Thursday, March 28, 2013
Aurora Theatre Company has announced a 2013-2014 season of Bay Area premieres, kicking off with Obie Award-winning playwright Amy Herzog's After the Revolution. Playing August 30-September 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Larry Pine (The Royal Family), Frank Wood (Clybourne Park), Amanda Quaid (Cock), and Brian Sgambati (Merchant of Venice) have been cast in Soho Rep's upcoming world premiere production of Lu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMMythical though it may sound, the musical The Last Ship, which features a score by the epitome of rocker-cool, Sting, and a book by Tony Award winner Brian Yorkey, is a real thing. It's so r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:55PM"Andrew Lloyd Webber: 40 Musical Years," a television special that will celebrate the works of the multi-Tony Award winner, will be broadcast on the UK's ITV1 on March 31. The show's lineup …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMCasting has been announced for the upcoming Arena Stage production of Jon Robin Baitz's family drama Other Desert Cities. The play will run April 26-May 26, with direction by Helen Hayes Awa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMReed Birney (Picnic), Paul Thureen (The Debate Society's Blood Play), Susan Kelechi Watson (A Naked Girl on the Appian Way), and Erin Wilhelmi (The Great God Pan) will star in the upcoming w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMA Time to Kill, a new play by Tony Award winner Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), is set to come to Broadway this October, an equity casting notice would suggest. The work, which h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:22AMWhether you're craving the glam of the '80s, the sophistication of the '20s, or just wish you lived inside a Hitchcock film (weird, but sure), New York City's interactive theater scene can m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMTuesday, March 26, 2013
UPDATED: Obie Award winner Young Jean Lee will present encore performances of her song cycle We're Gonna Die at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater from August 5-17. These performances follo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMAnsa Akyea, Shá Cage, Emily Gunyou Halaas, Peter Christian Hansen, Steven Lee Johnson, Jim Lichtscheidl, Bill McCallum, and Tony Award nominee Kathryn Meisle (A Touch of the Poet) have been…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:04AMMonday, March 25, 2013
Broadway actor Steve Kazee, who has been missing from his role in Broadway's Once for more than a month, has finally broken his silence on the matter in a message to his fans posted on his w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:35PMCasting has been announced for LAByrinth Theater Company's upcoming production of Bob Glaudini's A Family for All Occasions, directed by stage and screen star Philip Seymour Hoffman (Broadwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:56PMPeter and Alice, the new play by John Logan (Red), is based on the real-life meeting of two of literature's favorite fictional characters. It's 1932 and an 80-year-old Alice Liddell (the gir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMDrama Desk Award winner Austin Pendleton (Ivanov), Nicholas L. Ashe (The Lion King), Kyle Beltran (In the Heights), Grantham Coleman (As You Like It), Tony Award winner Chuck Cooper (The Pia…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:53AMNow we don't want to be "that guy" who thinks every tale of oppression and redemption is actually the story of Passover, but c'mon, how have we never noticed that basically every song in Les…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMFriday, March 22, 2013
Armando Riesco has been selected to reprise the role of Elliot, which he originated in two plays on the East Coast, in the Goodman Theatre production of Quiara Alegría Hudes' The Happiest S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:25PMUPDATED: George Street Playhouse has announced that its upcoming production of David Ives' 2012 Tony Award-nominated dark comedy Venus in Fur will star Mark Alhadeff, who served as an unders…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:39PMBroadway vet Elaine Paige (Follies) and Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson (Anna Christie) have been tapped to announce this year's Olivier Award nominees on BBC Radio 2. The announcements wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:45PMHartford Stage has announced a 50th Anniversary season that will feature a world premiere musical comedy and plays by Shakespeare, Steve Martin, and Noël Coward, as well as a new play by Ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:32PMThe Vandal, the successful new play by actor-turned-playwright Hamish Linklater (Seminar), will return to off-Broadway for a one-week engagement running March 22-31 at the Flea Theater. The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:07AMIn honor of Wednesday's Breakfast at Tiffany's opening, we decided to look back on the film's iconic screen heroine, Audrey Hepburn. A Broadway veteran herself, Hepburn made her Rialto debut…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMThursday, March 21, 2013
Sierra Boggess, star of Broadway's The Little Mermaid and Phantom of the Opera, will present Lessons in Love on Sunday, April 21 at The Riverside Church. The evening will also include a sile…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:32PMFull casting has been announced for Playwrights Horizons' Far From Heaven, a new musical with a book by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg (Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Assembled Parties)…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:55PMHouse's David Morse, Christopher Denham (The Lieutenant of Inishmore), and Sarah Goldberg (Clybourne Park) will star in Roundabout Theatre Company's production of the new Steven Levenson pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMAlice Ripley, a 2009 Tony Award winner for her performance as Diana in the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, will join the cast of Long Wharf Theatre's upcoming …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Beverly Hills it is not. Jason Priestley, best known for his role as Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, is heading to the Great White North to star in Canadian Stag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:10PMNew York theater's favorite fiery 88 year old, Elaine Stritch, has decided that it's time to call it quits in New York City - after 71 years. The Broadway veteran, Tony nominee and Emmy Awar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMRecordings of two songs from the upcoming Chicago and Broadway musical Big Fish have been released just in time to get you through your midweek, magical-realism-free slump. The tunes, entitl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:12PMIf you noticed a slight lag in TheaterMania's news between 9 and 9:15 this morning, it's because we were all busy e-mailing our moms. The e-mails went something like this: "Hey Mom, Big ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
New York City Opera and the Brooklyn Academy of Music are teaming up to present the U.S. premiere of the opera Anna Nicole, playing September 17-28 at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House. Anna N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:42PMJeffry Denman (White Christmas), Tony Award Nominee Marc Kudisch (9 to 5), Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris (Evita), Tony Award Nominee Howard McGillin (Phantom of the Opera), Clarke Thor…
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