The 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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:27PMLaura Benanti loves musical theater. Laura Benanti loves popular music. Laura Benanti combines the two in her new cabaret act, In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention, at Broadway …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe Drama League celebrated the 2012-2013 Broadway and off-Broadway season with their 79th annual Drama League Awards lunche
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:25PMThe Broadway revival of Annie welcomed Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch to the company with an "opening night" celebration at Ruby Foo's following the Thursday,
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:51AMUPDATED: The A.R.T. production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie has been slated to play a 17-week limited run at Broadway's Booth Theatre. Previews are scheduled to begin on Septem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:09PMHeath Calvert (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Bryan Fenkart (Memphis), Roe Hartrampf (The Bad Guys), Autumn Hurlbert (Legally Blonde), Leslie Kritzer (The Memory Show), Lauren Molina (The Sk…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:18PMThe Chew's Chef Carla Hall joined Old Jews Telling Jokes creator Peter Gethers and cast members Marilyn Sokol, Todd Susman, and Audrey Lynn Weston on Thursday, May 16 to reveal the Carne
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:47AMCourtney B. Vance hasn't appeared on Broadway since 1990, when he starred in a new play by John Guare called Six Degrees of Separation. He received a Tony Award nomination for his performanc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMCabaret star Klea Blackhurst and Broadway veterans Ashley Brown and Tony Sheldon will head the cast of Goodspeed Musicals' upcoming staging of Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart's Hello, Dolly…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:52AMChristine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson, who won Tony Awards for their work in Scott Frankel and Michael Korie's Grey Gardens, took in a performance of the writing team's newest musical, F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMManhattan Theatre Club's Tony Award-nominated production of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties has extended its run at Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre through Sunday, July 7. Di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMCast members from the upcoming Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit reading of David Drake's The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me met the press on Tuesday, May 14, at Actors' Equity Associa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:57PMActor/comedian Billy Crystal will return to Broadway this fall in a nine-week-only limited engagement of his acclaimed solo show, 700 Sundays, to play the Imperial Theatre from November 5 to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:06PMTony Award-winning choreographer and director Jerry Mitchell was presented with the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation's 2013 "Mr. Abbott" Award in a ceremony held Monday, May 13 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:42AMTim Minchin and Dennis Kelly's musical Matilda and Christopher Durang's dark comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike were honored at the annual New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, held…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:34AMOn stage, he has played roles ranging from Caiaphas the Elder to Willy Loman to Donald Rumsfeld. On screen, he has been seen in films including The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe cast of Matt Sax and Eric Rosen's Venice offered a preview of the new musical on Saturday, May 18 at Joe's Pub. Directed by Rosen, with choreography by Chase Brock and additional music b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:29PMTony Award winners Alan Cumming and Audra McDonald are among the honorees of the eighth annual "Made in NY" Awards, to be held Monday, June 10 at Gracie Mansion. Presented to individuals and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:05PMClaps of thunder punctuated a recent performance of Willy Russell's Blood Brothers at Astoria Performing Arts Center, an incredibly skilled theater company that presents shows out of the Goo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:46PMThe cast and creative team of the New York City Center Encores! production of the 1936 Rodgers and Hart musical On Your Toes toasted the show's brief run with a closing night party
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AMLiz McCartney, Jessica Grové, Nick Adams, and the cast of Paper Mill Playhouse's upcoming production of Disney's The Little Mermaid offered the press a preview of the musical
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMSam Harris hasn't appeared on Broadway since he took on the role of Carmen Ghia in The Producers in 2002. But he has a good reason: He has a family and a five-year-old based in Los Angeles. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMColman Domingo and Forrest McClendon, the Tony Award-nominated stars of the original Broadway production of The Scottsboro Boys, will star in the show's upcoming London premiere, set to play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:50PM2012 was a year of high highs and low lows for Steve Kazee. Just months after the musical Once, in which he starred, took Broadway by storm, Kazee lost his mother, Kathy, following a long an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMJohn Ellison Conlee, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Caissie Levy, and Will Swenson will sing a sexy Murder Ballad a little longer. The acclaimed musical, currently running at the Union Square Theatre,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMLast night, legendary auteur director Richard Foreman opened his latest work, Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance), at The Public Theater. Obie Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham (…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMTony and Emmy Award winner Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God) and Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) met the press on Tuesday, May 7 to preview the upcoming off-B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:14PMThe cast of Broadway's Matilda received the unique opportunity to talk with an astronaut on the International Space Station on Tuesday, May 7. Via a live satellite hook-up provided by NASA, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:11PMThe cast of Steven Levenson's The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin met the press at their rehearsal studio on Tuesday, May 7. Directed by Scott Ellis, the Roundabout Theatre Company p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:03PMHeroines was the theme of Playwrights Horizons annual spring gala benefit. The event was a celebration of the company's long history of work with many of today's most celebrated female playw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMLast night, Tony Award-nominated playwright Richard Nelson celebrated the world premiere opening of his new play, Nikolai and the Others, at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Dire…
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