Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The top-ten highest-grossing Broadway plays held their stance last week. As was true in the week prior, Wicked, The Lion King, and The Book of Mormon were the biggest winners. (For the full …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
In Mark Rigney's BEARS, a world premiere production running through March 31 at 59E59 Theaters, two grizzly bears who live in a zoo survive the apocalypse. It is awesome. So awesome, in fac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:36PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Imma let you finish, Frankie Valli, but Motown is having one of the best weeks of all time! After only seven sold-out performances at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Motown: The Musical…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMThursday, March 14, 2013
Did you spend the day eating boring foods that do not have delectable names like "key lime" and "coconut cream" and, um, "chicken pot"? If you did, don't worry. You did not miss the entiret…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:56PMFriday, March 8, 2013
An opera-trained pop singer whose musical repertoire covers 11 languages, Bronx-native N'Kenge is a force to be reckoned with. She performed, solo, at the Commander-in-Chief's Inaugural Ball…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
People have a lot to say about 27-year-old playwright Paul Down's Colaizzo's New York debut, Really Really, which has extended its run at MCC Theater through March 30. And when they're talki…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:49PMMonday, March 4, 2013
Broadway producers, writers, actors, and regional theater directors mingled with members of the corporate world inside the massive Midtown headquarters of UBS on Friday. At the National Corp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Lori McGill wants me to know she isn't crazy. Even though she has seen Barry Manilow in concert more than 300 times -- every New York run since 1976, 48 times in Vegas, and every performance…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:36PMMonday, February 25, 2013
While women were featured prominently on the stage at last night's 85th Annual Academy Awards (Adele, grrrl, you killed it), it might be -- as host Seth McFarlane duly noted -- because the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:08PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Remember the Broadway landmark that, much to our stated dismay, will soon sell multi-colored jeggings? Well, apparently, Actors' Equity Association, the labor union that represents more than…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:38PMThursday, February 14, 2013
The percentage of minority actors working on Broadway -- and at the top 16 not-for-profit theater companies in New York City -- rose two percent during the 2011-2012 season, as compared to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMMonday, February 4, 2013
The staff of Performance Space 122 have taken to calling their home, at 150 First Avenue, "P.S. 122: East Village." In part, the nickname is practical: It differentiates the not-for-profit …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:07PMThursday, January 31, 2013
In honor of comedy legend Carl Reiner's 75 years in the business, Center Theatre Group presented a staged reading of Enter Laughing, The Musical, which is inspired by Reiner's experiences as…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:45AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
"What is the best that Broadway can be?" was the question of the day at New World Stages on January 28, where an audience of 450 listened to 17 speakers attempt to present an answer. The si…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:56PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
"I have a sense that Broadway hasn't entered into the 21st century," Star Trek legend George Takei, whose musical Allegiance is now Broadway-bound, said on stage at TEDxBroadway. "Broadway …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:53PMMonday, January 28, 2013
When Theater for the New City (TNC) moved to 155 First Avenue in the East Village, there were no luxury condominiums, like the 12-story tower that now stands behind it, in walking di
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:23AMFriday, January 25, 2013
Obie Award-winning playwright Corinne Jacker, best known off-Broadway for her ‘70s-era plays Bits and Pieces and Harry Outside, has died of a stroke at age 79. The playwright and tel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:43AMThursday, January 24, 2013
Fanilows will mourn the latest Barry-Manilow-Has-Bronchitus news: Following his doctor's' orders, Manilow on Broadway has been forced to reschedule its opening tonight, along with the remain…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMWednesday, January 23, 2013
The Poetic License 2013 festival promises "new poetic theater" that features 75 artists in 15 different shows. Produced by Poetic Theater Productions, it is now running at The Wild Project u…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:17PMNot even icon Barry Manilow is safe from the plague of wintertime illness sweeping through New York. Following doctors' orders, the crooner rescheduled his January 23 performance of Manilow…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:44PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
It's been a big month for backstage news on Broadway. Jordan Roth, the 37-year-old president of Jujamcyn Theaters, one of the three primary owner-operators of Broadway theaters, became the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:15PMThursday, January 17, 2013
On Monday, cast members from the original Broadway productions of Grease, Nine, and Grand Hotel flew in from across the country, and gathered from across the city, to honor Kath
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:55PMWednesday, January 9, 2013
Fashion icon Isaac Mizrahi is no stranger to theater. He spilled his guts off-Broadway in his one-man-confessional, Les MiZrahi, two years after his big 1998 breakup with Chanel. Ben Waltze…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:08PMTuesday, January 8, 2013
Rapper, beatboxer, and DJ Biz Markie, the "clown prince of Hip Hop," is back on tour. This time, however, the man known for the song "Just a Friend," which made VH1's list of "Top #100 Hip H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:26PMFriday, December 28, 2012
The media has gone mad with the sound of music. Live music. Live singing, to be specific. Director Tom Hooper used this groundbreaking method in his musical film adaptation of Broadway and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:36PMThursday, December 27, 2012
Dead Accounts is joining the list of January showbituaries. Pulitzer Prize finalist Theresa Rebeck's play, starring two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:27PMMonday, December 24, 2012
The Broadway Channel will expand the reach of its programming in Manhattan, through an agreement with RCN Cable New York to launch a channel this month. Original segments like "What's Hot on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:58PMMonday, December 17, 2012
It seems like a dream scenario for any undiscovered choreographer: Sarah Jessica Parker, in all her sinewy glory, performing their steps next to Lea Michele for a TV audience of millions. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:24AMThursday, December 13, 2012
Have you recently experienced an existential meltdown in an elevator to the tune of Wham's "Last Christmas?" Does the mere concept of passing another improperly-lit plastic menorah in a lon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:29AMTuesday, December 4, 2012
"Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion," Truvy, a homegrown-beauty-salon owner in the (fictitious) parish of Chinquapin, Louisiana, says in Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias, which or…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00PMMonday, December 3, 2012
Your average Broadway theatergoer is a well-educated, wealthy, middle-aged white woman, visiting the city from Not-New-York-City, according to a demographics report released today by The Br…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:11PM 
