Imagine you are in Paris in 1956. The city is in a state of unrest after World War II; France is at war with Algeria, and the art world is at a crossroads between the old and new. Playwright…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:57AMDrama Desk Award nominee Bryce Ryness (Hair) will portray Phileas Fogg in the new adaptation of the Jules Verne novel Around the World in 80 Days by Mark Brown (The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge…
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:51AMMultiple Emmy and Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth (Chicago) returns to the stage with her cabaret act, Stories with Piano No. 4, currently running at the Broadway nightclub at 54 Below throu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:01PMThe Playwrights Horizons' annual spring gala, this year called Heroines, will celebrate the women writers who have been produced at the theater over the last 42 years. The gala will be held …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:07PMAlan Cumming is bringing his solo Macbeth to Broadway, and tickets are now available. The box office at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is open for sales. Tony and Olivier Award winner and two-t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:59PMThe Public Theater gala will celebrate the acclaimed 1980 production of The Pirates of Penzance, with a concert performance on June 10 at the Delacorte Theater. Sir Howard Stringer, Arielle …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:08PMDuring the recording of a U.K. television special celebrating his 40-year career, Tony Award winner Andrew Lloyd Webber announced that he hopes to bring back Love Never Dies "later this year…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:50AMPigPen Theatre Co. is set to make its Chicago debut with the Midwest premiere of The Old Man and the Old Moon at Writers' Theatre September 3 through November 10, with a press opening Septem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:26PMHarold Pinter's The Hothouse will play Trafalgar Studios beginning in May. The play is the next in a season called Trafalgar Transformed, an initiative between director Jamie Lloyd (Cyrano …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:26AMBillie Joe Armstrong has the theater bug. He is writing songs for a rock-and-roll updating of Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing, called These Paper Bullets, which will premiere at Yale Re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMThe legendary Bette Midler makes her long-awaited return to Broadway, and you can be there. Tickets to the one-woman show, entitled I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, written by Ton…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMWe should all be grateful for Billy Magnussen's adolescent wrestling accident; without it, he may never have become an actor. Billy Magnussen is one of the brightest new stars of the Broadw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:48PMPaper Mill Playhouse will open its 2013-2014 season with the world premiere of the Broadway-bound musical Honeymoon in Vegas, which will run September 26 through October 27. Gary Griffin (T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMBroadway bandleader Charlie Rosen (One Man Two Guvnors) will return to 54 Below for an evening of modern and classic show tunes, sung by the best and brightest Broadway stars and accompanied…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:56PMGet your Brazilian flags out. In the Heights, the 2008 Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist will be translated into Portuguese for its first Brazilian production. The production wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:54PMThe Off-Broadway League announced today that the 28th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, May 5, 2013 at New York University's Skirball Center, at 7 PM. Stage and s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:53PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Christine Andreas (On Your Toes), Tony nominee Emily Skinner (Side Show), Drama Desk nominees Kerry O'Malley (Into the Woods) and Jeffry Denman (Yank!), and Scott…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Christine Andreas (On Your Toes), Tony nominee Emily Skinner (Side Show), Drama Desk nominees Kerry O'Malley (Into the Woods) and Jeffry Denman (Yank!), and Scott…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMCameron Mackintosh and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group have announced that their new production of the smash hit The Phantom of the Opera will hit the road on a North American tour…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMAnne Hathaway's "dream" came true at last night's 85th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Hathaway (Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park) took home the Oscar for her portrayal of the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMThe Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC) announced the nominees for their 27th Annual Awards. The ceremony will take place on March 21 at B.B. Kings' Blues Club and Grill. This …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:11PMWe're willing to bet "Always be closing" is not a new idea to this group of Los Angeles elite. Academy Award nominee Jason Reitman (Up in the Air) has chosen to direct David Mamet's Glengar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:56PMSignature Theatre Company honored Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) at their annual gala on Monday. Hwang is the playwright in residence at Signature's Residency One, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:19PMThe audience was so eager for the return of In the Heights on Monday that the box office line at the United Palace of Cultural Arts was four blocks long. Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PMAs previously announced, Seattle's ACT will be presenting Grey Gardens, Other Desert Cities, Rapture Blister Burn, and Middletown. In addition the season will include the American premiere o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:58PMRenée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, and Queen Latifah, the four stars from the 2003 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, for the adaptation of the musical Chicago, will p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMBroadway's Once took home the golden gramophone last night at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, where it was nominated alongside the cast albums of Follies, Newsies, Nice Work If…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:19AMAs of today, take your deli coffee and Danish and head over to the Cort Theatre box office to get your tickets for the upcoming premiere of Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Game of Thrones' …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMTickets are now available for what is sure to be another tour de force performance by Fiona Shaw. Drama Desk Award winner Fiona Shaw (Medea) will play the Virgin Mary in the Broadway debut o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMNick Adams (Priscilla Queen of the Desert), Drama Desk nominee Ashley Brown (Mary Poppins), Jessica Rush (Jersey Boys) and Michael James Scott (The Book of Mormon) will take the stage in a o…
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