Monday, May 25, 2015
A record number of shows are closing, with producers millions in the hole.
SOURCE: moreintelligentlife.com at 05:58PMFriday, June 28, 2013
There may be no more significant moment in an adult's life than the minute you realize everyone's faking being a grown-up, or at least feeling like one. It's a subject that makes for good do…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMSunday, May 19, 2013
Marisa Cerveris is fixated on the man in the ribbon tie. She examines his greying hair, receding and combed back off the forehead, a sloping nose, and two delicately poised hands. "It's like…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMTuesday, March 26, 2013
"Don't explain it in that little section below the headline," Ciarán Hinds instructs while organizing tea for the two of us in his dressing room at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. "It should j…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:30PMFriday, March 22, 2013
Musical theater devotees looking for a contemporary American musical that doesn't revolve around starving artists, New Yorkers, or stories you've already seen on film, rejoice: a new star-sp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:27PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Ever have a song that, like, totally gets you, man? The cast of the explosively titled new musical F#%king Up Everything does, and it's a good thing. In the rock tuner by David Eric Davis an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:25PMMonday, March 4, 2013
There's prime real estate for a "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" line here, but it's better replaced with a question: Would you want to teach an old dog new tricks? If your dogs are B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:19PMSunday, March 3, 2013
Belleville, now at New York Theatre Workshop, begins with all the trimmings of a standard-issue millennial relationship drama. An apartment door opens, a failed-actress-turned-yogi stumbles …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05PMThursday, February 28, 2013
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel will return to Broadway in the upcoming musical If/Then, set to hit an as yet unnamed Nederlander stage in Spring 2014. The new show will begin its trek to New…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMMonday, February 25, 2013
Show host Seth MacFarlane may have devoted the opening of the 85th Annual Academy Awards to beating his critics to the punch, Eminem-in-8 Mile-style (all that was missing was a "I'm outtie/h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:35PMWednesday, February 20, 2013
Some people say "musical theater geek" like it's a bad thing. (Because reading treble clef, singing in parts, and feeling feelings are way worse than slaying elves 18 hours a day?) To become…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:24PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Complete casting has been announced for the Broadway to off-Broadway transfer of five-time Tony Award winner Peter and the Starcatcher. Rick Holmes and Kevin Del Aguila are among five origin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Harold Pinter and Vivien Merchant, David Mamet and Rebecca Pidgeon, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. (Okay, not so much the Miller/Monroe nightmare union, but, you know, lists of three.) Ac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:38PMThursday, January 31, 2013
[Warning: The following interview contains "Picnic" spoilers.] Broadway newcomer Maggie Grace is trying to keep the conversation from being about her looks—which is difficult when you're …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:36PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
Over 80 student faces packed the stage of The Palace Theater on January 28, mugging, grinning, and switch-kicking throughout Tony Award winning Hairspray hit "You Can't Stop The Beat," along…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:10PMWednesday, January 23, 2013
The roller derby is "a Godless place," a Catholic priest warns early in The Jammer, Pulitzer Prize finalist Rolin Jones' high-octane new comedy, now at The Atlantic Theater Company's Stage T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:40PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Every show ends sometime (unless you're Phantom), so before the cast takes their final bow, there are a few things we want to know. In 2012, Argentinean theater star (and Olivier Award winn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:07PMEvery show ends sometime (unless you're Phantom), so before the cast takes their final bow, there are a few things we want to know. In 2012, Argentine theater star Elena Roger--an Olivier A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:07PMMonday, January 14, 2013
Tony Award nominees Kate Baldwin and Bobby Steggert will join previously announced two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz in the Broadway debut of new musical Big Fish, producers have a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMWednesday, January 9, 2013
Bobby Cannavale, Billy Crudup, Chris Rock, and Zoe Kazan will be among the all-star players going head-to-head at Labyrinth Theater Company's annual Celebrity Charades Benefit. The yearly fu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:24PMCotton Club Parade, the musical revue conceived by Jack Viertel, will debut on Broadway this coming fall. No theater, casting or dates have been released at this time. Warren Carlyle, who he…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:24PMFriday, December 7, 2012
Thank god for Jake Gyllenhaal. Annie Funke is one of the stage's brightest emerging stars. A veteran of pop musicals like Broadway's Hairspray, Funke recently made her breakout straight pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:25PMSunday, December 2, 2012
When composer Stephen Sondheim and book writer John Weidman's fiercely provocative Assassins hit Broadway in 2004 it landed with a "bang," sweeping in five Tony Awards (including Best Reviva…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:05PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
Theresa Rebeck is calling New York City on its bullshit. "Good god, the level of superiority in this city!," she says, laughing. "You step out of a cab and people on the street immediately s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:49PMTheresa Rebeck is calling New York City on its bull. "Good god, the level of superiority in this city!" she says, laughing. "You step out of a cab and people immediately start lobbing bullsh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:49PMThursday, November 15, 2012
Porn has come to Broadway, swaggering in as the backdrop for new comedy The Performers. The filthy-mouthed (seriously…bow down, David Mamet) farce and its all-star cast celebrated their op…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMMonday, November 5, 2012
TheaterMania's last editorial meeting went to pieces when the question "What Broadway stars would you cast in a musical adaptation of the 2012 Presidential election" was posed. We immediatel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:07PMWednesday, October 24, 2012
Evita's Max von Essen is no stranger to social media. As co-creator of #SIP (Saturday Intermission Photos), the beloved viral photo stream for Broadway gypsies goofing off on two-show days, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:05PMMonday, October 22, 2012
Hedwig, the transgender bombshell star of cult off-Broadway classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch, made her first appearance in New York in over a decade on October 22, 2012, when Tony Award-win…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:24PMDavid Wilson Barnes wants to kill Brian Cranston. "His character on Breaking Bad, not him!" he clarifies. "I'm dying to be the guy cast to kill Walter White." Is he in the running for the jo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMWednesday, October 17, 2012
Patrick Page is in love. He loves his current gig as slydog Comte De Guiche in Broadway's acclaimed and very romantic revival of Cyrano de Bergeracat the Roundabout's American Airlines Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:58PM 
