Former Star Trek: The Next Generation star Gates McFadden will headline Ensemble Studio Theatre's readings of The Vesuvius Prophesies, a trilogy of new plays by Tom Jacobson, November 3 and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:50PMCasting has been announced for Winter Miller and Lance Horne's world premiere musical Amandine, which will play at the Cherry Lane Theatre, January 8-26. Drama Desk Award winner Josh Hecht …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:28PMThe Wilma Theater will offer a limited engagement of the Long Wharf Theatre production of Terry Teachout's solo piece Satchmo at the Waldorf, November 16-December 2.The show, which stars Obi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:05PMTony Award nominee Sam Buntrock will direct Page 73's world premiere of Sleeping Rough, by Kara Manning, to run April 3-17 at the Wild Project. The cast and design team will be announced a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:17PMSusan Claassen's critically acclaaimed one-woman show A Conversation with Edith Head, will run November 8-25 at the Carrie Hamiltion Theatre in Pasadena as part of a Southern California tour…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:47AMCasting has been announced for the upcoming national tour of Elf the Musical, which will kick off at the Providence Performing Arts Center in Rhode Island November 4-10. Sam Scalmoni will d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:17AMAaron Carter will continue in the off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks, playing at the Snapple Theatre Center, through January 27.The musical is directed by Tom Jones, who wrote the sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:20PMEcho Theater Company has announced additional casting for the previously announced world premiere of Gary Lennon's A Family Thing, February 16-March 17 at Stage 52. Chris Fields will direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:01PMThe National New Play Network has added two plays by Australian playwrights Vanessa Bates and Declan Greene to the previously announced National Showcase of New Plays, to run November 29-Dec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:28PMTony Award winner Nina Arianda will guest star on the Thursday, October 18 episode of NBC's 30 Rock as the love interest of Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), according to NY Daily News.The actres…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:52AMThe Manhattan Theatre Club has announced the 2012 recipients of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiative commissions, which support the development of plays with science and technology them…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:59PMArt Start, a non-profit created to nurture at-risk youth through creative arts, will present a benefit performance featuring eight NYC young people performing alongside some of New York's mo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:02PMAward winning composer and writer Bobby Cronin will be returning to Birdland to present new material interpreted by some of the industry's best performers, November 5 at 7pm. Direction will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:29PMStudio 42 will be presenting the 12th annual Studio Sessions: The Reading Series, which will present two days of four "unproducible" plays, October 14 and 21 at the Manhattan Theatre Club St…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:59AMContestants have been selected for NBC's upcoming All-Star Celebrity Apprentice, to air in March 2013, according to published reports.Several theater favorites are among the returning stars …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:27AMGene David Kirk, artistic director of Jermyn Street Theatre, has announced that he will step down from the position at the end of this year.During his four years as the company's artistic di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AMYoung Storytellers Foundation will be teaming with the cast of Glee for the organization's The Biggest Show 2012, taking place October 20 at 6 pm at Willows Community School in Culver City, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMJake Gyllenhaal's first foray into New York theater, Nick Payne's If There Is I Haven't Found it Yet at Roundabout, is receiving a two week extension and will now play through December 23 at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:02PMJohnny Depp's production company Infinitum Nihil will co-produce a scripted television series based on the plays of William Shakespeare with Yellow Bird Productions, Scandinavian producer of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:10PMMichael Attenborough will be stepping down as artistic director of The Almeida Theatre in spring 2013, after 11 years in the position."My 11 years as Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:24PMBroadway Records and 54 Below have announced plans to create a series of albums recorded live at 54 Below.The first albums in the series will be recordings from Patti LuPone, produced by Rob…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMFull casting has been announced for Anya Reiss' previously announced new version of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, playing November 8-December 1 at Southwark Playhouse. Russell Bolam will dir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:13PMYork Theatre Company has announced plans for its Developmental Reading Series, which presents workshops of new musicals by emerging and established authors. All performances are free and op…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:23PMScreen and stage veteran Christie Brinkley will be guest starring on NBC's Parks and Recreation, according to TVline.The model and actress will be playing Gayle, wife of the clumsy, overweig…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMBroadway veteran and Deadwood star Ian McShane will be joining the cast of FX's American Horror Story, according to TVline.McShane will be playing a character who will "tussle" with the ment…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMMatt Bomer is set to guest star on the new NBC comedy The New Normal, according to Deadline.The show's creator Ryan Murphy is quoted as saying Bomer will play the "sexy ex-boyfriend" of the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:31AMSignature Theatre is to present a one-weekend concert of Matt Conner and Grace Barnes' musical Crossing, October 20-21 in the MAX. Artistic director Eric Schaeffer will direct.Crossing expl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AMMahaiwe Performing Arts Center has announced further plans for its previously reported 2012-2013 season.Highlights will include Masters of the Fiddle with Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:30PMCourt Theatre will present a reimagined version of James Joyce's The Dead, November 8-December 9. Charles Newell will direct, with musical direction by Doug Peck and choreography by Katie S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:15PMWalnut Street Theatre will be presenting Plaid Tidings, a collection of holiday hits performed by the boys of Forever Plaid, November 20-December 30 at the Walnut's Independence Studio on 3.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00PMJeanie Linders, the writer and producer of Menopause The Musical, will bring the world premiere of her new show The D* Word – A Musical (*Ditched, Dumped, Divorced and Dating) to play at T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:51PM