Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:45PMTheatre for a New Audience has begun rehearsals for its upcoming Julie Taymor-directed production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which will run October 19-January 12. Taymor's vision for this…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:37PMAdditional casting and an official on-sale date have been announced for the Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, starring Denzel Washington. The production, which wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:06PMWednesday, August 28, 2013
Edgy downtown theater group The Amoralists celebrated the opening of its most recent production, The Cheaters Club, last night. Guests included playwright Derek Ahonen, Anthony Haden-Guest, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:31PMSeriously, how is this guy going to have time to perform two shows in repertory on Broadway this fall with such a hectic Internet career to maintain? Sir Patrick Stewart is currently starri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:37PMGeoffrey Rush (Exit the King) will star in and produce a new movie adaptation of the musical favorite The Drowsy Chaperone, according to multiple sources. Shooting is scheduled to begin next…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:09AMTuesday, August 27, 2013
Soho Rep has announced that its 2013-2014 season will comprise one New York premiere by David Adjmi and one world premiere by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Both shows will feature large casts and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:41PMThe FringeNYC Encore Series, an event composed of two mini-festivals that restage the best of FringeNYC, will take place September 6 -October 20 at Baruch Performing Arts Center and The Play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:41PMJoe Cassidy (Working), Miguel Cervantes (American Idiot), Curtis Holbrook (West Side Story), Stephanie Klemons (In the Heights), Tyler McGee (Ghost), Ryann Redmond (Bring It On), Joe Aaron R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:38PMMonday, August 26, 2013
The fifth installment of Mo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone's show-business podcast, The Ensemblist, is now available for download. It features Broadway performers Robert Hartwell (Rodgers +…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:46PMThe Tony and Grammy-winning hit musical Jersey Boys staged its 3,225th performance on August 23, surpassing the 1940s comedy Life With Father to become Broadway's 16th longest-running show. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:50AMHalf by Bethany Rickwald In real life, divorces are almost always hard to understand and much too complicated to be funny. From that perspective, FringeNYC's Half: A Divorce Farce hit the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:20AMFriday, August 23, 2013
Broadway's The Trip to Bountiful has announced that Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr. will exit the production on August 27, with current cast member Leon Addison Brown taking on the vacated rol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:31PMThe Dead Hooker Play by Pete Hempstead When you go to a show with a title like The Dead Hooker Play, you enter the theater with two expectations: to laugh and to be appalled that you are l…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:06PMThe off-Broadway premiere of Kevin Slack's American Games is set to run at The American Theater of Actors from September 3-8 with direction by Phil Blechman. The production will be produced …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:28PMBay Street Theatre has announced that Tony winner Betty Buckley (Triumph of Love) will perform her show The Vixens of Broadway on October 12 at 8pm. In addition to the performance, VIP ticke…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:32AMThe Broadway show and staged punk-rock concept album American Idiot, which played at the St. James Theatre for a full year in 2010 and 2011, will now be seen in another medium. Broadway Idio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:17AMThursday, August 22, 2013
The long-running off-Broadway production of Peter Gethers and Daniel Okrent's Old Jews Telling Jokes, which has been playing at the Westside Theater since May 1, 2012, has announced that it …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:12AMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Kurt Egyiawan, Matt Harrington, Matthew Schechter, Hayden Signoretti, Joseph Timms, Dominic Brewer, and Dylan Clark Marshall will join Tony Award winner Mark Rylance (Jerusalem) and the prev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:39PMNew York-based theatergoers are well aware of the work of off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre. The Manhattan nonprofit theater company dedicated to "new work" and "bold programming" that has hel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:02AMTuesday, August 20, 2013
Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that Broadway veteran Charlotte Parry (The Importance of Being Earnest) will join the cast of the coming revival of Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Bo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:04PMThe Park Avenue Armory has announced that its upcoming U.S. premiere staging of Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth will star Kenneth Branagh. The production is set to take place in Ju…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:58PMInfinity Theatre Company has announced that its production of Dames at Sea, an American musical favorite with a book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller, music by Jim Wise, and mu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:41PMMonday, August 19, 2013
Broadway and television star Diana DeGarmo and her Broadway star husband, Ace Young, have been announced to star in the upcoming national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMCherry Lane Theatre has announced the three productions that will constitute its upcoming 2013-2014 season. This fall, the theater will present the world premiere of One Night, with previews…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:22PMJoe's Pub's previously announced concert performance of Bromance: The Dude-sical, starring Adam Chanler-Berat (Peter and the Starcatcher), Andrew Kober (Hair), Molly Pope (The Diva-lution of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:48PMThe New Yiddish Rep is set to present the world's first all-Yiddish production of Waiting for Godot. The company, in conjunction with Castillo Theatre, will stage this world premiere from Se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:20AMFriday, August 16, 2013
Walnut Street Theatre has announced that a production of Seussical Jr. will kick off the WST for Kids 2013-2014 season. The live performance will take place September 21 and 28. Seussical J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:26PMPrimary Stages has announced full casting for the world premiere of Bronx Bombers, written by Lombardi and Magic/Bird playwright Eric Simonson. The play will run September 17-October 19 at P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:01PMNew Work Now!, the Public Theater's program of free play readings, has announced its latest lineup of readings, planned for September 9-21. The events, which will take place in The Public's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMJennifer Tepper, a theater historian, producer, writer, and fixture of the New York theater scene, has been selected as the new Director of Programming for theater district nightclub 54 Belo…
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