Morgan James isn't used to singing happy songs. In fact, she says that the prospect of doing so is giving her a complex. But this veteran of Broadway's Godspell and The Addams Family, curren…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMFaith Prince calls and promptly asks to hang up and call back later. She didn't want to miss our scheduled chat time, but she was at the vet with one of her dogs. It's a down-to-earth moment…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMAt the northeast corner of Union Square stands the Union Square Theatre, a performance space within a building with a unique history. Where audience members now mingle with Caissie Levy, Wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMTony Award winner Paulo Szot (South Pacific) and Broadway veterans Howard McGillin (The Phantom of the Opera), Alexandra Silber (Master Class), Max Von Essen (Evita), Donna Kane (Meet Me in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:38PMClassic Stage Company's off-Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, directed by CSC Artistic Director Brian Kulick, opened on Thursday, May 29, and was commemorat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01AMMCC Theater's production of Neil LaBute's latest dark comedy, Reasons to Be Happy, has extended its off-Broadway run at theLucille Lortel Theatre though Saturday, June 29. Originally schedul…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:32PMIn just over eight weeks, the world premiere Broadway production of I'll Eat You Last, starring superstar Bette Midler, has recouped its $2.4 million investment, becoming the latest show thi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe songs of angry men (who will not be slaves again) will be sung once more at the Imperial Theatre, which will house the upcoming Broadway revival of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schön…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:59AMThe 2013 Tony Award-nominated Broadway production of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, featuring a new book by Douglas Carter Beane, rang in 100 performances with their evening show on Wed…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:17AMThe Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Once celebrated its 500th performance with their Wednesday matinee on May 29. The performance also marked the official opening for new cast memb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:14AMFollowing a sold-out run off-Broadway in the summer of 2012, the new musical Soul Doctor, about the life of "Rock Star" Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, will move to Broadway's Circle in the Square T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:54PMActor/director/fashion designer/all-around Renaissance man John Malkovich will play Giacomo Casanova in The Giacomo Variations, the inaugural outing of the new Cherry Orchard Festival, set t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:56PMYou now have a chance to get tickets to Playwrights Horizons ' sold-out world premiere of the new musical Far From Heaven. Originally scheduled to close June 30, the off-Broadway production …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:49PMGolden Globe nominee and West End stage veteran Rebecca Hall will make her Broadway debut this winter in Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Sophie Treadwell's drama Machinal. Lyndsey Tu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:59PMOf this year's 102 Tony Award nominees, dozens are receiving a nod for the first time. In honor of their nomination, we quizzed several of these newbies on the other major firsts in their li…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe 63rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were presented on Thursday, May 23 at famed theater district eatery Sardi's. Former winners including Judy Kaye, Michael McGrath, and Donna Murphy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:23AMHe's never won a Tony Award, but that's no matter. Alvin Epstein, one of the truly great stage actors, has played his share of roles that are better than any award could top. Who else can sa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMTom Hanks, the Tony Award-nominated star of Broadway's Lucky Guy, received one of the theatrical community's highest honors, a caricature for the walls of famed eatery Sardi's, at an afterno…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:21PMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Sero Project's sold-out benefit performance of David Drake's The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, held May 20 at John Jay College's Gerard W. Lynch The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMActress/comedian Lea DeLaria (The Rocky Horror Show) will join Classic Stage Company's production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle beginning June 11. The production, originally…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMAudra McDonald, Steve Kazee, Ari Graynor, Mamie Gummer, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Constantine Maroulis were among the stars on hand to celebrate the off-Broadway o
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:26AMJessica Hecht and Judith Light descend the staircase to the lower lobby of the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in a fit of laughter. Looking as luminous in person as they do in Richard Greenberg'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMViolence has never seemed as sexy as it does in Murder Ballad, Juliana Nash and Julia Jordan's pulpy and exceedingly well-done rock opera, which has transferred to the specially reconfigured…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMBroadway veterans Morgan James (Motown the Musical), Tony Award winner Nikki M. James (The Book of Mormon), three-time Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn (Passion), and six-time Emmy Award winner …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:20PMWilliam Finn and James Lapine's musical adaptation of the Academy Award-nominated film Little Miss Sunshine will open Second Stage Theater's upcoming off-Broadway season, The New York Times …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:56PMTony Award nominees Montego Glover (Memphis), Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening), and Norm Lewis (The Gershwins' Porgy
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:48PMEntertainment lawyer and New Dramatists Board Chairman Seth Gelbaum was honored with a 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization's 64th annual spring luncheon, held May 21 at the M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:59PMPlaywright/screenwriter Paul Weitz (American Pie, Trust), the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, and the 10th anniversary of Second Stage Uptown (curated by Chris Burney) were honored at Second Sta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:52AMTonight, Monday, May 20, cast members from Pippin, Matilda, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, and more will go head-to-head in the Seventh Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, a benefit for the Ali F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00AMClutching their newly minted statuettes, the 2013 Drama Desk Award winners met the press Sunday night. Shortly after winning, they were whisked away from the ceremony at Town Hall to the Lib…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:58AMThe 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards Ceremony took place May 19 at 8:00PM at Town Hall in midtown Manhattan. An organization of theater critics, writers, and editors, Drama Desk honors excelle…
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