Friday, June 1, 2012
Tom Deckman will play the title role in Arnie The Doughnut, to be presented at PTC Performance Space as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), July 13-21.
Based on the award-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:02PMThe Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) has released preliminary footage from Oprah Winfrey's television exclusive interview with Broadway veterans Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, to air …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:18PMSpiegelworld opened its new circus variety show, Empire, at the Spiegelworld Tent in Times Square, on Thursday, May 31.
The show is a mash-up of French Canadian cirque, Berlin cabaret, and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:54PMRandy Rainbow will host Celebrate the Tonys, a Tony Awards viewing party for the theater community and fans on Sunday, June 10 beginning at 6pm at Broadway's new nightclub, 54 Below.
T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:05PMJoan Rivers will make two New York metro area bookstore appearances in June to promote the June 5 release of her new book, I Hate Everyoneâ¦Starting With Me.
As previously reported, she…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:45PMOlivier Award winner Benedict Cumberbatch has joined the cast of the upcoming film, 12 Years a Slave, according to Variety.
This adaptation of Solomon Northup's non-fiction book will s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:43PM2010 FringeNYC Best Musical winner Triassic Parq the Musical is currently in rehearsal for its limited engagement at the SoHo Playhouse, which will run June 12-August 5, with an opening on J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:49AMCasting is now complete for the London revival of the Jerry Herman/Michael Stewart
Hollywood musical, Mack and Mabel, to be presented at Southwark Playhouse, July 5-August 25. Thom Southerl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32AMPresenters have been announced for the 66th Annual Tony Awards, which will be broadcast live from the Beacon Theatre on CBS, Sunday, June 12. As previously reported, stage and screen star Ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:12AMThursday, May 31, 2012
The League of Professional Theatre Women will honor Rachel Reiner and Ann Roth at the organization's June Awards Luncheon, to be held at Sardi's on June 7 at noon.
Reiner, the Art…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:47PMAmerican Theater Company (ATC) and About Face Theatre co-production of Jonathan Larson's Rent, currently performing at ATC, has extended its run by two weeks, and will now close on July…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:24PMTony Award winner Michael Mayer will be the special guest director for Trevor Live, to be held at Chelsea Piers (Pier 60) on June 25.
This annual event, benefitting the life-saving, life-af…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:35PMTony Award nominees Robin de Jesus and John Tartaglia will star as Aladdin and the Genie, respectively, in The Muny's third show of its 94th season, Disney's Aladdin, to be present…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:14PMDame Maggie Smith has been named as the 2012 recipient of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award and will be honored at a gala at Toronto's new Four Seasons Hotel on Mon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMPlaywrights Horizons has announced additional details for its 2012-2013 season.
Four-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara will star in the previously reported world premiere musical, F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:30PMClassic Stage Company has announced additional information for its 45th Anniversary season.
Ethan Hawke will star in the title role of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov, which will perform in Oct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:56PMBritish comedian Simon Amstell's one-man show, Numb, will play Theater 80 for a five-week run beginning July 10, according to The New York Times. The show is being presented by WestBeth…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMTony Award winner Denis O'Hare will star as The Baker in the Public Theatre's Shakespeare in the Park production of Into the Woods, to perform at the Delacorte Theater, July 23-Aug…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:07PMThe 55th Annual Grammy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 10, at Los Angeles' Staples Center, and will air live on the CBS Television Network from 8-11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).
The el…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMComposer Elton John, director Stephen Daldry, and book writer/lyricist Lee Hall helped to celebrate 3000 performances and seven years since the world premiere of the award-wining British hit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:18AMRyan O'Connor and Scott Nevins will host a special Musical Mondays that serves as an LA Gay Pride kick-off event, to be held at Eleven Nightclub in West Hollywood on Monday, June 4 at 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:29AMWednesday, May 30, 2012
Updated casting has been announced for the first installment of the New Mondays series at 54 Below, to be presented on June 4 at 7pm.
The series celebrates the work of some of New York&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32PMThis tribute to the multi-talented Jackie Curtis is often enchanting.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMKatrina Lenk played her first performance as Arachne in the Broadway production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, at the Foxwoods Theatre, on Tuesday, May 29.
Among those in attendance tha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:55PMAdditional details have been announced for The Blank Theatre's benefit for the Young Playwrights Festival, to be held at Avalon Hollywood, Sunday, June 3, at 6pm.
The evening will feat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:41PMJeff Still and Nick Westrate will join the Off-Broadway company of Nina Raine's Tribes, currently at the Barrow Street Theatre. David Cromer has directed the production.
The play cente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:16PMThe Broadway League has released end-of-season statistics for the 2011-2012 season, which are the highest grossing of any season on record.
The season began May 30, 2011 and ended May 27, 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:53PMSpider-Man: Turn Off The Dark cast members Matthew James Thomas and Daniel Curry appeared as Peter Parker and his superheroic alter ego Spider-Man for a special demonstration on science and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:51PMBroadway veteran Lea Michele will be joined Glee castmates Cory Monteith, Naya Rivera, and Samuel Larsen as guest mentors on the second season of the Oxygen Network's The Glee Project, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMUpdated casting has been announced for the first installment of the New Mondays series at 54 Below, to be presented on June 4 at 7pm.
The series celebrates the work of some of New York&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:32PMManhattan Theatre Club has announced three productions, along with initial casting for its 2012-2013 season.
Boyd Gaines and Richard Thomas will star in the American premiere of Rebecca Len…
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