Sunday, September 15, 2013
Ever since TheaterMania posted the teaser for the new hit Web series "Laura Benanti Explains Shakespeare," the many faces of Broadway and television star Laura Benanti have taken the Interne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThursday, September 12, 2013
On October 29, the unique vaudeville/theater event La Soirée will begin performances at the Union Square Theatre. Opening night will be November 7. La Soirée combines live theatrical art …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:13PMMaybe it's due to a worldwide dirth of unique creative ideas or producers who are afraid to invest in concepts that are truly new and untested, or maybe it's just an extension of the green m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMWednesday, September 11, 2013
The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle, currently playing at 59E59 Theaters as part of the 1st Irish Festival, is a much more developed work than one might expect from a festival producti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThe Golem of Havana is a deceptively titled musical recently produced at La Mama's Ellen Stewart Theater, where it is receiving a very simple staging that nonetheless gives life to this unev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:07PMThe previously announced Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, presented by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, has announced that more than 50 stage and screen stars will be on hand to mee…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:39PMFull casting has been announced for the opening night of Broadway's After Midnight, which will play at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre beginning October 18. Opening night will be November 3. War…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:46PMThe Drama League has announced its fall 2013 programming schedule. Performances and events will include appearances by Tony Award winners Laura Benanti, Cherry Jones, and Judy Kaye as well a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
If you've been waiting and waiting for a definitive answer regarding how to pronounce the name "Godot" in the upcoming revival of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (but you've been too emba…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:27PMThe fifth annual Broadway Salutes, a free celebration honoring the countless professionals who have made Broadway great for decades, will take place on September 24 at the Times Square Visit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:12PMMonday, September 9, 2013
New York City Center has announced that the entire original U.K. cast will make up the full cast of the upcoming New York premiere of choreographer Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty, which wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:20PMLauren Yee's The Hatmaker's Wife is a surreal yet realistic tale following two very different couples who live in one personality-filled house years apart from each other. As the touchingly …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:25PMThe long-running off-Broadway production of Peter and the Starcatcher has announced a special Instagram video contest to be held in celebration of the 11th Annual International Talk Like a P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:56AMFriday, September 6, 2013
National Theatre Live has announced plans to live-broadcast National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage to cinemas around the world, as well as on BBC, on November 2. The event will also be aired on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:44PMJane Lynch, recent star of Broadway's Annie, has had a big summer. Not only did she make her Broadway debut, she also got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Plus, she's gearing up for an …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:29PMOnce upon a time, Joey Potter (Katie Holmes) and Jen Lindley (Michelle Williams) were fighting over affections of local heartthrob Dawson Leery. Who would have thought that years later Holme…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThursday, September 5, 2013
The popular Broadway revival of Annie, which opened at the Palace Theatre on November 8, 2012, has announced that it will conclude its run on January 5, 2014 after 487 performances. The reim…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:59PMMary McCann (The Old Neighborhood) will star in Atlantic Theater Company's U.S. premiere of Our New Girl by Nancy Harris. The play will run May 28-June 22, with an official opening on June 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:50PMNext spring, film and television star Zach Braff will make his Broadway debut in the new stage adaptation of Woody Allen's 1994 film Bullets Over Broadway, directed by Susan Stroman (Big Fis…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:49PMMark St. Germain's warmhearted new comedy, Becoming Dr. Ruth, is set to have its New York premiere October 11-January 12 at the Westside Theatre. The play, which stars That '70s Show's Debra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:50PMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has announced that the 27th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction will take place on Sunday, September 22, from 10:00am-7:00pm. As usual, the event wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:46PMMr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, a new Anne Washburn-Michael Friedman creation currently playing at Playwrights Horizons, is set in the aftermath of a worldwide electric apocalypse where a g…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:32PMEntertainment legend Lorna Luft will host and star in Nothing Like a Dame: Lorna's Pink Party, a cabaret benefit event for the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative and the Dr. Philomena …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:26AMWednesday, September 4, 2013
Center Theatre Group has announced that Justin Bartha (Lend Me a Tenor) will join the previously announced Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch in a Los Angeles production of Neil Simon's 1972 comed…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:24PMLaura Benanti knows so much about Shakespeare. We asked her to come to our office to tell us a little about her upcoming free Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest (running Septe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:05PMTwo River Theater has announced plans to kick off its 2013-2014 season with Paul Osborn's On Borrowed Time, directed by Tony- and Oscar-winning actor Joel Grey (The Normal Heart). The produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:51PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
NYC's uptown theater district will welcome a new hit when Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, which played in its custom venue, Kazino, in the meatpacking district all summer, blazes …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:44PMAmerican Idol XIII has announced the team of artists who will shepherd new contestants through the 2014 season. Tony-nominated and Grammy- and Emmy Award-winning performer Harry Connick Jr. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:48AMFriday, August 30, 2013
Ghostlight Records will release the original cast recording of the unique off-Broadway hit Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, the company has announced. A release date for the album,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:40PMAs we all know, there's no better way to jump-start a Broadway career than to work the national beauty pageant circuit…except maybe being plucked out of a crowd to perform an impromptu due…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThursday, August 29, 2013
The Dogs of Pripyat, a new musical with music by Aron Accurso, lyrics by Jill Abramovitz, and book by Leah Napolin and Abramovitz, will receive a staged reading on September 10 and 11. The r…
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