Tony Award winners Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Ian McKellen will play an elderly gay couple living in London's Covent Garden in a six-episode TV series called Vicious Old Queens, according to p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PMThe British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles will hold the 2012 Brittania Awards on Wednesday, November 7 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Tony Award winner Alan Cumming will host…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:17PMPreliminary casting has been announced for a 25th anniversary reading of Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias to be held at 7pm on Monday, December 3 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. It will be di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMNot even a false fire alarm could apparently stop five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway and a host of their famous colleagues from burning up Joe's Pub on T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04PMTracy Michelle Arnold, John Hoogenaker, Linda Kimbrough, and Chelcie Ross will join Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan in Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, to run January 12 - February 17…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMTracy Michelle Arnold, John Hoogenaker, Linda Kimbrough, and Chelcie Ross will join Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan in Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, to run January 12 - February 17…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMKate Baldwin's porcelain skin, flaming red hair, and silvery soprano have all helped make her a much-sought-after leading lady, having appeared in four Broadway shows in the past decade. So …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMTheater veterans Whoopi Goldberg, Adam Lambert, and Rosie O'Donnell will be among the special guests at Cyndi Lauper
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:04PMWhat good is sitting alone in your room – especially if it's October 31, and you're dressed up like Charlie Chaplin, Elphaba, or The Green Goblin. Of course, you can join the millions of p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:48PMTony Award nominee Lily Rabe will be one of the stars and producers of the film, We're Just Married, a romantic drama penned by her father, Tony Award winner David Rabe, according to Deadli…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMRon Raines has been a musical theater stalwart for more than 30 years, playing such iconic roles as Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat, Frederik Egerman in A Little Night Music, and Ben Stone in F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMFour playwrights have been named recipients of the 2012 Whiting Writers' Awards, which are given for "the abundant promise of future work."Each of the chosen writers receives a cash award of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMTony Award winners Harvey Fierstein, Linda Lavin and Audra McDonald and four-time Tony nominee Raul Esparza will join Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway in Perfectly Marvelous: The Songs of Cabaret…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:53PMWe still don't know many specifics about Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters' return to NBC's Smash this season as Broadway grande dame Leigh Conroy, mother to aspiring star Ivy Lynn (played…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMCast and creative team have been announced for the world premiere of The Second City's A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens! to run at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre, November …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:02PMOh, what a night, indeed! A capacity crowd filled the Broadway Theatre on Friday, October 19 – often standing and screaming – for the opening night of Frankie Vall
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMTony Award winner Barbara Cook celebrated her 85th birthday one week early, on Thursday, October 18, with a special concert at Carnegie Hall.Cook, joined by a four-piece band led by Ted Rose…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PMBroadway star Capathia Jenkins will be among the special guests for the Philly POPS' Holiday POPS! 2012 concert, December 7-22 at Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.In…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMHoly smokes! Five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will become the 100th person to be honored with a "Pipe Night" at The Players at 6pm on Sunday, October 21.This tradition, which origi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:37PMOur colleagues at The Village Voice have long shown their commitment to quality theater through sponsoring the annual OBIE Awards – and they're continuing to display their discerning taste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMPartway through her wondrous new "cabaret" show, A Piece of Meat at 54 Below, Sherie Rene Scott tells us that her holy triangle -- the three words she tries to live by -- are "good, fast, an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:36PMCasting has been announced for the annual 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, to be held at 8pm on Monday, November 12 at the American Airlines Theater, according to The New York Post.Participants wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:46PMNominees have been announced for this year's Clive Barnes Foundation Awards, honoring young professionals in the fields of theater and dance. The ceremony will be held on December 10 at Linc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:14PMA special free reading of Caridad Svich's new play, Spark, will be held at the Cherry Lane Theatre on Sunday, November 11 at 8pm. It will be followed by an expert panel discussion on the exp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMBarry Edelstein has been named Artistic Director of San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, and will assume the position on November 1. He will work together with Managing Director Michael G. Murphy …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMUlrich Franzen, who designed the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, died on October 6 in Santa Fe, New Mexico at age 91, according to The New York Times.In 1964, the German-born architect, who…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AMActresses Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host NBC's exclusive coverage of The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, Ja…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:26AMTony Award winner Ellen Barkin will star in the Flea Theater's benefit reading of Beau Willimon's The Parisian Woman at the BMCC Tribeca Perfoming Arts Center at 6pm on Monday, October 22. J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:15AMThe New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is hosting a free program, Katharine Hepburn: Rebel Chic, on Thursday, October 18 at 6pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.The event is being…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:33PMLong Island stockbroker Mark C. Hotton, who had been hired to find investors for the ill-fated Broadway musical Rebecca by the show's lead producer, Ben Sprecher, has been arrested and charg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AM"No matter what I do, and no matter what I say -- when my time does come, and the fight in me is gone, the last image that will present itself to me, my last thought, as I die...will be of y…
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