Alan Menken is writing new tunes for the Broadway production of Newsies, according to a posting the songwriter made to his Twitter account. The musical, based on the film of the same name, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:40PMBrat Productions has announced casting for The 24 Hour The Bald Soprano, to be offered February 24-25. Madi Distefano will direct the production. The production will offer Eugene Ionesco&a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMScott Coulter, Morgan James, Kerry O'Malley, and Kristen Beth Williams will star in Broadway Hootenanny, at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency on Thursday, December 29 at 11pm. P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:26AMJon Tenney will guest star on Aaron Sorkin's new HBO series, The Newsroom, according to a report on TVLIne.com. Tenney will play the boyfriend of the character played by Emily Mortimer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:27AMAudra McDonald and Norm Lewis will appear at Soundcheck in The Greene Space on January 17 at 2pm. John Schaefer will host the program. McDonald and Lewis, currently starring in The Gershwi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:17AMActors Katie Finneran and Darren Goldstein are expecting their second child, according to a report on People.com. The couple have a son, Ty, 10 months old. Finneran stars on FOX's I H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:05AMLa Jolla Playhouse has announced casting for Richard Montoya's American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, to run January 27 - February 26 in the company's Sheila and Hughe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:37AMClifford Street's convoluted and contrived comedy about a gay actor whose sudden A-list status forces him back into the closet is the theatrical equivalent of an artist's sketch.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMElizabeth Swados' The La Mama Cantata will be preserved on a cast album to be recorded on Wednesday, December 28. The work is a musical depiction of the life and times of Ellen Stewa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PMThe cast of Broadway's Bonnie & Clyde, playing at the Schoenfeld Theatre, will be in the studio on January 2, 2012 to record the cast album of the show for the newly created Broadwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:30PMThe cast of Broadway's Bonnie & Clyde, playing at the Schoenfeld Theatre, will be in the studio on January 2 to record the cast album of the show for the newly created Broadway Reco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:30PMRon Bohmer, Lawrence Clayton, Saundra Joseph, Andrea Rivette, and Chuck Wagner will appear in Neil Berg's 101 Years of Broadway, to be offered at San Jose Rep, February 14-18. The re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:09PMTony Award winner Glenn Close will be among the recipients of the 2012 Matrix Awards, to be presented on April 23 in a ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria. The prizes recognize women who have m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMJersey Boys, now playing at the August Wilson Theatre, will becoming the 21st longest-running Broadway show following the evening performance on Monday, December 26. The musical, which ope…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:05AMScreen and stage star Julie Andrews will serve as special guest host for Lola Astanova's concert, A Tribute to Horowitz, to be held at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, January 19 at 8pm. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:19AMGina Kim and Ryan Tofil will star in their play Miss Kim, to run January 17-29 at the 45th Street Theatre. Matthew Corozine will direct the production. The play centers on the true story o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:52AMPlaywright Kurt Kleinmann will star in his new play The Frequency of Death! to run December 31 - January 22 at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, Texas, followed by a run at the MCL Grand Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:51AMComplete casting has been announced for Terrence McNally's Master Class, which will play the West End's Vaudeville Theatre starting on January 21, according to on Whatsonstage.com.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:41AMHBO has released a trailer for Game Change, which stars stage veterans Ed Harris as John McCain, Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, and Woody Harrelson as Steve Schmidt. The film is scheduled t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:37AMTony Award winner and Oscar nominee Stephen Daldry will be honored on January 7 as Director of the Year for his work on Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close at the Palm Springs Internationa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:21AMArcola Theatre has announced casting for Philip Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney, to run January 25-March 17. Edward Dick will direct the production. Ridley's play centers on a brot…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:12AMRepertorio Español has announced casting for Karan Zacarías' Mariela en el deserto (Mariela in the Desert), which will begin performances on February 4 prior to an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:09AMEmmy Award winner Jack Klugman will appear as Juror Number 9 in Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men, to run March 13 - April 8 at George Street Playhouse. David Saint will direct the prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:29PMPhiladelphia Theatre Company (PTC) has announced the creation of The Terrence McNally New Play Award, a $10,000 cash prize to be given annually to recognize a new play that celebrates the tr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:27PMPaper Mill Playhouse has announced casting for Marc Camoletti's Boeing Boeing, to run January 18 - February 12. James Brennan will direct the production. The farce centers on a man who…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:15PMProfiles Theatre has announced casting for Leslye Headland's Bachelotte, to run January 20-March 11. Darrell W. Cox will direct the production. The comedy centers on a group of high s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:04PMDiana Ross will receive a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award from the Recording Academy. The prize will be presented in an invitation-only ceremony to be held on February 11, and formal …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:59PMLindsay Pearce and Alex Trevino will appear in a three-performance engagement of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years at the Brauntex Theatre, January 6 at 7:30pm and January 7 at 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:24AMPhiladelphia Theatre Company has announced casting for its production of the musical The Scottsboro Boys, to run January 20- February 19. As previously reported, Jeff Whiting will recrea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:05AMReal life husband-and-wife Iain Glen and Charlotte Emmerson will star in Mike Poulton's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, to run March 29 - April 28 at The Print Room, acc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:09PMTony Award nominee Laura Osnes will join previously announced stars Christine Andreas, Jason Graae, Howard McGillin, Wililam Bolcom and Joan Morris, and Vince Giordano in Makin' Whoopee…
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