22 stories by "Ashley Van Buren"
Two designers create dozens of locations for Broadway’s “Women on the Verge…”As a designer, how do you adapt a Spanish-language movie into a Broadway musical, especia…
How a massive team creates the composer’s raucous holiday showSince it was written in just three weeks and had only two weeks of rehearsal with a cast of around 30 people, you could ar…
Chiemi Karasawa first encountered Elaine Stritch [editorial note: if you are not familiar with Elaine Stritch, please hit pause on reading this article and watch this, this, and this] when s…
Not everyone can get to The New York Philharmonic's concert staging of Carousel. PBS will be broadcasting the performance into living rooms around the country later this year, but we thought…
Having a conversation with Diane Paulus is a lot like watching one of her shows: a wholly immersive experience filled with side stories populated by acrobats, hippies, Shakespearean characte…
Before we even get to Christopher Jackson's night job, co-starring as Charlie Heartbreak in the Atlantic Theater Company 's The Jammer, we needed to get a handle on his multiple jobs By day,…
What drives your movie selections? Do you go for "Critically-acclaimed Violent Suspenseful Movies?" Or are you more of a "Dysfunctional Family Drama" type? Whatever your preference, the play…
What drives your movie selections? Do you go for "Critically-acclaimed Violent Suspenseful Movies"? Or are you more of a "Dysfunctional Family Drama" type? Whatever your preference, the play…
What inspires your movie selections? Do you go for 'Critically-acclaimed Violent Suspenseful Movies'? Or are you more of a 'Dysfunctional Family Drama' type? Whatever your preference, the pl…
Open letters, Glee drama, "bros""the most notable thing about the most notable stories on TheaterMania in 2012 is that they're more about the theater community than Broadway "stars." It's a …
Kurt Deutsch is not a left-brain, right-brain kind of guy. Instead, both sides of his brain operate simultaneously, with creative thoughts substantiated by business ones and vice versa. As t…
When Julia Murney takes the stage in Falling at the Minetta Lane Theatre, her face isn't Elphaba green, she's not wearing John Lennon's famous New York City t-shirt, nor is she raising the r…
Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley know how to get Broadway naked.Billed at the musical duo The Skivvies, Molina (the cello-playing Johanna in Sweeney Todd) and Cearley (a r
Oscar winner Dame Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music) has gone from taming unruly children to directing tap dancing mice in The Great American Mousical at Goodspeed-at-Chester/T…
Yahoo released a sneak peek at the second season of Smash. We reviewed it for the best parts:Stolen songs, Bombshell on Broadway, J-Hud as Veronica Moore (more or less playing herself); Jere…
Seventeen works, eighty actors, and sixteen directors, all tackling a single subject"genocide"in just one week of performances at La MaMa. Soulographie: Our Genocides is a convergence of pla…
In the end, it wasn't even close.TheaterMania's (imaginary) Election 2012: The Musical incumbent presidential candidate, Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell (aka "Stobama"), beat Tony no…
From Twitter to Facebook and even Instagram, the Broadway community is finding creative ways to engage their fans in supporting Hurricane Sandy relief efforts with calls to action including …
“Checkers” sheds light on the president’s dark history Many Americans have strong opinions about Richard Nixon, and playwright Douglas McGrath (pictured above) is no except…
Target Margin Theater Celebrates Its Second Decade
To close out their 20th anniversary season, Target Margin Theater has gone back to its Shakespearean roots. The company’s new product…
How a massive team creates the composer’s raucous holiday show
Since it was written in just three weeks and had only two weeks of rehearsal with a cast of around 30 people, you could a…
Two designers create dozens of locations for Broadway’s “Women on the Verge…”
As a designer, how do you adapt a Spanish-language movie into a Broadway musical, especially…
