Thursday, March 29, 2012
Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel will star as Elder Price in the national tour of The Book of Mormon, which will launch, as previously announced, with an engagement in the Ellie Caulkins Oper…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:29PMThe Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys, now playing at the August Wilson Theatre, will become the 20th longest-running Broadway show following the evening performance on Friday, March 30…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:09PMThe Vineyard Theatre celebrated the opening night of the new musical Now.Here.This. on Wednesday, March 28.
Now. Here. This. stars Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, and Jeff…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:35AMCity Center Encores! presents a charming production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's often puzzling 1955 musical based on two John Steinbeck novels.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
Girls Night: The Musical will play an engagement at Detention Chicago, running June 7 - August 26. Casting will be announced in the near future.
The show, written by Louise Roche, centers …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PMGraham Bickley, Anna-Jane Casey, Ruthie Henshall, and Tim Howar will headline a concert version of Guys and Dolls to be offered at Cadogan Hall, August 22-25, according to a report on Whatso…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:21PMBrian Dennehy, Nathan Lane, and Charles Newell will be honored at the annual gala for the League of Chicago Theatres, to be held at the JW Marriott Chicago on Monday, May 14 at 5:30pm.
Denn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:59PMInternational City Theatre (ICT) has announced casting for The Fix, to run April 24 - May 20 at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Randy Brenner will direct the production, which will ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:47PMPatricia Hodge and Nicholas Le Prevost will star in Arthur Wing Pinero's Dandy Dick, which will launch a U.K. tour with an engagement at Theatre Royal Brighton running June 28 - July 7,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:26PMMx. Justin Vivian Bond will release his new CD, Silver Wells, on Tuesday, June 5.
The album is inspired by Joan Didion's 1970 novel Play It as It Lays and features songs from such arti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:40PMLookingglass Theater has extended its production of Cascabel. Featuring famed chef Rick Bayless, the production, playing at the Water Tower Pumping Station in Chicago, will now play through…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:54PMAdventure Stage Chicago has announced the plays that will comprise its 2012-2013 season, to be offered at the Vittum Theater.
In the fall of 2012, the company will produce Marco Ramirez&apo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:51PMThe Public Theater has announced additional casting for its 50th anniversary Shakespeare in the Park season at the Delacorte Theater.
The season will open with Shakespeare's As You Li…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23PMPine Box Theater Company has announced casting for Rolin Jones' The Jammer, to run May 19 - July 1 at the Athenaeum Theatre. Vincent Teninty will direct the production.
The play cente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:20PMNathan Allen's Death and Harry Houdini will return to the stage of the Chopin Theatre this summer, running July 7 - August 17.
The play centers on the famous magician and his life-lo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:09PMThe cast of the Broadway musical Once will appear on Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday, March 29.
Based on the Academy Award-winning film of the same name, the musical, playing at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMTuesday, March 27, 2012
Masterworks Broadway will release Julie & Carol: Live at Carnegie Hall and Julie & Carol: Live at Lincoln Center on April 3. The two CD set will mark the first time that the recordi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:53PMTheatre at the Center has announced casting for Sean Grennan's Making God Laugh, to run May 3 - June 10. William Pullinsi will direct the production.
The family comedy focuses on a ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMLa MaMa E.T.C. has announced the lineup of productions that will play in its three theaters.
Among the productions that will play the company's Ellen Stewart Theatre is Jukebox Jackie:…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:40PMHunter Parrish's debut EP Guessing Games will be available for purchase on April 17. Layer Cake Records will release the disc.
The album will feature music Parrish has co-written with…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:53PMThe original cast recording of Lysistrata Jones, released by Broadway Records, will be available for purchase on May 15. A date for the album's digital release will be announced in the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PMNikki Renée Daniels' debut solo recording Home is now available for purchase and digital download. Musical director Jamey Ray has produced and arranged the album.
The CD fe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01PMThe New York International Fringe Festival has announced the international productions which will be part of its 2012 calendar.
Six productions will come to the FringeNYC from Australia, in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:18AMSignature Theatre has announced casting for Athol Fugard's My Chidlren! My Africa!, to run May 1 - June 10 in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at the Company's new home The Per…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMTony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth appeared on TBS' Conan on March 26. During the time on the show, she spent time joking with host Conan O'Brien about sleep problems and using A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:59AMMonday, March 26, 2012
Casting has been announced for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, to run June 2 - September 5 at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park. Matthew Dunster will dir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:21PMThe Original Broadway Cast Recording of Newsies will have its digital release on April 10. The album, from Disney Theatrical Productions and Ghostlight Records, will be available for purcha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMCasting has been announced for Ragtime, to run May 18 - September 8 at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park. As previously reported, Timothy Sheader will direct the production, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:40AMBethe Austin, Danny Burstein, Philip Chaffin, Sara Jean Ford, Jason Graae, Rebecca Luker, and Sally Wilfert will be featured on PS Classics' studio cast recording of Sweet Little Devil.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:21AMTheo Ubique Theatre has extended its production of Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas' The Light in the Piazza, playing at No Exit Café, according to a report in The Chicago Tribun…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:44AMPS Classics will release the cast recording of the City Center Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along. The two-disc set will be available for …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:34AM 
