Monday, 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 10:01PMSunday, September 9, 2012
As gentle theatrical storytellers go, you can't beat Athol Fugard. His plays – which have long documented life in both pre and post-Apartheid South Africa – have a slow emotional burn t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, September 3, 2012
They're formidable shoes to fill -- having been worn by the likes of Carol Channing and Marilyn Monroe -- but as the Masterworks Broadway new recording of New York City Center Encores!&…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:59PMChaplin, Dead Accounts, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Heiress, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood are among this season's highly anticipated offerings.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMTuesday, August 28, 2012
TheaterMania finds over 15 new recordings to end the summer and ease you into fall.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMBarbra Streisand's newest album, Release Me, will be available on vinyl on September 25, and then, become available on CD and for download on October 8. This Columbia Records release w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:02AMFriday, August 24, 2012
Kritzerland will issue a second limited edition the newly remixed and remastered 1971 original Broadway cast recording of Follies. A first pressing from the label, limited to 1,500 copies, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:11AMShout! Factory will release the original Broadway cast recording of Nice Work If You Can Get It, currently running at the Imperial Theatre, on October 30, with an anticipated digital release…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:05AMOmnivore Recordings will release The Edie Adams Christmas Album on October 9. The disc, compiled from previously unreleased recordings from the Kovacs Unlimited television show, will also f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:29AMTuesday, August 21, 2012
David Korins, Aaron Rhyne, Donyale Werle and others share their insights on how innovation is transforming Broadway and beyond.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMMonday, August 20, 2012
Reports on An End to Dreaming, Antigone Unearthed, Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame, and KRiEp.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMTuesday, August 14, 2012
Reports on Tail! Spin!, Gay Camp, and The Importance of Doing Art.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AMMonday, August 13, 2012
Reports on Pink Milk, The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children and Dark Hollow: An Appalachian Woyzeck
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:15AMAn experiment to see if humans and zombies can coexist is at the center of "Love Death Brains," a promising but flawed tuner in the Fringe Festival.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:21AM"Bewitched" heads to the borscht belt in this hokey Fringe tuner from D'Jamin Bartlett and Mark Bornfield about a witch and a nebbishy songwriter.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:03AMThursday, August 9, 2012
Donna Murphy gives an outstanding performance as the Witch in the Public Theater's often enchanting production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Short plays by Paul Rudnick and Neil LaBute and a brief tuner by Sean Hartley and Sam Davis comprise the mostly beguiling "Summer Shorts 2012: Series B."
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMTuesday, August 7, 2012
In the wake of songwriter and performer Marvin Hamlisch's unexpected passing (Click here for obituary), it seems only appropriate to commemorate his life with some of his award-winning …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMFriday, August 3, 2012
First Night Records will release the London cast recordings of the West End productions of Singin' in the Rain, currently playing at the Palace Theatre, and Top Hat - The Musical, playi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19AMThursday, August 2, 2012
This new turner about a woman trying to give up her nicotine habit proves to be surprisingly underwhelming.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, July 31, 2012
TheaterMania takes a look at 10 recordings that deserve to be added to your collection!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMA Latino-flavored staging of the Neil Simon–Cy Coleman–Dorothy Fields classic "Sweet Charity," from New Haarlem Arts Theatre, is a sadly uneven affair.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:58AMThursday, July 26, 2012
Playwright John Clancy and composer Tim Brinkhurst's revue in the Ice Factory festival puts society's ills under the microscope with mixed results.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:03AMWednesday, July 25, 2012
This new musical based on the popular children's book features gag-filled lyrics and a deliciously giddy Latin-infused score.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMRCA Records has made the original motion picture soundtrack for Sparkle, to be released on July 31, available for streaming. As previously reported, the movie, featuring former In the Heigh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMTuesday, July 24, 2012
Fiercely committed and consistently engaging performances enrich this promising but ultimately disappointing play about a Cuban man's dream of a better life in the U.S.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:50AMSunday, July 22, 2012
Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh star in this galvanzing, often ludricrously comedic version of Anton Chekhov's classic play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMThursday, July 19, 2012
Reports on Re-Animator the Musical, How Deep Is the Ocean?, The Baby Case, and Stuck.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMYellow Sound Label will release the original cast album for Transport Group Theatre Company's production of Brad Alexander and Adam Mathias' See Rock City & Other Destinations.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:16AMTuesday, July 17, 2012
Broadway Records will release a new studio concept recording of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Jekyll and Hyde on September 25. The album will be produced by composer Wildhorn, a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:48AMNina Raine's Tribes, playing at the Barrow Street Theatre, has extended. The production, directed by David Cromer, will now play through January 6.
The play centers on a deaf man born…
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