Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Novelist and scholar Jay Parini is writing a new biography of literary powerhouse Gore Vidal, to be published by Doubleday in 2015, according to The New York Times.
Parini previously edited…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PMHollywood star and stage veteran Richard Gere has been named as this year's recipient of the Zurich Film Festival's Golden Icon Award, which will be presented to him on September 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AMPop singer Sophie Monk, Tony nominee Jeremy Shamos, and Oscar winner Mira Sorvino will join writer/performer Chazz Palminteri in Palminteri's new Broadway play Human, according to a rep…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32AMPop singer Sophie Monk, Tony nominee Jeremy Shamos, and Oscar winner Mira Sorvino will join writer/performer Chazz Palminteri for an industry only reading of Palminteri's new Broadway p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32AMReports on An Interrogation Primer, Nocturnal, and Vacuum at the New York International Fringe Festival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMThe West End production of Mamma Mia! will celebrate its previously reported move to the Novello Theatre with a gala performance in support of BBC Children in Need on Wednesday, September 12…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:58AMTuesday, August 21, 2012
The previously reported planned film re-make of Annie will begin shooting in New York in the spring of 2013, according to BBC News.
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, who previously sampled th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:02PMThe highly publicized divorce between stage and screen star Katie Holmes and Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise has been finalized, according to published reports.
A New York judge signed off …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:40PMBroadway's new nightclub, 54 Below, continues to draw celebrities.
Closing night attendees at Victor Garber's August 20 performance included Matthew Broderick, Betty Buckley, Brad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:28PMTheater veteran Dallas Roberts has joined the television cast of AMC's zombie series, The Walking Dead, according to EW.com.
The actor will be playing a new character named Milton, who…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:23PMSimon Pearl will lead the cast of Anna Grace Carter's Rent a White Guy, a new multilingual musical fable, to be presented by Fish Out of Water Productions at The Secret Theatre in Long …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:31PMAnika Larsen will join the Off-Broadway cast of Closer Than Ever, presented by York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's Church.
She takes over for Julia Murney, who will depart the cast o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMGrammy Award winner and Broadway producer/composer Alicia Keys is among the artists who will be featured in upcoming installments of VH1 Storytellers, according to EW.com.
The popular progr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMThe Broadway-bound musical Kinky Boots held a meet and greet on Monday, August 20. The production will play Chicago's Bank of America Theatre, October 2-November 4 prior to a Broadway r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:15AMThe original cast of the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2004 Tony Award-winning production of the Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman musical Assassins will reunite for a benefit concert at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01AMMonday, August 20, 2012
The Casting Society of America has announced the nominations for its 2012 Artios Awards, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The awards will be presented at bi-coastal ceremonies on October…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:05PMFull casting has been announced for Northlight Theatre's production of the classic Neil Simon comedy, The Odd Couple, to run November 2-December 9, with an opening on November 9. BJ Jon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:22PMFull casting has been announced for Northlight Theatre's production of the classic Neil Simon comedy, The Odd Couple, to run November 2-December 9, with an opening on November 9. BJ Jon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:22PMBrooklyn Center for the Performing Arts has announced programming for its 2012-2013 season.
Among the highlights will be An Evening with Lucie Arnaz, to be presented Saturday, May 18, 2013 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:12PMActor/director/painter Steve Bakunas will begin a new Broadway at Birdland series entitled Portrait of an Artist, in which he interviews musical and theatrical icons while painting their por…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:41PMKaren Allen will star in Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's production of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day, to be presented at the Cherry Lane Theatre, beginning October 10, with an opening…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:35PMStage and screen star Robert Vaughn -- best known for the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. -- will play the role of Martin Vanderhof in Geva Theatre Center's production of Moss…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:37AMTyler Perry will star in a live production of Madea Gets a Job at The Theater at Madison Square Garden for four shows on November 16 and 17.
In the performance, hard times (and the judge) c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:27AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole will perform The End Of The World As We Know It Cabaret, as part of the On Stage at Kingsborough series at Brooklyn's Kingsborough Communit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:17AMJeffery Roberson, best known for his drag persona Varla Jean Merman, will star in the title role of composer Gian Carlo Menotti's musical thriller The Medium, to play the Marjorie S. De…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:56AMAward-winning writer/performer Jim Brochu will debut a new solo show, Character Man, at the Triad Theatre on Monday, October 1 at 9pm. Robert Bartley will direct.
This salute to the great s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:37AMTony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh and Tony Award winner Cady Huffman will join Vanessa Bayer, Mario Cantone, Tony Danza, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, and Alan Zweibel in Celebrity Autobiograph…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:56AMFriday, August 17, 2012
Broadway performer Nikka Graff Lanzarone will join her parents -- stage and screen star Ilene Graff and musical director Ben Lanzarone -- as a special guest in Graff's cabaret show, Fir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:45PMStage veteran Michael Mosley has joined the cast of the ABC thriller Last Resort, according to TVGuide.com.
The show follows the renegade crew of a nuclear submarine, and also features the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:04PMThe Los Angeles Theatre Center, under the stewardship of The Latino Theater Company, has announced its fall season, which as the theme "Face of the World 2012."
Five plays compris…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:51PMABC Family has ordered additional episodes of the series Bunheads, starring Tony Award winners Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, according to TVLine.com.
The show, created by Amy Sherman-Pall…
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