Last 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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:35PMIs there any other contemporary actor who does middle-aged existential despair as well as Reed Birney? From Circle Mirror Transformation to Picnic, Birney has made a career out of playing pu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThe Broadway revival of Lyle Kessler's Orphans will end its run at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on May 19, producers have announced. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, the Tony Award-nominated re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:53PMThe theater community celebrated Off-Broadway on May 5 at the annual Lucille Lortel Awards. The ceremony was hosted by Maura Tierney and Aasiv Mandvi at New York University's Skirball Center…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMTony Award winners Billy Crudup (Arcadia) and Shuler Hensley (The Whale) will join Sirs Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in the upcoming Broadway double bill of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:34AMBroadway veterans Clyde Alves (Nice Work If You Can Get It), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Hands on a Hardbody), and Tony Yazbeck (Gypsy) will lead the cast of Barrington Stage Company's season-ope…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AM"I think I'm the fourth Swedish person to do Broadway," says Peter Jöback over coffee at the Intercontinental Hotel, just up the road from the Majestic Theatre where he is currently making …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike the Best Play and Matlida the Best Musical of the 2012-2013 season. The selections were …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:34PMThe first-ever Broadway revival of Jekyll
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:37PMThe Nance, Douglas Carter Beane's new drama about the backstage life of a homosexual burlesque performer in 1930s New York City, has extended its run at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre through Aug…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:58PMThe Broadway premiere of Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, starring two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks, has officially recouped its $3.6 million capitalization , producers have announced. Nomina…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:20PMBetty Buckley, Hallie Foote, and Lois Smith will star in Signature Theatre Company's upcoming world premiere production of Horton Foote's The Old Friends, set to begin performances on August…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMViva Forever!, the new London musical with a score culled from the hits of the Spice Girls, will end its West End run at the Piccadilly Theatre on June 29 after six months, WhatsonStage.com …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMSecond Stage Theatre's hit revival of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, starring Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe, will be preserved on a cast album, set to be released and recorded in th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PMJust a day after being awakened by the news of their awards recognition, the 2013 class of Tony nominees gathered at the Millennium Broadway Hotel on May 1 to celebrate their honors and get …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMThe Broadway premiere of Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary will end its run at the Walter Kerr Theatre on Sunday, May 5. The production, starring Fiona Shaw and directed by Deborah Warne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMPlaywright/AIDS activist Larry Kramer will receive the 2013 Isabelle Stevenson Award at the 2013 Tonys, held Sunday, June 9 at Radio City Music Hall. The honor recognizes an individual from …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMThe Commons of Pensacola, a new play by actress Amanda Peet (Barefoot in the Park), will have its world premiere this fall at Manhattan Theatre Club's New York City Center — Stage I. Blyth…
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:27PMRocky, a new musical inspired by the classic film of the same name, written by Tony Award winners Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, and Thomas Meehan, will play Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:04PMThe 2012-2013 Broadway season officially opened on June 14 with Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of the comedy Harvey, and closed on April 25 with the American Repertory Theater's reviva…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMSophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon, and Milly Shapiro, the young ladies who share the title role in the new musical Matilda, will receive special Tony Honors for Excellence in the Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:38PMDiane Paulus' revival of Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson's classic musical Pippin, which played an acclaimed run this past winter at
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:44AMTony Award winner John Tiffany's revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, which recently concluded an acclaimed run at American Repertory Theater's Loeb Drama Center, will arrive …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:21PMThe cast of the recent Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody headed to MSR Studios on April 25 to lay down tracks for the production's forthcoming cast album, which will be releas
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:47PMTony Award Winners Brent Carver (Kiss of the Spiderwoman) and Chuck Cooper (The Piano Lesson) will join Orlando Bloom and Tony Award nominees Condola Rashad and Jayne Houdyshell in David Lev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:07PMJames Cromwell, Ari Graynor, and Adam Chanler-Berat are among the actors who will spend their summer in the Berkshires and take part in this season's Williamstown Theatre Festival production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMA starry crowd at the Booth Theatre helped welcome Bette Midler back to Broadway in John Logan's new bioplay, I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With S
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:10AMThe Broadway production of Nice Work If You Can Get It will end its run at the Imperial Theatre on Sunday, June 15 after 27 previews and 478 performances. The show officially opened on April…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMBroadway veteran Christina DeCicco (Evita) joined the Broadway cast of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark on Tuesday, April 23 at the Foxwoods Theatre. The actress plays the role of Arachne, previ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:35PMAlan Cumming will reprise his Tony Award-winning performance as the Emcee and Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway will make her Broadway debut as chanteuse Sally Bowles in an upcoming revival…
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