Thursday, 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 12:00AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
The Paper Mill Playhouse will celebrate 75 years of producing high-quality theater in New Jersey with its anniversary gala, to be held on May 10 at the Hilton Short Hills Hotel. Tony Award-n…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:07AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
There is no dream ballet about designer shoes in Here Lies Love, the new musical about former Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos, at the Public Theater. And that is a good thing. This infecti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, April 22, 2013
British actor and Theatre Damfino coartistic director Tristan Sturrock (Broadway's Brief Encounter) will tell you about the ancient rites of spring celebrated on his native Cornwall's May Da…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWho would have thought that a play with such an iconoclastic subject matter, one that has already garnered protests from Catholic fanatics outside the theater, would prove to be so God-awful…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMAfter weeks in the number-two spot, The Lion King has finally overtaken Wicked as the top-grossing show on Broadway, a position it hasn't held since the week ending February 24 of this year.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:41PMThursday, April 18, 2013
Before there was George and Martha, there was Edgar and Alice. The central couple in August Strindberg's play The Dance of Death, hilariously adapted by Mike Poulton at the Lucille Lortel Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Five-time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald (The Gershwins' Porgy
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:54PMMonday, April 15, 2013
So long, my huckleberry friend. Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg's (Take Me Out) straight-to-Broadway stage adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's will close on Sunday, April 21 after 17 pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:09PMLong live Caesar! Indeed, the Roman dictator is alive and well (you know...until he's not) at BAM's Harvey Theater thanks to The Royal Shakespeare Company. Under the sure-footed direction of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:09PMFriday, April 12, 2013
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is a busy woman. Between crafting legislation and e-mailing me a daily online petition about filibuster reform or gun control, she apparently finds time t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:13PMUpon entering the Wild Project, the audience is confronted with plain brown boxes, clearly overflowing with memories and regret (and props). This simple and utilitarian design sets the tone …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
The first step is admitting you have a problem. The second step is buying a ticket. Husband and wife playwriting team Dr. Samuel Shem and Dr. Janet Surrey will bring their show about the ea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:05PMTony Award-winning director Julie Taymor (The Lion King) will never see her day in court, but according to a joint statement from all litigants, she's cool with that. "I'm pleased to have r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:45PMThursday, April 4, 2013
As I sat in the Al Hirschfeld Theatre waiting for Kinky Boots to start, I couldn't help but notice the throng of gay men and their best girlfriends surrounding me, clutching their sippy cups…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMFriday, March 29, 2013
Variety is reporting on the inordinately large number of first-time lead producers on Broadway in recent and upcoming seasons. Open any Broadway Playbill and you'll notice that the space ab…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:52PMHold onto your brains. Just Kidding Theater Company is bringing Living Dead in Denmark, Qui Nguyen's tale of zombies and Shakespeare to the Gene Frankel Theatre April 5 through 21. The play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:17PMThursday, March 28, 2013
From minor characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet to 19th century Russian philosophers to Eastern Bloc rock enthusiasts, Tony Award-winning British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard (The Coast of Utop…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:51AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Can-Can is coming back to Broadway, but first there will be a staged reading of Joel Fields and David Lee's revised book, based on the Abe Burrows original. According to an Equity casting ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:22PMMonday, March 25, 2013
Sanford, you got some 'splainin' to do. Annie Baker's The Flick, currently receiving its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons (through April 7) has rankled more than a few audience members…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:45PMThursday, March 21, 2013
President Obama visited Israeli President Shimon Peres at the Presidential Residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday. While he was there, he was treated to a surprise musical moment (really, is th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PMMonday, March 18, 2013
Do you want to make a truckload of money ("boffola box office" for you Variety readers) on Broadway? Well, you could do worse than leveraging the nostalgia of successful baby boomers with di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:33PMThursday, March 14, 2013
Apparently, Sleeping Beauty is all about vampires. Tony Award-winning British auteur choreographer Matthew Bourne (Edward Scissorhands) has reimagined the Tchaikovsky ballet based on Charles…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PMBehold, "an enchanted world of shape and space" awaits you in the soon-to-be-former home of multiple Tony Award-winning director and producer Harold Prince (Evita). This, according to realto…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:37PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
"Loosen your seatbelts, it's going to be a dull night," Margo Channing might say as she swills a martini in preparation to see The Lying Lesson at Atlantic Theater Company. For the uninitiat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
So, this poster is hanging in Times Square, scaring the bejesus out of tourists and natives alike. No, it's not Tony Award winner Al Pacino (Glengarry Glen Ross) in very fishy drag and Acade…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMMonday, March 11, 2013
There is something thrillingly perverse about sitting in a plush red seat in a darkened theater that was founded by a committed socialist, surrounded by people who paid $55 for 80 minutes of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMIn his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck taught us about the Okies, the Oklahoma farmers who sought refuge in California in the wake of the Dust Bowl, an ecological disaster tha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMThursday, March 7, 2013
It's great to hear Ann Richards' voice again. True, the Democratic former Texas governor (1991-1995) has been dead for six years, but in Holland Taylor's Ann, now playing at the Vivian Beaum…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
High School is a model fascist state. That is abundantly clear in Rajiv Joseph's The North Pool, now making its New York premiere at The Vineyard Theatre. Yet Joseph, who was last represente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM 
