Wednesday, May 1, 2013
UPDATED: 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 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMMonday, April 29, 2013
Britain's Olivier Awards were presented yesterday, April 28, and several of the top honors went to National Theatre Live titles and their performers. The Audience, for which Dame Helen Mirre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMAtlantic Theater Company has announced that Talia Balsam (Mad Men), Jessica Cummings (The Seagull), John Magaro (Tigers Be Still), Kelly McAndrew (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Zoe Perry (The Othe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:44PMThe Stella Adler Studio of Acting has announced that its eighth annual Stella by Starlight Benefit Gala will honor beloved actors Elaine Stritch (30 Rock) and George Takei (Star Trek) as wel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PMUPDATED: The list of contestants for the seventh annual Broadway Beauty Pageant has been released. The participants will be cast members from some of the hottest shows on and off-Broadway, i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:54PMSaturday, April 27, 2013
It's springtime in New York City; the sun is shining and theater awards are popping up all over. But if you're feeling a little befuddled due to your seasonal allergies and the sheer number …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMFriday, April 26, 2013
Primary Stages has announced that a new production of Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies' The Model Apartment will complete their previously announced 2013-2014 season. Evan Cabnet will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:07PMLouis Ozawa Changchien (Second Stage's Warrior Class), Matt Dellapina (The Dream of the Burning Boy), Aubrey Dollar (Guiding Light), Keith Nobbs (Lombardi), and Chris Perfetti (Picnic) are s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AMThe Drama Desk Awards will announce the nominees for the 2012-2013 season at an 11am event this coming Monday, April 29 at 54 Below. As previously announced, Drama Desk Award winners Linda L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThursday, April 25, 2013
Downtown theater company Naked Angels has announced that current artistic director Andy Donald will be succeeded by Liz Carlson beginning May 1. Carlson is a graduate of the New School who h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:46PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
Lindsay Mendez is set to join the cast of Broadway's Wicked in the role of Elphaba beginning May 28. Wicked plays the Gershwin Theatre. Based on the eponymous novel by Gregory Maguire and s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:13PMPortland Center Stage has announced that Broadway veteran Andrew Samonsky (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) will star in a new musical adaptation of the novel and film Somewhere in Time, which wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:46PMThe Public Theater has announced casting for its upcoming Shakespeare in the Park productions of The Comedy of Errors and Love's Labour's Lost, A New Musical. As previously announced, Jesse…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:57PMA second, longer trailer for cult-favorite filmmaker Joss Whedon's upcoming Much Ado About Nothing has been released. This U.K. trailer for the film is a little less flashy than the U.S. ver…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:35PMTuesday, April 23, 2013
The Drama League announced the nominations for the 2013 season at an event hosted this morning by Patina Miller and Michael Urie at Sardi's. The nominees are as follows: Outstanding Produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:16PMThe Broadway musical Annie has announced plans to participate in today's "World Book Night" by handing out a free paperback book, courtesy of World Book Night, to each audience member. The b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:35AMMonday, April 22, 2013
L.A. Theatre Works has announced that Joe Mantegna (the 1984 Broadway production of Glengarry Glen Ross), Richard Dreyfuss (Sly Fox), Bruce Davison (The Glass Menagerie), Gordon Clapp (the 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:24PMFriday, April 19, 2013
Orin Wolf (Once) and Maxwell Williams are developing a new musical based on Eran Kolirin's film The Band's Visit, which won the Jury Coup de Couer prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Broadway…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:05PMProducers Orin Wolf (Once) and Maxwell Williams are developing a new musical based on Eran Kolirin's film The Band's Visit, which won the Jury Coup de Couer prize at the Cannes Film Festival…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:05PMYesterday, Broadway institution Mamma Mia! announced that it will be vacating its 12-year home at Broadway's Winter Garden Theater and moving south to another Broadway venue, the Broadhurst.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34AMLondon's Almeida Theatre has announced confirmed dates for the upcoming Headlong coproduction of the world premiere of American Pyscho. The show is based on Brett Easton Ellis' novel of the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:27AMThe Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans opened last night, April 18, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, with many celebrities on hand to support
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:26AMThursday, April 18, 2013
Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812, which received its world premiere at Ars Nova last summer, is heading back to New York City and into its own all-new venue. On May …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PMThe Call, Playwrights Horizons' coproduction with Primary Stages starring Kerry Butler has extended its run through May 26. Tanya Barfield's The Call features direction by two-time Obie Awar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMThe Actors Fund has announced that their 2013 annual gala will honor Oscar winner and Broadway veteran Robert De Niro, entrepreneur/film producer and Actors Fund trustee Steve Kalafer, and t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMPatti LuPone (Gypsy), Audra McDonald (The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess), Sutton Foster (Anything Goes), Christine Ebersole (Grey Gardens), Megan Hilty (Smash), Chita Rivera (The Mystery of Edwi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:51PM10,648 performances later, Perfect Crime, a tense murder mystery and NYC's longest-running show, is celebrating its 27th anniversary today, April 18. Perfect Crime plays at the Anne L. Berns…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:46AMThe Celebrity Series of Boston, a program that brings world class performers to Boston, has announced its 2013-2014 75th anniversary season. Set to begin on September 28 with jazz tenor saxo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:59AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
The Spectacular Now and Smashed writer-director James Ponsoldt has reportedly signed on with The Weinstein Company to script a movie adaptation of Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson's Tony…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:55PMTony Award winner Len Cariou (Sweeney Todd), Christopher Jackson (In The Heights), Kyle Dean Massey (Next to Normal), Van Hughes (American Idiot), Jarrod Spector (Jersey Boys), and more are …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PMClifford Odets' The Big Knife celebrated its Broadway opening night at the American Airlines Theatre on Tuesday, April 16. Doug Hughes is directin
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