Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Maybe you waited for them to arrive at JFK Airport. Maybe you danced to one of their songs at your wedding. Or you at least know all of the words to "Yellow Submarine." Whatever your connect…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Off-Broadway's Public Theater is on the hunt for a new home for David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's acclaimed and Drama Desk Award-winning new musical Here Lies Love, The New York Times reports. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PM[SHARE]Mother Divine
by Hayley Levitt A pompous religious leader who fancies himself God incarnate convinces his devout followers that his deceased wife has returned to Earth as a 21-year-old blon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:50PM[SHARE]Legacy Falls
by David Gordon The perils of starring on a popular soap opera are the focus of Legacy Falls, James Burn and Ian Poitier's satiric look at what happens when a television networ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:50PM[SHARE]Carl Lumbly (Alias) and Ismael Cruz Cordova (Sesame Street) are among the stars of Regina Taylor's new play stop. reset., an upcoming production of Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre. Taylor a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AM[SHARE]Four-time Tony Award nominee Danny Burstein (Talley's Folly) will make his Metropolitan Opera debut in this season's upcoming production of Johan Strauss II's operetta Die Fledermaus. Burste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AM[SHARE]Bunheads, the dance-themed ABC Family drama series starring Tony Award winners Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, has been canceled, the network confirmed. "Bunheads is a wonderful series that…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2013
Stage and screen titans Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will star alongside Tony Award-winning Broadway favorites Shuler Hensley and Billy Crudup in a pair of legendary plays on Broadway th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:46PM[SHARE]Handbook for an American Revolutionary, a new play written and performed by Matthew-Lee Erlbach, celebrates its official opening tonight, July 22, at The Gym at Judson. Directed by Tony Spec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Alan Cumming and Liza Minnelli will bring their acclaimed concert act to Broadway's Marquis Theatre this December, Out.com reports. The show originated last summer on Fire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32AM[SHARE]Drama Desk Award nominee Jeff Goldblum (Seminar) and Tony Award nominees Mary Beth Peil (Follies) and Robin De Jesús (La Cage aux Folles) are among the actors who will join 2013 Tony nomi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:33AM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2013
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning team behind Next to Normal and the upcoming If/Then, will pen the score to the upcoming stage-musical adaptation of the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:45PM[SHARE]Sebastian Arcelus (House of Cards), John Douglas Thompson (The Emperor Jones), and Fred Dalton Thompson (Law & Order) will star in the upcoming Broadway premiere of John Grisham's A Time to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PM[SHARE]Sebastian Arcelus (House of Cards), John Douglas Thompson (The Emperor Jones), and Fred Dalton Thompson (Law & Order) will star in the upcoming Broadway premiere of John Grisham's A Time to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PM[SHARE]It's been a long time since Laura Innes appeared on stage in New York City; 15 years she approximates. There's a good reason behind that: She raised two children and starred, for twelve seas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:52PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner BrÃan F. O'Byrne (If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet) and Emmy Award winner Debra Messing (Smash) will star in Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming world premiere Broadway …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:41PM[SHARE]Nobody Loves You, the new reality-television-inspired musical by Gaby Alter and Itamar Moses, celebrated its opening night at Second Stage Theatre on Thursday, June 18. Directed by Michelle …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2013
It was only a matter of time before reality television infiltrated the American theater. In recent memory we've seen variations on Big Brother (Theresa Rebeck's messy Our House) and Interven…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PM[SHARE]A world premiere of a new play by legendary dramatist A.R. Gurney is among the highlights of the Flea Theater's 2013 season. Gurney's new coming-of-age tale, titled Family Furniture, will ru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:03PM[SHARE]Despite the steamy temperatures, the casts of Broadway's Chicago and The Phantom of the Opera, along with company members from off-Broadway's Old Jews Telling Jokes, Sistas: the Musical, and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:18PM[SHARE]A one-night-only concert of Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley's 1997 musical Violet was performed as part of New York City Center's new Encores! Off-Center series on Wednesday, July 17. Direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:23AM[SHARE]Theater is ephemeral. It happens, and then it is over. Sometimes, if we're lucky, we get cast albums; if we're luckier, we get television broadcasts or DVD releases. But more often than not,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Olivier Award nominee Anne-Marie Duff, who currently stars in London's National Theatre revival of Strange Interlude, will play Lady Macbeth to Ethan Hawke's ambitious Scot in Jack O'Brien's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:34PM[SHARE]In 2010, Alex Timbers burst onto the uptown theater scene with Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, his and Michael Friedman's angry-young-man rock musical about the life and times of America's sev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2013
In his lifetime, the late Cory Monteith never appeared on Broadway, but as a cast member of the smash-hit television series Glee, he enthusiastically took part in a great many theatrical eve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:25PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Harriet Walter (Mary Stuart) will lead the cast of the Donmar Warehouse's all-female production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar when it has its American premiere at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:07AM[SHARE]Musicals by Kevin Del Aguila (Peter and the Starcatcher), Gordon Greenberg (Working), and the Olivier Award-winning team of Anthony Drewe and George Stiles (Mary Poppins) will be part of the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:35AM[SHARE]Broadway veteran Bret Shuford (The Little Mermaid) and Missy Schmotzer (Evita) will star in a one-night-only performance of Evolution of Love, a new romantic concert using some of the best-k…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:28AM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2013
A host of acclaimed theatrical writers, directors, actors, designers, and producers will decide the nominations for the 2014 Tony Awards. The committee, made up of 46 members, attends all of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:34PM[SHARE]The second Broadway return engagement of Luis Bravo's crowd-pleasing Argentinean dance revue Forever Tango celebrated its opening night at the Walter Kerr Theatre on Sunday, July 14. Followi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:31AM[SHARE]The cast and creative team of the New York City Center Encores! Off-Center production of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock toasted its July 10-13 run on closing night with a post-perfor…
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