Friday, 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 07:22PMEmmy Award winner Mel Stuart, who directed the 1971 musical film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, has died in Los Angeles at age 83.
Stuart was primarily known as a director and pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PMThe Tony Award-winning star tells the truth about her new show about the late, great soul singer at the Bay Street Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMThursday, August 9, 2012
Flight, which will star Tony Award and Academy Award winner Denzel Washington, will make its world premiere as the closing-night selection of the New York Film Festival on October 14, accord…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:03PMMasterworks Broadway will release the original cast recording of the recent City Encores! production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on Tuesday, September 4.
Smash star and Broadway veteran Meg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:50PMStage and screen star Edward Norton will lend his voice to an upcoming episode of FOX's animated series The Simpsons, according to EW.com.
According to the site, Norton will be heard i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:21PMThe York Theatre Company has extended the run of Closer Than Ever through September 30, according to reports.
Richard Maltby, Jr. directs the revue, with musical direction by Andrew Gerle a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:04PMFX has given a series order to The Americans, which will star Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as a pair of former KGB spies posing as an American couple in Washington D.C in the 1980s, and Noa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMStage and screen star Kristen Bell, Ashley Greene, Simon Helberg, Dax Shepard, and Adam Scott will be among the presenters at DoSomething.org and VH1's Do Something Awards, which honor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:32AMTony Award winner Billy Crystal has signed an agreement with Henry Holt and Company for a book about getting older, according The Associated Press. The book, which is currently untitled, is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:10AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Broadway veteran Daniel Sunjata will join the cast of NBC's Smash as a love interest for Debra Messing's character, Julia Houston, according to EW.com.
Sunjata starred in the Off…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:36PMAlan Wasser and Allan Williams of Alan Wasser Associates, General Managers for the Tony Awards, have announced that they will not renew their contract for the 2012-2013 season, according to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:57PMStage and screen star Debbie Reynolds will perform at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook, Illinois on Monday, September 17 at 1:30pm and 7:30pm and Tuesday, September 18 at 1:30pm.
Reynolds rec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:36PMCasting and creative team have been announced for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's production of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, to run at the Quadracci Powerhouse from September 4-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:27PMActor Matt Bomer and his partner, Slate PR co-founder Simon Halls, will be honored by GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network at the group's eighth annual Respect Awar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PMTuesday, August 7, 2012
Broadway veteran Ben Stiller will receive The American Cinematheque's 26th American Cinematheque Award on November 15 at a gala dinner at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, according to The Holl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:08PMBroadway veterans Jim Gaffigan and Robin Williams will be among the participants at the New York Comedy Festival, which is produced by Carolines on Broadway in association with Comedy Centra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMPaul McCartney's Live Kisses will air on PBS' Great Perfomances at 9pm on Friday, September 7.
The special captures the magical night of February 9 in Los Angeles when McCartney r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PMTony Award winner Bill Irwin will join Quentin Earl Darrington, Sidney Myer, and Diana Buchwald at this week's installment of Broadway Ballyhoo, at Feinstein's at Loews Regency on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:28PMThe Coterie will present Doris, the band created by actor Paul Adelstein, at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles at 8:30pm on Saturday, August 18.
The band recently released its third…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:11PMThe Time Out New York Lounge at New World Stage will celebrate the fifth anniversary of its popular weekly open mic night, Songs at the New World, at 10pm on Monday, August 13.
The evening …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMStage and television star Peri Gilpin has joined Season 2 of the TBS comedy Men at Work in a recurring role, according to TVLine.com. The series will return to the air in 2013.
She will pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMMonday, August 6, 2012
Tony Award-winning writer Mark O'Donnell collapsed today and died at age 58, according to published reports.
O'Donnell won the Tony for co-writing the book of Hairspray with Thoma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:34PMPorn star Ron Jeremy will play a judge in David Bertolino's play The Deep Throat Sex Scandal, which is scheduled to begin a Los Angeles run at the Zephyr Theatre on January 17, accordin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PMBroadway star Laura Bell Bundy will join the CW series Hart of Dixie in a recurring role beginning on October 16, according to The Huffington Post.
Bundy's many theater credits include…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:32PMMartin E. Segal, the former chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, died on Sunday, August 5 at his home in Manhattan, according to the New York Times. He was 96.
Segal, a supe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:01PMRobert Lepage's staging of Richard Wagner's "Ring Cycle," which was presented last season by the Metropolitan Operan will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 11 b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:12PMAlicia Keys and Tyler Perry will appear on the new season of the CW's America's Next Top Model, which begins airing on Friday, August 24, according to TVGuide.com. This will be the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:53PMSunday, August 5, 2012
Stage and screen star Natalie Portman and choreographer Benjamin Millepied are now married, according to a report on People.com.
The couple have a year-old son, Aleph.
Portman and Millep…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:37PMTony Award winner Betty Buckley will play the Countess Aurelia in a London revival of Jerry Herman's musical Dear World, to begin an eight-week run at the Charing Cross Theatre, accordi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:31PMSaturday, August 4, 2012
It's hard to say whether the former boxing champion's monologue is really the beginning of a new chapter in Tyson's life, the epilogue to a story that has finally been told to the teller's s…
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