Two designers create dozens of locations for Broadway’s “Women on the Verge…”As a designer, how do you adapt a Spanish-language movie into a Broadway musical, especia…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PMHow a massive team creates the composer’s raucous holiday showSince it was written in just three weeks and had only two weeks of rehearsal with a cast of around 30 people, you could ar…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PMChiemi Karasawa first encountered Elaine Stritch [editorial note: if you are not familiar with Elaine Stritch, please hit pause on reading this article and watch this, this, and this] when s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:24PMNot everyone can get to The New York Philharmonic's concert staging of Carousel. PBS will be broadcasting the performance into living rooms around the country later this year, but we thought…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:32PMHaving a conversation with Diane Paulus is a lot like watching one of her shows: a wholly immersive experience filled with side stories populated by acrobats, hippies, Shakespearean characte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:18PMBefore we even get to Christopher Jackson's night job, co-starring as Charlie Heartbreak in the Atlantic Theater Company 's The Jammer, we needed to get a handle on his multiple jobs By day,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:43PMWhat drives your movie selections? Do you go for "Critically-acclaimed Violent Suspenseful Movies?" Or are you more of a "Dysfunctional Family Drama" type? Whatever your preference, the play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:08PMWhat drives your movie selections? Do you go for "Critically-acclaimed Violent Suspenseful Movies"? Or are you more of a "Dysfunctional Family Drama" type? Whatever your preference, the play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:42PMWhat inspires your movie selections? Do you go for ‘Critically-acclaimed Violent Suspenseful Movies'? Or are you more of a 'Dysfunctional Family Drama' type? Whatever your preference, the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:45PMOpen letters, Glee drama, "bros"—the most notable thing about the most notable stories on TheaterMania in 2012 is that they're more about the theater community than Broadway "stars." It's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMKurt Deutsch is not a left-brain, right-brain kind of guy. Instead, both sides of his brain operate simultaneously, with creative thoughts substantiated by business ones and vice versa. As t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00PMWhen Julia Murney takes the stage in Falling at the Minetta Lane Theatre, her face isn't Elphaba green, she's not wearing John Lennon's famous New York City t-shirt, nor is she raising the r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMLauren Molina and Nick Cearley know how to get Broadway naked.Billed at the musical duo The Skivvies, Molina (the cello-playing Johanna in Sweeney Todd) and Cearley (a r
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:10PMOscar winner Dame Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music) has gone from taming unruly children to directing tap dancing mice in The Great American Mousical at Goodspeed-at-Chester/T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:46PMYahoo released a sneak peek at the second season of Smash. We reviewed it for the best parts:Stolen songs, Bombshell on Broadway, J-Hud as Veronica Moore (more or less playing herself); Jere…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:17PMSeventeen works, eighty actors, and sixteen directors, all tackling a single subject—genocide—in just one week of performances at La MaMa. Soulographie: Our Genocides is a convergence of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:52PMIn the end, it wasn't even close.TheaterMania's (imaginary) Election 2012: The Musical incumbent presidential candidate, Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell (aka "Stobama"), beat Tony no…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:22PMFrom Twitter to Facebook and even Instagram, the Broadway community is finding creative ways to engage their fans in supporting Hurricane Sandy relief efforts with calls to action including …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:54PM“Checkers” sheds light on the president’s dark history Many Americans have strong opinions about Richard Nixon, and playwright Douglas McGrath (pictured above) is no except…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:19AMTarget Margin Theater Celebrates Its Second Decade To close out their 20th anniversary season, Target Margin Theater has gone back to its Shakespearean roots. The company’s new product…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:58AMHow a massive team creates the composer’s raucous holiday show Since it was written in just three weeks and had only two weeks of rehearsal with a cast of around 30 people, you could a…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:08PMTwo designers create dozens of locations for Broadway’s “Women on the Verge…” As a designer, how do you adapt a Spanish-language movie into a Broadway musical, especially…
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