Thursday, June 21, 2012
The York Theatre Company's revival of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire's musical revue Closer Than Ever celebrated its opening on Wednesday, June 20 at Saint Peter's Church…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:36AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
Davis Gaines will play King Arthur in Musical Theatre West's upcoming production of Monty Python's Spamalot, to run June 29-July 15 in the Carpenter Performing Arts Center.
Direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:29PMThe Broadway revival of Anything Goes marked its 500th performance at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre with a post-performance hat-tossing following the matinee on Wednesday, June 20.
The entir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:19PMThe Broadway production of Sister Act will end its run at the Broadway Theatre on Sunday, August 26. It will have played 28 previews and 561 performances.
Jerry Zaks has directed the musica…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:02PMGreat Performance will once again air Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles as part of the PBS Arts Summer Festival on Friday, June 29. The presentation will serve in part as a com…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:34PMEthan Lipton's new comedy Red-Handed Otter will receive a production in September 2012 at the Cherry Lane Theatre as part of his tenure in Playwrights Realm's new PAGE ONE program.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:09PMKokandy Productions will present David Nehls and Betsy Kelso's The Great American Trailer Park Musical at Theater Wit, running August 2-26.
John D. Glover directs the musical comedy, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:40PM1812 Productions and the Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Program has announced the recipients of the 2012 summer residencies and the Couple Extra Bucks Fund grant.
Residencies have been awa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:04PMThe Pearl Theatre Company has announced the directors who will stage the works that make up the 2012-2013 season. The season is the company's first in their previously announced new hom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:44PMVassily Sigarev's Black Milk will make its New York premiere in a translation by Sasha Dugdale, running July 19-August 4 at the East 13th Street Theatre (home of Classic Stage Company).…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:33PMAcorn Media will release the 15-disc Costume Drama Classic Collection on July 31. The set will include four star-studded Masterpiece Theatre period dramas as well as the five-part documentar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:24PMStonehenge Partners and the Film Society of Lincoln Center will present a screening of the classic movie-musical On the Town on Wednesday, June 20 at 8pm at the Firefighters Memorial Park at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:18PMHarvey Schmidt, composer of the long-running Off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks visited the production at the Snapple Theater Center on Saturday, June 16. It was the first time that Schmid…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMMike Daisey will bring a revised version of his controversial monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs back to Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company this summer, running at the theater fro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
The Off-Broadway Alliance presented the 2nd Annual Off-Broadway Alliance Awards at Sardi's on Tuesday, June 19. The awards honor the commercial and not-for-profit productions that opene…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:37PMIllness has forced Emmy and Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth to reschedule her Wednesday, June 20 concert at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Andrew Jackson Hall. The new date …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:54PMThe Bucks County Playhouse production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein revue A Grand Night for Singing has extended, and will now run July 2-29. The production was originally set to close on J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:42PMWoody Harrelson visited the cast of Off-Broadway's Triassic Parq the Musical at the SoHo Playhouse on Sunday, June 17.
In Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz and Steve Wargo's musical …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:28PMJoyce Chittick will return to the Broadway production of Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on June 19.
Chittick will take over the role of Erma, originally played in this produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:14PMPCPA Theaterfest will present Legally Blonde the Musical at the Marian Theatre July 6-22, and at the Solvang Festival Theatre, July 27-August 19.
Michael Jenkinson directs and choreographs …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMNew Line Cinema is planning to remake the Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim-penned cult murder mystery film The Last of Sheila, according to published reports.
Producer Beau Flynn (Journ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMParker Posey will host the Ali Forney Center's third annual Oasis summer benefit on Thursday, June 19 at the Bowery Hotel's Terrace Room.
The evening, sponsored by Barclays, will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:25AMSignature Theatre Company has announced the launch of Signature Cinema, a new program that will showcase films written by playwrights and films that explore the "world" of the play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AMThe Minneapolis-based Mixed Blood Theatre has announced the appointment of Amanda White Thietje as Managing Director to launch the company's upcoming 37th season. She replaces Pj Doyle,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:09AMA new stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations by Jo Clifford will begin a national tour of the United Kingdom beginning September 11 prior to a run in London's West…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:47AMThe Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust will host the fifth annual Steinberg Playwright "Mimi" Awards on Monday, October 29 at Lincoln Center Theater.
The Mimi Awards promo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:35AMApollinaire Theatre Company will present a bilingual production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, running July 11-28 in Mary O'Malley Park.
Danielle Fauteux…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:22AMGerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway will return to the 47th Street Theatre with Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking, to begin previews on July 24 in advance of a September 6 open…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01AMThe Public Theater has announced an additional performance of the Shakespeare in the Park production of As You Like It, to take place on Tuesday, June 19 at 8pm. Daniel Sullivan directs Will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:13AMMonday, June 18, 2012
Manhattan Theatre Club celebrated the 40th anniversary of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow's leadership of the organization with a special tribute show on Monday, June 18 at the Samuel J.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:43PMTransport Group presented a one-night-only concert of Richard Maltby, David Shire, and Sybille Pearson's 1983 Broadway musical Baby at Lucille Lortel Theatre, on Monday, June 18. The co…
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