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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Theater News: John Glover, Michael Cerveris, Alvin Epstein, and More to Star in Linclon Center's Nikolai and The Others by Bethany Rickwald

John Glover (Death of a Salesman), Michael Cerveris (Evita), Alvin Epstein (The Threepenny Opera), Betsy Aidem (Nurse Jackie, The West Wing), Blair Brown (Copenhagen), Anthony Cochrane (War …

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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Special Report: The Perfect Valentine's Day Playlist! (Assuming You Hate Valentine's Day) by Bethany Rickwald

Sure, you could spend Valentine's Day with your old standby: Celine Dion's All the Way... A Decade of Song. But that never seems to take the edge off, does it? Instead, we've compiled our fa…

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Friday, February 8, 2013

Theater News: ?uestlove, David Byrne, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Wynton Marsalis to Say Smart Things You're Going to Want to Hear at The Public Theater's P by Bethany Rickwald

The Public Theater has announced that is has lined up ?uestlove (The Roots) and David Byrne (co-founder of the Talking Heads) as well as Broadway playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-L…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:33PM

Video Flash: Flashback Friday: Dick Van Dyke's Lifetime of Grandfatherly Perfection by Bethany Rickwald

At 42, Dick Van Dyke stole the hearts of children and adults alike with his delightful performance in the cinema classic, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Now, 45 years later, at the age of 87, the …

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:27AM
Thursday, February 7, 2013

Theater News: Off-Broadway's Channeling Kevin Spacey to End Two Year Run by Bethany Rickwald

The two year off-Broadway run of Elan Wolf Farbiarz and Cory Terry's Channeling Kevin Spacey will come to a close on February 17 at the Roy Arias Theatre at the Times Square Art Center, the …

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:48PM

Theater News: Smash Tops Glee and Bieber on the iTunes Top 100 by Bethany Rickwald

It might not be winning in the ratings, but NBC's Smash is winning iTunes, with the song "Broadway Here I Come" (currently at #50) beating out Glee's most recent hit and three Justin Bieber …

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:11PM
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Theater News: Jeremy Shamos, Mark Blum, Sam Robards, and More Join Jessica Hecht and Judith Light in The Assembled Parties by Bethany Rickwald

The Manhattan Theatre Club has announced that Tony nominee Jeremy Shamos (Glengarry Glen Ross), Mark Blum (Gore Vidal's The Best Man), Tony nominee Sam Robards (The 39 Steps), Lauren Blumenf…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:18PM
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Theater News: Tony Award Winner Mark Rylance to Star in Nice Fish at the Guthrie by Bethany Rickwald

Tony Award Winner Mark Rylance (Jerusalem) will star in the world premiere of Nice Fish, which will begin previews on April 6, in advance of an April 12 opening at the Guthrie Theater. Rylan…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:50PM

Theater News: Rhythm is Gonna Get You: Gloria and Emilio Estefan to Create a Broadway Musical Based on Their Life Stories by Bethany Rickwald

Multi Grammy Award winner Gloria Estefan and her husband, Cuban-American musician and producer Emilio Estefan (Miami Sound Machine), will turn their beat around to Broadway. They have announ…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:46PM
Monday, February 4, 2013

Theater News: Tony-Nominated Trio Celia Keenan-Bolger, Rebecca Luker, and Adriane Lenox to Star in Our Town Reading by Bethany Rickwald

Broadway favorites and Tony nominees Celia Keenan-Bolger (Peter and the Starcatcher), Rebecca Luker (Mary Poppins), and Tony Award winner Adriane Lenox (Chicago) are set to participate in Th…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:11PM

Theater News: Rothko Mania: The Columbus Museum of Art and CATCO Simultaneously Celebrate Painter Mark Rothko by Bethany Rickwald

The arts community of Columbus, Ohio is celebrating acclaimed American expressionist painter Mark Rothko this month with both a museum exhibition and a semi-biographical play. First, the Col…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:29PM

Theater News: Broadway's Jason Alexander and Tovah Feldshuh to Star in The York Theatre Company's Production of Two By Two by Bethany Rickwald

Tony Award winner Jason Alexander (Jerome Robbins' Broadway) and Broadway favorite Tovah Feldshuh (Irena's Vow) will star in The York Theatre Company's production of the Richard Rodgers musi…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:43PM

Theater News: Matthew James Thomas, Andrea Martin, Patina Miller, and More Find Their Corner of the Sky in Broadway's Pippin by Bethany Rickwald

Matthew James Thomas (Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark), Tony Award winner Andrea Martin, Patina Miller (Sister Act), Terrence Mann (Les Miserables), Charlotte d'Amboise (A Chorus Line), and Rac…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:05PM

Special Report: The Bones of Richard III Have Been Discovered in a British Parking Lot by Bethany Rickwald

Sticklers for Shakespearean accuracy and amateur historians everywhere can let out a collective breath. The skeleton of 15th century English royal Richard III has been found beneath a parkin…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AM
Friday, February 1, 2013

Theater News: Kerry Butler, Julia Murney, and More to Sing Old and Cut Songs by Musical Theater Favorites by Bethany Rickwald

Kerry Butler (Gore Vidal's The Best Man), Julia Murney (Lennon), Bryce Ryness (Leap of Faith), Kate Shindle (Wonderland), Etai BenShlomo (Wicked), Jason Danieley (Next to Normal), Kevin Earl…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:15PM

Video Flash: Flashback Friday: Broadway's Carol Channing Kills It as Alice in Wonderland's The White Queen by Bethany Rickwald

In this YouTube clip, appropriately titled "Carol Channing Is Better Than You," Tony and Golden Globe winner Channing (Hello, Dolly!) gives the made-for-TV performance of her lifetime. The m…

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Theater News: The Pink Collar Comedy Tour Heads for NYC, Despite it Being Too Cold by Bethany Rickwald

The Pink Collar Comedy Tour, which features female funny people Kaytlin Bailey, Abbi Crutchfield, Carrie Gravenson, and Erin Judge, will finally reach New York, after months driving around t…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:22PM

Theater News: Composer Mike Stoller Discusses the Life-Saving Gift He and His Wife Gave Pasadena Playhouse by Bethany Rickwald

This week, the Pasadena Playhouse announced that the anonymous donors whose one million dollar gift, in May 2010, was vital to keeping the theater from closing are the Playhouse's own curren…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:41PM

Theater News: Watch The Cast of Bob Fosse's Cabaret Hold Hands, Reminisce, Be Adorable by Bethany Rickwald

Forty years ago Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Marisa Berenson, and Michael York were just four young people in Germany, defying conventions and creating a ground-breaking film with one of the gr…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:26PM

Theater News: Thirty Naked Men and Ghosts From the ‘80s: Broadway's Sam Buntrock and Off-Broadway's Jay Scheib to Direct Operas at BAM by Bethany Rickwald

Acclaimed theater directors Sam Buntrock (Sunday in the Park with George) and Jay Scheib (World of Wires) have been tapped to kick off the Brooklyn Academy of Music's (BAM) spring season wit…

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Theater News: Anthony de Mare to Perform New Sondheim-Inspired Music by Jason Robert Brown, Thomas Newman, and More by Bethany Rickwald

Pianist Anthony de Mare will perform the second installment of his Liaisons: Reimagining Sondheim from the Piano, featuring all new music by composers Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:13PM
Monday, January 28, 2013

Theater News: See Condola Rashad, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Vanessa Williams in The Trip to Bountiful One Day Early by Bethany Rickwald

The upcoming Broadway revival of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, starring Condola Rashad (Stick Fly), Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Jerry Maguire), Vanessa Williams (Into the Woods), and Cicely T…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:18PM

Theater News: Broadway's Jenni Barber, Andrèa Burns, and Cady Huffman to Join Nathan Lane in The Nance by Bethany Rickwald

Jenni Barber (The Performers), Andrèa Burns (In the Heights), and Cady Huffman (The Producers) are set to join Jonny Orsini (An Early History of Fire), Lewis J. Stadlen (The People in the P…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:49PM
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Theater News: Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera to Welcome Peter Jöback to the Title Role by Bethany Rickwald

Sweden Peter Jöback (The West End's Miss Saigon), who was in New York on Saturday celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, will play the role of the Phantom…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36AM
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Theater News: The Public's Oskar Eustis to Direct Pulitzer Prize Winner Lawrence Wright's Fallaci at Berkeley Rep by Bethany Rickwald

Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis will be returning to the Bay Area, where he served as resident director at the Eureka Theatre from 1981-1986, to direct the world premiere of Pu…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PM

Theater News: Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart to Star in Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land on Broadway by Bethany Rickwald

Internationally acclaimed X-Men co-stars, Laurence Olivier Award-winning actors, and knights Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are set to star in a limited season repertoire of Samuel Beckett…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:28PM

Theater News: Zachary Booth, David Conrad, Will Rogers, and More Cast in Signature Theatre's The Mound Builders by Bethany Rickwald

Zachary Booth (FX's Damages), David Conrad (CBS' Ghost Whisperer), Will Rogers (Golden Age), Janie Brookshire (Mint's Mary Broome), Lisa Joyce (La Bête), Rachel Resheff (The People in the P…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:51PM
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Theater News: Off-Broadway's Bare to Say Farewell to New World Stages on February 3 by Bethany Rickwald

New World Stages has announced that its currently running production of Bare, a rock musical about sexuality at a religious high school, will close on February 3, 2013, after 21 preview and …

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:29PM

Theater News: Lion King Director Julie Taymor to Helm A Midsummer Night's Dream for Theatre for a New Audience by Bethany Rickwald

Long-time partners Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal will collaborate on a new production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to inaugurate Theatre for a New Audience's first home, l…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:49PM

Theater News: Broadway Stars Krysta Rodriguez, Corey Cott, Emma Hunton, and More Will Perform at "Once Upon A Time In New York City 2" by Bethany Rickwald

Krysta Rodriguez (Smash), Corey Cott (Newsies), Emma Hunton (Spring Awakening), David Austin, Jenni Barber (The Performers), Jeff Blumenkrantz (A Class Act), Andrea Burns (In the Heights), E…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PM

Theater News: Broadway's Nick Blaemire, Emma Hunton, and More to Sing the Music of Zack Zadek by Bethany Rickwald

Singer/songwriter will be joined by Broadway veterans Nick Blaemire (Godspell), Emma Hunton (Spring Awakening), and Andrew Kober (Hair) as well as Molly Hager on January 28 at Joe's Pub for…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:29AM

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