Tuesday, May 15, 2012
William 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 09:21PMTony Award winner Kathleen Marshall will direct and choreograph the Broadway musical Ever After featuring a book and lyrics by Marcy Heisler and music by Zina Goldrich.
The show, which al…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:27PMABC has announced its 2012-2013 primetime schedule, which includes 10 new shows set for either fall or midseason.
The new series include the comedy Malibu Country, about a music legend who…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:42PMMonday, May 14, 2012
The talented actor discusses his role in Mike Bartlett's provocative Off-Broadway play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMThe Outer Critics Circle -- the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway -- has a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01AMSunday, May 13, 2012
Broadway star and singer Clay Aiken and comedian Arsenio Hall are the finalists on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice, with the winner to be revealed on Sunday, May 20. The winner will receive …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:28PMNBC has announced its 2012-2013 schedule.
The network has ordered 12 new series, include The New Norma, Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler's comedy, which centers on a gay couple, to be pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:10PMAcademy Award nominee and legendary stage star Joyce Redman died on May 9 in Kent, England at age 96, according to published reports.
Redman worked regularly on the stage around the world, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:28AMStage and film star Julianne Moore will play Margaret White in MGM's remake of the iconic horror film Carrie, according to Deadline.com.
The movie, to be directed by Kimberly Peirce an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMAcademy Award winner Olympia Dukais and her husband, Louis Zorich, wil star in a free staged reading of Rest in Pices, by playwright Steve Bluestein, to be held at 7pm on Wednesday, May 30 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:02AMFriday, May 11, 2012
FOX has released a video from the season 3 finale of Glee, to air on Tuesday, May 15, featuring Lea Michele singing "Flashdance, What a Feeling" with co-star Jenna Ushkowitz.
The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:48PMJeremy Jordan, Judith Light, Kelli O'Hara, Joely Richardson, and more luminaries share their joy at being nominated for a Drama Desk Award.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:15PMOn Sunday, May 20, nearly 50,000 people from all walks of life (including many of us at TheaterMania.com) will gather in Central Park for the 27th Annual AIDS Walk New York, which will rais…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:15AMThe Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced updated casting for its 2012 season.
Te Festival will open the season by presenting a workshop of Here Lies Love, a new theatrical event cre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AMTony Award and Academy Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones will join returning cast members Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker and Helen Mirren in Red 2, the sequel to the thrill…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:43AMActress and playwright Eisa Davis has been awarded the 18th annual Alpert Award in the Arts by The Herb Alpert Foundation and California Institute of the Arts.
The award, a prize of $75,00…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:11AMFilm and television star Zooey Deschanel will play country music legend Loretta Lynn in the stage musical, Coal Miner's Daughter. The announcement was made from the stage of the histori…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:58AMThe multi-talented actresss discuss her role in Cy Coleman: Bringing Jazz to Broadway, her new film with Denzel Washington, and her career wish list.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMThursday, May 10, 2012
NBC has given a series order to Do No Harm, a medical drama starring stage veteran Steven Pasquale.
The project, written by David Schulner, centers on Jeffrey Kohn (to be played by Pasquale…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMNBC has released a video clip from the May 14 season finale of its hit series, Smash, featuring Broadway star Nick Jonas and series regular Anjelica Huston.
Jonas -- who is currently appear…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:17PMWednesday, May 9, 2012
Megan Hilty gives an incandescent performance as Lorelei Lee in John Rando's sparkling City Center Encores! production of the 1949 musical comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMNBC's Today has a released a video clip of a segment in which stars Ann Curry, Matt Lauer, Natalie Morales, and Al Roker went behind the scenes of the long-running Off-Broadway show Fue…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:44PMStage veterans Ellen Burstyn, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise, and Russell Watson will be among the artists participating in PBS' National Memorial Day Concert, to take place at 8pm on Sunday…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMThe finals of the 4th Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition were held on Monday, May 7 at the August Wilson Theatre.
For the finals, 15 high school students from around the country com…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMLaila Robins and Patrick Page will receive the annual Richard Seff Award presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation.
The award, which was established in 2003, honors a veteran female…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMActors' Equity has announced that the Clarence Derwent Award for most promising female and male performers on the New York metropolitan scene will be given to actors Susan Pourfar and F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:09PMLucky Guy, a new biodrama about Pulitzer Prize-winning Daily News columnist Mike McAlary by Nora Ephron, is aiming for a Broadway run in 2013, according to reports.
In addition, Oscar winne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMComplete cast and creative team have been announced for the Public Theater's production, William Shakespeare's As You Like It, to run June 5-30 as part of its 50th anniversary Shak…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AMNominations have been announced for the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which will be presented on June 23 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Stage veterans who have been honored for their work …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AMLegendary entertainer Barbra Streisand will perform a concert at the soon-to-be-opened Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, New York at 8pm on October 11, according to reports. Details are sti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMArena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has released rehearsal video footage of its upcoming production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man, to run May 11-July 22.
The prod…
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