Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Comic timing – the perhaps innate ability to have a word or physical gesture elicit an even greater laugh than might be expected – is a particularly valuable resource to possess in the t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWhat do you get when you put together Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Taye Diggs and dozens of other great Broadway stars on one stage? The answe
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:29PMMonday, February 11, 2013
The sad, often shocking history of racism in America has produced some of this country's greatest plays, including A Raisin in the Sun, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Clybourne Park. Kirsten …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, February 7, 2013
Bertolt Brecht's Baal, with its bleak portrait of a dissolute poet who shows a complete disregard for the rules of civilized society, shocked audiences at its premiere nearly 90 years ago. B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Mary Zimmerman is one of the theater world's most acclaimed directors, known for her inventive productions of everything from Candide to The Arabian Nights. But the piece that has brought he…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:38PMMonday, February 4, 2013
Not everyone is in the mood for love this month, despite the best efforts of Hallmark, Kay Jewelers, and that blond guy on The Bachelor. But Amanda McBroom, the Golden Globe-winning singer/s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:52PMFriday, February 1, 2013
Fear not, the Fanilows will get what they came for. And trust me, I know what I'm talking about. It's not only that I have (finally, after two cancellations) experienced Manilow on Broadway…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:47AMThursday, January 31, 2013
Hamish Linklater has spent so much time over the past few years dazzling us on stage and the small screen, it's hard to fathom when he even found time to write The Vandal , now receiving it …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMIt may not equal "What happened to the lost city of Atlantis?" as one of the world's great mysteries, but many a musical theater geek has spent part of a sleepless night wondering how Fiorel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
On paper, the idea of a world-famous opera singer taking to the stage at the intimate 54 Below to perform musical theater and jazz standards might seem like the thoughts of a woman flirting …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:58PMMonday, January 28, 2013
As Christine Andreas explains shortly after taking the stage at 54 Below, the title of her stunning new cabaret show, Bemused, has many definitions in the Merriam-Webster dictionary–from c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:07PMFriday, January 18, 2013
It's been over 35 years since Broadway has seen a production of Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson's classic musical, Pippin, but that oversight will be corrected on March 23, when Diane P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:45PMThursday, January 17, 2013
When you’ve won a Tony Award for your Broadway debut – and you’re one of Hollywood’s hottest stars (in every sense of the word) -- what do you for an encore? If you’re Scarlett Joh…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:34PMWednesday, January 16, 2013
The ups and downs of love have fascinated musical theater's greatest songwriters (and all of humanity) for the past century, so Tony Award-winning musical director Ted Sperling (South Pacifi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:11PMTuesday, January 15, 2013
David Greig's quirky, charming two-hander, Midsummer [A Play With Songs] now playing at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre four years after its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, is so often…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, January 14, 2013
Given Sam Gold's recent quasi-experimental stagings of Look Back in Anger and Uncle Vanya, one would hardly be surprised if the entire stage of the Roundabout's American Airlines Theatre was…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:55AMFriday, January 11, 2013
If you're a performer who's also writing a play, here's a valuable lesson: create a good part for yourself. That's what the delightfully daffy Sari Caine has done in The Chess Lesson, her 6…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:09PMThursday, January 10, 2013
They say a mind is a terrible thing to waste, but as Sharr White's The Other Place, now at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, proves it's an even more terrible thing to los…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00PMWednesday, December 19, 2012
JONATHAN GROFF IS WORKING AGAIN! And, to blow your mind even more, he's joining (vocal) forces with Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell! Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening) will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:51PMComplete casting has been announced for the Broadway production of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical, which begins previews on March 4 in advance of an April 11 opening at the Shubert Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMJohn Lloyd Young -- who won Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World awards for his performance as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys -- will return to the role for another limite…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:31PMTheatre World Award winner and film star Molly Ringwald will release her debut CD, Except…Sometimes, on Concord Records on April 9. In addition, she will play Manhattan nightspot 54 Below …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:29PMTuesday, December 18, 2012
What do we do when faced with an almost unthinkable incident from our past -- or an unexpected dilemma in our present? Do we just, as Stephen Sondheim urged, move on? If Amy Herzog had all …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMThe fans have been heard, and they want more multidimensional swimming pools. Due to the overwhelming support of fans, the long-running off-Broadway hit Fuerza Bruta: Look Up has extended …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PMThe Mint Theater will present a rare production of Teresa Deevy's Katie Roche, to run January 26-March 24. The production, to be directed by Jonathan Bank, will open officially on Monday, Fe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:18PMMonday, December 17, 2012
It looks like Broadway will have a happy ending, after all. The Broadway League's Executive Director, Charlotte St. Martin, confirms they have reached a "tentative agreement" with Union 32B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:58PMDrama Desk Award nominee Joaquina Kalukango and Bowman Wright will star in the Alley Theatre's production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, to be produced in association with Arena Stage at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:15PMArena Stage will present the Lookingglass Theatre Company's production of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, running February 8-March 17 on the Fichandler Stage. Zimmerman will direct the show,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMFriday, December 14, 2012
Talk about a giant undertaking – recording a show with a cast of 26 actors and a 17-piece orchestra! Ghostlight Records will release a recording of Giant, ''the new off-Broadway musical b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:07PMYes, Lee Pace is tall, dark, and handsome, but what's just as noticeable – at least to those who have seen his work -- is his versatility and courage as an actor. Beginning with his trans…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:18PMThursday, December 13, 2012
They'll be singing about a revolution! The Public Theater's Lab will present Eric Rosen and Matt Sax's musical Venice at the Anspacher Theater, May 28-June 23. The show, which features addi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:06PM 
