Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Playwright and Oscar nominee Jose Rivera will be honored at INTAR's first annual gala, to be held at the Manhattan Penthouse on Tuesday February 7 beginning at 7pm. Maria Canals-Barerra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:12PMBryan Batt and Patricia Clarkson will perform in A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, at the Westside Theatre on February 13 at 7:30pm.The event will benefit The Actors Fund. Tom Cianfichi will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMIn The Life Media has released "Make Some NOISE," featuring Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel discussing the previously reported benefit single, "Noise," which he co-wrote w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:16PMThe Encompass New Opera Theatre will hold a gala concert entitled Music for the Soul and Mind at 44 Gramercy Park North on Sunday, February 5 at 4pm.
The event will celebrate the company&ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMThe Geffen Playhouse has extended the West Coast premiere run of Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, which will now perform through Sunday, February 19.
Kathleen Turner stars …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMTony nominee and Glee star Matthew Morrison will host the PBS special, Oscar Hammerstein II - Out of My Dreams, to premiere on PBS stations beginning March 3.
The one-hour film celebrates t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:24AMThe San Francisco Opera has announced productions and preliminary casting for its 2012-2013 season.
The company's 90th season will open on September 7, with a gala performance of Giuse…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59AMSir Andrew Lloyd Webber will be teaming with ITV for a new reality talent search show, entitled Superstar, according to Deadline.com.
The winner of the television program contest will star …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:34AMBruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park, will play Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, with an opening date set for April 12. Pam MacKinnon, who directed the play at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:15AMTuesday, January 17, 2012
The historic Bucks County Playhouse, in New Hope, Pennsylvania, has announced it will be reopening by summer 2012.
The theater, which has sat empty since late 2010, will be undergoing renov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:50PMThe producers of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, currently playing the Foxwoods Theatre, have filed a countersuit against original director, Julie Taymor.
As previously …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:02PMTony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell will perform with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in Brian Stokes Mitchell Sings Ellington American Songbook, as part of the Discover Ellin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:12PMMarvell Rep has announced the line-up and preliminary casting for its 2012 season, which will focus on provocative and incendiary plays that have been burned, banned and caused riots. All pe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PMFull casting has been announced for the Broadway production of Ghost the Musical, to play the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre beginning March 15, with an opening set for April 23. Matthew Warchus will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:27PMGabriel Ebert, Greta Lee, Mary Louise Wilson and Zoe Winters -- who made up the original cast of Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles at The Duke on 42nd Street last year -- will reunite for the pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:35PMTony Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Sean Hayes will guest star on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, according to TVLine.com.
Hayes will reportedly play a revered TV journalist in th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:18PMFour-time Tony nominee and Drama Desk winner Tovah Feldshuh will host the sixth annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, to be held at Symphony Space on Monday, March 19.
The event, which will benef…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:05PMSecond Skin Theatre will present the return of the UK premiere of Mario Vargas Llosa's La Chunga at the Phoenix Artist Club in the West End, January 24-February 19. Llosa, winner of the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMThe 22nd edition of Broadway Bares, a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, will be held at the Roseland Ballroom on Sunday, June 17 at 9:30 pm and midnight. Lee Wilkins will direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:46PMA promotional video has been released for the the West End's Vaudeville Theatre staging of Terrence McNally's Master Class, featuring Tyne Daly discussing her role as Maria Callas.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:08PMStage and screen star Kelsey Grammer and wife Kayte Walsh are expecting a baby, according to published reports.
The couple were married in 2011 on the stage of the Longacre Theatre, where G…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AMProducer and cabaret performer Bradshaw Smith died on Monday, January 16, following a sudden stroke. He was 57.
Among his awards for his performances were a Backstage Bistro in 1985, and th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AMLewis J. Stadlen and Chip Zien will star in The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport production of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys, to be presented February 2-March 25, with an opening o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:01AMLondon's Soho Theatre has announced the productions for its 2012 Spring season, according to WhatsOnStage.com. There will be a total of 50 new shows spread out amongst the Soho's t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:45AMThe 66th Annual Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, will be held on Sunday, June 10 at the Beacon Theatre. The ceremony will be broadcast live on CB…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:10AMMonday, January 16, 2012
Young Jean Lee's latest performance piece features six women of various body types who perform entirely in the nude.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThe Cabaret Jazz at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas has announced its Spring 2012 schedule. The two-level, 258-seat venue overlooks Symphony Park.
The series will beg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:47PMSunday, January 15, 2012
Tobias Wegner's utterly delightful solo show combines acrobatics and film.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PMSaturday, January 14, 2012
Mama, I Want To Sing: The Next Generation will resume performances at The Dempsey Theater beginning on Saturday, February 23.
Featuring book and lyrics by Vy Higginsen and director Ken Wydr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:47AMFriday, January 13, 2012
Anthony Fusco will adapt and direct Niccolò Machiavelli's 16th-century satire The Mandrake, to be performed by the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Master of Fine Arts …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:58PMBuck Henry, John Kelly, Dawn Saito, and Mary Schultz will be among the guest artists appearing in writer/director/designer John Jesurun's Stopped Bridge of Dreams, to receive it's …
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