Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Two-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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:16PMThe Obie Award-winning Clubbed Thumb recently held a kickoff for its 17th annual program of new plays by emerging writers -- SummerWorks 2012 -- to feature three new plays presented May 26-J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:07PMThe Broadway cast of the musical Once will perform on ABC's The View on Thursday, May 17. Check local listings.
Based on the Academy Award-winning film of the same name, the musical, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMThe Broadway production of Mamma Mia!, at the Winter Garden Theatre, has announced new principal casting which will go into effect on Monday, June 4.
Mamma Mia! uses the songs of ABBA as it…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has announced the full slate of musicals, special events and concerts in the 2012 festival, which will run July 9-29. An additional slate of free…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:50AMNew Dramatists has announced a preliminary line-up of guests who will pay tribute to the previously reported Lifetime Achievement honoree Bernadette Peters at the organization's 63rd A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:07AMThis nicely realized interactive murder mystery casts the audience in the role of the detective searching for clues on the streets of the Lower East Side.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:55AMCasting has been announced for If It Only Even Runs a Minute 10, which will be presented as two different concerts on June 17 at Le Poisson Rouge. Musical direction will be by Caleb Hoyer.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:40AMCasting has been announced for If It Only Even Runs a Minute 10, which will be presented as two different concerts on June 17 at Le Poisson Rouge. Musical direction will be by Caleb Hoyer.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:40AMBret Michaels, the lead singer of the rock group Poison, has settled a lawsuit with CBS and the organizers of the Tony Awards, according to The Associated Press.
As previously reported, Mic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19AMMonday, May 14, 2012
George Street Playhouse will be renaming its Mainstage as The Arthur Laurents Stage at George Street Playhouse, in honor of the late playwright and director. The theater has also announced t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:18PMRick Elice's new Tony-nominated Broadway play, Peter and the Starcatcher, will launch a national tour at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver, CO in August 2013. The play's To…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:57PMTony Award nominee Ethan Hawke will star in the upcoming sci-fi film, Predestination, according to a report in Variety.
The film, based on the Robert A. Heinlein short story 'All You Z…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:16PMBroadway and West End composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will receive a Fellowship of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) at the Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:06PMOscar nominee Chloe Sevigny will star in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Abigail / 1702, which as previously reported, is being presented as part of New York Stage and Film's 2012 Powerho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:44PMTony Award winner Julie White hosted Page 73 Productions' spring benefit, which was held May 11 at City Winery.
The event featured the world premiere of three commissioned new songs b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:26PMThe Kleban Foundation has announced that the recipients of the 22nd Annual Kleban Prizes, which will be presented at a private ceremony at ASCAP on June 18.
The award for the most promising…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:10PMFour-time Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh and legendary lyricist Sheldon Harnick will headline The Museum of the City of New York's benefit cabaret, Second Avenue Meets Broadway, to be held…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:28PMMax Maven: Thinking in Person will play an Off-Broadway run at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, June 12-July 1, with an opening on June 14. Alexander Marshall will direct.
The world famou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:06PMStage and screen stars Kevin Kline and Dianne Wiest will perform I take your hand in
mine ... in a staged reading benefiting The Acting Company to be held at The Kaye
Playhouse on Monday, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:18PMStage and television star Chris Noth and his sons attended a performance of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, at the Foxwoods Theatre, on Saturday, May 12. Afterwards, he …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:11PMKate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker will be featured in multi-episode arcs in the fourth season of FOX's Glee, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In addition, the new season will ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:21AMRaymond Lee of Broadway's Anything Goes has created a music video with the help of his fellow cast mates, to One Direction's "What Makes You Beautiful." Brandon Rubendall…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMSiobhan Dillon and Mark Evans, who are currently starring in the London production of Ghost the Musical, have recorded a cover of the Righteous Brothers song "Unchained Melody," wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:45AMSunday, May 13, 2012
Dan Stevens, who stars as Matthew Crawley in the Golden Globe-winning series Downton Abbey, will play the role of Morris Townsend in the upcoming Broadway revival of The Heiress, which will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:59PMBroadway veteran Lea Michele, who stars as Rachel Berry on the hit FOX series Glee, will serve as the guest mentor for the premiere episode of the second season of the Oxygen Network's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:49AMAn 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 09:46AMSaturday, May 12, 2012
The New York premiere of Del Shores' play, about four young gay men coming of age at a conservative Christian church, is only intermittently successful.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMFriday, May 11, 2012
The Queens Theatre hosted its 2012 Gala Fundraiser, a star-studded celebration of the world premiere of Heat Wave: The Jack Cole Project, on Wednesday, May 9. The event raised more than $150…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:36PMFull casting has been announced for the U.S. tour of War Horse, produced by Bob Boyett and The National Theatre of Great Britain, which will begin in June 2012, and play 30 U.S. cities.
The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:17PMKatrina Lenk will play the role of Arachne in the Broadway production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, at the Foxwoods Theatre, beginning May 29. She replaces Christina Sajous, who will pla…
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