The cast members who will fill out the company of the upcoming national tour of Flashdance — The Musical, led by Jillian Mueller (Bye Bye Birdie) and Matthew Hydzik (West Side Story), have…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:05AMNew Chicago cast members Tony Award nominee Adam Pascal (Memphis) and Christine Pedi (Talk Radio) enjoyed their first night in the long-running production on Monday, April 8 at the Ambas
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMQuebec's Hudson Village Theatre has announced the productions planned for its 2013 summer season of fun Canadian plays. Calgary playwright Ken Cameron's Harvest will get the fun-filled seaso…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:36PMCindy McCain, best known as the wife of Senator John McCain, will be starring in a Phoenix production of 8, a play dramatizing the arguments against California's Proposition 8, according to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:13PMThe American Theatre Critics Association has named All the Way, Robert Schenkkan's drama about Lyndon Johnson's campaign to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as the recipient of the Harold …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:09AMAn Evening with Pacino, with famed stage and screen actor Al Pacino, will play the London Palladium for one night only on June 2. The show promises to be a unique evening in which Pacino ex…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMHelena Carroll, an Irish actress born in Glasgow, Scotland, has died at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 84. The daughter of Irish dramatist Paul Vincent Carroll and designer Helena Re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:47AMKandis Chappell (Rumors), Robert Foxworth (Ivanov), Robin Pearson Rose (Holiday), Dana Green, and Andy Bean have been selected to star in The Old Globe's upcoming production of Jon Robin Bai…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:07AMIt turns out Sigourney Weaver and Christopher Durang are not the only Broadway stars that socialist playwriting duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill creatively inspired. Before the Grammy Award…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMThe 40th Chaplin Gala Awards have announced that president Bill Clinton has agreed to present movie star and musician Barbra Streisand with her award at the April 22 event. Other notables pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:24PMVeterans of the Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Alicia Hall Moran and Nathaniel Stampley have been selected to star in the show's national tour when it kicks off this fa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AMActor Sam Waterston (King Lear), Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, novelist Téa Obreht, and New York Magazine book critic Kathryn Schulz are set to participate in The Public Theater's Sonn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PMRecent off-Broadway hit Giant is releasing a cast album on May 21. The album will feature the show's stars, Brian d'Arcy James, Kate Baldwin, Bobby Steggert, and more showing off their giant…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:23PMThe upcoming year-long "Sonnet Project" has announced that actors Michael Urie (Buyer
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:34PMThe Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Music Theater Conference has announced plans to showcase and workshop new musicals by theater artists Nathan Christensen and Scott Murphy, Michae…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PMAIDS Project Los Angeles has announced the star-studded selection of artists who will be performing at the 29th Annual S.T.A.G.E. Gala on April 6. The event will take place at The Saban Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AMReviewers have not been easy on Douglas Carter Beane's new book for the currently running Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. The most common complaint: that Beane m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMSkye Barrett, Gabriel Brown, Nathaniel James Potvin, Erica Tazel, Glynn Turman, Keith David (Hot Feet), January LaVoy (Home), Vivian Nixon (Hot Feet), Raynor Scheine (Gem of the Ocean), John…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:28PMSouthwark Playhouse has announced the first plays that will be produced in its new venue, one in the 240-seat mainstage space and one at the smaller studio space. Tanzi Libre, by Claire Luc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:13PMLondon's National Theatre has announced the productions planned for its upcoming spring/summer season, which will play April-August. The first offering of the season will be Eugene O'Neill's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:49AMThis big-dreaming musical isn't on Broadway yet, but the musical adaptation of the 2003 film Big Fish, by Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family) and John August (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:28AMThe Lyric Stage Company's 40th anniversary season of New England premieres and musical favorites will include the great American play Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller's 1940s-set play abou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:42PMThe American Theatre Wing has announced plans to honor director and producer Harold Prince at its annual Gala, which will be held on September 16 at the Plaza Hotel. American Theatre Wing Ad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:37PMAmerican Conservatory Theater has announced that its 2013-2014 season will include Academy Award nominee David Strathairn (The Heiress) in Glen Berger's Underneath the Lintel, from October 3…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:04PMAbingdon Theatre Company has announced that Broadway favorite and Drama Desk Award winner Austin Pendleton (Grand Hotel) will star in and direct the upcoming Off-Broadway premiere of The Las…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMMulti-Tony Award winner Stephen Sondheim will soon be able to add another honor to his collection. New Hampshire artists' retreat The MacDowell Colony has announced plans to present the arti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMLa Jolla Playhouse has announced the final production of its 2013-2014 season, the world premiere of The Who
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PMTony Award nominees Carolee Carmello (Scandalous), Christopher Fitzgerald (Finian's Rainbow), Bob Stillman (Grey Gardens), as well as Drama Desk Award nominee Patrick Page (Cyrano de Bergera…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:27AMA hot American summer is almost here! Broadway Bares has announced that the theme for its 23rd annual benefit concert, taking place June 23, will be United Strips of America. Described as a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:19PMNo one brings the backwoods to the Broadway like Reba. As the Broadway community celebrates the talent of Reba McEntire, we can't help but mourn the fact that she and her Oklahoma twang hav…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:16PMAurora Theatre Company has announced a 2013-2014 season of Bay Area premieres, kicking off with Obie Award-winning playwright Amy Herzog's After the Revolution. Playing August 30-September 2…
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