Tuesday, August 6, 2013
If you're looking for a classy evening of dinner, drinks, cabaret, and sadness you can do no better than Paulo Szot, currently making his 54 Below debut. The midtown cabaret is celebrating B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:02PMYou don't want to miss The Orion Experience at XL Nightclub. Conceived and directed by Travis Greisler, this high-energy immersive glam-rock show is the perfect way to start a night out on t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:23AMWith 185 shows in this year's New York International Fringe Festival, how is one to ever decide what to see and what to skip? We've picked through the shows and based on buzz, subject matter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMMonday, July 29, 2013
Last night, participants in this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) indulged in vodka and donuts at the closing night party, celebrating yet another successful year of new music…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:25PMNestled in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York amidst the ruins of grand vacation resorts of a bygone era sits Stagedoor Manor. America's premiere theater camp for kids age 10-18 — …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThursday, July 25, 2013
It is no longer enough to be a triple threat (a performer who can act, sing, and dance). Now you have to play an instrument. This has been true since the advent of the John Doyle concept. (D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, July 24, 2013
On December 31, 1879, British composing team W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan debuted their operetta The Pirates of Penzance in New York City—a full three months before it was to premiere …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMAmericans were introduced to Iranian foreign minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh during the 1979-1981 Iran hostage crisis, when fifty-two Americans were held against their wills by militant supporter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:31PMMonday, July 22, 2013
Everyone knows how The Sound of Music ends: After narrowly escaping the Nazis, Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer flee over the mountains with their seven children to the safety of verdan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
The first thing to remember about the production of Shakespeare's classic pastoral comedy As You Like It, currently running at Baruch's Bernie West Theater, is that it is performed entirely …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:26PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
The Huron Club, the downstairs bar at the SoHo Playhouse, has been rechristened "The Sober Café," at least for the duration of the run of Bill W. and Dr. Bob, Sam Shem and Janet Surrey's pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMMonday, July 15, 2013
Mimi Hines is returning to New York City to celebrate her 80th Birthday at midtown cabaret venue 54 Below. Best known as half of the comedy duo Ford & Hines, she has a storied career that in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:41PMSaturday, July 13, 2013
Stepping into HERE's upstairs space is a little like entering a fun house. A traverse stage with seating at opposite ends of the space and one half of the audience facing the other creates a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMThursday, July 11, 2013
"Is this Zack Morris?" the affable Matthew Morrison asked me when he picked up the phone. No one has referred to me as Mark-Paul Gosselaar's character from Saved by the Bell in at least a de…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:36PMIt's Monsoon season in New York City if the lengthy line to get into the storm shelter-like Laurie Beechman Theatre is any indication. The Vaudevillians, a new, high-concept cabaret act star…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:21PM"In the rich man's house, the only place to spit is in his face." This quote from Greek philosopher Diogenes quite literally hangs over the Encores! Off-Center reading of Marc Blitzstein's T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:47AMPeter Cambor knows that there are drawbacks to performing outdoors in July. "I sweat like an NBA player," he admitted. "At the end of the night you just peel everything off you, wring it out…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:03AMTuesday, July 9, 2013
Kelly Izzo is a recent graduate of the Music Conservatory at SUNY Purchase, where she composed over 2,000 songs. "I told myself when I got to college freshman year, if I'm going to be a writ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMBarrett Foa is distracted. That's understandable considering everything on his plate this year. The Broadway veteran (Avenue Q, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) served as the offi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMMonday, July 8, 2013
From the moment that Jackie Hoffman enters the plush dining room at 54 Below wearing on her head what appears to be a moldy Bloomin' Onion from Outback Steakhouse and singing the opening str…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMThursday, July 4, 2013
"Lord, is my wrist wrecking my world!" exclaims Pharus Jonathan Young after being scolded by his headmaster about his limp wrist for the thousandth time. Effeminate, clever, and occasionally…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThursday, June 27, 2013
Sometimes I just want a fun, beautiful-sounding, pretty-looking musical that doesn't ask me to think too hard. Don't you? The Prospect Theater Company's new production of Sam Carner and Dere…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMIan Harkins is about to launch into a historically dubious biography of William Shakespeare in the Hudson Warehouse production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (throug…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMWednesday, June 26, 2013
Today was the official end of session for the U.S. Supreme Court and, like a good Broadway show, the Supremes went out with a bang. In a 5-4 ruling on the case United States v. Windsor, the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMTuesday, June 25, 2013
As previously reported, two-time Drama Desk Award nominee Cheyenne Jackson (Xanadu) has a new album of pop songs. Today, it became available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon In tandem, Jac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:41AMMonday, June 24, 2013
This is not your typical living-room drama. Mark Roberts' Rantoul and Die is now making its New York premiere at The Cherry Lane Theatre in a production by bad-kid theater collective The Amo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PM2012 Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes will present the New York premiere of The Happiest Song Plays Last at Second Stage Theatre as part of their 25th anniversary season. Hudes' p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:52PMFriday, June 21, 2013
The 10th Annual New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) takes place July 8-28 at various locations in Manhattan. There are 57 events this year, ranging from cabaret performances to full pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThursday, June 20, 2013
The sudden death of Emmy Award-winning actor James Gandolfini has taken the Broadway community by surprise. Gandolfini was nominated for a 2009 Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:32PMWednesday, June 19, 2013
Drama abounds in Unbroken Circle, James Wesley's new play about a dysfunctional Texas family, now playing at St. Luke's Theatre. You might not know it until the second act, however, so resis…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMHearing Audra McDonald's glorious voice singing a very legit version of Alicia Keys' part in "Empire State of Mind" as Neil Patrick Harris rapped an on-the-fly recap was the perfect way to e…
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