Thursday, May 24, 2012
Joe's Pub has announced additional programming for late June/early July.
Among the highlights is a celebration of the new EP for Gay Bride of Frankenstein from composer Billy Butler an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:14AMNatasha Yvette Williams, currently featured on Broadway as Mariah in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, will be the special musical guest at the Running of the Red Bulls benefit, to be held…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:35AMBrent Barrett, who originated the role of Hannibal Lecter in the Off-Broadway run of Silence! The Musical, returned to check out the show this past Saturday, May 19 at The 9th Space Theatre …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMCast members from Dancing with the Stars: Live in Las Vegas -- including Sabrina Bryan, Tia Carrere, Joey Fatone, and Lacey Schwimmer -- attended a performance of Jersey Boys, at Paris Las …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:52AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Andy Bey, Barbara Fasano, Annie Ross, and Billy Stritch will perform in England Swings: Noël Coward in Jazz, to be held at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, part of Jazz at Lincoln Cente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:43PMStage and screen star Patrick Wilson gave the keynote address at his alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University, on Sunday, May 20.
Speaking to a crowd of nearly 4,000 graduates, he told the gr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:22PMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company has extended its run of the Carlo Goldoni classic: The Servant of Two Masters, adapted by Constance Congdon. Christopher Bayes directs this commedia dell&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMJames Lecesne will play the role of campaign manager Dick Jensen in the Broadway production of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, replacing Michael McKean who as recently reported, was injured …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:43PMEduardo Placer takes over the role of Angel in the American Theater Company (ATC) and About Face Theatre co-production of Jonathan Larson's Rent, currently performing at ATC. He replace…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:41PMPlaywrights Horizons has announced the performers for its annual Spring Gala, entitled "The Highest Standard," to be held on Monday evening, June 11 at the event space 583 Park Ave…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMBard SummerScape has announced casting for an all-male production of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid, to perform at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, July 13-22. As …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMThe second annual Tony Awards Showcase, hosted by The Tony Awards at the Times Square Museum and Visitor Center, will begin today, May 23 and run through The Tony Awards on Sunday, June 10. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMThe Broadway run of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park will now play an extra four weeks at the Walter Kerr Theatre, with tickets now on sale through August 12.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMThe National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress has announced the 25 sound recordings that will be newly added to its collection, which aims to highlight the richness of the natio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:48AMTuesday, May 22, 2012
Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley's new musical fails to capitalize on its richly tantalizing premise involving some of the 20th century's most fascinating figures.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMStage and screen star Samuel L. Jackson will host the BET Awards 12, to be aired live from the Historic Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday, July 1.
Jackson starred on Broadway earli…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMStage and television star Isiah Whitlock, Jr. attended a performance of the Off-Broadway production, BRONTË A Portrait of Charlotte at Theatre 511 on Saturday, May 19. Afterwards, h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:08PMCasting has been announced for the second annual Night of a Thousand Judys, to be held at Playwrights Horizons on Monday, June 18 at 8pm. Ben Rimalower will direct, with music direction by L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:46PMManhattan Theatre Club will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow's leadership of the organization with a special tribute on Monday, June 18. The
event will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:31PMSony Masterworks will release West End star Ramin Karimloo's new album, Human Heart, on June 5.
The recording includes songs that Karimloo has performed on stage including "Music…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMOskar Eustis, Rinne Groff, Stephen Adly Guirgis, and Richard Nelson will join the previously reported Tony Kushner for On Arthur Miller: A Playwrights' Conversation, to be held at The 9…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:50PMAlan Alda and Brian Greene will host the 2012 World Science Festival's 5th anniversary gala celebration, entitled A Performing Arts Salute to Science, to be held at The Allen Room at Ja…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:35PMThe World Science Festival and Paley Center will present Alan Alda's Burning Question: What Is a Flame? at the Paley Center on Friday, June 1 at 4pm.
For the event, actor and science a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:29PMMasterworks Broadway will release a cast recording of the Encores! production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The album will be recorded in New York City this week.
Smash star and Broadway vet…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AMTony Award winner and film star Ralph Fiennes will star in the upcoming film, The Two Women, adapted from the work by Ivan Turgenev.
Set in Russia during the 19th century, the drama will b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMStage veterans and film stars Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy will co-star in a double-feature film project for Myriad Pictures, according to Deadline.com.
Ned Benson will serve as writer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32AMThe Off Broadway Alliance -- the organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents and marketing firms -- has announced recipients for its competitive awards, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:17AMStage veteran Paul Dano has joined the film cast of Twelve Years a Slave, according to Deadline.com.
This adaptation of Solomon Northup's novel will star the previously reported Chiwet…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:27AMThe 30th anniversary Elliot Norton Awards, honoring excellence in theater within the Greater Boston area, were given out by The Boston Theater Critics Circle in a ceremony at the Paramount M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMMonday, May 21, 2012
Stage and screen veteran Polly Draper will star in
Bay Street Theatre's American premiere of Geraldine Aron's My Brilliant Divorce (May 29-June 24), to be directed by Matt McGrath.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:30PMBroadway Bares: Beach Burlesque will be performed on Fire Island on Saturday, June 2 at 7pm and 9pm. Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell is executive producer and creator of Broadway Bares, and…
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