Thursday, January 10, 2013
Heather Henderson has been named the new managing director of Abdingdon Theatre Company. She replaces Samuel J. Bellinger, who has left the theater to take a position at Second Stage Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMTwo men's idyllic life in Sag Harbor hits some snags in Tony nominee 's Harbor, which after its premiere at Westport Country Playhouse last year, will play New York's Primary Stages this sum…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:57AMTuesday, January 8, 2013
It's tough not to walk into Quiara Alegría Hudes' Water by the Spoonful at Second Stage Theatre with some pretty high expectations. After all, the show picked up the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. An…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00PMIn the past 25 years, Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy, a portrait of Atlantan Daisy Werthan's prickly relationship with her chauffeur Hoke Coleburn, has something of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:02PMIt's a 1930s screwball comedy with a dose of opera that originally took Broadway by storm in 1989. Now Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor will get a new outing at the Paper Mill Playhouse, running…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMFor many people, the Oscar, Emmy, and two-time Tony Award-winning actor Christopher Plummer (Inherit the Wind) will always be Captain von Trapp from The Sound of Music. But throughout his ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMMonday, January 7, 2013
American audiences will get a glimpse of what life was like for The Beatles in the group's early years when Iain Softley and Stephen Jeffreys' Backbeat arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre, to ru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:26AMFriday, January 4, 2013
It's once again time to witness a couple's murderous ascent to the throne of Scotland, followed by their ultimate demise, in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, set to run at Trafalgar Studios fr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:12PMThursday, January 3, 2013
Being a guy in a dress has never been a particularly easy thing, and yet, one German man, living (and dressing) as Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, managed to survive both Nazi party rule and the re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:26PMIt's a season with something for everyone, from a dramedy about a contentious Republican clan to a musical that brims with holiday cheer. Walnut Street Theatre has announced its mainstage li…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PMMonday, December 31, 2012
Now.Here.This. (Original Cast Recording) (Ghostlight Records) The folks who established the benchmark for metatheatrics in musical theater with [title of show] followed up with this tuner t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AMFriday, December 28, 2012
After its extended run at off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre, Nina Raine's Olivier Award-nominated play Tribes will have its West Coast premiere at the Mark Taper Forum. Two-time Obie Awar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:44AMAfter its extended run at off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre, Nina Raine's Olivier Award-nominated play Tribes will have its West Coast premiere at the Mark Taper Forum. Two-time Obie Awar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:44AMThursday, December 27, 2012
It's the little guy versus big guy in the musical Dear World, which will receive its British premiere at the Charing Cross Theatre, opening February 4. Tony Award nominee Gillian Lynne (The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:03PMFriday, December 21, 2012
It could be the most inaccurately named show to come along during 2012: Flipside: The Patti Page Story, that's running at 59E59 Theaters. By invoking the out-of-use term for the secondary tu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMIt's once again time for poor cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle to learn some proper English, as George Bernard Shaw's classic Pygmalion reaches the 100th anniversary of its premiere. In …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:28PMTuesday, December 18, 2012
A home that belongs to a family of Puerto Rican dancers is set to be razed to make way for the filming of West Side Story in Matthew Lopez's Somewhere, which will run from January 16 – Feb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:54PMTony Award winner John Glover (Love! Valour! Compassion!), Tony-nominated actresses Kathleen Chalfant (Angels in America), Mary Beth Hurt (Crimes of the Heart), Francesca Faridany (The 39 St…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:11PMMonday, December 17, 2012
The Lyric Stage has announced casting for Moisés Kaufman's Tony Award-nominated play 33 Variations. Spiro Veloudos will direct the production, which is slated to run January 4-February 2. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:03AMThursday, December 13, 2012
Tony Award winner Martin Short (Martin Short Fame Becomes Me) has been added to the roster of performers who will be appearing at State Theatre in New Brunswick in 2013. He will offer a si…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:07AMThe Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse has added two shows to its 2013-14 season. Tony Award nominee Christopher Ashley (Memphis) will direct His Girl Friday, an adaptation by Tony Award…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:56AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
Seattle Shakespeare Company's upcoming production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House will become a literal family affair as Russ Banham directs his wife Jennifer Sue Johnson in the role of Nor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:14PMMonday, December 10, 2012
If you're looking to put some invigorating spark into your holiday playlist this year, consider the 14th edition of Broadway's Carols for a Cure. The two-disc set features cast members from…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:52PMSunday, December 9, 2012
What could be more contemporary than greed? It's certainly at the heart of Ben Jonson's delicious 1606 comedy,
Volpone,, or the Fox, but theatergoers these days aren't given many chances to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, December 6, 2012
St. Patrick's Day may be a ways off, but Irish eyes will certainly be smiling at singer-songwriter Phil Coulter's one-man show The Songs I Love So Well at Irish Repertory Theatre. The theatr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThe Big Easy is about to become an even bigger draw for theater lovers.Five award-winning leading ladies – Patti LuPone (Evita), Sutton Foster (Anything Goes), Megan Mullally (Young Franke…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:29PMTony Award winner Michael McGrath (Nice Work If You Can Get It) will star as Ralph Kramden – the small-time bus driver with big-time dreams so famously played on television by Jackie Gleas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:29PMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Dueling divas, unrequited love, and a conflicted and ailing composer are the stuff of great operas – and possibly, an invigorating night in the theater. But in Terrence McNally's Golden A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:37PMMonday, November 19, 2012
With the holiday season upon us, New York's stages are beginning to fill with Yuletide entertainments vying for our affection (and hard-earned cash). The newest offering, A Christmas Story…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMSaturday, November 17, 2012
News junkies, social media addicts, and Shakespeare lovers can now score their ultimate fix: Ivo van Hove's epic Roman Tragedies at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House through Sunday, November 18…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMThursday, November 15, 2012
Long before the nighttime drama of the Ewings on Dallas came the sprawling tale of the Texan Benedict clan in Edna Ferber's 1952 novel, Giant. The book, of course, went on to become a class…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:03PM 
