Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Hearing 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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMSunday, June 16, 2013
There are more slaves today than at any other point in history. This startling fact is revealed after 90 minutes of grueling, intense theater that brings us into the life of one such modern-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMArchitects are sexy, arrogant, and easily manipulated. Those are just three of the many lessons in writer/director Oren Safdie's new play, False Solution, now receiving its world premiere at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
How do you challenge yourself in creating new work when you've been a fixture in the New York theater scene for nearly half a century? John Guare has opted to act. The award-winning author o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMSunday, June 9, 2013
The biggest names in New York theater have begun showing up for the 67th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards at Radio City Music Hall. Sunday, June 9 was a busy day in midtown Manhattan, a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:59PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
You don't need to read all 4,100 pages of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series to enjoy Potted Potter, now enjoying a return engagement at the Little Shubert Theatre. This two-man retelling of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMMonday, June 3, 2013
Memorial Day weekend in New York City is usually a time dominated by wild parties and drunken sailors. But with Fleet Week officially cancelled this year due to federal budget sequestration,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:25PMWhat do Broadway's most fabulous ladies do in their dressing rooms between matinee and evening performances? They play with shoes. A new tribute music video, commemorating 30 years since the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:42PMSunday, June 2, 2013
The team from Grey Gardens is back at Playwrights Horizons with another musical adaptation of a film beloved by the gays. With a book by Tony winner Richard Greenberg (The Assembled Parties)…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, May 30, 2013
It seems awfully punk-rock to set a production of committed Marxist Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle during the fall of the Soviet Union, but that is just what Classic Stage Compa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
The 2012-2013 Broadway Season officially ended Sunday, May 26 — so how did we do? According to figures released by the Broadway League, the national trade association for the Broadway indu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:37PMWednesday, May 22, 2013
"Why did the circus have to come to town?" That thought must have crossed the mind of at least one of the runners-up of the Broadway Beauty Pageant, which took place Monday, May 20 at the NY…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Gays love bow ties! That's why Drama Desk Award winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and his partner, Justin Mikita, founded Tie the Knot, a company that …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:31PMMonday, May 20, 2013
She may have been snubbed by all of the major theater awards, but Bette Midler is certainly not crying. In fact, she's laughing all the way to the bank judging by the latest figures released…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:15PMFriday, May 17, 2013
Fanatical Catholic protesters might want to mark their calendars for May 27. That night at 7PM, Joe's Pub will host a one-night-only concert performance of Popesical, a new musical comedy by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:50PMThursday, May 16, 2013
Colin Quinn contends that the U.S. constitution was obviously crafted by drunks, since the drunker you get, the more knowledge of the document you profess to have (just look at Reese Withers…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMAre you jonesing for some murder-mystery musical hall ever since The Mystery of Edwin Drood closed on Broadway? Well, rejoice, because the new Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman musical co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:16PMThe most Tony-nominated cast on Broadway (four out of six actors) will play on. Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike has extended its run at the John Golden Theatre throu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Tony Award winner Roger Rees (Peter and the Starcatcher) will star as Arthur Winslow in a Broadway revival of Terrence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy at the American Airlines Theatre this fall. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:07PMBilly Porter is bringing the house down nightly at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre as Lola, the high-heeled star of the Tony-nominated new musical Kinky Boots. Porter has been nominated for a Tony…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMMonday, May 13, 2013
Randy Newman's prescient lyric in "Political Science" that "Every city the whole world round will just be another American town," seems to be coming increasingly true without having to "drop…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09PMFriday, May 10, 2013
Stepping into 54 Below is a little bit like entering a time warp. From the doorman's cordial greeting (no barking demands to see an ID here) to the rounded martini glasses masquerading as ch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AMThursday, May 9, 2013
May 3 marked the 100th anniversary of Bollywood. That's a century since Dadasaheb Phalke's monumental silent film Raja Harishchandra was released to the public. Since that day in 1913, India…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMConsidering the notoriously scary reputation of Disney lawyers, it's pretty amazing that this show is running at all. Of course, Uncle Walt is now as much a part of American mythology as Unc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Ever since Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway closed in 2011, it's been a hard day's night for Beatles fans in New York. Fear not, Beatlemaniacs: Help! is on the way in the form of t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:23PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Richard Foreman has been trolling the New York theater scene for a very long time. His instantly recognizable style of busy sets, nonlinear and often nonsensical dialogue, disorienting light…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMSunday, May 5, 2013
Walking into the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre is a bit like stepping into a psychologist's office. With a comfy armchair and oversized credenza taking up a huge portion of the limited stage real…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
The biggest snub from Tony goes to Motown: the Musical. Tony road voters were probably salivating at the prospect of selecting Berry Gordy's stage extravaganza/musical history for Best Music…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:48PMMonday, April 29, 2013
The top five highest-grossing shows on Broadway held their positions from last week, while the shows in the number 6 through 10 spots played musical chairs. Kinky Boots continues to gain mom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:16PMThe 2013 Drama Desk Award nominations are out and Off-Broadway theater is well-represented this year. The Public Theater's Giant leads the nominations with 9, tied with Broadway's now-depart…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:03PMThursday, April 25, 2013
You aren't likely to see the next Barry Manilow or Bette Midler play there any time soon. It just isn't that type of bathhouse. It never was. Nor was it originally meant to be a theater. Yet…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AM 
