Thursday, 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 10:03PMEarly on in Scandalous at the Neil Simon Theatre, a bit of spiritual wisdom is imparted to a young Aimee Kennedy (Carolee Carmello), who later becomes Aimee Semple McPherson. She's told that…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:02PMWhen theatergoers arrive at New York City Center - Stage II for Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash's rock-inspired musical Murder Ballad, they may be surprised to realize they have ventured above…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
Bitchy is hardly the word you might associate with a play about the tumult created when a forward-thinking business man in 1918 China brings Western gadgetry and Christianity into the home h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, November 8, 2012
Two gifted stage performers – Anthony LaPaglia and Kathryn Erbe — are at the top of their game in Douglas McGrath's Checkers at The Vineyard Theatre. Their turns as Richard and Pat Nixo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:30PMSunday, November 4, 2012
For its opening production at its new home on West 42nd Street, the Pearl Theatre Company has turned to Charles Morey's Figaro, an modern-sounding, winking adaptation of Beaumachais' The Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, October 29, 2012
Brian Stokes Mitchell - Simply Broadway (CDBaby)
This Tony Award winner surveys about half a century of musical theater on this solo disc that makes for an often stirring recording, as his …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMWednesday, October 24, 2012
Theatergoers who have had to deal with their family's home being up for sale after their parents' deaths will find some of their worst fears, most cherished memories, and long-simmering rese…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, October 18, 2012
In the wake of reports of a man being arrested for allegedly plotting to blow up a van outside of the Federal Reserve in New York, a play like Jon Kern's Modern Terrorism, Or They Who Want T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMPlaywright Paul David Young aspires to something pretty impressive in In the Summer Pavilion, now at 59E59 Theaters, but instead of providing a bracing new kind of drama, he only offers a ra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, October 16, 2012
To descend into the small basement performance at the Irish Repertory Theatre for Julian Sands' A Celebration of Harold Pinter is to walk into a wonderfully intimate, casual salon that's fu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, October 14, 2012
As most theatergoers know, any production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a bit of a trip into a lion's den. And yet, in director Pam MacKinnon's superb new production …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, October 3, 2012
Betty Buckley is feeling a bit naughty with The Other Woman: The Vixens of Broadway, her new show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency. She's also feeling wounded, exultant, giddy, and melanchol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:15AMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Take a premise about two young, lovelorn New Yorkers living just one floor apart and mix in a bevy of little-known songs by Stephen Sondheim, and you get Craig Lucas and Norman Rene's 1981 r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSaturday, September 29, 2012
New Yorkers will get a rare treat when Eugene Ionesco's absurdist classic, Rhinocéros, takes to the stage at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House, October 4-6, as part of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMTuesday, September 25, 2012
Sarah Jessica Parker will perform a song she once delivered on Broadway on the September 27 episode of FOX's Glee. Parker, along with Chris Colfer and Lea Michele, will perform a medley of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:04AMNice Work If You Can Get It (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (Shout! Factory)
The care that's gone into this new cast album is apparent as soon as it begins playing and an overture, expan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMThursday, September 20, 2012
Ari Brand will play the title role in Aaron Posner's stage adaptation of Chaim Potok' My Name is Asher Lev off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre. Gordon Edelstein, who directed Brand in the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:21PMUniversal Pictures has released an extended first look trailer for the forthcoming movie version of the musical Les Miserables. As previously reported, the film will be released on December…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:44PMWednesday, September 19, 2012
With his newest play, Job, at The Flea Theater, playwright Thomas Bradshaw takes audiences on a simultaneously unsettling and exhilarating journey through one of the best known tales from th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, September 18, 2012
Fans of Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes' silky vocals have two new reasons to celebrate: her debut solo CD, Dream A Little Dream: Live at the Café Carlyle (Broadway Records), and the New Yor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00AMFriday, September 14, 2012
David Burnham, Nikki Renee Daniels, John Dossett, Christine Ebersole, Claybourne Elder, Christy Faber, Jason Graae, Josh Grisetti, Gregory Jbara, Damon Kirsche, Aaron Lazar, Liz Larsen, Vick…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:33AMMasterworks Broadway has released Broadway in a Box: The Essential Broadway Musicals Collection, a collection of 25 cast albums spanning four decades.Among the discs included in the set are …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:29AM[Editor's note: This is the second of two articles about advances in scenic and projection design technology which had previously looked at the sorts of new devices that artists are using on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMThursday, September 13, 2012
Ghostlight Records and Rodgers
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:39PMWednesday, September 12, 2012
Imagine Lucy Riccardo and Ethel Mertz, or perhaps more appropriately Ab Fab's Edina and Patsy, as financially strapped home caregivers, who discover that the 84-year-old man that they're ten…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSongwriter and performer Jason Robert Brown has turned the swank supper club 54 Below into a bluesy honky tonk with his new cabaret show: a toe-tapping and frequently stirring party that als…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:49AMTuesday, September 11, 2012
Alton Fitzgerald White's second solo album, Disney: My Way!, will be available for purchase and digital download starting October 1.The 13 track recording will feature such classic Disney so…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:17PMStage Door Records will release the late Anthony Newley's final studio album, The Last Song, on November 5.The 15-track disc will be comprised of tracks that Newley recorded in the years jus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMTony Award-winning director Albert Marre has died, according to a report in The New York Times. He was 87.Marre won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for the show with whic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:20AMMonday, September 10, 2012
It takes someone with star power to play a star. Fortunately, the new Broadway musical Chaplin, now at the Barrymore Theatre, has just such a performer in Rob McClure.Primarily, it's thanks …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PM 
