Monday, May 20, 2013
Britain'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 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:14PMZachary Levi, best known for playing the title role in TV's Chuck, is set to make his Broadway debut in the new romantic musical comedy First Date, which will begin performances July 9 and o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:49PMThe Piccolo Spoleto Festival and Banner New York are to present the premiere of the new musical Derma at the Woolfe Street Playhouse in Charleston, SC from June 3-8, during the Piccolo Spole…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:41PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
The Lincoln Center Board of Directors have announced that award-winning theater producer and educator Jed Bernstein will be Lincoln Center's next president. Bernstein will succeed Reynold Le…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PMThe 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards have announced the presenters and performances set for the May 19 awards ceremony at The Town Hall. The Drama Desk Awards are presented by TheaterMania and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:29PMThe annual Broadway League Awards, which honor excellence and achievement for touring Broadway, were announced today, May 15, during the Broadway League's 2013 Spring Road Conference. First …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMThe critically acclaimed revival of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's Pippin has announced plans for a national tour that will kick off at the Buell Theatre in Denver in September 2014.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:47AMPlaywright Eduardo Machado is a Cuban native who moved to the United States at nine years old, but as the saying goes, even though they took the boy out of Cuba, no one could take Cuba out o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Unique Theatrical Experience. It's a category that doesn't exist in any awards show except the Drama Desks. But just what makes a theatrical experience unique? We turned to this year's nomin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:03PMDerek Klena is set to join former Dogfight castmates Lindsay Mendez and F. Michael Haynie as well as the rest of the cast of Broadway's Wicked in the role of Fiyero beginning May 28. Wicked …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:42AMBroadway and film actress Jacqueline Brookes has died of lymphoma at the age of 82. A New Jersey native, Brookes was born in 1930 to Maria Zur Haar and Frederick Jack Brooks. She grew up in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:09AMMonday, May 13, 2013
Broadway Bares has announced that it will return to Fire Island with Broadway Bares Fire Island: Calendar Girl on June 1. The evening will feature two intimate performances at Whyte Hall's B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PMSunday, May 12, 2013
Seth Green (Family Guy), Melanie Griffith (Chicago), Gillian Jacobs (Community), Jordana Brewster (The Fast and the Furious), Brooklyn Decker (Battleship), and Jason Ritter (Third) will part…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMFriday, May 10, 2013
Urgent Reminder: Mother's Day is this Sunday. To get you in the spirit (or possibly to give you a last-minute gift idea), here's a double helping of some heartwarming mom love. Not only ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMWednesday, May 8, 2013
The 58th Annual Drama Desk Award nominees came out i
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:14PMOscar and Tony Award winner Kevin Kline (Cyrano De Bergerac), Tony Award winner Glenn Close (Sunset Boulevard), Eric Idle (Monty Python's Spamalot), and Tony Award winner Martin Short (Fame …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:37PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Jenna Fischer (The Office), Leslie Bibb (GCB), Josh Hamilton (Dead Accounts), Frederick Weller (Still Life), the full cast of Neil LaBute's new play, Reasons to Be Happy, gathered to m
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:58PMThe 2013 Theatre World Awards, which recognize outstanding Broadway and off-Broadway debut performances, have announced their recipients. The awards will be presented by Peter Filichia at a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:46PMMonday, May 6, 2013
The Vineyard Theatre will present one-night-only reunion readings of its acclaimed productions of Craig Lucas' The Dying Gaul (June 24) and Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive (July 1). The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:33PMEugene V. Wolsk, a longtime Broadway and off-Broadway producer and manager, died Thursday, May 2 at the age of 84. Wolsk, whose career in the theater began as a company manager, first worke…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PMFriday, May 3, 2013
Tony-nominated composer and lyricist team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (A Christmas Story) will celebrate the release of a cast album of their off-Broadway musical Dogfight with a special conc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:59PMBroadway and Grey's Anatomy veteran T.R. Knight, who first appeared on the stage of the Guthrie Theater at the age of five, will return to the company to celebrate its 50th anniversary on Ju…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:12AMSo many kids on Broadway, but not a Tony nom in sight. We thought for sure this was the year we'd see one of our pint-sized prodigies asking Neil Patrick Harris to lower the mic stand for a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThursday, May 2, 2013
UPDATED: Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Bobby Cannavale (The Big Knife), and Stephen Adly Guirgis (The Motherf—ker With the Hat) will join the roster of Master Class Artists at Waterwell Summ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:35PMProject: Theater has announced that it will present the world premiere Joe Jung-directed production of Ken Ferrigni's Occupation, June 6-23 with an opening on June 12. Performances will take…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:16PMJames Lee Taylor, Jack Dimich, Tom Cappadona, Adam Pagdon, Samantha Slater, Luka Mijatovic, Anthony Guerino, Alessandro Colla, and Maria Riboli have been selected to star in Sheri Graubert's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:04AMThe effervescent Jenni Barber made her Broadway debut as the sweet and lonely Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in 2007. Recently, she did a 180 to star in the sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Harriet Harris (Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella), Richard Easton (The Coast of Utopia), Matt Doyle (The Book of Mormon), Tony Sheldon (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), and Lenny Wolpe (Ol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:20PMUPDATED: Before it hits Broadway next spring, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical will have its world premiere at San Francisco's SHN Curran Theatre, from September 24-October 20. Marc Bruni …
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