Following an acclaimed and award-winning run at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Jonathan Tolins' Buyer
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:15AMLyricist Daniel Maté (The Trouble With Doug) and librettist Alan Gordon (The Usual) received 2013 Kleban Prizes for Musical Theatre on Monday, June 24 at a ceremony held at ASCAP. The talen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMAll playwrights have forgotten works. For J.B. Priestly, best known as author of An Inspector Calls, that work is Cornelius, a 1935 drama about the perils of capitalism that ran for under tw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMAfter Midnight, the Broadway production of the New York City Center Encores! musical revue Cotton Club Parade, will play the Brooks Atkinson Theatre beginning October 18, producers have anno…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMHoller If Ya Hear Me, a new musical inspired by the songs of groundbreaking rap artist Tupac Shakur, might be headed to Broadway in the 2013-2014 season. A developmental workshop for the pie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:16PMBroadway veterans Jeremy Jordan, Aaron Tveit, Betsy Wolfe, Constantine Maroulis, Nick Jonas, and more took to the field of Yankee Stadium for the third annual Bombers Boomer Broadway Charity…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:58PMBroadway stars gathered last night at Roseland Ballroom for two performances of Broadway Bares 23: United Strips of America, the latest installment of the annual burlesque series benefiting …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AMRich Sommer has spent his past two summers on stage in New York City. In 2012 he made his Broadway debut as hospital orderly Duane Wilson in the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Harvey.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMHe's a Tony Award-winning musical-theater veteran, one of the stars of the hit HBO series The Newsroom, and now, a playwright. John Gallagher Jr., who wowed Broadway in Rabbit Hole, Spring A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:53PMManhattan Theatre Club celebrated the off-Broadway opening night of Nell Benjamin's The Explorer's Club on Thursday, June 20 with a post-performance gathering at Bond 45. Marc Bruni directs …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:31PMThe year: 1970. The place: Galveston, Texas. In a rambling home, a family is reunited on the day of its patriarch's funeral. As the day dwindles on, dark secrets and family truths are reveal…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMChris Harrison, the host of the popular ABC reality series The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, visited the Broadway production of Disney's The Lion King at the Minskoff Theatre on Wednesday, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AMThree-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella will take on the title role in William Shakespeare's King Lear, a production of London's Chichester Festival Theatre that will subsequently transf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00AMJames Gandolfini, the Tony Award-nominated and multi-Emmy Award-winning actor best known for his performance as mob boss Tony Soprano on the acclaimed HBO drama The Sopranos, died on June 19…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19PMA few drops of rain didn't stop the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of The Comedy of Errors from celebrating its opening night on Tuesday, June 18 at the Delacorte Theate…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:21PMAcademy Award nominees Ed Harris (Pollock) and Amy Madigan (A Streetcar Named Desire), as well as Theatre World Award winner Glenne Headly (Balm in Gilead) and Drama Desk Award nominee Bill …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:30AMIs there a better contemporary American director of Shakespeare than Daniel Sullivan? This is the question we, as audience members, pose summer after summer upon departing Central Park's buc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWicked, Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's worldwide hit musical prequel to the classic film The Wizard of Oz, celebrated its 4,000th performance at the Gershwin Theatre on Tuesday, Jun
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:22PMJane Lynch, Lilla Crawford, and cast members from the 2012 Broadway revival of the classic musical Annie celebrated the show's newly released cast recording with a CD signing at Barnes
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:34PMLincoln Center Theater's LCT3 world premiere production of Daniel Pearle's A Kid Like Jake celebrated its opening night at the Claire Tow Theater on Monday, June 17. Evan Cabnet directs the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:18AMActors' Equity Association celebrated its 100th birthday with a black-tie gala at the Midtown Hilton Hotel on Monday, June 17. Founded May 26, 1913, the union represents nearly 17,000 profes…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMDramas about parents and their children are nothing new to the entertainment canon. On television there's currently a long-running, acclaimed drama called Parenthood that deals with the subj…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMLegendary Tony Awards host Neil Patrick Harris will star in the Broadway premiere production of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's cult classic musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, set …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PM10:20am is a little early for a phone interview, and it's not surprising that the answering machine picks up upon the first attempt to reach three-time Tony Award nominee Sherie Rene Scott t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMBroadway tickets are a tad expensive for young people, but over at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, students and young adults ages 14-18 can purchase $20 tickets to Ann, written by and starring …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PMThe five-time Tony Award-winning Peter and the Starcatcher celebrated 100 performances at its new Off-Broadway home, New World Stages, on June 13. Prior to the performance, the cast, which i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AMVenice, Matt Sax and Eric Rosen's futuristic riff on Shakespeare's Othello, celebrated its opening night at the Public Theater on Thursday, June 13 with a post-performance party in the lobby…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:40AM2013 Tony Award nominees Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana, Victoria Clark, and the cast of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella signed copies of the musical's newly released Original Broadway Cast…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:25AMThere is an exhilarating and potentially groundbreaking ninety-minute musical trapped within Venice, Matt Sax and Eric Rosen's lengthy, lumbering, dystopian riff on Shakespeare's Othello. Fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTony Award nominees Joshua Henry (The Scottsboro Boys), Keala Settle (Hands on a Hardbody), and Christopher Sieber (La Cage Aux Folles) will join two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster in the up…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:59PMEthan Hawke in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Laurie Metcalf in Bruce Norris' new play Domesticated are among the selections on tap for Lincoln Center Theater's 2013-2014 season at the Vi…
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