Monday, August 20, 2012
Virginia's MetroStage has announced the titles and dates for its upcoming 2012-2013 season.
The season will open with Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, starring Natas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:48PMAxis Theatre Company will present the world premiere of writer/director Randy Sharp's new play Last Man Club, to run October 4-28 at Axis Theatre.
Set during the American Dust Bowl in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:27PMBob Ari and Dee Dee Rescher will star in Cleveland Play House's production of Eric Simonson's Lombardi, to run September 14 - October 7 under the direction of Casey Stangl.
Based …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PMSusannah Flood, Lee Roy Rogers, and Dina Thomas will join the cast of Nina Raine's Tribes at the Barrow Street Theatre in September. The production, directed by David Cromer, is curren…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMKevin McKillip will star in a one-night-only presentation of his one-man show Will Rogers: An American Original on September 28 at Chicago's Studio 825 at the Fine Arts Building (408 S.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:47AMSignature Theatre Company's world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless has been extended through September 30 after completely selling out its initial run at the Pershing…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32AMThe Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Project will present a free reading of Tennessee Williams' one-act The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer at ART/NY (520 8th Avenue)…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:49AMSinger/pianist Michael Feinstein will succeed the late Marvin Hamlisch as the principal conductor of the Pasadena Pops beginning in 2013, according to published reports.
Feinstein, a five-t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:22AMFriday, August 17, 2012
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre is the recipient of the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce's 2012 City Beautiful Award for Outstanding Historic Preservation. The award was p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:38PMBroadway Barks! co-founders Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters will be inducted into Gray Line New York's Ride of Fame at a ceremony on Tuesday, August 21 on Pier 78.
The dedicatio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:15PMThe cast of Off-Broadway's The Last Smoker in America visited the Times Square Tasti D-Lite to celebrate the new flavor "Smokin' S'Mores," created in honor of the mu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:23PMNotorious celebrity blogger and internet gossip columnist Perez Hilton will make his New York theater debut when he joins the cast of Off-Broadway's NEWSical the Musical: End of the Wor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:43AMThe Jonas Brothers will return to the stage together for the first time in three years during a one-night-only concert at Radio City Music Hall set for October 11. Their only show in the Uni…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:42AMStage and screen star Ciarán Hinds will join the cast of the hit HBO series Game of Thrones for its upcoming third season, according to published reports.
The actor will play Man…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:52AMJoey, the four-legged star of the hit play War Horse, joined author Michael Morpurgo on stage at the New London Theatre during a a Q&A session with children as part of London's Kids…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:46AMCasting has been announced for Shotgun Players' production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins, to run September 26-November 11 at Ashby Stage, with an opening set for…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:27AMThursday, August 16, 2012
Main selections have been announced for the 50th annual New York Film Festival, to run September 28-October 14 at Lincoln Center.
Among the films to premeire there wil be Roger Michell&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:25PM106.7 Lite FM presented the final 2012 Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert on Thursday, August 16. The show was emceed by Lite FM personality Bob Bronson.
2012 Tony Award-winner Judy …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:15PMScreen Gems will produce a remake of the 1986 film About Last Night, an adaptation of David Mamet's 1974 play Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Steve Pink will direct the film, which featur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMNot Fade Away, the directorial debut of The Sopranos creator David Chase, will have its world premiere as the Centerpiece Gala Selection at the New York Film Festival on October 6, according…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:52AMJake Gyllenhaal is attached to star in the new film Mississippi Grind, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The work will be written and directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, best known for…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:37AMJake Gyllenhaal is producing and in talks to star in the new film Mississippi Grind, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The work will be written and directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:37AMTony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey will join the cast of the Fox Network drama The Mob Doctor in a recurring role, according to TVGuide.
The actor will play Mark Easton, a federal prose…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:36AMAndrew Upton will remain artistic director of Sydney Theatre Company. Upton, with wife Cate Blanchett, had been guiding the organization since 2008. Blanchett will step down when her contrac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:06AMWednesday, August 15, 2012
Performers have been announced for 106.7 Lite FM's final 2012 Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert , held on Thursday, August 16 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm. The show will be emceed by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMStage and screen veteran Miriam Shor will join the cast of the CBS drama The Good Wife in a recurring role, according to TVLine.
Shor, whose stage credits include Hair and Hedwig and the An…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:49PMTony Award-winner Judith Light will narrate the film Scrooge & Marley, a contemporary adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The film is co-directed by Richard Knight, Jr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:15PMArs Nova's Out Loud series will present a free reading of Joshua Allen's Chrysalis on Monday, November 20 at 7pm. Hal Brooks will serve as director.
Sami Gayle, Dan McCabe, Colby …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:39PMThe Off-Broadway production of Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience -- A Parody by Dan and Jeff, currently running at the Little Shubert Theatre through September 2, will begin a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PMTony Award-winners Ron Holgate and Roger Robinson will lead the cast of the Berkshire Playwrights Lab's staged reading of Ceasefire by James DeMarse on Wednesday, August 22. Joe Cacaci …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMChromolume Theatre will present the Los Angeles premiere of writer/director Brittany Garms, Frankie Marrone, and Tara Pitt's Natalie Portman, the Musical!, running September 7-30.
The …
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