Friday, October 28, 2011
CAP21 has extended Southern Comfort through November 5. Thomas Caruso has directed the production, which has musical direction by Emily Otto.
The show, with book and lyrics by Dan Collins…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:40AMThe Fred Ebb Foundation, in association with the Roundabout Theatre Company, has announced that Jeff Blumenkrantz has won the seventh annual Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AMThursday, October 27, 2011
Young Playwrights Inc. has announced the winners of its National Playwriting Competition. The prizes recognize excellence in writing for the stage by authors who are under 19 years old.
Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:06PMTodd Alan Johnson has joined the cast of Prospect Theater Company's Iron Curtain, running November 5-27 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. He replaces Marcus Neville, who has withdr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:44PMThe Goodman Theatre has announced casting for David Mamet's Race, to run January 14 - February 19. Chuck Smith will direct the production.
The play centers on two attorneys, who with …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:09PMThe Public Theater has received a $2 million grant from the Ford Foundation for the theater's Going Public capital campaign, which is being used to renovate the theater's longtime …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMZach Braff will guest star on an upcoming episode of ABC's Cougar Town, according to a report on TVGuide.com.
Braff's play All New People was seen earlier this year at Second St…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMJennifer Coolidge will join the cast of CBS' hit comedy series 2 Broke Girls, according to a report on TVGuide.com.
She will play Sophie, a neighbor of the lead characters, a pair of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMStage and screen star Kerry Washington has joined the cast of the film Django Unchained, according to published reports. Quentin Tarantino is writing and directing the project.
The movie …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59AMJerry O'Connell has developed a family sitcom about new parenthood, according to a report on Deadline.com. The show, written by Jeff Astrof, has been bought by CBS and it will be produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:43AMStage and screen star Anne Hathaway will star in and produce the new film thriller Puzzler, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Hathaway's stage credits include Twelfth Night, Carni…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:24AMThree-time Tony Award winner and five-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close will be honored with the Palm Springs International Film Festival's Career Achievement Award in a ceremony to be hel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:15AMThe Old Globe has announced complete casting for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, to run November 19 - December 31. James Vásquez will direct the production.
Wit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:04AMRamin Karimloo will assume the role of Jean Valjean in the hit musical Les Miserables at the Queen's Theatre, November 29-March 3, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com.
The comp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:54AMDale Howard, Marcus Patrick, Alex Reid, and Danny Young will play themselves in Wildboyz, which will launch a U.K. tour with an engagement at the Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage on April …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:47AMDarius Campbell will play the role of Billy Flynn opposite the previously reported America Ferrera's Roxie Hart in Chicago, when it resumes performances at the West End's Garrick T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:34AMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Roundabout Theatre Company has extended Stephen Karam's new play Sons of the Prophet, at the Laura Pels Theatre, through January 1. Peter DuBois has directed the production.
The pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:01PMA preliminary lineup of participants has been announced for the Drama Desk's panel discussion Anatomy of a Breakout, to be offered on Sunday, November 13 at 8pm at Fordham's Mainst…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:45PMRock of Ages will launch a tour of Japan with an engagement at the Tokyo International Forum, running October 28 - November 6. Katsuhide Suzuki has directed the production, which, with musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AMPop star and Broadway actor Nick Jonas will serve as the 2012 Kids Night on Broadway National Ambassador.
Running February 5-9, the popular program lets kids ages 6 to 18 in to see Broad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMPop star and Broadway actor Nick Jonas will serve as the 2012 Kids Night on Broadway National Ambassador.
Running February 5-9, the popular program lets kids ages 6 to 18 in to see Broad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMThe 92Y Tribeca has announced its lineup of theater-related offerings for November and December.
Performers will include The Story Pirates (November 9 at 7pm), which delivers sketch comedy …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:34AMLainie Kazan attended the late show of Zumanity - The Sensual Side of Cirque du Soleil at New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday, October 25.
Kazan received a Tony nomin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:44AMLainie Kazan attended the late show of Zumanity - The Sensual Side of Cirque du Soleil at New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday, October 25.
Kazan received a Tony nomin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:44AMFilm and stage director Liviu Ciulei has died, according to a report in Variety. He was 88.
Ciulei began his career as an actor in his native Romania and later turned to directing. He wen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:37AMAnnmarie Benedict, Bill Connington, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, David M. Lutken, and Barbara Walsh will star in a benefit reading of A.R.Gurney's The Dining Room, to be offered on Wednesd…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:57AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2 will be released for digital download and purchase on November 15.
Among the songs on the 12-track disc will be "All I Want For Christma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:24PMOn Thursday, October 20, Broadway's Relatively Speaking opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Director John Turturro joined his wife Katherine Borowitz, who is part of the cast, after…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:56AMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth and Tony Award nominee Patina Miller and the cast of Broadway's Sister Act, appeared on ABC's Dancing With the Stars on Monday, October 24. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMThe winners of the 2011 Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards have been announced, according to a report in The Chicago Sun-Times. The prizes were presented in a ceremony held on Octob…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:33AMMonday, October 24, 2011
Two-time Grammy Award winner Petula Clark will make her debut at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, with an engagement running January 24 - February 4.
The show will feature some of Clark…
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