Monday, August 13, 2012
Broadway veterans Tituss Burgess, Chester Gregory, Morgan James, and Saycon Sengbloh are among the performers who will take part in Broadway Sings Michael Jackson, to be held September 17 at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:10PMRutanya Alda, Frank Gauthier, and Allan Greenberg will star in a revival of Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick's Murder at the Howard Johnson's, to begin previews on September 13 at Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:46AMLondon's Charing Cross Theatre has announced the selections for its upcoming second season.
The season will open with Alan Hruska's The Man on Her Mind, running September 5-Octobe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:14AMDirector Jamie Lloyd has formed his own production company, Jamie Lloyd Productions, according to published reports. The company has been launched in partnership with Ambassador Theatre Grou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AMSunday, August 12, 2012
Brian Murray and Bebe Neuwirth will star in a reading of Noel Coward's Star Quality, to be held Monday, August 13 at 6pm at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Bru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:30PMFriday, August 10, 2012
Kim Cattrall and Michael Pennington will star in the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. The revival, to be directed by Janet Su…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMThe Off-Broadway production of 7 Fingers' Traces celebrated its one-year anniversary at the Union Square Theatre on Thursday, August 9. The production continues at the venue through Sep…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:48PMFull casting has been announced for San Jose Rep's production of Jonathan Marc Feldman's new play The Death of the Novel, which will run August 30-September 23. Rick Lombardo will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:47PMHERE will launch its 20th season with Hanne Tierney's Strange Tales of Liaozhai. Created in collaboration with composer/musician Jane Wang and projection artist Hannah Wasileski, the wo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMCasa Mañana will present a limited run of Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard's comedy Greater Tuna, August 23-26. The production is directed by Joe Sturgeon.
David Co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:31AMEssayist and performer David Rakoff has died following a battle with cancer, according to published reports. He was 47 years old.
Rakoff's stage credits included the plays One Woman Sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:25AMAustralian playwright Alana Valentine has been named the winner of the STAGE International Script Competition for the best new play about science and technology for her work, Ear to the Edge…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:52AMKen Page and Jennifer Hope Wills are among the performers who will take part in The Performing Arts Center of Suffolk County's second annual gala Dressing for the Night on August 18 at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMAlec Baldwin and Singers Forum have announced the four projects which have been awarded the first-annual Alec Baldwin Fellowship. The year-long program is devoted to the individualized works…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:23AMWill Ferrell and Steve Carrell will star in the new comedy Swear to God, according to Deadline.com.
Ferrell will play a hedge fund manager who thinks he has seen God in the film, which is b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:12AMThe Oregon Shakespeare Festival has announced the appointment of Cynthia Rider as its next executive director. The current executive director, Paul Nicholson, retires in December after 33 ye…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMMore casting has been announced for Rufus Norris' upcoming London revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff's musical Cabaret, according to the website WhatsOnStage. The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:45AMThe London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will welcome new cast members Marcus Lovett, Lara Martins, Anna O'Byrne, and Simon Thomas beginning Septembe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:43AMRobert Bathurst, Gerard McCarthy, and Oliver Wilson will star in the upcoming UK tour of Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange, to begin September 13 at the Theatre Royal Brighton. The production, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:05AMThursday, August 9, 2012
The holiday musical Elf will return to Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre for a nine-week run, November 9-January 6.
Casey Nicholaw will once again direct the production, which features …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:04PMA special Actors Fund benefit performance of Broadway's The Book of Mormon, at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, will be held on Thursday, September 13 at 2pm.
The Book of Mormon featur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:46PMCasting has been announced for writer/director Adam Rapp's Through the Yellow Hour, to be presented at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater from September 13 to October 28, with an opening s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:34PMCast members from Broadway's Evita, Newsies, Rent, Chicago, Rebecca, and Sistas the Musical took part in the Thursday, August 9 edition of 106.7 Lite FM's Broadway in Bryant Park s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PMLegendary entertainment publicist Dale Olson died August 9 in Los Angeles following a long battle with cancer. Olson, who also served as a journalist and theater critic, was 78 years old.
O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:14PMThe BBC will present a 90-minute special in honor of the 50th anniversary of the popular series Doctor Who in 2013, according to published reports.
Titled An Adventure in Space and Time, th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:14AMCourtney Corey and Louis Pardo will lead the cast of Diversionary Theatre's production of Pippin, running September 6-October 14. The Stephen Schwartz-Roger O. Hirson musical is directe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:13AMFull casting has been announced for the world premiere John Muirhead and Mike Charlesworth's Baggage, to run from September 6 to October 6 at the Arts Theatre. Audrey Cooke directs the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMGeorgia Shakespeare Festival has announced the selections for its upcoming 2013 season, which will include four major productions.
The season begins in May with a remounting of 2012's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:27AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Dorset Theatre Festival will conclude its 2012 season with Ira Levin's thriller
Deathtrap, to be directed by Giovanna Sardelli. The production will begin performances on August 16 at t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:25PMPerformers have been announced for the Thursday, August 9 edition of the Broadway in Bryant Park series of free lunchtime concerts. The event begins at 12:30pm.
The concert will feature per…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:20PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz will join Katie Holmes in the Broadway premiere of Theresa Rebeck's new comedy
Dead Accounts. Three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien…
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