Thursday, May 17, 2012
Actors Tony Braithwaite, Forrest McClendon, and Rob McClure will be among the guest artists who will take part in Philadelphia Theatre Company's ActOut Summer Conservatory, to run July …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:30PMInside Broadway is partnering with the Broadway production of Mamma Mia! to offer two free "Creating the Magic" workshops for New York City public school students at the Winter Gar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:34PMNick Jonas, who currently stars in the Broadway production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will serve as master of ceremonies for the Shubert Foundation/MTI Broadway JR. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:01AMDavid Abeles will now play the role of Greg in Philadelphia Theatre Company's production for Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty, to run May 25-June 24 at the Suzanne Roberts Theatr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19AMDaniel Abeles will now play the role of Greg in Philadelphia Theatre Company's production for Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty, to run May 25-June 24 at the Suzanne Roberts Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19AMLily Rabe will star as Mary Pickford in an as-yet-untitled film based on Eileen Whitfield's biography Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood, according to Deadline.com.
The film, featu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:10AMStars from the original Off-Broadway and Broadway incarnations of William Finn's "Marvin Trilogy" -- including Stephen Bogardus, Alison Fraser, Jonathan C. Kaplan, Michael Rup…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:54AMPhilip Seymour Hoffman, currently playing Willy Loman in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, will star in the upcoming film adaptation of John Le Carre's A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:32AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
The Broadway production of Newsies, previously billed as an extended limited engagement through August 19, has now been announced to be an open-ended run at the Nederlander Theatre. A new bl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:37PMThe new opera Champion, featuring music by five-time Grammy winner Terence Blanchard and libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Michael Cristofer, will receive its world premiere at O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:25PMThe Broadway production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert will play its final performance at the Palace Theatre on Sunday evening, June 24. As of that date, it will have played 23 previews an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMMelissa Errico and Randy Graff have been added to the line-up for Prospect Theater Company's previously announced annual gala, 2012's Spring Soirée, in the Harbor View …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:44PMJeremy Kushnier, currently appearing on Broadway in Jesus Christ Superstar, will play a one-night concert engagement at Birdland on Monday, June 18 at 7pm. Sonny Paladino will be musical dir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:28PMThe Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, at the Barrymore Theatre, will recoup its $3.1 million capitalization this week, according to The New York Times. The play, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:46PMThe Lyric Stage Company of Boston has announced a two week extension of its production of the musical Avenue Q, which will now run through June 24. Spiro Veloudos has directed the production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:34PMStage veteran Joel Edgerton will write and star in the film Felony, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Matthew Saville will direct the thriller, about a police officer who lies about acc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:21PMSecond Stage Theatre will present Quiara Alegría Hudes' 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Water by the Spoonful, with previews to begin in mid-December and an opening in earl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:55PMBroadway veteran and pop culture icon Joey Lawrence will join the Las Vegas production of Chippendales, at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, for a three-week stint as celebrity guest star,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:40PMObie winner and Tony nominee Nancy Opel will host Abingdon Theatre Company's sixth annual AB*IE Award presentation, to be held at the June Havoc Theatre on Monday, May 21 at 7pm.
The A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:42PMTony and Emmy nominee Scott Bakula will host The Actor's Fund's 16th Annual Tony Awards Party, to be held on Sunday, June 10 at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles.
As previously r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03PMThe Araca Group has announced the line-up for AracaWorks, a week-long series of play readings celebrating new work for the theater, to be held at The Studio at Theater 511 (511 West 54th Str…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMNorbert Leo Butz, Melissa Errico, Mandy Gonzales, Joshua Henry, Christopher Jackson, and Lisa Lampanelli are among the performers set to participate in Seth Rudetsky's Not Since High Sc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:59AMMelanie C of Spice Girls fame will play Mary Magdalene and BBC Radio DJ Chris Moyles will play Herod in the upcoming U.K. arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, according to a report in Varie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:26AMDashaun Young will play the role of Simba in the Broadway production of Disney's The Lion King, at the Minskoff Theatre, beginning tonight, Wednesday May 16. He replaces Adam Jacobs, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21AMTony and Oscar nominee Jude Law will star in the film Dom Hemingway, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The actor will play the title character, described as "a larger-than-life safe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:45AMEmily Ackerman, Matt Dellapina, Dan Domingues, Nina Hellman, Daniel Jenkins, Meghan McGeary, Greg McFadden, Emily Rossell, and Jeanine Serralles will perform in The Civilians' cabaret, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:28AMTuesday, May 15, 2012
Diane Osborne, from Boston, Massachusetts, and her daughter Michele spent the past weekend in New York City. Diane was the winner of TheaterMania's Spectacular Theater Weekend in NYC co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:35PMRichard Fleeshman, who stars as Sam Wheat in the Broadway production of Ghost the Musical, made a special appearance on CBS' The Talk on Tuesday, May 15.
Not only did Fleeshman give aw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:40PMAn updated list of performers has been announced for the Billboard Music Awards, which will air on ABC at 8pm on Sunday, May 20, live from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.
As previously re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PMThe Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, originally set to end its limited run at the Broadhurst Theatre on July 22, will now extend through August 19. Emil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:31PMTwo-time Olivier Award-winner and current Tony Award-nominee Tracie Bennett will reprise her role as Judy Garland for the Los Angeles run of End of the Rainbow, to play the Center Theatre Gr…
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