The play is inspired by a little known…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Cyndi Lauper and Fantasia will be among the artists taking part in The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, scheduled for April 29-May 1 and May 5-8.Participating perf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway company of Driving Miss Daisy surprised star James Earl Jones with a cake to celebrate his 80th birthday at the end of the Monday, January 17 performance at the Golden Theatre. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTom Stoppard and Tony Kushner hosted a special encore performance of Vladimir Shcherban's Being Harold Pinter, at the Public Theater on January 17 at 7pm. The event was a fundraiser for the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, January 18, cast members Donna Bullock, Scott Drummond, Daniel Oreskes, and Michael T. Weiss met with members of the press at the first rehearsal for the world premiere productio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMParallel Exit Company revives the art of physical comedy with a delightful series of skits, blackouts, gags, and pranks.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Cyril Creighton, Patrick Heusinger, Mitchell Jarvis, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Wesley Taylor, and Kate Wetherhead discuss the joys of filming for the Internet.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA special encore performance of Vladimir Shcherban's Being Harold Pinter, will be offered at the Public Theater on January 17 at 7pm. Tom Stoppard and Tony Kushner will host the event, whic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright Romulus Linney died of lung cancer on Saturday, January 15 at his home in Germantown, New York, according to The New York Times. He was 80.Linney's The Love Suicide at Schofield B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Marissa Jaret Winokur has departed CBS' new panel talk show, The Talk, according to People.com.The show, which debuted in October, features Sharon Osbourne, Julie Chen, Hol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadcast Film Critics Association's Critics Choice Movie Awards were presented in a ceremony to be held at the Hollywood Palladium on January 14, and broadcast live on VH1 at 9pm ET/PT.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRockabilly legend Wanda Jackson will join the Broadway cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, playing at the Nederlander Theatre for a special encore performance on Thursday, January 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, we had the first part of the 2011 Broadway University Mid-Term. It was, as virtually all of my quizzes have been, a list of 50 lines and lyrics which you're to identify by song an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis free-flowing performance piece will have audiences saying "wow."
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGoodspeed has announced two of the three musicals that will be presented in The Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT during 2011.The lineup includes Cutman: A Boxing Musical, which focuses on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHBO Films has optioned Sam Wasson's Bye, Bye Life: The Loves and Deaths of Bob Fosse, a forthcoming biography of the Tony Award-winning director and choreographer, and Bryan Singer is attach…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe February 8 episode of FOX' hit series Glee will feature series star Jenna Ushkowitz performing Rodgers & Hart's "My Funny Valentine," from the Broadway musical Babes in Arms, accordi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association has announced the winners of its Dorian Awards, according to The Hollywood Reporter.FOX's Glee has earned five awards. The show has been…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony award-winning set designer Scott Pask and image-maker Drew Hodges are working with Botanical Garden curators to create The Orchid Show: On Broadway, billed as "horticultural theater" an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLake Simons will star in the solo comedy, Etiquette Unraveled, written and directed by Simons and Chad Lynch. One Arm Red will present the piece at the Red-Space in Brooklyn, February 3-13, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHarrah's Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, will present Le Ombré, a world-class troupe performing acrobatics, contemporary dance and theatrics, February 11-20.The troupe uses t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmelin Theatre has announced several new additions to its spring 2011 lineup.One highlight will be an open rehearsal of Shakespeare on the Sound's upcoming production of Much Ado About Nothi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Drama Desk nominee Sergio Trujillo will direct and choreograph the new rock musical White Noise, at Chicago's Royal George Theatre, beginning an eight-week limited engagement on Apr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarnegie Hall has announced programming for its 2011-2012 season, which will celebrate the venue's 120th anniversary.As previously reported, Barbara Cook, Steve Martin, Bette Midler, and Sti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnne Hathaway will play Selina Kyle and Tom Hardy will play Bane opposite Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne/Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, according to published reports. Christopher Nolan will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReed Birney and Geneva Carr will star in a script-in-hand reading of Neil Simon's romantic comedy, Chapter Two, at the Westport Country Playhouse on Valentine's Day, February 14 at 7pm. Anne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award Winner Chris Cooper will star in a Commonwealth Shakespeare Company presentation of Sam Shepard's Buried Child. Jim True-Frost will direct the performance, which will be presen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominations for the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the excellence in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and theater. The Edgar A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNBC has indefinitely suspended its television series Law & Order: Los Angeles. The series, which last played an episode on December 1, was scheduled to return February 8. An announcement…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBirdland has announced programming for February.Linda Lavin will present her new show Possibilities on Monday, February 21 at 7pm. The concert will celebrate her new CD of the same name.Acco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnthony LaPaglia will reprise his Tony Award-winning performance as Eddie Carbone in a film version of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Robert Con…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Martin Sheen and his son, film star Emilio Estevez, are writing a memoir, according to a report in The New York Times. The book, Along the Way, is set for a May 2012 pu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Cyril Creighton, Patrick Heusinger, Mitchell Jarvis, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Wesley Taylor, and Kate Wetherhead discuss the joys of filming for the Internet.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee John Leguizamo will curate the new CD, Ghetto Klown - Music From My Hood, in conjunction with his new Broadway show, Ghetto Klown which, as previously reported, will begin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNorm Lewis discusses his role in London's Les Miserables and performing in Lincoln Center's American Songbook series.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Julianne Moore will be honored as the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year at Harvard University, according to The Associated Press. She will receive her pudding pot at roas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOrlando Bloom and his wife Miranda Kerr have announced the birth of their first child, a baby boy, according to a report on EW.com. The couple wed last July.Bloom made his West End debut in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJoy Franz, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Leah Horowitz, Matt Servitto, and Paul Anthony Stewart are set to participate in Broadway in the Boro, to be offered on Monday, January 24 at 7pm at the Chath…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLondon's Lost Musicals has announced the lineup of tuners which it will present at Sadler's Wells' Lilian Baylis Studio as semi-staged concerts in 2011, according to a report on Whatsonstage…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFour-time MAC Award-winner Richard Skipper's critically acclaimed show, Richard Skipper as "Carol Channing" in Concert, will extend into an open-ended Off-Broadway run at St. Luke's Theatre.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony nominee Daniel Breaker and GLAAD Award winner Colman Domingo will host the Intiman Theatre's Valentine's Day Cabaret, to be held on Monday, February 14 at 7:30pm.The pair co-starred on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSarah Treem's two-hander about a woman meeting her mother for the first time is unconvincing, despite an effective performance by Mercedes Ruehl.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis vaudevillian meditation on mortality is alternately moving and frustrating.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, Matthew Murray and Michael Portantiere discuss the opening of The Importance of Being Earnest, Spider-Man's latest delay, Glenn Beck's rave review, Off-Broadway opening A Sma…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMAre schools supposed to be about exploring ideas, or to shelter their students from the realities of culture and history that shape everyday life in America? David Snead, the superintendent …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AM"New York is the center of New York," snarls Rose in Gypsy. Well, perhaps it is only that, but it's certainly the center of the Broadway musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRalph B. Peña's poetic and humorous play about three Filipino immigrants living in California receives a praise-worthy revival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIlene Kristen will assume the role of Aunt Toniann in Anthony Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding, playing at St. Luke's Theatre, for a limited run February 3-March 12. She will replace C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar and Grammy-winning rock star Melissa Etheridge will play a one-week-only engagement in the role of St. Jimmy in Broadway's American Idiot, at the St. James Theatre, February 1-6. The r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe life of Jerry Bock will be celebrated at Roundabout Theater Company's American Airlines Theater on Monday January 24 at 2:30pm. The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer died on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStefanie Zadravec's compelling play set during the 1992 war in Bosnia uses both comedy and violence to keep the audience on its toes.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephanie J. Block, Daniel Breaker, Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Kevin Isola, and Karen Olivo will star in the world premiere of Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, to be presented by Se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe six-actor Fiasco Theater troupe approaches Shakespeare's opus with ingenuity and a sense of fun.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the 2010 Sydney Theatre Awards have been announced. The prizes were presented in a ceremony held on January 17. Among the biggest winners was the Belvoir company. Its producti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe star of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark reveals all about his new role and musical career.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDebbie Gravitte, Jan Horvath, and Christiane Noll will join the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) for Jacques & The Divas, to be offered on February 12 at 8pm at the New Jersey Perfor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards, in which the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honors the best in film and television, were handed out in Beverly Hills on Sunday, January 16 and aired…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the BAFTA Awards have been announced according to The Hollywood Reporter. Jonathan Ross will host the awards ceremony to be held on February 13 at London's Royal Opera Ho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAward-winning stage and screen actress Susannah York died Saturday, at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London following a battle with cancer, according to published reports. She was 72. York r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMaxwell Caulfield and Lois Robbins will star in an Off-Broadway revival of Abe Burrows' classic farce Cactus Flower, to be presented at the Westside Theatre Upstairs, beginning February 24, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the Public Theater's production of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, to run February 15 - March 6. Barry Edelstein will direct the play, which is the inaugur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWilliam Atherton, Matt Cavenaugh, Lisa O'Hare, Carol Lawrence, Millicent Martin and Jason Graae will star in Reprise Theatre Company's production of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Gig…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA preliminary lineup of performers has been announced for the 2011 Whatsonstage.com Awards Concert, to be held on February 20 at 7pm at the West End's Prince of Wales Theatre.Russell Labey w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Theater Hall of Fame has announced its newest class of inductees, according to a report in The New York Times. Pia Lindstrom will host the induction ceremony to be held on Monday, Januar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Anderson Cooper will make his Broadway debut as the voice of the narrator in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Tryi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe marquees of Broadway theaters in New York will be dimmed in honor of both Ellen Stewart and Romulus Linney on Wednesday, January 19, at exactly 8pm for one minute. Stewart, founder of th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUpdated casting has been announced for the Drama League's A Musical Celebration of Broadway, to be held on Monday, February 7 at the Pierre Hotel. As previously reported, the event will hono…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmilie Baltz, Zachary Booth, Michael Cyril Creighton, Lauren Ezersky, Roslyn Hart, Paul Johnson Calderon, Kristen Johnston, Patrick McDonald, and Michael Musto will be among the participants…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReal-life couple Scott Bryce and Jodi Stevens will star in Music Theatre of Connecticut's production of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, to be presented February 4-20. Kevin Connors will direct. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAustin Pendleton will direct Mother of Invention Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Small Craft Warnings at the Studio Theatre at Theatre Row, February 15-27, with…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGoodspeed has announced two of the three musicals that will be presented in The Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT during 2011. The lineup includes Cutman: A Boxing Musical, which focuses o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Acting Company will present a staged reading of George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner's 1929 hit musical June Moon at the Mainstage Theater at Playwrights Horizons on Monday, January 24, at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLovers of comedy and musical theater are sure to enjoy this troupe's completely improvised musicals.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Old Vic Theatre has announced complete casting for Terence Rattigan's Cause Celebre, to run March 17 - June 11. Thea Sharrock will direct the production. The play is based on the true st…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSaidah Arrika Ekulona, Jane Kaczmarek, and James Lecesne will star in the West Coast premiere of In Mother Words, to play the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse, February …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywrights Horizons has announced additional details for three of its upcoming productions. Suzanne Bertish, Bill Buell, Kristen Elizabeth Bush, Patch Darragh, Laura Heisler, Matthew Rauch,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Donmar Warehouse has announced the three productions that will comprise Michael Grandage's final season at the theater as artistic director. In addition to the previously announced produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeffry Denman, Kendrick Jones, Christiane Noll, and Bobby Steggert will be among the performers in Broadway by the Year's The Broadway Musicals of 1921, on Monday, February 14 at 8pm at Town…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for The Kennedy Center's national tour of the musical Barrio Grrrl!, which will kick off at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD on January 22. Part of the Center's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPrimary Stages has announced the productions which will comprise its 2011-2012 season, which will be presented at 59E59 Theaters. The season will open with the world premiere of a new comedy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast of the York Theatre Company's The Road to Qatar!, performed numbers from the show at a press event held on Friday, January 14. Phillip George has directed the production, which will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Ovation Award winners for 2009-2010 have been announced. The prizes were presented in a ceremony held on January 17 at the Thousand Oaks Civic Plaza. The biggest winners were Fountain Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJon Robin Baitz's new play, Other Desert Cities, opened at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on January 13. Joe Mantello has directed the production, which stars Stockard Channing,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTracie Bennett will appear at London's Dress Circle on February at 1pm for a CD signing to celebrate the release of the new recording of End of the Rainbow. The album, released by First Nigh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award-winning composer Stephen Flaherty will moderate Behind the Music-al, a behind-the-scenes look at the next generation of musical theater composers, to be presented at 92YTribeca, o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Carol Channing will celebrate her 90th birthday at a special Musical Monday Tribute concert, to be held in the lobby of Los Angeles' Pantages Theater, on Monday, February 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Charlotte Cohn will present her cabaret show, Simply Complicated: The Elegant Escapades of a Danish-Israeli Opera-Singing Tank Commander at the Cell in New York City on Satu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNicole Kidman and Keith Urban are now parents to a second daughter, born through a surrogate mother, according to The Associated Press. Faith Margaret Kidman Urban was born on December 28 at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShowtime has announced the spring premiere dates for three of its series. Nurse Jackie, which stars Broadway veteran Edie Falco, will begin its third season on March 28 at 10pm. Immediately…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Goodman Theatre will present a limited engagement of the Belarus Free Theatre's production of Vladimir Shcherban's Being Harold Pinter, to run February 1-27.Shcherban has also directed t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJesse Eisenberg will host the January 29 episode of Saturday Night Live. The musical guest for the show will be Niki Minaj. Eisenberg's performance in The Social Network has earned him mult…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReprise Theatre Company will present Barry Manilow in Concert as its annual gala performance, to be held at UCLA's Royce Hall on Tuesday, March 22 at 8pm. Reprise will also honor Manilow wit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBest-selling author and NPR humorist David Sedaris will perform a 60-minute reading at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, on Saturday, May 7 at 8pm. Sedaris will be reading…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEvan Handler and Nadia Dajani will star in staged readings of Jacquelyn Reingold's Acapulco, to be presented in South Beach, Florida at the Little Stage Theater @ SoBe Arts, on January 30 an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMia Farrow has won the 2011 Marian Anderson Award, which honors artists whose leadership on behalf of a humanitarian cause(s) or issue benefits society. The prize will be presented at a gal…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChad Goodridge, best known for his work in the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Passing Strange, will join Stephen Brown, Brian Miskell, Laura Ramadei, Jelena Stupljanin, and Haynes …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlicia Silverstone and husband Christopher Jarecki are expecting their first child, according to a report on People.com. The couple married in 2005. Silverstone's stage credits include Time…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlexis Bledel, Nikki Blonsky, Anita Gillette, Judy Gold, and Pauletta Washington celebrated joining the Off-Broadway production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, at the Westside Theatre at a p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lineup of performers has been announced for Theatreworks USA's annual gala, to be held on Monday, January 31 at 6pm at the Pierre Hotel. DeMarco Morgan will host the event, which will r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWitness Relocation and France's Collective ildi ! eldi have announced casting for the world premiere of Charles L. Mee's Heaven on Earth, to run February 17-27 in La MaMa's Ellen Stewart The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLes Dennis will star in Alan Ayckbourn's Drowning on Dry Land, to run February 22 -March 19 at the Jermyn Street Theatre, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Guy Retallack will direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Julius Caesar, directed by Lucy Bailey, will replace the previously reported production of Antony and Cleopatra in the RSC's six-week residency,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOff Off and Off Bway pioneer and champion Ellen Stewart, 91 and the founder/director of La MaMa E.T.C., the theatre that began in 1961 and became a major multicultural force of performance a…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMHave you ever noticed that the final line of The Importance of Being Earnest isn't quite the title of the play?
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIn these hard times, everyone can welcome sales. And who can resist a half-price sale on Bway tickets? Hey, that's 50% off! For the first time ever, January 24 - February 10, Bway'll be ge…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMAs Mary Testa remarked at one point during the Michael John LaChiusa: Boys Night Out concert that was held at Playwrights Horizons last evening: If a bomb had fallen on the theater, we'd hav…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMErin Markey and Adam Couperthwaite give fiercely committed performances in this site-specific staging of Tennessee Williams' one-act play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe latest edition of this satirical revue will have audiences laughing from start to finish.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSusan Hamnett's 70-minute solo adaptation of the Bard's tragedy doesn't fully succeed in introducing youngsters to this classic work.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Jahnke's highly visual spin on Greek mythology proves to be shockingly empty.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony-nominated actor discusses starring in The New Group's Blood From a Stone.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the Transport Group's production of the musical Hello Again, to run March 4-April 3 at 52 Mercer Street. Jack Cummings III will direct the show.The work, featu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Lost in the Stars, the second Encores! production of the New York City Center season, running February 3 - 6 at City Center. The show has music by Kurt Weill …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen stars Cate Blanchett and Ian McKellen will reprie their roles as Galadriel and Gandalf in the fupcoming Peter Jackson-helmed film of The HobbitThe film, which is based on J.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of presenters has been announced for the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards, to be held on January 16 in Los Angeles and broadcast nationwide on NBC. Ricky Gervais will host the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNaked Angels will celebrate its 25th Anniversary at 6pm on February 14 with its One Big Ball gala, to be held at the Roseland Ballroom. Company members Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Brode…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFrank D. Gilroy will receive the Writers Guild of America East's Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Writing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. His son, screenwriter and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for several upcoming editions of Symphony Space's Selected Shorts series.Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose will be featured in Haiti Noir, with Edgwidge Danticat o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Harvey Fierstein joined Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert Steel, NYC & Company CEO George Fertitta, and chef David Burke on Monday, January 10 at the R Loung…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe creative team has been announced for the previously reported new musical Once, adapted from the 2007 Academy Award-winning film of the same name, which is aiming to arrive on Broadway Fa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the San Francisco production of Celebrity Autobiography, which will perform on Friday, January 14 at 8pm and Saturday, January 15 at 5pm and 8pm at Marines' M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristopher Abbott will play Ronnie Shaughnessy, Halley Feiffer will be Little Nun, Mary Beth Hurt will play Head Nun, and Alison Pill will portray Corrinna Stroller in the Broadway revival…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColin Quinn will appear at the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday, January 25 at 8pm, where he will interview comedian Pat Cooper.Cooper, one of the country's most popular comics for nearly 50 years, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York stage veterans Ty Burrell, David Duchovny, Graham Phillips, and Keri Russell will co-star in Christopher Neil's directorial debut, Goats, an adaptation of Mark Jude Poirier's novel …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Flamenco fantasia Between Worlds will receive its Off-Broadway premiere at New World Stages, March 4-May 22, with an opening night set for March 20.Created and directed by Pablo Croce an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBenjamin Millepied, who choreographed and appears in the current film Black Swan, will choreograph the The Metropolitan Opera and The Juilliard School co-production of Bedrich Smetana's The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBen Vereen's new CD Stepping Out Live will be released in tandem with his An Evening with Ben Vereen concert at The Town Hall, which, as previously announced, will be held on February 18 at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYael Stone joins the previously reported star Geoffrey Rush in the US premiere of The Diary of a Madman, presented by Belvoir, one of Australia's most respected theatercompanies, and adapted…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGreen Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is terrific in this dynamic Broadway musical, based upon the band's 2004 concept album.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHartford Stage has announced casting for The 39 Steps, to run March 31 - May 1. Maxwell Williams will direct the production.Adapted by Patrick Barlow, the play is a comedic take on Hitchcoc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Bramley's adaptation of Ovid's tales, set during World War II, is filled with inventiveness and whimsy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Irish dance sensation Riverdance joins forces with a cast of Olympic, World and National champion figure skaters for Riverdance - on Ice!, which will be broadcast on NBC on Saturday, Feb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFilm director Peter Yates, who earned an Oscar nomination for helming the film version of Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser, has died at age 81 in London.Yates, who trained at the Royal Acad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway musical Rock of Ages , which as previously reported is going on a temporary hiatus following its recently concluded run at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, will play its first perfo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhilip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Jeremy Northam, and Christopher Walken will star in A Late Quartet, according to a report on Deadline.com. Yaron Zilberman is directing the film, f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRed Bull Theater's production of The Witch of Edmonton, which will begin previews at the Theater at St. Clement's on January 25, will now open on February 3 (rather than the previously annou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veterans Gemma Arterton and Andrew Garfield are among the nominees for BAFTA's 2011 Rising Star Award, according to published reports. Also nominated are Tom Hardy, Aaron Johnson, a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAshley Brown, Heidi Blickenstaff, Merle Dandridge, Christopher Jackson, Tshidi Manye, Josh Strickland and Alton Fitzgerald White joined Tim Rice for a special concert event, Sir Tim Rice &am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohnny Galecki, Sharon Lawrence, Amanda Peet, and Bill Pullman will participate in Vs. Theatre Company' s An Evening With Neil LaBute at 7pm on Saturday, January 15 at the Howard Fine Acting…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSoho Rep has added two performances -- January 12 at 7pm and January 15 at 10pm -- to its presentation of Jomama Jones: Radiate. Directed by Kym Moore and featuring music direction by Bobby…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStockard Channing, Elizabeth Marvel, Stacy Keach, Linda Lavin, and Thomas Sadoski deliver masterful performances in Jon Robin Baitz's new play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAvant-garde legend Richard Foreman will participate in an onstage conversation with journalist Jeremy McCarter entitled Your Foreman Fix: An Evening With Richard Foreman, to be held at Joe's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrian Bedford directs and stars in the Roundabout Theatre Company's nearly perfect revival of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Swing Set, a new album from MAC Award winner Jim Caruso, will be released by Yellow Sound Label on January 11. Michael Croiter and Aaron Weinstein have produced the recording.The 13-tra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, now playing at the Foxwoods Theatre, has postponed its opening , with a new opening date set for March 15. The show features music and lyr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColman Domingo will return to the role of Billy Flynn in the Broadway production of Chicago, running at the Ambassador Theatre, on Monday, January 10. Domingo previously played the role this…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEllen Stewart, founder of the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, died of natural causes after an extended illness, on January 13. She was 91.Stewart founded La MaMa in October 1961, with the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Donaldson, a frequent performer at Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival, died of lung cancer on January 8. He was 57 years old.Among Donaldson's many appearances at the theater lea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrandon Victor Dixon and Leslie Odom Jr. are joining previously announced star Frenchie Davis in Sweet Soul Music, to play the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts on Sunday, January 3…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Off-Broadway production of Dracula, which was originally set to run through March 13, played its final performance at the Little Shubert Theatre on Sunday, January 9. It played a total o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 2011 honorees for the Texas Medal of Arts Awards have been announced by The Texas Cultural Trust, according to a report in the Austin American-Statesman. A dozen creative leaders and lu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAntonevia Ocho Coltes will play the title role in puppet artist, writer and director Theodora Skipitares' world premiere adaptation of Lysistrata, to be presented at La MaMa ETC, February 3…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award nominee Jevetta Steel will play the title role in Penumbra Theatre's production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, to perform at the Guthrie Theater, February 10-March 6. Lou Bellamy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Alex Brightman, Katie Rose Clarke, Matt Doyle, Katie Gassert, Celisse Henderson, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Morgan Karr, Carrie Manolakos, Lindsay Mendez, and Andrew Rannels wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGates McFadden will direct the Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles production of Crack Whore Galore - Live, to be performed February 3 - March 12 at the Atwater Village Theatre. The piece ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Peter Hobbs passed away following a brief illness in Santa Monica, California on January 2, according to The Los Angeles Times. He was 92.His Broadway credits include taking…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColumbia Pictures has released the first image of Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. As previously reported, the film, which is being directed by Marc Webb, will also feature Campbe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, January 13, the cast of the Broadway revival of That Championship Season met with members of the press to discuss the show, which will begin previews at the Bernard B Jacobs The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar nominee Carey Mulligan will star in the Atlantic Theater Company's U.S. premiere of Through a Glass Darkly, to be presented at New York Theatre Workshop, May 13-July 3, with an opening…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA post-performance talk-back series for the Broadway production of Driving Miss Daisy, at the Golden Theatre, will begin immediately following the 8pm performance on Martin Luther King Day, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCanadian actor Al Kozlik passed away at the Greater Niagara General Hospital on January 11 after suffering a stroke. Kozlik had been a member of the Shaw Festival Ensemble for 28 years and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFour-time MAC Award-winner Richard Skipper celebrated the Off-Broadway opening of his critically acclaimed show, Richard Skipper as "Carol Channing" in Concert, at St. Luke's Theatre, on Jan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of presenters has been announced for the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards, to be held on January 16 in Los Angeles and broadcast nationwide on NBC. Ricky Gervais will host the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMErich Bergen, Patrick Cassidy, Harry Groener, Michael Ingersoll, Shirley Jones, Mike O'Malley, Alan Mandell, T.R. Knight, Doris Roberts, Monica Rosenthal, Sally Struthers, and Tessa Thompson…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast of FOX's Glee has been nominated for a BRIT award in the International Breakthrough Category, according to published reports. The awards, which honor the best in music, will be pres…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChris Colfer, Jane Lynch, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, and Cory Monteith will bring animated versions of the characters they play on Glee to the January 16 episode of FOX's The Cleveland S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBenjamin Walker, who recently starred on Broadway in the title role of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, will begin performances of Benjamin Walker's Find the Funny at Joe's Pub, with scheduled …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMemphis, the recipient of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Musical, will be recorded live-in-performance by Broadway Worldwide for high definition exhibition in digital cinemas nationwide this s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA preliminary lineup of performers has been announced for Not Jewish or Gay: The Songs of Paul Fujimoto, to be offered January 24 at 9:30pm at The Duplex. Jenn Gambatese will direct the con…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames Macdonald's uneven staging of Henrik Ibsen's still-contemporary play boasts some brilliant acting.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMManhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man, which begins previews tonight at New York City Center - Stage I, has extended its run by a week, and will now …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Off-Broadway production of Charles Busch's The Divine Sister has extended its run at the Soho Playhouse through April 30. Carl Andress has directed the production.The play is a comic hom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSimon Bailey, Natasha Barnes, Rosalie Craig, Mark Evans, Jye Frasca, Hadley Fraser, Ashleigh Gray, Jodie Jacobs, Rebecca Lock, Ceili O'Connor, Katie Rowley Jones, Caroline Sheen, and Liam Ta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJake Ehrenreich's A Jew Grows in Brooklyn is set to make its Los Angeles premiere at American Jewish University, February 16-March 6. The solo show chronicles the life of the show's author a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTommy Nohilly's unflinching portrait of familial dysfunction is performed with electrifying ferocity by Ethan Hawke and a first-rate cast.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis 90-minute show delivers an evening of pure entertainment.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe acclaimed actor bares all about starring in Adam Bock's A Small Fire, Jeff Lipsky's new film Twelve Thirty, and his busy career.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFrances McDormand, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, and David Schwimmer will lend their voices to Madagascar 3, DreamWorks Animation's latest installment of the popular franchise, according to The H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Hurt and Kiefer Sutherland will star in a new web series entitled The Confession, according to EW.com. The series, comprised of ten five-to-seen minute webisodes, will debut on Hula in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJason Donovan and Verity Rushworth will star as Captain Von Trapp and Maria, respectively, in the 2011 UK tour of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music, according to Whatson…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMandy Patinkin will appear at a special encore performance of Vladimir Shcherban's Being Harold Pinter, to be offered at the Public Theater on January 17 at 7pm. Tom Stoppard and Tony Kushne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerica Ferrera will join the cast of the CBS series The Good Wife for three episodes, according to a report on Michael Ausiello's TVLine.com. The actress' first appearance will come in Febr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen writer Christopher Trumbo died of complications from kidney cancer at his home in Ojai, California on Saturday, January 8, according to The Los Angeles Times. He was 70 year…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Lillias White will star in a special benefit concert performance of William Finn's musical Romance in Hard Times, to be presented at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, on A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJackson Repertory Theatre will offer a one-night-only performance of The Sonnet Man at P.S. 69 in Jackson Heights, Queens on February 12 at 8pm. Conceived by Arje Shaw and featuring music by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Billingsley, Karole Foreman, and Travis Schuldt will star in the Lillian Theatre's production of Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour, to be presented February 11-March 13, with an openi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of presenters has been announced for the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards, to be held on January 16 in Los Angeles and broadcast nationwide on NBC. Ricky Gervais will host the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLaraine Newman, one of the original members of both The Groundlings and Saturday Night Live, will perform The Audition as part of a benefit for The Marsh, during the re-opening weekend (Febr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarey Anderson, Jim Brochu, Emily Buttner, Eric Michael Gillett, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Ashley Hesse, Marcus Paul James, Trent Armand Kendall, Cindy Marchionda, Marni Nixon, Miles Phillips, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBritish theater company Punchdrunk will present Sleep No More in a site-specific production at the site of the former McKittrick Hotel (530 W. 27th Street), March 7-April 16.Based on Shakesp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Elton John will perform alongside Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and Dionne Warwick at amFar's annual New York Gala to be held at 6:30pm on Wednesday, February 9 at Cipriani …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer-Prize winning drama, Driving Miss Daisy, starring Tony Award winners James Earl Jones, Vanessa Redgrave, and Boyd Gaines, has added a specia…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini, and Marcia Gay Harden will reprise their performances in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, when it plays at the Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the 42nd annual NAACP Image Awards have been announced, according to a report in Variety. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on Friday, March 4 at the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Lyric Theatre, located on N. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, has announced its 2011 season, comprised of three musicals.The season will kick off with the Los Angeles premiere of Dan Goggi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristopher Plummer will narrate Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario, for the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday, April 11, at 7:30pm. Alan Gilbert will conduct.The program wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, January 11, two-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole returned to the Cafe Carlyle for an engagement to run through January 29. The evening is directed by Scott Wittman.The e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEdgerton Center for the Performing Arts has announced its winter/spring schedule.Among the highlights will be a one-night-performance by Rebecca Luker and Howard McGillin in Let's Fall in Lo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLaurence Mark Wythe's new musical Tomorrow Morning will receive its Off-Broadway premiere, presented by The York Theatre Company and Hilary A. Williams LLC, at The Theatre at Saint Peter's, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes will be honored at Theater for the New City's 2011 Love 'N' Courage gala, to be held at the National Arts Club on Monday, February 28 at 6:30pm. Lee …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeremy Piven, along with Mike O'Malley, will join Miley Cyrus in the movie So Undercover, according to published reports. As previously reported, Tom Vaughan is directing the movie, which wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lineup of presenters for the Broadcast Film Critics Association's Critics Choice Movie Awards has been announced. The ceremony, as previously announced, will be held at the Hollywood Pal…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLyricist Stephen Schwartz and composer A.R. Rahman, along with writers Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berges, are developing a new musical animated feature film, Monkeys of Bollywood for DreamWork…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKeith Hamilton Cobb -- best known for his TV roles in Andromeda, All My Children, and The Young and the Restless -- will star in the title role of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, presented by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award winner's new cabaret act at the Cafe Carlyle shows off her versatility in truly spectacular fashion.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM89 years ago this week, Leonid Andreyev's He Who Gets Slapped opened on Broadway. Do you know this fascinating play?
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, Matthew Murray, Michael Portantiere, and James Marino discuss Dracula, A Small Fire and whether previews should be reviewed or not.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMIt all started in rural Illinois when she was three. "My great aunt was a honky-tonk pianist," says Marianne Challis. "And soon I was in front of people singing 'Twenty Froggies Went to Scho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGreen Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is terrific in this dynamic Broadway musical, based upon the band's 2004 concept album.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis stark, tense, and brilliantly acted deconstruction of Nicholas Ray's film Bigger Than Life is a provocative evening of experimental theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDane Cook, Billy Crudup, Sutton Foster, John Leguizamo, Frances McDormand, Donna Murphy, Daniel Radcliffe, Chris Rock, Mark Rylance, Ben Stiller, Kiefer Sutherland, and Robin Williams are am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular actress discusses starring in L.A. Theatre Works' The School For Scandal and her hit TV show Castle.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Kitson proves to be a galvanic storyteller in this enchanting 90-minute monologue at St. Ann's Warehouse.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLegendary singer and Broadway veteran Margaret Whiting died in Engelwood, New Jersey on January 9. She was 86 years old.The daughter of songwriter Richard Whiting, she was a major recording …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony-nominated actor discusses starring in The New Group's Blood From a Stone.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLili Taylor will join the previously reported Jeff McCarthy, Jay O. Sanders, Harris Yulin, and Vanessa Redgrave in a staged presentation of Philippe Sands' book Torture Team at Long Wharf Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSinatra: Dance With Me has been extended at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas. The production -- conceived, choreographed, and directed by Twyla Tharp -- will now run through April 2.This…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerica's Playwright at 100: A Salute to Tennessee Williams, which was to be offered on Monday, January 31, 2011 at Ford's Theatre has been cancelled.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDirector Glenn Weiss has been nominated for a Directors Guild Award for helming the 64th Annual Tony Awards. Over 35 directors were nominated in numerous catergories for their work in televi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Bramley's adaptation of Ovid's tales, set during World War II, is filled with inventiveness and whimsy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLAByrinth Theater Company has announced casting for Melissa Ross' Thinner Than Water, to run February 8 - March 6 at the Cherry Pit. Mimi O'Donnell will direct the production.The play focus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLisa D'Amour's play Detroit, set in the adjacent backyards of two recovering addicts and their anxious middle-class neighbors, will be produced on Broadway in early fall of 2011 under the d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTarget Margin Theater has announced casting for its new work, Second Language, created by the company in collaboration with LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC). David Herskovits will dir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristopher Innvar will direct the New England premiere of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams, October 5 - 23.This coming-of-age adventure story beg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Craig will once again play James Bond in the 23rd movie in the series about the British spy created by author Ian Fleming, according to a report in Variety. Sam Mendes will direct th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the Transport Group's production of the musical Hello Again, to run March 4-April 3, with an opening on March 20.Jack Cummings III will direct the show, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnne Brummel will take over the role of Elphaba in the second North American tour of the hit musical, Wicked, beginning with the Wednesday, January 26 performance in Albuquerque, New Mexico.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCheek to Cheek, the recording that preserves Barbara Cook and Michael Feinstein's engagement at Feinstein's at Loews Regency last season, will be released on January 18. The two performers …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the 2011 Nightlife Awards have been announced. The winners will be invited to participate in an all-performance award concert at Town Hall, on Monday, January 31 at 7pm. As pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFour-time Tony Award nominee Jeanine Tesori will receive the 2011 Junior Theater Festival Award for Advancement of Musical Theatre for Young People, during the 2011 Junior Theater Festival, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEdie Falco and Stephen Wallem, who co-star on Showtime's Nurse Jackie, will appear in The Other Steve and Edie at the Laurie Becchman Theatre at West Bank Café at 7pm on February …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWinners have been announced for San Diego Theatre Critics Circle's 2010 Craig Noel Awards for Theatrical Excellence. The awards were presented in a ceremony held on January 10 at the Museum …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGeorge Clooney's The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North, will begin filming next month, according to published reports. Clooney will direct the picture, whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShakespeare scholar Harold Bloom will take part in a public discussion about Shakespeare's late collaborations with John Fletcher on The Two Noble Kinsmen and the lost play, Cardenio, on Mon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree-time Tony nominee Marc Kudisch's concert, entitled The Lower Depths: In Defense of the Baritone Voice, scheduled to play Town Hall on January 15, has been postponed. A new date and lo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Vernon Morris and B.H. Barry's adaptation of Treasure Island, to play the Irondale Center in Brooklyn, February 15-March 26, with an opening on March 5. Barry …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMasterworks Broadway has announced the cast recordings which will be made available through digital services and as discs-on-demand in February and March.On February 15, the company will re-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmy Brenneman, Julie Hagerty, Richard Kind, Kathy Najimy, Steven Weber, Bradley Whitford and Amy Yasbeck will perform in Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays at Largo at the Coronet …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, January 10, Transport Group presented Boys Night Out: An Evening With&Michael John LaChiusa at Playwrights Horizons. This special benefit concert celebrated the male roles from th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrendan Fraser and Kristin Scott Thomas will star in Neil LaBute's new film, Seconds of Pleasure, according to Deadline.com. The site also reports that Colin Firth and Ed Harris are in talks…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe national tour of the Tony Award-winning revival of Hair celebrated its Los Angeles opening at the Pantages Theatre on Thursday, January 6.Guests included John Savage, who starred as Clau…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywrights Horizons has extended Adam Bock's Off-Broadway production of A Small Fire. Directed by Trip Cullman, the production will now run through January 30.The play focuses on what happ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional participants have been announced for the Public Theater's celebration of the release of the Winter 2011 issue of Lapham's Quarterly, entitled "Celebrity," to be held on Tuesday, J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Spotswood has won the Abingdon Theatre Company's Christopher Brian Wolk Award for his play The Aaronsville Woman. The prize was established to recognize an American writer of a full…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Campbell Moore will assume the role of Karl/Steve in the West End production of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, which will begin previews January 28 at Wyndham's Theatre in anticipatio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohnny Galecki will join the cast of HBO's Entourage, according to a report on Deadline.com. Galecki will play a character who, coming off a big movie and a hit TV show, signs with Eric (Ke…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA preliminary list of performers has been announced for Broadway Backwards 6, to be performed on Monday, February 7 at 8pm at the Longacre Theatre. The event is being presented by Broadway …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGolden Globe and Emmy Award winner Debbie Allen will direct Twist - An American Musical, at the Pasadena Playhouse, June 14-July 24, with an opening set for June 25.Based on Charles Dickens'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLea DeLaria will host People Lea Like Sing Stevie Wonder at Joe's Pub at 9pm on Monday, January 24. The evening will feature musical direction by Janette Mason. Those scheduled to perform in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway League has released end-of-year statistics, which show that Broadway grosses were up, with $1.037 billion for 2010, as opposed to $1.004 billion in 2009.Attendance at Broadway t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winner and stage veteran Gwyneth Paltrow will host the January 15 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live, according to published reports. She will be joined by musical guest Cee Lo Green…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Sarah Jones will offer 14 workshop performances of her new solo show, New Year, Nuyorican, to be offered January 17-February 28 at the Nuyorican Poets Café.The p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy-nominated actor Bill Erwin died of age-related causes in Studio City on December 29, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 96.Erwin had a long stage career, performing both in New…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMina Badie, James Donovan, Brendan Hunt, and Craig Robert Young will star in the American Premiere of Tom Wells' Me, As a Penguin, at The Lost Studio, January 14-March 6. John Pleshette will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRita McKenzie will star in the musical, Ethel Merman's Broadway, at the El Portal Theatre, February 16-27. Christopher Powich will direct.The show re-creates the life and times of Ethel Merm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award-winner Robert Wuhl will present his solo show, Assume the Position at Long Wharf Theatre, as part of the LWT Extras spring series, February 18-20. Based on a hit HBO special, Wuhl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJill Haworth, who originated the role of Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret, has died of natural causes, according to a report in The New York Times. She was 65.The British-born actress als…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSir Tim Rice will make a rare New York appearance tonight at The New York Times Times Talk series. In addition to speaking on his career, the Oscar, Tony, and Drama Desk-winning lyricist wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMWhenever I see a new production of a classic that radically reconceives the work in question, I recall something that the great John Raitt once said to me. During the course of an interview…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMWhen you watch a video or DVD at home, do you routinely press the subtitles button? I do - and not because I have any particular hearing deficiency. I just like to see how subtitlers interpr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award-winning actress discusses starring with Alan Rickman and Fiona Shaw in John Gabriel Borkman at BAM.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe daring diva discusses her new cabaret show, The Loose Chanteuse, her new film, and her return to Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe estimable Michelle Pawk plays a woman losing her sensory perceptions in Adam Bock's poignant new play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, January 5, Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston's classic adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula opened at the Little Shubert Theater. The production is directed by Paul Alexande…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner John Lithgow celebrated the opening of the LA engagement of his solo show, Stories By Heart, on Wednesday, January 5. The show continues its run at the Mark Taper …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColin Quinn's one-man show Long Story Short has extended its run at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre for a second time. The production, directed by Jerry Seinfeld, will now play through March …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMClassic Stage Company's presentation of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, has extended its run through March 6. The show begins previews on January 12 with an opening on February 3. Austin Pend…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLauren Class Schneider talks to Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo about how he began, while he prepares for his exhibit at Lincoln Center called "Fraver: Four Decades of Theatre Poster Art," from Febr…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMJeff McCarthy ,Jay O. Sanders, and Harris Yulin will join Vanessa Redgrave in a staged presentation of Philippe Sands' book Torture Team at Long Wharf Theatre, at 7pm on January 16. The read…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWalt Willey and Bobbie Eakes will co-host ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, a special benefit performance, which will be held on March 13 at Town Hall. This will be the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEpic Theatre Ensemble has announced casting for a staged reading of Warren Leight's Home Front, to be offered on Monday, January 10 at 4pm at The D-Lounge at the Daryl Roth Theatre. Evan Yio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the People's Choice Awards have been announced. The prizes were presented in a ceremony, hosted by Queen Latifah, held on January 5.FOX's Glee picked up two honors: Favorite C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino as Shylock, has recouped its capitalization of $3.45 million after only 10 weeks. As previously reported, the production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lineup of performers who will be appearing in Ripe Time's one-night-only performance of Shape Shifting 2011: Veteran Voices has been announced. The event, which will feature excerpts fro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarmen in 3D will premiere as the closing selection of the Santa Barbara Film Festival on February 6, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The movie is scheduled to open around th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony nominee Colman Domingo's solo show A Boy and His Soul has been added to Intiman Theatre's 2011 season, to run October 21-November 20, with an opening on October 28. It replaces the prev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, January 4, Actress T.V. Carpio officially assumed the role of Arachne in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark at the Foxwoods Theatre. She replaced Natalie Mendoza,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShakespeare Theatre Company will offer a free-of-charge open rehearsal of it's production of Cymbeline at the Lansburgh Theatre, on Sunday, January 9 at 3pm. Rebecca Bayla Taichman directs t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSteve Martin will release his second bluegrass album, Rare Bird Alert, on March 15, according to an Associated Press report. The disc will include 13 original songs, performed by Martin, alo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRed Fern Theatre Company has announced the playwrights and creative team for Gentrifusion, to run January 27 - February 13 at the LABA Theatre at the 14th Street Y. The piece is a series of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOriginals - Musical Comedy 1909-1935 will be the first release from Masterworks Broadway in 2011. The 16-track compilation will be available on digital services and as discs-on-demand beginn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRobert De Niro has been named the President of the Jury of the 64th Festival de Cannes, to take place from May 11-22, 2011.De Niro appeared on Broadway in the 1986 play, Cuba & His Teddy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones will bow on April 17, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The series is based on George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Academy Award winner Sean Penn will receive the Producers Guild of America's Stanley Kramer Award at the annual PGA ceremony to be held on January 22, according to a report in Varie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow will reprise her role as substitute teacher Holly Holiday on FOX's Glee, according to EW.com. The actress, who first appeared on the show on the November…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Film Society of Lincoln Center will present a special sneak preview of director Jeff Lipsky's newest film, Twelve Thirty, at the Walter Reade Theater on Monday, January 10 at 6:15pm.The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Tennant and Catherine Tate will co-star in anew production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, to begin performances at Wyndham's Theater on May 16. The productin, which w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDonna Bullock, Scott Drummond, Daniel Oreskes, and Michael T. Weiss will star in the world premiere production of A Perfect Future. The show will play an open-ended engagement Off-Broadway a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Society of Film Crtics have announced their awards.The Social Network garnered four awards, including Best Film, with prizes also being given to Jesse Eisenberg as Best Actor, D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe track list for the 2011 Grammy Nominees album has been announced. The 19-song collection will be available for sale and download on January 25, with a portion of the proceeds from the al…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Musto will co-host the January 15 edition of The Ultimate Drag Off, which will play Saturday nights at 10:30pm at Comix.Described as an 'interactive musical game show comedy,' the sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Los Angeles-based Poor Dog Group will kick off the Getty Villa's annual Villa Theater Lab Series, with excerpts from Satyr Atlas on Friday, February 4. This new satyr play on ancient the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJason Alexander will guest star on TNT's forthcoming series Franklin & Bash, according to a report on TVGuide.com. The show is scheduled to premiere this summer.As previously announced, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Nancy Opel will star in Ken Ludwig's new farce, The Fox on the Fairway, to run March 22-April 17, with an opening set for March 25. David Saint will direct.The play opens …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMary Bacon, Matthew Carr, Lynn Cohen, Eric Hoffman, Kristine Nielsen, Everett Quinton, Jeanine Serralles, Jeremy Shamos, and Michael Sutherland will be featured in The Suicide as part of Red…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPaul Alexander's anemic production of the classic vampire play is neither atmospherically spooky nor campily funny.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFinalists for the 23rd annual USC Libraries Scripter Award have been announced, according to published reports. Winners will be announced on February 4.The awards honor the screenwriter or w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for the London production of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, which will play the Noel Coward Theatre, beginning February 8, with an opening set for Fe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe appealing singer invites comparison to mom Judy Garland in this bold tribute show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe daring diva discusses her new cabaret show, The Loose Chanteuse, her new film, and her return to Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReal-life couple Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano offer up an extremely winning salute to life in the Big Apple at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarbra Streisand is in talks to play the role of Momma Rose in a film remake of the musical Gypsy, according to published reports. Warner Brothers and Joel Silver will be producers on the fi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRichard Thomas will play the title role in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, February 15 - March 6 at the Public Theater. Barry Edelstein will direct the play, which will be the inaugural offer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKeira Keeley will play Harper Pitt and Sofia Jean Gomez will play The Angel in the Off-Broadway production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, beginning with the February 1 performance. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe U.K. magazine The Stage has announced the winners of the inaugural The Stage 100 Awards, which recognize outstanding theater organizations in five categories.The Royal Court Theatre has …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTonya Beckman Ross, Kate Debelack, Paige Hernandez, Matthew McGloin, Tony Nam, Michael Russotto, and Theodore M. Snead will star in the world premiere production of American Scrapbook: A Cel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Walnut Street Theatre has announced its landmark 203rd season of live entertainment and its 29th season as a not-for-profit producing theatre company. The season will open with Andrew Ll…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlbert Garzon, Bambi Jones, Jonny Porkpie, The Rhinestone Follies, Miss Tickle, Tigger!, Jo "Boobs" Weldon, and more will participate in the centennial celebration of burlesque legend Gyspy …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe York Theatre Company has announced casting for The Road to Qatar!, to run January 25 - February 27. Phillip George will direct the production, which will feature choreography by Bob Rich…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAuthor Neil Gaiman and performer Amanda Palmer were married in a ceremony held on Sunday, according to a report on E! Online. Gaiman is author of such books as Coraline, which was the inspir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProducer Jed Bernstein has announced the formation of the Bucks County Playhouse Conservancy, a non-profit that will help to revitalize the 450 seat theater, located in New Hope, PA on the D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Vital Theater Company's production of Angelina Ballerina the Musical will transfer to Off-Broadway's Union Square Theater, playing Saturdays and Sundays, January 8-February 19. Sam Viver…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Susan Lucci and Wendie Malick will be among the actors participating in an unusual event, planned by ABC and TV Land to have characters from All My Children and Hot in Clevela…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Gallery Players has announced casting for The Drowsy Chaperone, to run January 29 - February 20. Hans Friedrichs will direct the production, which will have choreography by Christine O'G…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDreamWorks Theatricals is teaming up with Broadway Across America for Madagascar Live, a live family touring show based on its Madagascar film series. The production will be directed by Gip …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAntoinette LaVecchia, Andy Paris, and Amelia Workman will star in the world premiere of Susan Mosakowski's A World Apart, to be presented by Creation Production Company at The Flea Theater, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Mint Theater Company will now begin performances of Arnold Bennett's What the Public Wants on January 14, with a new opening date of January 27. Matthew Arbour directs the production.The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Kate Baldwin, Kerry Butler, Jane Krakowski, and Graham Rowat will star in Reading, Writing, & Cabaret, a benefit concert at Ailey Citigroup Theater/The Joan Weill Cente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKristine Nielsen and Sally Wingert will star in the Guthrie Theater production of Arsenic and Old Lace, to play the Wurtele Thrust Stage, April 9-June 5, with an opening on April 15. Joe Dow…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnthony Rapp will make a guest appearance during Robi Hager's concert at Joe's Pub concert on Tuesday, January 18 at 9:30pm.Robert Felstein will provide musical direction for the show, which…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, which will begin previews on January 22 at the West End's Comedy Theatre. Ian Rickson will direct the productio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRocky Friedman Vargas, Brittany Lynn Kriger, Seth Norris, Greg Engbrecht, Janice Amano, and Charles C. Casano will star in Nancy Hasty's The Director, to be presented at The American Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSo La Bete is closing a little early, and will log in a mere 101 performances when it shutters this Sunday. It couldn't even fulfill its limited engagement and make it to February 13.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda will perform in Freestyle Love Supreme, at Irving Plaza on Friday, February 25 at 8pm.This hip hop improv group spins cues from the audience into instant…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSam Rockwell will join Brad Pitt in the forthcoming film Cogan's Trade, according to a report on Deadline.com. Andrew Dominik is directing the project.The movie, adapted from a novel by Geor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatt Damon will present the Golden Globe's Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement, which as previously reported, will be given to stage and screen star Robert DeNiro, according to p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veteran Gemma Arterton will join Jeremy Renner, to star as the title characters in the forthcoming Paramount film, Hansel & Gretel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Tommy Wirko…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis R&B concert may be the feel-good show of the year for the downtown crowd.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania previews the Public Theater's annual festival of intriguing new works.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProject Shaw's staged reading of Androcles and the Lion, at The Players on Monday, January 24 at 7pm, will feature an all-critic cast. David Staller will direct.One of Shaw's most beloved of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Debra Messing will appear on a February episode of NBC's Law & Order: SVU, according to TVGuide.com. She will play a television journalist who sets out to nail pedophi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Goodman will join Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, according to a report in The New York Times. Stephen Daldry, as previously reported, is directing…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSusan Sullivan will play Lady Sneerwell in L.A. Theatre Works' presentation of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, to perform at the Skirball Cultural Center January 12-16. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarbara Cook, Steve Martin, Bette Midler, and Sting will join host James Taylor in a gala event at Carnegie Hall, to be held on April 12, at 7pm. The program will celebrate 120 years of Carn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional performers have been announced for The Music of Adam Gwon, a concert celebrating the release of the original cast recording of Ordinary Days to be held on January 11 at 10pm at Le…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAngel Porrino will reprise her performance as Bo Peep in Peepshow, playing at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, stepping in for a vacationing Holly Madison throughout 2011. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJon Marans' The Temperamentals will be the final production in the Blank Theatre Company's 2010-2011 season. Michael Matthews will direct the production, which will run April 9 - May 22.The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor and educator Bern Cohen will star as Abbie Hoffman in the one-man show Abbie, to play the West End Theatre, January 6-29.Cohen has arranged and adapted Hoffman's own writings and speec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAbingdon Theatre Company has announced casting for Joel Fields' How I Fell in Love, to run January 21 - February 13. Jules Ochoa will direct the production.The play focuses on two lost souls…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Eve Best and Jonathan Cake will appear at the Morgan Library & Museum at 7pm on Thursday, April 28 in the Shakespeare Society's program Shakespeare Works: Much Ado Abou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the Producers Guild Awards have been announced. Judd Apatow will host the awards ceremony, to be held on January 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.The awards honor producer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress T.V. Carpio will assume the role of Arachne in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark at the Foxwoods Theatre on Tuesday, January 4. She replaces Natalie Mendoza, who off…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPittsburgh Public Theater has announced casting for Camelot, to run January 20 - February 20. Ted Pappas will direct the production, which will have musical direction by F. Wade Russo. Alan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnnika Marks will star as Lulu in the world premiere of Oscar-nominated writer Nicholas Kazan's Mlle. God, presented by Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA at the new Atwater Village Theatre, January…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel will play the title role in American Repertory Theater's Prometheus Bound, to run February 25 - April 2 at Oberon. Diane Paulus will direct the produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn January 3, WCBS News aired the first interview with Christopher Tierney from Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark in which the performer discussed the fall that left him hospitalized …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Balderrama, Chris Chalk, Neal Huff, David Patrick Kelly and Amanda Mason Warren will be featured in the LCT3 world premiere production of Nathan Louis Jackson's When I Come to Die. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVirginia Stage Company has released a promotional video for Bruce Hornsby and Clay McLeod Chapman's new musical SCKBSTD, which is scheduled to begin previews January 18. John Rando will dir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulia Stiles will join previously announced stars Dane Cook and Josh Hamilton in the Broadway production of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, which will begin previews on April 12 at the Belasco Theatr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Wilson Jermaine Heredia will join the Broadway cast of La Cage Aux Folles, at the Longacre Theater, beginning Tuesday, February 15. He replaces 2010 Tony-nominee Robin De J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the Writers Guild of America's awards for screenplay writing have been announced.Among the nominees is playwright Aaron Sorkin, who has been nominated in the Adapted Scre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, Matthew Murray, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about Natalie Mendoza leaving Spider-Man, Bono and The Edge headed to rehearsal, Lincoln Center's American Songbook …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMLauren Class Schneider talks to Bobby Longbottom about the director/ choreographer relationship....
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMWell, we made it to the New Year. The worst any of our tombstones will state as our death date is 2011.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo years ago, I wrote a column in this space called "Line of the Year", which detailed what I thought was the most memorable single line of dialogue of 2008. I didn't do a similar column la…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMA rundown of some of the year's most notable achievements, from "Best Musical On or Off Broadway" to "Hottest Guy on Broadway" to "Theater Book of the Year."
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMActress Natalie Mendoza, who originated the role of Arachne in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark at the Foxwoods Theatre, has officially departed the production.The show, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award-nominated star discusses his upcoming Town Hall concert, The Lower Depths: In Defense of the Baritone.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarina Poplavskaya and Matthew Polenzani deliver beautifully acted performances in Willy Decker's minimalist production of Verdi's beloved opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAward-winning cabaret singer David Gurland passed away on January 1, after having suffered a massive brain hemorrhage in New York City on December 29. During his career, Gurland performed at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe line-up has been announced for the 2011 Spoleto Festival USA, which will be held in Charleston, South Carolina, May 27-June 12. The Festival will include a total of 152 performances by a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMQueen Elizabeth II New Year's Honours List has been announced, according to BBC News.Among the artists who have been recognized for their service to the arts are actors Sheila Hancock, David…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA staged reading of the musical Les Enfants De Paris, which features music and lyrics by David Levinson and a book by Stacey Weingarten, will be held at Urban Stages at 6pm on Monday, Januar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVs. Theatre Company will host An Evening With Neil LaBute at 7pm on Saturday, January 15 at the Howard Fine Acting Studio in Hollywood. Proceeds from the event will benefit the company and 9…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAward-winning cabaret singer David Gurland suffered a massive brain hemorrhage n New York City on December 29 and is currently in ICU. He is expected to pass away shortly.During his career, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEntertainer Ryan O'Connor, who recently concluded a national tour of his show Ryan O'Connor Eats His Feelings, will be among the 10 contestants competing on Oprah Winfrey's new show Your OWN…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch will host the 9th Annual Nightlife Awards to be held at Town Hall at 7pm on Monday. January 31. The event is created and produced by TheaterMania contributor …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Santa Monica will present Pinkalicous, The Musical as part of its award-winning Youth Education/Entertainment Series, February 5-20. The production will be direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWoodie King Jr. will direct the Castillo Theatre's production of Fred Newman's play, Mr. Hirsch Died Yesterday, January 20-Februay 20.The semi-autobiographical play, which was first produced…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBaby Wants Comedy, the improvised musical comedy, will play the SoHo Playhouse, January 8-February 26.Each performance begins with the cast asking the audience for a suggestion of a musical …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award-nominated choreographer Karole Armitage will appear at the Abrons Arts Center at 8pm on Monday, January 10.The event, entitled Think Afrrica, will feature The Armitage Gone! Dance…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEric Michael Gillett will host a benefit for the AEA Scholarship Fund for the Singers Forum on Monday, January 3 at 7pm at Don't Tell Mama. The evening will feature musical direction by Don …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress T.V. Carpio will assume the role Arachne in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark at the Foxwoods Theatre on Tuesday, January 4. She replaces Natalie Menooza, who offici…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree Broadway musicals have reported that they have broken their respective theater's records for highest weekly grosses during the week ending January 2. The Broadway League has reported t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Musical Theatre West's production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, to play the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach, Febrary 12-27. Dana Soli…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Norbert Leo Butz and Michele Federer are now parents to a baby girl, Georgia Teresa, who was born on January 2, according to published reports. She weighs in at 6 lb. 11 oz…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania checks in on the closing performances of Promises, Promises, The Pee-wee Herman Show, and Fela!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSherri Shepherd attended the January 1 performance of Jabbawockeez' new show MÜS.I.C. at Monte Carlo Resort and Casino.The critically acclaimed show is described as an audio-visual …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndy Donald has been named the new artistic director of Naked Angels. He succeeds Geoffrey Nauffts beginning July 2011.Donald has been an associate artistic director of the company since Apr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAntonio Banderas, Anne Sofie von Otter, Rebecca Caine, and Barbara Hendricks, along with the Sylvia Young Theater School Children's Choir, will be featured on UNICEF's new Children First CD,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veteran Olivia Wilde will join Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks in the forthcoming film, Welcome to People, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Alex Kurtzman will direct the film, which…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarty Thomas will assume the role of Andrew in Anthony Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding, playing at St. Luke's Theatre, on January 13.Thomas' Broadway credits include Xanadu, Wicked, a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new Broadway musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which played its final performance on Sunday, January 2 at the Belasco Theatre, will receive an original cast album, to be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the 14th annual Online Film Critics Society Awards have been announced. The Social Network received the top prize for Best Picture, in addition to individual awards for direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony nominee Vanessa Williams will host LA Phil LIVE with Gustavo Dudamel from Walt Disney Concert Hall, a live broadcast in over 450 movie theaters across the U.S. and Canada, to be held on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Franzén will be featured in the American premiere of award-winning Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen's Purge, to play La MaMa, February 10-20, with an opening on February…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress Anne Francis has died in California of complications from pancreatic cancer, according to published reports. She was 80 years old.Francis was a child model and actress, and during he…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComedians Allison Castillo and Pat Dixon and musician Henry Wolfe, will be the guest stars at the January 4 performance of Benjamin Walker's Find the Funny, playing at The Tank.The show, whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFX has released stills promoting its new series Lights Out, which will premiere on Tuesday, January 11. The show features Hotl McCallany, Pablo Schreiber, Catherine McCormack, Reg. E. Cathe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAward-winning Broadway veterans Santino Fontana and Joanna Gleason will be featured in the world premiere of Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, to be presented by the Huntington Theatre Co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast members from the national tour of Hair will stage two "Be-In" performances at The Show at Barre on January 10 at 7:30 and 10:30pm. The event will raise money for Broadway Impact's effor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJamie Broza's new children's album I Want a Dog! will be released by Good Mood Records on March 15. The recording will feature Israeli performer David Broza.The 41-minute disc is aimed at c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNick Wyman, President of Actors Equity Association, has issued a lengthy statement concerning the injuries sustained in the new Broadway musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, playing at t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree-time Tony Award winner Helen Hayes will be featured on a commemorative stamp to be issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 2011. In addition, the USPS will release a stamp featuring writ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMInternational City Theatre has announced complete casting for Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein, to be directed by caryn desai and run January 18 - February 13.Stephen Flaherty a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award-nominated actor and stage veteran Pete Postlethwaite has died after a battle with cancer, according to a report in The New York Times. He was 64.Postlethwaite most recently ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMU.S. Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore A. Giunta, the first living person to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War, began the new year by attending Golf: The Musical, playin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIt was the month that I had even greater respect for Jim Miller, Joe Miller, Paul Roberts, Thom Snode and Ed Weissman. They're the ones who knew the answer to my seemingly impossible Brainte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJanuary highlights include The K of D, Sleuth, My Wonderful Day, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Chamber Cymbeline, Don Giovanni: A New Musical, Almost Female: A Jockette's Awesome Journey, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlice Ripley headlines the national tour of Next to Normal, Manoel Felciano is featured in Clybourne Park, Eddie Mekka appears in Grease, Karen Ziemba and Noah Racey co-star in And All That …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 25th Anniversary Tour of Les Miserables arrives in Philadelphia, with local highlights including A Moon for the Misbegotten, Race, the Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival, The Little Pri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHighlights include Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessica Hecht, and Juliet Rylance in Three Sisters; Alan Rickman and Fiona Shaw in John Gabriel Borkman; Olympia Dukakis in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJanuary highlights in the Twin Cities include A Prairie Home Companion, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, The Magic Flute, Bette Midler, and the Brouhaha Comedy Festival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew Year's highlights include Jane Fonda in 33 Variations, John Lithgow telling Stories by Heart, the Tony-winning revival of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, the equestrian extr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKeira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss star in The Children's Hour, with other London highlights including a rare revival of The Potting Shed, Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, Barbershopera--Apocal…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCher winds down her popular show at The Colosseum, while other acts this month include Garth Brooks, Barry Manilow, Ozzy Osbourne, Sinbad, Drew Carey, Jay Leno, and Lisa Lampanelli. Theater …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWonderland: A New Alice. A New Musical stops in Tampa prior to Broadway, while other January highlights include Aquila Theatre Company presenting repertory productions in West Palm Beach, La…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHighlights include Anna Deavere Smith in Let Me Down Easy; the Mary Zimmerman-directed The Arabian Nights, the international hit Black Watch; Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet; and Philip Goodw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJanuary highlights include Regina Taylor's The Trinity River Plays, Monty Python's Spamalot, Garry Griffin directing As You Like It, An Unscripted Romance, The Boys Room, The Beauty Queen of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTonye Patano stars in Ruined, while Boston-area audiences can also catch The Understudy, Nine, Bread and Puppet Theater's The Return of Ulysses, The Civilians' In the Footprint, Cirque du So…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFamily friendly entertainment at the beginning of the new year includes Nearly Lear, The Ohmies, Pinkalicious, A Wonderfully Flat Thing, Rabbit Sense, Little Red Riding Hood, and Mummenschan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLauren Class Schneider talks to Marianne Challis, teacher, singer, actor, and student, as she prepares for he appearance at Feinstein's January 17th, 18th, 24th, and 25th.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMOscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman will join Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis and editor Lewis Lapham as Lapham's Quarterly celebrates the release of its Winter 2011 issue "Cel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis and girlfriend Angel Reed, who met during the Broadway production of Rock of Ages are now parents of daughter Malena James, who was born Thursday even…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, I listed the nine best productions I saw all year, saying I'd save the 10th for today: a production I saw when I had one night in Paris.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichel Altieri, George Hearn, and Jake Silbermann discuss the new Off-Broadway production of the classic vampire story.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMary Beth Fisher, Keith Kupferer, Beth Lacke, and David Pasquesi will star in the Goodman Theatre's production of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play, God of Carnage, March 5-April 10. Ri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and American Idol alum Frenchie Davis will perform in Upright Cabaret's American Icon Series concert, Mighty Mississippi, at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza on Saturday, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new Broadway musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, presented by Lincoln Center at the Belasco Theatre, will now close on Sunday, January 2 following the 7pm performance, rat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA special New Year's greeting promotional image has been released for the Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of the musical Anything Goes, which will play the Stephen Sondh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAs previously reported, Glee star and Broadway veteran Matthew Morrison will be releasing his debut solo album in February. In anticipation of the release, Morrison has released a teaser vid…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award-winning composer Elton John and his partner David Furnish are now the parents to a son, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, according to UsMagazine.com. The child was born on Chri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Priscilla Lopez will host A Very Special Evening XVI, a benefit for the A-T Children's Project, to be held at The Clark Studio Theatre, on Monday, January 17 at 8pm. This i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for Old Globe Theatre's production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, to run January 22 - February 27. Pam MacKinnon will direct the production. Miller'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSouth Coast Repertory has added the world premiere of Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky to its 2010-2011 season. This SCR commission will play the Segerstrom Stage, April 1-May 1. The play is ab…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Ann Harada will be the special guest performer at Harmony, a musical gala benefiting the New York City Gay Men's Chorus & Youth Pride Chorus, to be held at Christie's on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Film Registry, a roster maintained by the National Film Preservation Board to safeguard films deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant," has announced its 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLauren Velez, who plays Lt. Maria Laguerta on Showtime's Dexter, will star in the solo show They Call Me La Lupe, presented by Dura Vida Productions in collaboration with Teatro LATEA, Janua…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmanda Seyfried will make a special return appearance in HBO's Big Love for the final episode in the series' five-season run, according to TVGuide.com. Seyfried played the role of Sarah in t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMike Leigh, Lesley Manville, Jim Broadbent, and Ruth Sheen discuss their new film Another Year.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBirdland has announced the acts that will play the famed club in January. Highlights of the month include singer Klea Blackhurst (January 10), singer-songwriter Christine Lavin with guest st…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMone-time member of New Kids on the Block, is now a popular solo recording artist. His many...
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKevin Spacey discusses his new film, Casino Jack, his plans for playing Richard III, and his work with the Old Vic Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, James Marino, Matthew Murray and Michael Portantiere talk about their favorite theatrical experiences of 2010.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMEach December, they're as common as candy canes: the lists of the best and the worst productions of 2010.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania's Editor-in-Chief salutes some of the greatest male performances of the year!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristopher Tierney, who was injured during the December 20 performance of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, playing at the Foxwoods Theatre, is reportedly walking again a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow will reprise her role as substitute teacher Holly Holiday on the February 6 edition of FOX's Glee, which will air immediately after the Super Bowl, accor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFrom doing their taxes to swearing less to sleeping more, the stars share their goals for 2011!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast of the hit Broaday musical American Idiot will perform on NBC's New Year's Eve With Carson Daly, which will air at 11:30pm on December 31.The show will also include an interview seg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway director John Ferraro has died at age 64 of colon cancer, according to published reports.Ferraro helmed the short-lived Broadway play Crazy He Calls Me, as well as such Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress Natalie Mendoza, who plays Arachne in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark at the Foxwoods Theatre, is not performing in the show currently, and is reportedly exiting t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJazz legend Dr. Billy Taylor died in New York on December 28 of heart failure. He was 89 years old.Taylor was a noted pianist, and was the house pianist at Birldand early in his career, wher…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulie Taymor, the director of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, has withdrawn from participating in The New York Times 10th annual Arts & Leisure Weekend, according to the Times. Taymor was…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast and creative team has been announced for New Repertory Theatre's world premiere production of Steve Yockey's afterlife: a ghost story...
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRipe Time will present Shape Shifting: Veteran Voices , which will explore ways dramatic works can approach the plight of the veteran returning home, at 7pm on Monday, January 10 at New York…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Falcon Theatre will present The Catholic Girl's Guide to Losing Your Virginity, written by and starring Annie Hendy, February 2-March 6. The production will be directed by Gregg W. Breev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award-winning composer Elton John and his partner David Furnish are now the parents to a son, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, according to UsMagazine.com. The child was born on Chri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Bickford Theatre in Morristown, New Jersey will present Douglas Carter Beane's award-winning comedy The Little Dog Laughed, January 20-February 13. The production will be directed by Eri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMike Leigh, Lesley Manville, Jim Broadbent, and Ruth Sheen discuss their new film Another Year.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe American Theatre Wing has released the Downstage Center. podcast of a discussion with Tony Award-winning composer John Kander. In the interview -- the 300th in the series -- Kander speak…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star John Barrowman and dance partner Kristina Rihanoff won the Christmas edition of the BBC One television dance competition Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday, December 25.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProject Shaw has announced the lineup of staged readings for 2011, to take place at the Players Club. The series is produced and directed by David Staller.The presentations will be Androcles…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRAIN - A Tribute to The Beatles On Broadway, currently playing the Neil Simon Theatre, has recouped its initial investment of $2million in seven weeks. In addition, the show has added three…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Leguizamo's new solo play Ghetto Klown, will begin a 12-week run at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre on February 21. The production, which will be directed by Fisher Stevens, will open officia…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Jermyn Street Theatre will present Terrence Rattigan's Less Than Kind, January 18-February 12, according to Whatsonstage.com. Emmy Award-winner Adrian Brown will direct the production, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA new Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia will play the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, February 25-June 19. Tony Award nominee David Leveaux will direct the production, which will open o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLauren Class Schneider talks to Marianne Challis, teacher, singer, actor, and student, as she prepares for he appearance at Feinstein's January 17th, 18th, 24th, and 25th.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMCorrie!, the stage show version of the U.K. soap opera Coronation Street, will go on a six-month UK tour, beginning in February, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Fiona Buffini will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew Paradise Laboratories and The Riot Group will present Freedom Club, written by Adriano Shaplin and directed by Whit MacLaughlin, to run January 6-15 at the Connelly Theater.The work move…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwelve-year old Bonnie Langford was in the wings waiting to perform at a benefit. Even at this tender age, she was already a seasoned stage veteran, having played Bonnie Butler in the 1970 m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMInternationally acclaimed soprano Lauren Flanigan will join accompanist/composer Glen Roven to perform music set to the classic children's favorite Goodnight Moon at 7pm onTuesday, January 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for the Off-Broadway production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, at the Westside Theatre.Based on Ilene Beckerman's 1995 book about clothes and the memor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of David Mamet's Race, January 21-February 13 at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. The production will be directed by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRed Bull Theater has announced revised casting for The Witch of Edmonton, which will begin previews at the Theater at St. Clement's on January 25 in anticipation of an official opening on Ja…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBirdland has announced the acts that will play the famed club in January.Highlights of the month include singer Klea Blackhurst (January 10), singer-songwriters Christine Lavin and Julie Gol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOpera singer Frances Ginberg has died at age 55 of brain and spinal cancer, according to The New York Times.Ginsberg worked frequently at New York City Opera, where her roles included Marghe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAll Broadway shows scheduled to perform on Monday, December 27 will go on in spite of the 20-inch snowfall in New York City, according to the Broadway League.Because of holiday week schedule…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Natalie Portman, is engaged to choreographer Benjamin Millepied, and the couple are expecting their first child, according to People magazine.Portman and Millepied met …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Richard Abrons and Margarett Perry's The Body Politic, to run February 10-March 6 at 59E59 Theatres.Perry will direct the play, which is described as an old -f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Thursday. December 23 performance of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, playing at the Foxwoods Theatre, will go on after the company has implemented new safety procedures after an accident …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRob Evan, Jack Murphy, Laura Osnes, and Marlyn Sanchez joined celebrated composer Frank Wildhorn for a one-night-only performance of An Intimate Evening with Frank Wildhorn & Friends at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, playing at the West End's Adelphi Theatre, invited reviewers to revisit the show, following changes that have been …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lineup of performers for Pigadilly Circus, Pig Iron Theatre's Company's annual fundraising event, to be held on January 21 at 7pm at The Trocadero Theater. Quinn Bauriedel will host the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLarry Blum will perform a limited engagement of his solo show Blink & You Might Miss Me at the Asylum Lab, January 6 - February 6. Stan Zimmerman will direct the production.In the piece…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatthew Polenzani will now sing the role of Alfredo in all performances of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of La Traviata, December 31-January 29. The production, to be directed by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe World Financial Center has announced its lineup of Winter 2011 free theater and music events.The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra will kick off the season with the world premiere of Rober…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee star Darren Criss recently became the 400,000th member of ASCAP, and during a visit to the organization, he taped some video interviews as well as a special version of Hugh Martin and R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArs Nova has announced five of the theatrical offerings that it will be offering over an extended period during 2011.The first of these will be The Wii Plays (February 1-12), which will be a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLincoln Center has announced casting for its Broadway production of The National Theatre of Great Britain's War Horse, to begin previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on March 15, with an o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBorders Books has announced the special events that will be taking place at its Columbus Circle store in January.Among the highlights will be an appearance by Academy Award winner Olympia Du…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff, featuring over 25 minutes of uncensored material not aired on television, will receive a nationwide in-store release on DVD on January 11.Taped…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA trio of guest stars has been announced for A Swinging Birdland Christmas, running December 20-25. Christine Ebersole will appear on Monday, December 20, Stephanie J. Block will appear on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLee Rocker, bassist and vocalist for the Grammy nominated band The Stray Cats, will play the role of Jay Perkins in Broadway's Million Dollar Quartet, at the Nederlander Theatre, for a limit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHans Altwies, Denis Arndt, Bhama Roget, and Amy Thone will star in the Alley Theatre's production of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play, God of Carnage, January 7-30. Wilson Milam will d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTeal Wicks will assume the role of Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked, playing at the Gershwin Theatre, on February 1. It has also been announced that Kyle Dean Massey will repris…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAs previously reported on TheaterMania, former New York City First Lady Donna Hanover will return to the stage next month in the play Hillbilly Women at the Arclight Theatre. Sondra Lee will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Sarah Jessica Parker and Kelsey Grammer will headline the film I Don't Know How She Does It, based on Allison Pearson's first-person comic tale of a high-powered finance type …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the International Press Academy's Satellite Awards have been announced. The prizes were presented in a ceremony held on Sunday, December 19 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Rhapsody of Words' site-specific production of Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things, to run January 27 - March 6 at The Gallery Soho in London. Tom Attenborough …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis madcap show about a frazzled bride and groom is as engaging as is it obtuse.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Treacy Egan will perform his holiday cabaret Rudolph Unplugged atThe Triad on Tuesday, December 21 at 7pm and 9pm, and Wednesday, December 29 at 9pm.Written by Egan, Rudolph Unplugged a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNow that it's close to December 25, friends and relatives have been asking me what I want for Christmas.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristine Pedi's heartwarming and sometimes hilarious solo show is a perfect vehicle for her many performing skills.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania offers five playlists that can be downloaded and turned into CDs for gift-giving.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Wednesday, December 22 evening (8pm) performance of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, playing at the Foxwoods Theatre, has been cancelled as the company continues to implement new safety pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrea Burns, Sarah Jane Everman, Joshua Henry, Michele Mais, and Bobby Steggert will be featured in the next installment of the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport's ongoing Broadway Conce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Flea Theater has announced casting for Trista Baldwin's American Sexy, to run January 15 - February 22. Mia Walker will direct the production.The play focuses on four college students w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Schwimmer and wife Zoe Buckman are expecting their first child, according to a report on EW.com. The couple was married in a private ceremony in June. Schwimmer, best known for his po…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Vineyard Theatre has announced its first two productions for 2011.The company will begin the year with Zach Helm's Interviewing the Audience, to run February 3-27. In this show, Helm in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) awards have been announced.The Social Network has been named Best Picture. In addition David Fincher has earned the organization's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLee Sellars, Chris Wendelken, and Stephanie Zimbalist will star in Frank Gilroy's The Subject Was Roses, to run February 8 - March 6 at George Street Playhouse. Michael Mastro will direct t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Paper Mill Playhouse has announced casting for its production of the musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, to run January 19-February 13. Marc Bruni will direct the product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast members from Broadway's Rock of Ages will perform at Yankee Stadium during halftime of the inaugural New Era Pinstripe Bowl on Thursday, December 30.Kickoff for the game between the Kan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage stars Claire Danes, David Harewood, Damian Lewis, and Mandy Patinkin have signed on for the pilot of Showtime's drama series, Homeland, according to Deadline.com.The plot focues on Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPearl Theatre Company has announced casting for Moliere's The Misanthrope, to run January 14 -February 20 at New York City Center Stage II. Joseph Hanreddy will direct the production.The pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway and film star Julie Andrews and country music superstar and Broadway composer Dolly Parton will be among the artists who will recieve Lifetime Grammy Awards, according to published …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarcelo Rodriguez will join the cast of Robert Dominguez' Midnight in Havana, which will begin a series of Friday-evening performances on January 14 at the Snapple Theatre Center. Dominguez…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Victoria Clark will be the featured performer in a special Holiday broadcast, A Christmas for Everyone: A Service of Lessons and Carols, which was taped at New York City's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Irish Repertory Theatre has announced casting for its revival of Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney, to run January 19-March 13. Charlotte Moore will direct the production.The play centers on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New Group has announced that Tommy Nohilly's Blood From A Stone at Theatre Row will now open on Wednesday, January 12 rather than the previously announced January 6.. Scott Elliott direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAshley Brown, Heidi Blickenstaff, Merle Dandridge, Christopher Jackson, Tshidi Manye, Josh Strickland, and Alton Fitzgerald White will perform in Sir Tim Rice & Friends, to be offered on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLASTmatch Theatre Company has announced casting for Stephen Louis Grush's Feet of Clay, to run February 10-March 19 at the Royal George Gallery Theatre. David Perez will direct the producti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran John Treacy Egan will offer a one-night only performance of John Treacy Egan's Great Big Broadway Valentine at the Emelin Theatre on Saturday, January 22 at 8pm. The concer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNeil Berg's revue of seasonal and non-seasonal standards at the Geffen Playhouse brings a welcome touch of the Great White Way to the west coast.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMZina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler's musical Dear Edwina began its third holiday season limited engagement at the DR2 Theatre, on Friday, December 17. The show continues at the DR2 through Febr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Marcia Lewis, who received Tony Award nominations for her work as Miss Lynch in the revival of Grease and Matron Mama Morton in the revival of Chicago, has died at age 72, a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames Marino, Matthew Murray and Michael Portantiere discuss The Break of Noon, as well as this week's news from around Broadway (Spider-Man, Scottsboro Boys, Thora Birch, Sondheim on Colber…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMLauren Class Schneider talks to Bess Glorioso about transitioning from theatre to medical school, then back to theatre again.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMThe fabled Rockettes, Santa Claus, a 3-D trip from the North Pole to Sixth Avenue and 50th Street, ice skaters, a young ballerina, dancing bears, lavishly-dressed Kings from the East, and a …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMIt started on Thursday, when "geof" on All That Chat noted that Dec. 16 was the 50th anniversary of the opening of Wildcat - the N. Richard Nash-Cy Coleman-Carolyn Leigh musical that starred…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOver two dozen celebrities, including Nick Adams, Lorna Luft, Donna Murphy, Brad Oscar, Lea Salonga, and Karen Ziemba, share their recollections of the season.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAllen Neuner wrote, "I enjoyed reading your review of (Ken Bloom's) new Hollywood Musicals book. I was struck by the author's comment that he couldn't include High School Musical I and II be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis ambitious mash-up of schoolboy humor and classical music is often touching, but ultimately feels overextended.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe British musical theater star's cabaret act at 59E59 Theaters proves she's got the whole package.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Oscar-winning star and her Tony-winning mother discuss their new films, Country Strong and Little Fockers
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor Christopher Tierney, the main aerialist and stunt double for star Reeve Carney in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, fell while performing a stunt during the Monday, December 20 performan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAngelina Fiordellisi, the artistic director at the nonprofit Cherry Lane Theater, has announced that she will step down next year and that she plans to sell the historic building, according …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast and creative team of Primary Stages' world premiere production of A.R. Gurney's Black Tie, to run at 59 E59 Theateres, January 25-March 20, met the press this week. The production, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Lily Tomlin will offer two performances of The Best of Lily Tomplin at 5th Avenue Theatre, Saturday, January 29 and Sunday, January 30. The show features a collec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGoodspeed Musicals has announced the schedule for the sixth annual Goodspeed Festival of New Artists, to be offered January 14-16.The event will feature three staged readings of new musicals…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe first ten episodes of season 2 of FOX's hit series Glee will be available on a three-DVD set on January 26, 2011, according to a listing on Amazon.com. Glee: Season 2, Volume 1, which w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Goodman Theatre has announced complete casting for Thomas Bradshaw's Mary, to run February 5-March 6. Mary Adrales will direct the production.The absurdist comedy, which tackles politic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Edinburgh Fringe hit Showstopper! The Improvised Musical will play Tuesday nights from February 8 to March 29 at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, the home of STOMP, according to Whatso…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSoho Rep has announced a quartet of special events to be held in conjunction with its upcoming production of Jomama Jones: Radiate. The first will be a post-performance conversation to be h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, arts journalist Michael Feingold, and directors Jeffrey Horowitz and Tina Packer will participate in panel discussion about Shakespeare's Jewish chara…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer-Prize winning drama, Driving Miss Daisy, starring Tony Award winners James Earl Jones, Vanessa Redgrave, and Boyd Gaines has recouped its i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Pee-Wee Herman Show, now playing at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, will be turned into an HBO special for broadcast in 2011. The presentation will be taped at the theater after the produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVivienne Benesch, David Conrad, Maria Dizzia, Mathilde Dratwa, Jonathan Fried, Brad Fryman, Eric Hoffmann, John Mainieri, Paul Niebanck, Stephen Stout, Michael Stuhlbarg, John Douglas Thomps…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBadlands Theater Company has announced casting for Scott Brooks' ScreenPlay, to run January 12-February 6 at 59E59 Theaters. Jenny Greeman will direct the production, which opens officially…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames Moye will assume the role of Sam Phillips in the Broadway production of Million Dollar Quartet at the Tuesday, December 21 performance. The performer will be taking over the part whil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJim Caruso, Hilary Kole, Billy Stritch, and Aaron Weinstein blend their talents beautifully for this enticing holiday confection.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYale Repertory Theatre has announced casting for August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, to run January 28 -February 19. Liesl Tommy will direct the production.Set in Pittsburgh in1936, the play …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway Sings for Toys for Tots was held at Symphony Space on Monday, December 20 at 7pm. The event was a benefit for the program that collects toys and other gifts for children in need dur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and television star Bill Ward will play Sam Phillips in the London production of themusical Million Dollar Quartet, which will play the Noel Coward Theatre, beginning February 8, with …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAsolo Repertory Theatre has announced its 2011 winter/spring season.The year will begin with David Hirson's La Béte (The Beast), to be directed by Michael Donald Edward and run Ja…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLa Jolla Playhouse has announced casting for the new musical Little Miss Sunshine, to run February 15 - March 27 in the company's Mandell Weiss Theatre. James Lapine, who has written the sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHunter Foster, Lisa Brescia, Jared Gertner, and Kate Wetherhead will celebrate the release of the original cast recording of Ordinary Days, with The Music of Adam Gwon, a concert to be held …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Elizabeth Ashley will take part in a public conversation about her life and career on January 24 at 6pm at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark at the Foxwoods Theatre, has once again moved its opening date, and will now open on Monday, February 7. All performances prior to the new …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright Richard Greenberg will be collaborating with composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie on a musical version of the 2002 film Far From Heaven that was written and directed …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProfiles Theatre will bring back its production of Deirdre O'Connor's Jailbait, which will now play The Second Stage (formerly known as the Stage Left Theatre), January 13-February 27.Throug…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJane Carr and Tara Summers with join the previously announced Julian Sands in L.A. Theatre Works' presentation of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, to perform at the Skirba…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Arden, Matt Doyle, Meghann Fahy, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Morgan Karr, Kelli O'Hara, Laura Osnes, and Natalie Weiss are among the artists who will be featured on the CD Our First Mista…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania's editors and contributors choose their top New York theatrical experiences of the year!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEli Wallach and his daughter Katherine Wallach will perform a scene from Tennessee Williams' Mister Paradise as part of America's Playwright at 100: A Salute to Tennessee Williams, to be off…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComposer Stephen Schwartz, along with performers Donna Vivino and Tituss Burgess, will be special guests for Nowhere Near Normal, Brian Justin Crum's show to be offered on January 24 at 7pm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRuby Wax and Judith Owen will bring their new show Ruby Wax - Losing It to the Menier Chocolate Factory for a limited five-week run, February 15 - March 19. Thea Sharrock will direct the pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristopher Titus will bring his new one-man show Neverlution to the Marines' Memorial Theatre for five performances, February 15-19. In the piece, the performer's comic stylings will be fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Transport Group will present An Evening With Michael John LaChiusa, an evening of talk and song celebrating the male roles from the composer's musical songbook at 7pm on Monday, January …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSienna Miller will star in the film Two Jacks, according to a report in Variety. Bernard Rose, who has written the screenplay which is an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's short story The Two Hus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSouth Coast Repertory Theatre has announced casting for Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation, to run January 9-30 on the company's Argyros Stage. Sam Gold, director of the play's Off-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting for Taylor Mac's The Walk Across America for Mother Earth, to run January 15 - 30 at La MaMa ETC. Paul Zimet will direct the production, which will have music by Ellen Maddow and wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShakespeare & Company has announced the plays that will comprise its 2011 season as well as preliminary casting for certain productions.In the mainstage Founders Theatre, the company wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDancing with the stars' Gilles Marini and actress Jane Seymour will be rotating hosts during the LA premiere of Ballroom with a Twist at the El Portal Theatre, January 19-Feburary 13.Conceiv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLance Bass was the special guest star at the December 16 performance of Anthony Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding, playing at St. Luke's Theatre. Bass, perhaps best known as a member of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVanessa Redgrave will appear in a staged presentation of Philippe Sands' book Torture Team at Long Wharf Theatre on January 16 at 7pm. Sands will also take part in the event, which has been…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania's Editor-in-Chief salutes some of the great female performances of the year!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Kim Cattrall, Ashley Judd, Rosie O'Donnelll, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Vanessa Williams will be among the celebrities participatin in NBC's reality series Who Do You Think You Are…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFlorence Lacey gives a powerful performance as faded silent film star Norma Desmond in Eric Schaeffer's fabulous Signature Theater production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Lynn Collins, Rosario Dawson, Brian Geraghty, Justin Long, Chris Pine, Anthony Mackie, and Scott Porter will star in writer-director Jamie Linden's new film Ten Year, accordin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMy Favorite Things, a benefit for The Trevor Project, will take place on Monday, January 3 at 10pm at Les Poisson Rouge. Drexel D. Heard, II will host the benefit, which will feature musical…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSusan McFadden will assume the role of Elle Woods in the West End production of Legally Blonde The Musical, playing at the Savoy Theatre.McFadden, an original member of the company, has been…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Lewis Cleale has joined the cast of the upcoming Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon, by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Tony Award winner Robert Lopez. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino as Shylock, has announced a final extension. The production, at the Broadhurst Theatre, will go on hiatus on January 9 (…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMark Rylance will reprise his Olivier Award-winning performance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron in a Broadway production of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem. The production is scheduled to begin perfo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRed Dog Squadron held a holiday party on Saturday, December 18 as a fundraiser for its upcoming production of Karl Gajdusek's greedy, which will run January 8-29 at El Centro Theatre. James…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell joined the New York Pops for a pair of evening holiday concerts on December 10 and 11, as well as a special matinee concert adaptation of Dr. Seuss' H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York Theatre Workshop has announced casting for Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher, adapted from the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, to run February 18 - April 3. Roger Rees…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrenda Braxton, Didi Conn, Kate Flannery, Loretta Swit, and Mary Testa celebrated their official opening in the Off-Broadway production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, at the Westside Theatr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Matilda, A Musical has officially opened at the company's Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The production, directed by Matthew Warchus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, December 9, Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond opened their Broadway show, Donny & Marie - A Broadway Christmas, at the Marriott Marquis Theatre. The show is set to play through …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTM chooses the season's must-have DVDs, CDs, books, audio books and theater-related merchandise.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe world premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Motherf**cker With the Hat, to play the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, will now begin its limited engagement on March 15. Tony Award winner Anna D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMInitial casting has been announced for the New York premiere of Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures, which will be co-p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMiss Polly Rae's The Hurly Burly Show will play a limited engagement at the West End's Garrick Theatre, running March 3 - May 1. William Baker will direct the production, which will have mu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the 2011 Golden Globe Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on January 16 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Ricky Gervais will ho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKaren Ziemba and Noah Racey will headline 42nd Street Moon's And All That Jazz! - A John Kander Salon Evening, to be offered on Thursday January 27 at the Alcazar Theatre. Greg MacKellan wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHoward Sherman, executive director of the American Theatre Wing, has announced that he will not renew his employment agreement with the organization beyond its current term, which ends on Ju…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and R&B legend Darlene Love joined the Broadway cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, playing at the Nederlander Theatre, for a special encore performance on Thurs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lineup of offerings for the 2011 spring season of Works & Process at the Guggenheim has been announced. The program is presented in the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed 285-seat Peter B.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFeinstein's at Loews Regency has announced some of the acts for its winter/spring 2011 season.Engagements will include Lorna Luft in Songs My Mother Taught Me (January 4-9); Brooke Shields (…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) and Julliard will present Road Trip: An American Travelogue in Song, at Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday, January 12 at 8pm. The program is an American tr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcclaimed playwright and director Young Jean Lee will take to the stage, acting, singing, and dancing in a one-woman show at Joe's Pub in April, 2011.The piece is the 11th production from 13…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Rosario Dawson and actress Angie Harmon will announce the nominations for the 17th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Michael Gambon has joined the cast the new HBO series, Luck, according to Deadline.com. The series stars Dustin Hoffman, and is an inside look into the world of horse …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2010 Tony Award winner Scarlett Johansson and her husband, film actor Ryan Reynolds, have separated after two years of marriage, according to published reports."After long and careful consid…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the San Diego Critics Circle Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, in La Jolla …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBianca Marroquin will rejoin the Broadway company of Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre on Monday, December 20, playing Roxie Hart. Marroquin first portrayed the role in the Mexico City pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony nominee Mary Testa, Forbidden Broadway favorite Christine Pedi, Broadway at Birdland host Jim Caruso, The A-List star Mike Ruiz, Village Voice columnist Michael Musto, and drag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmily Bridges has replaced Thora Birch as Lucy Seward in the Off-Broadway revival of of Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston's classic adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Previews for the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVincent Higgins' adaptation of Spike Milligan's book Puckoon will play the Leicester Square Theatre, running March 8-27. Zoe Seaton will direct the Big Telly production, which will feature …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeff Cohen's The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller will play an Off-Broadway engagement at the Arclight Theatre, running February 2 - March 13. Alfred Preisser will once again direct the play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway Kids Care hosted its fourth annual bake sale at Fireman's Park on December 8. The event raised more than $600 for the Shannon Tavarez Foundation, named in honor of the 11-year-old p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles' production of Much Ado About Nothing opened on Sunday, December 12 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Ben Donenberg has directed. The production stars Hele…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGrammy Award winner Bruce Hornsby will star in a live concert entitled Bruce Hornsby Performs the Music of SCKBSTD - The Making of a Musical, to be presented at the Wells Theatre in Norfolk,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarlo Alban, Rob Campbell, Deanne Lorette, Nicole Lowrance and Samantha Soule will appear in a reading of James McLindon's Comes a Faery, to be presented at Irish Repertory Theatre as part o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lineup of artists who will be appearing in the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel in 2011 has been announced.During the winter and spring the venue will be home to shows featuring Eric Coms…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Sinn Nachtrieb has received the first in a quintet of Full Stage Commissions from the National New Play Network (NNPN). The grant provides not only $25,000 to the playwright, but also…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHershey Felder's Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein will replace the solo performer's Beethoven, As I Knew Him in the Asolo Repertory Theatre's season, running June 8-12 in the company's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeanna de Waal will replace original cast member Mary Faber as Heather in the Broadway production of American Idiot, at the St. James Theatre, beginning with tonight's performance, December…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJustin Bond and The Pixie Harlots deliver a fabulously unforgettable gender-bending holiday spectacular.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Unfiltered 2011, studio productions of new plays from The Ensemble Studio Theatre Youngblood program, to be presented January 13-February 5.Haskell King, Kris…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKelly Osbourne will co-star with Miley Cyrus in the action-comedy So Undercover, according to a report in Variety. Tom Vaughan is directing the movie, which will have a screenplay by Allan …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Fred Ebb Foundation has made a $1 million gift to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA). The gift is the largest single donation in the organization's history.In announcing the gra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAfter I replicated Allen Neuner's e-mail on Wednesday, I got a lovely deluge of responses from his asking "So put the question to your loyal readers: which made-for-TV musicals would they se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated roster of performers for the previously announced Broadway Sings for Toys for Tots has been released. The concert will be offered at 7pm on Monday, December 20 at Symphony Space.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWendi Bergamini will assume the role of Miss Olsen in the revival of Promises, Promises, playing at the Broadway Theatre, on December 14. The role had previously been played by Helen Anker.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNeil Patrick Harris will star as Robert in the New York Philharmonic's concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, to be offered April 7-9 at Avery Fisher Hall. Lon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the 2010 Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) Awards, the 2010 Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC), the 2010 New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), the New York Onli…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRenee Fleming has been appointed vice president and creative consultant of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, according to a report in The New York Times.In her new position, the soprano will not o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBruce Horak will star in This is Cancer, co-written with his director, Rebecca Northan, for a free-of-charge performance at Ars Nova, on Sunday, December 19 at 10pm.In the piece, a deluded,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCirque du Soleil and James Cameron are collaborating on a new 3D movie, according to a report in The New York Times. Andrew Adamson is directing the as-yet-untitled project which is in prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for a two performance presentation of Rocky Horror - In Concert to be offered on December 17 at 9pm and midnight at Show At Barre. Tro Shaw will direct the perfor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2010 Tony nominee Christiane Noll will perform a one-night-only benefit of her acclaimed show, The Lyrics of Ira Gershwin at the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC), on Saturday, Ja…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York-area venues, as well as national encore dates, have been announced for the previously reported NT Live presentation of the musical Fela! on January 13.Among the New York City theate…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTed Alexandro, Dave Attell, Lewis Black, Judy Gold, Jesse Joyce, Jim Norton, Jerry Seinfeld, and Colin Quinn will perform in Big Time Comedy Show, at the Beacon Theatre, on Wednesday, Febru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTalk show host Jerry Springer will substitute for the previously reported David Hasselhoff as Captain Hook in the New Wimbledon Theatre's panto production of Peter Pan, from December 31 - Ja…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA talented and sexy ensemble brings this decidedly adult update of the Nutcracker story to life.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlory Crampton's debut solo album Unusual Way is now available for purchase. The recording, released by Jay Records, had previously been distributed through digital outlets such as iTunes.T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress Natalie Mendoza, who plays Arachne in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark at the Foxwoods Theatre, has returned to the show after a 10-day absence having suffered a co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM15 cast members of the hit show Love, Loss, and What I Wore reveal what addition to their wardrobes they want to receive as a holiday gift!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award nominee Lee Daniels has signed on to develop and direct a film adaptation of Nilo Cruz's award-winning Broadway play Anna in the Tropics, according to The Hollywood Reporter. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharles Kimbrough, Lily Rabe, and Matthew Rauch have won Actors' Equity Awards for classical theater, according to a report in Time Out New York.The Joe A. Callaway Award, for performances i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for writer/director Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations, which will play the Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre, January 30-March 6, with an openin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStarkid Productions will present Starship: The Musical at the Hoover-Leppen Theater, February 11-23. The piece features music by Glee's Darren Criss.The musical is set in the distant future…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Alice Ripley's new CD Daily Practice, Volume 1 will be released by Sh-K-Boom Records on February 15. Kurt Deutsch has produced the album.The ten-track recording is a set o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe acclaimed actor discusses working on Broadway's The Merchant of Venice and his upcoming film projects.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Sunday, December 12, the New York Stage and Film Company held their 2010 Winter Gala at the Plaza Hotel's Grand Ballroom. In addition to the entertainment, the evening included tributes t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn initial lineup of celebrities who will be presenters at the Oscars has been announced, according to an Associated Press report. As previously reported, James Franco and Anne Hathaway wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the 2010 Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) Awards, the 2010 Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC), the 2010 New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), and the New York …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Guthrie Theater has announced complete casting for The Winter's Tale, to run January 29 - March 27. As previously announced, Jonathan Munby will direct the production.Shakespeare's dark…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarrington Stage Company has announced its complete mainstage season for 2011. As previously announced, the company's season will open with Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows' Guys and Dolls. J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDeb Berman, Chuck Cooper, Cleve Douglas, Lisa Gary, and Annette Sanders, along with the Barry Levitt Trio, will perform at Urban Stages' 2nd annual Holiday Cabaret Nights Closing Party, to b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJudith Jarosz and David Fuller have announced the formation of Theater 2020. This new theater company builds upon the work of the recently disbanded Theater Ten Ten, where both artists were…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLaura Benanti, Cheyenne Jackson, Bebe Neuwirth, and Steven Pasquale will perform at Manhattan Theatre Club's annual Winter Benefit, to be held on Monday, January 24 at The Plaza. Lynne Mead…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winning writer-director Blake Edwards has died, according to a report in Variety. He was 88.On Broadway, Edwards was responsible for directing the stage version of his hit mov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Kevin Anderson will lead the cast of the Los Angeles run of the world premiere production of Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon, January 25-March 6, with an opening set for Feb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComposer Zina Goldrich & lyricist Marcy Heisler received the ASCAP Foundation Jamie deRoy & Friends Award on Wednesday, December 8 as part of the ASCAP Foundation 15th Annual Awards …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSheryl Lee Ralph -- who received a Tony nomination for originating the role of Deena in the Broadway production of Dreamgirls -- will host Christmas with a Clause, at Samba Universal.The eve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnson Mount will replace the previously reported Glenn Fitzgerald as Solyony in Classic Stage Company's presentation of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, to run January 12-February 20, with an …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHERE Arts Center has announced the lineup for Culturemart 2011, to run January 7-23. The festival will feature 12 mutlidisciplinary works that contain elements of theater, dance, music, new…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the Broadcast Film Critics Association's Critics Choice Movie Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held at the Hollywood Palladiu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow will reprise her role as substitute teacher Holly Holiday on FOX's Glee, according to published reports. No firm timeline for taping or an air date has …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Billingsley, who starred as Ralphie Parker in the 1983 family holiday film A Christmas Story, attended the opening night of 5th Avenue Theatre's production of A Christmas Story: The M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor-playwright Tracy Letts dominates Steppenwolf Theatre Company's powerful and engaging production of Edward Albee's great American drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNatalie Weiss will celebrate the release of her self-titled EP with two performances on January 17 at 7pm and 9:30pm at Trattoria Dopo Teatro. The album will be available for digital downlo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLast week, baseball legend Hank Aaron and his wife Billye Williams attended a performance of Layon Gray's historical drama Black Angels Over Tuskegee at the Actors' Temple Theatre.Based on t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrew Lloyd Webber will not, as previously reported, sell four of his West End theaters to a consortium led by former ITV chairman Michael Grade, according to a report on the website for th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFormer Rent stars Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp preview their January 11 NYC concert which will kick off their national tour.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnnabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn will bring their show You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up to the Snapple Theatre Center, to run January 6-8. The couple has adapted the piece from their memoir of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCole Escola, Joe Icons, Natalie Joy Johnson, and Molly Pope will be among the artists participating in Get Lucky: An Ars Nova New Year's Eve, to be held at 9pm on Friday, December 31. The e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony nominee and Grammy and Emmy Award winner Harry Connick, Jr. will play a limited engagement of Harry Connick, Jr. & Orchestra at Boston's Colonial Theatre, April 26-30.Connick receiv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLindsey Haun will play the title character in the new musical Emily's Song, to run January 9-February 27 at Hudson Backstage Theatre in Los Angeles. Chet Holmes will direct the production, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRex Smith will head the cast of the Blank Theatre Company's revival of Marc Blitzstein's 1937 musical, The Cradle Will Rock, to be presented at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, Februar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlana Arenas, Kate Arrington, K. Todd Freeman, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Sean Allan Krill, James Vincent Meredith, TaRon Patton, Yasen Peyankov, Molly Regan, Namir Smallwood, Samue…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMary Louise Wilson and Gabriel Ebert will star in Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles, to run June 6 - July 6 at the Duke on 42nd Street. Daniel Aukin will direct the production, which is part of Linco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlexa Ray Joel will perform at the Plaza Hotel's famed Oak Room on December 20, 27, January 3, and January 10. The shows begin at 9:30pm, with dinner available beginning at 8pm.Joel's "Notic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Neva Patterson died on Tuesday, December 14 at her home in Brentwood, California due to complications from a broken hip, according to The Los Angeles Times. She was 90 years…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen stars F. Murray Abraham and Rita Wilson will play lawyers in a February episode of CBS' hit drama The Good Wife, according to EW.com.According to EW, the episode focuses on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for Jane Austen's Emma - A Musical Romantic Comedy, to run January 15 - February 27 at the Old Globe Theatre. Jeff Calhoun will direct the production.With bo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lineup has been announced for P.S. 122's COIL Festival, to be presented January 5-15 in multiple venues across the city, including the Abrons Arts Center, The Hudson Hotel, 3lD Art &…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWilliam Apps, Rob Beitzel, Guy Boyd, Louis Cancelmi, Maria Dizzia, Logan Marshall Green, Sue Jean Kim, Nick Lawson, Sarah Lemp, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Julianne Nicholson, Jeremy Strong, Kather…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane will host the Vineyard Theatre's annual gala to be held on Monday, February 28 at 6pm at the Hudson Theatre. Five-time Tony Award-winnin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulie Atherton, Alan Cumming, Meow Meow, Paul Spicer, Hannah Waddingham and Emma Williams will celebrate the release of Lance Horne's CD First Things Last with a concert to be offered at the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Al Pacino will join Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in the film The Irishman, according to a report on MTV Movie Blog. Martin Scorsese will direct the picture, which is sched…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for Prospect Theater Company's one-night-only concert performance of Evergreen: A New Holiday Musical, to be offered on Monday December 20 at 7pm at the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the 17th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on January 30 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Lo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Stephen Colbert will headline a benefit reading of Harold Pinter's Betrayal at Luna Stage on Sunday, January 9 at 7pm. James Glossman will direct.The play follows the seven…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner John Lloyd Young performed a benefit concert as part of the Actors Fund's Musical Mondays series, in the lobby of the Pantages Theatre, on Monday, December 13. The event wa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCabaret star Barb Jungr has scheduled a series of appearances at The Pheasantry, for February 8-12, with an encore appearance scheduled for March 6. In the shows, Jungr will be joined by Ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMedicine Show Theatre Ensemble has announced casting for John Gruen's Dancing Fools, a trio of short comedies, to run January 7-30. Oliver Conant, Stellios Manolakakis, and Barbara Vann wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Sandra Oh, Miles Teller, David Lindsay-Abaire, and John Cameron Mitchell discuss making the film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen actor Anson Mount will star in AMC's new series Hell on Wheels.Set after the Civil War, the series focuses on a Confederate soldier named Cullen Bohannan (to be played by M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRick Holmes, Cady Huffman, Kristen Johnston, Andrea Martin, and Christopher Sieber will join co-creators Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel for the December 31 edition of Celebrity Autobiography: …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBAM, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, and Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York host the 25th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Come Share t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRyan Scott Oliver will celebrate the release of Music+Lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver: Volume 1, his first published songbook of 20 songs from his musicals, with two concerts at Joe's Pub on Feb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Idiot stars John Gallagher Jr., Stark Sands and Michael Esper will offer a special series of performances on Thursday, December 16 at four different Manhattan locations. Presented …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Bill Pullman will join the BBC/Starz series Torchwood as a regular, according to a report on Deadline.com. He will play a clever convicted murderer who escapes his lif…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Bleecker Company has announced casting for Hillbilly Women, to run January 6-30 at the Arclight Theatre. Sondra Lee will direct the production.Based on the book of the same name by Kath…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AML.A. Opera will present the internationally renowned opera star Rene Pape in recital at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday, January 15 at 7:30pm. The recital will include a program of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Tyne Daly will play Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's Master Class, to begin performances on May 24 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in anticipation …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lineup of artists who will join Everett Bradley for his series of previously reported Holidelic concerts to be offered December 17-20 at Joe's Pub has been announced. The artists schedu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles will offer An Evening with Joel Grey on Tuesday, January 18 at 7pm. Pat Mitchell will moderate the event.Grey will be discussing his career on stag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award nominee Kenneth Lonergan will write for the new HBO comedy project Taxi-22, according to a report on Deadline.com. In addition, he will executive produce the show with its pos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarrett Foa will headline Holiday Road: The Soundtrack of John Hughes, a concert to be offered on December 18 at Show at Barre. The event is part of the venue's new interactive theatrical …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer-Prize winning drama, Driving Miss Daisy, starring Tony Award winners James Earl Jones, Vanessa Redgrave, and Boyd Gaines, will now continue …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMartha Plimpton will be the honoree at the Steppenwolf Salutes Women in the Arts luncheon to be held on March 15 at noon at The W Chicago - City Center. Martha Lavey will serve as host for t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Primary Stages' world premiere production of A.R. Gurney's Black Tie, to run at 59 E59 Theateres, January 25-March 20. The production, which will open official…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRalph Fiennes' film version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus will gets its world premiere at 61st Berlin International Film Festival in February 2011.Fiennes will play the title character, the R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShakespeare Theatre Company has announced complete casting for Cymbeline, to run January 18 - March 6. Rebecca Bayla Taichman will direct the production.The company will feature Justin Badg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVarla Jean Merman will launch a tour of her new show, The Loose Chanteuse, at the Cavern Club Theatre in Silverlake CA, running January 6-15. Subsequent engagements include Martinis Above F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWriters' Theatre has announced casting for Brett Neveu's Do the Hustle, to run January 25 - March 20. William Brown will direct the production.The play focuses on a father and son team of h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDane DeHaan and Rebecca Wisocky will guest star on HBO's True Blood, according to a report on Deadline.com. DeHaan will play a teenager who's being looked after by Jason, the character play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner and Golden Globe nominee Jane Lynch will lend her voice to FOX's animated series The Simpsons, according to a report on EW.com. The episode, entitled "Replaceable You," is…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarva Hicks will offer a one-night-only performance of What I Want for Christmas at the Triad Theatre on December 17 at 7pm. Tamara Tunie will direct the piece, which will have musical dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Transport Group will present An Evening With Michael John LaChiusa, an evening of talk and song celebrating the male roles from the composer's musical songbook at 7pm on Monday, January …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComedian Dane Cook, who is scheduled to make his Broadway debut net year in Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, has been cast in an upcoming episode of CBS' hit series Hawaii Five-O as the brother of Da…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDonny and Marie Osmond have added a performance to their Broadway show, Donny & Marie - A Broadway Christmas. They will now play one final performance on January 2 at 3pm at Marriott Ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, James Marino and Matthew Murray REVIEW The Great Game: Afghanistan, Long Story Short, TALK about classic musicals with a Christmas theme, Fat Pig by Neil LaBute w/ Dane Cook …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMKen Bloom isn't at all worried about his first selection. When people see that his alphabetically arranged Hollywood Musicals: The 101 Greatest Song-and-Dance Movies of All-Time starts with …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis music-filled adaptation of Dylan Thomas' tale at the Irish Repertory Theatre is sweet but would benefit from a stronger visual production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis offten irrreverent revue -- filled with plenty of unclothed performers -- feels a bit like a naughty episode of Saturday Night Live.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis absurdist comedy doesn't make much sense, but there are laughs and kicks to be had if you go along for the ride.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe acclaimed actor discusses working on Broadway's The Merchant of Venice and his upcoming film projects.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe American Film Institute has named the top 10 films and television shows of 2010, and will honor the creative ensembles for each of the films and TV shows at a luncheon on January 14 at t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the 2010 Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) Awards. the 2010 Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC), and the New York Online Critics (NYOC) have been announced The S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe original cast recording of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical Brigadoon is one of the recordings that has been named as a 2011 inductee into the Grammy Hall of Fame, according…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Working Theater has announced casting for Stefanie Zadravec's Honey Brown Eyes, to run January 9 - February 6 at the Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row. Erica Schmidt will direct the product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy- and Tony Award-winning actor Mandy Patinkin will once again star in Rinne Groff's Compulsion when the play is performed at The Public Theater, February 1 - March 13. Oskar Eustis will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFred Berman, Sarah Litzsinger, Nora Mae Lyng, and Oliver Vaquer will star in a special exploratory reading of the 1947 musical comedy Barefoot Boy With Cheek at Manhattan Theatre Club's Crea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Elaine Stritch, who is currently starring in the Broadway revival of A Little Night Music, joined Jordan Roth, President of Jujamcyn Theaters, for an installment of the fa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn initial lineup of productions has been announced for the finale of London's Cultural Olympiad, according to a report on the website for the U.K. magazine The Stage. The festival will run …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, currently appearing on Broadway in Promises, Promises, hosted A More Perfect Union: Stories of Prejudice and Power, presented in conjunction with USA Net…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Arcola Theatre has announced full casting for Rebecca Lenkiewicz's The Painter, to run January 12 - February 12, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Mehmet Ergen will direct the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe landmark Philip Glass/Robert Wilson collaboration Einstein on the Beach, An Opera in Four Acts will receive an international tour during 2012-2013.Einstein on the Beach was the first col…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKelli O'Hara and Nathan Gunn will join the New York Philharmonic for a concert of songs and duets from the Golden Age of Broadway to be offered on March 21 at 7:30pm at Avery Fisher Hall. Te…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the world premiere musical Dangerous Beauty, at the Pasadena Playhouse, February 1-March 6. Tony nominee Sheryl Kaller will direct the production, which w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull cast and creative team information has been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of the musical Anything Goes, which will play the Stephen Sondheim The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, December 6, Tony Award winner Cynthia Nixon and Emmy Award nominee John Slattery took part in a one-night only reading of Bill Corbett and Kira Obolensky's Hate Mail on December 6…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, December 6, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts held their annual The Face of Tisch 2010 gala at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, honoring Tony and Emmy Award winner Billy C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen stars Diahann Carroll and Cloris Leachman are among the new inductees into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame, according to a report on Deadline.com…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Vital Theatre Company's Pinkalicious, The Musical will transfer to The Vineyard's Dimson Theatre, beginning December 11 and play Saturdays and Sundays at 1pm through January 30.With book…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHilary Bettis is the initial recipient of a new prize from the Abingdon Thaetre Company that honors the work of a female playwright under 30. The company hopes that the honor will become an …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree-time Tony nominee Marc Kudisch will perform a one-night concert, entitled The Lower Depths: In Defense of the Baritone Voice, at Town Hall, on Saturday, January 15 at 8pm.The show will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMeital Dohan, Sammi Rotibi and Tony Ray Rossi will star in Alan Bowne's Beirut, to run January 5-22 at The Lion Theatre at Theatre Row. The Zoppa Brothers will direct the production.The play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York City Opera will present the New York premiere of Prima Donna, an opera composed by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, in Spring 2012. Tim Albery will direct.The o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for the Off-Broadway production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, at the Westside Theatre.Based on Ilene Beckerman's 1995 book about clothes and the memor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJon Lee will play Frankie Valli at certain performances of the West End production of Jersey Boys beginning March 15. He joins Ryan Molloy who continues in the role, having played it for fou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe website for the Radio City Rockettes, Rockettes.com, has won the Outstanding Achievement Award in Fashion/Style, issued by the Interactive Media Council. The site, which launched earlier…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominees for the Women's Image Network (WIN) Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on January 18 at Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA at which E…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDan Knechtges will direct and choreograph Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn's new musical Lysistrata Jones for the Transport Group in a production to begin previews in the Judson Memorial…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJackie Hoffman's Jackie Five-Oh!: A Celebration of Jackie Hoffman's 50th Birthday has added four performance to its run at Joe's Pub.The newly added performances will be offered on December …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPuccini's La Fanciulla del West or The Girl of the Golden West has returned to the Met for a series of performances commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opera's 1910 world prem there.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMMost every December, I moderate a panel for the Drama League's Christmas Luncheon. In the past, I've interviewed the stars of Wonderful Town, Regrets Only, Cymbeline, The Woman in White and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA.R.T.'s new production of Jim and Ruth Bauer's musical about the entanglements among four Weimar-era historical figures is wholly captivating.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award-winning director discusses her big-screen version of Shakespeare's play, starring Helen Mirren.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Radio City Music Hall's world-famous Rockettes will make a guest appearance on the Christmas episode of The Dr. Oz Show on Monday, December 13.In addition to the Rockettes' performance, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Dick Van Dyke's has cancelled the production of his autobiographical show Step in Time - A Musical Memoir at the Geffen Playhouse, which had been scheduled to run untiul Ja…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMViolinist Alexander Markov will perform a New Year's Eve concert at the Russian Tea Room, beginning at 9pm.VIP tickets include a five-course dinner and a private classical concert by Markov.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress/dancer/choreographer/producer Suzana Stankovic will present benefit performances of Predestined, at TADA! Theater, on December 17 and 18 at 8pm.This dance-theater and story-driven pe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlenn Davis, Brad Fleischer, Hrach Titizian, Sheila Vand, Necar Zadegan, and Arian Moayed will join the previously reported Robin Williams in the Broadway production of Rajiv Joseph's Benga…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDr. Gilda Carle will participate in a post-performance talkback following the 3pm matinee on Sunday, December 19 of Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage, playing at at the Dow…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met today for the first time this season to decide the eligibility of 12 Broadway productions for the 2011 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, prese…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLarry Hagman will guest star on ABC's Desperate Housewives, according to published reports. The episode, to be aired later this season, will begin shooting next week.Hagman will be playing a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIn anticipation of the special Private Screenings: Liza Minnelli, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has released a sneak preview of the legendary star's conversation with host Robert Osborne. As p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPatricia Conolly, Michael Countryman, Francesca Faridany, Mikaela Feely-Lehmann, Rick Holmes, John Keating, Peter Maloney, Jaime Ray Newman, Patricia O'Connell, Jeremy Shamos, Joey Slotnick …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Academy Award winner Mercedes Ruehl will star in Sarah Treem's The How and The Why, to run January 7 - February 13 at the McCarter Theatre. Emily Mann will direct the production.Tre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the West Coast premiere of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, to be presented by American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), January 20-February 13. As previously …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, December 9, The League of Professional Theatre Women honored Chita Rivera, Kamilah Forbes, and Lynn Nottage at the organization's awards luncheon at Sardi's Restaurant.Charles R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVirginia Stage Company has announced casting for the new musical SCKBSTD, to run January 18 - February 6. John Rando will direct the production, which will have musical supervision by Kim Gr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee and Obie Award-winning founder of the Living Theatre Judith Malina will be among the participants in a panel discussion on the history of Off-B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Emmy Award nominee Jeffrey DeMunn will play Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, to run January 22 - February 27 at the Old Globe Theatre. Pam MacKinnon will direct t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdam Riegler, who plays Pugsly in Broadway's Addams Family, will join the previously announced guest stars Jill Abramovitz, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Kevin Chamberlin, Alexander Gemigani, Nicole Le…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and American Idol alum Frenchie Davis will perform in Sweet Soul Music, a one night only concert at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts on Sunday, January 30 at 7:…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Gallagher, Jr., Rebecca Naomi Jones, and Steven Pasquale will perform at New York Stage and Film's 2010 Winter Gala, to be held on Sunday, December 12 at The Plaza Hotel. All proceeds f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway Backwards 6 will be performed on Monday, February 7 at 8pm at the Longacre Theatre. The event is being presented by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Radio City Christmas Spectacular has added five additional shows to its annual New York run, and will now close on Friday, December 31 following the 3pm performance.The show features num…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award nominee and Broadway veteran Carey Mulligan will co-star in the forthcoming film Shame, according to Variety. The film features a screenplay by Steve McQueen and Abi Morgan.Sha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPerformers have been announced for two concerts of all new holiday songs, to be presented at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, as part of The Church of S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Royal Court Theatre has announced complete casting for Richard Bean's The Heretic, to run February 4 - March 19. Jeremy Herrin will direct the production, which will be designed by Peter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlfie Boe, Colm Wilkinson, Simon Bowman and John Owen-Jones' rendition of "Bring Him Home" from Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's Les Miserables will be available for download on i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRed Bull Theater has announced complete casting for The Witch of Edmonton, which will begin previews at the Theater at St. Clement's on January 25 in anticipation of an official opening on J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for a revival of Mike Leigh's Ecstasy, to be directed by the playwright at the Hampstead Theatre, March 10-April 9. Set in 1979, the action revolves around a group…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJonathan Danciger, Nick Fletcher, Selina Griffiths, Alexandra Maher, Larry McCartney, George Rainsford, and Trevor White will star in Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales at the Lyric Hammersmith, acc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Phyllis Frelich and Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin will guest star on CBS' CSI, according to a report on EW.com. The episode featuring the actresses' appearance is tent…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 19-year-old Broadway star talks about working with Julie Taymor, Bono, and The Edge in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award nominee Brenda Blethyn enlivens Edna O'Brien's otherwise dreary play about three unhappy Londoners.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDonald Margulies' Time Stands Still, starring Laura Linney, Brian d'Arcy James, Eric Bogosian, and Christina Ricci, will conclude its run at Broadway's Cort Theatre on Sunday, January 30.Whe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee's Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, and Darren Criss, along with Herbie Hancock, Barry Manilow, Donna Summer, Diana Krall, Tony Bennett, and Stevie Wonder will pay tribute to Barbra Streis…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 2010 WGA Awards TV nominations have been announced. The prizes will be presented in ceremonies to be held in New York and Los Angeles on February 5.Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Rob…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for Walnut Street Theatre's all-new production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, to run January 18-March 6, with an opening on January 26. Malcolm Black will direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new musical comedy Lucky Guy, written and directed by Willard Beckham, will play a 12-week limited engagement Off-Broadway at the Little Shubert Theare, April 28-July 24, with an opening…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJonathan Silverstein will now direct the Old Globe Theatre's production of Ayub Khan-Din's Olivier Award-winning comedy, Rafta, Rafta..., March 19-April 24. Henry Wishcamper, who was previou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Grandage's production of King Lear officially opened at the Donmar Warehouse on December 7. Starring Derek Jacobi in the title role, the production is scheduled to run through Febru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJacques Brel Returns ...The Music of Brel, Blau, Shuman and Jouannest en Cabaret has extended its run at The Triad, and will now be offered on Wednesday, January 5; Monday, January 10, and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSix-time Emmy Award nominee Jeffrey Tambor will play Georges opposite four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein as Albin in the 2010 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of La Cage Aux Fol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award and Academy Award winner Liza Minnelli will appear on the season finale of NBC's The Apprentice, to air December 9 at 10pm on NBCIn the last episode of the show, one of the contes…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for a concert reading of Mark Weiser's musical The Cure, to be offered on December 13 at 7pm at the Roy Arias Theater. Elizabeth Lucas will direct the performance…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Alan Cumming has joined the cast of the forthcoming film Maladies, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The film stars James Franco as a young actor who decides to retire d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDarius de Haas and Judy Kuhn will be guest vocalists for Frank and Tony and Peggy and Me: Making Music with the Great Singers, to be offered at the 92nd Street Y, January 8-10, as part of th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Flatley is scheduled to appear in Lord of the Dance in 3D, according to a report in Variety. Marcus Viner has directed the film, which will be released on March 17.The movie, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis epic work about the history of Afghanistan is often compelling and superlatively acted.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarol Channing, Kristin Chenoweth, Sean Hayes, Douglas Hodge, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bernadette Peters, Adam Riegler, Seth Rudetsky, Molly Shannon, and Broadway's best singers and dancers come …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAward-winning actress Kathleen Chalfant will star in Noor Theatre's concert reading of Betty Shamieh's Fit for the Queen: A Tragicomedy, to be offered on December 13 at 7:30pm at The Fourth…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlan Cumming, Ari Gold, Billy Porter, and David Raleigh's previously announced recording of the classic song "That What's Friends Are For" is now available for download on iTunes. Proceeds …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNancy Anderson, Tammy Grimes, Edward Hibbert, and Steve Ross will perform live in I Like America: Noël Coward in the USA, at the Paley Center on Thursday, December 16 at 6:30pm.The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Mint Theater Company has announced casting for Arnold Bennett's What the Public Wants to run January 13 - March 13. Matthew Arbour will direct the production.The play is a satirical loo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProducer and former Broadway performer Edmund Gaynes will receive a special Legacy Award at the Dancers Over 40 gala, to be held at Swing 46 Restaurant on Sunday, December 12 at 2pm.Fred Cur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway League has released its 13th annual report, The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2009-2010, which compares current theatergoing habits to previous seasons in predicting tre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn initial lineup of performers has been announced for a benefit concert to be held at 5pm on Sunday, December 19 at Sweetwater Farm Bed & Breakfast and Grace Winery in Glen Mill, PA. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull cast and creative team information has been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of the musical Anything Goes, which will play the Stephen Sondheim The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania goes behind the scenes for the creation of the Roundabout Theatre Company's advertising campaign for Anything Goes starring Sutton Foster.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComposer Alan Menken and lyricist David Zippel are developing a new musical comedy series for ABC, according to a report on Deadline.com. Marco Pennette is slated to be the writer of the sho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen veteran Adrienne Barbeau will guest star on CBS' CSI: New York, according to a report on EW.com. She is scheduled to appear in a February episode of the series and will pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Strathairn is set to star in Syfy's new drama Alphas, according to a report on TVGuide.com.The series will center on a group of ordinary people with exceptional mental abilities who ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSo I see that a delightful personal nemesis of mine has died. Hillard Elkins succumbed to a heart attack last week at the age of 81. Doing the math, I now see that he was only 38 when I met …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrew Lippa will perform and participate in a Q&A at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue (30 West 68th Street) on Monday, December 13 at 7:30pm. The event will be moderated by journalist H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis fun show about the end of an all-female radio program is perfect for the ladies.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe award-winning costume designer talks about working on Mark Morris' The Hard Nut, which returns to BAM this month.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDeborah Voigt and Marcello Giordani star in the Metropolitan Opera's workman-like revival of Puccini's opera about a saloon owner who falls in love with an outlaw.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis epic work about the history of Afghanistan is often compelling and superlatively acted.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShoshana Bean will offer two concerts at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday, December 13 at 7:30pm and 10pm. In the performances, Bean will deliver a mix of original tunes along with covers of numbe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 22nd annual Gypsy of the Year competition was held at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Monday, December 6 at 4:30pm and Tuesday, December 7 at 2pm. The event is the culmination of six weeks …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony nominee Brandon Victor Dixon will star as James Brown in the one-night only tribute concert, Indomitable: James Brown The Music and The Man, to be presented at Le Poisson Rouge, on Frid…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for Sinatra: Dance With Me, to run December 11 - January 29 at Wynn Las Vegas. The production has been conceived, choreographed, and directed by Twyla Tha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Cate Blanchett will reprise her role of elfin queen Galadriel in the upcoming Peter Jackson-helmed film of The Hobbit, according to EW.com.The film is based on J.R.R. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook has announced complete casting for Monty Python's Spamalot, to run December 30 - March 6. William Osetek will direct the production, which will have choreo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright David Mamet will voice a cartoon version of himself on the FOX series, The Simpsons, according to EW.com.The episode, which will air on January 23, features Mamet as a writer on a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLauren Samuels and Christopher Pym will co-star in Jason Robert Brown's two character musical The Last Five Years, to run February 9 - March 5 at the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick. Drew Baker wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKerry Ellis, Brian May, and Adam Pascal will come together for Anthems: the Concert, to be offered at Royal Albert Hall on May 1 at 8pm. The event will raise funds for Leukemia & Lympho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLauren Class Schneider talks to Dick Scanlan about turning points.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, James Marino, and Matthew Murray discuss A Free Man of Color, The Coward, Les Misérables at Paper Mill, The first week of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Two new musicals clo…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMReports on Glee's Christmas Album; Carols for a Cure, as well as discs from Lea DeLaria, Annie Lennox, Bryn Terfel and more.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis updated musical revue about one of America's favorite pastimes is light and bright entertainment.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDodie Smith's play about two sisters coming of age is sure to capture a lot of hearts.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRebecca Northan's improv-based show about the vagaries of human intimacy is so good it may leave audiences yearning for a repeat fix.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony-nominated actress talks about starring in the hit musical Billy Elliot and her dream role.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional details have been announced for Tony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth's New Year's Eve concerts, which she will perform at 7pm and 10:30pm on Friday, December 31 at the Wal…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe stars of the new Broadway musical Elf -- Sebastian Arcelus, Matthew Gumley, Beth Leavel, and Amy Spanger -- will be on hand for the 87th annual New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Christmas T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMQuentin Earl Darrington, who starred in last season's Broadway revival of Ragtime, will be featured in a reading of the new musical, Ocean in a Teacup, to be presented at the Roy Arias Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Ten Chimneys Foundation has announced its list of 2011 Lunt-Fontanne Fellows, who will be in residence at Ten Chimneys for a week in July for an intensive weeklong master class and retre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDetails have been announced for the Hollywood portion of TV's Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2011 to air on December 31, according to published reports.Singer and act…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSally Mayes will offer a pair of Valentine's Day concerts at BACKSTAGE dopo teatro @ Trattoria Dopo Teatro on February 12-13. The intimate solo performances will feature music appropriate fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey circus will skip New York City due to the upcoming renovation of Madison Square Garden, according to a report in The New York Times.According to the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNBC will launch the second season of its a cappella singing competition, The Sing-Off on Monday, December 6.The series will be hosted by Nick Lachey, and the season's judges will be Ben Fold…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWriter/performer Daniel Beaty's award-winning solo show, Through the Night, will resume performances at the Westside Theatre on January 24. The production, directed by Charles Randolph-Wrigh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRed Dog Squadron has announced casting for Karl Gajdusek's greedy, to run January 8-29 at El Centro Theatre. James Roday, who stars in the USA Network's television series psych, will direct …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn DiFusco, Nicole Scipione, Alex Wells, Michael Byrne, Donna Luisa Guinan, Geoffrey Hillback, Amanda Landis and John Landis will be featured in the New York premiere of the late Jovanka B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe musical Rock of Ages will go on a temporary hiatus, ending its run at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on January 9. The production will then re-open at the Helen Hayes Theatre in mid-March. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRAIN - A Tribute to The Beatles On Broadway will move to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre after it ends its run at the Neil Simon Theatre on January 15. The production is scheduled to begin perfo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Shoshana Bean, Joey Taranto, Carrie Manolakos, and Donna Vivino were among the performers at a cabaret-style benefit to raise money for Trinity Place, a shelter for GLBTQ Y…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Geffen Playhouse has announced two additional shows for its 2011 season.In Mother Words will run February 15 - May 1, with an opening on February 23. Conceived by Susan Rose & Joan S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLance Bass will be the special guest star at the December 16 performance of Anthony Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding, playing at St. Luke's Theatre. Bass, perhaps best known as a membe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for International Press Academy's Satellite Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on Sunday, December 19 at the Hyatt Regency Cen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlice Ripley, who's currently continuing her Tony Award-winning performance as Diana in Next to Normal at the Ahmanson Theatre, sat down with Access Hollywood recently to talk about her work…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTelevision host Robin Roberts and award-winning actress Alfre Woodard joined artistic director Judith Jamison for the opening night of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's New York season at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNeil Patrick Harris will host the 8th annual Video Game Awards (VGAs), to be presented on December 11. The ceremony, which will feature a performance by the rock band My Chemical Romance, wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeffrey Wright, who stars in the Broadway production of A Free Man of Color, will be joined by fellow cast members Veanne Cox and Joseph Marcell for a pre-performance talk about the show in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe biomusical Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story will launch a U.K. tour with an engagement at the Dartford Orchard Theatre, to run February 1-5. Matt Sailsbury will direct the production, which…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFour-time MAC Award-winner Richard Skipper will present an Off-Broadway engagement of his critically acclaimed show, Richard Skipper as "Carol Channing" in Concert, at St. Luke's Theatre, be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA new mini-museum on the history of Times Square will open at the newly renovated Times Square Visitor Center Monday, December 6.The newly renovated $1.1 million Times Square Visitor Center …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Irish Tenors line-up of Finbar Wright, Anthony Kearns, and Ronan Tynan is reunited for a multi-city tour this Christmas holiday season. Among the stops is an engagement at New York City'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lineup for the Drama League's DirectorFest 2010 has been announced. This 27th annual presentation of one-act plays staged by the League's Fall Fellows will be offered at the TBG Theatre …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSinger and comedian Lea DeLaria will host readings from Best Lesbian Erotica 2011, published by Cleis Press, at the December edition of the long-running reading series, Drunken! Careening! …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProducer Hillard Elkins has died, following a heart attack, according to a report in Variety. He was 81. Among the shows that Elkins brought to Broadway were the musicals Golden Boy and The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Tom Wopat will be guest vocalist when stage and television star Linda Purl plays a two performance engagement at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, January 26-27 at 8:30pm. Te…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBenjamin Walker's Find the Funny will begin a run at The Tank on December 7 at 9:30pm. The show, which will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, will subsequently be offered at the ven…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRoger Bart, Michael Ian Black, Rachel Dratch, Eugene Pack, Joe Pantaliano, Dayle Reyfel, and Karen Ziemba will star in the Long Wharf Theatre's production of the award-winning Celebrity Auto…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJerry Mayer's Dietrich and Chevalier: The Musical will now end its run at St. Luke's Theatre on Saturday, December 11, instead of the previously announced December 26. The production, direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Board of Review (NBR) has announced the winners of its annual awards, according to a report in Variety. Meredith Vierira will host the ceremony on January 11 at which the prize…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJim Brochu, Michael Cumpsty, Alison Fraser, Elizabeth Inghram, John Martello, Brian Murray, Elena Shaddow, A.J. Shively, Emily Skinner, Mary Testa, and Lenny Wolpe will be featured in Projec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJoe's Pub has announced additional artists who will be playing the club in upcoming weeks.Highlights will include Mike Daisey performing his new monologue Teching in India (December 28); Ste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will be honored at the Drama League's A Musical Celebration of Broadway, to be held on Monday, February 7 at the Pierre Hotel. Tony Award winner Cady …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Sundance Film Festival has announced the lineup of films to be seen during the Festival's run, January 20-30 in Park City, Utah.Films getting their premiere at the festival include Dito …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColin Quinn's one-man show Long Story Short has extended its run at Broadway's, Helen Hayes Theatre. The production, directed by Jerry Seinfeld, will now play through February 5. In the show…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Goodman Theatre has announced the line-up for its eighth annual New Stages series of brand new plays. The script-in-hand staged readings will take place in the Goodman's Owen Theatre ove…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric will guest star on the February 6 episode of FOX's hit series Glee, according to published reports. The show will air immediately following the conclusio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNominations for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, honoring the best in music, were announced on December 1. The ceremony will be held on February 13 in Los Angeles and aired live on CBS.The nom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFour-time Grammy Award winner Lyle Lovett will join the cast of the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles' production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, to run December 1-19 at the Kirk Do…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNews veteran Paula Zahn will now host Great Performances' From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2011, PBS' annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, to air on January 1 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, December 2, members of the press met the cast of The Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which is set to play America…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGerald McCullouch and Dan Via will reprise their roles in Via's Daddy, which will make its West Coast premiere at the Hudson Mainstage in Hollywood, January 8-February 13. Rick Sparks will d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEric Comstock's Bitter/Sweet will be released by Harbinger Records on December 6. As previously announced, the debut of the disc will be celebrated with a performance and CD-signing at Barn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNeil Dingow, Katie Iacona, Rebecca Kopec, Brian Maxsween, Andrew J. Overcash, and Katherine Wright will perform in My Story, a cabaret performance to be held on December 22 at 8pm at Manhatt…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJosh Brolin will produce, direct and star in a film adaptation of Dominique Cieri's 1979 play Pitz and Joe, according to a report in Variety.The piece focuses on a young man with brain damag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe rock and roll giant discusses his gig in Broadway's Rock of Ages, his radio show, and his upcoming memoir.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWestport Country Playhouse has announced casting for a special family holiday script in hand reading of The Greatest Gift, to be presented Monday, December 13 at 7pm. Mark Shanahan will dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Kitson's one-man show The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church will play a limited engagement at St. Ann's Warehouse, January 6-30.The piece focuses on man who's trying to accomplis…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Margo Martindale has joined the cast of FX's Justified, according to a report on TVGuide.com. The second season of the show is expected to premiere sometime in February.M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJim Brochu, Alison Fraser, Elizabeth Inghram, John Martello, Brian Murray, Elena Shaddow, A.J. Shively, Emily Skinner, Mary Testa, and Lenny Wolpe will be featured in Project Shaw's presenta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular singer spreads both holiday cheer and tears in this satisfying new show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHampstead Theatre has announced complete casting for Nina Raine's Tiger Country, to run January 13 - February 5, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Playwright Raine will direct the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veteran Reiko Aylesworth -- best known for her television roles as Michelle Dessler on 24 and Rachel Tobin on Damages -- will appear as a potentially recurring character on CBS' Hawa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Amoralists have extended its production of Obie Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp's Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, playing at Theatre 80 St. Marks, through December 12. Pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Dance Theater Workshop plan to merge their organizations into a combination producing and presenting entity to be called New York Live Arts. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGuest stars have been announced for Tony Award nominee James Barbour's concerts at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California.James Snyder will guest star on Monday, December 6 at 8pm. Tommy …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Metropolitan Opera celebrates the centenary of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West with a rousing revival starring the great Deborah Voigt.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMCarrie Fisher's one-woman show Wishful Drinking will be the subject of an HBO feature-length documentary, to premiere on Sunday, December 12. Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey will direct the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRachel Bonds' worthwhile play focues on a pair of co-workers struggling to connect with each other.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWhen Jacob Shoesmith-Fox started going to the theater, it was Les Miserables, The Lion King and Aida (twice). "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was a show I memorized every word …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Kelly revives his visually arresting dance-theater piece based on the life and work of Expressionist painter Egon Schiele.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBread & Puppet's latest spectacle is both understated and confusing.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKirjan Waage's ingenious puppet creations bring this utterly charming sci-fi tale to life.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony-nominated actress talks about starring in the hit musical Billy Elliot and her dream role.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe British Independent Film Awards were presented in a ceremony on December 5.Helena Bonham Carter received the Richard Harris Award for her contribution to British film, while also being n…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEntertainment Weekly has published its 2010 "Entertainers of the Year" issue.The magazine gave its top nod to country singer Taylor Swift. Other celebrities on the list include the cast of G…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner George Clooney will co-produce the film version of Lucy Prebble's play Enron, according to a report in UK's The Observer.Clooney may also direct the film, as well as app…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarrie Fisher's one-woman show Wishful Drinking will be the subject of an HBO feature-length documentary, to premiere on Sunday, December 12. Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey will direct the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRachel Bonds' worthwhile play focues on a pair of co-workers struggling to connect with each other.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrian Stokes Mitchell discusses performing with the New York Pops, co-starring in Women on the Verge, and his wishes for the holidays.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElaine Kaufman, owner of the legendary restaurant Elaine's, has died from complications stemming from emphysema. She was 81 years old.Kaufman opened Elaine's, which was located on Second Ave…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEntertainment Weekly has published its 2010 "Entertainers of the Year" issue.The magazine gave its top nod to country singer Taylor Swift. Other celebrities on the list include Glee's Jane L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award nominee Robert Downey Jr. will work on a new musical with Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt, who won the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize for Next to Normal, according to published report…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for Classic Stage Company's presentation of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, to run January 12-February 20, with an opening on February 3. Austin Pendleton …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress Natalie Mendoza, who plays Arachne in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark at the Foxwoods Theatre, is temporarily out of the show, having suffered a concussion during …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJennifer Jason Leigh will join the previously reported Edie Falco and Ben Stiller in the upcoming Broadway revival of John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves. David Cromer will direct the pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEnsemble Studio Theatre-LA and Circle X Theatre Co. will offer a joint season in 2011 at the Atwater Village Theatre.EST-LA will kick off the season with a world premiere by Oscar-nominated …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Michele Pawk, along with playwright Adam Bock and director Trip Cullman, will appear at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center on Tuesday, December 7…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAracaWorks has announced preliminary casting for a a five-day, five-play series celebrating new plays, to be offered December 6-10 at 7pm at The Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam St…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Campbell Scott has joined the cast of Columbia Pictures' forthcoming Spider-Man movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.As previously reported, stage veteran Andrew …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons will guest star on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, according to an Associated Press report. He will appear on an episode that will air in e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBeyond the Ingenue, a debut solo album from Niffer Clarke, is now available for purchase and digital download. The recording has been produced by Twice As Alive Productions and Richard Cars…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChuck Berry's classic 1958 song "Run, Run, Rudolph" has been added to the finale of the Broadway production of Million Dollar Quartet, playing at the Nederlander Theatre. In addition to its…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUpdated casting has been announced for a concert of music from Jawbreaker, a new musical based on the cult-classic film, at the Canal Room on Sunday, December 12, at 9pm. Jen Bender will di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, December 1, weekly drag show So You Think You Can Drag concluded with a final competition to crown a winner at the Time Out New York Lounge at New World Stages. Judges for the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, December 2, Addams Family star Carolee Carmello, Elf's Beth Leavel and Matthew Gumley, singing group Wilson Phillips, cast members from Rock of Ages, and U.S. Olympic Figure Ska…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBAMcinematek will salute Oscar winner and Broadway veteran Susan Sarandon with a four-day-long, 13-film tribute, February 10-13, at the BAM Rose Cinemas, according to The New York Times.BAM …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the 2011 Whatsonstage.com Awards have been announced.The musical Legally Blonde has received the most nominations: a total of seven and it's followed by the Menier Chocol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHarlem Stage has announced its 2011 spring season.Among the offerings at the venue in the first part of the year will be director Elise Theron's adaptation of Jonot Diaz' The Brief Wondrous …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKathy Griffin will offer a one-night only performance at The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach on Tuesday, March 29 at 8pm. Griffin is well known for her p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA stage version of the 1935 Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire film Top Hat, starring Summer Strallen and Tom Chambers, will tour the UK in 2011, according to published reports. Matthew White wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarlo Alban, Tina Chilip, and Obie Award winner Ching Valdes-Aran will star in a revival of Ralph B. Pena's Flipzoids, to be presented Off-Broadway by the Ma-Yi Theater Company at the Peter …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatt Leisy will assume the role of Matt in the Off-Broadway company of The Fantasticks, playing at the Snapple Theatre Center, on December 6. He replaces Erik Altemus, who will play his fin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominees for IFC's 2011 Spirit Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on February 26 at 2pm at the beach in Santa Monica. Joel McHale will hos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will be the guest at the February 6 edition of Jordan Roth's Broadway Talks series, to be offered at the 92nd Street Y at 7:30pm.During the course of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristina Bianco, Seán Curran, James Franco, Whoopi Goldberg, Marcia Gay Harden, Isaiah Johnson, Jesse L. Martin, Krysta Rodriguez, Paul Shaffer, Noah Weisberg, Robin Williams, an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProspect Theater Company has announced casting for a one-night-only concert performance of Evergreen: A New Holiday Musical, to be offered on Monday December 20 at 7pm at the Church of St. P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMaggie Bofill, Audrey Esparza, Nate Miller, Puy Navarro, Ana Reeder, and Jeanine Serralles will star in a one-night-only performance of Florencia Lozano's Busted, as part of Rising Phoenix's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGeorge Wendt, Charles Edward Hall, Jim Sherman, and Jeff Skowron discuss the ins and outs of playing iconic holiday characters.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe schedule of special events to be offered in December at Barnes and Noble Lincoln Triangle has been announced.On December 6 at 7:30pm, David Friedman and Lucie Arnaz will appear to discus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Laura Benanti, currently appearing on Broadway in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, received the Broadway Speaks OUT! Hero Award at the second annual Very MARY Chr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDouglas J. Cohen received the sixth annual Fred Ebb Award for aspiring musical theatre songwriters at a ceremony held at the Penthouse Lobby of The American Airlines Theater on Monday, Novem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMark H. Dold and Martin Rayner will reprise their portrayals of C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud, respectively, in a return Off-Broadway engagement of Mark St. Germain's Freud's Last Session, at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania has officially launched BroadwayMania, the new Facebook app where players can test their theater knowledge through a series of games and quizzes in conjunction with rating shows…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Kristin Scott Thomas' new film, Sarah's Key, will open the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on January 27. During the festival, which runs through February 6, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe stars of FOX's hit series Glee -- including Broadway veteran Lea Michele -- will perform on the December 5 edition of the hit British television show, The X Factor, according to publishe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHere comes a rash of closings. January 2 will see the expected end of Brief Encounter, Elf and The Pee-wee Herman Show. Two classic musicals -- Promises, Promises and West Side Story - will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York City's stages are full of holiday-oriented and family fare this month to please both children and adults.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis new musical about six ordinary New Yorkers feels overlong and often unbelievable.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe riveting Alice Ripley leads a superb cast in the national tour of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical about a troubled family.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 25th anniversary production of the beloved musical is expertly directed, beautifully sung, and passionately acted.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHolly Hughes and Tim Miller return to New York City with new shows dealing with same-sex marriage.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has now been announced for L.A. Theatre Works' presentation of The Graduate, to perform at the Skirball Cultural Center, December 8-12. John Rubinstein will direct the performa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Wexner Center for the Arts has announced its schedule for its 2011 winter/spring season, which will include previously announced appearances by Anna Deavere Smith and Philippe Quesne.Smi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe North American tour of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal opened at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, on Sunday, November 28.The musical, written b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced a one week extension for Heidi Schreck's There Are No More Big Secrets, which will now close on December 18. Kip Fagan has directed the product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Living Theatre has announced principal casting for Judith Malina's Korach, to run December 8 - February 28. Malina will direct the world premiere of her script, which will be accompanie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMManhattan Theatre Club has announced complete casting for David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, which will begin previews on February 8 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, in anticipation of an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe York Theatre Company honored Thomas Meehan with the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre at a gala at The Racquet & Tennis Club on Monday, November 22.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames Franco and Anne Hathaway will co-host the 2011 Oscar ceremony, according to published reports. The 83rd Annual Academy Awards will air live on ABC on February 27, 2011.Franco is curren…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the Collegiate Chorale's concert version of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's Knickerbocker Holiday, to be offered January 25 -26 at Alice Tully Hall. Ted Spe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" will be among the songs featured on the November 30 episode of FOX's hit series Glee. The song, which was written for the mus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, will end its run at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre on January 2 after a run of 120 performances.The cast stars Benjamin Walker in the tit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Kevin Spacey will play the title role in Shakespeare's Richard III, as part of the final season of The Bridge Project, beginning at the Old Vic on June 18, before coming to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award-winning creator, original star, and composer of the musical In the Heights, will star as Usnavi in the musical's national tour stop in San Juan from Novemb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular singer spreads both holiday cheer and tears in this satisfying new show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSteven Banks' tale of a couple looking at New York's holiday store windows just before they spring to life suffers from some strained attempts at humor.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe rock and roll giant discusses his gig in Broadway's Rock of Ages, his radio show, and his upcoming memoir.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNominations for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, honoring the best in music, were announced on December 1. The ceremony will be held on February 13 in Los Angeles and aired live on CBS.The nom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDecember highlights include Irving Berlin's White Christmas, The Borrowers, This Is the Week That Is: The New Administration, The Santaland Diaries, Miss Witherspoon, and Dublin Carol.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFOX has confirmed that Mel Marvin and Timothy Mason's "Welcome Christmas" will be one of the songs performed on the December 7 episode of the hit series Glee. The song was originally heard …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Sundance Film Festival has announced the lineup of films to be seen in competition during the Festival's run, January 20-30 in Park City, Utah.Among the films in the dramatic competition…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Graham Phillips, currently featured in CBS' The Good Wife, will be among the performers at the annual Tree Lighting Ceremony at Citi Pond at Bryant Park, on Thursday, Decemb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis new adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic story will more likely please those unfamiliar with the tale than purists.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel relies too heavily on comedy and special effects.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMABC is developing a drama series for Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, according to a report on Deadline.com. On the show, Menzel will play a single mother, who sings at weddings and bar mitz…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCelebrity participants have been announced for the 22nd annual Gypsy of the Year competition, to be held at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Monday, December 6 at 4:30pm and Tuesday, December 7 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMValerie Harper will guest star on ABC's Desperate Housewives, according to a report on TVGuide.com. Her appearance is scheduled for the second new episode in 2011.Harper will play Claire, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway revival of That Championship Season, to be directed by Gregory Mosher, will begin previews at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre on February 9, with an opening set for March 6.Jason M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOpera singer and theater veteran Peter Hofmann died of pneumonia on Tuesday, November 30 in a hospital in Bavaria, according to The New York Times. He was 66.The Czech-born Hofmann began his…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBest-selling author Terry McMillan will join the cast of Broadway's Fela!, performing at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, for a post-show discussion following the Saturday, December 4, 2pm matine…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Grammy Award-winning music group Black Eyed Peas will perform during halftime of Super Bowl XLV.on February 6 at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas. The Black Eyed Peas latest album, The Beginnin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee star and Broadway veteran Lea Michele will receive the Triple Threat Award at the 2010 Billboard Women in Music Event on Thursday, December 2.At the event, Billboard will also honor Jaz…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPrincipal casting has been announced for the new musical production of the The Wizard of Oz. Jeremy Sams will direct the production, which will feature both music from the 1939 film and new …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Dominic Chianese will star as Scrooge in a concert version of A Chamber Christmas Carol at Morgan Library & Museum, on Friday, December 17 at 7:30pm. Casey Biggs wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBirdland has announced an updated schedule for December 2010.Performing artists will include Patrick DeGennaro (December 6), James Barbour (December 12-13), Christine Ebersole and Billy Stri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veteran Jason Butler Harner has joined the cast of J.J. Abrams' time-warped drama Alcatraz, according to EW.com.Actors Jonathan Coyne, Jorge Garcia, and Sarah Jones have also been cast…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMAC Award winner Natalie Douglas will perform two shows at the Duplex on Friday, December 31.At 8pm, Douglas will perform Lena & Nina... A Tribute to Two Great Ladies, featuring the musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe current stars of Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still -- Laura Linney, Brian d'Arcy James, Eric Bogosian, and Christina Ricci -- have extended their run in the show, playing Broadway's Co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Laurence Olivier Awards, which honor the best in British theater, will be held on March 13 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, according to Whatsonstage.com. Full nominations for the Olivi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDecember highlights include Daniel Jenkins and Meghan McGeary in The Blue Flower, Ryan Landry in Mrs. Grinchley's Christmas Carol, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Jim Dale and Jane Kra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSouthwark Playhouse will present a production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1970 musical Company, February 2-March 12, according to Whatsonstage.com. The production will be directed…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Women's Initiative, a group of dramatists active in the Dramatists Guild of America, will present the symposium "Women in Theater: Achieving Gender Parity," at The Players Club, on Satu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFour-time Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh and film star and theater veteran Ally Sheedy were on hand to introduce a special advance screening of the new film Ten Stories Tall at AMC Empire 25 on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLiza Minnelli, Cheyenne Jackson, Kenneth Cole, and Mondo Guerra rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, November 30 in honor of World AIDS Day, which is held on Wedn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for Theatrical Gems' benefit presentation of the 1961 musical Wildcat, at the Julia Miles Theater at 7pm on Sunday, December 19. Jacob Shoesmith-Fox directs …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndy Karl, Lindsay Mendez, Orfeh, Elizabeth Stanley, Sally Wilfert, and Betsy Wolfe will perform in the concert New York City Christmas, at Joe's Pub on Monday, December 20 at 7pm. Proceeds …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDeclan Bennett, Sean Bradford, Gerard Canonico, Brian Crum, Steven Cutts, Brandon Victor Dixon, Frankie James Grande, Adam Kantor, Morgan Karr, Chelsea Krombach, Tracy McDowell, Graham Phill…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJillian Armenante, Richard Gilliland, Hamish Linklater, Camryn Manheim, Kathy Najimy, Jason Ritter and Jean Smart will perform in Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays at Largo at the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Hotel Savant has announced casting for John Jahnke's Men Go Down (Part 3: Black Recollections) at the 3LD Art and Technology Center, running January 6-23. Jahnke has both written and di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRob Evan, Jack Murphy, Laura Osnes, and Marlyn Sanchez will join celebrated composer Frank Wildhorn for a one-night-only performance of An Intimate Evening with Frank Wildhorn & Friends …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark will begin previews on Sunday, November 28, with an official opening scheduled for January 11.The show is directed by Tony Award winner Jul…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPaul Taylor Dance Company, Pilobolus, Eiko and Koma, Mark Dendy, Shen Wei and Ariane Reinhart will perform in a tribute that celebrates the life and work of Charles L. Reinhart, to be held a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA new CD Dare to Go Beyond is being released this month, with proceeds from the sale of the disc benefitting the nonprofit organization R.Evolucion Latina, which works to inspire growth with…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway and cabaret star Karen Mason will offer her annual Christmas show at Iridium Jazz Club at 8pm and 10pm on Tuesday, December 14. The show is directed by Barry Kleinbort.Mason will pe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSouthern California Public Radio's Crawford Family Forum in association with CoActive Content will present a staged reading of Stacey Martino's play, The Gift of Peace at 89.3 KPCC in Pasade…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening, by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, will embark on its first UK tour next year.Produced by Sell a Door theatre company, the tour will be direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Gallo, Set Designer, talks to Lauren Class Schneider about story telling as it relates to design.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMA look at the new Off-Broadway musical about how a group of friends react to a life-altering event.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMIt was the month that the unsinkable Sarah Palin, whose words are so well-received by so many, got her non-word "refudiate" named Word of the Year and placed in The Oxford English Dictionary.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Scottsboro Boys will play its final performance at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway on December 12. The production, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, will have played 49 perfor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPodcast: Peter Filichia, James Marino, Matthew Murray and Michael Portantiere discuss Angels In America, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Evita(at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Mus…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMGotta get my old tuxedo pressed. Gotta sew a button on my vest. For on this Tuesday night Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m., I'll be at Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center (Broadway at 66th Street) to talk …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark sold over $1 million dollars worth of tickets within 24 hours of the show's first preview performance, which was held at the Foxwoods Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHoliday panto entertainment includes David Hasselhoff portraying Captain Hook in Peter Pan, while Marianne Elliott directs Alan Ayckbourn's Season's Greetings, Derek Jacobi headlines Michael…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis month's highlights include Florence Lacey in Sunset Boulevard, the national tour of South Pacific, Swingtime!, Mojo, Oy Vey in a Manger, A Girl's Guide to Washington Politics, The Mous…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReviews of the Tangled soundtrack, London cast of Once Upon a Mattress, new music from Scott Alan and Sam Davis and more.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDecember brings A Christmas Carol, various versions of The Nutcracker, Lula Belle in Search of Santa, Seven in One Blow, or the Brave Little Kid, Little Red, Snow White, Momentum, and a re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis month's highlights include Black Nativity, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, The Judy Garland Special, The Torch Bearers, Crandal's Bag, Children of Eden,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe national tour of Shrek the Musical arrives in San Francisco, Cheryl Burke headlines the SF engagement of Forever Tango, Penny Fuller stars in the new musical A Christmas Memory, and Mary…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDecember highlights include Irving Berlin's White Christmas, The Borrowers, This the Week That Is: The New Administration, The Santaland Diaries, Miss Witherspoon, and Dublin Carol.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDonny and Marie Osmond reunite for Donny & Marie - A Broadway Christmas, Brian Bedford directs and stars in The Importance of Being Earnest; Ethan Hawke, Natasha Lyonne, and Daphne Rubin-Veg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe national tour of Billy Elliot the Musical dances into the Twin Cities, with other highlights including All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, A Don't Hug Me Christmas Carol, Anthony F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDick Van Dyke in Step in Time!--A Musical Memoir, Helen Hunt in Much Ado About Nothing, Kathleen Turner and Matthew Rhys in The Graduate, and the new touring production of West Side Story ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwyla Tharp directs and choreographs SINATRA Dance With Me, while holiday offerings include A Signature Christmas, The Santaland Diaries, and Andy Williams Christmas Show. This month's headl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMConstantine Maroulis stars in the national tour of Rock of Ages in Fort Lauderdale, with other December highlights including Young Frankenstein in Fort Myers, Radio City Christmas Spectacula…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the Evening Standard Awards have been announced. The Best Play Award went to Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park; the award for Most Promising Playwright went to Anya Reiss Spur of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDecember highlights include Amy Morton and Tracy Letts in Steppenwolf's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a return engagement of the musical Wicked, the Goodman's A Christmas Carol, John Sche…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDecember highlights include Daniel Jenkins and Meghan McGeary in The Blue Flower, Ryan Landry in Mrs. Grinchley's Christmas Carol, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Jim Dale and Jane Kra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Elton John will perform a special benefit concert on Wednesday, January 19 at a private home in Beverly Hills to raise funds for the American Foundation for Equal Rights. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Signature Theatre Company's revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes has now extended until March 27. The production is directed by Michael Greif.As…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWill Eno will appear at the Vineyard Theatre on December 4 beginning at 5:15pm for a book-signing. The event will be held in conjunction with the publication of his play Middletown by TCG B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMemphis stars and Tony Award nominees Montego Glover and Chad Kimball, along with Tony Award winner Denis O'Hare, recently seen on Broadway in Elling, were among the participants who came ou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor Leslie Nielsen has died in Florida at age 84, according to published reports. Nielsen studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse, but appeared only once on Broadway in the short-lived 1952 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe York Theatre Company has announced preliminary casting for the next three musicals that will be presented publicly as part of its Developmental Reading Series. Nancy Opel, Mark Price and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHuntington Theatre Company has announced complete casting for Lynn Nottage's Ruined, to run January 7 - February 6. Liesl Tommy will direct the production, which will have choreography by R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRebecca Luker will join Howard McGillin for his December 6 performance at Feinstein's at Loews Regency. Joseph Thalken will serve as musical director and pianist for McGillin's engagement a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGreen Day frontman and American Idiot co-author Billie Joe Armstrong will return to that musical's Broadway production for 50 performances at the St. James Theatre, beginning January 1. He …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, November 30, Chita Rivera, Joanna Lumley, Ana Gasteyer, Kelly Rutherford, and Star Jones were among the celebrities that joined Duracell at the Duracell Mobile Smart Power Lab to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, November 29, stage and screen veterans Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci hosted the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Awards at Cipriani Wall Street. Presenters included Julia…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPatti Murin will play Emma Woodhouse opposite Adam Monley's Mr. Knightley and Will Reynolds' Frank Churchill in Jane Austen's Emma - A Musical Romantic Comedy, to run January 15 - February 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTo be sure, as we approach Thanksgiving we want to count all the blessings in our lives. Here's hoping that you have plenty in yours. I know I have plenty in mine - including the fact that y…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare's fine performances often redeem the problematic script and misguided direction in this play about two mismatched buddies.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSo it's Black Friday -- not to mention equally Black Saturday and Black Sunday - where many of us will start Christmas shopping in earnest. But what to get the theater enthusiast? For those …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBirdland has announced an updated schedule for December 2010.Performing artists will include Patrick DeGennaro (December 6), James Barbour (December 12-13), Christine Ebersole and Billy Stri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMAC Award winner Natalie Douglas will perform two shows at the Duplex on Friday, December 31.At 8pm, Douglas will perform Lena & Nina... A Tribute to Two Great Ladies, featuring the musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Laurence Olivier Awards, which honor the best in British theater, will be held on March 13 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, according to Whatsonstage.com. Full nominations for the Olivi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSouthwark Playhouse will present a production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1970 musical Company, February 2-March 12, according to Whatsonstage.com. The production will be directe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPrincipal casting has been announced for the "revisal" of the musical The Wizard of Oz. Jeremy Sams will direct the production, which will feature both music from the 1939 film and new songs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel relies too heavily on comedy and special effects.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Pearl Theatre Company breathes new life in Henrik Ibsen's lesser-known drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis double-bill of Harold Pinter one-acts features Lisa Emery in a true tour de force performance.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania reviews new books by Ricky Martin, Lady Antonia Fraser, and Mike Birbiglia.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDirector Jerry Zaks and a top-notch cast led by Katey Sagal, Michael McKean, and Adriane Lenox turn this revue of Randy Newman's songs into a delightful evening.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKneehigh Theatre Company presents this darkly enthralling and decidedly adult-oriented adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndre De Shields stars in Charles Smith's lively play about the family of African-American activist W.E.B. Du Bois.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJennifer Grey and partner Derek Hough were named champions of the 11th season of ABC's Dancing With the Stars on Tuesday, November 23. The show is hosted by Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke.The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLiza Minnelli, Stockard Channing, Tyson Beckford, Kenneth Cole, and the Broadway Inspirational Voices choir will lead an event on Wednesday, December 1 at 5:30pm when the lights on the histo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSarah Pfisterer will headline Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston's It's ChristmasTime, to run December 3-12. The holiday spectacle, which includes the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Ted…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Lombardi star sits down with TheaterMania for a revealing chat about his play, its fans, and the lowdown on the power sweep!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, November 22, Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, where it will run through December 22. Jo Bonney directed the production, which features David D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGrammy Award winner Melissa Manchester will provide the vocals for the Rubicon Theatre Company's ballroom dance concert piece, Fascinating Rhythms, to run December 1-19. Cate Caplin will st…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGQ magazine has announced its 2010 Men of the Year honorees, which feature outstanding achievers, leaders, and renegades that have impacted our society, from entertainment and music to sport…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJarrod Spector, who currently stars as Frankie Valli in the Broadway production of Jersey Boys, will launch The Oak Room's new Monday Night Supper Club Series at The Plaza Hotel, November 29…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Jane Alexander and Vanessa Redgrave participated in a discussion with filmmaker Linda Yellen at The Paley Center on Sunday, November 21.The event was a look back at the 19…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCher, Nicole Kidman, Helen Mirren, Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Radcliffe, Kevin Spacey and a slew of stage stars will fill the big screen this season.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Antony, Megan McGinnis, Laila Robins, Michael Rupert, Bryce Ryness, James Snyder, and Morgan Weed will join previously announced star Jenny Powers in the world premiere musical Dangerou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Olympia Dukakis will play attorney Debby Marsh on the January 5 episode of NBC's Law & Order: SVU, according to TVGuide.com.The episode will also feature guest star…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Rachel York will join Peter Nero and the Philly Pops for their Holiday Pops! concert, December 4-22 at Verizon Hall.Other special guests will include organist Peter Richard …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJason Forbach's holidaytime EP, Remembering to Dream, will be available for digital download on December 14.The three-track album includes the title track penned by Forbach with Joey Singer,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWriter and performer Wallace Shawn was joined by Bob Balaban, Deborah Eisenberg, Josh Hamilton, Sakina Jaffrey, Fran Lebowitz, Emily McDonnell, Julianne Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, Peter Care…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA roster of guest artists has been released for The Joe Iconis ChristmasSpectacular, to play December 17-December 19 at Ars Nova. John Simpkins will direct the production.Songwriter Iconis …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElling, which had been scheduled to run until March 20 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, will now close on Sunday, Novmeber 28 after a run of nine performances and 22 previews, according to Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner and two-time Emmy nominee Jane Krakowski participated in a Friday, November 22 lighting ceremony at the Empire State Building. The tower lights of the building were turned …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Cole and David Krane's musical The Road to Qatar will play the York Theatre Company, January 25 -February 27. Casting and creative team will be announced shortly.With book and lyric…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMClassic Stage Company will present Alan Cumming and Brian Cox in a special staged reading of John McKay's play ,Dead Dad Dog, on Monday, November 29 at 8 pm. The reading will be staged by B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Endowment for the Arts has announced that it has recently awarded $26.68 million through 1,057 grants to nonprofit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and R&B legend Darlene Love will join the Broadway cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, playing at the Nederlander Theatre for a special encore performance on Thu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBuddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott's comedy Devil Boys From Beyond will now conclude its Off-Broadway at New World Stages on Saturday, December 4. The work, which is directed by Elliott, opene…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, November 22, Lincoln Center Theater Executive Producer Bernard Gersten and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Executive Director Tom Viola were honored at The Acting Company's Masq…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJim Brochu's one-man bio drama, Zero Hour, will end its run at the Actors Temple Theater on January 9. Piper Laurie has directed the production.In the piece, Brochu plays Zero Mostel as he'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Barlow, Stephanie Janssen, Brent Langdon, and Robert Emmet Lunney will join the previously announced F. Murray Abraham and Jan Maxwell in a reading of Howard Barker's Gertrude, to be o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlex Brightman, F. Michael Haynie, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Carrie Manolokos, and Lindsay Mendez will perform in a concert reading of 35mm, at Urban Stages on Monday, December 13 at 7pm and 9p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBorders has announced the line-up of celebrities who will appear in December for book readings and signings.Among the participants at its Columbus Circle in the Time Warner center are Carol …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company has announced its productions for its upcoming 2011 season, to run April 14-November 5 at its two theaters in Stratford-Upon-Avon.Productions will include Marat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJanet Carroll, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Mary Stout, Barbara Walsh, and Bree Williamson will star in a benefit reading of Joyce Carol Oates' I Stand Before You Naked, at the Gerald Lynch Theater…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPodcast: James Marino, Matthew Murray and Michael Portantiere discuss Elling, Bells are Ringing at Encores, Devil Boys From Beyond, John Simon, Spiderman, the 2011 Tony Awards at the Beacon.…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMDavid Duchovny stars in Neil LaBute's intriguing new play about the sole survivor of a violent office shooting.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCher, Nicole Kidman, Helen Mirren, Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Radcliffe, Kevin Spacey and a slew of stage stars will fill the big screen this season.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNick Jones' lighter-than-air romp about a foppish nobleman is further enhanced by director Sam Gold and his cunningly comic cast.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Civiians' latest docu-musical is an often-compelling look at the fight over Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards project.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIn anticipation of the November 23 release of Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family on DVD and Blu-ray, Lionsgate has released a video clip in which cast members discuss their experiences …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Sharon Gless will once again star in Jane Prowse's play, A Round-Heeled Woman, when it makes its Southeastern premiere at Florida's GableStage, December 30-January 30.The p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 2010 American Music Awards were presented in a ceremony held at the Nokia Theatre on Sunday, November 21 and broadcast live on ABC.Justin Bieber picked up four awards, including Artist …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNora Ephron will make an appearance at the Long Wharf Theatre on Saturday, December 4 at 3pm. Roxanne Coady will moderate A Conversation with Nora Ephron, which is being offered by the grou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLost's Matthew Fox and actressOlivia Williams will headline Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep, to run March 3-June 4 at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre according to a report on What…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndre Holland and Jay Wilkison will join the previously announced Andre Braugher in Manhattan Theatre Club's Off-Broadway production of The Whipping Man, by Matthew Lopez. Tony Award winner …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Cafe Carlyle has announced the lineup of performers who will appear at the venue during its winter 2011 season.Two-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole will return to the Caryle wit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway stars Kate Baldwin, Alexander Gemignani, Aaron Lazar, and Christiane Noll, cabaret legend Marilyn Maye, and Essential Voices USA, a New York based ensemble singing group led by Ju…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWomen's Project has announced casting for Lynn Rosen's Apple Cove, which will begin previews on January 29 in anticipation of a February 6 opening. Giovanna Sardelli will direct the product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) held its ninth annual GLAAD OutAuction at the Metropolitan Pavilion on Sunday, November 21.The auction raised over $100,000.In additio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStars from stage and screen have autographed and outfitted stuffed animals to support Maddie's Corner, the charity founded by Kristin Chenoweth, and its "Dogs Do Pink" campaign for Breast Ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnna Deveare Smith has won United Solo Festival's uAward, which recognizes an artist's achievements in popularizing the concept of one person shows.The prize was presented in a ceremony host…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, November 22, members of the press met the cast and creative team of Playwrights Horizons' upcoming production of Adam Bock's A Small Fire. The production will be directed by Trip …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe original cast recording of Spencer Green and Gary Stockdale's Bukowsical will be released by Kritzerland in late December. The show, originally seen at the Sacred Fools Theater and then…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMcCarter Theatre Center has announced casting for David Thompson's adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, to run December 5-26 in the Matthews Theatre. Michael Unger will direct …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel will make her debut with the New York Philharmonic in a concert to be offered on February 5 at 8pm at Avery Fisher Hall. Tony and Academy Award winner Marvin …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristophe Mirambeau, Ken Bloom, and Barry Kleinbort's revue Meotrpolita(i)n, which played the Laurie Beechman Theatre earlier this month, will be preserved with an original cast recording. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFlashdance The Musical, which had previously been booking through February 26 at the Shaftesbury Theatre, will now complete its West End run in London on January 15. With music by Robbie Rot…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSoho Rep has announced that its presentation of Jomama Jones: Radiate, running December 29 - January 15, will coincide with the release of the performer's new album, also called Radiate. Ky…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lineup of artists scheduled to appear as part of the 11th annual Winter's Eve, an outdoor holiday festival to be held on Monday, November 29 along Broadway from Columbus Circle to 68th S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis double-bill of Harold Pinter one-acts features Lisa Emery in a true tour de force performance.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York Stage and Film will honor actress Laura Linney and Jujamcyn Theaters President Jordan Roth at its 2010 Winter Gala, to be held on Sunday, December 12 at The Plaza Hotel. All proceed…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBlair Brown, Kathleen Chalfant, T.R. Knight, Angela Lansbury, Sam Rockwell, George Takei, and more help Brendan Fraser, Denis O'Hare, Jennifer Coolidge and the cast of Elling celebrate their…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe shortlist for the Evening Standard Awards has been announced. The winners will be announced in a ceremony to be held on Sunday, November 29 at The Savoy hotel. Stephen Fry will be maste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New Group has announced revised casting and the creative team for Tommy Nohilly's Blood From A Stone, to run December 13 - February 5 at Theatre Row. Scott Elliott will direct the produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTabatha Coffey will be the special guest star at the December 2-4 performances of Anthony Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding, playing at St. Luke's Theatre. Coffey is perhaps best known…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarb Jungr has announced a series of performances to be offered around the country, which will begin with a November 28 concert at Joe's Pub. The events are being held in conjunction with t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAsolo Repertory Theatre has announced that it will offer a one-night-only performance of An Intimate Evening with Frank Wildhorn & Friends on December 21 at 8pm. The event replaces a pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Reichard will offer a one-night only concert at the Triad Theatre on Friday, December 10 at 9pm. At the performance, he will offer classic Christmas tunes, popular American standards…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrenda Braxton will offer It's a Wonderful Life, a one-night-only holiday concert, at the Triad Theatre on December 12 at 8pm. Michael Mitchell will serve as musical director. The performa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Donna Murphy discusses taking on her first animated role in Disney's new 3-D film Tangled.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRoberto Alagna soars in the title of role of Nicholas Hytner's stirring new production of Verdi's opera at the Metropolitan Opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhylicia Rashad gives a stand-out performance as a spiritual healer in Arena Stage's premiere of Marcus Gardley's challenging new play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRichard Easton, currently appearing on Broadway in Elling, and Mary Louise Wilson will star in a Food For Thought lunch hour theater presentation of Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache at the Pal…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA number of theater veterans will be making appearances with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra during the coming year.Tony Award winner Idina Menzel will join the orchestra on Thursday, Febr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Mario Lopez will serve as the Parade Marshal for The 2010 Hollywood Christmas Parade Benefiting Marine Toys For Tots, to be presented live in Hollywood, CA on November 28, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA number of stars will be participating in U.K. pantos this year.As previously reported, Pamela Anderson will reprise her role as Genie of the Lamp in New Wimbledon Theatre's production of A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUpdated casting has been announced for Christmas Eve With Christmas Eve, a benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, to take place at 7pm on Monday, November 29 at The Midtown T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJerry Mayer's Dietrich and Chevalier: The Musical will end its run at St. Luke's Theatre on December 26. The production, directed by Pamela Hall, opened on June 20.Starring Robert Cuccioli …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGrammy Award winners Noel Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, of "Peter, Paul, and Mary" fame, will join the New York Choral Society for a holiday concert at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Travolta and wife Kelly Preston are parents to son Benjamin, according to a report on People.com. The child was born on Tuesday in Florida. Travolta and Preston also have a daughter, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, currently appearing on Broadway in Promises, Promises, will host "A More Perfect Union: Stories of Prejudice and Power," presented in conjunction with US…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNicole Kidman, along with husband Keith Urban, will appear on the November 30 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Their appearance will be in anticipatio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Robert Cuccioli and Merwin Foard will join James Barbour for his Sunday, December 12 holiday concert at Birdland, while Morgan James will join Barbour for the concert on M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCatching up with the other Boy From Oz, who has a new CD on the Sony Masterworks Broadway label and who's about to return to NYC with a gig at Feinstein's.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMI liked to call him "the round-the-clock nurse of the fabulous invalid." He was John Willis, the editor of the Theatre World annuals and administrator of the Theatre World Awards. John died …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Tony Danza and Henry Winkler and television personality Joy Behar are among the 2011 recipients of AARP The Magazine's Inspire Awards, which pay tribute to extraordinary pe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMusic legend Patti Smith has won the National Book Award for nonfiction for her memoir Just Kids, according to a report on EW.com. The book centers on her life in New York in the 1970s and h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veterans Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna, Dick Van Dyke, and Ace Young will be among the celebrity participants in The 2010 Hollywood Christmas Parade Benefiting Marine Toys For Tots, to be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Sarah Jessica Parker and former New York City Ballet dancer Damian Woetzel will host Battle of the Nutcrackers: Dancer Off on the Ovation network.The series is schedule…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Daniel Sunjata will join the cast of ABC's Grey's Anatomy in a recurring role, according to TVGuide.com.He will first appear in the December 2 episode. His character will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColin Firth and Natalie Portman will be honored at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, according to a report in Variety. The festival runs January 6-17, 2011. Mary Hart will emcee …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA hard-working cast can't overcome the limits of Eliza Clark's script, set in an alternate reality where a prolonged military conflict is waged on American soil.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Roberta Maxwell has joined the 2011 acting company for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and will portray the Duchess of York in Richard III and the Nurse in Titus Androni…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran John Treacy Egan will star as Ebeneezer Scrooge in Westchester Broadway Theatre's production of the new musical A Sleepy Hollow Christmas Carol, December 1-26.Based upon the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStuart McQuarrie and Jason Watkins will join the previously reported Lorna Brown, Sarah Goldberg, Michael Goldsmith, Lucian Msamati, Sam Spruell, and Sophie Thompson in the West End producti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway and Hollywood producer Scott Rudin has been named the 2011 recipient of the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Motion Pictures, according to published reports.Among Rudin's prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFunk It Up About Nothin', a hip-hop "ad-rap-tation" of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, will be presented at New York City's Joe's Pub on January 8, prior to its previously repo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Rosemarie DeWitt will join Emily Blunt and Mark Duplass in an as-yet-untitled, semi-improvised film project, to be directed by Duplass, according to published reports. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMZina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler's musical Dear Edwina will play a limited engagement at the DR2 Theatre, December 17-February 25. Timothy McDonald will direct the production, which will have…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA preliminary lineup of guests has been announced for Murray Hill's A Murray Little Christmas, to be offered on December 18 at 7pm and 9:15pm at Le Poisson Rouge. The show will feature a mix…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRebecca Northan's Blind Date will play Ars Nova, December 2-20, with an official opening on December 6. In the show, Northan plays a Parisian temptress who goes on a blind date with a differ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPatrick Breen, Liza Colon-Zayas, Diane Davis, Ned Eisenberg, Liza Fernandez, Sam Ghosh, Grant Harrison, Jennifer Ikeda, Matthew Jellison, Judy Kuhn, January LaVoy, Frances McDormand, Kevin O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBruce Davison, John Getz and Tom Virtue will join the previously reported stars Kathleen Turner and Matthew Rhys in L.A. Theatre Works' presentation of The Graduate, to perform at the Skirba…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMInitial casting has been announced for The Book of Mormon, a new musical comedy by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Tony Award winner Robert Lopez. As previously reported, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for a new edition of Rick Crom's NEWSical the Musical, to begin performances on December 13 at The Kirk at Theatre Row, in anticipation of an official opening on J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen veterans Patrica Clarkson and Stanley Tucci will co-host the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Awards, to be held on Monday, November 29 at Cipriani Wall Street. Presenter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Leslie Jordan will begin a four-week run of his solo show My Trip Down the Pink Carpet at Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury in London in February, according to a report on Whatso…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBobby Cannavale, Ira Glass and Moby are among the performers who will make video appearances in the live concept album Goodbar, to be offered by Waterwell at 7:30pm on Monday December 6 at I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarsha Mason will host a special invitation-only award ceremony at the completion of the United Solo Festival on Sunday, November 21 at Theatre Row.All performers at United Solo Theatre Fest…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChicago Blackhawks Ambassador and Hall-of-Famer Bobby Hull will make a guest appearance in the Goodman Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol on Tuesday, December 14 at 7:30pm.Hull will a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Glee recording of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" has risen to the top of Billboard's Digital Songs chart, with 214,000 copies sold. The song features lead vocals by new cast member Darren …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRyan Reynolds has been named People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" for 2010.Other stage veterans on the "Sexiest Men" list include Jon Hamm, Matthew Morrison, and Jesse Williams, along with …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWriter/performer Daniel Beaty's award-winning solo show, Through the Night, will play its final performance Off Broadway at the Union Square Theatre on Sunday, December 5. At that time, it w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 2010 Audelco Awards, honoring excellence in Black Theatre, were presented at Harlem Stage/Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.'s Marian Anderson Theatre, on Monday, November 15.The Billie Holiday Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulie Andrews will host Great Performances' From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2011, PBS' annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, to air on January 1 at 8pm ET (chec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKevin Chamberlin, Lauren Kennedy, Kelli O'Hara, Billy Porter, Antonique Smith, and Alysha Umpress are among the stars scheduled to appear at Broadway Sings for Toys for Tots, to be held at 7…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBruce Vilanch will host a special performance of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays at Largo at the Coronet on Monday, December 6. The event will raise funds for the American Found…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShoshana Bean, Deborah S. Craig, Nick Dalton, Morgan James, Katie Kern, Eric Michael Krop, Bobby List, Carrie Manolakos, Tracy McDowell, Jonathan Shew, and Katie Thompson will perform in a c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Irish Repertory Theatre has announced casting for Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales, to run December 8 - January 2. Charlotte Moore will direct the production, which will have m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA preliminary line-up of celebrity guests has been announced for Universal Studios Hollywood's "Grinchmas" Celebration, which will include readings of the classic Christmas tale, Dr. Seuss' …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHector Lugo will star in the title role of La Contessa's Christmas Carol, a campy spin on Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale. The benefit performance will be presented at the Lesbian, Gay…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Brian Dennehy will star in John B. Keane's The Field, to premiere at Dublin's Olympia Theatre, January 13 - February 12. The production, to be directed by Joe Dowling, will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhoenix Theatre Ensemble has announced casting for Tom Stoppard's Hapgood, to run December 2-12 at the Wild Project. John Giampietro will direct the production.The play centers on a female B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHenry Goodman will star in Ryan Craig's new play The Holy Rosenbergs, which begins performances on March 8 at the National Theatre's Cottesloe. The production will be directed by Laurie San…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony nominee Gavin Creel will offer concerts at the Factory Theatre in Toronto, Ontario on Sunday, November 28 at 7:30pm and at the Ryles Jazz Club in Boston, Massachusetts on Satur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, Jeff Bowen, Catherine Cox, Tom Kitt, Lisa Lambert, Greg Morrison, Denise Summerford, Barbara Walsh and Brian Yorkey will be the performers a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Shirley Knight, Rufus Collins, and Heidi Schreck will join previously announced stars Sam Waterston and Brian Murray in Simon Gray's The Old Masters, to run January 19-Febr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLea Delaria will host the previously reported benefit concert, You Are Not Alone, to be held at St. Paul the Apostle Church on Monday, November 22, at 8pm. Michael Rader will direct.The conc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLAByrinth Theater Company will present its annual signature benefit Celebrity Charades 2010: Fight Night on Monday December 6 at St. Paul's Hall. This year's participants are scheduled to in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe British Independent Film Awards will be presented in a ceremony to be held on December 5.Helena Bonham Carter is to receive the Richard Harris Award for her contribution to British film,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFOX has just released a photo of stage and screen legend Carol Burnett, who will make her previously reported guest appearance on FOX's hit series Glee on November 23 as the mother of the ch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCirque du Soleil kicked off the final season of its family-friendly holiday show, Wintuk, at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, by renaming 33rd Street "Wintuk Way." Cast members unveiled…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New York premiere of Adam Rapp's first play, Ghosts in the Cottonwoods opened at Theater 80 on Saturday, November 13. Rapp has directed the production, which is being presented by The Am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast and creative team of Ghost The Musical celebrated its official launch at the famed Abbey Road Studios, on Thursday, November 18. The show will begin performances at the West End's P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSeries creator Ryan Murphy discusses working with Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow on the November 16 episode.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReal Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Guidice (center) and her two children Gabriella (left) and Milania (right) met stars Dorsel, Tank, Bubbles and Jellyfish of the Off-Broadway hit Joh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of Chicago celebrated the 14th anniversary of the show at the Ambassador Theatre on Sunday, November 14. A cake was presented to the cast backstage during intermissio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChita Rivera was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) gala, held at The Hudson Theatre on Sunday, November 14. The evening also h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMI envy St. Martin de Porres. The 16th century Peruvian was said to have the ability to be in two places at one time. I, alas, cannot, and as a result, I'm missing two events between Friday a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhyllis Newman and George S. Irving will participate in the Saturday, November 20 matinee post-show talkback of the City Center Encores! production of Bells Are Ringing. The show, which runs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReviews of CDs from David Campbell, Mark Salling, Jennifer Sheehan, and seven more singers.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winner Cher will participate in a Hand and Footprint Ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday, November 18 at 5pm. Cher has been performing at the Coliseum at C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for Wonderland - A New Alice. A New Musical, which will play a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ferguson Hall at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Perf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCompany XIV will present the world premiere of Nutcracker Rouge, at the company's home in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, December 10-January 9, with an opening on December 12.Described as "a Bar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for a revival of Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston's classic adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, to run December 14 - March 13 at the Little Shubert Theater, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Oscar winner Liza Minnelli and stage and screen star Arlene Dahl were among the attendees at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International Grand Re-opening Ceremony, held on Tuesd…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Cafe has announced some of its December offerings.On Friday, December 3, the latest edition of Sondheim Unplugged will take place, with special g…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New York premiere of Craig Wright's Mistakes Were Made, opened Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theater, on Sunday, November 14. Dexter Bullard directed the production.The play is about…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEllen Burstyn, Carol Kane, Amy Dawson, Bryony Hannah and Tobias Menzies will join the previously announced Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, to be …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, November 16, the cast of Broadway's Billy Elliot became the latest addition to the Wall of Fame at Tony's di Napoli Restaurant. The show is currently in its second year on Broadw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe stars of Glee -- including cast members Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, and Amber Riley -- will embark on a five-date concert U.K. tour in June 2011…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for José "Pepe" Martinez and Leonard Folgia's mariachi opera, To Cross the Face of the Moon / Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, which will be offered for a fou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStockard Channing, S. Epatha Merkerson, Justina Machado, Rosie Perez, Ben Stiller, George C. Wolfe, Lynn Whitfield, Jeffrey Wright and more stars celebrate the Broadway opening of John Guare…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Vineyard Theatre is postponing its new version of the Alan Jay Lerner-Burton Lane musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, which was previously announced to begin in January 2011. Pre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania takes a sneak peek at the 25th Anniversary National Tour of Les Misérables
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis will play Abraham Lincoln in the film version of Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of the president, according to EW.com. Steven…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of participants has been announced for the York Theatre Company's 19th Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre gala, to be held at The Racquet &am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJenn Gambatese will replace the previously announced Allison Case in Theatrical Gems' benefit presentation of the 1961 musical Wildcat, at the Julia Miles Theater at 7pm on Sunday, December …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMObie Award winner Sam Gold, who has directed the Roundabout Theatre Company's sold-out run of Tigers Be Still, has been named a Roundabout Associate Artist.The title is a way for the company…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, November 18, rock star Dee Snider -- currently starring as Dennis in Broadway's Rock of Ages -- joined the School of Rock music program's All Stars for a one-hour afternoon conc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGoodspeed Musicals has announced the productions for its 2011 season, which will begin with My One and Only (April 15-June 25), featuring a book by Timothy S. Mayer and Peter Stone, and usin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony nominee Liz Callaway will be the special guest star in the New York City Gay Men's Chorus' holiday concert, Sing Your Brass Off!, at Town Hall, on Sunday, December 19 at 3pm and 8pm.The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKate Baldwin will join the previously announced Charles Busch, Emily Skinner, Bobby Steggert, and Mary Testa in the Transport Group Theatre Company's annual gala, Gimme a Break, to be held o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Off-Broadway company of author and star Anthony Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding celebrated its 100th performance at St. Luke's Theatre, on Thursday, November 18. Teresa A. Cicala …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for the new musical Betty Blue Eyes, which will begin performances at the West End's Novello Theatre on March 19, according to a report on Whatsonstage.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDanny Burstein will play Buddy Plummer and Ron Raines will play Benjamin Stone in Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, to run May 7 - June 19 in the Eisenhower Theatre at the John F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new musical Million Dollar Quartet will play the Noel Coward Theatre in London, beginning February 8, with an opening set for February 28. Casting will be announced at a later date.The m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNBC has released a promotional clip for the November 20 episode of Saturday Night Live featuring stage and screen star Anne Hathaway, who will host the episode, and series co-star Bill Hader…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSt. Ann's Warehouse has been conditionally designated as the primary tenant of the Tobacco Warehouse, a Civil War-era structure located in the Empire Fulton Ferry section of Brooklyn Bridge …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Donmar Warehouse has announced casting for its spring season, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com.Jamie Lloyd will direct William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's The 25th Annual Putnam …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Angela Bassett, Claire Danes, and Kelsey Grammer may all be coming to television.Bassett has been signed to play New York's first female police commissioner in the ABC pilot O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAfter Faith Prince had her landmark success with Adelaide in Guys and Dolls in 1992, many musical theater enthusiasts were heard to say, "Wouldn't she make an ideal Ella Peterson in Bells Ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe celebrated performer returns to Joe's Pub to discuss The Addams Family and turning 50 in Jackie Five-Oh!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdam Rapp's early play about an unusual family reunion is like a furious assault on the senses.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Nichols' play about a group of expatriate teachers in Florence gets an involving, well-acted production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis new play about real-life singer Alessandro Moreschi has little to recommend it.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHunter Ryan Herdlicka, who stars as Henrik in Broadway's A Little Night Music, performed his one man show, I (Still) Happen to Like New York at Feinstein's at Loews Regency on Monday, Novemb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Boston Pops, under the direction of Keith Lockhart, has announced special guests for its Holiday Pops season at the Prudential Center's Symphony Hall, December 8-26.Tony Award winner Jim…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJustin Burford and Amy Lehpamer will star as Drew and Sherrie in the Australian production of the musical Rock of Ages, which will open at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne, Australia on Satur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award nominee and Broadway veteran Carey Mulligan will play Daisy Buchanan in Baz Lurhmann's screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, according to a report on Dea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lineup of artists who will participate in the Christmas Tree Lighting Concert at Americana At Brand's, to be held on November 18 at 7:30pm, has been announced. The event will be headline…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeffrey Wright returns to the stage in John Guare's wearying mash-up of Restoration Comedy and historical drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGolden Globe Award winner James Franco will take part in The Face of Tisch 2010 gala which, as previously reported, will honor Tony and Emmy Award winner Billy Crystal. The event will be hel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGrace McLean, Dawn E. Cantwell, Jonathan Todd Ross, Stephen Bel Davies, Nick Spangler, Catherine Brookman, Linda Marie Larson, Colin McAdoo, Natasha Soto-Albors, Cadden Jones, Timothy Hughes…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and 1980s pop star Deborah Gibson will join vocalist Jason Brock and cast members from the tour of Shrek the Musical (including stars Eric Peterson and Haven Burton) for a h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway revival of David Hirson's La Bête will close five weeks earlier than originally planned, playing its final performance at the Music Box Theatre on January 9. As of tha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Boiler Room Theatre in Franklin, Tennessee has announced casting for three staged readings of An American Country Christmas Carol, to be offered December 5, 6, and 12. The piece, which f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Idol alum and stage veteran Adam Lambert will release the EP Acoustic Live! on December 6, according to a report on EW.com. The recording will be released digitally, with limited-ed…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Coffee will return for his 17th year as Ebenezer Scrooge in the North Shore Music Theatre production of A Christmas Carol, to run December 3-23. Jon Kimbell will direct.Adapted by Kimb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOtto Schenk's staging of Donizetti's Don Pasquale will be broadcast on PBS' Great Performances at the Met, on Wednesday, January 5 at 9pm (ET/check local listings). James Levine will conduct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominees Diane Paulus and Stephen Schwartz will hold a free discussion about the American musical theater, its trends in the coming decade, and its future on Tuesday, November 30 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWilly Falk, Howard McGillin, Jose Llana, and Christopher Sieber will join the previously reported Ann Harada, Stephen Bogardus, Marc Kudisch, Jason Tam, and John Tartaglia in Christmas Eve W…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComedian Dane Cook and Broadway veteran Josh Hamilton will star in a new Spring 2011 Broadway production of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig. LaBute is slated to direct the show, which will be produced…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway Dreams Foundation's Second Annual Holiday Benefit Concert will take place at New World Stages on Monday, November 22, 2010 at 7:30pm The star-studded evening of entertainment wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) has announced that the recipients of the 2010 Joe A. Callaway Award will be director Ciarán O'Reilly for Irish Repertory T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Royal Court Theatre has announced the pieces it will produce during spring 2011.The season will open with Richard Bean's The Heretic, to run February 4 - March 19 in the Jerwood Theatre …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDarius de Haas, Nikki Renee Daniels, Christiane Noll, Bobby Steggert, Zak Resnick and Christopher Sieber are scheduled to appear at Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Triangle on December 3 at 6p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Crosby will offer a benefit concert for The Blank Theatre Company, to be held on December 13 at 7:30pm at Avalon Hollywood. The event will mark the singer's first solo Los Angeles perf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Fry, Henry Goodman, Stephen Mangan, the Marquez Brothers, Natascha McElhone, Bill Paterson, Maggie Steed, Juliet Stevenson, Catherine Tate and Olivia Williams will appear in Patrick …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Off-Broadway production of The 39 Steps, at New World Stages, will play its final performance on January 16, 2011. As of that time, it will have played 23 previews and 318 performances O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJersey Boys star Jeff Leibow, who plays Nick Massi in the Las Vegas production of the musical, will host a fundraiser for NF, Inc. at "Flightlines" Las Vegas at The Fremont Street Experience…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, November 15, the Williamstown Theatre Festival held its 2010 Benefit, Sing! at the Prince George Ballroom.The benefit, directed by Jessica Stone, was hosted by Lewis Black with ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElizabeth Banks, Leslie Bibb, Saffron Burrows, Claire Danes, Guillermo Diaz, Rachel Dratch, Michael Ealy, Gloria Estefan, America Ferrera, Gaby Hoffman, David Krumholtz, Anthony Mackie, Chri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, November 15, Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth and the Young People's Chorus (YPC) of New York performed at the unveiling of the 2010 Christmas Windows at Lord & Taylor (424…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProducer Eric Krebs received the Fortune Society's Corporate Leaders for Change Award at the organization's 2010 Annual Awards and Benefit Gala, held on Sunday, November 15 at the Laura Pels…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMScott Adsit, Michael Ian Black, Mario Cantone, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Brooke Shields, and Alan Zweibel will star in the Monday, November 22 edition of Celebrity Autobiography: In Their O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Ellen Greene is joining CBS' daytime drama The Young and the Restless, starting on January 7, according to EW.comShe will play Primrose, a gal who represents a surprising li…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner John Lloyd Young will perform a concert as part of the Actors Fund's Musical Mondays series, in the lobby of the Pantages Theatre, on Monday, December 13 at 8:30pm. The eve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAt VH1's Save the Music Foundation's annual gala, which was held on Monday, November 8 at Cipriani Wall Street, Oscar winner Julie Andrews was one of the honorees. Here, she spoke on the red…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and Glee star Matthew Morrison graces the cover of the December issue of Details, and discusses his career with writer Claire Hoffman. In the story, Morrison not only descri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner and Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and stage and screen star Anne Hathaway will host this year's Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway on December 11. This year…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUrban Stages has announced the line-up for its second annual Holiday Cabaret Nights series, with proceeds going to help support the Urban Stages Outreach Program which brings theatre to chil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBirdland has announced its schedule for December 2010.Among the artists scheduled to appear in special engagements are Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch, who will offer two performances o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNBC's Saturday Night Live has announced additional hosts and musical guests for 2010, according to EW.com.On December 4, Oscar winner Robert De Niro will host and be joined by musical guest …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe equestrian spectacular Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Horse and Human, created by Normand Latourelle, will return to Los Angeles, under the White Big Top in downtown Burbank at 777…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLiz McCartney will reprise her performance as Carlotta and Sean MacLaughlin will assume the role of Raoul in the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera, playing at the Majestic Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Public Theater has announced the line-up for the 2011 Under the Radar festival, to run January 5-16 at The Public Theater as well as at partner venues around the city. Now in its seventh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArena Stage has extended its production of Oklahoma!, at the Mead Center for American Theater, which will now close on December 30.Set at the turn of the 20th century, Rodgers and Hammerstei…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Tom Hewitt will return to the Broadway production of Chicago, at the Ambassador Theatre, beginning November 22. He will succeed Brent Barrett in the role of lawyer, Billy …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Jerry Mitchell will direct the 2011 Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, honoring the best in dance and choreography on stage and in film, to be held on Monday May 23 in The Gr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBBC America will air a marathon of its hit series Doctor Who, beginning at midnight on December 24 and leading up to its new Christmas special A Christmas Carol at 9pm on Saturday, December …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe MCC Theatre production of Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon, now at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, has extended its run through December 22. Jo Bonney directs the production, which officiall…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheatre World Award winner Ashlie Atkinson will star in the world premiere of Jennifer Lane's Psychomachia, to be presented at Theatre 54 @ Shetler Studios, December 1-19, with an opening on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee: The Music, Volume 4 will be released on November 30. The disc will feature 18 songs from season two of the hit FOX series.The disc will include such songs as "Toxic," Stronger," "Billi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIrish Repertory Theatre has announced a one-week extension of Conor McPherson's solo play, St. Nicholas, which will now close on November 28. Alex Dmitriev has directed the production, which…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA complete list of New York area venues that will carry the NT Live broadcast of Nicholas Hytner's production of Hamlet, starring Rory Kinnear, David Calder, Clare Higgins, Patrick Malahide,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award-winner Trazana Beverly and Obie Award-winners Michael Potts, David Patrick Kelly, and Julian Francis Kelly will be among the cast members of Strangers and Other Angels, to be pres…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Jackson The Immortal World Tour, the newest touring production from Cirque du Soleil, will now play New York's Madison Square Garden on April 3 and April 4, 2012. The show, to be wri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional judges have been announced for the upcoming Wednesday night editions of So You Think You Can Drag, held at the Time Out New York Lounge at New World Stages. The weekly contest, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the American regional premiere of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle, presented by The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLincoln Center will present its first Tully Scope Festival in Alice Tully Hall and other locations, February 22-March 18.Participants in the festival of music will include Emanuel Ax, Tyonda…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe three-part PBS series Michael Feinstein's American Songbook has been named the 2010 recipient of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Television Broadcast Award.The series chronicles Feinstein's lifel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, I told about Sam Irvin's magnificent new biography: Kay Thompson from Funny Face to Eloise. If you're unaware of this terrific biographer -- and/or the dynamic composer-lyricis…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRobert Klein, Bill Irwin and Mike Nichols will make guest appearances alongside the previously reported Jules Feiffer in a performance of Jules Feiffer: Funny Side Up on November 15 at the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archives of the late playwright/performer Spalding Gray, according to The New York Times.The archives will be housed at the Harry Ransom Ce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPerfect Harmony will play its final Off-Broadway performance at the Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row on Saturday, November 13. The musical is written by Andrew Grosso and The Essentials and has …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarrington Stage Company has announced that its Summer 2011 Mainstage season will include the musicals Guys and Dolls (June 22-July 16) and The Game (August 11-29).Based on characters and st…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPaul Reubens' famous creation comes to Broadway in a campy bon-bon that caters to audience nostalgia.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Joel Grey, Sheldon Harnick, and Harold Prince were among the guests who joined Parks commissioner Adrian Benepe and Cultural Affairs commissioner Kate Levin in Duffy Squar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe legendary actress previews her new show One Night With Joan, and shares her thoughts on Dynasty.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBill Camp is superb in this coruscating adaptation of the Dostoevsky novella.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Mario Cantone, comedian Jim Gaffigan, and Real Housewives of New York City star Kelly Bensimon were among the celebrity attendees at the opening night performance of the 201…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlay Dead, a new play by Teller and Todd Robbins, opened at Players Theatre on Wednesday, November 10. This thriller that explores themes of death, darkness, and deception through both story…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe star's ambitious and eclectic new show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency shows her dedication to singing.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRecent A Little Night Music star Alexander Hanson and his wife Samantha Bond have opened in a new production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre. Lindsay P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWilliam Christie makes his conducting debut at the Metropolitan Opera with a beautifully sung production of Mozart's comic opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe November 16 episode of the hit series Glee will feature songs from the hit musical Chicago and the legendary MGM film Singin' in the Rain, according to published reports.Oscar winner Gyw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York Theatre Workshop will open its 2011-2012 season in September with the New York premiere of Elevator Repair Service's The Select (The Sun Also Rises).The show, which is directed by J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYung-I Chang, Jackie Chung, Christopher Larkin, Ken Leung, Debargo Sanyal, Jon Norman Schneider, Ching Valdez, and Nitya Vidyasagar will perform in 2g's Free Range, to be presented at The Fl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNicolle Bradford, Brian Robert Burns, Erin Maya Darke, Andrew Dawson, Ryan King, Polly Lee, Samantha Sherman, Danielle Slavick, Lucy Walters and Rae C. Wright will be featured in the world p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKevin Anthony, Gina Breedlove, LaTanya Hall, and Trent Kendall will be the vocalists for composer and musician Craig Harris' new interpretation of God's Trombones, to be presented at Harlem …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrian Cox, who will be returning to Broadway in the spring in a revival of That Championship Season, will appear in conversation at The Rubin Museum as part of the continuing lecture series …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Bill Irwin was honored at The New 42nd Street's annual gala fundraiser, held on Monday, November 8 at The New Victory Theater. Tony Award winner Nathan Lane, Oscar winner J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElizabeth Banks, Saffron Burrows, Michael Ealy, Gloria Estefan, David Krumholtz, Kathy Najimy, Nia Vardalos, and Julie White have joined the lineup of artists who will be participating in in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, November 8, Career Transition for Dancers held their 25th Anniversary Silver Jubilee, featuring a retrospective of prominent artists from America's greatest dance companies along …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, to be presented at the Laura Pels Theatre, Ja…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, November 8, the Signature Theatre held their 20th Anniversary Gala celebrating their playwright-in-residence, Tony Kushner. Kushner's Angels in America is currently running at the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway Kids Care (BKC), the organization of theater kids for kids (and others), will perform holiday songs at the 2010 UNICEF Snowflake lighting ceremony, to be held at the intersection of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLynn Nottage received the 2010 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, presented by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, at a private ceremony at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New York Times has announced the line-up for its 10th annual Arts & Leisure Weekend, to be held January 6-9, 2011. Highlights will include talks with theater veterans Kevin Spacey (J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulie Newmar, Doris Roberts, Rip Taylor, and Mary and Fred Willard were among the guests at the opening night performance of Barrymore, at the The Marilyn Monroe Theatre At The Lee Strasberg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of presenters and performers has been announced for the 2010 Long Island Music Hall of Fame Gala, to be held at the Oheka Castle, in Huntington, NY, on Tuesday, November 16. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony nominee Stephanie D'Abruzzo will star in a benefit reading of Joyce Carol Oates' I Stand Before You Naked, at the Gerald Lynch Theater at John Jay College on Sunday, November 28 at 7pm.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarti Pellow will headline a U.K. tour of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Jekyll & Hyde, which will launch with an engagement at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley January 20-29, acco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHeidi Blickenstaff, Kimberly Fauré, Matt Ferrell, Jennifer Frankel, Josh Grisetti, John Christopher Jones, Alli Mauzey, Sean McKnight, Brad Oscar, Amber Owens, Blair Ross, Josh Ro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAtlantic Theater Company has announced a one-week extension for The Collection & A Kind of Alaska: Two Plays by Harold Pinter, which will now run November 3 - December 19 at Classic Stag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTACT/The Actors Company Theatre has announced a one week extension of its production of Václav Havel's The Memorandum. Jenn Thompson has directed the production, which will now cl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJoshua Hopkins will participate in a CD-signing on November 21 on the promenade level of the David H. Koch Theatre following the final performance of Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place, in wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKarmine Alers, Jessica Leigh Brown, Lanene Charters, Brian Childers, Russell Fischer, Kimberly Faye Greenberg , Madison James, Rori Nogee, Jessica Lea Patty, Arbender Robinson, Brian Charles…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTina Benko, Bradford Cover, Daniel Davis, Richard Easton, Luke Forbes, Philip Goodwin, Cynthia Mace, Paul Mullins, Everett Quinton, Matthew Rauch, Gareth Saxe, David L. Townsend and Jennifer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for the world premiere musical version of Truman Capote's holiday tale, A Christmas Memory, to be presented by TheatreWorks at Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActresses Anne Hathaway and Gwyneth Paltrow, along with music star Christina Aguilera, will be among the guests on Chelsea's Big Interview Special, a prime-time special for late-night show h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe British actress discusses her new film Made in Dagenham and starring on Broadway in Mrs. Warren's Profession.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWakka Wakka will present the U.S. premiere of Baby Universe (A Puppet Odyssey), at Baruch Performing Arts Center, December 1-January 8, with an opening on December 5.This original theater pi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway star Lea Michele was among the first guests on TBS' new talk show, Conan, hosted by Conan O'Brien, which debuted on Monday, November 8.The actress, who plays Rachel Berry on FOX's h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony nominee Gavin Creel will perform in concert at Ryles Jazz Club in Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday, December 4 at 7pm and 9:30pm.In addition, he will offer two public mastercl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis delightfully subversive show about an alien landing in a small Florida town benefits from the presence of former Ridiculous Theatrical Company star Everett Quinton.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCorey Antonio Hawkins will star as Walter Lee Younger in the L.A. Theatre Works presentation of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, at the Skirball Cultural Center, November 17-21. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway will dim its marquee lights for one minute at 7pm on Tuesday, November 9 in honor of actress Jill Clayburgh, who died on November 5 at age 66 of chronic leukemia.Clayburgh's many st…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA chat with the stars of the upcoming City Center Encores! production of Bells Are Ringing.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, James Marino, Matthew Murray and Michael Portantiere discuss the Broadway openings of The Merchant of Venice, Elf, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown and The Pee-Wee H…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMWho'd expect that Elf would contain one of the most significant pieces of dialogue in the history of the Broadway musical?
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 65th annual Tony Awards will be held at the Beacon Theatre on Sunday, June 12, 2011. The ceremony, which honors theater professionals for distinguished achievement on Broadway, will be a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can will star Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz as Carl Hanratty and Aaron Tveit as Frank Abagnale, Jr. alongside Tom Wopat as Frank Abagnale, Sr. a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAl Pacino and Lily Rabe give pitch-perfect performances in Daniel Sullivan's meticulous staging of Shakespeare's blistering drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of the musical Next to Normal, at the Booth Theatre, will play its final performance on January 16. As of that date, it will have played 21 previews and 733 regular p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe former American Idol finalist discusses making his long-awaited Broadway debut in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar-winning composer Alan Menken received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 10.He was joined by actress Mandy Moore, who voices the role of Rapunzel in the new Disney movi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBAM Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo was honored at the theater's Next Wave Gala, on Tuesday, November 9 on his 25th anniversary with the organization.Mellilo was presented with a print …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElf star Sebastian Arcelus, Tony Award nominee Ann Hampton Callaway, and the Highbridge Voices will participate in the unveiling of the holiday windows at Macy's Herald Square (Broadway and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSebastian Arcelus gives a winning performance in the title role of this amusingly diverting holiday musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, November 9, Colin Quinn's new one-man show Long Story Short opened at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre. Jerry Seinfeld directed the production, which is set to run through January …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis new show about death and deception by Todd Robbins and Teller is too often less-than-thrilling.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmy Herzog's thoughtful play about a young woman confronting her family's past benefits from the superb performances of Katharine Powell, Peter Friedman, Lois Smith, David Margulies, and Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOUT Magazine has announced the personalities featured its annual "OUT 100" issue.Among the celebrities featured in the magazine are Broadway veterans Ricky Martin, who was named Entertainer …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe November 16 episode of the hit series Glee will feature songs from the hit musical Chicago and the legendary MGM film Singin' in the Rain.Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow, who will guest sta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast of the Broadway musical Rain - A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway performed and signed their CDs as part of the "Live at Lincoln" series at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKelli O'Hara, Will Chase, Kathleen Marshall, Judy Kaye, and Bobby Cannavale discuss the City Center Encores! production of Bells Are Ringing.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe annual holiday show is chock-full of glamour, extravagance, and the Rockettes' singular talents.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEverett Bradley will celebrate the release of his new CD Holidelic! with a series of concerts at Joe's Pub, running December 17-20. The album will be released November 26.The disc features …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth and the Young People's Chorus of New York City, under the direction of Francisco J. Núñez, will perform at the unveiling of the 201…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPing Chong offers up a stylish but only intermittently successful stage adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's film classic.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Metropolitan Room has announced the performers who will play the cabaret venue in December.Highlights will include the Jamie DeRoy and Friends Holiday Show (December 2), Suzanne Carrico …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHeidi Schreck's uneven marital drama never fully sparks to life.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMClubbed Thumb and Playwrights Horizons have announced the launch of SuperLab, a new play development program that will be collaboratively curated by the two theater companies, and dedicated …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywrights Horizons has announced a two week extension for its production of Amy Herzog's After the Revolution. Carolyn Cantor has directed the play, which will now close on December 12.In …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Shannon gives an awe-inspiring performance as a frazzled Broadway producer in Craig Wright's devastatingly funny play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Vineyard Theatre's Vineyard Voices series will continue with The Scottsboro Boys: From Inception to Broadway, to be held at the Vineyard on November 22 at 7pm. The event will feature cas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAllison Case, Beth Fowler, and Lenny Wolpe will join the previously reported Robert Cuccioli and Luba Mason in Theatrical Gems' benefit presentation of the 1961 musical Wildcat, to be presen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star David Tennant will headline the BBC film United, according to a report in Variety. James Strong will direct the film, which will feature a script by Chris Chibnall.The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Studio Theatre has announced that David Ives' Venus in Fur will complete the venue's 2010-2011 season, running May 25 - July 3.In the play, inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's notori…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFive-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury attended the Thursday, November 11 performance of Irish Repertory Theatre's production of Kelly Younger's Banished Children of Eve. Ciar&aacut…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Denis O'Hare, Tony Award winner Richard Easton and Drama Desk nominee Jeremy Shamos -- all of whom are currently appearing in Broadway's Elling -- will be the guests of hon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlan Cumming, Anthony Edwards, S. Epatha Merkerson, Rosie O'Donnell, Susan Sarandon, Nia Vardalos, John Waters, Wendy Williams and more stars join Paul Reubens and the company of Broadway's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUpdated casting has been announced for Classic Stage Company's presentation of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, to run January 12-February 20, with an opening on February 3. Austin Pendleton w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Moth Theatre has announced casting for David Hare's The Blue Room, to run December 2-19. John Markland will direct the production.The play is based on Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde and e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe producers of Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo have announced that it will play Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre, with previews beginning March 11, and an opening set for …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJosh Grisetti, Matthew Gumley, Shuler Hensley, George S. Irving, Carly Jibson, Beth Leavel, Andrea McArdle, Robert McClure, Mark O'Donnell, Brad Oscar, Jill Paice, Lee Roy Reams, Conrad John…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHelena Blackman's debut solo CD The Sound of Rodgers and Hammerstein will be released on February 14 by Speckulation Entertainment. Neil Eckersley and Paul Spicer have produced the album, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOriginal cast members Christopher Jackson and Seth Stewart will return to the Broadway production of the musical In the Heights, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, joining the previously report…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLea Delaria will host the previously reported benefit concert, You Are Not Alone, to be held at St. Paul the Apostle Church on Monday, November 22, at 8pm. Michael Rader will direct.An updat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and American Idol winner Taylor Hicks will be among the performers at the the inaugural Museum of Tolerance International Film Festival Gala on Sunday, November 14, beginnin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnne-Marie Duff will headline Terence Rattigan's Cause Celebre, to play the Old Vic Theatre, March 17 - June 11, with an opening on March 29. Thea Sharrock will direct the production.The pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Bonnie Franklin, Melanie Grifitih, Mary Tyler Moore, and John Schneider will guest star on the second season of TV Land's Hot in Cleveland, according to EW.com. The show wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for Ghost The Musical, which will begin performances at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre on June 22 in anticipation of a July 16 opening. As previously …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrian Cox, who will be returning to Broadway in the spring in a revival of That Championship Season, will appear in conversation at The Rubin Museum as part of the continuing lecture series …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree-time Tony Award winner Carol Channing will perform in the opening number of the 22nd annual Gypsy of the Year competition, to be held at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Monday, December 6…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Wooster Group will present the New York premiere of its latest multimedia stage work, Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carré at the Baryshnikov Arts Center from February 2-27. As pre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWilliamstown Theatre Festival will hold its 2010 Benefit, Sing!, on Monday, November 15 at 6:30pm at the Prince George Ballroom.The benefit, to be directed by Jessica Stone, will be hosted b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJude Law, Ian McKellen, and Samuel West will make guest appearances at Belarus Free Theatre's presentation of the plays Numbers and Discover Love at the Young Vic on December 5, according to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDonny Osmond and Marie Osmond's upcoming Broadway show, Donny & Marie - A Broadway Christmas, has added nine performances to its run at Marriott Marquis Theatre. The show will now play t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Drama Book Shop has announced its upcoming special events, which include an appearance by David Hirson on November 22 at 6pm. Hirson will participate in a discussion and Q&A about hi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulie Andrews will take part in a Q&A session at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble on November 10 at 5pm. Ted Chapin, president of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, will moderate th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComposer Ron Abel, lyricist Chuck Steffan, and playwright Lissa Levin are at work on a planned Broadway musical about Hazel, the cartoon character created by Ted Key and first introduced in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJenn Colella, Julia Murney, Daniel Reichard and Max von Essen will perform in Ars Nova Celebrates Andrew Lippa, a benefit concert to be held on November 22 at 7pm at Ars Nova. Mary-Mitchell…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeffrey Fiske and Max McLean's adaptation of C.S. Lewis' novel The Screwtape Letters will play its final performance at the Westside Theatre on January 9, before embarking on a national tour…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn initial lineup of participants has been announced for Encompass New Opera Theatre's annual gala to be held on Sunday, November 14 at 6:30pm at the National Arts Club. The event will serve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for LAByrinth Theater Company's 11th Annual Barn Reading Series, a festival of staged readings highlighting 14 new plays at The Cherry Pit, November 29-December 21…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHarold Prince, Joel Grey, Sheldon Harnick, and Mary Rodgers will join Parks commissioner Adrian Benepe and Cultural Affairs commissioner Kate Levin in Duffy Square on November 10 at 3:00pm f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColin Quinn's exceedingly clever, surprisingly informative, and often hilarious examination of world history and popular culture proves to be a welcome addition to the Broadway season.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBob Balaban, Deborah Eisenberg, Josh Hamilton, Sakina Jaffrey, Fran Lebowitz, Emily McDonnell, Julianne Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, and Mark Strand will join Wallace Shawn for a reading of hi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHBO will not proceed with the new hour-long drama series The Miraculous Year, according to a report on Deadline.com. Kathryn Bigelow directed the pilot episode of the project, created by pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPulitzer Prize-winning playwrights Tony Kushner and Suzan-Lori Parks will participate in The Speed of Ideas - A Theatrical Forum, at Canada's Shaw Festival, July 23 and 24, 2011.The event, h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFour-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein will play a limited 12-week engagement as Albin in the 2010 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of La Cage Aux Folles, at the Longacre Theatre, b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhil LaMarr discusses making his Broadway debut as Cowboy Curtis in The Pee-wee Herman Show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe noted performer discusses directing The Big Apple Circus' new show, Dance On!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe annual holiday show is chock-full of glamour, extravagance, and the Rockettes' singular talents.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre, starring Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight, has officially confirmed that it will now end its engagement at the Schoenfeld Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. As previously announced, Rob Ashford will direct and choreograph the produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress Nina Arianda and ballet dancer Chase Finlay have won the inaugural awards presented by the Clive Barnes Foundation. The winners were announced in a ceremony held on November 9 at Lin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, November 10, producer Marc Platt presented creator Stephen Schwartz an award at the matinee of the Broadway musical Wicked celebrating the Grammy-winning Original Cast Recordin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHBO will air Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On at 9pm on December 31.The 70-minute show, which began its run at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in February 2008, features Mi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDonna McKechnie, who won a Tony Award for her originating the role of Cassie in A Chorus Line, attended a performance of the current national tour of that musical, in South Bend, Indiana on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLouise Roche's Girl Talk: the Musical, which had been playing at the Times Square Arts Center, has changed venues, and will now play at the Midtown Theatre, beginning with the evening perfor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVH1 Save the Music Foundation's annual gala was held on Monday, November 8 at Cipriani Wall Street. The event honored Oscar winner Julie Andrews and singers John Legend and John Mayer.Prior …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCirque du Soleil's new acrobatic spectacle Zarkana will debut at Radio City Music Hall on June 9. François Girard will write and direct the production, which is being created espe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLala Brooks, Ann Hampton Callaway, Liz Callaway, Grayce Coviello, Colton Ford, Sherri Lewis, Stewart Lewis, Gregory Nalbone, John Pagano, Katy Pfaffl, Barbara Porteus, MarTina Vidmar, and Ju…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLincoln Center Theater Executive Producer Bernard Gersten and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Executive Director Tom Viola will be honored at The Acting Company's Masquerade Gala, to be he…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNominations for the People's Choice Awards have been announced. The ceremony, to be hosted by Queen Latifah, will air on January 5 at 9pm on CBS.The film The Twilight Saga: Eclipse received …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Barrowman Live at The Royal Albert Hall, a DVD of John Barrowman's recent concert at the famed London venue, will be released in PAL (Region 2) format on November 15 and in NTSC (all re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephanie J. Block, Katrina Bowden, Kerry Butler, Kelly Choi, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kelly Rutherford, Jason Sudeikis, Matt Walton and more stars join Sebastian Arcelus and the company of El…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJennifer Carpenter and Pablo Schreiber will star in Rajiv Joseph's two character play Gruesome Playground Injuries, to begin performances at Second Stage Theatre on January 5 in anticipation…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNine-time Grammy Award winner Ray Benson will join the Broadway cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, playing at the Nederlander Theatre, for a special encore performance on November 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Morrell will perform her new multimedia show Remembering the Ladies at the El Portal Theatre, to run December 2-31. Karen G. Cadle will direct the production, which will have musical di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNBC has released a promotional clip for the November 13 episode of Saturday Night Live featuring the evening's host, Tony Award winner Scarlett Johansson, and series co-star Jason Sudieikis.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn will direct Michael Weller's Side Effects, to run May 12-June 26 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with an official opening set for May 31.Weller'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Robert De Niro will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Golden Globes Awards, to be held on January 16 in Los Angeles. Ricky Gervais will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShirley Verrett, the internationally renowned opera star who later gained fame on Broadway by playing Nettie Fowler in the acclaimed 1994 Lincoln Center Theater production of Carousel, has …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee James Barbour will play Birdland as part of a series of national holiday concerts on Monday, December 13.Prior to that engagement, Barbour will play the Throckmorton Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Friday, November 5, Jason Danieley had his caricature unveiled at Sardi's Restaurant.Danieley is currently starring in Next to Normal, oppsite his wife Marin Mazzie.Among the other celebr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTom Judson will perform a revised version of his solo show Canned Ham on Sunday, November 14 at 7pm at Dixon Place. Kevin Malony will direct. The evening will serve as benefit for Dixon Plac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe stars of Broadway's Jersey Boys -- Matt Bogart, Ryan Jesse, Dominic Nolfi, and Jarrod Spector -- celebrated the fifth anniversary of the musical's Broadway run on Friday, November 5 by h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway and film star Lucy Liu and Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang will deliver the welcoming remarks for the Museum of the Chinese in America's YPX Gala 2010, to be held a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Arden and Daphne Rubin-Vega will be among the presenters for the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) gala, to be held at The Hudson Theatre on Sunday, November 14 at 6pm. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss was on hand for the unveiling of a double decker tour bus bearing his likeness, earlier today at the Cherry Lane Theatre, where the actor is starring in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting and creative team have been announced for Yale Repertory Theater's world premiere of Kirsten Greenidge's Bossa Nova, to run November 26-December 18. The production, which opens offic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShakespeare's Globe has announced the selections for its 2011 season. Specific dates, casting, and creative team will be announced a future date.Entitlled "The Word Is God", the season will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage Directors and Choreographers Society will launch its 2010-2011 One-on-One Conversation series -- six moderated discussions and Q&As featuring leading directors and choreographers o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTichina Arnold, Margaret Colin, Alicia Goranson, Ann Harada, and Maria Tucci celebrated the beginning of their run in the Off-Broadway production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, at the Wests…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, and Eddie Redmayne will be among the stars participating in The Children's Monologues, a benefit for Dramatic Need, to be performed at the Old Vic on Sunday, No…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe November schedule of talk backs, held in conjunction with the Broadway production of Time Stands Still at the Cort Theatre, has been announced. The series features noted experts from the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Irvine Barclay Theatre will present the West Coast premiere of the adult-oriented puppet show, Stuffed and Unstrung, December 29-January 2.Created by award-winning director, producer, an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Radcliffe will lend his voice to the November 7 Treehouse of Horror XXI episode of FOX's The Simpsons.Radcliffe will be voicing a mysterious new student, Edmund, with whom Lisa become…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress and singer Michelle Nicastro has died of cancer at age 50, according to published reports.Nicastro appeared on Broadway in Merlin and play Eponine in the Los Angeles production of Le…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA preview of Meryl Streep's appearance on the online series Web Therapy has been released. The full episode will be available online on November 8 at LStudio.com.Lisa Kudrow is the creator …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywrights Horizons, under the artistic leadership of Tim Sanford, held its Stories on 5 Stories benefit, with the theme, The Devil You Know, on Monday, November 1.The program featured play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Geffen Playhouse will hold its first performance in its new Geffen Playhouse Kinross Annex on Saturday, November 6 at 2pm.The Annex will act as headquarters for the Geffen's resident edu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFormer Rent stars Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp will present their new show, Adam and Anthony Live, in the Venetian Room of the Fairmont San Francisco on Sunday, November 21 at 7pm, and will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark will delay its first preview, originally scheduled for November 14, until November 28; additionally, its official opening has been postpon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Bill Irwin rehearsed a special vaudeville routine with 4th graders at PS/IS 111 on the morning of Friday, November 5. They will perform it as the finale of the New 42nd Str…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFrenchie Davis, Taylor Dayne, and Jennifer Leigh Warren will be among the artists participating in IT GETS BETTER: THE CONCERT, a benefit for The Trevor Project, which will take place on Nov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarol Channing, Lorna Luft, Bobby Steggert, and Max von Essen will be among the stars of SPARKLE: A Holiday Concert with Broadway's Brightest for The Christmas Foundation, to take place on W…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKeira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss will star in a West End revival of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, to be directed by Ian Rickson, which will play the West End's Comedy Theatre, Ja…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe list of songs that will be performed on the November 9 episode of FOX's hit series Glee has been released.Among the songs that will be featured on the show are Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDana Ivey, Anna Netrebko, Steven Pasquale, John Turturro and more help Pedro Almodovar, Laura Benanti, Patti Lupone, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Sherie Rene Scott celebrate the Broadway openi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMartin Sheen will join the previously announcedSpider-Man, according to the Hollywood Reporter.Sheen will play the role of Uncle Ben, who famously (and tragically) teaches the hero the motto…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis ambitious multimedia dance-theater work attempts to explore the relationship between the intangible soul and the physical body with mixed results.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA memorial tribute to the perhaps underappreciated Jerry Bock. Plus: A Life in the Theatre without music?
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMThe noted performer discusses directing The Big Apple Circus' new show, Dance On!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMI once asked Charles Strouse if he expected that "Baby, Talk to Me" was going to be Bye Bye Birdie's big hit. After all, it was the first real song in the overture, placed and played with su…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeffrey Denman and Ivan Rutherford will join Carter Calvert, Rita Harvey, and Marc Kudisch in the Geffen Playhouse's presentation of Broadway Holiday, to perform in the Gil Cates Theater, De…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSimon Keenlyside, a baritone who starred earlier this year in the title role of Metropolitan Opera's production of Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet, is among the winners of the 2011 Musical America A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKaren Kohlhaas will direct IRT Theater's production of Diana Amsterdam's Carnival Round the Central Figure, to play January 13-30, with an opening on January 17.In the play, a young dying ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Grammy-winning Original Cast Recording of the Broadway musical Wicked has been certified doubled platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), commemorating sales of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Bogardus, Marc Kudisch, Jason Tam, and John Tartaglia will join the previously reported Ann Harada in Christmas Eve With Christmas Eve, a benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 23, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The release features the stage production which to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDancing with the Stars contestant Mark Ballas will join the Burn the Floor tour for engagements in Raleigh, NC (November 30-December 5); Houston, TX (December 14-19), and Pittsburgh, PA (Dec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Actors Theatre of Louisville has announced the complete lineup of works that will be presented as part of the 35th Anniversary Humana Festival of New American Plays, to run February 27 -…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJesse Tyler Ferguson, Sutton Foster, Bill Heck, Judith Light, Zachary Quinto, Brooke Shields and more stars join Al Pacino, Lily Rabe, Jesse L. Martin and the Broadway company of The Merchan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veterans Betty Buckley, Ann Hampton Callaway, and Joan Rivers, along with the Broadway casts of the musicals American Idiot, Elf, Memphis, and Million Dollar Quartet will be among th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFOX has released the first stills of the November 16 episode of the hit series Glee, which, as previously announced, will feature a guest appearance by Oscar winner Gywneth Paltrow.Paltrow a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of David Mamet's A Life in the Theater, starring Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight, will play its final performance at the Schoenfeld Theatre on November 28, according …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRicky Martin, who has been announced to play Che Guevara in the upcoming Broadway revival of Evita in 2012, will appear in a special presentation for Placido Domingo at the 11th Annual Latin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatthew Bourne is devising and directing a multimedia dance version of William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Scott Ambler will co-direct and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharles Reynolds, who served as magic consultant on numerous Broadway shows, died from complications due to liver cancer at his home in Manhattan on Thursday, November 4, according to The Ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Gretchen Mol and her husband Kip Williams are expecting their second child, according to a report on People.com. The baby is expected to arrive in February.Mol appeare…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Los Angeles Philharmonic will broadcast three upcoming concerts, live to 450 movie theaters in the United States and Canada, according to The New York Times.All three concerts will be co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the Theatrical Management Association (TMA) Awards, celebrating the best of British theatre from around the United Kingdom, were announced in a ceremony held on November 7 at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Laura Benanti, currently appearing on Broadway in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, will receive the Broadway Speaks OUT! Hero Award at the second annual Very MARY…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSoap star and stage veteran Austin Peck and Miss New York Claire Buffie will be among the special guest stars at the 100th performance of Anthony Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding, play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRenowned theater historian Oscar Brockett died on Sunday, November 7 at a hospital in Austin, Texas after suffering a stroke the previous day, according to published reports.Brockett is well…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnthony Van Laast and James Powell will co-direct Batman Live, a new stage spectacle that will embark on a U.K. tour with an engagement at Manchester's MEN Arena on July 20, according to a r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFiona Shaw will join the cast of the fourth season of HBO's True Blood, according to a report on Deadline.com. Shaw's character will be an underachieving palm reader who is spiritually poss…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRebecca Hall and Guy Pearce are set to star in director James Marsh's new film Shadow Dancers, according to Variety.The film, based on the novel by Tom Bradby, follows a young former IRA ter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis surprisingly humorless and musically disappointing adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's film squanders some of Broadway's brightest talents.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark will delay its first preview, originally scheduled for November 14, until November 28; additionally, its official opening has been postpone…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA new version of Porgy and Bess will open the 2011-2012 ART season in September, according to The New York Times.Diane Paulus, the company's artistic director, will helm the production, on w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTyler Perry, Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, and Loretta Devine discuss the new film version of Ntozake Shange's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTACT offers a disappointingly tepid production of Vaclav Havel's potentially chilling and hilarious play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, James Marino and Matthew Murray discuss In the Wake, Spider-Man, Rent re-opening Off-Broadway, Porgy and Bess as a musical, Roger Rees replacing Nathan Lane in The Addams Fam…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, a special benefit performance, will be held on March 13 at the Town Hall. This will be the seventh and final such benefit.The evening's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSymphony Space has announced a list of upcoming celebrity participants for selected programs.On November 10, Roberto Bolano and the Writers He Admired will feature Michael Stuhlbarg Felix So…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Kim Cattrall has won the Gemini Award, which honors the best English-language television in Canada, for her work on the animated series Producing Parker.Winners of the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHennepin Theatre Trust has named Broadway veteran Linda Eder as spokesperson for the Trust's SpotLight Musical Theatre Program, which celebrates students who excel in their high school music…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRon Lucas and Melba Moore will co-host the 2010 Audelco Awards, honoring excellence in Black Theatre, to be held at Harlem Stage/Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.'s Marian Anderson Theatre (133rd Stree…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Sean Combs (a.k.a. Diddy) will perform as part of his new group Diddy-Dirty Money on the American Music Awards, to be broadcast live on ABC from the Nokia Theatre in Los Ang…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArden Theatre Company has announced casting for The Borrowers, Charles Way's adaptation of the beloved children's novel by Mary Norton, to be presented on the F. Otto Haas Stage, December 1-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFormer Playboy Playmate and Dancing with the Stars contestant Holly Madison has signed a year-long extension for PEEPSHOW, the Las Vegas burlesque show created and directed by Jerry Mitchell…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe national tour of Avenue Q will play a San Francisco engagement at the Orpheum Theatre, February 15-27, 2011. Directed by Jason Moore, the show features music and lyrics by Robert Lopez a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright Lisa Kron, and journalists Hendrik Hertzberg and Sam Tanenhaus will particicpate in a roundtable discussion entitled Who Lost America? How Our Politics and Culture Have Changed In…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProducer Beverly Bell discusses her unusual production of the musical Jekyll & Hyde at SUNY Old Westbury.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArielle Jacobs will take over the role of Nina Rosario from departing star Jordin Sparks in the Broadway production of the musical, In the Heights, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Sparks wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRevised cating has been now been announcd for Elephant Theatre Compay's production of The Little Flower of East Orange by Stephen Adly Guirgis, to run November 12-December 19. The production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSuzanne Carrico will celebrate the release of her new holiday CD, What Christmas Time Means to Me, with a series of concerts at the Metropolitan Room, to run December 2-23. In addition to ev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArena Stage opens its new season with a mostly traditional and enjoyable take on Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for The Best of Broadway and Cabaret Salute The Actor's Temple, a benefit for the legendary place of worship, to be held there on Sunday, November 21 at 7:30pm.Pa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHarry Groener and Anthony Chilsholm give consummate performances in Athol Fugard's trenchant new two-hander.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Idol finalist Anthony Federov will star in the title role of the Ordway Music Theater's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated cast list has been announced for 29, a pop-rock song cycle with music and lyrics by Gaby Alter and book and additional lyrics by Tommy Newman. The concert will be presented at Joe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Lewis Cleale, Jill Paice, and Rita Gardner will headline Theatre Resources Unlimited's annual TRU Love Benefit, to be held at Caroline's on Broadway, on Sunday, November 14…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, now at the Nederlander Theatre, will perform the National Anthem tokick off the ING New York City Marathon on Sunday, November 7. The performa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veterans Michael O'Keefe, Tom Pelphrey, Anthony Rapp, and David Zayas will star in the new feature film, Junction, which will begin shooting November 17 in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for the City Center Encores! production of Bells Are Ringing, to run November 18-21 at City Center. The show will be directed and choreographed by Kathlee…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSongwriting teams Sam Carner and Derek Gregor, Bradford Proctor and Alaina Kunin, and Kyle Ewalt and Michael I. Walker will be featured in Behind the Music-al: First Songs, to be held at the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlivier Award winner Janie Dee and television star Chook Sibtain will headline a new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I at the U.K.'s Curve Theatre in Leicester, December…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee star and stage veteran Jane Lynch will host FOX-TV's new holiday special, TV's Funniest Holiday Moments A Paley Center for Media Special on Friday, Novenber 26 at 8pm, according to TVGu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWill Beinbrink, Corey Brill, Richard Jenik, Amanda Kaschak, Micah McCain, and Deborah Puette will star in the world premiere of David L. Ray's Caught, to be presented by Buttermilk Productio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Joan Allen will make her television series debut in a multi-episode arc of the new HBO series, Luck, according to Deadline.com. The series stars Dustin Hoffman, and is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAward-winning actress Cybill Shepherd will make guest appearances in the ABC series No Ordinary Family and CBS' $#*! My Dad Says, according to TVGuide.com.Shepherd will play the mother of Ju…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York City Opera's fall concert Lucky to Be Me: The Vocal Music of Leonard Bernstein will take place on Saturday, November 6 at 8pm and Sunday, November 7 at 1:30pm at the David W. Koch …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWith Angela Lansbury hosting, and with special appearances by the likes of Chita Rivera, Bebe Neuwirth, Ann Reinking, Karen Ziemba, Marge Champion, and Edward Villella, Career Transition for…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AM"She was ahead of her time for nine decades," wrote Rex Reed. "She was our Holden Caulfield," said Marie Brenner. Liza Minnelli declared that she "conquered everything and moved on." Jule St…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe young Broadway veteran, now co-starring in Next to Normal, is honored with a Sardi's caricature.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMVIDEO FEATURE: Ian Kelly, one of the stars of The Pitmen Painters, talks to Lauren Class Schneider about his inspiration in the creating the character of Robert Lyon.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMA theater, a television special, a DVD and a book. There's still plenty going on for a man who was born when Abie's Irish Rose was Broadway's longest-running show and Herbert Hoover was in t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway stars Lea Michele, Kelsey Grammer, Hugh Dancy, Megan Hilty, Martin Short, and Oliver Platt will be among the stars of Summertime Entertainment's animated 3D musical Dorothy of Oz. D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York City Opera's fall concert Lucky to Be Me: The Vocal Music of Leonard Bernstein will take place on Saturday, November 6 at 8pm and Sunday, November 7 at 1:30pm at the David W. Koch …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production ofThe Merchant of Venice, which as previously reported, stars Tony Award and Academy Award winner Al Pacino as Shylock, will delay its press opening, set for Sunday, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of Theatre Puget Sound's 2010 Gregory Awards have been announced. The prizes were presented in a ceremony held on Monday, October 25 at ACT.Among the winners is Steven Dietz, who…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn original multimedia theatrical adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, conceived by Arthur Yorinks and Mark Stanley, will receive its world premiere at the "There's No P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWhoopi Goldberg, Marie Osmond, Tyler Perry, and Barbra Streisand will appear on upcoming appearances of The Oprah Winfrey Show, according to published reports.Perry will be on the November 5…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJoan Collins will guest star on the November 8 episode of CBS' Rules of Engagement, according to a report on EW.com. Collins will play Bunny Dunbar, the mother of the character Russell (play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFive-time Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer and Tony and Olivier Award-winner Douglas Hodge -- who star in the Tony-winning Broadway revival of La Cage Aux Folles at the Longacre Theatre -- w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMValerie Bertinelli, Jerry Bruckheimer, Marion Cotillard, Rosario Dawson, Dakota Fanning, Jane Leeves, Jane Lynch, Carey Mulligan, Cillian Murphy, Wendie Malick, Kevin Spacey, and Olivia Wild…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMQuincy Tyler Bernstine, Viola Davis, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Russell Hornsby, Condola Rashad, and Anika Noni Rose will perform at the Steinberg Award ceremony at Lincoln Center's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAs previously reported, The Kennedy Center will present the 13th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Emmy Award-winning actress and writer Tina Fey on Tuesday, November 9. The show…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMScarlett Johansson will star in the new science fiction movie Under the Skin, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Jonathan Glazer is the writer and director of the project. The film centers…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFord's Theatre has announced casting for Michael Wilson's adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, to run November 20 - January 2. Michael Baron will direct the production, which wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMolly Shannon, currently co-starring as Marge MacDougall in Broadway's Promises, Promises, will star in a not-yet-titled HBO comedy about a former nun, according to a report on Deadline.com.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast members from the 1st National Tour production of the Broadway musical Jersey Boys (playing the Forrest Theatre through December 12) will perform a special one-night only Concert/Auction…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJudyann Elder, James Gleason, Noah Gray-Cabey, Deidrie Henry, Terrell Tilford, Rutina Wesley, and Mirron Willis will star in the L.A. Theatre Works presentation of Lorraine Hansberry's A Rai…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Godlight Theatre Company has announced casting for Matt Pelfrey's An Impending Rupture of the Belly, to run November 17 - December 4 at the Lion Theatre at Theatre Row. Joe Tantalo will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Slattery will join the previously reported Cynthia Nixon in a one-night only reading of Bill Corbett and Kira Obolensky's Hate Mail on December 6 at New World Stages, beginning at 7pm.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Jackson The Immortal World Tour, the newest touring production from Cirque du Soleil, will launch with an engagement at the Bell Centre in Montreal, running October 2-3, 2011. Jamie …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell will narrate The New York Pops' concert adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, to be presented at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, Decemb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Turturro and Ron Cephas Jones will star in a reading of John Patrick Shanley's new play, Church and State, to be presented on Friday, November 5, at 9:30pm. The evening's program will a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Old Vic has announced the initial participants for its seventh annual benefit, The 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala, which will take place on Sunday, November 21, according to Whatsonstage.c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReggie Cheong-Leen's smart, funny, and engaging play about a Japanese-American businessman traveling in China makes its long overdue New York premiere.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Metropolitan Opera has announced programming for its 80th season of Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts, which will be broadcast live over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Internatio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCady Huffman, Orfeh, and Kate Pazakis are scheduled to perform at a special one-night only benefit to be held on Sunday, November 14 at 7:30pm at the Helen Mills Theater. The event will rais…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Mint Theater Company has announced the lineup of plays that it will present during 2011.The company will begin the year with Arnold Bennett's comedy, What the Public Wants, to run Januar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Al Pacino and Susan Sarandon will star in the financial thriller Arbitrage, according to a report in Variety. Nicholas Jarecki is writing and directing the project, which will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jerry Bock has died following complications from a stroke he suffered on November 2, according to published reports. He was 81. The marquees of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress Jill Clayburgh has died at age 66 of chronic leuekemia.Clayburgh's many stage credits include The Sudden & Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson, The Rothschilds, Pippin, Jump…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Oscar-winning director discusses his new film, 127 Hours, bringing Frankenstein to the stage, and working on the 2012 Olympics.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Karina Smirnoff, who starred in Burn the Floor, is engaged to St. Louis Cardinals' pitcher Brad Penny, according to People Magazine.Smirnoff is best known as one of the prof…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway veteran returns to the Great White Way as Jovie in the new holiday musical Elf.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner Meryl Streep will make another guest appearance on Lisa Kudrow's online series Web Therapy, according to EW.com.'Streep's stage credits include Trelawny of the Wells, Se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway performer Shannon Tavarez has died after a long battle with acute myeloid leukemia. She was 11 years old.Tavarez made her Broadway debut in The Lion King in September 2009. She rem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, and Imelda Staunton are lending their voices to Aardman Animations' new 3D, CG-animated family comedy, Arthur Christmas, to be released …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWork is continuing on the Broadway-bound musical Houdini, according to EW.com. A private reading is scheduled for January.Jack O'Brien is set to direct the work, and Hugh Jackman is still at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComposer Andrew Lloyd Webber and original star Sarah Brightman attended the final performance of the long-running national tour of The Phantom of the Opera, at Los Angeles' Pantages Theater …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharles Busch, Emily Skinner, Bobby Steggert, and Mary Testa will perform in the Transport Group Theatre Company's annual gala, Gimme a Break, to be held on Monday, December 6 at the Asia So…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for a Broadway revival of That Championship Season, to be directed by Gregory Mosher. The production will open at a theater to be announced in March 2011.Jason Mil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell and TheaterMania contributor Peter Filichia will host a Memorial Celebration for the life of John Willis, at The National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJennifer Leigh Warren will star in the world premiere of Little Woman/Big Voice: The Songs of Dame Shirley Bassey, which will make its Los Angeles debut in Spring 2011. Richard Jay-Alexander…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTy Burrell, Viola Davis, Diane Lane, John Lithgow, Anthony Mackie, Joe Manganiello, Zachary Quinto, Christina Ricci, Lili Taylor, Lily Tomlin, Vanessa Williams and More at 2010 Artios Awards…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe U.K. tour of Big The Musical, which was to have begun with an engagement running February 14-26 at the Liverpool Empire, has been postponed, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdam Chanler-Berat, Andrew Durand, Andrew Kober, Eric William Morris, and Molly Pope will star in a concert presentation of Kyle Ewalt and Michael I. Walker's new musical Bromance: The Dudes…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Mary Tyler Moore will guest star on TV Land's Hot in Cleveland. She will will appear on the January 19 second season premiere of the show and her role will involve Betty W…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Brick Theater has announced the lineup of productions that will be part of Fight Fest 2: A Celebration of Fight Theatre, to run December 2-22.Among the offerings in the Festival will be …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA preliminary lineup of celebrity guests for a Los Angeles engagement of The Fix-Up Show has been announced. J. Keith van Straaten will serve as host of the performances, which are scheduled…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActors from three Broadway shows performed at the October 29 opening of New York's only free-admission ice skating rink, Citi Pond at Bryant Park, now in its sixth season.Hugh Panaro, who st…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel kicked off a series of performances of his new concert show, Back to New York at Birdland on Monday, November 1. Additional shows will be held Mondays…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJon Peterson's Song Man Dance Man will play the Secret Rose Theatre in North Hollywood, running November 19-28.In the show, Peterson pays tribute to Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Bobby Darin, Ge…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMParticipating shows have been announced for the 15th annual Kids' Night on Broadway, a program in which kids ages 6 to 18 can see Broadway shows for free when accompanied by a full-paying ad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, November 2, The Actors Fund's annual all-star concert, Nothing Like a Dame: A Party for Comden and Green, played at The Laura Pels Theater, benefiting the Phyllis Newman Women's H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSir Ian McKellen hosted the 11th annual Only Make Believe Gala at the Shubert Theatre on Monday, November 1. Only Make Believe is the non-profit organization that creates and performs intera…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA preliminary lineup of performers has been announced for Our Hats Are Off!, to be offered for three performances December 3-5 at Club Fox. Tony Tripoli will host the event, which will be a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJoe Mantello will star as Ned Weeks in a planned Broadway production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, according to a report in The New York Times. Producer Daryl Roth is working with Kra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Emmy Award winner Andre Braugher will be featured in Manhattan Theatre Club's Off-Broadway production of The Whipping Man, by Matthew Lopez. Tony Award winner Doug Hughes will direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColte Julian and Bernadette Boerckel, along with The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, are featured on Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theater Music of Louis A.Hirsch, now available from New World Re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, November 1, Primary Stages held their Annual Gala at the Edison Ballroom to raise funds for the theater's ongoing work. Michael Lavine directed the evening's performances. The ben…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Greenpoint Division has announced casting for Rachel Bonds' Michael & Edie, to run December 3-19 at the Access Theater. Robert Saenz de Viteri will direct the production.The play fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the Casting Society of America's 2010 Artios Awards have been announced. The prizes were presented in ceremonies held in both Los Angeles, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnna Ziegler's compelling new play concerns the discovery of DNA and the search for male-female compatibility.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast members from the national tour of Hair will stage a "Be-In" at the Warehouse on November 8 at 78pm. The event will raise money for Broadway Impact's efforts in the fight for marriage e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKate Baldwin, Jane Kaczmarek, Nellie McKay, Maureen Moore, and Dick Scanlan are scheduled to perform at The American Songbook Project's Name That Tune Costume Party Benefit to be held on Nov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Emmy Award winner Nikkieli DeMone will appear in Black Nativity Now, to run December 3-January 2 at the Theatre at St. Clement's. Alfred Preisser will direct the production, which w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jerry Bock has died following complications from a stroke he suffered on November 2, according to published reports. He was 81.Bock earned Tony…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWill Eno's richly imagined new play about small-town America gets an immaculate staging at the Vineyard Theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRichard Nelson's appealing new drama about a family gathering on Election Night 2010 benefits from a superb cast.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, November 2, Richard Nelson's That Hopey Changey Thing opened as a LAB production at the Public Theater, set to run through November 14.First nighters included actors Matthew Brod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPublic Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis, executive director Andrew D. Hamingson, and associate artistic director Mandy Hackett joined playwright Lisa Kron, director Leigh Silverman and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTyler Perry, Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, and Loretta Devine discuss the new film version of Ntozake Shange's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe lights come up on a black woman just sitting. That's it: sitting. She's not talking to anyone or doing anything in particular. She's just sitting with a cake box on her lap. When Oklahom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis powerful new Broadway musical about a group of falsely accused African-Americans enthralls and entertains from beginning to end.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShakespeare's Globe comes to New York with an irresistible production of the Bard's comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Donna Murphy will star in the new Broadway musical, The People in the Picture, to play April 1-June 29 at the Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis month's highlights include Lemony Snicket's The Composer is Dead, Frenchie Davis in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella [Enchanted Edition], Terrence McNally's A Perfect Ganesh, and the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLaura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan star in the new Frank Wildhorn musical Bonnie & Clyde in Sarasota, while you can catch Young Frankenstein in Orlando, Kooza in Miami, Vices: A Love Story in Boc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA Christmas Story--The Musical! arrives at 5th Avenue Theatre, while elsewhere you can catch Anne Of Green Gables, ACT's A Christmas Carol, Sherlock Holmes & the Case of the Christmas Carol,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe national tour of South Pacific arrives in time for Thanksgiving, while other November highlights include Rent, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Laramie Residency, Uncle Va…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulie Taymor directs the new musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, starring Reeve Carney; Brendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare headline Elling; the hit film Elf is transformed into a Broadway mu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlice Ripley in the Pulitzer-winning musical Next to Normal, Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, the national tour of West Side Story, Hershey Felder as Leonard Bernstein, and Tom Stoppard's Ro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe musicals Love Story and Fela! arrive in the West End, while you can also catch Gemma Arterton and Stephen Dillane in The Master Builder, Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles in The Rivals, Sa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJason Alexander brings back The Donny Clay Experience, with other acts this month including Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Cosby, Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Usher, Andrew Dice Clay, and the So You Thin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new Broadway musical Elf makes its debut starring Sebastian Arcelus and George Wendt . Other family-friendly treats include Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Egg and Spoon, Squirm Burpee…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhylicia Rashad leads the cast of every tongue confess, while other November highlights include House of Gold, Superior Donuts, Golden Boy, One Night with Fanny Brice, The Master and Margari…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis month's highlights include the new musical Departure Lounge, Gary Griffin's production of The Music Man, a re-worked The Story of My Life, Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West, Julia Cho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLarry Pine heads the cast of Bob Glaudini's world premiere drama Vengeance Is the Lord's, with other November highlights including Basil Twist's Petrushka, John Kolvenbach's On an Average Da…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe holiday season begins in the Twin Cities with A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Story, Fully Committed, and Brett Favre's Christmas Spectacular II - The Second Coming.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrea McArdle gives a broad performance as Miss Hannigan in Musical Theatre West's hit-and-miss production of the classic musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Tartaglia and Becky Gulsvig talk about participating in the John W. Engeman Theater's Broadway Concerts series.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLisa Kron's drama about a group of friends facing personal and political crises proves strangely unmoving despite the efforts of a top-notch cast.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Annette Bening will receive the American Riviera Award, presented by The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), at a ceremony at the Arlington Theatre on Fr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Cody Green, Laurie Kanyok, Alex Ko, Kim Mikesell, Emily Padgett, and John Todd, along with Salvatore Vassallo, will be the featured dancers in Shall We Dance on Ice, to air…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Judith Light will receive the Broadway Speaks OUT! Hero Award at the second annual Very MARY Christmas, to be hosted by Marti Gould Cummings, on Monday, November 29 at Dixo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Fred Ebb Foundation, in association with the Roundabout Theatre Company, has announced that Douglas J. Cohen have been awarded the sixth annual Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKristin Chenoweth, Barbara Cook, Lee Daniels, Nathan Lane, David Hyde Pierce, Anika Noni Rose, Gabourey Sidibe, Tracie Thoms and more stars join John Cullum and the company of Broadway's The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMABC is airing a prime-time special from Grammy Award-winning singer and actress Beyonce Knowles, entitled "Beyonce's I Am ... World Tour, at 9:30pm on Thursday, November 25. The show will l…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStefan Karl, best known as Robbie Rotten on Nickelodeon's LazyTown, will star as the Grinch in the North American tour of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which will launch at Omah…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWriter/performer Brian Dykstra will perform his solo show, Ho!, at The Drilling Company Theatre, November 27-December 19, with an opening on November 29. Margarett Perry will direct.The pie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe John W. Engeman Theater has announced complete casting for its production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, to run November 18 - January 16. Paul Stancato will direct the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast members from the Off-Broadway production of Freckleface Strawberry the Musical will perform songs from the show and sign autographs during a special appearance at McDonald's on 42nd Str…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Michael Boatman and former One Life to Live star Tika Sumpter will be joining the cast of CW's Gossip Girl according to Movieline.com.The pair, who are expected to debu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarole Demas, who originated the role of Sandy Dumbrowski in Broadway's Grease, will be inducted into the Long Island Music Hall Of Fame at ceremony and fundraising gala, to be held at the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Ben Crawford will once again star as Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach in Soul Doctor: The Shlomo Musical, when it plays a limited engagement at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, in New…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Donna Lynne Champlin will be among the performers for The Hangar Theatre's Moonlight & Broadway Magic gala benefit, to be held at The Statler Hotel Ballroom on the Corn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKathleen Chalfant will join the previously reported Kieran Campion, Mia Dillon, and Edward Herrmann in a reading of Noël Coward's A Song at Twilight, part of Westport Country Playh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlivier Award nominee Patina Miller will reprise the starring role of Deloris Van Cartier in the Broadway production of the new musical, Sister Act, which will play the Broadway Theatre, beg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Moretti, best known for his starring role as Thom in here! TV's vampire series The Lair, will join the Off-Broadway cast of writer/star Anthony Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMScottish actor Gerard Kelly died on Thursday, October 28 in London after suffering a brain aneurysm, according to Whatsonstage.com. He was 51.Kelly's theater credits include The Rocky Horror…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSingers Jesse Blumberg, Matt Boehler, Scott Murphee, and Matthew Worth will join pianist Steven Blier for NYFOS' Manning the Canon: Songs of Gay Life, to be held at Merkin Concert Hall at 8p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVillage Light Opera company has announced principal casting for Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe, to run November 19-21 at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University. Emil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Friday, October 29, Bette Midler hosted Hulaween 2010, her annual gala to benefit the New York Restoration Project., at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.This year's event honored Senator John Ke…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the British Independent Film Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on December 5.Among the nominees is Sally Hawkins, who is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Cullum, Kate Mulgrew, Wesley Taylor and Josh Grisetti will take part in Project Shaw's presentation of George Bernard Shaw's one-act comedies How He Lied to Her Husband and The Fascinat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast of the national tour of Mary Poppins, led by Caroline Sheen in the title role and Nicolas Dromard as Bert, will perform "Step in Time" on the 200th episode of Dancing with the Star…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, James Marino and Matthew Murray discuss The Scottsboro Boys, Rain - A Tribute To The Beatles On Broadway, Driving Miss Daisy, Grand Hotel, Lombardi and the passing of Joseph …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMMany couples take a trip to the Caribbean or Europe to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. Although the Dodges - Marcia Milgrom and Anthony - reached that august mark on Saturday, they…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRalph Pena, Loy Arcenas, Jennifer Ikeda, Debargo Sanyal, Alfredo Narciso, James Yaegashi, Cindy Cheung, and Julienne Hanzelka Kim are among the artists who have contributed to I_NY, which wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNikki Renee Daniels, Diana DeGarmo, Darius de Haas, Cassie McIvor, Crystal Monee Hall, Morgan James, Patina Miller, Christiane Noll, Laura Osnes, Zak Resnick, Christopher Sieber, Bobby Stegg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFive-time Jeff award winner E. Faye Butler will present a brand new show, New Year's Eve with E. Faye Butler and her combo, at Chicago's Northlight Theatre, December 30 and 31 at 8pm.From ja…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for the new film Goon, according to a report in Variety.Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Alison Pill and Tony Award and Drama Desk Award w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Holland Taylor will star as Ann Richards in the new solo show Ann, to debut at Paramount Theatre in Austin, May 4-7, 2011.This bio-play about the former Texas governor, who…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPromises, Promises star Molly Shannon will appear in The Women of SNL, a new two-hour special focusing on the women who have been part of Saturday Night Live, which will air on NBC on Monday…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for the Kennedy Center's production of Follies, featuring a book by James Goldman, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Eric Schaeffer will direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSadler's Wells has announced the selections for its 2010-2011 season.As previously reported, the ballet The Most Incredible Thing, featuring music by pop duo Pet Shop Boys, will premiere at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor and singer Adam Lambert will be the subject of an E! True Hollywood Story which will air on the E! cable network on November 21 at 9pm.The program will not only feature interviews with…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSan Diego REPertory Theatre has announced casting for Storyville, to run November 13 - December 12 on the Lyceum Stage. Ken Page will direct the production, which will have musical direction…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights will play its final performance at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway on January 9. The production, directed by Thomas Kail and featuring c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Matthew Broderick and Judd Hirsch will join Ben Stiller, Alan Alda, Eddie Murphy, Gabourey Sibide, Casey Affleck, and Tea Leoni in the new movie Tower Heist, according to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAngela Lansbury will join the previously announced Jim Carrey and Carla Gugino in Mr. Popper's Penguins, according to a report in Variety. Mark Waters will direct the film, which is being pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJack O'Brien will be honored at the Sonnet Repertory Theatre's annual benefit cabaret to be offered on Monday, November 8 at 6pm at Joe's Pub. Jerry Mitchell will host the event, which will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Brimmer Street Theatre Company has announced casting for Miles Brandman's Summer in Hell, to run Nveomber 11-December 18 at studio|stage in Hollywood. David Jette will direct the product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIn the summer of 1963, I started what would be a Wednesday ritual: Getting Variety and immediately turning to "Legit." Oh! Dennis O'Keefe was being replaced as Mary Martin's leading man in J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis genial concert features over 30 of the Fab Four's best-known songs.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReviews of The Scottsboro Boys, Glee's Rocky Horror tribute, plus new discs from Betty Buckley, Rod Stewart, Elton John, and 15 other worthwhile CDs.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBeau Willimon's new play about a troubled pilot is a confused muddle.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEnda Walsh's less-than-successful play about four ardent suitors of the Homerian heroine receives an extremely well-acted production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast of FOX's hit series Glee will release a new Xmas album on Tuesday, November 16.Among the highlights on Glee: The Music: The Christmas Album will be "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe life of author and poet Edgar Allan Poe comes to life vividly in this startling, beautiful and haunting musical-theater piece.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Matthew Broderick will join Ben Stiller, Alan Alda, Eddie Murphy, Gabourey Sibide, and Tea Leoni in the new movie Tower Heist, according to EW.com.Brett Ratner is directing…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAli Ewoldt shines as Maria in the otherwise underwhelming national tour production of the beloved musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, October 25, the St. George's Society presented a benefit reading of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's never-before-staged 1967 television musical, Evening Primrose, at the Gera…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGotham Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group and the Opera Company of Philadelphia have announced casting for the companies' jointly commissioned Dark Sisters, featuring music by Nico Muhly and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTovah Feldshuh, John Goodman, Paul Michael, Kathy Najimy, Marion Ross and Michael Urie will perform in a one-night-only benefit performance of Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words, to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM,The soundtrack for the forthcoming movie musical Burlesque, featuring Cher and Christine Aguilera, will be released by RCA Records on November 22. The movie, directed and co-written by Ste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Hartford Stage's Brand:NEW reading series.Ben Vereen, Russell Hornsby, Reg E. Cathey, Sonequa Martin, and Richard Masur will star in Des McAnuff's staging of W…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTarget Margin Theater, in association with The Brick, has announced full casting for Clyde Fitch's early American play, The Moth and The Flame, the final production in this year's Target Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA preliminary lineup of artists who will participate in the 10th annual 24 Hour Plays on Broadway has been announced. The special one night event will be presented at the American Airlines …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEtai BenShlomo and Tom Flynn will take over the roles of Boq and Dr. Dillamond, respectively, in the Broadway production of Wicked, at the Gershwin Theatre, beginning Tuesday, November 2. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Brad Garrett, Gina Gershon, and Michael McKean will guest star on upcoming episodes of the new TBS series Glory Daze, according to TVGuide.com. The series will debut on Tuesda…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Royal Court Theatre has announced casting for EV Crowe's Kin, to run November 19 - December 23 in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs.Jeremy Herrin will direct the production.The play is set in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Stories on 5 Stories, a benefit for Playwrights Horizons, to be presented on Monday, November 1.This year's theme is The Devil You Know, and will feature plays…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and Oscar winner Shirley Jones, In the Heights star Jordin Sparks, soap opera star and pop singer Rick Springfield, and drummer Chad Smith of The Red Hot Chili Peppers will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPatrick Breen, Louis Cancelmi, Aysan Celik, Dashiell Eaves and Matt Letscher will star in a reading of Ken Urban's The Absence of Weather, to be presented at Irish Repertory Theatre as part …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFirst Things Last, a CD showcasing songwriter Lance Horne's work, will be released by Yellow Sound label on January 11. Pre-orders for digital download of the album are being accepted onlin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlexander Gemignani will join fellow Broadway stars Kate Baldwin, Aaron Lazar, and Christiane Noll and The New York Pops in a concert of Stephen Sondheim's greatest songs and soliloquies at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOpera Breve will present a new production of Englebert Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretelbased on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, on November 11 and 13 at 7 p.m.at St. Michael's Pa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn initial lineup of presenters has been announced for the Casting Society of America's 26th annual Artios Awards, to be presented, as previously announced, in ceremonies to be held simultan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Bennett, Jerry Seinfeld, and Bruce Springsteen will be among the performers for the benefit Stand-Up for Heroes, to be held at the Beacon Theatre on Wednesday, November 3 at 8pm. Jon St…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMObie Award winner Ken Rus Schmoll will direct a staged reading of the Japanese comedy Trance by Shoji Kokami, featuring an English translation by Amy Kassai. It will be presented by the Japa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKevin Aubin, a cast member in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which is set to begin previews at Foxwoods Theatre on November 14, was injured last week in an onstage accid…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Conservatory Theater has announced cast and creative team for its production of A Christmas Carol, adapted by Carey Perloff and Paul Walsh, to run December 2-24.The production is di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarnes and Noble at 150 East 86th Street has announced its line-up of special events for November.Among the artists who will appear at the store are jazz singer Maria Schneider (Friday, Nove…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGwendoline Yeo will bring her solo show Laughing with My Mouth Wide Open to the El Centro Theatre, to run November 16 - December 19. Mark St. Amant will direct the production.The play follo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Bill Irwin will be honored at The New 42nd Street's annual gala, to be held on Monday, November 8 at The New Victory Theater. The event, which will include a cocktail rece…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFrenchie Davis will play the Fairy Godmother in the Berkeley Playhouse's production of Cinderella (Enchanted Edition), to run November 6 - December 5 at the Julia Morgan Center. Elizabeth M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Scot Foley will join ABC's Grey's Anatomy for a multi-episode stint, according to EW.com.Foley starred on Broadway in The Violet Hour and Off-Broadway in The Cherry Orc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDrama Desk nominee Vince Gatton and Christina LaFortune will star in Jeffrey Hatcher's two-hander, The Turn of the Screw, in a return engagement at the Merchant's House Museum (29 East 4th S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, October 28, The Signature Theatre Company's revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes opened. The production is directed by Michael Greif.Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Actors Fund has announced additional casting for Nothing Like a Dame: A Party for Comden and Green, the annual all-star concert benefiting the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative, a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Phylicia Rashad will direct Los Angeles' Ebony Repertory Theatre's production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, to run March 23-April 17 at the Nate Holden Perfo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Irish Repertory Theatre's production of Kelly Younger's Banished Children of Eve opened on Sunday, October 24. Ciarán O'Reilly has directed the production.The play, adapted fr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch will star in Nick Dear's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which will begin performances at the National Theatre in February, according to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTerri White will offer a one-night-only concert on November 1 at 6:30pm as a benefit for the Dreamlight Theater Company. Pianist Bobbi Peaco will serve as White's accompanist for the perfor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlenn Close, Brian Dennehy, Ralph Fiennes, Hugh Jackman, Bebe Neuwirth, Isabella Rossellini, Stark Sands, Brooke Shields, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler join James Earl Jones, Vanessa Redgrave and th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSir Ian McKellen will host the 11th annual Only Make Believe Gala at the Shubert Theatre at 7pm on Monday, November 1.The event will feature a number of performances, including from the cast…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Roberts' GOLF: The Musical will play a return Off-Broadway engagement, beginning previews at the Midtown Theater on November 20 in anticipation of an official opening on December 6. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Lyric Theater will present a concert reading of The Poe Project, three one-act operas inspired by the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, on Monday, November 1 at 7pm at Leonard Nimoy Thali…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLucie Arnaz and Valarie Pettiford will be the special guests for Who The F*#! Are These Guys, The Songs of Ron Abel & Chuck Steffan, at Birdland on Monday, November 22 at 7pm.As previous…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLincoln Center has postponed the first event for its Platform Series of free-to-the-public pre-performance talks, which had been scheduled to take place on Thursday, October 28.The talk with…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFormer American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi will be the head panelist on a new songwriting reality series with the working title Going Platinum on Bravo. Singer-songwriter Jewel will host the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDel Shores, perhaps best known for creating the play, film and television versions of Sordid Lives, will bring his one-man show Sordid Confessions to the Laurie Beechman Theater, December 9-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEric Hill will play Ebenezer Scrooge and E. Gray Simons III will play Jacob Marley in the Berkshire Theatre Festival's production of A Christmas Carol, to run December 11-30 in the company's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Toni Collette and her husband Dave Galafassi are expecting their second child next year, according to People.The pair married in January 2003 and have a daughter, Sage Flor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Paulo Szot will play Escamillo in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Carmen beginning on January 5. The production is directed by Sir Richard Eyre.On that date, Szot wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLarry Pine, Lee Tergesen, and Roberta Wallach will lead the cast of the Huntington Theatre Company's world premiere production of Bob Glaudini's Vengeance Is the Lord's, to run November 12-D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Andrea Martin will host One Night Only - The Sequel, an evening of songs from Jewish composers, to be held at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Walnut Street Theatre has announced casting for Frank Ferrante's Caesar's Palace O' Fun, to run November 23 - January 2 in the company's Independence Studio on 3. Stefan Hayes will dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional details have been announced regarding the Thursday, October 28 episode of NBC's The Apprentice. The episode will air at 10pm EST.The episode will have the show's contestants being…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUnderground Railway Theater has announced casting for Naomi Wallace's The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East, to run November 18 - December 19 at Central Square Theater. Elena Ara…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLincoln Center has announced programming for its 2011 American Songbook season, which celebrates the diversity of American popular song. Events will take place in the Allen Room at Frederick…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIt was the month that Damn Yankees' history repeated itself. 2010 was The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant to the Washington Senators - well, the team that started life as the Washington Se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Kushner's epic masterpiece is brought to vivid life by an ensemble cast in Michael Greif's compelling new production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLeonard Bernstein and Stephen Wadsworth's rarely performed opera about an unhappy family is simply not very good.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJordan Harrison's intriguing new drama is set in a dystopian near future where print is dead.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Roger Rees will assume the role of Gomez in The Addams Family, playing at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, on March 22. He will be replacing Nathan Lane who will play his final p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSusan Stroman, John Kander, John Cullum and the cast of The Scottsboro Boys discuss the groundbreaking Broadway musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor James MacArthur has died at age 72.The adopted son of actress Helen Hayes and playwright Charles MacArthur, MacArthur made his stage debut in The Corn is Green. He won a Theatre World …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA live musical revue will be performed before every screening of the new Disney film, Tangled, at Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre, November 24-December 16.Disney's 50th animated feature will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReed Birney, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Michele Pawk, and Victor Williams will star in the world premiere of Adam Bock's A Small Fire, to run at Playwrights Horizons December 16-January 23. The pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel will be among the performers at the Broadway Impact fundraiser, Tune in Tuesday's at Bar-Tini Ultra Lounge, on November 2, at 11pm. Emily McNamara wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarnes & Noble/Lincoln Triangle has announced its programming for November. Dan Lauria and Judith Light, who star in the Broadway play Lombardi, will participate in a discussion with Vin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLatin music star and Broadway veteran Marc Anthony will be among the performers at the 11th Annual Latin Grammy Awards telecast, to air live on the Univision Network from Las Vegas' Mandalay…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA preliminary lineup of performers has been announced for Broadway Unplugged, to be offered at Town Hall on November 15 at 8pm. TheaterMania contributor Scott Siegel, the event's creator and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYale Repertory Theatre has released a trailer for its production of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, which is playing through November 13. James Bundy has directed the production. The play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMScott Adsit, Mario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Annie Golden, Carol Kane, and Alan Zweibel will join co-creator Eugene Pack for Celebrity Autobiography at NJPAC's Victoria Theater on Saturday, Oc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArts Horizons honored composer and music icon Paul Simon and stage and screen star Arlene Dahl at Broadway Salutes, a gala held at The Edison Ballroom, on Monday, October 25. The honorees we…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated schedule of Broadway at Birdland events has been announced for November. Two-time Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel will perform his new concert show, Back to New York at Birdland on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Scarlett Johansson and Anne Hathaway will each host NBC's Saturday Night Live in November, according to EW.com. Johansson will host the November 13 episode which will have Arc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Joseph Lyle Taylor will the cast of FX's Justified, according to the Hollywood Reporter. He will play a cop who comes from a family of pot farmers and is also a brother to a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharo has postponed her previously announced appearances Off-Broadway in Louise Roche's Girl Talk: the Musical, playing at the Times Square Arts Center. It is expected she will appear in the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrew Lloyd Webber is selling four West End theaters to a consortium led by former ITV chairman Michael Grade, according to published reports. The venues involved in the sale are the Palace…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGeorge Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood will star in The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North, according to a report in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGotham Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group and the Opera Company of Philadelphia have announced casting for the companies' jointly commissioned Dark Sisters, which will have its premiere in N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSongwriter Andrew Lippa will be celebrated at a benefit concert to be held on November 22 at 7pm at Ars Nova. Mary-Mitchell Campbell will serve as musical director of the event, which will h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Las Vegas engagement of Disney's The Lion King, at the Mandalay Bay Theatre, will play its final performance on December 30, 2011. At that time, it will have played for over 1000 perform…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for the U.S. national tour of the new 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables, which will make its U.S. premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis tuner about two competitive singing clubs is too arch and too modestly sung to engender much enthusiasm.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulia Stiles give a strong performance in the title role of the Ridge Theater's beautiful if ultimately listless music-theater piece.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe artistic director of Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage discusses the bright future of the acclaimed theater company.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, October 26, Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Beau Willimon's Spirit Control officilay opened at New York City Center - Stage I.Henry Wishcamper directed the production, whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, who starred as Maria and Captain von Trapp in the film version of The Sound of Music, will be among that film's stars who will reunite for the first ti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Joseph Stein died on Sunday, October 24 at the age of 98 as a result of a fall in New York City. The marquees of Broadway theaters in New York will be dimmed in his memory …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Martin Short will offer a one-night-only performance of A Party With Marty at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on Monday, November 1 at 8pm. The event will be a benefit f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKristin Chenoweth will perform a special tribute to the 45th anniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music at VH1 Save The Music Foundation's annual gala to be held on November…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, October 27, the Broadway production of RAIN - A Tribute to The Beatles On Broadway opened at the Neil Simon Theatre.Rain offers a full range of The Beatles' discography live onst…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnn Harada will revisit her role as Christmas Eve from the musical Avenue Q as part of Christmas Eve With Christmas Eve, a benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, to take plac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPriscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical has officially opened at Toronto's The Princess of Wales Theatre, where it will continue through January 2. The production will then move to Broadwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Goodman Theatre's production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, opened on Monday, October 25 in the company's Owen Theatre. Robert Falls has adapted and directed the production.The company …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater hosted its Homecoming Grand Opening Celebration on Saturday, October 23 followed by an Opening Gala Celebration on Monday, October 25, 201…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast of Mary Poppins, led by Caroline Sheen in the title role and Nicolas Dromard as Bert, will perform "Step in Time" on the 200th episode of Dancing with the Stars: The Results Show, o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA talented ensemble vividly reconstructs Ishmael Houston-Jones, Dennis Cooper, and Chris Cochrane's landmark performance piece about youth, sexuality, and death.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor and comedian Russell Brand and pop singer Katy Perry were married in India on October 23, according to Us Weekly.The couple, who met in 2009, wed in front of approximately 80 guests at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Katherine Helmond will headline the Elephant Theatre Compay's production of The Little Flower of East Orange by Stephen Adly Guirgis, to run November 4-December 19. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company will remount the company's acclaimed production of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, July 21-August 14. The production will once again be directed by Howard Shalwi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTate Donovan, Rachael Harris, Richard Kind, Laraine Newman, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Jay Thomas, and Lesley Ann Warren will participate in a special edition of Celebrity Autobiography: In …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Southern California Motion Picture Council hosted their annual Golden Halo Awards on Monday, October 18 in the Waterfall Ballroom at Sportsman's Lodge in Studio City.The 2010 honoree wa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular soap star and stage veteran talks about appearing in Will Eno's new play, winning the Emmy, and his next gig.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, James Marino and Matthew Murray discuss A Life in the Theatre, The Language Archive, Julia Cho, In Transit at Primary Stages, National Alliance of Musical Theatre: Festival, …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMWe have a chance to see another vintage musical starting on Tuesday, as Three Wishes for Jamie gets an airing at Musicals Tonight! It originally opened on March 21, 1952 at the Hellinger, an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrady Bunch star Eve Plumb stars as the unusual advice giver is this intermittently funny new play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJan Maxwell gives a bravura performance as a stroke victim in John Doyle's must-see production of Arthur Kopit's 1978 play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA fine ensemble brings Kelly Younger's adaptation of Peter Quinn's historical novel about 19th-century New York City to the stage with flair.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe La Jolla Playhouse has announced four of its productions for its 2011-2012 season. The company will announce two musicals at a later date.The Playhouse will present world premiere of Mil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave give superb performances in David Esjbornson's highly effective production of Alfred Uhry's play about the growing relationship between a rich Southern …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMToni Collette and her husband Dave Galafassi are expeciting their second child next year, according to People.The pair married in January 2003 and have a daughter, Sage Florence, who is almo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTV Guide Network will air The Britannia Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles, on Sunday, November 7 and include a 30-minute red carpet special, accord…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMax von Essen and Jill Paice will headline the York Theatre Company's developmental lab presentation of Judith Shubow Steir's Only a Kingdom, to be offered November 9-12. David Glenn Armstro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPaul Stancato will direct the John W. Engeman Theater's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, to run November 18 - January 16. Vic DiMonda will provide the choreography…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced Guy Fredrick Glass' The Last Castrato, which will begin previews on November 12 at the Connelly Theater in anticipation of an official opening on November 16. John…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLincoln Center has announced the schedule for its Platform Series of free-to-the-public pre-performance talks. All events in the series will take place in the lobby of the Vivian Beaumont Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Handel's Messiah Rocks: A Joyful Noise, which will launch a national tour in Orange, TX beginning November 7. The 21-city tour will continue through December 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Joseph Stein died on Sunday, October 24 at the age of 98, according to published reports.Stein, who began his career in television and radio, won the Tony for the book to F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Sunday, October 24, five-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury had a special lunch at midtown eatery Bond 45 with Larry Gerwitz, who won the opportunity to dine with the actress as part …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Public Theater has announced casting for a touring production of Measure for Measure, which will play correctional facilities, homeless shelters, facilities for battered and abused women…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHelen Hayes Award winner Eleasha Gamble will take over the lead role of Laurey in Arena Stage's production of Oklahoma!, necessitating the cancellation of the Tuesday, October 26 preview per…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBenjamin Walker, who plays the title role in the new Broadway musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, will perform as part of the previously announced CD signing for the show's original cast r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York City Center has released a video showing Richard Winsor, who dances the role of the Swan in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, transforming into his avian character. The production runs at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Halloween spectacular, Nightmare: Superstitions, the seventh edition of the theatrical haunted house created and directed by Timothy Haskell, has extended its run at The Noho Event Cente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Athena Theatre Company has announced casting for a staged reading of Augusto Federico Amador's Waking Up, to be offered on Monday, November 8 at 8pm at Primary Stages (307 West 38th Stre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMAP Fund's Moira Brennan, filmmaker/choreographer Gabri Christa, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council curator Andrew Horwitz, performer Mikéah Ernest Jennings, A.R.T./New York executi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional details have been announced for New York City Opera's fall concert Lucky to Be Me: The Vocal Music of Leonard Bernstein on Saturday, November 6 at 8pm and Sunday, November 7 at 1:…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the Old Globe Theatre's 13th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, to run November 20 - December 26. James Vasquez will direct …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner David Hyde Pierce, who is currently starring on Broadway in La Bete, joined Jordan Roth, President of Jujamcyn Theaters, for an installment of the fall 2010 Broadway Talks…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLAByrinth Theater Company has announced the plays and playwrights to be included in its 11th Annual Barn Reading Series, a festival of staged readings highlighting 14 new plays at The Cherry…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColin Quinn and Jerry Seinfeld discuss their collaboration on the hilarious new Broadway show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTown Hall has announced programming for its 90th anniversary season.Among the headliners are Tony Award winner Ben Vereen (February 18), Grammy Award winner Don McLean with special guest Dar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Betty Buckley will headline You Are Not Alone, a benefit concert for the Trevor Project, to be held at St. Paul the Apostle Church on Monday, November 22, at 8pm.Performers…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLondon's Evening Standard has published the longlist of contenders in its annual Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Winners will be announced at a star-studded awards ceremony at the reopened …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA new cast has been announced for the U.K. tour of Calendar Girls, who will debut with the show's engagement at the Bristol Hippodrome, January 26-February 5.The play is about a group of mid…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Ben Vereen has announced dates for a national tour of his solo show.The tour will begin with performances at Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles, December 17-18. Vereen's oth…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Sunday, October 24 Second Stage officially opened its revival of Arthur Kopit's 1978 play Wings. Tony Award winner John Doyle directs the production.The play centers on Emily Stilson, a 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAntonio Banderas will star in and direct the psychological thriller Solo, according to a report in Variety.The film, which has a screenplay by Erik Jendresen, focuses on a Spanish colonel (B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKeith Carradine will guest star on the CBS series The Big Bang Theory, according to a report on EW.com. He will be playing the father of Penny (played by Kaley Cuoco).Carradine received a To…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for The Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, at the American Airlines Theatre, December 17-March 6,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Geoffrey Rush will play Lady Bracknell in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, to run November 12 - December 30, 201…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for the world premiere of Anthony Dodge's Venus Flytrap at The Workshop Theater, November 4-14. Tony Award nominee Marcia Milgrom Dodge will direct.The pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the sequel to his Phantom of the Opera, has canceled performances for November 22-25, according to published reports. The brief hiatus in the show's pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for the Off-Broadway production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, at the Westside Theatre. Based on Ilene Beckerman's 1995 book about clothes and the memo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Pearl Theatre Company has announced full casting for the American premiere of a new version of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm, adapted by Mike Poulton. Elinor Renfield will direct the produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony nominee Wilson Milam will direct the world premiere of David Hay's A Perfect Future, to begin performances Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater, beginning February 4. Casting will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBebe Neuwirth and cast members from Broadway's The Scottsboro Boys will perform at the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) gala, to be held at The Hudson Theatre on Sunday, Novembe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFive-time Emmy Award winner John Larroquette will join previously announced star Daniel Radcliffe in a spring 2011 Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, to p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBritish stage and screen star Martin Freeman will play Bilbo Baggins in Oscar winner Peter Jackson's upcoming film The Hobbit.The cast will also feature Rchard Armitage, Rob Kazinsky, Aidan …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJazz Forum Arts will present David Amram: The First 80 Years of Jazz at Sympony Space on Thursday, November 11 at 7:30pm.This 80th birthday concert salute to the legendary composer will feat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatthew Modine and Bill Pullman have joined the cast of the HBO movie Too Big to Fail, according to a report on Deadline.com. As previously reported, the movie, to be directed by Curtis Hans…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast members from the Chicago productions of Billy Elliot the Musical and Disney's The Lion King will join together for the benefit, City of Hope: Chicago Cares, to be held at The Royal Geor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLyricist Amanda McBroom and composer Michele Brourman, the musical writing-duo of Pasadena Playhouse's upcoming musical Dangerous Beauty will be joined by that production's star, Jenny Power…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatthew Bourne's revised staging of Prokofiev's Cinderella will embark on a U.K. tour with an engagement in Plymouth November 15-20, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. As previously …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Jane Krakowski will be the headline performer at the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation's 40th Anniversary Gala, to be held in Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, on Monday, November …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMCC Theater will present a special reading series at The Drama Book Shop's Arthur Seelen Theatre, featuring the three playwrights who have written the trio of world premieres the company is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComedian, political commentator, and former Broadway star Bill Maher will perform two special Bay Area concerts on New Year's Eve at the Marin Center in San Rafael and on New Year's Day at t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMicky Dolenz will join the U.K. tour of Hairspray, playing Wilbur Turnblad, on November 16 when the production begins its engagement at the the Dublin Grand Canal Theatre. Subsequently, the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlejandro Rodriguez and Kaliswa Brewster will play the title characters in The Guthrie Theater and The Acting Company's Romeo and Juliet, to run October 22-24 at Michael Schimmel Center for …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 38th annual Vivian Robinson/AUDELCO Recognition Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre will be presented at the Marian Anderson Theatre (133rd Street & Convent Avenue in Harlem) on M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the next two installments of Cino Nights, a series of commissioned plays, presented for one-night-only performances by Rising Phoenix Rep at the Seventh Street…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBig Apple Circus kicks off the New York run of its new show Dance On! today, October 21, and will play its annual season at New York City's Lincoln Center through January 9, 2011. Broadway v…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Paulo Szot will play the title role in the Dallas Opera's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, to be performed October 22 - November 7. John Pascoe will direct and design t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the Goodman Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol, to play November 19 - December 31. William Brown will direct this adaptation by Tom Creamer.Based o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe finalists for the 14th Annual Hollywood Film Festival have been announced, with several of the films featuring stage veterans. The Festival will take place at ArcLight Cinemas, October 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFOX has released pictures of the Glee cast as they rehearsed the show's The Rocky Horror Show tribute episode, which is scheduled to air on Tuesday, October 26 at 8pm.The episode will featur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner John Lithgow, along with Meg Ryan, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Joe Anderson and Kat Dennings, will star in Lives of the Saints, according to a report in Variety. Wri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway's Carols for a Cure: Volume 12, a two-CD set which raises money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids (BC/EFA), will be available for purchase in Broadway theaters beginning on Oct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChita Rivera will receive the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from The League of Professional Theatre Women at the organizations' awards luncheon, to be held at Sardi's on Thursday, December…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Louis Gossett Jr. will talk about his new memoir, An Actor and a Gentleman, in a public discussion moderated by Phyllis Karas, who is Gossett's co-author on the book. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veterans Jason Biggs, Kristen Johnston, and Justin Kirk have joined the cast of the independent film comedy, BFF and Baby, according to a report in Variety. Kat Coiro will direct.The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe musical theater star's triumphant new cabaret act is full of smart and unexpected song choices that show off her many talents to full advantage.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Campbell will celebrate the release of his new album On Broadway with a series of appearances in both California and New York, beginning with concerts on November 23-24 at Catalina Jaz…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Guare's new play, A Free Man of Color, will now begin previews on Saturday, October 23 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. The show had previously scheduled its first performance for Octobe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCandice Bergen, Jessica Grove, Sean Palmer, and Tony Walton discuss the upcoming benefit reading of Stephen Sondheim's rarely-performed musical Evening Primrose.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winner and stage veteran Gwyneth Paltrow and Broadway veteran Reba McEntire will be among the performers at the 44th Annual Country Music Awards, to be presented live in Nashville on N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Paley Center for Media has announced an updated schedule of special events for the coming weeks.On October 27, the venue will host A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kenn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the North American tour of Next to Normal. As previously reported, Alice Ripley will reprise her Tony Award-winning role of Diana for the musical's entire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Flea Theater has announced casting for the world premiere of Looking at Christmas, by Steven Banks, the Emmy Award-nominated head writer of SpongeBob SquarePants. Jim Simpson will direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the latest installment of NYTB in the D-Lounge, presented by New York Theatre Barn at the D-Lounge at the Daryl Roth Theater, on Monday, October 25 at 7:30pm.T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Kneehigh Theatre's production of The Red Shoes, to play St. Ann's Warehouse, November 19-December 12. Emma Rice has adapted and will direct the production, bas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhilip Seymour Hoffman will play Willy Loman and Linda Emond will play Linda Loman in a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, according to a report in The New York Times. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlec Baldwin, Sam Underwood, Scott Adsit, James Rado, and Robert Zukerman will appear in the Fundamental Theater Project's benefit staged reading of William Shakespeare's Hamlet at 7pm on F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharo will make her New York theater debut in Louise Roche's Girl Talk: the Musical, at Off-Broadway's Times Square Arts Center, November 3-14. She will then play the Philadelphia engagement…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames Prendergast has replaced Simon Jones in TACT/The Actors Company Theatre's production of Václav Havel's The Memorandum. Jenn Thompson will direct the production, which will p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional information has been released about Career Transition for Dancers' 25th Anniversary Silver Jubilee, to be held at New York City Center on Monday, November 8 at 7pm.As previously r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn initial lineup of performers has been announced for SpeakEasy Stage Company's 20th Anniversary benefit concert to be held on November 8 at 7:30pm.The concert will be a retrospective of so…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDenis O'Hare, who will soon return to Broadway in Elling, chatted with TheaterMania on Tuesday, October 19 at a press event for the show, and shared his thoughts on working on Broadway versu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrendan Fraser, who will soon make his Broadway debut in Elling, chatted with TheaterMania on Tuesday, October 19 at a press event for the show, where he recalled his first brush the bright …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAs previously reported, the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera will come to an end on October 31, with its final performance at Los Angeles' Pantages Theater.To coincide with the the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFollowing a sold-out engagement in Anthony Wilkinson's Off-Broadway comedy My Big Gay Italian Wedding last month, the stars of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New Jersey returned to the produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDonny Osmond and Marie Osmond will appear in Donny & Marie - A Broadway Christmas, which will play a limited engagement of 12 performances from December 9-19. at Broadway's Marriott Marq…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Tom Bosley has died of a staph infection, according to published reports. He was 83.Bosley won the Tony for his portrayal of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in the musical Fiorel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, October 18, the 25th anniversary benefit reading of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart was held at the Walter Kerr Theatre.Tony Award winner and Oscar winner Joel Grey directed the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA talented ensemble vividly reconstructs Ishmael Houston-Jones, Dennis Cooper, and Chris Cochrane's landmark performance piece about youth, sexuality, and death.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular soap star and stage veteran talks about appearing in Will Eno's new play, winning the Emmy, and his next gig.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Friday, October 22, the current cast of Broadway's Mamma Mia! by lighting two brand new disco balls that have been installed on the Winter Garden Theatre marquee.On hand for the event wer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEric Close and Jonathan Tucker will star in a free reading of Jason Aaron Goldberg's The Confessions of Deacon Jim at the Pasadena Playhouse's Carrie Hamilton Theatre on at 8pm on October 28…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLionsgate Films has released the official trailer for John Cameron Mitchell's big-screen version of David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Rabbit Hole. The film will receive limi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHad a nice time at Shine! the tuneful, emotional and very well directed musical. The man in front of me started a chat at intermission, and when I asked him what his first Broadway musical w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRicky Martin will appear at Borders Columbus Circle to promote his memoir, Me on Wednesday, November 3 at 12:30pm. The book is scheduled to be officially released on November 2.Martin has be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winners Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock will co-star with Emmy Award winner Oprah Winfrey in a new comedy about the world of a home-shopping channel, according to a report on D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, October 22, the Broadway production of Eric Simonson's Lombardi opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre. The production is directed by Thomas Kail.The play, which is based on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCourtney Balan, Pamela Bob, Kristoffer Cusick, Patrick Oliver Jones, Kelly McCormick, and Jonathan Parkey will star in the new musical The Extraordinary Ordinary, by Scott Burkell and Paul L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLiam Neeson will be making a cameo appearance in The Hangover Part II, according to a report in Variety. Directed by Todd Phillips, the movie stars , Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed He…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Morgan discusses the creation of his provocative new film starring Matt Damon.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award and Emmy Award winner Helen Hunt will play Beatrice in the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles' production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, to run December 1-19 at the Ki…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage star Florence Henderson ahd partner Corky Ballas became the fifth pair to be eliminated from the11th season of ABC's Dancing With the Stars, which is hosted by Tom Bergeron and Brooke …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRobert Cuccioli and Luba Mason will star in Theatrical Gems' benefit presentation of the 1961 musical Wildcat, to be presented at 7pm on Sunday, December 19 at the Julia Miles Theater. Proce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominations for the 2009-2010 Ovation Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on January 17 at 7:30pm at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza (Ba…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony nominee Maria Dizzia and Obie Award winner Matt Maher will be featured in Let Me Ascertain You: Crime, USA, a cabaret preview performance of The Civilians' newest piece, conceived and d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara will be the special guest performer for the November 27 at 8pm and November 28 at 2pm performances of the Seattle Men's Chorus concert, Holiday Gle…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRaissa Katona Bennett, Carl Danielsen, Ritt Henn, Mary Liz McNamara, Sierra Rein, Tracy Sallows, and James A. Stephens will be featured in the Musical Mondays on Theatrical Thursdays present…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNational Asian Artists Project and producer Nikole Vallins will present a fully staged-reading of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! at 7pm on Monday, October 25 at Theatre Row's Acorn Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM42nd Street Moon has announced casting for Babes in Arms, by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, with the script adapted by John Guare. Dyan McBride will direct the production at the Eureka The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Alec Baldwin will be honored by the Museum of the Moving Image at its Annual Salute on February 28, 2011.Baldwin has appeared on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire, Loot,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe official trailer for the upcoming film Casino Jack, which stars Tony Award and Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey, has been released. George Hickenlooper has directed the movie, which has…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActors Nina Arianda, Jon Michael Hill, Kendrick Jones, and Noah Robbins have been named among the finalists for the Clive Barnes Foundation's first annual awards, according to The New York P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of Kneehigh Theatre's Brief Encounter, presented by The Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54, has announced a four-week extension, and will now close on January 2,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, October 18, TheaterMania spoke with Emmy Award winner Candice Bergen at a sneak peek at the St. George's Society's benefit reading of Stephen Sondheim's never-before-staged musica…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrooke Shields will headline a benefit for the charity Broadway in South Africa, to take place at The Box (189 Chrystie Street), on Thursday, October 28 at 9pm. Frankie James Grande is the e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEve Ensler will receive the Inspiration Award from the human rights organization, Breakthrough, at its Let's Breakthrough Together Gala, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City on October…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComedian Chris Rock will be making his Broadway debut alongside Bobby Cannavale, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Annabella Sciorra and Yul Vázquez in the world premiere of Stephen Adly Guirg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for 5th Avenue Theatre's production of A Christmas Story: The Musical!, to run November 26-December 30. Eric Rosen will direct, with choreography by Kelly…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFarah Alvin, Molly Hager, Curtis Holbrook, Lauren Marcus, Lindsay Mendez, Patti Murin, Jared Weiss, and Jason "SweetTooth" Williams will perform in 29, a pop-rock song cycle with music and l…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdam Pascal, who originated the role of Roger in Jonathan Larson's Rent, will perform with musician Larry Edoff in meandlarry at the Queens Theatre in the Park on Saturday, November 13, at 8…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen actor Gbenga Akinnagbe will join Showtime's hit series Nurse Jackie during its third season, scheduled to begin in early 2011, according to EW.com. He will play a nurse at A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlivier Award winner Ruthie Henshall and opera star Rhydian Roberts will be among the performers in impresario Raymond Gubbay's Christmas Spectacular at The O2 in London's, on Thursday, Dece…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKeira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss will star in a West End revival of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour. Ian Rickson will direct the production, which will open in early 2011. Exact sch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA full list of honorees have been announced for the 14th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on October 25 in conjunc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA new set of performances has been announced for the coming weeks at Joe's Pub.On October 24, the venue will host Alan Cumming & Friends: A Benefit for Fight Back NY, a special one-night…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSinatra: Dance With Me, conceived, choreographed, and directed by Twyla Tharp, will play a limited engagement at Wynn Las Vegas, December 11-January 29. Additional details, including castin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Tony Shalhoub and wife, actress Brooke Adams were on hand to help honor Robert Brustein at the Abingdon Theatre Company's fund-raising gala, Abingdon Plays to Win, whic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCynthia Nixon will appear in a one-night only reading of Bill Corbett and Kira Obolensky's Hate Mail on December 6 at New World Stages. Michael Mastro will direct the performance, which wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTerri Garr, Sandra Tsing Loh, Marianna Palka, Mimi Rogers, and Sally Struthers will be the final cast for the West Coast engagement of Love, Loss and What I Wore, which will conclude a seven…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFive-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury and multiple Grammy Award-winning musician Herb Alpert were among the honorees at the National Arts Awards gala, presented by Americans for the Ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBerkeley Repertory Theatre has announced casting for its holiday revival of The Arabian Nights, to run December 11 - 30, prior to its previously announced engagement at Arena Stage in Washin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated lineup has been announced for Comedy Central's Night Of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert For Autism Education. Jon Stewart will host the event, which is scheduled for broadca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNorth Shore Music Theatre has announced casting for its production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, A Chorus Line, to run November 2-21.The show tells the story of 17 dancers competing…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMABC has released stills for its upcoming Halloween episode of Modern Family, to air Wednesday, October 27 at 9pm, in which series star Jesse Tyler Ferguson dresses up as Spider-Man.The serie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee creator Ryan Murphy will be among the honorees at The Hetrick-Martin Institute's 2010 Emery Awards, to be held at Cipriani Wall Street on Tuesday, November 9, at 7pm. Wendy Williams wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor, musician, activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Andrew Goodman Foundation. The award will be presented at a ceremony at the Scho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElling stars Jennifer Coolidge, Richard Easton, Brendan Fraser, Denis O'Hare, and Jeremy Shamos joined director Doug Hughes to discuss the Broadway production, which is set to begin previews…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Dancing with the Stars champion Cheryl Burke will star in a limited engagement of Luis Bravo's Forever Tango, at the Marines Memorial Theatre in San Francisco, December 21 - Januar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for Mr. Popper's Penguins, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Mark Waters will direct the film, which is being produced by 20th Century Fox.In additio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRock supergroup Bon Jovi will receive the Global Icon award at MTV's Europe Music Awards on November 7 in Madrid. The group will perform at the ceremony, which will be aired live on MTV webs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEric Rosen and Matt Sax's must-see musical combines hip-hop and rap with Shakespearean themes of jealousy and power.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFOX has released a sneak peek at the cast of Glee performing "The Time Warp" as part of the television show's The Rocky Horror Show tribute episode, which is scheduled to air on Tuesday, Oct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star John C. Reilly will now star alongside Oscar winners Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz, and Kate Winslet in Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhiladelphia Theatre Company has announced casting for its production of the musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, featuring music and lyrics by William Finn, and book by Rach…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 10th annual 24 Hour Plays on Broadway will be presented at the American Airlines Theatre on Monday, November 15. Proceeds will benefit Urban Arts Partnership.The program will feature som…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Mark Rylance will perform a special benefit show, entitled Off the Grid in Manhattan, on Monday, November 8, at 7pm.The evening will include spontaneous improv theater with…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLaura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan will play the title characters in the musical Bonnie & Clyde, featuring a book by Ivan Menchell, music by Frank Wildhorn, and lyrics by Don Black. Jeff Calh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award-winning star discusses her upcoming tour, life with husband Taye Diggs, Glee, Wicked, and more.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA production of Abie's Irish Rose? I wouldn't miss it for all the tea in British drawing room comedies.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDan Lauria and Judith Light deliver performances to savor in this unevenly crafted biodrama about football coaching legend Vince Lombardi.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and film star Terrence Howard and Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson will co-host CENTRIC's 2nd Annual Soul Train Awards Show, which will be taped at the Cobb Energy Center in A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMagic Theatre will present the west coast premiere of Or, by Liz Duffy Adams. Loretta Greco will direct the production, which will run November 4-December 5, with an opening on November 10.O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichele Brouman, Amanda McBroom, and Jenny Powers will offer a one-night only concert, Dangerous Beauties, at Barre on November 4 at 8pm. George Ball and Matt Cavanaugh will be guest perfor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe LAByrinth Theater Company in New York and the Elephant Theatre Company in Los Angeles have announced a new bi-coastal partnership which will begin in November with two productions to ru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veterans Ed Asner and Steve Kazee will be part of the cast of CMT's first scripted sitcom, Working Class, which is set to debut in January, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDreamWorks Theatricals is teaming up with Broadway Across America for a live family touring show based on its Madagascar film series, according to The New York Times. The production will be …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Garth Fagan will premiere his new work "Thanks Forty," when Garth Fagan Dance plays the Joyce Theatre, November 9-14.The piece, which is created in celebration of the compa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA one-night-only broadcast of the 25th anniversary concert of Les Miserables, recently offered at London's O2 arena, will be seen in over 500 theaters around the United States on November 17…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe North American tour of Pandemonium: The Lost and Found Orchestra, from Stomp co-creators Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, will play play a Los Angeles engagement at Royce Hall at UCL…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Olney Theatre's production of the musical Annie, to be presented November 17-January 2. Mark Waldrop will direct, with musical direction by Christopher Youstra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, October 18, members of the press got a sneak peek at the St. George's Society's benefit reading of Stephen Sondheim's never-before-staged musical Evening Primrose, which will be p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will be performing in the Broadway production of Promises, Promises, October 19-27.Chenoweth had previously announced that she would be out…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe legendary, Emmy Award-winning star of General Hospital returns to musical theater in a new L.A. production of the beloved Stephen Sondheim musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlayhouse Creatures Theatre Company has announced revised casting for Stephen Jeffreys' The Libertine, to run November 5-20 at the Kirk Theatre on Theatre Row. Eric Tucker will direct the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlton Fitzgerald White, who currently stars as Mufasa in Broadway's The Lion King, will perform a holiday benefit at the Triad on Monday, December 13 at 7pm. The concert will feature accompa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMidnight in Havana, by Robert Dominguez, will now play the Snapple Theater Center, on Fridays, October 22 and 29 at 10:30pm. Dominguez will direct his own play, with choreography by Vivian "…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMasterworks Broadway has announced the second trio of cast recordings that will be made available through digital services and as discs-on-demand. These soon-to-be-available titles are part…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNathan Lane will emcee the television special, A Broadway Celebration: In Performance at the White House, which will premiere on PBS on Wednesday, October 20.The concert was hosted by Presid…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNominations have been announced for the first American Country Awards, to be presented live on Monday, December 6 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and aired live on FOX at 8pm. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Center Theatre Group's production of Eric Rosen and Matt Sax's Venice opened on Sunday, October 17 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Rosen has directed the musical, a co-production with the K…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarc Kudisch, Kerry O'Malley, Noah Racey and Mary Testa will headline Broadway by the Bay's presentation of six Broadway by the Year concerts at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center, to run …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominees for the Gotham Independent Film Awards have been announced, according to a report on Deadline.com. The prizes will be handed out in a ceremony to be held on November 29 at Cipr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCelebrity blogger Perez Hilton attended the Friday, October 15 evening performance of Peepshow at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Afterwards, he visited backstage with…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJenni Barber, Heidi Blickenstaff, Matt Castle, Josh Grisetti, Jesse Means, Adam Monley, Louis Tucci, and Scott Wakefield will star in York Theatre Company's production of I Love My Wife. Pa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Gerroll will star as Ebenezer Scrooge in the Guthrie Theater's production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, to be presented on the Wurtele Thrust Stage, November 19-December 30, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Doyle's staging of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Road Show will have its European premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory during the summer of 2011, according to a report in Vari…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlison Fraser, Marni Nixon, Jill O'Hara and Tony Roberts will perform at the annual Primary Stages Gala to be held on November 1 at the Edison Ballroom. Directed by Michael Lavine, the even…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProducer Eric Krebs will be receive the Fortune Society's Corporate Leaders for Change Award at the organization's 2010 Annual Awards and Benefit Gala to be held on Sunday, November 15 at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Sunday, October 17, Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Julia Cho's The Language Archive opened at the Laura Pels Theatre, with a cast featuring Betty Gilpin, John Horton, Jayne Ho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe McCarter Theatre has announced the plays that will be presented as readings as part of its McCarterLab festival, to run October 27-November 5.The series will feature The Writers Voice, i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe casts of the musicals Academy and With Glee will join together for This One Time In Junior High&(How we survived Middle School. And the 90's.), a rock concert to play The Triad Theatre o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar, Emmy and Grammy Award-winning actor Robin Williams will star in the Broadway production of Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, to begin previews at a theater to be announc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth and producer Daryl Roth will be featured in the Thursday, October 28 episode of NBC's The Apprentice.The episode will have the show's contestants being gi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka are now parents of twins, Gidon Scott and Harper Grace, according to published reports. The longtime couple used a surrogate to carry t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVital Theatre Company is in negotiations to assume the lease on the theater on 45 Bleecker Street, which was closed down by owner Fred Rogers earlier this week after tenant Louis Salamone fa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPerfect Harmony will resume performances at the Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row beginning October 21. The show's official opening will be October 27. The change of venue for the musical was nec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Laurie Beechman Theatre has announced its programming for November, which will include the previously announced It Gets Better Broadway Supports The Trevor Project, to be offered on Nove…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Repertory Theatre has announced casting for The Blue Flower, to run December -January 8. Will Pomerantz will direct the production, which will have music direction by Mark Rudinstei…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNaked Angels has announced its 2011 season, which will begin with Naked Footprints: An Issues Project, to run March 24-April 2 at Comix.This festival of original material -- one-acts, radio …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLa Bête, which in 1991 became one of my all-time favorite theater experiences, is now a severe let-down because it's low-down and dumbed-down.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Justin Bartha, Zachary Booth, Mia Farrow, Jordan Gelber, Aasif Mandvi, Donna Murphy, and Christopher Walken will star along with Selma Blair in Todd Soldonz's Dark Horse, acco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Almeida Theatre has announced its spring 2011 lineup.First up will be Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw (January 13-March 5), directed by Peter DuBois. This dark comedy focuses on a newly mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLiza Minnelli has been ordered by her doctor to cancel a series of upcoming performances as she has contracted bronchial pneumonia.Among the touring engagements affected are ones at the NB P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPower Balladz will play its final performance at the Midtown Theatre on October 23. The production, directed by Mike Todaro, had officially opened at the theater on August 19.Created by Toda…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBritish stage and screen actor Simon MacCorkindale has died, following a battle with cancer, according to published reports. He was 58.MacCorkindale began his career working in U.K.'s repert…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGerard Alessandrini will be the special guest at Amas Musical Theatre's American Song Salon, to be held on Monday, November 15, which will be held in an apartment on West 57th Street.During …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChris Bauer, Robert Cuccioli, Derin Altay Gemignani, Roxana Hope, David Andrew MacDonald, and Judith Ann Roberts will appear in Something Wicked This Way Comes, to be offered at the Shakespe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephanie J. Block, Alex Brightman, Matt Doyle, Adam Kantor, and Morgan James are among the artists featured on Chasing The Day-The Music Of Will Van Dyke, to be released by Sh-K Boom Record…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCBS' new panel talk show, The Talk, will premiere on Monday, October 18. As previously announced, the show will feature Tony Award winner Marissa Jaret Winokur, along with Sharon Osbourne, J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMark Rylance gives an astonishing comic performance in Matthew Warchus' often hilarious revival of David Hirson's rhyming-verse play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Robert Lindsay lends charm to the title role of Martin Sherman's surprisingly flat biographical drama about the Greek shipping magnate.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, October 13, the Tony Award-winning production of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake opened at New York City Center, where it is set to play until November 7.Among the celebrities in at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA pre-taped segment featuring Pee-wee Herman and talk show host Regis Philbin will air on ABC's LIVE with Regis and Kelly on Tuesday, October 19.The segment was taped on Thursday, October 7,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRobert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver will star in the psychological thriller Red Lights, according to a report in Variety. Rodrigo Cortes has written the screenplay for the project, which he…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Dick Van Dyke's autobiographical show Step in Time - A Musical Memoir will play the Geffen Playhouse, December 8-January 16. Joshua Ravetch, who has co-written the show wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Milk Can Theatre Company has announced casting for Bethany Larsen's Malfi, Inc., to run November 10-21 at Theatre 54. Julie Fei-Fan Balzer will direct the production.A modern-day adaptat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPerformances for Deep Throat Sex Scandal and Perfect Harmony, both running at The Bleecker Street Theatre (45 Bleecker), have been canceled to a dispute with the theater's landlord, which h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Memphis, which will officially celebrate its one year anniversary on October 19, has announced that stars Chad Kimball (Huey), Montego Glover (Felicia…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarey Perloff's new play Higher will receive three publicworkshop reading presentations at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, November 4 at 7pm and November 7 at 1pm and 4pm. Mark Rucker will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced its lineup of programs for its 2011 spring season.Dublin's Abbey Theater will begin the season with Frank McGuinness' new version of Henrik Ibsen'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBon Jovi-The Circle Tour, a film which shows the group's four-night concert stand at the new Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey last May, will be shown at select theaters around the country o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT) has received an anonymous $1,000,000.00 gift, payable over four years, to be used toward staffing enhancements and new programming.Additionally, the c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, the latest installment of the popular film series.Breaking Dawn, to be directed by Bill Condon, is being presented as …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMExtant Arts has announced casting for Nemonie Craven's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, to run November 5-21 at the Access Theater. Sophie Hunter will direct the production.The piece fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Public Theater has announced an updated list participants for The Public Forum, a new series of lectures, debates and conversations that showcase leading voices in the arts, politics and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFeinstein's at Loews Regency has announced additions to its 2010 line-up.Lynda Carter will perform her all-new acoustic show Wicked Cool, November 9 -13. The actress, who has previously play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss and Obie Award winner Rinde Eckert will star in Colin Greer's Imagining Heschel, to run November 4-28 at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Larry Moss will direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmily Bergl, Eve Best, Kelly Bishop, Christian Campbell, Katie Finneran, Mamie Gummer, Kelli O'Hara, Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, and more stars join Benjamin Walker and the company of Blood…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Civilians have announced casting In the Footprint: The Battle Over the Atlantic Yards, to run November 12-December 11 at the Irondale Arts Center, with an official opening on November 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJules Feiffer will offer a performance of his solo show Jules Feiffer: Funny Side Up on November 15 at the Samuel J. Friedman. The event will benefit the Writer's Guild of America, East (WG…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe brilliant jazz singer's latest act showcases the work of writers as diverse as Irving Berlin and Rodgers & Hart to Jimmy Webb and Bob Dylan.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFor Colored Girls: Music From And Inspired By The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be released by Atlantic Records on November 2.As previously reported, Tyler Perry's film, which is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara will play Ella Peterson in the City Center Encores! production of Bells Are Ringing, to run November 18-21 at City Center. The show will be directe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTituss Burgess will offer a one-night-only performance of Tituss and the Tightass Band at New World Stages on Saturday, October 30 at 11pm. The concert will benefit The Trevor Project, a na…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGareth Gates will assume the role of Marius in the West End production of Les Miserables, playing at the Queen's Theatre,, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. He will be replacing Al…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMusicals Tonight has announced casting for its production of the 1952 musical Three Wishes for Jamie, to run October 26-November 6 at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre.The production will be directe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, James Marino and Matthew Murray discuss the openings of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, La Bete, Circle Mirror Transformation with Sandy Duncan at George Street Playhouse and P…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMHave you noticed the big bus sitting between the Marquis and Lunt-Fontanne Theaters - the one that says The Ride on its side? It's a "motor coach" that offers a tour around Bryant Park, the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulia Cho's problematic new play concerns a linguist with a troubled personal and professional life.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis visually stunning and audacious dance-theater work makes a most welcome return to New York.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEd Asner gives an often commanding performance in Allen Williams' creaky bioplay about Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBaz Luhrmann talks about turning Strictly Ballroom into a stage musical and the films Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohnny Galecki has joined in Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, and Olivia Wilde in Andrew Niccol's sci-film feature I'm Mortal, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The movie is set in the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award-winning star discusses her upcoming tour, life with husband Taye Diggs, Glee, Wicked, and more.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Douglas Thompson and Kate Mulgrew give disappointing performances in the title roles of Tina Landau's visually striking take on Shakespeare's tragedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBaz Luhrmann talks about turning Strictly Ballroom into a stage musical and the films Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Goldwyn talks about directing his new film Conviction and starring in the Broadway revival of Promises, Promises.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristine Baranski, Matthew Broderick, Jonathan Cake, Victor Garber, Debra Monk, Tommy Tune and more stars join Mark Rylance, David Hyde Pierce, and Joanna Lumley for the Broadway opening of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFlashdance The Musical officially opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on October 14. With music by Robbie Roth, lyrics Robert Cary and Roth, and book by Cary and Tom Hedley, the show has been …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNBC has released official footage of Cheyenne Jackson's return to his role of Danny Baker on 30 Rock on October 14, when the hit NBC series was aired live from the network's studio 8H for bo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFOX has released an official trailer for Glee's The Rocky Horror Show tribute episode is scheduled to air on Tuesday, October 26 at 8pm.The episode, according to FOX, will have Glee Club hea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSing for Hope 2010 Gala: An American Songbook was held on Thursday, October 14 at 583 Park Avenue. The event raised money for the organization, which brings mobilizes professional singers, m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Chicago company of Billy Elliot The Musical, playing at Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre, will now close on November 28.The company will then go to play Toronto's Ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe award-winning actor discusses his collaboration with director Ivo van Hove on NYTW's The Little Foxes.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNicholas Hytner's production of Hamlet, starring Rory Kinnear in the title role, has opened in the National Theatre's Olivier Theatre. The production is currently booking through January 9.A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Friday, October 8, world-renowned attorney Alan Dershowitz came out to see David Bertolino's The Deep Throat Sex Scandal, which opened on Sunday at the Bleecker Street Theatre with Jerry …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMulti-platinum recording artist Rod Stewart gave a private performance at the brand new Aventura Arts & Cultural Center in Florida, on Sunday, October 10.He sang songs from his latest al…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Shubert Foundation has announced a record $18,215,000 in grants to support operations of 450 nonprofit organizations throughout the U.S. in 2010. Grants range in amount from $5,000 to $2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOpera legend Dame Joan Sutherland has died in Switzerland at the age of 83, according to published reports.The Australian-born soprano began singing concerts and operas in her homeland in th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLucie Arnaz, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Carole Demas, Loni Ackerman, and Nancy Opel will join the previously announced performers Michele Lee, Christiane Noll, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, John Tartaglia,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Donna McKechnie will appear in a special edition of the cabaret series Sondheim Unplugged on Saturday, October 30 at 7pm at the West Bank Café's Laurie Beechman …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrew Keenan-Bolger will join the Broadway company of Mary Poppins, at the New Amsterdam Theatre, beginning Tuesday, October 12. He will play the role of Robertson Ay, which he originated i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSharon Owens and Sebastian Anzaldo will star as Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra, respectively, in the West End production of Barbra & Frank: The Concert that Never Was..., at the New …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe track list for Elaine Paige & Friends has been announced. Produced by Phil Ramone, the CD is scheduled to be released in the UK on November 1, with a US release early in 2011.The alb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella will star in Denis O'Hare's An Iliad, to run October 19 - November 7 at McCarter Theatre Center. Lisa Peterson will direct the production.In the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Beckley, Gerard Carey, Natalie Casey, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Maria Friedman, Christopher Godwin, Teddy Kempner, John Gordon Sinclair, Jo Stone-Fewings, and Gary Wilmot will be feature…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM59E59 Theaters has announced the lineup of productions that will comprise its Brits Off Broadway festival, to run November 3 - January 2.Highlights include Academy Award nominee Brenda Bleth…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe West End production of Jersey Boys, playing at the Prince Edward Theatre, will offer a special benefit performance on Wednesday, November 17. The event will raise money for BBC Children …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGrammy and Emmy winner and four-time Oscar nominee Danny Elfman will make a live appearance at Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre on Thursday, October 21 at 7pm, in conjunction with the venue's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Soul Leaves Her Body, a collaborative work by filmmaker and video artist Peter Flaherty and dance theater artist Jennie MaryTai Liu, to be presented at HERE Ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLa MaMa E.T.C. will present a revival of Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte -- conceived, directed and choreographed by John Kelly -- in the Ellen Stewart Theatre, December 2-19.This ensemble work fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMorgan Freeman will receive the AFI Life Achievement Award in a ceremony to be held on June 9, according to a report in Variety. He is the 27th actor to receive the award since its inception…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA series of special screenings will celebrate the release of the two DVD-set Nancy LaMott: The Don't Tell Mama Shows on November 2 and 3 at 6:30pm and 9:15pm at Don't Tell Mama. The DVD set …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAward-winning British stage and screen star Rhys Ifans will join Andrew Garfield end Emma Stone in Marc Webb's new film version of Spider-Man, according to EW.com. The web site says the film…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress Raven Symone, pianist Chau-Giang Thi-Nguyen, and jazz trumpeter and pianist Arturo Sandoval will be guest performers at the December 9 performance of Debbie Allen's new dance-theater…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Christopher J. Hanke will guest star on an upcoming episode of ABC's Brothers & Sisters, according to AfterElton.comHanke starred on Broadway in Cry-Baby, In My Life and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen veteran Ruby Dee will be among the women honored as part of the Black Girls Rock! Awards, to be presented on October 16 in New York City and shown on BET on November 7.The o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage Limited has announced complete casting for Paul Scott Goodman's Bright Lights, Big City, which will have its U.K. premiere at Hoxton Hall, running November 4-25. Christopher Lane will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatt Damon, Jon Hamm, and Cheyenne Jackson will all appear on the October 14 episode of NBC's 30 Rock that is scheduled to be aired live from NBC's studio 8H for both the East Coast and the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis remarkably inventive and incredibly smart musical about the life of America's seventh president has unfortunately lost some of its luster on its journey to Broadway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Talking Band serves up a shiny bauble of a play about the uncertainty of the financial markets.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe brilliant jazz singer's latest act showcases the work of writers as diverse as Irving Berlin and Rodgers & Hart to Jimmy Webb and Bob Dylan.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Bienskie, J. Stephen Brantley, David Drake, Todd Flaherty, Joseph Mahan, and Aaron Tone will be featured in a reading of David Parr's Slap&Tickle, to be presented at the Bruce Mi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris will direct with the romantic comedy Aaron and Sarah, starring Emma Roberts and Josh Hutcherson, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Written by Chad Gom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, the latest installment of the popular film series, according to EW.comBreaking Dawn, to be directed by Bill Condon, is…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Asian American Arts Alliance will host its 28th Anniversary Benefit Gala: Defining Moments on Wednesday, November 3 at CUE Art Foundation in New York City.This year, awards will be give…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner James Lapine will direct a new Broadway production of Annie. As previously reported, the revival, produced by Arielle Tepper Madover, is scheduled to open in the fall of 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel sat down with the press at Joe's Pub on October 13 to discuss her upcoming national tour and other aspects of her life and career.Menzel will be performing wit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Filichia, Matthew Murray and Michael Portantiere discuss the return of Time Stands Still, Jennifer Holliday, Bernadette Peters, Mrs. Warren's Profession, The Divine Sister, The New Yor…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMTrip Cullman will direct the world premiere of Eliza Clark's Edgewise, a co-production by the Off-Broadway companies Page 73 and The Play Company, to be presented at Walkerspace, November 9-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWe may not be living in a Renaissance, more's the pity, but we do have a Renaissance man in our midst.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChoreographer Travis Payne and singer-dancer Kimberly Wyatt will join Paula Abdul's new talent competition series Live to Dance as judges, according to published reports. It has also been a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, October 13, cast members from the Tony Award-winning production of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake came to Times Square to promote the show, which is set to return to New York City …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKurt Braunohler and Reggie Walls will join Kristen Schaal for Comedy With Kristen Schaal & Friends, to be held at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University on Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHoward Fishman will celebrate the release of a trilogy of recordings with performances in New York City and Washington, D.C. The discs Better Get Right, No Further Instructionsand The World…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBerkeley Repertory Theatre has announced casting for Lemony Snicket's The Composer is Dead, to play the Roda Theatre November 26-January 15, with an opening on December 2. The show features …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Roundabout Theatre Company has announced a one week extension of its production of Kim Rosenstock's Tigers Be Still, presented as part of the Roundabout Underground series at the Harold …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Emma Hunton and Stonewall Sensation winner Erik Sisco will join host Marti Gould Cummings for Glitter & Be Gay Tuesdays with Marti at the Upper East Side's Evolve Bar (2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSteven Spielberg's forthcoming film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel War Horse will now be released on December 28, 2011, in lieu of the previously announced August 11, according to a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCostume designer Ann Closs-Farley won the Center Theatre Group's 2010 Richard E. Sherwood Award. The honor, which carries a $10,000 cash prize, was created in 1996 to identify and support i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Sean Combs (a.k.a. Diddy) will host a "pink party" at Long Island's GLO Nightclub in Westbury, on Thursday, October 14 at 11pm.Patrons are asked to wear a splash of pink to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSam Rockwell will join the previously reported Jonah Hill and Ari Graynor in the film comedy, The Sitter, according to EW.com. David Gordon Green will direct the movie.The film centers on a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTaye Diggs, Sutton Foster, Angela Lansbury, Colin Quinn, Uma Thurman, Kate Walsh and more stars join Patrick Stewart, T.R. Knight, and David Mamet for their Broadway opening.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) has announced its 2010-2011 theater season, which will include a one-night-only performance by Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz. The concer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWestport Country Playhouse has announces six special events to take place in December, to coincide with the winter holidays.Stage and screen star Tracie Thoms will present her cabaret show, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMusic legend Patti Smith is among the 20 finalists for the National Book Awards. Winners in four categories will be announced on November 17.Smith's memoir Just Kids, about her friendship wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Old Vic has announced complete casting for Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear, translated by John Mortimer, to run December 4 - March 5. Richard Eyre will direct the production.The cla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans John Getz, Shirley Knight, and Joey Slotnick will co-star in the new suspense film Elevator. Stig Svendsen is directing the project, which has a screenplay by Marc Rosenberg.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Alliance for Musical Theater has announced additional casting for the 2010 Festival of New Musicals, as well as the lineup of writers and performers for its Songwriters Showcase…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSuperstar Bette Midler has joined the producing team for Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical, which has just launched a 12-week engagement at Toronto's The Princess of Wales Theatre, a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulie Andrews, Harolyn Blackwell, Herbie Hancock, Yo-Yo Ma, The Manzari Brothers, Terrence McNally, Lorne Michaels, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Paul Simon are among the artists scheduled to t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress Molly Shannon joined the Broadway company of Promises, Promises, at the Broadway Theatre, on Tuesday, October 12. She will play the part of Marge MacDougall through the show's previo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn initial lineup of performers has been announced for Broadway Rocks Anaheim, a benefit concert to be held on Saturday, November 27 at 8pm at Heritage Forum. The event will raise money for…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Kimmel Center has announced the lineup of performers who will be appearing as part of its Mini-Comedy Fest, to run November 5-7.The series will open on November 5 with Louis C.K.: Word. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPop singer Lesley Gore will now join the Broadway cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, at the Nederlander Theatre, for a special encore performance on Thursday, October 28.The product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Saana Lathan has joined the cast of Steven Soderbergh's upcoming film Contagion, according to Variety.The film, about a group of doctors forced to deal with an outbreak…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPatrick Stewart and T.R. Knight deliver brilliant comic performances in David Mamet's breezy backstage comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, October 12, comedians Colin Quinn and Jerry Seinfeld sat down with members of the press and CNN's Anderson Cooper to discuss Quinn's new one-man show Long Story Short, which is s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on Pandora's Box, Shine! The Horatio Alger Musical, and Fellowship! The Musical Parody of "The Fellowship of the Ring."
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for L.A. Theatre Works' production of Lucy Prebble's Enron, to run October 20-24. The production will be directed by Rosalind Ayres.The show will feature Stev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway and television star Richard Chamberlain will guest star on numerous episodes of ABC's drama Brothers & Sisters, according to EW.com.As previously reported by AfterElton.com, the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran and music superstar Lance Bass will host the American Music Awards, which will be broadcast live on ABC from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 21.Usher, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe commanding Rene Pape leads an accomplished cast in Stephen Wadsworth's first-rate version of Mussorgsky's opera at the Metropolitan Opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Regina Taylor's The Trinity River Plays, to play the Dallas Theater Center, November 5-December 5, and then Chicago's Goodman Theatre, January 15-February 20. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater's theaterjam, an all-day festival of short pieces, will be presented on Sunday, October 17.Works will include Wonderful, written and directed by Mary Laws and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Christine Ebersole and Broadway veteran Lili Taylor will appear at Symphony Space on Wednesday, October 27 at 7pm for Selected Shorts.The evening, entitled "My Mother She K…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Kahn, artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, will receive the sixth Richard Bauer Award, presented by The Board of the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive (W…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUntitled Theater Company #61 (UTC61) has announced casting for Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, to run November 18 - December 11 at 3LD Art and Technology Center. Edward Einhorn will d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLa Jolla Playhouse has announced casting for the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined, by Lynn Nottage. Liesl Tommy will direct this co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Hunti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEBE Ensemble has announced the full cast and creative team for the world premiere of The Girl from Nashville, written by Steven Michael Walters. Kristine Ayers will direct the production, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Intiman Theatre has announced the plays that will comprise its 2011 season.Valerie Curtis-Newton will direct a production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, which looks at a family facing l…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJersey Boys star Erich Bergen and jazz and cabaret artist Wesla Whitfield will join cast members from the touring production of West Side Story for the One Night Only Cabaret at the Marines …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAllison Case, Becky Gulsvig, William Michals, John Tartaglia, and Eric Jordan Young will be featured in the next installment of the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport's ongoing Broadway Co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the HBO movie adaptation of Too Big to Fail, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie, to be directed by Curtis Hanson, is based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New York Opera Society has announced casting and creative team for Ricardo Llorca's opera The Empty Hours (Las Horas Vacias), which will receive its world stage premiere in a one-night-o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJanet Dacal will star as Alice in WONDERLAND - A New Alice. A New Musical, which will play a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ferguson Hall at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHenri Bendel, Hattie Carnegie, Coco Chanel, Mainbocher, Norman Norell, Oscar de la Renta, Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, and Isaac Mizrahi will be among the designers represented in On Stage In …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlenn Close will play the role of Dr. Emma Brookner in a 25th anniversary reading of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, on October 18 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Tony Award winner and Oscar wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFarah Alvin, Brent Barrett, Kevin Chamberlin, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Michelle Dowdy, Daisy Eagan, Eric Michael Gillett, Annie Golden, Randy Jones, Karen Mason, Liz McCartney, Judy McLane, Sara…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYork Theatre Company has announced casting for the next three musicals that will be presented as part of its Developmental Reading Series.P.J. Griffith, Sarah Stiles and Michael Urie are set…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee's The Rocky Horror Show tribute episode is scheduled to air on FOX on Tuesday, October 26 at 8pm.The episode, according to FOX, will have Glee Club head Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEric Anderson, Ben Cameron, Celina Carvajal, Molly Hager, and Brian Charles Rooney will perform in Astronauts, Bedbugs & Other Killers: The Songs of Leschen and Sauter, at the Laurie Bee…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel will perform his new concert show, Back to New York at Birdland on Mondays, November 1, 8, and 15 at 7pm, while Tony Award winner Chita Rivera returns…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright and performer Will Power has been named the Aetna New Voices Fellow at Hartford Stage for the 2010-2011 season.Power is an award-winning actor, rapper, playwright, and educator wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTo celebrate the 45th anniversary of the release of the movie The Sound of Music, the film, in a fully restored high definition version, will return to 500 theaters nationwide for The Sound …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, September 11, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider joined the Broadway company of Rock of Ages for his limited 11-week engagement, October 11-December 24.Snider is playing the role …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSteven Boyer, Andrew Durand, Leo Ash Evens, Jim Poulos, Krysta Rodriguez, Lance Rubin, Dana Steingold, and Alex Wyse will perform in Songs You've Never Heard and Shows You've Never Heard Of,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDanny DeVito, Jorge Garcia, Melora Hardin, Billy Idol, Ricki Lake, Mario Lopez, Julian McMahon, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, and Evan Rachel Wood will star in The Rocky Horror Picture Sho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee will participate in a discussion at the Yale University Art Gallery McNeil Lecture Hall on Friday, October 22 at 3pm. Catherine Sheehy will serv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Schwimmer has married British photographer Zoe Buckman, according to a report on EW.com. The couple, whose engagement was reported in March, were married in a private ceremony in Jun…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis new play about the making of the legendary pornographic film and its aftermath has some very entertaining moments.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNatalie Douglas' sublime new tribute show to the legendary vocalist is full of warmth, sass, and simplicity.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJoe Iconis, Adam Rapp, and John Patrick Shanley are all set to take part in Preview of the Arts 2011, a three-day series of panel discussions, performances and screenings to be offered at Jo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Laurence will bring his solo show, Krapp, 39 to both London and Dublin, according to The New York Times. He will perform at London's Tristan Bates Theater, November 22-December 4, an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, The History of War, and Above Hell's Kitchen.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Liz McCartney, Stacia Fernandez, and Mary Stout will perform in 4th Wall Theatre's fundraising event, Miscast, to be held at Westminster Arts Center, in Bloomfield, New Jer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElisabeth Gray gives a dazzling performance in this cleverly conceived "solo show" which examines the life of the late poet.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Echo Theater Company will present the West Coast premiere of Mark Schultz's award-winning play Everything Will Be Different, A Brief History of Helen of Troy at the Zephyr Theatre, Octob…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Alice Ripley and Wilson Jermaine Heredia; Tony nominees Chad Kimball and Daphne Rubin-Vega; and rock stars Chris Barron from Spin Doctors, Randy Jones from The Village Peo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRon Bohmer, Carter Calvert, Rob Evan, Rita Harvey, and Marc Kudisch will star in the Geffen Playhouse's presentation of Broadway Holiday, to perform in the Gil Cates Theater, December 17-Jan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLaura Linney, Christina Ricci, Brian d'Arcy James, and Eric Bogosian discuss the new Broadway mounting of Donald Margulies' drama Time Stands Still.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMInterAct Theatre Company has announced casting for the world premiere of Thomas Gibbons' Silverhill, to be performed on the Mainstage of The Adrienne, October 22 - November 14, with an openi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe McCarter Theatre's 2010-2011 cabaret series will kick off with Marilyn Maye paying tribute to renowned lyricist Johnny Mercer, on Saturday, October 23 at 7:30pm.She will sing songs such …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharles Randolph-Wright received Actors' Equity Association's 2010 Paul Robeson Award at the 2010 General Membership meeting at the Union's headquarters in New York City, on October 8.Create…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGleemania, a new show inspired by the FOX television series Glee, will launch a U.K. tour at the Hammersmith HMV Apollo on December 17, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com.A subsequent…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLawrence Wright's new multimedia piece about the Gaza Strip is extremely thought-provoking.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for the West End transfer of the musical Love Story, to begin previews on November 27 at the Duchess Theatre.The official opening will be December 6.Rache…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Repertory Theatre will offer a special benefit performance of Cabaret on Monday, October 25 at 7:30pm at Oberon.The production has been directed by Steven Bogart and has musical dir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Flea Theater has announced a two week extension of the world premiere of A.R. Gurney's Office Hours, which will now close November 7. Jim Simpson has directed the production.Set in the 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJames Chen, Marcus Ho, and Ian Wen will star in Abingdon Theatre Company's production of Reggie Cheong-Leen's The Nanjing Race, to run October 29-November 21.Brian Tom O'Connor will direct t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAntony Hagopian will assume the role of Henry Higgins in the John W. Engeman Theater's production of My Fair Lady on October 9.Hagopian, who replaces Thomas W. Hammond, will continue in the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Off-Broadway show, Love, Loss, and What I Wore celebrated its one year anniversary at the Westside Theatre on October 7, and welcomed new cast members Aisha de Haas, Erin Dilly, Barbara …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNatasha Lyonne, Brooke Shields, Sherri Shepherd, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler will perform selections from Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore at the 92nd Street Y on Monday, Novemb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichelle Williams will play Marilyn Monroe and Kenneth Branagh will play Laurence Olivier in Simon Curtis' new film, My Life with Marilyn, according to published reports.The film focuses on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award and Academy Award winner Al Pacino will play record producer Phil Spector in an as-yet-untitled HBO movie, to be written and directed by David Mamet, according to The New York Tim…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA special promotional photo has been released for the forthcoming Broadway musical Elf, which will play the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, November 2-January 2, with an opening on November 14.Tony A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee John Tartaglia was Principal for the Day at Staten Island's P.S. 41 on October 7.During his time at the school, he visited with all of the children in specially arranged a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the U.S. national of the new 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables, which will make its U.S. premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse, November 19-D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEpic Theatre Ensemble has announced casting for a reading of Ari Roth's The Born Guilty Cycle, to be offered on October 17 at 2:30pm at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.Blanka Zizka will direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, October 7, Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still opened on Broadway at the Cort Theatre with Daniel Sullivan at the helm.First nighters included Lorraine Bracco, David Harbour, Je…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Dramatists Guild of America has announced the artists who have won its annual awards.The prizes will be presented in an awards ceremony to be held on Monday, November 1 at the Hudson The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChris Mixon will play Dr. Martin Luther in the Pearl Theatre Company's production of David Davalos' Wittenberg, to run March 11 - April 17 at New York City Center Stage II.J.R. Sullivan will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKathleen Butler, John Carter, Kathleen Chalfant, Edward Herrmann, Ellen McLaughlin, and Keira Naughton will star in the Yale Repertory Theatre production of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBay Street Theatre has announced casting for a workshop performance of Raindogs, to be offered on October 16 at 8pm. Andrew MacBean will direct.Based on Lanford Wilson's play Balm in Gilead,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, October 7, Pee-wee Herman (aka Paul Reubens) spent the day getting acquainted with New York City by sightseeing and checking in to Foursquare on all his stops along the way to l…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Michael Shannon, John Slattery, and Paul Sparks will co-star alongside Linda Cardellini in the independent film, Return, according to Variety.The film centers around a militar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for Jeremy Sams' translation of Albert Camus' Les Parents Terribles, to run November 25 - December 18 at Trafalgar Studios 2, according to a report on Wha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNine New York City Latino theaters have announced the creation of the Alliance of Teatros Latinos. The consortium will work to create a common platform for leadership development and strateg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Halberstam has been named the recipient of the 2010 Zelda Fichandler Award, which recognizes an outstanding director or choreographer "who is transforming the regional arts landscape…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe original London cast recording of Mutiny! will be released on CD by Stage Door Records on November 15.The show features music by David Essex and a book and lyrics by Richard Crane.The 16…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristina Ricci's performance in Donald Margulies' play pales in comparison to the brilliance of co-stars Laura Linney, Brian d'Arcy James, and Eric Bogosian.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMama Morton and Velma Kelly have been wondering "Whatever happened to class?" for some time now. If they saw The Drunkard at the Metropolitan Playhouse, they'd really be scandalized by the g…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLawrence Wright's new multimedia piece about the Gaza Strip is extremely thought-provoking.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProspect Theater Company's sparkling new musical comedy tells a familiar tale in a delightfully derivative fashion.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe authors of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Lombardi, The Pitmen Painters, and The Scottsboro Boys discuss turning fact-based stories into Broadway fare.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYoshi Oida will return to New York after an absence of 12 years to offer two performances of his 1972 comic one-man play Interrogations: Words of the Zen Masters at The Japan Society on Octo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSony Pictures has released a new trailer for the contemporary musical film Burlesque. The movie, directed and co-written by Steven Antin, is slated for a November 24 release. As previously r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Oprah Winfrey Show has released a brief video promoting Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer's previously announced appearance on the program. The performers, who starred as Maria and C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new reality TV series, Mario Lopez: Saved By The Baby, will premiere on VH1 on November 1. The program will follow Lopez and girlfriend Courtney Mazza as they transition from dating to c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway stars Kate Baldwin, Michael Cerveris, Aaron Lazar, and Christiane Noll will join The New York Pops in a concert of Stephen Sondheim's greatest songs and soliloquies, at Carnegie Hal…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlivier Award nominee Leigh Zimmerman will take over the role of Velma Kelly in the Broadway production of Chicago, at the Ambassador Theatre, beginning Friday, October 8, while Brent Barret…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony nominee Thomas Sadoski will join the previously reported Stockard Channing, Stacy Keach, Linda Lavin, and Elizabeth Marvel in Jon Robin Baitz's new play, Other Desert Cities, to be pres…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Martello will star in Conor McPherson's solo play, St. Nicholas, to be presented at Irish Reperotry Theatre, October 15-November 21. Alex Dmitriev will direct. In this modern-day Gothic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUpdated casting has been announced for the next two installments of the concert series If It Only Even Runs A Minute, to be held at The American Theatre of Actors, on Thursday, October 14. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for BALLS! The Testosterone Plays of Monica Bauer, to be presented at the WorkShop Theater's Main Stage, November 19-December 5. John D. FitzGibbon will direct. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Stratford Shakespeare Festival has announced additional casting for its 2011 season, which will include Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar. Directed by Des McAnuff…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Vineyard Theatre has announced the first three discussions that will be offered for its Vineyard Voices series, Monday night panels led by theater professionals from The Vineyard. The se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Victoria Clark will curate and host New York City Center's Musical Theater: From the Page to the Stage, a series of interactive discussions and performances by guest artist…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephanie J. Block, J. Bernard Calloway, Nikki Renee Daniels, Kathy Fitzgerald, Rhett George, Andy Karl, Orfeh, and Marty Thomas will perform at the African Children's Choir annual gala fund…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBetty Buckley's newest album Bootleg: Boardmixes From the Road will be released in tandem with her upcoming appearance at Town Hall.The recording will be available for download from iTunes n…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnn Harada, Raymond J. Lee, Telly Leung, Jose Llana, Jason Ma, Orville Mendoza, Manu Narayan, Olivia Oguma, Eileen Rivera, Anne Fraser Thomas, and Virginia Wing will star in the National Asi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAtlantic Theater Company has announced casting for The Collection & A Kind of Alaska: Two Plays by Harold Pinter, to run November 3 - December 12 at Classic Stage Company. Karen Kohlhass…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the American premiere of Enda Walsh's Penelope, which will be presented by the Irish company Druid at St. Ann's Warehouse, October 23-November 14. Mikel Murfi …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Women of SNL, a new two-hour special focusing on the women who have been part of Saturday Night Live, will air on NBC on Monday, Novemebr 1 at 9pm on NBC, according to TVGuide.com The sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMACT Theatre has announced casting for Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore, to run October 15 - November 14. Kurt Beattie will direct the production. McDonagh's black comedy centers…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Frank Galati will direct the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's season opener, Twelve Angry Men, to run November 2-14. The production, set in 1950s post-war America, follows the case …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Intiman Theatre's production of The Scarlet Letter, adapted by Naomi Iizuka from the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel of the same name. Lear deBessonet will direct th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Alan Campbell will play Dr. Seward in the Carolina Ballet's Dracula, to run October 14-31 at the A.J. Fletcher Theater of the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Art…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeff Daniels, Julie Gold, David Rasche, and The Accidentals are among the artists featured on the new holiday album Christine Lavin Presents: Just One Angel, to be released by Yellow Tail Re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, honored the Emmy Award-winning ABC comedy Modern Family at the Respect Awards in Los Angeles on Friday, October 8. The event was hoste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Julianne Moore will be honored at the 5th annual Rome Film Festival, to take place October 28-November 5. Among the films to be presented are John Cameron Mitchell's ad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMUK musical theater star Lee Mead will perform a special solo concert, Christmas with Lee Mead at the London Coliseum on Sunday, December 19, acccording to Whatsonstage.com' Mead, who came to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcclaimed solo performer Mike Daisey will present a new monologue, Barring the Unforseen, at IRT (154 Christopher Street), October 26-31. Jean-Michele Gregory will direct. In the piece, Dais…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFOX has released the line-up of songs for its special October 12 episode, according to published reports The episode's musical selections will include Lea Michele and Chris Colfer duetting o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJacques d'Amboise's memoir, I Was a Dancer, will be released in February, 2011. D'Amboise appeared on Broadway in Shinbone Alley and in the films Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Carousel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrew Kober will host and perform at Round 3 of NYMF's Next Broadway Sensation competition, to be held at New World Stages on Sunday, October 10 at 9:45pm. Sally Eidman, Brooke Ishibashi, a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen stars Michael Sheen and Andrea Riseborough will star in Amit Gupta's debut feature, Resistance, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Gupta will co-write the screenplay with …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSpencer Aste, Brian Barnhart, Regina Betancourt, George Demas, Britt Genelin, Laurie Kilmartin, Lynn Mancinelli, Edgar Oliver, Marc Palmieri, and Jim Sterling will be featured in Axis Compan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFirst Look Studios will release the film comedy Leaves of Grass, written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson, on DVD and Blu-Ray on October 12. The cannabis fueled comic thriller concerns a cla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAuthor and playwright Mitch Albom will debut his new play Ernie, about the late Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell, next year at the City Theatre in Detroit, according to The Associate…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the Swedish academy's award citation, Varga Llosa was hailed "for his cartography of structures of power and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Alice Ripley and current Next to Normal stars Jason Danieley, Meghann Fahy, and Adam Chanler-Berat will join their castmate Louis Hobson (who plays the doctor in the Pulitz…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNominations for the Theatrical Management Association (TMA) Awards, celebrating the best of British theatre from around the United Kingdom, have been announced. The awards will be presented …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Grammy Award winner Barry Manilow will perform with The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at the 02 Arena in London, May 4-7. Manilow's Broadway credits include his Tony Award-wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIf you've seen the 1942 movie of Panama Hattie, you haven't really seen Panama Hattie. And if you've seen the 1954 TV adaptation of Panama Hattie, you haven't really seen Panama Hattie, eith…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Addams Family, Wicked, Nightmare: Superstitions, (un)afraid, Nevermore, and The Village Halloween Costume Ball are among the chilling and thrilling attractions being presented in October.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElevator Repair Service transforms F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant novel into a mesmerizing theatrical experience.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA $100 million fund has been set up for the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center site, it was announced today by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Governor David A. Paterson and Assemb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe beloved actress returns to the stage in the George Street Playhouse's production of Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe real-life couple's imaginative and brilliantly executed new show at the Cafe Carlye proves to be the gold standard for nightclub performance.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHalley Feiffer, Natasha Lyonne, Reed Birney, and John Magaro deliver excellent performances in Kim Rosenstock's oddly enchanting play about depression.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCabaret star KT Sullivan will host the benefit concert Bewitched, The Songs of Rodgers and Hart at the Triad Theatre on Thursday, October 14 at 7pm.Bewitched is directed and arranged by inte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBritish comedian/actor Billy Connolly has extended the run of his new show Billy Connolly Live! at the Royal George Theatre, by adding shows on October 14, 15, and 16. The show was previousl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2010 Emmy Award winner and stage veteran Jane Lynch will be hosting, as previously announced, the October 9 episode of Saturday Night LIve. The musical guest for the show that night will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner and Broadway veteran Megan Mullally will kick off the 2010-2011 Orange County Performing Arts Center (OCPAC) cabaret series, performing with her band Supreme Music Program,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTom Wopat and Rodney Hicks are set to perform at American Friends of Rabin Medical Center Best Of Israel / Best Of New York gala to be held on November 1 in the Empire Ballroom at the Grand …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRobert Kropf and Gabriel Kuttner will appear in John Kolvenbach's On an Average Day to run October 19 - November 7 at Boston Center for the Arts. Valerie Stanford will direct the production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMErin DIlly will join Aisha de Haas Barbara Feldon, Tovah Feldshuh, and Ashley Austin Morris in the Off-Broadway show, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, at the Westside Theatre, October 6-31.Based…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarshall Brickman and Rick Elice will write the screenplay for the movie version of Jersey Boys, according to a report on Deadline.com. The news of their team's involvement with the project…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winners and stage veterans Ben Stiller and Alan Alda are set to star in the new movie Tower Heist, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Brett Ratner is directing the picture.In t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCatherine Brookman, Brian Gallagher, John Arthur Greene, and Trapper Felides will be guest artists at Morgan Karr's Joe's Pub concert on October 6 at 11:30pm. Matt Hinkley will be music sup…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristopher Larkin will joined previously announced cast members Edward Hajj, Mia Katigbak, and Angela Lin in the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) production of Jordan Harris…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, October 6, the cast and creative team of the Broadway production of The Scottsboro Boys gave members of the press a sneak peak at the show's current incarnation. Featuring musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Dancing with the Stars champion Cheryl Burke will star in a limited engagement of Luis Bravo's Forever Tango, to run December 21 - January 9 at the Marines Memorial Theatre in San F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTen previously unreleased recordings will be featured on the album Bing Crosby: The Crosby Christmas Collection, to be released by Collectors' Choice Music on November 9. The collection has…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSlings & Arrows: The Complete Collection will be released on Blu-ray on October 26. The Canadian television series dramatizes the backstage trials and tribulations of a Shakespearean th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWynton Marsalis, along with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, will perform selections from his new extended piece Vitoria Suite in three performances of Jazz Meets Clave to be offered a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWorking Theater has announced the projects that will comprise its 2011 season, to run January - June at Theatre Row.The company will open the year with a production of Stefanie Zadravec's Ho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFeinstein's at Loews Regency will present television icons Lynda Carter and Joan Collins in November.Carter will perform her all-new acoustic show Wicked Cool, November 9 -13. The actress, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe American Theatre Wing has announced some of the guests that will be appearing on its Downstage Center interview programs. The broadcasts, which will be available online for streaming or …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdam Riegler, who plays the role of Pugsley Addams in the Broadway musical The Addams Family, will serve as the national ambassador for the previously reported special Halloween edition of K…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrooke Berman will appear for a reading at the San Francisco Border's in Union Square on October 17. The event is being held in conjunction with her new book: No Place Like Home: A Memoir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, October 5, Primary Stages' world premiere production of In Transit opened at 59E59 under the direction of Joe Calarco. Among the first nighters who attended an afterparty at the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced casting for Heidi Schreck's There Are No More Big Secrets, to run November 5 - December 12. Kip Fagan will direct the production.The play cente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGiovanna Sardelli will direct the world premiere of James McLindon's new dark comedy, Salvation, to be presented by Hudson Stage, October 29-November 13.The play is about a dying criminal co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree-time Tony Award winner Carol Channing received a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars, located in front of the Azul restaurant and Georgies Alibi in Palm Springs, California, on Satu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMurray Hill will host FALLin' for You, a benefit for the playwriting collective 13P, to be held at 3LD Art and Technology Center on Monday, November 8 beginning at 6pm.Structured as a fall f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Theatre has announced initial plans for 2011 programming, which will include a production of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, directed by Dominic Cooke, to be offered in Nove…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCape May Stage will honor actors Lynn and Ron Cohen at the annual NJ Theatre Alliance Applause Awards, to be held at the Bickford Theatre in Morristown, NJ on October 18.Lynn Cohen has appea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAysan Celik, Jimmy Davis, Santino Fontana, Carol Halstead, Ashton Heyl, Susan Heyward, Heather Lind, and Nick Westrate will take part in a reading of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Lov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Alan Alda will join the previously announced Lauren Ambrose, Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, and Justin Theroux, in the new film Wanderlust, according to the Hollywood Rep…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch will continue to perform the roles of Desiree Armfeldt and Madame Armfeldt, respectively, in Broadway's A Little Night Music, at the Walter Kerr Theatre,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTouchstone Pictures has released the trailer for Tony Award winner Julie Taymor's new movie treatment of Shakespeare's The Tempest. The film is scheduled for a December 10 release.The film …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe League of Professional Theatre Women will honor Kamilah Forbes and Lynn Nottage at the organization's awards luncheon, to be held at Sardi's on Thursday, December 9 at Noon.Forbes will r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJennifer Hudson, Elton John, Jason Mraz, Rob Thomas, and the Canadian Tenors will perform as part of the 15th Grand Slam for Children benefit concert, to be held at Wynn Las Vegas on Saturd…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAllegra Libonati, Artistic Associate at the A.R.T., and Steven Mitchell Wright, Movement Director for A.R.T.'s production of Cabaret will create the performance that will accompany O.N.C.E. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA Conversation with Edith Head, at the El Portal Forum Theatre, officially opened at October 1 at 8pm. The solo play stars Susan Claassen, and is written by Paddy Calistro and Claassen. In t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCherry Jones and Sally Hawkins give disappointing performances in Doug Hughes' misguided revival of George Bernard Shaw's classic drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBritish stage and screen star David Tennant will joinMichael Urie, for the October 6 and 7 performances of the London production of Celebrity Autobiography, according to Whatsonstage.com. Ur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe musical Sister Act will play the Broadway Theatre, beginning previews on March 24 before an official opening on April 20. As previously reported, four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Rufus Collins will star in the world premiere of Michael I. Walker's Letter From Algeria, to be presented at the June Havoc Theatre at Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, October…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWorkShop Theater Company has announced complete casting for Ken Jaworowski's Interchange, to run October 7-30. Thomas Coté will direct the play, which focuses on five seemingly di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPreliminary casting has been announced for MCC Theater's free series of PlayLab readings to take place at Baruch Performing Arts Center.Thomas Sadoski and Marin Ireland will co-star in Jason…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRAIN - A Tribute to The Beatles On Broadway has added a week of performances at the Neil Simon Theatre, and will now play October 19 - January 9, with an official opening of October 26. RAI…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFeinstein's at Loews Regency will present award-winning actress Joan Collins in her debut cabaret show One Night With Joan in the hotel's Regency ballroom, November 16-27.In the show, Collin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPBS will broadcast the six-hour documentary Circus, on Wednesdays, November 3, 10 and 17. Maro Chermayeff and Jeff Dupre have directed the film.The documentary follows the Big Apple Circus o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKieran Campion, Mia Dillon, and Edward Herrmann will perform in a reading of Noël Coward's A Song at Twilight, part of Westport Country Playhouse's Script in Hand Series, on Monday,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Reba McEntire will perform at the 44th Annual Country Music Awards, to be presented live in Nashville on November 10 and aired on ABC.McEntire starred in the revival of Anni…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Prince Music Theater has been listed as one of the properties to be sold at a sheriff's sale in Philadelphia on October 5.As previously reported, the company had been involved in litigat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, October 4, television personality Carson Kressley and Tony Award winner and Grey's Anatomy star Sara Ramirez hosted Broadway Takes the Runway: An Evening of Fashion and Song at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNext week, The Philhallmonic will do Bewitched: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart and before you write to accuse me of typing a typo, let me assure you I got it right.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLa Cage Aux Folles star A.J. Shively will join the previously reported Harriet Harris, Marc Kudisch, and Brad Oscar in Project Shaw's presentation of Captain Brassbound's Conversion, to be o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTeneisha Bonner, Tommy Franzen and Lizzie Gough will appear in ZooNation's premiere of Some Like It Hip Hop at Sadler's Wells' Peacock Theatre next spring, according to a report on Whatsonst…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Forster, Judy Gold, Jay Leonhart, Benjamin Levy, Heather Mac Rae and The Accidentals will be guests at the October 19 edition of Jamie deRoy & Friends, to be performed at The Triad …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) has announced additional events for its fall 2010 schedule. Theater productions will include the musical A Chorus Line (November 2-21) and a musical vers…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRobby Benson and Paige O'Hara recall the making of Disney's Beauty and the Beast film.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaytime Emmy Award winner Anthony Geary will play the Narrator/Mysterious Man in Lucid by Proxy's site-specific production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods, to run Octob…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Kevin Spacey participated in A Special Audience With Kevin Spacey, a fundraiser for the charity Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, held at the Criterion Theatre in London, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe North American tour of Pandemonium: The Lost and Found Orchestra, from Stomp co-creators Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, will conclude after just three weeks, according to a report …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe LA Opera will offer two free outdoor screenings of Daniel Catán's Il Postino (The Postman), starring Plácido Domingo and directed by Ron Daniels. The first will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFormer American Idol champion and current In the Heights star Jordin Sparks will launch a new fragrance, Because of You, next month, according to an interview in WWD. Set to hit counters nex…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe third annual Broadway in South Africa benefit concert was held at Manhattan Center's Grand Ballroom on Monday, October 4 at 7:30pm. The event, which honored producer Michael Butler, was …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut has announced an updated lineup of 2010 performances. Appearing at the center will be The Bro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright A.R. Gurney and Emmy Award-winning media columnist and reporter Liz Smith will be honored at the Transport Group Theatre Company's annual gala, Gimme a Break, to be held on Monday…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Feinstein's American Songbook, a three-part series that explores the history of American popular music, will premiere on PBS this fall, with air dates scheduled for October 6, 13, an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Sarah Litzsinger will play the title role in Alabama Shakespeare Festival's production of Peter Pan the Musical, to run November 19-December 24. Geoffrey Sherman will direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Eric Jordan Young's debut album Once in a Lifetime is now available for purchase through the performer's website, and will be available for digital download next week.On the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis delightful adaptation of Julianne Moore's children's book will appeal to audiences of all ages.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on three autobiographical rock musicals: Anthony Rapp's Without You, Ned Massey's Bloodties, and Karen Bishko's Therapy Rocks.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe star discusses his new memoir Full Frontal Nudity and his new reality TV series Harry Loves Lisa with wife Lisa Rinna.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Lily Tomlin will make a special appearance at a one-night only reading of Terrence McNally's Some Men, to be offered at the Saban Theatre on October 4 at 8pm. Michael Morr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee star Jenna Ushkowitz has joined the line-up for the second annual Born for Broadway celebrity cabaret, a benefit for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, to be held at New World…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLauren Hutton has joined Erica Ash, Winslow Corbett, Glenne Headly, and Edie McClurg in the Geffen Playhouse's production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore through October 24.Hutton replaces Jo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn industry reading for the Broadway-bound rock musical White Noise was held on Friday, October 1. The show features a book by Matte O'Brien with music and lyrics by brothers Robert and Stev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeff Skowron will reprise his portrayal of the title character of the Old Globe Theatre's 13th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, to run November 20 - December …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSarah Lancashire and Reece Shearsmith will star in the new musical Betty Blue Eyes, to play the West End's Novello Theatre next spring, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Richard Ey…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Friday, October 1, the cast and creative team of Amy Herzog's After the Revolution started rehearsals at Playwrights Horizons, which will run from October 21-November 28. Carolyn Cantor i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran John Stamos will co-produce, along with Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, a movie musical set to the music of the Beach Boys, according to Variety.No details are currently availab…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Sutton Foster will offer a one-night-only performance of her solo show An Evening with Sutton Foster at the Huntington Theatre Company on November 15 at 7:3pm. Michael Raft…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Off-Broadway production of Troy Diana and James Valletti's Tales from the Tunnel, at the 45 Bleecker Street Theatre, will end its run on October 3. The playwrights have co-directed the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReVision Theatre has announced casting for Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show, to run October 28 - November 7 at The Carousel House on the Boardwalk. Thomas Morrissey will direct the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting and creative team has been announced for the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production of James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, to run October 20-November 14. Paul Mullins w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWriter/performer Chiara Montalto's Emergency Used Candles will play an Off-Broadway engagement at the Cherry Lane's Stuido Theatre, November 4-20, with an opening on November 6. Victoria Mal…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarnes and Noble has announced an updated list of events in October and November in its Lincoln Triangle and Union Square stores.Kelsey Grammer, Douglas Hodge and other cast members from Bro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel will perform at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center's Cabaret gala to be held on October 13 at 6:30pm at the Park Avenue. CBS News…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the sequel to his Phantom of the Opera, will not debut on Broadway during the spring of 2011 as previously announced, according to a report in The New …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChazz Palminteri brings his Bronx Tale back to Vegas, while additional theater shows include Count Dracula, The Hot L Baltimore, and The Hot L Baltimore. Music and comedy acts this month inc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhoto coverage of this year's awards honoring the best of the Philadelphia theater scene.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMGrammy Award winners Hilary Hahn, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, John Mellencamp, Keb' Mo' and Stevie Wonder will perform as part of "A Celebration of Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Camps," a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSteven Boyer, Jarlath Conroy, John Patrick Dougherty, Stephen Ellis, Richard Poe, Kristen Schaal, Jeremy Strong, and Christopher Evan Welch will be featured in Nick Jones' The Coward. Presen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Evans will star in Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company at Sheffields Theatres' Crucible Theatre in December 2011. Jonathan Munby will direct the production, which will have d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTracie Bennett will once again play the role of Judy Garland in the West End premiere of Peter Quilter's End of the Rainbow, to be presented at Trafalgar Studios November 15-March 5, with an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis month's highlights include musical revivals of Me and Juliet and Bells Are Ringing, along with Ena Lamont Smith's Men Should Weep, Brett Neveu's Red Bud, Sarah Kane's Blasted, and the k…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTom Chambers will play Josh Baskin in Big The Musical, to run February 14-26 at the Liverpool Empire, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Ian Talbot will direct the production, which…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSouth Coast Repertory has announced casting for its produciton of Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, to run October 22 - November 21. Pam MacKinnon will direct the production.In Gionfriddo's com…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage star Christian Camargo will play Eleazar in Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, the latest installment of the popular film series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Breaking Dawn, to be di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis month's highlights include Andrea McArdle in Annie; Mike Farrell and Jim Parrack in Terre Haute; Gregory Itzin, Amy Pietz, and Steven Weber in Enron; Stephanie Zimbalist in Tea at Five;…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe London production of Billy Elliot the Musical at the West End Victoria Palace Theatre has announced updated casting for fall 2010. As of November 29, the role of Billy will be alternate…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, September 30, Tony Award winner Lee Hall's play The Pitmen Painters opened at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.Inspired by a book by William Feaver, the play is set in 1934, and f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Michael Grandage has announced that he will step down as artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse. He is scheduled to depart the position he has held for nine years in la…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway and opera star Dolores Wilson died on September 28 at age 82, according to The New York Times.Wilson worked frequently at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1950s, appearing in such oper…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBritish stage and screen star Sir Norman Wisdom died on Monday, October 4 at age 95.Wisdom appeared twice on Broadway, in the musical Walking Happy, for which he received a Tony Award nomina…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRaul Esparza gives an iconic performance as con man Jonas Nightingale in this problematic musical adaptation of the 1992 film.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNancy Anderson, Tituss Burgess, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, and Paige Davis will be among the performers in Living For Today: A Concert to Benefit the Gilana Shira Alpert Fund at The Laurie Beechma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCirque du Soleil's new show Banana Shpeel has canceled its engagement at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco, which was previously announced for October 16 - November 14. David Shiner …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHector Elizondo, Bruce Greenwood, Sam Jaeger, Roma Maffia, and Wayne Wilderson will perform in a staged reading of Hard Times, to be offered on October 17 at 6:30pm at Mount Hollywood Congre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star John Slattery will guest star on an upcoming episode of NBC's 30 Rock, according to EW.com.Slattery is a three-time Emmy Award nominee for his role as Roger Sterling on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLea Michele will sing "Papa Can You Hear Me?" on the October 5 episode of FOX's Glee. The number, with music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, was originally deliver…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the 2010 1st Irish Festival awards were announced in a ceremony held on October 4 at Lillie's Irish Victorian Bar.The biggest winner was the solo show Absolution, which earned…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDe'Adre Aziza, Walter Charles, Carole Demas, Jill Eikenberry, Tim Jerome, Hal Linden, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, Chris Sarandon, K.T. Sullivan, Jane Summerhays, Mary Testa, Michael Tucker, and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winner Shirley Jones and her son, Broadway star Patrick Cassidy, will star in The Cabrillo Music Theatre's 2010 Cabrillo Holiday Spectacular, to run December 21-24 at Thousand Oaks Civ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new musical Leap of Faith, opened on Sunday, October 3 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. Rob Ashford has directed and choreographed the production. Based on the movie of the same n…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 16th annual Barrymore Award winners were announced on October 4 in a ceremony held at the Walnut Street Theatre.Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatt Cusson, Jake Simpson, and Nita Whitaker will perform Motor City at the Scherr Forum Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza on October 23 at 7:30pm. Gerald Sternbach will provide …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast members from Broadway's Promises, Promises and Rain -- A Tribute to the Beatles have been added to the roster of talent that will be heard on the 2010 Broadway's Carols for a Cure C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional honorees have been announced for the 14th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on October 25. Sylvester Sta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Levi Kreis will offer a one-night-only performance of Where I Belong: An Intimate Evening with Levi Kreis at Chicago's Apollo Theatre on November 1 at 7:30pm. Kreis will p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRadio personality Valerie Smaldone will join the previously announced Sonya Carter, Renee Colvert, Priscilla Fernandez, and Berty Jay in Louise Roche's Girl Talk: The Musical, which will beg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Andre De Shields will star in Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theatre's production of Charles Smith's Knock Me a Kiss, November 11-December 5 at the Henry Street Settlement's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPerformances of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion playing at the Donmar Warehouse have been cancelled through Wednesday, October 6, according to published reports. The production i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMasterworks Broadway has announced a new set of recently out-of-print recordings that will be available for download via major digital service providers.Scheduled for release on October 19 i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright David Mamet will take part in the Museum of the Moving Image's program David Mamet: A Life in Film at 7pm on Wednesday, October 13 at the New School's Tishman Auditorium. The even…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Michael Cerveris, Judy Kaye, and Alice Ripley will join Mary Testa, Tom Wopat, and Nellie McKay for Broadway Melody Makers, to be presented as part of the Broadway Cabaret…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSting: Live in Berlin, a CD/DVD package culled from Sting's critically acclaimed world tour Symphonicity, will be released from Deutsche Grammophon/CherryTree Records in the US on November 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharles Randolph-Wright, currently represented Off-Broadway for his direction of Daniel Beaty's Through the Night, is the recipient of Actors' Equity Association's 2010 Paul Robeson Award. I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on Frog Kiss, The Tenth Floor, Jay Alan Zimmerman's Incredibly Deaf Musical, and POPart: the Musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe York Theatre Company has announced full casting for I Remember Mama, to run October 8-10 as part of its Musicals in Mufti series. Michael Montel will direct the concert performances, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel will voice The Queen of Hearts on the October 15 episode of Nickelodeon's The Wonder Pets!, according to TVGuide.com.The Emmy Award-winning preschool series fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National New Play Network (NNPN) has received a $425,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The contribution, to be used over three years, will be used to support the group's fl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Civilians have received a $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to be used toward Steve Cosson and Michael Friedman's The Great Immensity. The NSF grant will be used for t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBobby Cannavale, Christine Ebersole, Joanna Lumley, Denis O'Hare, Sarah Paulson, Amanda Peet, David Hyde Pierce, Julie White, and a host of stars join Cherry Jones and company at the opening…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAustralian actor/singer Hugh Sheridan will offer a one-night-only performance of Newley Discovered at the Snapple Theater Center on October 7 at 8pm. Dean Bryant will direct the piece, whic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThomas Haden Church will join previously announced stars Matthew McConaughey and Emile Hirsch in the upcoming film version of Tracy Letts' play Killer Joe, according to Variety.William Fried…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winners and stage veterans Rachel Weisz and Anthony Hopkins will star in the new movie 360, according to published reports. Fernando Meirelles will direct the film, which has a screenp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Alison Pill will join Seann William Scott, Marc-Andre Grondin, and Jay Baruchel in the new film Goon, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Micha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the national tour of Hair, which as previously reported, will begin with a brief engagement at New Haven's Shubert Theatre (October 21-24), which is being…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGuest artists have been announced for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 2011 summer residency at the Ravinia Festival, July 7-August 19.Broadway stars Kelli O'Hara and Brian Stokes Mitchell, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Metropolitan Opera has announced its fifth season of free open dress rehearsals.The first rehearsal will take place at 11am on Friday October 8 for the company's new production of Mussor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMusical Theatre West has announced complete casting for Annie, which will star, as previously announced, Andrea McArdle as Miss Hannigan and will run October 29 - November 14 at the Carpente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe national tour of The Wizard of Oz has announced a new slate of dates for the 2010-2011 season, which will begin its third year on the road with an engagement in York, Pennsylvania on Nov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters will receive the Arlington, Virginia-based Signature Theatre's 2011 Stephen Sondheim Award, according to a post from the theater's Twitter feed. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeff Achtem's interactive shadow puppet comedy, Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones will play a limited engagement at the Barrow Street Theatre, running October 14-23. Achtem serves as writer and p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHad a good time reading Mark Griffin's very well-written and researched A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli. How nice to know more about such films as Ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReviews of new CDs from Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Fantasia, Kerry Ellis, Eric Jordan Young, and more...
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA septet of indefatigable performers can't fully save this often trite a cappella musical about New Yorkers on the subway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Mai-Yi Theatre serves up an excellently acted production of Michael Lew's caustic if sometimes confusing comedy about financial profiteering in the age of Obama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis family-friendly opera version of the children's tale is a dazzling visual treat.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage star Margaret Cho became the third celebrity to be eliminated from the11th season of ABC's Dancing With the Stars,which is hosted by Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke.Actor David Hasselhof…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMCC Theater will produce a new version of the 1988 Broadway musical Carrie during the 2011-2012 season, according to The New York Times. Stafford Arima will direct the production.The show fe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDan Lauria, Judith Light, and Thomas Kail discuss working on the new Broadway play about legendary football coach Vince Lombardi.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFilm legend and stage veteran Tony Curtis has died of cardiac arrest in Las Vegas at age 85, according to published reports.Curtis studied acting in New York and began working with theater c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKerry Butler, Sutton Foster, Karen Olivo, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp and Stephen Tewksberry are scheduled to perform in Broadway Memories, a concert to be offered on October 2 at 7:30pm at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAs part of Advertising Week in New York, The Innovators Forum: Transforming Theatre Through Experiential Marketing brought together 35 innovators in theatre marketing in the commercial and n…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSam Mendes and David Hare will create new programming for BBC, according to a report on the website for the U.K. magazine The Stage.Mendes will executive produce screen versions of Shakespea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the new national tour of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, to be produced by Atlanta's Theater of the Stars. The show will have a preview engaement at the Munic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Bel Davies, Cathy Curtin, Jimmy Davis, Mike Doyle, and Jeffrey Nauman will star in Gary Sunshine's Best Sex Ever, as part of Rising Phoenix Repertory's previously reported Cino Night…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProgramming has been announced for The New Black Fest, to run October 9-17 in multiple locations. The festival aims to celebrate, advocate and showcase diverse and provocative work by Black …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new musical Catch Me If You Can has announced the theater it will play. The show will begin previews at the Neil Simon Theatre on March 7, 2011 in anticipation of an opening on April 10.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharles Busch will once again star in a staged reading of Times Square Angel, written by Busch, and based on an idea by himself and Andy Halliday. This twelfth annual holiday event will take…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBuddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott's comedy Devil Boys From Beyond will have an Off-Broadway run, November 3-December 30, at New World Stages. The work, which will be directed by Elliott, will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2010 Tony Award nominee Kenny Leon will direct the independent feature film Cotton, according to Variety.Based on the memoir Picking Cotton, by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLa MaMa ETC and La Compagnie Irina Brook have announced casting for Waiting for the Dream, an adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream translated by Marie-Paule Ramo, to run in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Annette Bening and Oscar winner Robert Duvall will be honored at the 14th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArtsEmerson: The World on Stage has announced two pieces of additional programming for its-2011 season.The Civilians will present their new work In The Footprint: The Battle for the Atlantic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Actors Fund will present Nothing Like a Dame: A Party for Comden and Green, the annual all-star concert benefiting the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative, at 7:30pm on Monday, Nove…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe September 28 episode of FOX's Glee drew the show's highest-rating ever, attracting 13.3 million viewers and a 5.8 preliminary adults 18-49 rating.Britney Spears , whose music was feature…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Chicago production of Million Dollar Quartet has announced that it is now playing at the Apollo Theater through May 30, 2011. The new block of tickets for the production go on sale Octo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRachel Wagstaff's stage adaptation of Sebastian Faulks' novel Birdsong has officially opened at the West End's Comedy Theatre. Trevor Nunn has directed the production.The play tells the sto…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Boston Conservatory will honor nine-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune at the celebratory performance gala commemorating the grand opening of the "Hemenway Project," a $32 million, 16-mon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new Broadway musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, to be presented by Lincoln Center at the Belasco Theatre has postponed previews for a second time, with performances now s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Idol winner and Broadway veteran Fantasia Barrino will launch her Back to Me concert tour at the Landmark Theater in Richmond, Virginia on November 4. The tour will play New York's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHeidi Blickenstaff, Will Chase, Benjamin Schrader, Clarke Thorell, and Michael Winther will star in Fire & Rain: The Songs of James Taylor, as part of the Broadway Close Up Series. The e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winner Danny Boyle will receive a BFI Fellowship, the organization's highest accolade, on October 27 during the BFI London Film Festival awards ceremony, according to The Hollywood Rep…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLegendary stage and film director Arthur Penn, who won the Tony Award for the original Broadway production of William Gibson's The Miracle Worker, has died at age 88, according to published …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, September 28, Kneehigh Theatre's critically acclaimed production of Brief Encounter opened at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Studio 54. Emma Rice has adapted and directed the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe track list for Viva ELVIS - The Album, the Cirque du Soleil production currently playing at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, has been announced. Erich van Tourneau has produced th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe chorus of the Broadway musical Fela! received the Actors' Equity Association Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs' Fourth Annual ACCA Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus. The award wa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlenn Seven Allen, Jennifer Aylmer, Roger Bart, Alyson Cambridge, Nathan Gunn, Janine LaManna, Kate Lindsey, and Michael Slattery are scheduled to perform at Sing for Hope's 2010 gala, An Am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, September 28, Green Day lead singer and American Idiot co-author Billie Joe Armstrong began his stint as the role of St. Jimmy in the show's Broadway production during the first …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Harry Connick, Jr. will headline Rock the Ribbon, a concert to be offered on October 30 at Philadelphia's Academy of Music. The event, which coincides with the end of Bre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBruce Norris' Clybourne Park will transfer to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre, beginning performances on January 28 in anticipation of an official opening on February 8. Dominic Cooke has …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Gallery Players has announced casting and creative team for Reefer Madness, to run October 23 - November 14. Dev Bondarin will direct the production, which will have choreography by Joe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLythgoe Family Productions has announced partical casting for its panto version of Cinderella to run November 27 - December 19 at the El Portal Theatre. Bonnie Lythgoe will direct the produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGreen Day lead singer and American Idiot co-author Billie Joe Armstrong will play the role of St. Jimmy in the show's Broadway production, September 28-October 3, during the first week of co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Fry has joined the cast of the film Sherlock Holmes 2 in the role of Mycroft Holmes, according to published reports.The film, to be directed by Guy Ritchie, will star Robert Downey, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwentieth Century Fox presents Timothy Hutton in SHINE! The Horatio Alger Musical. Also starring George Lee Andrews. Book by Richard Seff. Music by Roger Dean Anderson. Lyrics by Lee Goldsmi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe month started with an AOL story headlined "People didn't think this musical would work." That was followed by "Green Day's punk rock songs with a theatrical twist? Fans were skeptical - …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEngland's Kneehigh company brilliantly transforms Noel Coward's tearjerker into a one-of-a-kind musical entertainment.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRobert Lepage's much-anticipated new Metropolitan Opera production of Richard Wagner's beloved opera is a five-alarm disappointment.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnthony Rapp, Tom Hewitt, Alex Wyse, Mark McDaniels, Donald Garverick, and Jenna Pasqua discuss their participation in the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBorders Columbus Circle, located in the Time Warner Center, has announced the line-up of celebrities who will appear in October for book readings and signings. Among the participants are mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Keen Company's production of Michael Frayn's 1975 comedy is well directed and impeccably cast, but the experience ultimately adds up to less than the sum of its commendable parts.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElena Roger and David Thaxton give excellent performances in Jamie Lloyd's potent production of Stephen Sondheim's unsettling musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLee Hall's play about a group of British miners who find success in the art world is the front-runner for the Tony Award.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced that nominations are being accepted through December 15 for the inaugural Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teach…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular actress talks about starring opposite Raul Esparza in the Broadway-bound musical Leap of Faith.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBen Vereen will reprise his performance as Stepin Fetchit in Will Power's Fetch Clay, Make Man, the first offering of Hartford Stage's Brand:NEW reading series, to be offered on November 4 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatt Gould, David Alan Grier, Justin Kirk and Jeffrey Tambor will join the previously reported Alan Cumming, John Glover, Luke MacFarlane, and Jason Ritter in a one-night only reading of Te…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe two-performance 25th anniversary concert of Les Miserables, to be offered at 1:30pm and 7pm at London's O2 arena on October 3 will be broadcast via satellite to movie houses around the g…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephanie J. Block is irresistible opposite Jason Alexander in Reprise's staging of the Neil Simon-Marvin Hamlisch-Carole Bayer Sager autobiographical musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced an extension of the world premiere of Florencia Lozano's underneathmybed, at Rattlestick Theatre, which will now close on October 16. Pedro Pasc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA.R. Gurney's latest play is at times thought provoking and at other moments overly simplistic.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York City Opera will continue its collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture with two new programs celebrating the African-American experience in great operati…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLawrence Clayton, Chuck Cooper, Merwin Foard, Sean Palmer, and Daniel Reichard will be featured on A Christmas Carol: The Concert two CD-set, to be released by Newport Classic on October 19.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe third-most acclaimed musical of 1965-66 keeps popping up. When it opened on January 29, 1966, the much-anticipated Sweet Charity had already been upstaged by Man of La Mancha, which had …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Haig and Henry Goodman have officially opened in Yes, Prime Minister at the West End's Gielgud Theatre. Based on the hit television series of the same name, the play has been adapted f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFour-time Tony Award winner Liza Minnelli gave an intimate exclusive performance for a hand picked crowed as part of Gramercy Park Hotel's Rose Bar Sessions, on Monday, September 27.Minnelli…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Joel Grey will join previously announced star Sutton Foster in the Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of the musical Anything Goes, which will play the St…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, September 27, the New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF) celebrated its opening night with a gala hosted by Honorary Chairman Baz Luhrmann. Actress Claire Danes presented Luhrma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Davis Gaines and Julie Johnson will star in Lyric Stage's production of the musical, The Night of the Hunter, to be presented in the Irving Arts Center's Carpenter Performa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMScott Mikita will star as Raoul Wallenberg in The White Plains Performing Arts Center's production of Wallenberg, to run October 28-November 21. Emmy Award-winner Annette Jolles will direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe boxed DVD set Cher: The Film Collection will be released by MGM on November 2, according to a listing on Amazon.com.Included in the set will be Moonstruck, in which the performer deliver…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEdward Hajj, Mia Katigbak, Angela Lin, and Jon Norman Schneider will star in the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) production of Jordan Harrison's play, Futura, to be presente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDan Bogart, Victoria Mallory, Karine Plantadit ,and David Turner will star in Notorious & Notable - The Revue: A Broadway Musical Cabaret at the Museum of the City of New York at 3pm on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTarget Margin Theater has announced its 20th anniversary season.The company's year will begin, as previously announced, with The Target Margin Laboratory, to be offered November 4-20 at The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Therriault will star as Leo Frank in the Canadian premiere of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's Parade, to be presented at the Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs, December 30-Januar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe producers of the Off-Broadway production of Luigi Creatore's An Error of the Moon, at the Beckett Theatre, have announced that this Thursday's September 30 performance will benefit The T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe starry Broadway season continues with Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice, Patti LuPone in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def in A Free Man of Color, V…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBon Jovi, featuring Tony Award winner David Bryan; Broadway veteran Darlene Love; and music icon Neil Diamond are among the 15 artists nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLucio Fernandez's newest CD Enamorado (In Love) is now available for purchase and download from MeLu Communications Group.The singer has written the lyrics for the songs on the album, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor, stage manager, and production supervisor Frank Bayer passed away on September 22. He was 74.As an actor, Bayer's Broadway credits included Danton's Death in 1965 and The Country Wife …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwisted Sister frontman Dee Snider will join the Broadway company of Rock of Ages for a limited 11-week engagement, , October 11- December 24.Snider will play the role of nightclub owner Den…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee: The Music, The Rocky Horror Glee Showwill be available for download and purchase on Tuesday, October 19 -- one week before the October 26 episode of the FOX hit that will pay tribute t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winner and stage veteran Gwyenth Paltrow will guest star on FOX's hit series Glee this season as a a teacher, according to US magazine.As previously reported, Darren Criss will join th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBay Area highlights include Cirque du Soleil's Banana Shpeel, the national tour of West Side Story, Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brother/Sister Plays, Bill Cain's 9 Circles, Tracy Letts' Supe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMargaret Cho brings her new show to the Twin Cities. Other October highlights include Dudley: Rigged for Comedy, The 39 Steps, Evita, and Michele! The Bachumanntary.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOctober highlights include the national tour of Dreamgirls in Miami, The Turn of the Screw in Orlando, The Wanderers in Sarasota, Mindgame in Tampa, Bridge and Tunnel in Fort Lauderdale, and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of All's Well That Ends Well, at the Lansburgh Theatre, has extended one week, and will now close on October 30. Michael Kahn has directed the pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis month's highlights include Holly Twyford and Jeff McCarthy in the world premiere of Ken Ludwig's A Fox on the Fairway, Joe Calarco's Walter Cronkite is Dead, Oklahoma! in a refurbished …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA special screening of the movie Xanadu at the Alex Theatre in Glendale on October 15 will celebrate the movie's 30th anniversary. Filmgoers are invited to come in costume for the event whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDisney's The Lion King comes back to Chicago, InFusion world premieres Ghostbox, Sarah Ruhl adapts Three Sisters, Robert Falls stages The Seagull, and Silk Road mounts Scorched.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon will reprise their performances as Helena and Bob, respectively, when David Greig and Gordon McInty're Midsummer (a play with songs), launches a tour from th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright Annie Baker gets three of her works staged this month, while Lyric Stage produces a ten-hour adaptation of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Constantine Maroulis headl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Beaty's must-see, multi-character solo show is an exhortation on the importance of community.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGoodspeed Musicals has announced casting for the new musical version of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, to run October 21 - November 21 at The Norma Terris Theatre. Graciela Deniele…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, and Aaron Sorkin discuss the making of the controversial new film about Facebook.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis musical adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel about a New England family emerges as thin gruel, despite the exceptional work of its talented cast.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage director David Cromer is among the 2010 MacArthur Fellows, and along with the 22 other recipients, will receive $500,000 in "no strings" support over the next five years.The fellowship…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHighlights include Blanka Zizka's staging of Macbeth at the Wilma, the Jersey Boys tour, a return of The Philly Fan, Arden's Threepenny Opera, a drag version of Carrie, PTC@PLAY, Why I'm Sca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Pearl Theatre delivers a mostly unfunny production of Michael Frayn's dramatization of the short stories and plays of Anton Chekhov.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, HalloWHOA!, and Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin make for tasty Halloween treats, with family-friendly entertainments also including…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis month's highlights include Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Naomi Iizuka's adaptation of The Scarlet Letter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Shirley MacLaine will star opposite Jack Black, Matthew McCounaghey, and Rip Torn in director Richard Linklater's new dark comedy Bernie, according to published reports…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Wells is set to the direct the film version of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony winning Broadway play August: Osage County, and playwright Tracy Letts will write the adaptation, according to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSharon McNight will offer two performances of her show Red Hot Mama to the Inner Circle at the Magic Castle, October 10 and 11 at 8pm. In the show, McNight brings the legendary Sophie Tucker…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArs Nova has announced the 30 pieces that will be presented as part of ANT Fest 2010, to run October 19 - November 20. The month-long event is devised to give emerging artists from a variety…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRenowned talk show host and Broadway veteran Rosie O'Donnell will present the original musical My Life: Today, at the Duke on 42nd Street, as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrave New World Repertory Theatre and Company XIV have announced the trio of world premiere works that will comprise The Halloween Plays, to run October 21-31 at 303 Bond Street in Brooklyn.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Donna McKechnie will offer a one-night-only performance of her solo show My Musical Comedy Life at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City at 8pm on Wednesday, Novembe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGrammy Award-winning composer Charles Fox made his cabaret debut on Tuesday, September 28 with an engagement at Cabaret At The Castle in Los Angeles.Guests in attendance included actresses I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCoyote REP Theatre Company has announced casting for Donnetta Lavinia Grays' The New Normal, to run October 13-23 at Wings Theatre. Isaac Byrne will direct the production.The play focuses on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Sound of Music - 45th Anniversary Edition album to be released by Legacy Recordings will include a bonus track featuring Glee's Lea Michele singing "My Favorite Things." This new edition…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJane Lynch, Pauley Perrette, Dustin Lance Black, and Nelly Furtado will appear at PFLAG's The LA Event honoring directors Ryan Murphy and Lisa Cholodenko, to be held on October 1 at London W…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBack on stage in Hairspray at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Broadway vet Lee Roy Reams dishes about great dames, legendary composers, and other fun stuff.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMMandy Gonzalez and Katie Rose Clarke, who star as Elphaba and Glinda, respectively, in Broadway's Wicked, posed with Brett LaTorre, who was the production's 5 millionth audience member to ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArena Stage has announced complete casting and creative team for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, to run October 22 - December 26 in the Fichandler Stage. Molly Smith will direct the pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Tony Roberts and Maria Tucci will perform in Selected Shorts at Kingsborough Performing Arts Center, on October 16 at 8pm. They will be joined by Isaiah Sheffer, who will a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Candice Bergen will deliver a sequel to her 1984 memoir Knock Wood, to be released in 2012, according to EW.com.Bergen will appear next month in a special concert version o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNYMF has announced the contestants that will move onto Round 2 of its Next Broadway Sensation 2010 contest, to be held on October 3 at 9:45pm. Randy Rainbow will host the event, which will f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award and Emmy Award winner Tyne Daly will host the Helen Hayes Star Gala, to be held on Friday October 15 at 6:30pm at The Four Seasons Hotel Washington. The event will raise funds to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winner and stage veteran Gwyenth Paltrow will guest star on FOX's hit series Glee this season as a a teacher, according to US magazine.As previously reported, Darren Criss will join th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCarly Mensch's incredibly engaging new play at Ars Nova looks at both the past and present.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe award-winning composer and pianist discusses his upcoming all-star concert at Symphony Space, Reprise's They're Playing Our Song, and Glee.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOpera legend Placido Domingo will resign as general director of the Washington National Opera in June, after a 15-year tenure, according to The New York Times. Earlier this month, he renewed…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, who starred as Maria and Captain von Trapp in the film version of The Sound of Music, will be among that film's stars who will reunite for the first …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlayhouse Creatures Theatre Company has announced casting for Stephen Jeffreys' The Libertine, to run November 5-20 at the Kirk Theatre on Theatre Row. Eric Tucker will direct the productio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 24th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction held on Sunday, September 26 raised a grand total of $476,917 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA).This year, a total of 72 t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner B.D. Wong will headline Family Circles: A Celebration of Asian American Theater Artists to Benefit the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families, to be held at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristopher Sieber and Christine Danelson lead a uniformly strong cast in the Paper Mill Playhouse's incredibly entertaining production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner and Academy Award nominee Julie Taymor will participate in a talkback following a screening of her new film adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, to be offered on Octobe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCirque du Soleil will bring its arena show Dralion to the Sears Center in Hoffman Estates, to run January 26-30. The show's title is drawn from its two main symbols: the dragon, representing…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMusicals Tonight! has announced casting for Panama Hattie, to run October 12-23 at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre. Thomas Sabella Mills will direct the production, which will have musical direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasa Mañana Theatre has announced casting for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, to run October 23-31. Michael Susko will direct the production, which will have choreography by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMZach Grenier will reprise his Tony Award-nominated role in writer/director Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations when it is presented by the Center Theatre Group at the Ahmanson Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBen Folds and Nick Hornby will celebrate the September 28 release of the CD Lonely Avenue with a special event at Housing Works Bookstore Café in Soho on Tuesday, October 12. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShakespeare's Globe has released a trailer for its production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, which is currently running at Shakespeare's Globe in London through October 2, and which will al…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Public Theater has announced participants for The Public Forum, a new series of lectures, debates and conversations that showcase leading voices in the arts, politics and the media. Jer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) production of Molière's Scapin, directed by and starring two-time Tony Award winner Bill Irwin, has announced a second and final extens…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee André De Shields visited the company of Jeff Cohen's The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller on Sunday, September 26. The show, playing the West End Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWoody Allen & The Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band will play special performances at the Cafe Carlyle at 8:45 pm on both Friday, October 1 and Saturday, October 2, in addition to all of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Martin Short will offer a one-night-only performance of A Party With Marty at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on Monday, November 1 at 8pm. The event will be a benefit …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Sunday, September 26, the Off-Broadway production of Daniel Beaty's Through the Night opened at the Union Square Theatre, under the direction of Charles Randolph-Wright.Celebrities in att…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Carla Gugino and television star Connie Britton will host the African Children's Choir annual gala fundraiser to be held on Monday, October 18 at The Box (189 Chrystie Stree…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran James Stovall died on September 26 in New York City, according to published reports.Stovall most recently appeared on Broadway in Finian's Rainbow. His numerous stage credit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHowie Michael Smith will reprise his performance as Princeton/Rod in Avenue Q, joining the Off-Broadway production playing at New World Stages on September 27. Smith was seen in the Broadwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSean Hayes, Bebe Neuwirth, Patrick Wilson, Kelli O'Hara, Jordin Sparks, Bryan Batt, Lorna Luft, Levi Kreis, Stark Sands, and Austin Peck are among the stars who came out to support the annua…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of participants has been announced for the third annual Broadway in South Africa benefit concert, to be held at Manhattan Center's Grand Ballroom (311 West 34th Street), on M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDrama Desk Award nominee and Lucille Lortel Award winner Jeremy Shamos will complete the cast of Elling, to run November 2-March 20 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Doug Hughes will direct th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast members from Promises, Promises, Wicked, The Addams Family, Phantom of the Opera and Rock of Ages are set to participate in Broadway2Broadway Happy Hour, to be offered on September 30 f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDianne Wiest and Sam Shepard, along with Mark Duplass, will join the previously announced Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Elisabeth Moss in Darling Companion, according to the Hollywood Reporter'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFlashpoint Theatre Company has announced casting for its production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's Run, Mourner, Run, to run October 27-November 20 at Second Stage at the Adrienne. Matt Pfeiffer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star David Oyelowo will join the previously reported Viola Davis, Allison Janney, and Bryce Dallas Howard in The Help, according to a report in Variety. Tate Taylor is dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, September 29, Tony Award winners James Earl Jones, Vanessa Redgrave, and Boyd Gaines joined playwright Alfred Uhry and director David Esbjornson to talk to members of the press…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLaurie Anderson, Ping Chong, Warren Leight, and Stew discuss their new works for BAM's always-anticipated annual festival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGary Duggan's unsurprising play about two friends making a music video is brought to life with a curious combination of leisurely sensitivity and edgy machismo.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTom Hooper's film The King's Speech, starring Tony Award and Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth, has won the People Choice Award at this year's To…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSo it’ll be Scott Davies, Sofia Escobar and Will Barratt by day and Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess and Joseph Millson by night. Yes, I’m at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Leslie Uggams will bring her new show ,Uptown/Downtown, to the Reagle Music Theatre in Waltham, Massachusetts on October 16 and 17 at 2pm.In the show -- which played New Yo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSir Elton John will be among the performers at The Speaking Clock Revue, a benefit for The Particpant Foundation, to be held on October 20 at the Beacon Theatre.The concert will also feature…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSinger Michael Bolton and his Dancing with the Stars partner, Chelsie Hightower, attended Phantom-The Las Vegas Spectacular at the Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino on Friday, September 17. Follo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFrancesca Faridany is well cast as the title character of Sarah Ruhl's highly faithful adaptation of Virginia Woolf's fanciful novel about a man who transforms into a woman.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNoah Bean and Nicole Rodenburg give revelatory performances in Nicholas Martin's riveting production of William Inge's classic drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThaddeus Phillips' solo show is full of theatrical ingenuity and fanciful storytelling.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Gambon has officially opened in a West End revival of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, playing a limited engagement through November 20 at the Duchess Theatre. M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe award-winning superstar discusses her new movie, You Again, and her continuing turn in Broadway's Promises, Promises.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFilm director Baz Luhrmann will create and co-produce a stage musical of his film Strictly Ballroom.The production will be designed by Catherine Martin. A full production schedule and locati…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLifetime has renewed the series Drop Dead Diva for a third season of 13 episodes, to air in 2011, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The show stars Broadway veteran Brooke Elliott as Jane/…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStuart Meltzer will direct Zoetic Stage's world premiere production of Michael McKeever's South Beach Babylon, to run December 2-12 in the Carnival Studio Theater at the Ad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKevin Cronin, frontman for REO Speedwagon, will perform the hit "Can't Fight This Feeling," at the Monday, September 27 performance of Rock of Ages at the Brooks A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTelevision personality Carson Kressley and Tony Award winner Sara Ramirez will host Broadway Takes the Runway: An Evening of Fashion and Song, to be presented at the Touch Nightclub (240 Wes…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShabana Azmi, an award-winning stage and film actress from India, will star in Girish Karnad's Broken Images, which will kick off a U.S. tour at the Skirball Center on October 8 at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEnsemble Studio Theatre has announced casting for Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, to run October 27 - November 21. Linsay Firman will direct the production.The play centers on Rosali…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, September 23, Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore sat down with members of the press to talk about the musical version of her book, Freckleface Strawberry, which began performa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHuntington Theatre Company has announced casting for Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation, to run October 15 - November 14. As previously announced, Melia Bensussen will dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Cyril Creighton, Kate Fodor, Melissa James Gibson, Jack Herrick, James Lapine, Marlane Meyer, and Peter Parnell will pen new works for Stories on 5 Stories, a benefit for Playwrights…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe American Theatre Wing has announced the recipients of its 2010 National Theatre Company Grants, with the companies to be honored at a private luncheon at the Intercontinental Hotel Times…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBridget Everett and Kenny Mellman will guest curate and host Avant-Garde-Arama! Our Hit Parade, to be offered at P.S. 122 on October 1 & 2.Avant-Garde-Arama! (AGA), the theater&a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLove and Other Drugs, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, will premiere November 4 as the opening night gala film for the American Film Institute's AFI Fest 2010, which will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veteran and television star Eliza Dushku will guest star on the CBS comedy, The Big Bang Theory, according to TVGuide.com.She will play an FBI agent in the seventh episode of the seaso…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Laurie Beechman Theatre has announced programming for the month of October. As previously reported, Len Cariou, Annie Golden, Victoria Mallory, and Sarah Rice will be featured in Sondhei…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony nominee Constantine Maroulis and the touring cast of Rock of Ages, now at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago, celebrated the tour's launch on September 22 at the Hard Rock…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLisa Brescia, Liana Hunt, Corey Greenan, and Clarke Thorell will join the Broadway cast of Mamma Mia! in the roles of Donna Sheridan, Sophie Sheridan, Sky, and Harry Bright, respectively, be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Mamet has won the PEN American Center's 2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for a Master American Dramatist and Theresa Rebeck has won the 2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNine different New York City artists will present work as part of SOLO @ the cell, a solo performance series, at the cell theatre, to run October 1-21.The series will kick off with Darrell L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStockard Channing, Stacy Keach, Linda Lavin, and Elizabeth Marvel will star in Jon Robin Baitz's new play, Other Desert Cities, to be presented by Lincoln Center at the Mitzi E. New…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEd Hyland, Ted Koch, Tessa Klein, and Lizbeth MacKay will star in the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT) world premiere production of James B Murphy II's Promise, to run October…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatt Dillon, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet will star in Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play God of Carnage, according to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe cast of Charles Busch's The Divine Sister celebrated the comedy's Off-Broadway opening night at the SoHo Playhouse, on Wednesday, September 22. In addition to Busch, th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway star Cheyenne Jackson will reprise his portrayal of Danny on NBC's 30 Rock on the October 14 episode that is scheduled to be aired live from NBC's studio 8H for bo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award-winning director Michael Mayer and legendary singer Margaret Whiting will be honored at The American Songbook Project's Name That Tune Costume Party Benefit, in which att…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Mosley will guest star on an upcoming episode of ABC's crime drama Castle, according to a report on EW.com. No other details were announced.Mosley was recently seen in the R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard, and J. Robert Spencer, who starred in the original cast of Broadway's Jersey Boys, will perform at a benefit for the Emelin Theatr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Theatre has announced additional details about its programming for the coming months, including complete casting for the previously reported Season's Greetings, which w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDebbie Allen will direct a forthcoming episode of the CW show, Hellcats, according to E! Online.Allen directed the all-black Broadway and West End revivals of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as well …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShowtime has ordered a seventh season of its hit series Weeds and a second season of its recently-launched series The Big C, both of which will air in 2011.Weeds stars Emmy Award winner Mary…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPaul Kieve will provide illusions for the Menier Chocolate Factory production of Ken Hill's The Invisible Man, to run November 12 - February 13. Ian Talbot will direct the piece, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee will participate in a discussion in support of author Dr. Anne Paolucci's book, Edward Albee: The Later Plays, to be held at The Players (Gramercy Park Sou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJessica Grove will appear alongside previously annonunced stars Candice Bergen, John McMartin, Sean Palmer, Bill Duell, John Windsor Cunningham, Carmen de Lavallade, Frederic Franklin, and S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMManuel Frattini will play the title role in the American premiere of Pinocchio: The Italian Musical, to be presented by Compagnia della Rancia in collaboration with Queens-based Incanto Prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeople's Light & Theatre Company will develop a series of new works over three years in partnership with Longwood Gardens, which encompasses 1,077 acres of gardens, woodlands, meadow…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVox Humana Theatre Ensemble will present the world premiere of Love and Other Allergies, comprised of five Short Plays by Michelle Kholos Brooks. The production will play The Lounge Theatre …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright/performer Kim Schultz's No Place Called Home will receive a nomadic run in October, with performances at the Wild Project (October 6-10), 3LD (October 13-17), the Mile Square Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular actors discuss returning to Broadway in Neil Pepe's revival of David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe entire Broadway cast of American Idiot is expected to participate in a competition involving the Green Day: Rock Band video game at the Village Pourhouse (366 West 46th Street), on Wedne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFive-time Grammy Award-nominee Michael Feinstein's new CD Fly Me to the Moon will be available for digital download and purchase on September 28. The album, released by DuckHole Records, is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBekah Brunstetter, Mattie Brickman, Christopher Pena and Stefanie Zadravec have been named 2010-2011 Playwrights Realm Writers Fellows.During the coming year, each of the authors will be wor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharles Busch's latest play is campy good fun, filled with wonderfully outsized performances.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLaurie Anderson's new show at BAM is a moving exploration of loss and renewal.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephanie Roth Haberle and Matthew Maher shine in Gregory S. Moss' promising new play about an unlikely romance.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on cast recordings of La Cage Aux Folles, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Les Misérables Live!, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall and more...
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Bogardus, Carter Calvert, Lawrence Clayton, Delius Doherty, Harriet D. Foy, Max Quinlan, James Stovall, and Stephanie Umoh will star in York Theatre Company's developmental lab stagi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, September 22, members of the press got a sneak peak at some of the shows that will be part of the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), which will run September 27-Oct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGrammy and Emmy winner and four-time Oscar nominee Danny Elfman will serve as composer and musical director for Cirque du Soleil's new show, Iris, which will have its world premiere at Los A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA full list of participants has been announced for the Irish Theatre Symposium, held in conjunction with the 1st Irish Festival, at the Glucksman Ireland House NYU (1 Washington Mews) on Sat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AME. Faye Butler, Barbara Robertson, and Gene Weygandt will star in the Broadway in Chicago production of the musical Working, to be presented at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMScott Thompson, best known for his work in the television series Kids in the Hall, will star in Beauty and the Beast, The Savagely Silly Family Musical, to be presented at Toronto's Elgin Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton, and Elisabeth Moss will star in Darling Companion, according to a report in Variety. Lawrence Kasdan, who's co-written the movie with Meg Kasdan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Huntington Theatre Company will present a reading of Jack Hitt's new solo show, Making Up the Truth, as part of its Breaking Ground reading series, at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast and creative team have been announced foractor and playwright Jeff Daniels' new play Best of Friends at The Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, Michigan. The production, which will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTours of the Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street), August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street), and the Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway) will be offered on Saturday, September 25…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPop singer Lesley Gore will not be able to join the Broadway cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, at the Nederlander Theatre, for a special encore performance on Friday, September 24,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe West End revival of Sweet Charity will close on November 6, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. The musical, directed by Matthew White, had been booking through January 8.With ch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBethany Thomas, Jess Godwin, Rebecca Finnegan, Sean Effinger-Dean, Jayson Brooks, Lina Kernan, Joseph Tokartz, Nick Foster, Jeremy Rill, and Ryan Lanning will be featured in By Popular Dema…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Paley Center for Media will premiere a new television interview series, At the Paley Center, with broadcasts on WLIW21 and THIRTEEN beginning October 1. Pat Mitchell, President and CEO …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTouchstone Theatre will adapt the cult hit Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, originally conceived as an internet mini-series by Joss Whedon, October 14-24. Christopher Shorr will direct.Jp Jor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress and singer Jennifer Lopez and rock star Steven Tyler will be the new judges on FOX's American Idol. They will join original Idol judge Randy Jackson and replace departing judges Sim…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJackie Hoffman, who is currently starring in the hit Broadway musical The Addams Family, will return to Joe's Pub with her new show, Jackie Five-Oh: A Celebration of Jackie Hoffman's First 5…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAward-winning stage and screen star Stanley Tucci will receive the 2010 Hamptons Film Festival Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award, and will take part in a special conversation on Sunday…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe inaugural Horton Foote Prizes for excellence in American Theater were given to Lynn Nottage for Ruined and Will Eno for Middletown at a private reception on Monday, September 20 at The P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Emmy Award-nominee Jack McBrayer will join the previously announced Victor Garber, Jason Butler Harner, John Benjamin Hickey, Joe Mantello, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Patrick Wilson in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominees Hope Davis and Tony Roberts will perform at the next installment of Selected Shorts, to take place at 7pm on Wednesday, October 13 at Symphony Space.The evening, to be in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKathie Lee Gifford will host the second annual Born for Broadway celebrity cabaret, a benefit for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. The event will be held at New World Stages …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPreliminary casting has been announced for the 2010 National Alliance for Musical Theater's Festival of New Musicals has been announced. The event will be offered October 21-22 at New World…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCloris Leachman, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Guy Pearce, Seymour Cassel, and Virginie Ledoyen have been cast in the movie Mis-Fits. L.D. Napier has written the screenplay and will direct the f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen R. Buntrock will assume the role of Fredrik Egerman in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music on September 28. He will be succeeding Alexander Hanson, who originat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSebastian Arcelus, who will star as Buddy in the Broadway production of the new musical Elf, will be on hand for the show's box office opening at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th Str…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLisa D'Amour's play about a quartet of ordinary Americans is engaging, but lacks scope.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that its chairman, David M. Rubenstein, is making a $10 million donation over five years.The gift includes $5 million for the Nat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner and stage veteran Olympia Dukakis will guest star in a performance of Verbatim Verboten, to be offered on Sunday October 10 at the WorkShop Theatre. Proceeds from the e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominees for the 2010 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards will be announced on Monday, October 18 at 7pm at the Autry National Center. The winners of the prizes will be announced in a ce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe acclaimed writer-director discusses his new film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAll right, so my plane left three hours and forty-five minutes late, but once I’m on the streets of London, all is forgiven. Well, almost all. I wish that so many West End marquees did…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElizabeth Marvel and a fiercely committed cast make the most of Ivo van Hove's stark and brutal production of Lillian Hellman's potboiler about a vicious Southern family.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Crawford will play the title role in a "revisal" of the musical The Wizard of Oz. Jeremy Sams will direct what's described as a "totally reconceived" production, that will feature ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWhile there’s a famous song that urges us to “Take the A Train,” that conveyance isn’t the best way to get to In Transit at Primary Stages at 59 East 59th Street.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMColin Quinn will bring his new one-man show Long Story Short to Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre, to run October 22 - January 8. Jerry Seinfeld has directed the work, which premiered …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJon DeVries, Shuler Hensley, Maryann Plunkett, Laila Robins, Jay O. Sanders, and J. Smith-Cameron will star in writer/director Richard Nelson's That Hopey Changey Thing, to be pres…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrent Barrett leads a glorious cast in the North Shore Music Theatre's winning revival of the hit Broadway musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Black Ensemble Theater has announced casting for Jackie Taylor's The Other Cinderella, which will begin previews October 16 in anticipation of an official opening on October 24.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFlorida Studio Theatre has announced productions for its 2010-2011 Mainstage season, which will begin with the musical, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (November 10-January 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania reviews House of Games, Design For Living, Danton's Death, Blood and Gifts, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmas Musical Theatre has announced casting for a trio of concert readings of Nellie Beezer's Melting Pot Follies of 1922, to be offered on October 11 at 6pm and October 12 at 3pm an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA teaser for the next episode of FOX's Glee , scheduled to air on Tuesday, September 28 at 8pm (ET), is available. The episode will feature a guest appearance by pop superstar Britney Spears…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJessica Burrows will play Greta Garbo in the world premiere musical When Garbo Talks!, to be presented by International City Theatre in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, October 12-Nove…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe chorus of the Broadway musical Fela! will receive the Actors' Equity Association Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs' Fourth Annual ACCA Award for Outstanding Broadwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Hall's production of The Rivals, starring Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles, will transfer to the West End, playing the Theatre Royal Haymarket with previews beginning November 10.Keith …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis new bio-musical about the legendary actor and director doesn't do justice to its subject.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJenny Powers will star in the world premiere musical Dangerous Beauty, at Pasadena Playhousee. Tony nominee Sheryl Kaller will direct the production, which will begin previews on February 1,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPrivate Practice star Kate Walsh will be honored by the Piven Theatre Workshop at its 2010 Annual Awards Brunch, to be held at Sunda Restaurant in Chicago, on Sunday, October 17 at Noon.Wals…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn T. Cogan, Eric Harris, Pamela Hill, William Joseph Hill, LizAnne Keigley, Shelby Kocee, Ilona Kulinska, Richard Large, Tanya Mironowski, Michael Perl, Katie Pelensky, Brian David Pope,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth is scheduled to participate in the 2nd annual High-Heel-A-Thon to be held on Wednesday, September 22 in Central Park. The event, sponsored and broadcast a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLynn Nottage has been named the recipient of the 2010 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, presented by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. The award will be given to Notta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new musical Catch Me If You Can will begin previews on March 7, 2011 in anticipation of an opening on April 10, at a Nederlander theater to be announced. Jack O'Brien will dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJordan Roth, President of Jujamcyn Theaters, began the fall 2010 Broadway Talks series at the 92nd Street Y on Sunday, September 19 with a conversation with American Idiot co-creators Billie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMiss Coco Peru, Shangelia, Lady Bunny, and Heklina are all set to appear in the one-night-only performance of Drag Queens of Comedy, to be offered on October 9 at The Castro Theatre. Sasha S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Metropolitan Opera and The Juilliard School will co-produce Bedrich Smetana's The Bartered Bride at Juilliard's Peter Jay Sharp Theater on February 15, 17, and 20. Step…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe acclaimed writer-director discusses his new film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVonzell Solomon, a 2005 finalist on American Idol, will join the touring company of Burn the Floor as the dance show's female vocalist, beginning October 12, in San Diego. The prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCalifornia Shakespeare Theater has announced the productions it will present for its 2011 season, under the leadership of artistic director Jonathan Moscone.James Carpenter will star in the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss announced today that Scott Brown will be the magazine's theater critic as of September 21. Brown has been a part-time reviewer for the ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star David Hasslehoff and his partner, Broadway veteran,Kym Johnson, became the first pair to be eliminated from the11th season of ABC's Dancing With the Stars. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis reimagining of the classic fairy tale has some promising ideas, but is too rarely compelling.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPreliminary casting has been announced for L.A. Theatre Works production of Lucy Prebble's Enron (October 20-24), to be directed by Rosalind Ayres. The show will feature Steven Webe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSydney Theater Company has announced the plays that will comprise its 2011 season, according to a report in Variety. The season will begin in December with Mikhail Bulgakov's The Wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Carla Gugino will join Jim Carrey in the film Mr. Popper's Penguins, according to a report in Variety. Mark Waters will direct the film, which is being produce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOcean State Theatre Company (OSTC), the not-for-profit producing entity at the historic Theatre By The Sea, will host their first fundraising event, Beyond the Sea on Saturday, September 25 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMark Blum, Peter Friedman, Meredith Holzman, David Margulies, Katharine Powell, Lois Smith, Elliot Villar, and Mare Winningham will star in the New York premiere of Amy Herzog's Aft…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRichard Bourg, Joel de la Fuente, Wai Ching Ho, Jay Leibowitz, Jason Ma, Les Mau, Andy Paterson, Maureen Sebastian, Tina Stafford, Raphael Nash Thompson, Patrick Toon, Ching Valdes-Aran, and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Classic Stage Companys' popular Books On Stage reading series.On Monday, September 27, CSC will present Milan Kundera's Jacques and His Maste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAcademy Award winner Cher will close her Cher at The Colosseum show on February 5, 2011, according to The Associated Press.As previously reported, Celine Dion will return to the room on Marc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLionsgate Films has acquired John Cameron Mitchell's big-screen version of David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Rabbit Hole, and will distribute it for limited release on Decem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLiza Minnelli will appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Tuesday, September 21, in conjunction with the release of her new CD Confessions. The Tony Award and Academy Award winner will also dis…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristopher Innvar will star as John Proctor in the Barrington Stage Company's production of The Crucible, to be presented October 6-24, with an opening on October 10. Julianne Boyd…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new 25th anniversary touring production of Les Misérables has officially opened in its London engagement at the Barbican, where it continues through October 2. Laurence Co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharles Busch, Julie Halston and four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald were among the stars that attended performances of TWEED Fractured Classic to benefit the HOWL! Arts Festival, whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for the Off-Broadway show, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, at the Westside Theatre, as well as the production of the show running at the Geffen Theatre in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDiana Martinez has been named the President of Second City Intl. Her role will encompass overseeing operations in Chicago, Toronto and Hollywood. In her new position, she will also oversee T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBill Bailey's new show, Dandelion Wine, will run from November 2-December 7 at Wyndham's Theatre, according to Whatsonstage.com.The show, which debuted this month at Leices…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 24th annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction will take place in Shubert Alley on Sunday, September 26 from 10am to 7pm. The event, which benefits Broadway Cares / Equity Fig…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Denis O'Hare and B.D. Wong will participate in a live performance of Selected Shorts on Monday, November 15. Isaiah Sheffer will host.The evening will feature tales about …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFormer Broadway star Usher is among the nominees for the MTV European Music Awards, to be handed out on November 7 in Madrid.Usher, who briefly starred in Chicago, is up for Best Pop, Best M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for the Broadway production ofThe Merchant of Venice, which as previously reported, stars Tony Award and Academy Award winner Al Pacino as Shylock. Daniel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Arden, Matt Doyle, Meghann Fahy, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Morgan Karr, Kelli O'Hara, Laura Osnes, and Natalie Weiss are among the artists who will be featured on the CD Our First Mista…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Len Cariou, Annie Golden, Victoria Mallory, and Sarah Rice will be the special guests at the next edition of Sondheim Unplugged at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on Friday, O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe benefit concert Bewitched, The Songs of Rodgers and Hart will now be performed at the Triad Theatre on both Thursday, October 14 at 7pm and Friday, October 22 at 9pm.Bewitched is directe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlivier Award nominee Leigh Zimmerman will take over the role of Velma Kelly in the Broadway production of Chicago, at the Ambassador Theatre, beginning Friday, October 8.Zimmerman originate…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGeorge Street Playhouse has announced casting for its production of [title of show], to run November 16- December 12. Matt Lenz will direct the production, which will have musical direction …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLegendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim will appear in conversation with journalist Robert Cushman at the Princess of Wales Theatre on Monday, December 6 at 8pm.Entitled An Evening …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, September 23, Sarah Ruhl's Orlando opened at Classic Stage Company.Adapted from the work of Virginia Woolf, the play concerns a typical Elizabethan man who wakes up one day to f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced casting for the Declan Donnellan-helmed productions of Three Sisters and Twelfth Night, to be presented as part of the Chekho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Raúl Esparza will perform at a benefit for the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, to be held on Thursday, October 28 beginn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAbout Face Theatre has announced further programming and casting details for its annual XYZ Festival, to run October 8-24 in at The Flat Iron.As previously announced, the Festival will inclu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Friday, September 24, the stars of Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical met with members of the press before leaving New York to start the show's 12-week engagement at Toronto's The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Colony Theatre Company has announced cast and creative team for its production of John van Druten's Bell Book and Candle, to run October 20-November 21. The production will be d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe original cast recording of the 1983 musical Taking My Turn is now available for digital download and purchase in a new release from 150 Music.With lyrics by Will Holt and music by Gary W…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) production of Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet, the final part of Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brother/Si…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony nominee Gavin Creel will perform his new concert show, Back to New York at Birdland, on Mondays, November 1, 8, and 15 at 7pm.Part of the long-running Broadway at Birdland conc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Michael Cerveris and Alice Ripley have joined the lineup of performers participating in the annual Broadway Cabaret Festival, to be offered October 15-17 at Town Hall. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo Tragedies: Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth is now available on the recently launched PBS Arts website. The multimedia exhibition showcases full versions of Hamlet featuring Patrick Stew…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA preliminary lineup of guests has been announced for the Broadway's Hair Reunion Special that will be part of the September 27 installment of Marti Gould Cummings' monthly…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristina Corsaro and Chris Brady will star as Briar Rose (aka Sleeping Beauty) and Prince Owain in the John W. Engeman Theater's production of Sleeping Beauty, to be performed Saturdays at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Cerveris, Eisa Davis, Annie Parisse, Adam Rothenberg, and Paul Sparks will star in a reading of Ursula Rani Sarma's The Dark Things, to be presented at Irish Repertory Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe performers and track list for the 2010 Broadway's Carols for a Cure CD have been announced. The disc, which raises money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids (BC/EFA), will be available…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the Silver Palm Awards have been announced. The prizes will be given in a ceremony to be held on October 25 at The Green Room at the end of the South Florida Theatre Festival…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor and singer Eddie Fisher has died from complication from hip surgery, according to a report in The Associated Press. He was 82.Fisher made two Broadway appearances in special concert ev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHBO has renewed its brand-new drama Boardwalk Empire for a second season, according to published reports. The series, which is set in 1920s Atlantic City, stars Steve Buscemi and is co-produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright Sarah Schulman will adapt her play Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate) into the movie Lonely Hunter, according to a report in Variety. Deborah Kampmeier will direct the pie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHelen Hayes Award winners Sherri L. Edelen and Nancy Robinette will star in Signature Theatre's production of writer-director Joe Calarco's comedy, Walter Cronkite Is Dead,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2010 Tony Award nominees Montego Glover and Chad Kimball, who star in the Broadway musical Memphis, celebrated the show's one year anniversary with the unveiling of a Memphis portrait at Ton…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnn Harada, Telly Leung, Jose Llana, Jason Ma, Orville Mendoza, Manu Narayan, Olivia Oguma, Eileen Rivera, Anne Fraser Thomas, and Virginia Wing will star in the National Asian American Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Jane Lynch will receive the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center's Rand Schrader Distinguished Achievement Award at the Center's 39th Anniversary Gala & Auction on Saturday,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGuest vocalists Capathia Jenkins, Gary Mauer, and Christiane Noll are set to join Peter Nero and the Philly Pops for its Broadway Rocks! concert, October 6-10 in Verizon Hall at The Kimmel C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTrent Dawson, who played the role of Henry Coleman on the recently concluded soap opera As the World Turns, will be featured in TACT/The Actors Company Theatre's production of V&aacu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting is set for the Almeida Theatre's prodcution of Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, to run November 12-January 8, according to Whatsonstage.com Travis Preston …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYale Repertory Theatre has released a trailer for its forthcoming production of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, to run September 17-October 9 at the University Theatre. Anne Kauffman wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, September 20, Red Bull Theater presented a benefit reading of W. Somerset Maugham's Our Betters at Theater at St. Clement's, as part of the company's Re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRobert Brustein will be honored by Abingdon Theatre Company at its annual benefit gala, to be held at Bridgewaters (11 Fulton Street) in Manhattan, on Monday, October 18 beginning at 7pm.Ent…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMScreenwriter Irving Ravetch, who adapted William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs for film, has died in Los Angeles at age 89, according to The Associated Press.Ravetch and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winner and Olivier Award winner Rachel Weisz will star in the new movie 360, according to a report in Variety. Fernando Meirelles will direct the film, which has a screenplay by Peter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Shaw Festival has announced programming for its 50th anniversary season in 2011, with productions to be performed in the repertory company's Festival Theatre, Court House Theatr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEden Espinosa, Megan Hilty, James Ingram, Wanda Sykes, Blair Underwood, and Jennifer Leigh Warren are among the celebrities scheduled to appear at the Califronia AIDS Walk Concert, to be hel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn initial lineup of performers has been announced for A Centennial Celebration, to be offered at the New Wimbledon Theatre on September 26, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Shane…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlivier Award winner Michael Ball will offer a one-night-only concert at the Prince of Wales Theatre on October 10, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. The event will benefit The Sho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEncores! has announced directors for the previously reported three musicals that will comprise its 2010-2011 season at New York City Center.Kathleen Marshall will direct and choreograph Jule…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA Monday matinee? On Labor Day, sure, and other Monday holidays, too. But during the summer months, visitors to the Winnipesaukee Playhouse in Laconia, New Hampshire can see a show at 2 p.m.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Idol winner Jordin Sparks' Broadway debut is sure to please her fans, but her overall performance is uneven.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSoap opera star Trent Dawson stars in Samuel Brett Williams' problematic new play about a Southern Baptist preacher having an illicit homosexual affair.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCheryl Howard proves stronger as performer than playwright in this solo show about the legendary entertainer.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLucy Thurber's absorbing world premiere drama focuses on a woman mourning her recently deceased sister.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Patricia Clarkson will appear in conversation with Bill Goldstein at New York City's LGBT Center at 7pm on Monday, September 20; while Pulitzer Prize winner Ed…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeff McCarthy, Holly Twyford, Andrew Long, Aubrey Deeker, Valerie Leonard, and Meg Steedle will star in the world premiere of Ken Ludwig's new farce, A Fox on the Fairway, to play t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLoni Ackerman and Marilyn Sokol will star in Love Divided By/Times Three, written by Susan Charlotte with a score by Emmy Award winner Billy Goldenberg, to play Theatre Row's Kirk T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFilm star Joseph Gordon-Levitt will appear at the Town Hall on October 28 as part of the gala event Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the hitRECord.org Fall Formal, according to the New York Times. P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee: The Music, The Complete Season One Bundle has been released for digital download on iTunes for a cost of $79.99. It includes a total of 100 tracks, featuring all of the songs performed…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, September 14, Matt Bogart, Tituss Burgess, Montego Glover, and Christopher Jackson performed at The Broadway League and The Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds' seco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWestport Country Playhouse, under the artistic direction of Mark Lamos, held its 2010 Gala, The Magical Music of Stephen Schwartz, on Monday, September 13. Joe Calarco directed the event, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway performers Sean Bradford, Brandon Victor DIxon, Andrea Dora, Frankie James Grande, and Christopher Spaulding joined local youth from the Safe Space program for a free concert, Safe …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for a work-in-progress presentation of David Silberg's Bashert, to be offered at Theater for the New City on September 27 at 7pm. Andrew Shaifer will dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJeremy Dobrish will direct the national tour of Virtually Me! A Cyber-Musical, which will launch its national tour September 27 in various cities throughout New York before moving on to Conn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLark Play Development Center has announced the plays that will be developed during its Playwrights' Week 2010, to run October 18-23. Eight playwrights will have a weeklong residency…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMaria Di Dia, Donna Drake, Rick Elice, Richard Hester, Maurice Hines, Tom Kosis, and Ariadne C. Villarreal will be the celebrity judges for the Scene It! New York competition to be held on S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnnoyance Theater's Manson the Musical, directed by Russell Dobular, will play the Ace of Clubs Theater on Sundays, October 3-December 19. The show, which played New York last year,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Donna McKechnie will offer a one-night-only performance of her solo show My Musical Comedy Life at the Morris Performing Arts Center's Palais Royale on Sunday, Nov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTed and Stevie Wolf will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 16th Annual Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to be presented on Monday, October 4 at 7pm at the Walnut Stree…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCountry music star Billy Ray Cyrus will join Melora Hardin when she appears at Show At Barre/BARRE vt in Los Angeles on September 18 and 25 at 8pm.In the concert, Hardin will perform a mix o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOpera legend Placido Domingo has been named the Latin Grammys Person of the Year for his professional and philanthropic achievements. He will be honored in an all-star ceremony on November 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Kelly McGillis was joined together in a civil union to partner Melanie Leis on Wednesday, September 15, in Collingswood, New Jersey, according to The New York Times. Ju…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Stephanie Beacham will play opera diva Maria Callas in Jonathan Church's new production of Terrence McNally's award-winning play Master Class, accordi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFranc D'Ambrosio, the long-running star of San Francisco's production of The Phantom of the Opera, will kick off the Firehouse Arts Center's Cabaret Series with hi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for York Theatre Company's Fall 2010 Musicals in Mufti concerts. In addition to the previously reported Jim Brochu, Quentin Earl Darrington, an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJustin Anselmi, Nathan Atkinson, Dale Buchheiser, Ryan Downey, Kate Hurley, Scott Johnson, Averyn Mackey, Jeff Randall Rose, Jenny Selig, Jay Smith, and T. Ryder Smith will be featured in wr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHotel Savant will present John Jahnke's Men Go Down at the 3LD Art and Technology Center, running January 6-23. Jahnke has both written and directed the piece, which will have chore…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFolksbiene has announced the two plays that it will present during the fall portion of its 2010-2011 season, to be presented at The Baruch Performing Arts Center.The company's first…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSony Masterworks will release a live recording of the Graz Festival's production of Porgy and Bess to celebrate the opera's 75th anniversary on September 21. Nikolaus Harno…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLionsgate Films has acquired John Cameron Mitchell's big-screen version of David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Rabbit Hole, and will distribute it before yea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGanymede Arts will present Special Agent Galactica and her Boys in Irrelevant Acts of Entertainment at Washington D.C.'s Noi's Nook in go mama go on Monday, September 27 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMScott Adsit, Craig Bierko, Matthew Broderick, Rachel Dratch, Kristen Johnston, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, and Alan Zweibel will star in the Monday, September 20 edition of Celebrity Autobiog…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star William H. Macy will star in Freaky Deaky, according to a report on Deadline.com. Charlie Matthau is writing and directing the film. Based on the Elmore Leonard crime n…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMorlan Higgins and Adolphus Ward will star in the U.S premiere of Athol Fugard's The Train Driver, to be presented by the Fountain Theatre, October 8-December 12, with an opening on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWilson Cruz, Ana Ortiz, John Tartaglia, Tracie Thoms, Michael Urie, and Melo-23 will join songwriter Richard Sherman in a concert as part of the Disneyland Resort;s 55th Anniversary celebrat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced the seven productions that will be presented as part of On the Fringe: Eye on Edinburgh, to run October 28 - November 13 in l…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Stella Adler Studio of Acting will host the 5th annual Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts, September 20-October 1. The festival brings artists and activists together to discuss the rela…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMScott Zigler will direct the Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of David Mamet's Race, at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, January 21-February13.In the play, which debut…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Tuesday, September 14, the cast of Vineyard Theatre's production of Will Eno's Middletown met with members of the press before a rehearsal at the theater. Ken Rus Schmol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLisa Harrow will replace the previously reported Laila Robbins in Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production of James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, to run October 20-No…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDeborah Warner will direct Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, in a production to run May 11 - June 18, 2011 at the Barbican in London, according to a report on the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSir Ian McKellen, Kelly Macdonald, and Benjamin Zephaniah are scheduled to perform at The People Speak, to be offered on Sunday, September 19 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, according to a r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) production of Molière's Scapin, directed by and starring two-time Tony Award winner Bill Irwin, has extended one week, and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRyan Jesse will join the Broadway company of Jersey Boys in the role of Bob Gaudio beginning October 12. He replaces Sebastian Arcelus, who as previously reported will be starring in the ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDates with Cheyenne Jackson, Victoria Clark, and Tina Howe will be among the items in a silent auction at Broadway Sings for EAT's Supper!, a benefit for Emerging Artists Theatre, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew York Theatre Network (NYTN) will officially launch on September 28. This new social media platform has been developed by the service organization A.R.T./New York and TheaterMania. NYTN w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSamuel D. Hunter's eloquent new drama about a group of struggling craft store workers gets a superbly acted and directed production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCirque du Soleil has announced plans to debut a new acrobatic spectacle at Radio City Music Hall, with previews to begin in June 2011. François Girard will direct the production, which is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRachel Brown is terrific as the American actress who was lovers with Lizzie Borden in David Foley's fascinating play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElizabeth Ashley gives a masterful performance in Edward Albee's periodically hilarious and often frustrating comedy about a troubled family.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Betty Buckley and Emmy-winning comedienne Paula Poundstone will open The Patchogue Theatre's fall season in October. Poundstone will perform on Friday, October 1,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdam Matthews' play is a piercingly heartbreaking and completely honest look at one couple's journey through life and love.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSheila Callaghan's new play about an artist pursued by the FBI is often thought-provoking.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veteran Lauren Ambrose has joined Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, and Emmy Award winner Jennifer Aniston in the new film Wanderlust, according to published reports. In the film, to be direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLisa Kron will host the fifth annual IT Awards, celebrating the best of Off-Off-Broadway, which will be held on Monday, September 20 at Cooper Union's Great Hall. Presenters will in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOpera great Renée Fleming and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Paul Simon -- who was also the composer of the Broadway musical The Capeman -- will be special guest performers at the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTovah Feldshuh, Joanna Gleason, and Michael Urie will be featured in a benefit reading of W. Somerset Maugham's Our Betters, presented by Red Bull Theater at Theater at St. Clement…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFormer Brady Bunch star Eve Plumb and Broadway veteran Manuel Herrera will co-star in Ken Davenport and Sarah Saltzberg's Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Lantern Theater Company has announced productions and preliminary casting for its 2010-2011 season. The season will open with a production of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (Octob…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSally Kellerman will return to Upstairs At Vitello's Jazz & Supper Club, on Wednesday, September 22 at 8pm. She will be accompanied by pianist/music director, Andy Langham.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatthew McConaughey and Emile Hirsch are set to star in a film version of Tracy Letts' play Killer Joe, according to Deadline.com. William Friedkin will direct the film. The play fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Kevin McCarthy died on Saturday, September 11 at age 96 of natural causes at Cape Cod Hospital, according to the Los Angeles Times. McCarthy's Broadway career …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Mario Lopez and Courtney Laine Mazza are now parents of their first child, daughter Gia Francesca, who was born on September 11, according to published reports. Lopez star…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada will shut its doors next month, accordng to published reports. The museum, which is devoted to the memorabilia of the late pianist, opened in 1979. I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon will host performances by various Broadway musical this week. The talk show will feature cast members from Memphis, Promises, Promises, American I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen actor Harold Gould died on Saturday, September 11 from prostate cancer, according to The New York Times. He was 86 years old. Gould appeared in four Broadway shows: Fools, G…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCirque du Soleil will bring its arena show Dralion to the Liacouras Center, to run December 21 - January 2. The show's title is drawn from its two main symbols: the dragon, represen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Repertory Theater has announced the participants for a panel discussion about its current production of Cabaret, to be held on September 20 at 6pm at Oberon. The free event will be …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBay Street Theatre will once again present Brad Zimmerman in his solo play, My Son the Waiter, A Jewish Tragedy, this time at the Mainstage in Sag Harbor on Saturday, October 9 at 8 pm. Par…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSouth Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Tony Award winner Robert Lopez's new musical comedy The Book of Mormon will begin previews at Broadway's Eugene O&ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdam Heller will join the previously reported cast members Jan Maxwell, Teagle F. Bougere, Beth Dixon, January LaVoy, Anne L. Nathan, and Michael Warner in the revival of Arthur Kopit&a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Lincoln Theatre has announced complete casting for Javon Johnson's Sanctified, to run October 21-November 14. Derrick Sanders will direct the production, which will have origina…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Marriott Theatre has announced its 2011 season, which will include the world premiere musical, For the Boys, to run August 17 - October 16. Based on the movie of the same name, the music…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Balboa Theatre has announced its 2010-2011 season. Among the individual performance highlights of the venue's programming are engagements of An Evening With Joan Rivers (January…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Malkovich will star as the 18th-century womanizer Casanova in The Giacomo Variations, which will play Vienna's Ronacher Theater, beginning on January 5, according to The New Yo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrea Bocelli will launch a national tour of My Christmas with a performance at Madison Square Garden on December 2. The tour will coincide with the November 9 release of a CD/DVD deluxe pa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright Tony Kushner will participate in a public conversation with curator Brad Rosenstein during the opening weekend of the Museum of Performance & Design's new exhibi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGordon Edelstein's revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie opened on September 12 at the Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles. The cast stars Judith Ivey as Amanda,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Union Theatre has announced complete casting for Bells Are Ringing, to run October 1-23, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Paul Foster will direct the production. With music by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn initial lineup of participants for Touchdown Tuesdays, a series of talkbacks following performances of Eric Simonson's Lombardi, has been announced. The discussions will follow T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarsha Mason heads a strong cast in Michael Kahn's sprightly production of Shakespeare's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSondheim! The Birthday Concert will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray by Image Entertainment on November 16. As previously reported, the special will be broadcast nationwide by PBS as part of i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGriff Rhys Jones will return as Fagin in The West End revival of Oliver! playing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in December, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. The show will play it…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Sunday, September 12, Playwrights Horizons kicked off its 2010-2011 season with the official opening of Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee's Me, Myself & I. Emily Mann ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway by the Bay has announced selections for its 2011 season, with productions to take place at the company's new home at the historic Fox Theatre in Redwood City. The season w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn McMartin and Justina Machado have joined the cast of John Guare's new play, A Free Man of Color, which will begin previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on October 21. The sho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the new Broadway musical Elf, which will play the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, November 2-January 2. Tony Award nominee Casey Nicholaw will direct and choreogr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Olivier Award winner Derek Jacobi will star in a new version of I, Claudius for BBC's Radio 4, according to The Guardian. Jacobi, who portrayed the title character in the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSimon Russell Beale will play the Duchess in The Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, to run March 2-15 at the Royal Opera House, according to a report in The D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSutton Foster, Montego Glover, Mandy Gonzalez, Kelsey Grammer, Judith Light, Lin-Manuel Miranda, John O'Hurley, Jordin Sparks, Will Swenson, Tony Vincent and a host of stars take part i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star James Gandolfini, along with Saoirse Ronan, will star in Violet & Daisy, according to a report in Variety. Geoffrey Fletcher is writing and directing the film, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMShoes, a new musical/dance revue, will play the West End's Peacock Theatre, February 8-March 13, according to Whatsonstage.com. The piece, which just concluded a brief run at Sadler…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for a free staged reading of Chay Yew and Fabian Obispo's Long Season, to be offered on September 16 at noon at Roy Arias Studio. Peter DuBois will direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDenver Center Theatre Company has announced casting for Caridad Svich's adaptation of Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, to run September 17-October 23 in the Space…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Public Theater and Elevator Repair Service's production of GATZ will now run September 26-November 28. The production will open officially on October 6. In the ensemble-created …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominees for Theatre Puget Sound's 2010 Gregory Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on Monday, October 25 at ACT. Two musicals -- 4…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of performers has been announced for the third annual Broadway in South Africa benefit concert, to be held at Manhattan Center's Grand Ballroom (311 West 34th Stree…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Emmy Award winner Billy Crystal will be honored at The Face of Tisch, the Tisch School of the Arts' annual gala, to be held on Monday December 6 at the Frederick P. Rose Ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSonya Carter, Renee Colvert, Priscilla Fernandez, and Berty Jay will star in Louise Roche's Girl Talk: The Musical, which will begin performances at the Times Square Arts Center on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMatt Bogart, Tituss Burgess, Montego Glover, and Christopher Jackson are scheduled to perform at The Broadway League and The Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds' second annual B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Rose Gregorio will star in Mario Fratti's Trio, a triptych of one-act plays, to run October 7-24 at Theater for the New City. Stephen Morrow will direct the produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGhost The Musical will play the West End's Piccadilly Theatre, beginning performances on June 22, in anticipation of an official opening on July 19. As previously announced, the sho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNicole Kidman will star in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, planned for Fall 2011, according to The New York Post. David Cromer is scheduled to direct.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKneehigh Theatre Company's production of Hansel & Gretel will play the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, according to Whatsonstage.com. The holida…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMConnor Lawson will join the West End company of Billy Elliot The Musical on November 29, playing Billy's best friend, Michael. Lawson will come to the production having played the r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNeil Tennant and Chris Lowe -- better known as the Pet Shop Boys -- are writing songs for David Almond's new children's play My Dad's a Birdman, which premieres at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBaz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and Moulin Rouge, starring Nicole Kidman, will be released on high-definition Blu-ray on Octo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen stars Stephen Lang and Jason O'Mara will headline Fox's upcoming mid-season drama Terra Nova, according to published reports. The series, which will be ex…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAlan Cumming, John Glover, Luke MacFarlane, Jason Ritter, and Steven Weber are set to appear in a one-night only reading of Terrence McNally's Some Men, to be offered at the Saban T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee David Alan Grier will join Mad Men's Michael Gladis and True Blood's Kevin Alejandro as guest stars on the October 20 episode of NBC's Law &…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSaturday Night Live has lined up its hosts for five of its initial episodes, according to various published reports: Amy Poehler, Bryan Cranston, Jane Lynch, Emma Stone, and Jon Hamm. Forme…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 36th Humanitas Prizes, which recognize writers whose work "entertain, engage and enrich the viewing public," were awarded on September 16 in Los Angeles. Winners in the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDesperate Housewives star and theater veteran James Denton will voice the title role in an animated film adaptation of All-Star Superman, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Sam Liu will d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe talented stars discuss recreating their stage roles in Philip Seymour Hoffman's film version of Jack Goes Boating.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRobin Wright has withdrawn from a Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Talley's Folly, due to filming commitments, according to New York magazine. Her co-star, Richard Sch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAs previously reported, the nationwide sing-along screenings of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, scheduled for September 29 and October 2, will be preceded by a special hosted by Jord…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Off-Broadway production of writer/director Daniel Beaty's Through the Night has launched a special educational outreach program, entitled "Shine the Light." T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDeni Yang will join the long-running Gazillion Bubble Show on September 24, at New World Stages. He is the 20-year-old son of the show's creator, Fan Yang, and this "Next …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPop singer Lesley Gore will join the Broadway cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, at the Nederlander Theatre, for a special encore performance on Friday, September 24. The production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Annie Golden, Victoria Mallory, and Sarah Rice will be the special guests at the next edition of Sondheim...UnPlugged at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on Friday, October 1 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Adrienne Shelly Foundation has announced the roster for its third annual eBay Auction Fundraiser. Among the items up for bid are numerous celebrity lunch dates, with participating theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Terrence Howard will co-host, with fellow Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson, CENTRIC's 2nd Annual Soul Train Awards Show, which will be taped at the Cobb Energy Cente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Thursday, September 16, cast members Laura Linney, Brian d'Arcy James, Eric Bogosian, and Christina Ricci spoke to members of the press about Donald Margulies' Time Stan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Colbert, Larry David, Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais and Sarah Silverman are among the artists scheduled to participate in Comedy Central's Night Of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway and television veterans Bobby Cannavale, Lucy Liu, Steven Pasquale, and Annie Potts will star in Lifetime's four-hour, multi-part movie Marry Me, according to a report in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYork Theatre Company will present A Salon Soiree with Evans Haile at the Theatre at Saint Peter's, on Saturday, October 16, at 3pm and Sunday, October 17, at 7pm. The event is bill…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPatty Duke has joined the cast of the forthcoming Lifetime television movie Unanswered Prayers, according to a report on Deadline.com. The movie is based on Garth Brooks' song of th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Craig Lucas and Grammy Award nominee Marius de Vries are collaborating on a musical version of King Kong - Live on Stage. Daniel Kramer is scheduled to direct the show, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDylan Baker will guest star on the fourth season finale of USA Network's Burn Notice, according to a report on Deadline.com. He will play a character who knows Michael (played by Je…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe West End production of Grease will play its final performance at the Picadilly Theatre on April 30, 2011. Subsequently, the production will launch a U.K. tour, beginning with an engageme…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGot up to Deertrees Theatre & Cultural Center in Harrison, Maine. There I caught a dress rehearsal of William Gibson’s Two for the Seesaw, which originally ran for 750 performances…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award winner's cabaret debut at the Cafe Carlyle offers an often thrilling, deeply personal collection of American standards and Brazilian songs.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe acclaimed singer finds a fresh approach to the often-performed songs of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and television stras John Schneider and Nancy Travis will have recurrring roles on ABC's Desperate Housewives this fall, as the father and mother of Keith (played by series newcomer B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywright Peter Morgan will write a new film about the rock group Queen, with Sacha Baron Cohen signed on to star as frontman Freddie Mercury, according to published reports. No director is…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway revival of Promises, Promises, playing at the Broadway Theatre, will conclude a nine-month run on Sunday, January 2.Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes will now s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new HD 2D print of Disney's Beauty and the Beast will be screened as a sing-along at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, September 24-October 7, and in various theaters around the count…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Lili Taylor will have a recurring role this season on the hit CBS drama The Good Wife, according to TVGuide.com. The actress will play Donna Seabrook, who may become a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCornerstone Theater Company will present its first original book musical in its 25-year history, Making Paradise: The West Hollywood Musical, to play Fiesta Hall in Plummer Park, October 14-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTeatro Vista and Rivendell Theatre Ensemble have announced casting for Quiara Alegria Hudes' 26 Miles, to run October 16 - November 21 at Chicago Dramatists. Tara Mallen will direct the pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe English-language Korean musical The Covenant Journey will play a three week engagement at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater, running November 5-21. Subsequent to its engagement in New York, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBBC America will air Law & Order: UK, the British version of the NBC series starring former Tony Award nominees Ben Daniels and Harriet Walter, according to The New York Times.The sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArts Horizons will honor composer and music icon Paul Simon and stage and screen star Arlene Dahl at Broadway Salutes, a gala to be held at The Edison Ballroom, on Monday, October 25, beginn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Irish Repertory Theatre has announced complete casting for Kelly Younger's Banished Children of Eve, to run October 13 - December 5. Ciarán O'Reilly will direct the produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLegendary singer Jerry Lee Lewis joined the cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, at the Nederlander Theatre for a special encore performance on Friday, September 10. The production is…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, September 13, the cast of Tony Award winner Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters met with members of the press to discuss the new Broadway production, which will begin previews…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania reviews Patti LuPone: A Memoir, Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt, and South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, September 15, Stephen Sondheim was joined by Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, playwright John Weidman, Tom Tuft, Chairman of Roundabout Theatre Company's Board of Directors,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCandice Bergen, Dylan Baker, Jennifer Grey, Amy Irving, and Matthew Lillard are among the actors who will guest star on the upcoming season of FOX's hit medical drama House, accordi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAward-winning entertainer Barbra Streisand hosted a celebration for her longtime manager, Marty Erlichman, on September 11 at her Malibu home. Streisand and Erlichman, who is turning 81, wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPriscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical will begin performances at Broadway's Palace Theatre on February 28, with an official opening on March 20. Prior to Broadway, the show wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway production of Jersey Boys, at the August Wilson Theatre, celebrated its 2000th performance on Wednesday, September 15. The musical is based on the life story of Frankie Valli an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway revival of West Side Story will play its final performance at the Palace Theatre on January 2. The production will have played 748 performances. With music by Leonard Bernstein …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Kennedy Center has announced casting for Jacqueline Woodson's Locomotion, to run October 23-31 in the Family Theater. Jennifer L. Nelson will direct the production. Locomotion, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheatre Communications Group has announced the 38 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Awards, which have been granted to theaters across the U.S. in 2010. The awards provide additional reh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for several events in the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), which will run September 27-October 17. The festival will feature 27 musical p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrea McArdle will play Miss Hannigan in Musical Theatre West's production of the Charles Strouse-Martin Charnin-Thomas Meehan musical Annie, to run October 29-November 14 at the C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCandice Bergen, John McMartin, Sean Palmer, Bill Duell, John Windsor Cunningham, Carmen de Lavallade, Frederic Franklin, and Sondra Lee will perform in a presentation of James Goldman and St…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, September 15, the cast of Paper Mill Playhouse's production of the hit muscal Hairspray gave members of the press a sneak peak at the production, which will run Septem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDiane Ciesla and Mark Shanahan will star in Penguin Rep Theatre's production of Jeffrey Hatcher's Mrs. Mannerly, to run October 1-24 in Stony Point, New York. Joe Brancato…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA new trailer for Tyler Perry's film For Colored Girls, which has been adapted from Ntozake Shange's award-winning 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide W…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMArena Stage has announced the addition of Tectonic Theater Project's The Laramie Project Residency, to its 2010-2011 season. The production, consisting of The Laramie Project and T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Lyric Stage Company of Boston has announced principal casting for David Edgar's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Parts I & II, to run October 21-December 19.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFive-time Emmy Award winner John Larroquette will make a mullti-episode appearance this season in CSI: NY, the hit CBS procedural, according to EW.com. The actor made his Off-Broadway debut …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new stage adaptation of Disney's Camp Rock: The Musical will debut at Vienna's Town Hall, running November 25-December 5. The show, based on the Disney Channel Camp Roc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for 42nd Street Moon's next Salon Evening on October 28, which kicks off a multi-year celebration of composer Jerome Kern. As previously reported, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFuerza Bruta: Look Up has announced that it will offer special Boys Night performances on the first Saturdays of October, November and December at the Daryl Roth Thaetre. The special events …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEisa Davis and Lemon Anderson will perform at the Hip-Hop Theater Festival's 10 Year Anniversary gala, to be held on Monday, September 27 at the Urban Zen Center. Sahr Ngaujah will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVital Theatre Company has announced casting for Angelina Ballerina The Musical, to run October 2 - January 2 at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre. Sam Viverito will direct and choreograph the produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree Boston theater companies -- Huntington Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company and Company One -- have announced the dates when it will be possible to see all three of Annie Baker&…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe nominees for the Casting Society of America's 26th annual Artios Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in ceremonies to be held simultaneously in Los Angeles …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Sticking Place will present The Terror Season: Death and Resurrection, an offering of classic, cult, and contemporary horror theatre, October 12-31, according to Whatsonstage.com. The se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award winner talks about starring and directing in A.C.T's production of Scapin.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor Billy Crudup will play Bernard Nightingale in a new Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, set to open in 2011, according to a report on EW.com. No other details of th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Paul Murphy's two-hander is well-acted, but there's just too much tell and not enough show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole's newest CD Christine Ebersole Sings Noel Coward will be officially released by Ghostlight Records on September 21. The album had previ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlatinum recording artist and 2007 American Idol officially opened in the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on September 14. The cast celebrated after…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee star and Broadway veteran Lea Michele has been named to People magazine's "10 Best Dressed List," for her bold looks on the red carpet. The magazine, whose Be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActor John Schneider will have a recurrring role on ABC's Desperate Housewives this fall, as the father of Keith (played by series newcomer Brian Austin Green). Schneider has starre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Kevin Spacey will be featured in A Special Audience With Kevin Spacey, a fundraiser for the charity Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, to be held at the Criterion Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen veteran Bill Brochtrup will join the cast of Lost and Found, to be presented at the Lucille Lortel Theatre as part of the FringeNYC Encores Series, September 18-25. Andrew …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHugh Panaro and Sara Jean Ford returned to the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera, playing at the Majestic Theatre, on September 7. Panaro, who plays the title role, has played…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Signature Theatre Company's revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, has extended its run for a second time, with performances no…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMeredith Monk's The Soul's Messenger will open Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, with a performance on October 28 at 8:30pm at the David Rubenstein Atrium at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWONDERLAND: A New Alice. A New Musical Adventure -- featuring music by Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Jack Murphy, and a book by Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy -- will begin a Broadway run at the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFormer Brady Bunch star Eve Plumb will star in Ken Davenport and Sarah Saltzberg's Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage, to begin performances at the Downsta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNaked Angels has announced an initial lineup of works that will be presented in September as part of its three-tiered play development program. On September 13 at 3:30pm, the company will o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM92nd Street Y has announced revisions for the 2011 line-up for its Lyrics & Lyricists American Songbook series, under the overall artistic direction of Deborah Grace Winer, with dif…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Celia Weston and two-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane will guest star on the Emmy Award-winning hit ABC sitcom Modern Family in the fall, according to TVGuide.com. The s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 54th BFI London Film Festival, to run October 13-28, has announced its selections. It will feature screenings of approximately 300 films. As previously reported, the Festival will open w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComedian Norm Crosby and cabaret artist Nigel will offer a one-night-only performance of An Evening of Music and Comedy on September 16 at 8pm at Agua Caliente Resort in Rancho Mirage Goeffr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVortex Theater Company will present Haunted House, to play in a private location near Penn Station, October 12-31. In this adult haunted house, participants must entire the venue alone, outf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe acclaimed director talks about her new production of the classic Greek tragedy starring Olympia Dukakis, Annie Purcell, and Pamela Reed
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLiza Minnelli will be featured in the Turner Classics Movies special Private Screenings: Liza Minnelli, to be aired on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) December 11 at 10pm. Robert Osborne will se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCombine the schedule that Eva Peron had to follow on her Rainbow Tour as well as all the plans that Billy Liar had in his head, and you’ll get an idea of what Elaine Paige’s life…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCBS has announced an agreement to continue broadcasting the Tony Awards through 2013, according to The New York Times. The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, which co-produce the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFlorencia Lozano's passionate and bold play is given a stylish production at the Rattlestick Theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Courtney B. Vance will guest star opposite 2010 Emmy Award winner Kyra Sedgwick on the September 13 episode of TNT's The Closer, according to TVGuide.com. Vanc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Bryant Park Fall Festival, to run September 13-20, will offer eight free-of-charge after-work performances featuring artists from NYC's premiere classical music, jazz, dance, a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGreen Day's lead singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and American Idiot's director/ co-book writer Michael Mayer will host Idiot University, a series of post-show talkba…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSteep Theatre has announced the four plays that will comprise its 2010-2011 season. The year will open with Mark Schultz's A Brief History of Helen of Troy (September 23 - October 3…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Patricia Clarkson will appear in conversation with Bill Goldstein at New York City's LGBT Center at 7pm on Monday, September 20. Clarkson's stage cred…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the Westchester Broadway Theatre's production of Frank Wildhorn's musical Jekyll & Hyde, which will run September 30 - November 28, 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen legend Debbie Reynolds' famed Hollywood memorabilia collection will be auctioned next year by Christie's New York, according to The Associated Press. The c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Rrazz Room at the Hotel Nikko has announced an updated list of performers for the fall season. Among the stars who will appear at the club are Leslie Jordan (September 14-19), Mary Wilso…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Barry Bostwick and Meat Loaf will guest star on the October 26 episode of FOX's Glee, which pays tribute to the The Rocky Horror Show, according to a report on EW.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSt. Ann's Warehouse in DUMBO has announced programming for 2010-2011. The season will open with The Music of Fela Kuti, featuring performers and band members from the Broadway musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSandy Duncan, Tom Riis Farrell, Sandie Rosa, Amanda Sykes, and Nick Wyman will star in the George Street Playhouse production of Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation, to be p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDixon Place, recently named a recipient of a 2010 Innovative Theater Award, has announced programming for its Fall 2010 season. Highlights will include Fear Mongers, curated & hoste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKim Criswell will direct and star in a concert performance of Singin' in the Rain, to be presented by the Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, November 7 at 3pm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Marsha Norman will accept the 2011 William Inge Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award at the Inge Festival April 13-16, 2011, at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPreviews for the new Broadway musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, to be presented by Lincoln Center at the Belasco Theatre, will now begin on October 5 (rather than October 2)…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe winners of the Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) Eleventh Season Awards were announced in a ceremony held at New World Stages on Thursday, September 9. James R. Harris&ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Ed Asner and Tony and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Uggams will be featured as part of Pasadena Playhouse's Fall 2010 season. Asner will star in the solo show FDR (Oct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlays by EV Crowe, Sam Holcroft, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Chloe Moss, Winsome Pinnock and Rebecca Prichard will be featured in Charged, a series of works focusing on women, crime and justice, to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProspect Theater Company has announced casting for Susan DiLallo and Stephen Weiner's musical comedy Once Upon a Time in New Jersey, to run October 2-31 The Hudson Guild Theatre. Ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWill Ferrell, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna , Genesis Rodriguez, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Hector Jimenez, and Adrian Martinez will star in Casa de mi padre, according to The Hollywood Report. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company has announced complete casting for Matilda, A Musical, to run November 9 - January 30 at the company's Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. As pre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Friday, September 10, Reeve Carney, who will star as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the upcoming Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, premiered a new song from the musical, along w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTracee Chimo and John Earl Jelks will join the previously announced stars David Duchovny and Amanda Peet in Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon, to begin performances at the Lucille Lo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPride Films and Plays has announced casting for its September and October installments for its The Great Plays of Terrence McNally staged reading series. The first offering will be Libson Tr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNoor Theatre has announced the plays that will be presented as staged readings this fall as part of its inaugural Highlight series. All of the performances will be held at the Fourth Street …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOperating Theater has announced casting for Kenny Finkle's Transatlantica, to run September 30 - October 17 at the Fourth Street Theatre. Jason Schuler will direct the production. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis group of four interrelated, short plays doesn't add up to a satisfying evening of theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award nominee is starring in Dietrich and Chevalier, directing Jekyll & Hyde, and preparing his cabaret debut at Feinstein's.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMZeitgeist Stage Company has announced casting for Lucy Prebble's Enron, to run September 24 - October 16 in the Plaza Black Box Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts. David J. M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSo I see that this December the Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton will be presenting 8-Track: The Sounds of the '70's. Wonder if there are any musical theater songs in the mix?
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMusical theater star Erich Bergen will perform his new show, featuring selections from his CD The Vegas Sessions. at the Inner Circle at the Magic Castle in Hollywood at 8pm on Wednesday, Se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKatie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, Jeremy Strong, and Adam Brody discuss the new ensemble film The Romantics.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Olivier Award-winning troupe La Soiree (formerly known as La Clique) will perform their newest show in a specially erected tent on the South Bank, October 12-January 30, according to Wha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Old Globe Theatre in San Diego has announced the schedule for its 2011 summer season.Adrian Noble will return as the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Festival, with works to be pres…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIrish actor Mick Lally, who helped found the Druid Theater, has died at age 64, according to The New York Times. Among Lally's many stage credits were Druid's productions o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFormer House star Jennifer Morrison, who co-starred in the Broadway revival of The Miracle Worker, will have a multi-episode role on CBS' How I Met Your Mother this season, as a rom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Tartaglia, the creator of the Off-Broadway musical, ImaginOcean, will appear at the Barnes & Noble Upper East Side (150 East 86th Street) at 11am on September 19 for a special s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda married longtime girlfriend Vanessa Nadal on Sunday, September 5.Miranda won the Tony Award for his score to In the Heights, and was also Tony-nominated …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA new, two-disc set of the original cast recording of Jule Styne and Bob Merrill's Sugar will be released in early October by Kritzerland. Based on the movie Some Like It Hot, Sugar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe third season of HBO's In Treatment, which stars Broadway veteran Gabriel Byrne as a therapist with issues of his own, will debut on October 25.The season's guest stars…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRAIN - A Tribute to The Beatles will air on WLIW (Channel 21) on Sunday, September 12 at 4pm, Tuesday, September 14 at 2:30am, and Thursday, September 16 at 10pm. In addition to perfornaces,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional casting has been announced for several shows in the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), which will run September 27-October 17. The festival will feature 27 musical pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee, Emmy Award winner, and world-renowned designer and architect David Rockwell has joined the board of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in Manhattan, according to a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA Conversation with David Hare, a moderated discussion with the Olivier Award-winning playwright and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, will be held as part of the 2010 Yale Drama Series …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnne Steele's debut studio album, Anne Steele: Strings Attached, will be released by PS Classics on November 2. The CD will feature music direction and arrangements by Kenny Davidso…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Paley Center for Media has announced programming for its Fall 2010 Season in New York and Los Angeles. Events will explore the impact of media from politics to pop culture.Highlights in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Antaeus Company has announced casting for Lillian Hellman's The Autumn Garden, to run October 23 - December 19. Larry Biederman will direct the production, which will feature tw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Hal Holbrook will be seen in a multi-episode arc on NBC's forthcoming serial thriller The Event, according to a report on EW.com. The series is set to premiere on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Airlines has announced a three-year renewal of its relationship with Roundabout Theatre Company for the American Airlines Theatre. As part of the companies' agreement, the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWriters' Theatre has announced complete casting for Giles Havergal's adaptation of Graham Greene's Travels With My Aunt, to run November 9 - March 27, with an offi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Public Theater has announced the plays that will be offered as part of the the 2010-2011 Public LAB season, which will begin with the world premiere of Richard Nelson's That Hop…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Tom Hewitt will return to the Broadway production of Chicago, at the Ambassador Theatre, September 13-October 3. He will succeed John O'Hurley in the role of law…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVictor Garber, Jason Butler Harner, John Benjamin Hickey, Joe Mantello, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Patrick Wilson will star in a 25th anniversary reading of Larry Kramer's The Normal He…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Kennedy Center has announced casting for Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical, whch will embark on a national tour with an engagement at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, to run O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChad Kimball, who received a 2010 Tony Award nomination for his lead role in Broadway's Memphis, will perform as part of a series of events to commemorate the grand opening of the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWestport Country Playhouse has announced preliminary casting for a staged reading of Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, to be offered on October 4 at 7pm as part of the theater&apo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Harps and Angels, a new musical using the songs of Academy Award winner Randy Newman and conceived by Jack Viertel, to run November 10 - December 19 at the Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Alan Ayckbourn's Season's Greetings, which will begin performances on December 1 at the National Theatre, in anticipation of an official open…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLucie Arnaz will host the Abingdon Theatre Company's AB*IE Awards, to be presented on September 13 at 6:30 at the company's June Havoc Theatre. The awards ceremony, as well…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCabrillo Music Theatre has announced principal casting for its production of Happy Days: A New Musical, to be presented at the Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, October 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJulia Campanelli, Erik Heger, Roberta Maxwell, Conan McCarty, Alex Morf, Grant Neale, Rocco Sisto, Mary Testa and Jenne Vath will take part in a reading of Gammer Gurton's Needle, b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and film director Clive Donner died on Tuesday, September 7 in London, following years of suffering from Alzheimer's, according to published reports. He was 84.Donner directe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner and Tony nominee Gordon Clapp will play American poet Robert Frost in A.M. Dolan's This Verse Business, to run September 15-26 at the Peterborough Players in New H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFinborough Theatre has announced casting for Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Me and Juliet, to run October 5-30. Thom Sutherland will direct the production.The musical focus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGlee star and Broadway veteran Matthew Morrison will now release his new solo CD in February, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As previously announced, the album had been scheduled for a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLondon's Arts Theatre will host Gleekfest, two evenings showcasing some of the UKs finest show choirs, and inspired by the television program, Glee.On Sunday, October 10 at 7pm, To…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSimon Russell Beale and Jonathan Groff are superb in Matthew Warchus' near-perfect revival of Ira Levin's marvelous thriller.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Goodman Theatre has extended its production of Candide through October 31. The production, directed by Mary Zimmerman and featuring a new book by the director, begins previews on Septemb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIt's the right time for Bob Sloan's Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story. The bio-semi-musical did so well in the FringeNYC festival that it's going to be part of the Encore series starting…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNBC's America's Got Talent will sponsor a six-week tour of this season's top 10 finalists, beginning on October 1 in Oakland, California. The show's host,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCaldwell Theatre Company has announced complete casting for Follies, the latest installment of the company's Broadway Concert Series, to be presented October 1-3. Clive Cholerton w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPrincipal casting has been announced for the Ogunquit Playhouse production of the popular John Kander-Fred Ebb musical Chicago, to run September 15-October 24. Gerry McIntyre will direct. As…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Paley Center for Media will televise an awards show for television in May 2012, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The ceremony will take place in New York City during the so-called &a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMike Birbiglia will begin his Painfully True Stories Tour on October 13 with a performance at the Wilbur Theater in Boston. The tour is slated to coincide with Simon & Schuster&a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, September 8, the Broadway cast of Eric Simonson's Lombardi met with press to talk about the sports-centric show, which will perform at the Circle in the Square Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Old Globe Theatre has announced full casting for Kristoffer Diaz's Welcome to Arroyo's, to run September 25-October 31. Jaime Castañeda will direct the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdditional participants for the Fall 2010 TimesTalks programming has been announced. Events will be held at The TimesCenter, at 242 W. 41st Street. Roy Blount Jr., Nora Ephron, Garrison Keil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, September 8, the Broadway cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson gave members of the press a taste of the musical, which will begin previews at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre on Sept…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[Inside] the Ford has announced the theater companies and productions that will comprise the 2010-2011 play series at the venue. The series will open with HYPERBOLE: origins, created by the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAn updated list of participants has been announced for Broadway on Broadway, the annual free concert presented by The Broadway League and the Times Square Alliance. As previously announced, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActress Molly Shannon will play the part of Marge MacDougall in the Broadway revival of Promises, Promisesplaying at the Broadway Theatre, from October 12 through December 26. She replaces K…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRupert Goold's BBC's film version Shakespeare's Macbeth, based on the awaard-winning 2007 staging -- that was initially seen at the Chichester Festival Theatre, la…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBecky Ann Baker, Gordon Clapp, Thomas Guiry, Ethan Hawke, Natasha Lyonne, and Daphne Rubin-Vega will star in New Group's production of Tommy Nohilly's Blood From a Stone, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWhoopi Goldberg will return to the role of Mother Superior in the West End production of Sister Act, for five performances, October 22-25, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. The show…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStages St. Louis has announced its schedule for 2011. The company's season will begin with a production of A Chorus Line to run June 3 - July 3. Also on the theater's slat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmanuele Nigro will star in I Fioretti in Musica- Opera in Danza (Little Flowers in Music, an Opera in Dance), to be presented in the Ellen Stewart Theater at La MaMa E.T.C., September 30-O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Jennifer Garner, Katie Holmes, and Natalie Portman will join fellow honorees Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, and Suzan Bymel for Variety's second annual Power …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe two musical greats join forces for an evening of great entertainment at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhilip Goodwin will perform an excerpt of The Studio Theatre's production of Richard Nelson's Tynan on September 11 at 2pm at Sidney Harman Hall. The performance is being o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFootage from Ellen DeGeneres' surprise cameo appearance in the Tuesday, September 7 performance of Broadway's Promises, Promises, will be aired on The Ellen DeGeneres Show…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe North American tour of Mamma Mia! has announced updated casting for 2010-2011. The show, which focuses on a young bride-to-be trying to determine the identity of her father, is based on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLaurie Metcalf will make another guest appearance this season on CBS' The Big Bang Theory, as the mother of Sheldon (played by 2010 Emmy Award winner Jim Parsons, according to publi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe legendary entertainer talks about being part of the 11th season of ABC's Dancing With the Stars.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts has announced additional information about its 2010-2011 season. The season will begin with Charles Busch's comedy The Tale of the Alle…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDetails have been announced for the 24th annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction will take place in Shubert Alley on Sunday, September 26 from 10am to 7pm. The event, which bene…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Bailiwick Chicago Collective has announced details of the theater company's 2010-2011 season. The season will open with Departure Lounge, a new musical with book, music &am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast members from the Off-Broadway hits Avenue Q, The Flying Karamazov Brothers and Power Balladz will be among the performers at the 35th Annual Third Avenue Community Benefit Street Fair,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company has extended Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or the vibrator play for a second time, with the production now scheduled to close on October 3. Aaron Posn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree-time Tony Award nominee Penny Fuller will star in the world premiere musical version of Truman Capote's holiday tale, A Christmas Memory, to be presented by TheatreWorks at L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award-winning actor Denis O'Hare and acclaimed playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa will be among the guests for Fear-Mongers: Fireside Chats About Horror Films, curated and host…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Liam Neeson will star alongside Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker; Alexander Skarsgård, and Rihanna in the upcoming film Battleship, according to EW.com. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Abingdon Theatre Company has announced its 2010-2011 season. The season will feature The Nanjing Race by Reggie Cheong-Leen and directed by Brian Tom O'Connor (October 29-Novemb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), which runs September 27-October 17, has announced additional special events, to be presented in conjunction with the festival. The ASCAP Foundat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull cast and creative team information has been announced for Steppenwolf's production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, to run December 2-Febru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA live video recording of in John Adams' City Noir and Mahler's Symphony No. 1, performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the leadership of music director Gustavo Dud…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrian Stokes Mitchell, Bebe Neuwirth, Leslie Uggams, Tom Wopat, and Peter Cincotti will take part in The Actors Fund's benefit The Friends of The Lillian Booth Actors Home, to be he…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDance sensations Jabbawockeez will bring their show MUS.I.C. to the Monte Carlo Theatre in Las Vegas for an extended engagement, beginning October 7. The critically acclaimed show, describe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSouth Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Tony Award winner Robert Lopez's new musical comedy The Book of Mormon will debut at Broadway's Eugene O'Neill …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRosie's Broadway Kids has announced the lots for its 2010 Charity Auction. Among the available items are chances to meet the organization's founder, Rosie O'Donnel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA Letter to Elia, a documentary directed by Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones about Tony Award- and Academy Award-winning director Elia Kazan's life and career, will be included in the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and television star Ilene Kristen will appear in the next installment of Erotic Broadway-Vintage Variety at The Triad Theater on Monday, September 13 at 9pm. Erotic Broadway is an irre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNationally syndicated radio host and psychologist Dr. Joy Browne will be the special guest star in My Big Gay Italian Wedding, at St. Luke's Theatre, for three performances, Septem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRehearsals have begun for the second national tour of Billy Elliot the Musical, which as previously reported will launch in Durham, NC at the Triangle's DPAC, October 30 - November …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEnsemble Studio Theatre will present Octoberfest, a marathon of new, developing plays, September 20-October 16. The festival brings together 53 plays over 26 days. Among the works to be pre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReeve Carney, who will star as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the upcoming Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, will premiere a new song from the musical, along with his band Carney,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM2010 Tony Award winner Denzel Washington and his wife Pauletta will receive the Prince Rainier III Award at the 28th Annual Princess Grace Awards Gala, to be held on Wednesday, November 10,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMManhattan Youth will present the Story Pirates' latest creation, HalloWHOA!, at the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center (120 Warren Street), October 15-31. This interactive h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPreliminary casting has been announced for L.A. Theatre Works' 2010-11 season. Each play in the series will be performed live in front of an audience at the Skirball Cultural Center…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlaywrights Annie Baker, Lisa Kron, Theresa Rebeck, and Sarah Ruhl will participate in the Off Broadway Alliance's free seminar The Wicked Women of Off Broadway, to be held at noon …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 2010 Helpmann Awards, which are Australia's equivalent to the Tonys, were presented on Monday, September 6 at Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House. Jersey Boys won for Best Musica…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEuan Morton, Jill Paice, and Jeremy Kushnier give vibrant performances in Eric Schaeffer's exciting production of the troubled musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Collegiate Chorale has announced selections for its 2010-2011 season, which will feature a number of Broadway and opera performers. The season will begin with Brahms' Alto Rhap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting for he national tour of Shrek the Musical, which begins its run on September 11 at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, has been announced. The show is currently finishing up a pre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star America Ferrera will host the ninth season of the PBS series Independent Lens, which debuts on October 19. The anthology series will screen 27 documentaries. Previous h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHeather Raffo and Amir ElSaffar will perform their original work, Sounds of Desire, on Thursday, September 23, at 7pm at the Martel Theater at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. They will be jo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJerry Herman, Bill T. Jones, Paul McCartney, Oprah Winfrey, and Merle Haggard have been named the recipients of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors, and will be celebrated at a gala on Sunday, D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLeslie Kritzer will co-star alongside Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad in the Arena Stage production of Marcus Garvey's every tongue confess, running November 9-January 2. The prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCharles Busch, Alan Cumming, Judy Gold, Cheyenne Jackson, Cherry Jones, Moises Kaufman, Terrence McNally, Anne Meara, Cynthia Nixon, Rosie O'Donnell, Sarah Paulson, and Jerry Still…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPrincipal casting has been announced for Synetic Theater's production of King Arthur, to run September 29-October 31. The production will be directed by Paata Tsikurishvili, choreog…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMScott Barrow, Mark Berger, Jeremy Bobb, Mercedes Herrero, Greg Pierotti, Amy Resnick, Christina Rouner, and Kelli Simpkins will be featured in The Tectonic Theater Project's Larami…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRaven Theatre has announced casting for Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, to run October 12 - December 17 at the company's East Stage. Michael Menendian will direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElyse Beyer, Kristen Bussiere, Brian Childers, Crystal Davidson, Aaron Davis, Joshua Desjardins, Tripp Fountain, Dennis Fowler, Julia Hirsch, Westley Todd Holiday, Madison James, Gordon Man…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNigel Lindsay will play the title role in the London production of Shrek the Musical, which will begin performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in May in anticipation of an official ope…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReasons to Be Cheerful, which takes its title from Ian Dury and the Blockheads' 1979 single of the same name, will run at east London's Theatre Royal Stratford East, Octobe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New School for Drama has announced its 2010 fall season, which will begin with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (October 7-9), directed by Arin Arbus. The season…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRené Auberjonois, Paloma Herrera and Cory Stearns, the Julliard Jazz Artists Diploma Ensemble, Bronson Pinchot, Frederica Von Stade and actors from the Shakespeare Theatre Com…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway at Birdland series of Monday night performances has announced an updated schedule. September performers will be William Blake (September 6), Tony Award nominee Christopher Fitzg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThaddeus Phillips will perform Capsule 33 at Barrow Street Theatre, September 17-October 16. Co-created by Phillips with Tatiana Mallarino, the play focuses on a fictional resident of the fa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Metropolitan Opera will present free screenings of the opening night performance of Robert Lepage's new production of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold, conducted by James…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlivia Thirlby will star opposite Karl Urban in the 3D movie adaptation of Judge Dredd, according to a report in Variety. Pete Travis is directing the picture, which has a screenplay by Alex…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJennifer Saunders has been hired to write Viva Forever, the new musical based on the songs of the hit group The Spice Girls, to be produced by Mamma Mia! creator Judy Craymer and XIX, the ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Hugh Dancy and Sarah Paulson will join Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Sean Durking has written screenplay and will direct th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Crossley, Miriam Margolyes and Jemima Rooper are set to appear in Me and My Girl, to run December 9 - January 29 at the Sheffield-Crucible, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMActors Alan Cumming and Brittany Snow will be honored at the Point Foundation's fourth annual Los Angeles benefit to be held on September 25 at Raleigh Studios Hollywood. The organi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFord's Theatre has announced complete casting for Samuel A. Taylor's Sabrina Fair, to run October 1-24. Stephen Rayne will direct the production, which will use a mixed-rac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Donmar Warehouse has announced its programming for the first half of 2011, according to published reports. The theater will present William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's award-winn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLisa Kron will host the fifth annual IT Awards, celebrating the best of Off-Off-Broadway, which will be held on Monday, September 20 at Cooper Union's Great Hall. The 2010 Artistic …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJenny Gulley has won the previously announced Be the Next Dorothy competition. She will be appearing as Dorothy in George Bugatti's WiZaRD, scheduled to begin performances in Decemb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania offers 10 handy tips to make the most of your theatergoing experience!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 20th annual NAACP Theatre Awards were presented in a ceremony on Monday, August 30 at the Director's Guild of America in Hollywood. Sammy, produced by The Old Globe Theatre, won…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe John W. Engeman Theater has announced casting for its production of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's My Fair Lady, to run September 16-October 31. Alan Souza will direct th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway premiere of Joe and David Zellnik's musical Yank has been delayed until fall 2011, according to The New York Times. Award-winning director David Cromer will helm the pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo will perform the hit song "Empire State of Mind" at Broadway on Broadway, the annual free concert presented by The Bro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for David Caudle's The Sunken Living Room, to be performed September 14, 25 and 26 at 8pm at Theatre 80 as part of the Howl! Arts Project. Enrico Maria La…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJennifer Coolidge, Richard Easton, Brendan Fraser, and Denis O'Hare are set to star in Elling, to run November 2- March 20 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, according to a report in V…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMApple Core Theater Company has announced casting for William M. Hoffman's As Is, to run October 14-31 at the Studio Theatre at Theatre Row. Walter J. Hoffman will direct the product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKirk Douglas Theatre has announced complete casting for Eric Rosen and Matt Sax's Venice, to run October 17-November 14. Rosen will direct the musical, which is a co-production with…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe proposed Broadway revival of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, You Can't Take It With You will now open in Spring 2011, according to The N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSinger and comedian Lea DeLaria will extend her brunch shows at New York's Smoke, playing numerous Saturdays and Sundays starting on September 4 and continuing through May 2011. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Cafe has announced its performance schedule for September. Highlights of the month include Edie (September 4-5), Joan Rivers (September 9 and 28)…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage Door Records will release the original cast recording of Shunn-Ichi Tokura and Paul Sand's musical Out Of The Blue, on October 18. Set in Japan just after World War II, the sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, September 1, Kenny Solms' new comedy, It Must Be Him, officially opened at the Peter J. Sharp Theatre. Guests at the opening included Anjelica Huston, Joan Rivers, Joe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFeinstein's at Loews Regency has announced that Broadway and film star Lainie Kazan will play the club, October 5-9; former Mary Poppins star will appear on November 28-29; and Aust…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Annette O'Toole will guest star on the TV series LIe to Me as a woman suffering from early-onset Alzherimer's disease, according to EW.com. O&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Broadway League has announced the theaters that will receive National Education Grants. These $5,000 awards support innovative programs that enable students from coast to coast to experi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Playwrights Realm has announced complete casting for Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco's Dramatis Personae, to run October 1-23 at the Cherry Lane Studio. Erik Pearson will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNew Village Arts will present Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods, September 22-October 31. The production will be directed by James Vasque…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, September 1, Teresa Giudice, Ashley Holmes, Jacqueline Laurita, Caroline Manzo and Lauren Manzo, from the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of New Jersey, temporarily jo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 2010 NEA New Play Development Program's Distinguished New Play grants have been announced. Five theaters will each receive a grant of $20,000 to support the early stages of deve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Bramley's Ovid's Metamorphoses, which has won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, will play London's Cradyon Warehouse…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNo sooner had FringeNYC come to its August 29th closing than people were already asking me "So what are you looking forward to at NYMF?" The first show I want to see is Alex Wyse's Nighttime…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Wilma Theater has announced casting for Macbeth, to run September 29 - November 7. Blanka Zizka will direct the production. The company will feature CJ Wilson (Macbeth), Jacqueline Anta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTalking Band will present the world premiere of their show PANIC! EUPHORIA! BLACKOUT at HERE Arts Center, October 7-24. The play is written and directed by one of the founders of Talking Ba…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company has extended Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or the vibrator play through September 26. Aaron Posner has directed the production. The play focuses on a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Christopher Ashley will throw out the ceremonial first pitch when the San Diego Padres play the Colorado Huskies on Sunday, September 5. Ashley is currently represented …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPhiladelphia Theatre Workshop has announced its 2010-2011 season, which will consist of one full production, along with four pieces that will be presented as part of the company's f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrea Canny will play Miss Adelaide in the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra-Mad Cow Theatre concert staging of Guys and Dolls, to be offered on October 9 at 2 and 8pm at the Bob Carr Perform…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the world premiere of Jordan Harrison's Futura, to run September 30-November 7 at The Theatre @ Boston Court. Jessica Kubzansky will direct the produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOriginal Pee-wee Herman Show cast members John Moody, John Paragon, and Lynne Marie Stewart will join star Paul Reubens for the Broadway production of The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway. A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFox Valley Repertory, previously known as Noble Fool Theatricals, has announced its 2011 season, which will open with Tim Clue and Spike Manton's Leaving Iowa (January 20 - March 13…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLogo has announced the celebrities who will take part in the new series The A-List:New York, which will premiere on the cable channel on October 4. The show focuses on a group of gay men in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHarlan Tuckman and Judy Spiegel will star in Peter L. Levy's Friends, which will begin previews at Theatre 3 on October 7. Jerry Donis will direct the production, which will open o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Faux-Real Theatre Company has announced casting for All-Male Oedipus Rex, to be performed September 11 and 12 at 8pm at Theatre 80 as part of the Howl! Arts Project. Mark Greenfield wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJoan Cusack has replaced Allison Janney as Sheila in Showtime' new series, Shameless, about a big blue-collar family in Chicago, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe second annual Manhattan Wonderwalk, a fundraiser for arts organization The Secret City, is set to take place at 10a.m. on Saturday, September 11. The Wonderwalk is a 14-hour walk of the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHelen Carey, Victoria Clark, Nancy Giles, Stacy London, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler will perform in the Off-Broadway show,Love, Loss, and What I Wore, September 1-19, after which Sigler departs.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Scolari discusses his return to the stage in the Off-Broadway play It Must Be Him.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLA Opera will offer a live broadcast of its productions of Daniel Catán's Il Postino, starring Plácido Domingo, on Thursday, September 23 at 6pm on Cla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKristine Nielsen and Cameron Ocasio will complete the Broadway cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which will begin previews at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre on September 20 in anticipation o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRicki Stern and Annie Sundberg's Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work will open the Sheffield Doc/Fest, with a screening on November 3, according to a report in Variety. The Festival cont…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHenry Jaglom's Just 45 Minutes From Broadway will be offered for a trio of benefit performances, September 3-5 ,at the Pewter Plough Playhouse. The events will raise funds for the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Theatre has announced a special encore broadcast of its production of Phedre, to be presented on September 23, 2010. Helen Mirren, Dominic Cooper, and Margaret Tyzack starred i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHenri Bendel, Hattie Carnegie, Chanel, Mainbocher, Norman Norell, Oscar de la Renta, Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, and Isaac Mizrahi will all be represented in On Stage In Fashion, to be on dis…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCamille Grammer, who recently filed for divorce from La Cage Aux Folles star Kelsey Grammer, will be part of the cast of the reality show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which debuts o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Monday, August 30, Sutton Foster and Seth Rudetsky starred in the one-night concert of They're Playing Our Song at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College. Denis Jones di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDarius de Haas, Kecia Lewis-Evans, and Vaneese Thomas will join conductor Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony and choir students from six New York City high schools for he Weill Music Ins…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMusic Theatre of Connecticut has announced its 2010-2011 mainstage season. The season will open with Klea Blackhurst's solo show Everything the Traffic Will Allow: The Songs and Sas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTwo-time Tony nominee Gavin Creel will play three U.K. concerts in October, performing at Brighton's Komedia (October 19), London's Jazz Cafe (October 20), and Manchester&…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNominations for the 2010 Joseph Jefferson Equity Awards, honoring the best in professional Chicago-area theater, have been announced. The awards will be presented in a ceremony to be held on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe indie rock singer discusses taking on the role of the Emcee in A.R.T's gender-bending production of Cabaret
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRuthie Henshall will play Elvira, Robert Bathurst and Hermione Norris will play Charles and Ruth Condomine, and Alison Steadman will play Madame Arcati, in a new production of Noel Coward&a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKenny Solms' comedy about a struggling screenwriter proves to be dismally unfunny.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star Eddie Izzard will join the cast of Showtime's United States of Tara, according to published reports. The series will begin production next month in anticipati…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTyler Perry's film adaptation of Ntozake Shange's award-winning 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, will be released on Novemb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPreliminary casting has been announced for several shows in the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), which will run September 27-October 17. The festival will feature 27 musical pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Rosemary Harris will guest star this season on NBC's hit series Law & Order: SVU, according to EW.com. No other details were announced. As previously repor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Signature Theatre Company's production of Chess will now run through October 3, with tickets for the extension go on sale on September 7. Eric Schaeffer has directed the product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, September 1, the casts of Roundabout Theatre Company's productions of Brief Encounter and The Language Archive greeted members of the press at their respective rehears…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMC de B Productions and The Dubrovnik Shakespeare Festival have announced casting for Michael Lederer's Mundo Overloadus, to run September 7-12 at P.S. 122. Lederer will direct his s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMultiple Grammy Award winner Patti LaBelle will first appear in the Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning musical Fela! as Funmilayo Anikulapo-Kuti on September 8 and 9, before begin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMYork Theatre Company has announced complete casting for Alan Jay Lerner and Andre Previn's Coco, to run September 10-12 .Mark Kaufman will direct the script-in-hand concert performa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMP.S. 122 will present Dominic Huber's theatrical adaptation of Joseph Roth's Hotel Savoy at The Goethe-Institut's Fifth Avenue townhouse, to run September 30-Octob…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTrue Blood's Jim Parrack will star alongside television veteran Mike Farrell in Edmund White's Terre Haute, to run October 2-November 14 at the Blank Theatre's 2nd…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veteran Reba McEntire has received a nomination for the 44th Annual Country Music Awards as Female Vocalist of the Year alongside Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride,Taylor Swift, and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway performer Ron Kellum will participate in the 17th season of CBS' reality show The Amazing Race. He will be paired with his best friend, Tony Stovall, a doctoral student at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWestport Country Playhouse has announced casting and creative team for The Diary of Anne Frank to be presented in Wendy Kessleman's newly revised adaptation of the play by Frances G…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDiahann Carroll : The Lady, The Music, The Legend will premiere on WNET, Thirteen on Tuesday September 14 at 8pm. The special will also be seen on WLIW21 on September 15 at 8pm. The program …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMasterworks Broadway brings six vintage recordings, including Regina and Song of Norway, into the digital age.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSarah Amengual will join the Broadway production of West Side Story in the leading role of Maria on Tuesday, September 21 She is replacing original cast member Josefina Scaglione, who will p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBrent Barrett. D.B Bonds, and Brynn O'Malley will headline the North Shore Music Theatre's production of Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek's hit musical, Dirty Rotten …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNicholas Martin's revival of Bus Stop, the return of the Wicked tour, the Sound of Music-inspired Fraulein Maria, and Tectonic's The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later are among this…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMABC has announced the celebrities who will take part in the 11th season of Dancing With the Stars, along with their professional partners. The show, which is hosted by Tom Bergeron and Brook…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSignature Theatre has announced complete casting for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, to run December 7 -February 13.Eric Shaeffer will direct the production, which have musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Wednesday, September 1, the New York Jets team and coaching staff attended a special performance of Layon Gray's historical drama Black Angels Over Tuskegee at the Actors&apo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEric Clem, Daiva Deupree, Patrick Heusinger, Phoebe Strole and Wesley Taylor are set to appear in a free staged reading of Paul Downs Colaizzo's A Dog's Tale (or The Thing …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStudio 42 has announced cast and creative team for its benefit production of The Sporting Life, to run on Friday, September 10 at 8pm and 10:30pm at the Vineyard Theatre. The production will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarnes & Noble has announced the preliminary October line-up of celebrity appearances for its New York City stores. The Lincoln Triangle store (Broadway and 66th Street) will host au…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKaye Ballard, Donna McKechnie, and Liliane Montevecchi will appear in From Broadway with Love, to be offered on December 4 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Richa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe second annual Manhattan Wonderwalk, a fundraiser for arts organization The Secret City, is set to take place at 10am on Saturday, September 11. This 14-hour walk of the island of Manhatt…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for a new London production of the Tony Award-winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone which will run at Highgate's Upstairs at the Gatehouse, September 23-Oc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBritish stage and television star Nigel Planer will headline the cast of Doctor Who LIVE, a new stage show based on the BBC series, according to Whatsonstage.com. In addition to Planer, who …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWe Players will present William Shakespeare's Hamlet, which will play a limited engagement on Alcatraz Island, October 2-November 21. This site-specific and ambulatory production wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Idiot co-writer Billie Joe Armstrong, Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow, and Tony and Oscar winner Denzel Washington have been added to the lineup of participants on next month'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) will reopen its Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres in Stratford-upon-Avon on November 24 with a series of special exhibits and programs. Visitors will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCassie Beck, Cary Donaldson, Amy Irving, Bobby Steggert, Richard Thomas, and Nick Wyman will take part in Project Shaw's presentation of Candida, to be offered on September 27 at 7p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Breaker stars in A Doctor in Spite of Himself, Village Theatre exposes The Full Monty, the In the Heights tour lands at 5th Avenue, Tacoma Musical Playhouse can't stop the beat o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis month's highlights include Dreamgirls, Burn The Floor, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the San Francisco Fringe Festival, Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins, The Hairy Ape…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe showcases works such as Cankerblossom and The New & Improved Stages of Grief, while elsewhere in the city you can catch Curtains, Dr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe starry fall season starts off with Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight in A Life in the Theatre; David Hyde Pierce, Mark Rylance, and Joanna Lumley in La Bete; Cherry Jones and Sally Hawkins…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis month's highlights include Francesca Zambello's world premiere production of Marsha Norman's The Master Butchers Singing Club, The Great Game: Afghanistan, Morris Panych&…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRaul Esparza and Brooke Shields in the Broadway bound Alan Menken tuner Leap of Faith, Judith Ivey in The Glass Menagerie, Jason Alexander and Stephanie J. Block in They're Playing Our …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis imaginative work about Edwin and John Wilkes Booth is undermined by its lackluster leading performances.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMABC has announced the celebrities who will take part in the 11th season of Dancing With the Stars, which will begin on Monday, September 20. The show is hosted by Tom Bergeron and Brooke Bur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLong Wharf Theatre has announced that Tony Award nominees Harry Groener and Anthony Chisholm will star in the U.S. premiere of Athol Fugard's The Train Driver; to run October 27-November 21.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner John Lloyd Young will headline the sixth annual Bucks County Cabaret, to be offered on September 25 in a restored barn in Pipersville, PA, from 5-9pm. The event will raise…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Sondheim will be joined by longtime collaborators Patti LuPone and John Weidman, as well as Tom Tuft, Chairman of Roundabout Theatre Company's Board of Directors, as the lights of t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKate Baldwin, Lydia Diamond, Maurice Hines, Tom Kitt, Kenny Leon, Moisés Kaufman, Lynn Nottage, and Charles Randolph-Wright were among the artists who joined Arena Stage's artistic directo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJason Graae, Damon Kirsche, Lesli Margherita, Pamela Myers, and Alet Taylor are set to perform in Kritzerland at the Gardenia - Lost in Boston, to be offered on September 1 at 9pm at the Gar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMChristine Andreas, currently appearing in Broadway's La Cage Aux Folles, will headline the Fifth Annual Father George Moore Benefit Dinner to be held on Monday, November 8 at 6pm at the Crow…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLauren Pritchard's debut album Wasted in Jackson will be released by Universal Republic on October 26. Eg White has produced the recording. The 11-track disc will feature music that recalls…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheater veterans Ed Asner, Evan Handler, Carol Kane, Mary McCormack, Kelly Osbourne, and Renee Taylor will star alongside Paul Ben-Victor, Natasha Henstridge, Alanna Ubach, Howard Rosenman, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDaniel Beaty, Carmen DeLavallade, Arthur Mitchell, and recording duo Ashford & Simpson will be honored at The Riverside Theatre's From Legacy to Promise gala to be held on September …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRehearsals are now underway for director/adaptor Mary Zimmerman's production of Candide, to be presented by the Goodman Theatre, September 17 - October 24. The musical will feature Geoff P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Guthrie Theater and The Acting Company's touring season will begin and end with engagements at Pace University's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. Penny Metroulos will direct Romeo …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWinners of the 2010 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards were announced at a closing night party, held on Sunday, August 29. Bunked! A New Musical and Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical won…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBarnes & Noble will close its Lincoln Triangle store, on Broadway and 66th Street, at the end of January when its lease expires, according to The New York Times. According to a state…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe original cast recording of Marshall Chapman and Matraca Berg's Good Ol' Girls will be released for purchase and digital download by Ghostlight Records on August 31. Keith Levenson has p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) has announced creative team information for its previously reported 2010-2011 season, under the artistic direction of Diane Paulus. Steven Bogart directs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Met: Live in HD will begin its fifth season with a live transmission of Robert Lepage's new production of Das Rheingold on October 9. The HD broadcasts will now be available in 46 partic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNatalie Venetia Belcon, Katy Blake, John Bolton, and Teddy Toye will star in Bill Russell and Peter Melnick's new musical, The Last Smoker in America, to be presented by the Columbus, Ohio-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner and stage veteran Paul Giamatti will guest star on the upcoming season of NBC's hit comedy 30 Rock, according to EW.com. Giamatti has appeared on Broadway in The Iceman Com…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMVanessa Williams, Cheyenne Jackson, Nathan Lane, Jimmy Smits, Julia Stiles, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Dana Delany, Bobby Cannavale, and a host of stage stars will be part of the new fall televis…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAri Graynor will star opposite Jonah Hill in The Sitter, according to a report on Deadline.com. David Gordon Green will direct the movie. The comedy centers on a college student, who, while…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMagician Steve Cohen will bring his critically acclaimed show, Chamber Magic to Boston's Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel on Friday, September 17 at 7pm and 9:30pm, and Los Angeles' Beverly Wilsh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThree time-Tony Award winner Frank Langella will head the the 2010 international jury at the Zurich Film Festival, while Oscar winner Holly Hunter will serve on the jury of the Stockholm In…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGap in the Wall Productions will present Guy Fredrick Glass' The Last Castrato, Off Broadway at the Connelly Theater, beginning November 12, with an official opening on November 16. John He…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMNeil Armfield will direct Wagner's complete Der Ring des Nibelungen, in a co-production from Houston Grand Opera (HGO) and Opera Australia, which will be presented at HGO over the course of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter looks at some shows that are ending their runs soon.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on Hearts Full of Blood, When Last We Flew, 23 Feet in 12 Minutes, Dream of the Marionettes, and Viva La Evolucion.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWriter/director Layon Gray's formulaic new drama tells the story of an all-female, all-African-American baseball team in 1945.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLots of people can't go more than 48 hours without seeing a Wizard of Oz reference.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCBS president Leslie Moonves discusses his days as an actor, his transition to producing, and his love of theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA high-caliber cast -- including Hunter Foster, John Scherer, and Cady Huffman -- brings to life Cape Playhouse's fast and funny production of Marc Camoletti's 1960 French farce.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReviews of 12 CDs, including new discs from Christine Ebersole, Jeremiah James and Brian Wilson, Sondheim on Sondheim and Enter Laughing cast recordings, and the U.K. Legally Blonde.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFor this year's Broadway University Entrance Exam, we're concentrating on lines and lyrics that mention body parts.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New Jersey resort is putting a new emphasis on providing top-flight entertainment for adults and families.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEdward Albee's enduringly rewarding work is given a thrilling production at the Berkshire Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Tony Award winner returns to the New York stage in Playwrights Horizons' production of Edward Albee's Me, Myself & I.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on Veritas, Dear Harvey, Bunked! A New Musical, and Have a Nice Life.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical, Missionary Position, and Stripes: The Mystery Circus.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Mint Theater serves up an engrossing production of Teresa Deevy's little-known play about a pair of star-crossed lovers.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTell the truth: If you were to glance at the inside of your Snapple bottle cap, wouldn't you be tickled to find any of these real facts?
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on The Secretaries , Together This Time , and South Beach Rapture.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on A Separate Peace, Platinum, Heterosexuals, and Invader? I Hardly Know Her!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis interactive tribute show to the hard-rock music of the 1980s proves to be enjoyable entertainment.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAbbey Lincoln, a noted jazz singer, actress, and activist, has died at age 80 in New York City, according to The New York Times. Lincoln's many albums included Affair ... a Story of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka will become parents of twins later this year, according to published reports. The longtime couple are using a surrogate to carry the ba…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for the new Broadway musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which will be presented by Lincoln Center at the Belasco Theatre. The show will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Public Theater has announced casting for Lisa Kron's In the Wake, to run October 19 - November 21. Leigh Silverman will direct the production, which will open officially on Nove…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and television star Stephen Collins will appear on the upcoming season of ABC's Brothers & Sisters, according to EOnline.com. The actor's character will have …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald will participate in a talkback following the September 29 performance of their musical john and jen at the Act II Playhouse. The production, directed by Megan …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar and Tony Award winners Ellen Burstyn and Marcia Gay Harden, Stephen Lang, Lucy Liu, and True Blood star Deborah Ann Woll will star in the movie Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarc Wolf's acclaimed solo show Another American: Asking and Telling, now playing at the DR2 Theatre, has been extended until October 4 (with no shows on September 5-6). The product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFormer Chicago star Joey Lawrence has joined the cast of the new action film Havana Heat, according to Variety. The film, to be directed by Dean Hamilton, will also star Wesley Snipes, Micha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMusician Oran Etkin will perform selections from his new children's jazz CD Wake Up Clarinet at Borders Columbus Circle at 4pm on Sunday, September 12 and Borders Kips Bay at 2pm on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage star and Emmy Award winner Bobby Cannavale has joined the cast of the new CBS series Blue Bloods, according to TVGuide.com Cannavale will play Charles Rosselini, a popular Manhattan Di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage veterans Christina Applegate, Abigail Breslin, Fran Drescher, Sally Field, Michael C. Hall, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Maura Tierney, Sofia Vergara, and Marissa Jaret Winokur will be am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe National Theatre, the Royal Court, Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), the Young Vic, Theatre Royal Stratford East, the Lyric Hammersmith, Somerset House and Sadler's Wells will join t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winners Jason Robert Brown and Anika Noni Rose will offer two concert performances at the West End's Garrick Theatre, September 24-25 at 8pm. The events will feature new,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPreston Whiteway has signed a new three year agreement to continue as executive director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Whiteway joined the O'Neill in 2004 as Genera…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe popular stage and television star takes on the role of King Arthur in the Ogunquit Playhouse's Spamalot.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Diane J. Findlay and Jeffry Denman will star in the Laguna Playhouse's production of Lee Tannen's I Loved Lucy, an intimate portrait of Lucille Ball, to r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the one-night concert of They're Playing Our Song on Monday, August 30 at 7:30pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College. Proceeds wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLyric Stage in Irving, Texas has announced complete casting for Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, to run September 10-19 in the Irving Arts Center's Carpenter Performance Ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee David Alan Grier will guest star on FOX's hit series Bones, according to TVGuide.com He will play Professor Bunsen Jude the Science Dude, a quirky host of a child…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMABC Daytime will co-produce a benefit engagement of John Kander & Fred Ebb's award-winning musical revue, The World Goes 'Round, starring All My Children's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephanie J. Block, Kerry Butler, Paul Canaan, Sutton Foster, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Matthew Risch, Michael Scherman, Stephen Tewksberry, and Pamela WInsow are set to perform in Broadway…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCanada's Shaw Festival offers the rare opportunity to see a true repertory company in action!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGoodspeed Musicals has announced complete casting for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, to run September 24 - November 28. Greg Ganakas will direct the production, which will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWalking With Dinosaurs-The Arena Spectacular will conclude its three-year national tour with shows at the Honda Center in Anaheim, September 1-5, followed by seven performances at STAPLES Ce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLouis D. Moreno has been appointed artistic director of INTAR. He succeeds Eduardo Machado in the position and will assume his duties immediately. Moreno has participated in over 40 producti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMusician and Fela! producer Jay-Z tops Forbes magazine's list of Hip-Hop's top earners with $63 million. The music mogul, whose real name is Shawn Carter and who is married…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAward-winning musical theater star Elaine Paige will perform duets on her new CD with Paul Anka, John Barrowman, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Barry Manilow, Johnny Mathis, Olivia Newton-John, Bi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSeattle's Intiman Theatre has announced casting for Moliere's A Doctor in Spite of Himself, to run September 3-October 10. Christopher Bayes, who has co-adapted the piece w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Dougal Irvine's musical comedy Departure Lounge, which will begin play the new Waterloo East, September 28-October 31, according to Whatsonstage.com. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival will feature Jodie Markell's staged reading of Suddenly, Last Summer, starring Dana Ivey and Robert Bogue, at 6pm on Sunday, Sep…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the musical Freckleface Strawberry. which will begin performances at New World Stages on September 9, in anticipation of an official opening of October 1. Budd…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBritish stage actress Sally Dexter will succeed Whoopi Goldberg in the role of Mother Superior in the West End production of Sister Act, according to Whatsonstage.com. Goldberg will continue…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSoho Rep has announced the plays that will comprise its 2010-2011 season. The theater will begin the year with Gregory S. Moss' Orange, Hat & Grace, to run September 15-Octo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRalph Lee's Mettawee River Theatre Company will reprise the 1997 play The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, September 10-19 at the Garden of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmily Skinner will join the cast Billy Elliot the Musical as Mrs. Wilkinson on October 2, replacing Kate Hennig, who departs on October 1. Skinner is currently playing the role in the show&a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete cast and creative team have been announced for the Old Globe Theatre's productions of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, to perform in reperto…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSally Kellerman will present two performances of Sally Kellerman - Hot Lips To Cool Blues! at the Metropolitan Room, on Sunday, September 5 at 7pm and Thursday, September 9 at 9:30 pm. She w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Public Theater and Elevator Repair Service have announced casting for GATZ, which will begin performances on September 26. Along with this news, it has been announced that the production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMComplete casting has been announced for Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical, which will play a twelve-week engagement at Toronto's The Princess of Wales Theatre, beginning Oc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) has announced its 2010-2011 season, which will include a revival of Galt MacDermot and William Dumaresq's musical version of William Saroya…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCast members of John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean will appear at Books of Wonder on Saturday, September 4, from 12pm to 2pm. The event, is being held to celebrate the first birthday of t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 92Y Tribeca has announced two theater-related events for September. On Monday, September 13 at 7:30pm, there will be a behind-the-scenes look at Playwrights Horizons' 2010-2011 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSamantha Harris and her husband Michael Hess are expecting their second child, according to a report on People.com. Their daughter, Jocelyn Sydney Hess, was born in September 2007. Harris ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Toronto International Film Festival, which opens on September 9 and runs through September 19, has announced additional programming, according to Variety. New festival selections include…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Edie Falco, Laurence Fishburne, Julianna Margulies, Matthew Morrison, and Sofia Vergara will be among the presenters at the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, to be held at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Lillias White will star as Maybelle Smith in a series of free staged readings of Big Maybelle: Soul of the Blues to be presented September 13-15 at the Pearl Studios as par…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDerrick Sanders will direct Javon Johnson's Sanctified, to run October 21-November 14 at the Lincoln Theatre. Rollo A Dilworth will provide the original music for the piece. Casting…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on AK-47 Sing-Along, As I Am Fully Known, A Raisin in the Salad, and Getting Even with Shakespeare.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Alliance Theatre has announced casting for Twist, to run September 1 - October 3. Debbie Allen will direct and choreograph the production, which have musical direction by James Sampliner…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe League of Professional Theatre Women has announced the public events that it will offer during the fall. Stage and screen star Kathleen Turner will take part in a public conversation abo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLegendary singer Jerry Lee Lewis will join the cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, at the Nederlander Theatre for a special encore performance on Friday, September 10. The production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe themes to be explored in Nightmare: Superstitions, the seventh edition of the theatrical haunted house created and directed by Timothy Haskell, have been announced. The show will play at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony and Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden and actress Gloria Reuben will return to NBC's Law & Order: SVU this season in guest-starring roles, according to TVGuide.com…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award nominee Lainie Kazan will have a recurring role on the ABC series Desperate Housewives this season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Kazan received a Tony nomination for My Fa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHugh Panaro and Sara Jean Ford will return to Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera, playing at the Majestic Theatre, on September 7. The performers succeed John Cudia and Jennifer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Lea Salonga will perform at the August 28 San Diego Padres game against the Philadelphia Phillies. The game will be broadcast live on FOX-TV.Salonga will perform the Nation…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKatrina Rose Dideriksen, MK Lawson, Jeremy Morse, Jared Weiss, and Jason "SweetTooth" Williams will join songwriter Joe Iconis for a concert to be offered, free-of-charge, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEver hear of Platinum? It was a 1978 musical with book by Will Holt and Bruce Vilanch, lyrics by Holt and music by Gary William Friedman. New Yorkers had 45 chances to see it, thanks to 12 p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStage and screen star James Earl Jones, who will be returning to Broadway in October in Driving Miss Daisy, will participate in a conversation about his work in theater and on film and TV to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTimothy Sheader's production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods has officially opened at Regent's Park's Open Air Theatre. The producti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on The Twentieth-Century Way, Amsterdam Abortion Survivor, and Headscarf and the Angry Bitch.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter Mazurowski will join the cast Billy Elliot the Musical playing the title role and Neil McCaffrey and Gabriel Rush will join the company, alternating in the role of Michael in the comin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCelebration Theatre has announced complete casting for its production of Richard Greenberg's award-winning drama Take Me Out, to run September 22 - October 31. Michael Matthews will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway veterans Julianna Margulies, Matthew Morrison, and Sofia Vergara, along with January Jones, Ricky Gervais, and John Krasinski, will be among the presenters at the 62nd Annual Primet…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe 5th Avenue Theatre has announced that Broadway veteran John Bolton and Anne Allgood will star in their production of A Christmas Story - The Musical! (November 30-December 19). Eric Rose…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players (NYGASP) have announced their upcoming season, which will begin with a production of Utopia, Limited, or The Flowers of Progress.at Symphony S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPeter's been busy seeing Fringe Festival shows. What has he seen? What has he liked?
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmanda Peet will join the previously announced David Duchovny in MCC Theater's production of Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon, to run October 28- December 12 at the Lucille …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMisty Cotton, Karole Foreman, Stacy Francis, Tricia Kelly, Kamilah Marshall, and Kelli Provart will star in the CLOSBC's production of the musical Beehive, to run September 15-Octob…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Baryshnikov Arts Center will present the American premiere of Moscow's Theater Art Studio's The Boys, to run October 6-10 in the Jerome Robbins Theater. Sergey Zhenovac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWalnut Street Theatre has announced casting for Curtains, to run September 7-October 24. Richard Stafford will direct and choreograph the production, which will musical direction by Douglass…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for the Lincoln Center Theatre production of John Guare's new play, A Free Man of Color, according to The New York Times. The show, to be directed by Geor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKate Baldwin and Lewis Cleale shine in the Westport Country Playhouse's revival of the Tom Jones-Harvey Schmidt tuner about a long-married couple.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe three-time Tony Award winner discusses his new FringeNYC show Terms of Dismemberment, the new film Bolden, and reuniting on stage with former co-star Stephanie Mills.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Fountain Theatre's production of Michael Hollinger's Opus will now run until September 26. Simon Levy directs the production.. The play takes a behind-the-scenes look …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Perfect Harmony, to run at the Stoneham Theatre, September 9-October 3, before transferring to the Bleecker Theatre in New York City on October 9. Andrew Gross…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced for the national tour of Rock of Ages, which as previously announced, will launch a 60-city tour at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago on September 21. Kr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has announced complete casting. As previously announced, the show will begin previews at the newly renamed Foxwoods Theatre on Novembe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will now continue in the role of Fran Kubelik in the Broadway revival of Promises, Promises, playing at the Broadway Theatre, through December 26, the sam…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Perfect Harmony, to run at the Stoneham Theatre, September 9-October 3, before transferring to the Bleecker Theatre in New York City on October 9. Andrew Gros…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Eddie Redmayne is featured in a special fashion spread in the September issue of Vogue, alongside actress Naomi Watts, model Jourdan Dunn, and chef David Chang, among other…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBroadway marquees will dim at 8pm on Tuesday, August 17 in honor of Tony Award winner Patricia Neal, who died on August 8 at age 84. Neal won the first-ever Tony Award for her performance a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. has extended its production of Stew and Heidi Rodewald's Passing Strange, by two weeks, with a closing date now set for August 29. Keith Alan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe former Saturday Night Live star offers a clever, informative, and sometimes hilarious history lesson in his new solo show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Plunkett and Maureen Sebastian will appear in Carly Mensch's Now Circa Then, to run September 14-October 9 at Ars Nova. Jason Eagan will direct the production. The two perf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe original cast recording of the 1962 revue Billy Barnes L.A. will be reissued on a limited edition CD by Kritzerland. The album will ship the third week of September The show skewers all…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull casting has been announced he national tour of Rock of Ages, which as previously announced, will launch a 60-city tour at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago on September 21. Krist…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has announced complete casting. As previously announced, the show will begin previews at the newly renamed Foxwoods Theatre on Novembe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMStephen Fry is set to star in a solo show about his experiences using Twitter on September 20 at the Royal Albert Hall, according to Whatsonstage.com. The show will have its content dictated…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPalm Beach Dramaworks has announced casting for its 2010-2011 season, which will begin, as previously announced with George Bernard Shaw's Candida, to run October 8-November 21. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMProspect Theater Company's production of John Gregor's new musical, With Glee, will now run through August 29 at The Kirk Theatre at Theatre Row. Igor Goldin has directed …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBravo Theatre Productions has announced casting for Gary Morgenstein's A Tomato Can't Grow in the Bronx, to run September 22-26 at The Producers Club. Carlo Fiorletta will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSelections have been announced for the 21010 New York Film Festival, which runs September 24-October 10 at Lincoln Center. Julie Taymor's new movie treatment of Shakespeare&apo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Keen Company has announced its 10th anniversary season, which will celebrate the work of Michael Frayn. Performances will take place at the Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row The season will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWhen director Sarah Crawford approached George Harter and said that she wanted to do 1776 with an all-female cast in a concert staging, Harter was inclined to say yes.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAward-winning actor Christopher Plummer will give The Malloy Lecture in the Arts: Remembering Archie (Archibald MacLeish--The Poet and the Man) on Thursday, September 16 at 7pm at Westport C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMEmmy Award winner Dorothy Lyman will direct InProximity Theatre Company's production of Donald Margulies' drama Sight Unseen, to run September 23 - October 10 at Theatre 54…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on Just In Time: The Judy Holliday Story, Picking Palin, and A Matter of Choice.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSeeing Place Theater Group has announced casting for its production of John Osborne's Look Back In Anger, to run October 13-30 at ATA's Sargent Theater. Reesa Graham will d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Zak will direct Martin Casella's The Irish Curse, to run October 4-30 at London's Above the Stag Theatre. The play centers on a group of Irish-American men who meet…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTelly Leung, who recently appeared in the Hollywood Bowl's concert staging of Rent offered a performance of his show Who Loves Ya Baby at The Inner Circle at the Magic Castle on Aug…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMPlay Dead, a new play by Teller and Todd Robbins, will begin previews at Players Theatre on October 21 in anticipation of an official opening on November 10. Teller will direct and Robbins…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCourt Theatre has announced casting for The Comedy of Errors, to run September 16 - October 17. Sean Graney will direct the production. The production will re-imagine the classic comedy abou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMonica Hunken will perform her new solo show Blondie of Arabia at The Living Theatre, September 22-October 9. Laura Newman will direct the production. The show is based on Hunken's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFour-time Daytime Emmy Award winner Kim Zimmer will return to the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live in October as Echo di Savoy, a character she played in the 1980s, according to Soap Oper…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTony Award winner Kevin Spacey is developing a new HBO series, The Crux, in which he will play a religious leader, according to published reports. Spacey won the Tony Award as Best Featured …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMCasting has been announced for Dougal Irvine's musical comedy Departure Lounge, which will begin play the new Waterloo East, September 28-October 31, according to Whatsonstage.com. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Bay Street Theatre offers a polished production of David Mamet's funny if somewhat over-the-top courtroom farce.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe multi-talented star talks about starring in the Signature Theatre's new production of Chess and the Roundabout's Sondheim on Sondheim.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOscar winner and Broadway veteran Julia Roberts will be honored at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain on September 20 with the Donostia Award, according to Variety. Roberts made her Br…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFull cast and creative team have been announced for MetroStage's production of the musical Glimpses of the Moon, written by Tajlei Levis and John Mercurio, based on the novel by Edi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis rabblerousing ode to black musical history is sure to delight audiences, but the production needs a little more honing to highlight the show's important historical elements.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:38AMCan a gay valet find continued bliss with his employer after being stranded with him on a deserted island for five years (cavorting around like naked savages) and then returning, unexplained…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:35AMThe stage version of Backbeat, the award-winning 1994 British film about the early years of the Beatles, will receive its West End premiere this autumn. The play, written and co-directed by …
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