Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Jeffry 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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMFriday, March 15, 2013
Tom Hanks is cool, so cool that when he does something awesome like pose with an apparently drunk idiot in a bar we all enjoy it once right after it happens. And then again, about seven mont…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PMBeautiful: The Carole King Musical, a new tuner about the life and career of singer/songwriter Carole King, has announced that it will begin performances on Broadway in spring 2014. The prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMMovie star and Broadway veteran Val Kilmer (Top Gun) is taking his solo show, in which he plays crotchety writer Mark Twain, on tour. The show, entitled Citizen Twain, will visit venues in C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMThursday, March 14, 2013
The new Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella will have its magic preserved with a cast recording. On March 18, the original Broadway cast will enter the studio to crea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PMRenowned conductor and arranger John Wilson and his The John Wilson Orchestra will release their second album, Rodgers
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMNBC's Smash, an ambitions drama about the making of a Broadway show, has been bumped from its Tuesday slot, creating space for the network's hopeful new dating show Ready for Love. What's le…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:26AMCenter Theatre Group's 2013-2014 Ahmanson Theatre season will feature Broadway hits and theater favorites. Kicking off the season will be (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and Tony Award …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
For the last three years Phoenix Theatre Ensemble has produced an ongoing series featuring productions of ancient Greek tragedies — one each year — featuring largely the same cast and cr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:06PMSybil Christopher, founder of Bay Street Theatre as well as mother of Kate Burton and former wife of Richard Burton, has passed away at the age of 83 in Manhattan. Christopher was born Sybi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:29PMJenna Fischer, best known for playing the role of Pam for nine seasons of NBC's The Office, is set to make her professional stage debut in MCC Theater's production as of Neil LaBute's Reason…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:31AMTuesday, March 12, 2013
Popular entertainer Hedda Lettuce will host New York's Next Top Drag Queen, a six-week competition to run April 1-May 6 at the Metropolitan Room. The event will also feature special guests a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:35PMBroadway director and actor Arthur Storch has died at the age of 87. The youngest of three brothers, Storch was born in Brooklyn on June 29, 1925 to Sam Storch, a baker, and his wife, Bess…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMUPDATED: The final list of panelists for the Drama Desk luncheon and panel discussion has been released. The March 22 discussion will bring together an impressive group of five Broadway vete…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:56AMMonday, March 11, 2013
The four charming girls who have been selected to share the part of Matilda in the new Broadway show Matilda The Musical (Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon, and Milly Shapiro) took …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PMRita Wilson, an actress, singer, and producer, as well as the wife of actor Tom Hanks, has announced that she will be performing seven concerts at 54 Below, April 14-20. The concert appeara…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:38PMBroadway's big names are people too. They do silly things with Photoshop. They Instagram their food. They even take selfies! If you spent your weekend fantasizing about what your life would…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:37PMFriday, March 8, 2013
Robert Sean Leonard (Born Yesterday), Tony Award winner and former House star, is set to star in an upcoming Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's production of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:25PMWhat a Glorious Feeling, an homage to one of the greatest movie musicals of all time, will have its Chicago premiere at Theatre at the Center beginning April 25 and running through June 2. A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:08PMCirque du Soleil's touring production of TOTEM is settling down in New York's Citi Field for a month this spring. Though performances don't begin until March 15, the Cirque du Soleil village…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:57PMThursday, March 7, 2013
First NBC went Broadway with Smash, then the Oscars went Broadway with a Daniel Radcliffe/Joseph Gordon-Levitt soft shoe. Now highbrow, arty films are going Broadway with Alejandro Gonzalez …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
It's an epidemic! Suddenly everyone you've ever heard of seems to be coming down with the Broadway itch. Movie musical veteran Amanda Seyfried (Les Miserables, Mamma Mia!) wants to try her …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:04PMEvery show ends sometime (unless you're Phantom), so before the cast takes their final bow, there are a few things we want to know. Jessie Mueller made her Tony Award-nominated Broadway deb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Broadway darling Kelli O'Hara (Nice Work if You Can Get It) and her husband, musician Greg Naughton, are expecting a baby. The tiny musical genius will be the couple's second. Their first ch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:12PMMonday, March 4, 2013
Britain's Olivier Awards are planning to implement some sizable changes to their voting protocol, according to Variety. Like the Tony Awards in the U.S., the Olivier Awards recognize excelle…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AMSaturday, March 2, 2013
Karen Ardiff's (Ireland) The Goddess Of Liberty, Annie Baker's (U.S.) The Flick, Jean Betts's (New Zealand) Genesis Falls, Deborah Bruce's (U.K.) The Distance, Katherine Chandler's (U.K.) Be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:53PMThursday, February 28, 2013
UPDATE: Blythe Danner (Nice Work If You Can Get It), BD Wong (TV's Law
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:38PMThe upcoming Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans has delayed its preview and opening dates following the somewhat mysterious departure of Transformers star Shia LaBeouf on February…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:39AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
UPDATE: Roundabout Theatre Company has announce that the Broadway Divas headlining its 2013 Spring Gala will now be Tony Award winners Laura Benanti (Gypsy) and Jane Krakowski (Nine), Stepha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:42PMUPDATE: In a dramatic turn, the upcoming production of Broadway's Breakfast at Tiffany's has chosen not to cast any of the wide-eyed cuddly cuties who came to their widely publicized open ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:23PM 
