Friday, July 5, 2013
After a two-year run off-Broadway, Silence! The Musical is bleating its final farewell this Sunday, July 7. The show, an unauthorized musical parody of the 1991 Academy Award-winning thrille…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:58PMLast week, child star Mara Wilson reunited with her co-stars from the 1996 blockbuster film Matilda. Earlier this year, Wilson wrote a piece for TheaterMania, "Being Matilda," in honor of Ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
Williamstown Theatre Festival is currently presenting its Mark Brothers musical, Animal Crackers, set to run until July 13. Featuring a score by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and a book by Geor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:35PMM.A.D Playhouse is presenting Indian playwright Vijay Tendulkar's Sakharam Binder, a play first presented in 1972 and subsequently banned in India in 1974. M.A.D's production in running thro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04PMVassar and New York Stage and Film Powerhouse Theater has announced casting highlights for its second mainstage production, Mozhan Marnò's When The Lights Went Out, the Martel Musical works…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:18AMTuesday, July 2, 2013
Bucks County Playhouse will present a free screening of the 1972 Academy Award-winning film Summer of '42 on July 8. The event will whet the audience's taste for the story in advance of Buck…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AMHow I Learned to Drive original cast members Johanna Day, David Morse, Mary-Louise Parker, and Kerry O'Malley reunited with director Mark Brokaw and playwright Paula Vogel at last night's st…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:59AMWendy Williams, of The Wendy Williams Show fame, made her official Broadway debut last night in the long-running musical Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre. She will remain in the production,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:52AMMonday, July 1, 2013
Summer Shorts 2013, the seventh annual festival of new American short plays from established and emerging writers, has announced the works that will be part of the July 19-August 31 festival…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:55PMManhattan Theatre Club has announced plans to present the world premiere of Tales From Red Vienna, a play by David Grimm (Measure for Pleasure), as part of its 2013-2014 theatrical season. K…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMChristopher Durang's new Tony-winning comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, has recouped its investment after just 17 weeks on Broadway. The production is currently playing at the Gol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AMMichael Park (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), David Margulies (The Rivals), Aidan Gemme (Mary Poppins), Robert Petkoff (Anything Goes), and Matthew Saldivar (A Streetcar Named Desire) will join the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:01AMFriday, June 21, 2013
Aaron Sorkin has plans for a new Broadway musical, according to a recent interview with Vanity Fair. The West Wing and Social Network writer recently pulled out of what was to be his Broadwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:28PMBig-name stars Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters will host the 15th annual Broadway Barks event on July 13 in midtown's Shubert Alley. The festivities are sponsored by the ASPCA and pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:07AMBroadway's recent revival of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Jekyll and Hyde, starring Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox, closed too soon. But perhaps they would have run a little lo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMWednesday, June 19, 2013
Pippin star and singer-songwriter Matthew James Thomas has released his debut EP, entitled "No Sound At All." The album exclusively features original music by Thomas and is produced by Gramm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:54PMBroadway favorite and Tony Award winner Faith Prince will take on the role of mean orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in the Broadway musical Annie beginning July 19. She will steps into the sho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:52PMErin Cummings (Made In Jersey), Randy Harrison (Wicked), Alexis Molnar (Harbor at Westport Country Playhouse), and Paul Anthony Stewart (The People in the Picture) are set to star in Primary…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:45PMRenée Elise Goldsberry (Good People) is set to star in the 1970s musical I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road for the final Encores! Off-Center presentation of the 2013 sea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:05AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
The New York Musical Theatre Festival has announced the concerts, educational workshops, and a screening series that will complete the programming for its 10th annual festival, which will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:35PMBenoit-Swan Pouffer, the acclaimed former artistic director of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, is set to choreograph the upcoming Broadway musical Soul Doctor, which will play the Circle in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:53AMAri Brand plays the title character in Aaron Posner's new adaptation of the classic Chaim Potok novel My Name is Asher Lev, currently playing at Westside Theatre. The play, set in post-war B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMMonday, June 17, 2013
Dan Goggin's musical comedy Nunsense will celebrate its 30th anniversary with the release of a definitive recording of the beloved score with complete orchestrations. The album features musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:08PMClassic Stage Company has announced the four productions planned for its upcoming 2013-2014 season which, as previously announced, will kick off with a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03PMThe Broadway hit Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark has announced that throughout the month of June a portion of ticket-sale proceeds will be donated to St. Mary's Healthcare System for Children, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:09PMThursday, June 13, 2013
Project:Theater's Occupation, currently playing at TBG Theatre, is a thought experiment, of sorts, that imagines an analogue in the American south to the U.S.'s military involvement in Iraq …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:59PMOff-Broadway theater company The Amoralists have just opened their New York premiere production of Rantoul and Die, written by Mark Roberts (creator of CBS' Mike and Molly). The show is set …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:04AMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Broadway veteran and small-screen favorite Cheyenne Jackson (The Performers, Behind the Candelabra) will be releasing his first full-length album of original music on June 25. The CD, entitl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:23PMPeter/Wendy at The Cell Theatre is not the edgy -cool take on a familiar children's story that one might expect. The title might suggest a subversive gender-bending take on a children's clas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:05PMMonday, June 10, 2013
The creators of the Tony Awards are figuring out what audiences want in an telecast, and what they want — it seems — is Neil Patrick Harris, big-name celebrities, absurdly huge dance num…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:18PMThe three-time Tony-nominated A Christmas Story, The Musical has announced an upcoming remounting for the holiday season. Beginning in November the production will tour the East Coast, with…
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