Thursday, August 23, 2012
Boyd Gaines, Doug Hughes, and Richard Thomas talk about the Manhattan Theatre Club's sizzling new production of Henrik Ibsen's timely drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:57PMPBS will air Susan Froemke's documentary Wagner's Dream, a behind-the-scenes look at Robert Lepage's staging of Richard Wagner's "Ring Cycle," which was presen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:23PMThe veteran composer gives a sneak preview of his special musical presentation at the famed New York nightclub.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMWednesday, August 22, 2012
In a summer that has found New York City awash in seemingly continuous theater festivals -- The New York Music Theatre Festival, The Midtown Festival of the Arts, and the still-running New …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMThis cleverly titled, cleverly constructed show at 54 Below smartly shows off both the dramatic and comic gifts of these two superb performers.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMTuesday, August 21, 2012
Oscar winner and Broadway star Nicole Kidman will receive a gala tribute by the Film Society of Lincoln Center as part of The New York Film Festival on October 3, according to The New York T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:54PMMonday, August 20, 2012
EW.com has announced the winners of DoSomething.org and VH1's Do Something Awards, which honor people for doing good (and influencing others to do so as well).
The ceremony was held on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:24PMActress Tichina Arnold married basketball coach Rico Hines on Saturday in Hawaii, according to published reports.
Arnold appeared in the City Center Encores! production of The Wiz as Evilen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PMActress Rosie O'Donnell suffered a heart attack last week and is now recovering at home, according to published reports.
The actress wrote on her blog that her coronary artery was 99 p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:32PMUpdated casting has been announced for Love Songs, a musical by Steven Cagan, to play Feinstein's at Loews Regency, August 26-30.
The show, which is set at at wedding, will feature Ash…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:51PMLegendary comedian and Broadway veteran Phyllis Diller has died at age 95 in Los Angeles, according to published reports.
Diller played the title role in the original Broadway production of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:19PMSunday, August 19, 2012
Tony Award winner Dee Dee Bridgewater and American Idol finalists Casey Abrams and Haley Reinhart will join Grammy Award-winning artist Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra at C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:25PMEmmy Award winner and Broadway veteran William Windom died on Thursday, August 16 of congestive heart failure, according to The New York Times.
Windom appeared on Broadway in a dozen produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:26PMA special encore presentation of Turner Classic Movies Presents 'Singin' in the Rain' 60th Anniversary Event will take place in select movie theaters on Wednesday, August 22.
…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:02PMSean Buhr, Tyler Maynard, Molly Pope, and Lucas Steele will be featured in this week's edition of Broadway Ballyhoo at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency, to be held Thursday , Aug…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:58PMFriday, August 17, 2012
Two of the songs that will be performed on the fourth season premiere of FOX's Glee on September 13 have been announced, according to published reports.
Broadway veteran Lea Michele, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:12PMTony Award nominee Norm Lewis will join the second season of the ABC drama, Scandal, in a recurring role, according to TVLine.com.
The site reports he will play the ex-boyfriend of leading …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:11PMThe Platform Group has announced updated casting for its next two staged readings at the Creek and Crave in Long Island City.
On Sunday, August 19 at 1pm, the company will present Bruce Pos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:32PMTNT has ordered 13 more episodes of the TV series Perception, which stars stage and screen veteran Eric McCormack., to air in 2013.
McCormack plays Daniel Pierce, a neuropsychology professo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:08PMWednesday, August 15, 2012
Stage and screen star Hugh Jackman will be honored by New York's Museum of the Moving Image at its annual fundraiser, the Salute, to be held at Cipriani Wall Street on December 11, acco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36PMStage and screen star John Slattery will have a recurring role on the 10-episode Netflix version of Arrested Development, which is set to debut in 2013, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21PMStage and screen star Bradley Cooper is considering bringing the Williamstown Theatre Festival's recent production of Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man to Broadway next fall, th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21PMStage and screen actress Phyllis Thaxter died Tuesday at her home in Florida after a long bout with Alzheimer's Disease, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 90.
Thaxter appear…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:04PMTuesday, August 14, 2012
Blake Jenner was named the winner of the second season of the Oxygen Network reality series, The Glee Project, and will receive a seven-episode arc on the fourth season of FOX's hit ser…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45PMMonday, August 13, 2012
Tony Award winner Betty Buckley will play the Countess Aurelia in the UK premiere of Jerry Herman's musical Dear World, to run February 4-March 30, 2013 at the Charing Cross Theatre. Gi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:43AMSunday, August 12, 2012
Actors Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux are engaged, according to People.com.
The pair co-starred in the film Wanderlust and have been dating for more than a year.
Aniston appeared on t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:23PMBaseball comes to the stage in such shows as Damn Yankees and National Pastime.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMSaturday, August 11, 2012
Annabella Sciorra will guest star as a lawyer on the new season of CBS' The Good Wife, according to TVLine.com.
Sciorra appeared on Broadway in The Motherf**ker With the Hat, and her …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:16AMAnnabella Sciorra will guest star as a lawyer on the new season of CBS' The Good Wife, according to TVLine.com.
Sciorra appeared on Broadway in The Motherf**ker With the Hat, and her …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:16AMEmmy-winning actor and Broadway veteran Al Freeman, Jr. has died at age 78 in Washington, D.C.
Freeman appeared numerous times on Broadway in such shows as Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright,&quo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMFriday, August 10, 2012
Rob McClure, Warren Carlyle, Christopher Curtis, and Thomas Meehan share their thoughts on the legendary film star whose life provides the inspiration for the new Broadway show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:22PM 
