Monday, May 21, 2012
Broadway, film, and television star Kristen Bell and country music superstar Toby Keith will co-host the 11th annual CMT Music Awards, which honor the best country music videos, to air on We…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:49AMThe Broadway star discusses playing Harold Hill in Arena Stage's revival of Meredith Willson's classic musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMSunday, May 20, 2012
Singer and songwriter Robin Gibb, who was part of the Bee Gees with his brothers Maurice and Barry, has died of cancer at age 62.
A top-selling group through much of the 1970s and 1980s, th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:08PMSaturday, May 19, 2012
Freckleface the Musical will complete its run at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center on Sunday, July 1.
Buddy Crutchfield directs the production, with choreography by Gail Pennington Cru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMFriday, May 18, 2012
Public tickets are now available for Remembering Donald Smith -- A Memorial Concert to be held at 6pm on Tuesday, May 22 at The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street).Seats are available on a firs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:39PMStage veteran and Oscar winner Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska will star in a new film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novella Carol (aka The Price of Salt), according to The Holly…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:38AMJon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe will star in Sky Arts' series based on Russian satirist Mikhal Bulgakov's short story memoir A Young Doctor's Notebook, according to The Hollywoo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:31AMStephen Fry and Hugh Laurie will lend their voice skills to Kim Burdom's CG animated movie adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost, according to The Hollywood Reporter. K…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:23AMThe Boomerang Theatre Company has announced complete cast and creative team for its free production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, to run June 23-July 15 in Central Park.
The show i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:47AMThursday, May 17, 2012
Full casting has been announced for the Geffen Playhouse's world premiere of John Pielmeier'sThe Exorcist, the stage adaptation of William Peter Blatty's famous 1971 novel, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:39PMTony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Kathleen Chalfant wil star in Alexander Dinelaris' play, Red Dog Howls, which will open New York Theatre Workshop's 2012-2013 season…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:31PMBill Army, Marilyn Sokol, Todd Susman and the cast and creators of the new Off-Broadway play discuss their laugh-filled comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:16PMTony Award winners Jason Alexander and Nikki M. James, 2012 Tony Award nominee Jayne Houdysell, and Dominic Marsh will co-star in a film version of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' Of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PMYvelisse Fermin from Flushing, Queens was named the 1,000, 000th person to attend Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, at the Foxwoods Theatre, at the Wednesday, May 16 matinee. Sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:01PMThe Acting Company will present Andrew Weems' solo show
Damascus at the4th Street Theater June 6-June 24. Ian Belknap will direct the production.
The piece is described as an irrev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:50PMStage and screen stars Brian d'Arcy James and Brooke Shields will co-host The 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards, which will take place on Sunday, June 3 at 8pm at The Town Hall in Manhattan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMStage and screen star Liam Neeson is set to play Matt Scudder in the film version of A Walk Among the Tombstones, according to Deadline.com.
The film, adapted by Scott Frank from Lawrence …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:33PMBroadway star Jackie Hoffman will be among the stars participating in Match Game Live, to be held at New York's LGBT Center at 7pm on Thursday, May 31. Ben Lerman will host the event.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:59AMFOX has released a promotional video with some of the stars of its hit series Glee discussing the show's third season finale, which will air on Tuesday, May 22.
The video features inte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:40AMBroadway veterans Laura Osnes and John Pizzarelli will be part of the 2012 Spring season at The Café Carlyle at The Carlyle Hotel.
Pizzarelli, who starred in the musical Dream, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:38AMThe CW has officially given orders to five new series.
Topping the list is the medical drama Emily Owens, M.D, which features stage star Mamie Gummer in the title role as a first year inter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
Lynn Ahrens, Jon Robin Baitz, Julia Brownell, Evan Cabnet, David Cromer, Christopher Durang, Željko Ivanek, Greta Lee, Joe Mantello, Greg Pierce, Paul Rudnick, Bartlett Sher, Sam Watersto…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06PMTheatreworks USA will present nation's the Off-Broadway premiere of the new children's musical, SkippyJon Jones, to run July 17-August 17 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
The produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:38PMOscar winner and Tony Award nominee Jane Fonda has joined the cast of the comedy Better Living Through Chemistry, according to Deadline.com.
David Posamentier and Geoff Moore are co-direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:14PMStage and screen star Alan Rickman will play Hilly Kristal, the founder of the famous East Village punk-rock club CBGB, in a new film to directed by Randall Miller.
The film will focus on t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMCBS has ordered four new series for its 2012 Fall schedule.
The series include Elementary, a new take on Sherlock Holmes, starring stage veterans Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, and Aidan Quinn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:55AMTuesday, May 15, 2012
Bring It On: The Musical, which has been touring the country, will play Broadway's St James Theatre, July 12-October 7, according to a report in The New York Times. The production, whic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:10PMBring It On: The Musical, which has been touring the country, will play Broadway's St James Theatre, July 12-October 7. The production, which will open officially on August 1, is direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:10PMOscar winner Aaron Sorkin will adapt Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's biography about the co-founder of Apple, into a major motion picture, according to reports. Scott Rudin will produce t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08PMStage and screen star Chris Pine will star in the independent film Mantivities, a comedy he co-wrote with about an ex-child star spurred into taking hold of his life by a bunch of his friend…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:07PMWilliam Friedkin will be the guest artistic director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs June 14 through June 24,and will screen more than 200 features, shorts, and music videos fr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:21PM 
