Thursday, May 23, 2013
Getting your Actors' Equity Card is one of the most important pieces of the mythos of becoming a professional actor. But sometimes gaining that precious piece of paper can lead to disenchant…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:27AMJessica Hecht and Judith Light descend the staircase to the lower lobby of the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in a fit of laughter. Looking as luminous in person as they do in Richard Greenberg'…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:27AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
Violence has never seemed as sexy as it does in Murder Ballad, Juliana Nash and Julia Jordan's pulpy and exceedingly well-done rock opera, which has transferred to the specially reconfigured…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:25PMBroadway veterans Morgan James (Motown the Musical), Tony Award winner Nikki M. James (The Book of Mormon), three-time Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn (Passion), and six-time Emmy Award winner …
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:20PMSchuyler Iona Press is to star in What I'm Failing To Learn, billed as "a mashup of theatrical drama/live concert/multimedia video," from May 15-June 15 at 13th Street Rep. The show is writ…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:20PMWilliam Finn and James Lapine's musical adaptation of the Academy Award-nominated film Little Miss Sunshine will open Second Stage Theater's upcoming off-Broadway season, The New York Times …
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:19PMTony Award winners Randy Graff (City of Angels), Tonya Pinkins (Caroline or Change), Nellie McKay (Old Hats), Julie Halston (Anything Goes), Celia Keenan-Bolger (Peter and the Starcatcher), …
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:17PMTony Award nominees Montego Glover (Memphis), Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening), and Norm Lewis (The Gershwins' Porgy
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:17PMCBS announced today that it has made an agreement with The Broadway League and the American Theater Wing (producers of the Tony Awards) to continue its decades-long tradition of airing the a…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:17PMApplications are being accepted now through August 1 for the second annual T. Fellowship, established in honor of late Broadway producer T. Edward Hambleton, who passed away in 2005. The Fe…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:17PMThis fish will soon be jumping into a pond that fits its size. Big Fish, a new musical based on the 1998 Daniel Wallace novel and the 2003 John August film, recently completed an acclaimed p…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:17PM"Why did the circus have to come to town?" That thought must have crossed the mind of at least one of the runners-up of the Broadway Beauty Pageant, which took place Monday, May 20 at the NY…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:16PMGeorge Bluth Sr. – Richard Kind
Richard Kind can be really scary, as when he's bellowing at Bobby Cannavale in The Big Knife. Simultaneously, however, he always comes off as a bit of a lov…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:16PMThe 2013 58th annual Drama Desk Awards took place this past Sunday, May 19 at The Town Hall. The star-studded affair, with guests including Tom Hanks and Steve Martin, celebrated the best Br…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:15AMWeek four has arrived! Here is this week's musical offering from Shakespeare in the Park's upcoming production of Love's Labour's Lost. The song is entitled "Jaquenetta," written by Michael…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:13AMBrandon Victor Dixon may not have a long Broadway résumé, but he certainly has an auspicious one. After his Tony-nominated performance in the Oprah Winfrey-produced musical The Color Purpl…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:04AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Entertainment lawyer and New Dramatists Board Chairman Seth Gelbaum was honored with a 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization's 64th annual spring luncheon, held May 21 at the M…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:57PMTony Award winner Christian Borle (NBC's Smash, Peter and the Starcatcher) will open New York City Center's 2014 Encores! season, starring in Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's Little Me, direct…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:57PMGays love bow ties! That's why Drama Desk Award winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and his partner, Justin Mikita, founded Tie the Knot, a company that …
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:55PMAbby Rosebrock is diving headfirst into the shark tank of New York theater with her new comedy, Different Animals, now playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Rosebrock began her career in comed…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:55PMThe 58th Annual Obie Awards ceremony, presented by the Village Voice, was held last evening at Webster Hall. Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos, current costars in Broadway's The Assembled Part…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:54AMThe Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced the programming planned for the 2013 Next Wave Festival, which will run September 17-December 22. The festivities will include opera, theater, mus…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:54AMThe Amoralists, a seven-year-old downtown off-Broadway theater company, has set the dates for its New York premiere of Rantoul and Die, the opening production of its summer season called "Th…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:54AMPlaywright/screenwriter Paul Weitz (American Pie, Trust), the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, and the 10th anniversary of Second Stage Uptown (curated by Chris Burney) were honored at Second Sta…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:52AMUnhappy middle-aged men often make bad life choices, from leaving their devoted wives for a 20-something gold-digging bimbo to going into debt to buy a Ferrari. But Halvard Solness, the titl…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:52AMManhattan Theatre Club held its 2013 spring gala on Monday, May 20 at Cipriani 42nd Street. The evening celebrated the new musicals of Broadway and off-Broadway, with performances from the c…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:52AMForever Tango, Luis Bravo's music and dance entertainment extravaganza, which originally played on Broadway in the late '90s, is heading back to Broadway this summer. The production will pla…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:52AMDeirdre Kinahan is an internationally produced Irish playwright whose well-known works include Hue and Cry and Bogboy. Her most recent play, These Halcyon Days, is currently playing at the I…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:43AMMonday, May 20, 2013
She may have been snubbed by all of the major theater awards, but Bette Midler is certainly not crying. In fact, she's laughing all the way to the bank judging by the latest figures released…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:34PMDonmar Warehouse Artistic Director Josie Rourke announced the five productions that will make up the company's 2013 autumn season. "This year, the Donmar is a champion of British and Irish …
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:34PMBritain's Ambassador Theater Group, one of the U.K.'s largest theater operating companies, is likely to buy Broadway's Foxwoods Theater, according to multiple reports. Foxwoods is currently …
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