Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz will make his New York cabaret debut at 54 Below on August 5 at 9pm and August 10 and 11 at 11pm.
Other performers scheduled to play the club nex…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:42PMThe Ojai Playwrights Conference will celebrate its 15th Anniversary, August 8-12.
A highlight of the conference will include the world premiere of Terrence McNally's And Away We Go, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:27PMStage and screen star Christine Lahti will join the hit CBS series Hawaii Five-O this season as Doris McGarrett, the previously believed dead mother of lead character Steve McGarrett (played…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMStage and screen star David Tennant will star in Broadchurch, an eight-part drama to air on ITV, according to Deadline.com.
The series, which will co-star Olivia Colman and Vicky McClure, e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMLifetime has released a trailer for its television movie, Steel Magnolias, directed by Kenny Leon.
Sally Robinson has penned the adaptation, which is based upon Robert Harling's play o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:14PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Andy Griffith has died in North Carolina at age 86, according to published reports.
Griffith only appeared twice on Broadway, in the 1955 play No Time for Sergea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:50AMBroadway and film stars Jennifer Coolidge and Susan Sarandon will add their voices to the stop-motion comedy Hell & Back, according to Deadline.com.
The film stars Nick Swardson and TJ …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:56AMLili Taylor has joined the cast of Netflix's upcoming original series Hemlock Grove, according to TVLine.com.
The series revolves around the murder of a young girl. The cast includes L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:37AMTony Award winner Diana Rigg and her daughter, Rachael Stirling will guest star on an upcoming episode on the BBC series Doctor Who, according to published reports.
Rigg received the Tony A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:28AMTony Award winners Levi Kreis and Alice Ripley will star along Uzo Aduba and Myles Erlick in Mark Oxman's film Sing Along, which will begin production in October. The film will have or…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:12AMMonday, July 2, 2012
Debra Jo Rupp gives a thoroughly engaging performance as sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Mark St. Germain's sometimes fascinating bioplay.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PMUpdated casting has been announced for The Butler, according to Deadline.com
The film, to be directed by Oscar nominee Lee Daniels, focuses on Eugene Allen, a White House servant (Forest Wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:14PMComposer Stephen Sondheim and cast members from the recent City Center Encores! production of Merrily We Roll Along will be on hand at 4pm on Tuesday, July 10 for a signing of the show'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:34PMTracee Chimo, Philip Ettinger,
Molly Ranson, and Michael Zegen will star in the world premiere of Joshua Elias Harmon's Bad Jews, to run October 5-December 30 at the Roundabout Undergr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMHBO has renewed its new series The Newsroom about life at a cable news network, for a second season, according to Variety.
The series, which is written by Oscar winner and Broadway playwrig…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:24PMTony Award winner Alice Ripley will be the special guest at 54 Below's weekly event Backstage, on Sunday, July 8 at 5pm.
Ripley won the Tony Award for Next to Normal, Her many stage …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:48PMDancing With the Stars pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy will guest star on the July 25 episode of TVLand's The Exes, according to People.com.
Chmerkoviskiy, who appeared on Broadway on Burn the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:46PMThe Zach Theatre in Austin, Texas will host two special events to celebrate the opening of its new Topher Theatre.
On September 27, legendary pop artist Johnny Mathis will headline the blac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:01PMSunday, July 1, 2012
An updated list of stars who will appear as part of Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center July 12-15, has been announced, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The event…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57PMThe Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced the selections for its 2012-2013 season, according to The New York Times.
The company will produce Jesse Eisenberg's The Revisionist, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:56PMDavid Hyde Pierce's clever and funny version of Oscar Wilde's play is set among the world of American gangsters in 1930s London.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMFriday, June 29, 2012
The hot Hollywood star discusses his new film about a dysfunctional family and his continuing commitment to stage work.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Actor Don Grady has died of cancer at age 68, according to reports.
Grady's stage credits include productions of Pippin, Godspell, and Damn Yankees.
He was best known for his role as …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:11PMStage and screen veteran Aunjanue Ellis will star with Keke Palmer and Sherri Shepherd in Lifetime's Abducted: The Carlina White Story, according to Deadline.com. Vondie Curtis-Hall wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:34PMCasting has been announced for the film Geography Club, adapted from Brent Hartinger's best-selling young adult novel about a group of contemporary teenagers as they navigate the clique…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:21PMGrammy Award winners Green Day, who provided the music for the award-winning Broadway musical American Idiot, will be among the headliners for the 2012 Voodoo Music and Arts Experience, to b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36AMBerkeley Rep's world premiere production of Eve Ensler's Emotional Creature will transfer Off-Broadway to New York's Pershing Square Signature Center on October 26, with an o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:26AMThe Broadway star showcases his love of pop music in this infectious new show at 54 Below.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:01AMTuesday, June 26, 2012
Award-winning playwright and author Nora Ephron has died in New York City at age 71 due to pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia.
Ephron wrote the Broadway play Imaginary Friends,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:44PMThe Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar will close on Sunday, July 1 at the Neil Simon Theatre.
The production, which originated at The Stratf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06PMMOTOWN the Musical, a new musical about the life of Motown records founder Berry Gordy Jr., will open on Broadway in Spring 2013 at a Nederlander Theater..
The show will be produced by Kev…
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