Wednesday, 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 10:00PMMichael Bloomberg LOVES to issue a good proclamation. Foursquare, The Muppets, Gossip Girl…they've all been on the mayor's list of things to honor with official "days" and ambassadorships.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:34PMMichael Bloomberg loves to issue a good proclamation. Foursquare, The Muppets, Gossip Girl…they've all been on the mayor's list of things to honor with official "days" and ambassadorships.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:34PMMonday, March 4, 2013
For fans of Game of Thrones, March can't pass quickly enough. Now, like a sadistic gaoler in the annals of The Red Keep, HBO has released an extended trailer for season three, just to tortur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:46AMSunday, March 3, 2013
Are you getting a little tired of all these productions of Shakespeare set in clever and unlikely time periods? Don't you just want to see two dudes in medieval doublets hack at each other w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Who would have thought that so much ugliness could be delivered so beautifully? With The Wild Bride, Kneehigh Theatre returns to the United States to serve up a feast for the senses in the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:05PMMonday, February 25, 2013
Can you imagine the Federal Government funding a play that uses the term "white devil" no fewer than ten times? It seems unthinkable in today's atmosphere of austerity, but that's what happe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, February 21, 2013
Holland Taylor was resplendent in a full length red fox fur coat. (I didn't ask her if it was real.) Once a struggling actress in New York in the 70s and 80s, she took practically any role t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMFriday, February 15, 2013
When you're a young aspiring rock star, you start out in your parents' garage. Why should it be any different if you're an aspiring theater artist? Chicago's Steppenwolf doesn't think it sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:34PMThursday, February 7, 2013
The crossroads of the world aren't 42nd Street and Broadway in Manhattan; they're Roosevelt Avenue and 74th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens. Luckily, Director Ari Laura Kreith is bringing …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:53PMTuesday, February 5, 2013
"Everyone who almost-made-it-but-didn't lives in Queens." This is among the many revelations in Tim Federle's debut novel, Better Nate Than Ever (Simon
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMMonday, February 4, 2013
Haters make me famous. This has to be the mantra of televisions news pundits everywhere, right? Well, Nancy Giles wants you to know that it's more complicated than that, and she'll tell you …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
Barney Frank will make his off-Broadway debut this Saturday, playing an arrogant conservative senator in the New York City Center Encores! revival of Fiorello!, Jerome Weidman, George Abbot…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:16PMMonday, January 28, 2013
February 22, 1983…a date which will live in theatrical infamy. This was the opening (and closing) night of Moose Murders, Arthur Bicknell's legendary Broadway flop about a bizarre bunch of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:23PMFriday, January 25, 2013
Things are about to get ridiculous on Manhattan's Lower East Side. A new revival of Charles Ludlam's Camille will play downtown bar and art space Casa Mezcal from January 27 through
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:18PMTickets are now on sale to the general public for Lucky Guy, the final play of three-time Academy Award-nominated writer Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle). Two-time Academy Award winner Tom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Tony Award-winning Director Peter Brook returns to BAM's Harvey Theater for the first time in nearly a decade with The Suit. While this mercifully short play does have a few sparkling moment…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:15AMThursday, January 17, 2013
You'll buy a ticket for Scarlett Johansson, but stay for the unbridled drama. The latest revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Richard Rodgers Theatre is chock-full of it, without any beat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMTuesday, January 15, 2013
Austerity be damned. The biggest winners at The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, held last night at London's Prince of Wales Theatre, were actually the groups that bring home the most governm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMMonday, January 14, 2013
Is "insanity" a tangible thing, or the category for people who fall inconveniently outside the spectrum of what is socially acceptable? The Fallen Angel Theatre Company thoughtfully examines…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:37PMYou only turn eighty once, so Tony Award winner Chita Rivera (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) is doing it in grand style, complete with high kicks. The soon-to-be octogenarian and Broadway icon …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:03PMIn a month as bleak as January it wouldn't normally be advisable to take in a play about the Holocaust and then chase it with one concerning the persecution of artists under the Soviet Union…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:59AMThursday, January 10, 2013
Here is your chance to solve a 78-year-old murder. Artist and author Cynthia von Buhler (born Cynthia Carrozza) has recreated the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of her Italia…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMAcademy Award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost and television's The View) will appear as a presenter at Garden of Laughs, a stand-up comedy event presented by Chase to benefit the Gard…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMWednesday, January 9, 2013
Bust out the cupcakes and clunky overpriced shoes. Carrie Bradshaw has returned. And how… In The Carrie Diaries, AnnaSophia Robb (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) plays your favorite sho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:37AMTuesday, January 8, 2013
Touched for the very first time? Hardly. Drama Desk Award winner Fiona Shaw (Medea) will play the Virgin Mary in the Broadway debut of Irish novelist Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary whic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:07PMTheatrical entrepreneur Vincent J. DeMarco, veteran of The Public Theater, has died after a three and a half year struggle with colorectal cancer. DeMarco began his career as a stage manage…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:58PMMonday, January 7, 2013
You're going to have to wait a little longer on that order. Diner, the musical originally scheduled to open on Broadway on April 10, has been postponed until autumn 2013 in order to give the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:15AMThursday, January 3, 2013
No one mourns the Wicked, least of all the investors in the original Broadway production (currently playing to sold-out audiences nightly at The Gershwin Theatre). This week the Tony Award-w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:24PMAll of your nightmares are about to come true: Drama Desk Award winner Austin Pendleton (Uncle Vanya) will direct and star in Mississippi Mud Productions' Suddenly Last Summer, set to play t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01PMThursday, December 27, 2012
The off-Broadway debut of Amandine, the new musical starring Gideon Glick (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) as a nineteenth century French intersex person who is raised a girl and dies a man, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:24PM 
