Four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class) confirmed to TheaterMania that he plans to join the Tony Award-winning songwriting duo Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flahert…
Just when we started getting excited to see two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone take on a coven of witches on the third season of AMC's American Horror Story came a tip that the Broadway…
Daniel Curry, the 23-year-old performer who was badly injured when his foot got caught in a trapdoor during the August 15 performance of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, is taking t…
Sirs Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are men about town. Literally. They've been spotted all over New York City today (September 13), presumably doing promotional work for their upcoming Br…
After three years and over 800 performances, Reeve Carney will say goodbye to the Foxwoods Theatre and Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark on September 15. In this week's Flashback Frid…
Broadway veteran Lea Michele returned to New York City on Monday, September 9 to film a scene for the hit Fox television series Glee at the famed theater-district restaurant Sardi's. By the …
Aladdin, Disney's new stage adaptation of its acclaimed 1992 animated film, will land its magic carpet at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre beginning February 26, 2014, according to a newly r…
The sixth annual edition of Origin's 1st Irish, the world's only theater festival dedicated to Irish playwrights, runs from September 2 to 29. Curated and coordinated by the New York-based O…
Before Twitter and message-board users started spreading completely uncensored, unbiased opinions of Broadway shows, television was the place where you could see completely uncensored, unbia…
Everything old is new again on Broadway this season. In addition to the literary classics (Shakespeare, Williams, Pinter), this Broadway season features the stories of some of your favorite …
Here's something no one ever saw coming: a musical version of the AMC drama series Breaking Bad " as performed by middle school students. Created by the comedy duo Rhett & Link, Breaking Bad…
At this point it looks quite likely that Broadway's newest dreamboat, Billy Magnussen, has been cast in the upcoming film version of the Sondheim musical Into the Woods. Though Magnussen has…
Harry Potter, the hero of the wizarding world turns 33 today. Assuming he makes it through the next year, he'll be outliving the likes of John Belushi, Eva Perón, and Jesus without ever h…
July marks TheaterMania's birthday month, and this year, we're turning the big 1-4. What better way to celebrate a birthday than with the tasty deliciousness of a giant sheet cake? We're not…
Dulé Hill, a veteran of Broadway's Stick Fly and Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, will join American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino (The Color Purple) in the upcoming Broadway productio…
We here at TheaterMania were feeling a little outdone by WhatsonStage.com's lovely Shakespearean offering for the nearly existent royal baby. So, feeling a little awkward about not having of…
Ashton Springer, one of Broadway's first major African-American producers, has died at the age of 82, according to The New York Times. The paper reports that the cause was pneumonia. Active…
Will Broadway's Big Fish be Katie Thompson-less? That's what we're wondering after spying an audition notice in trade papers for The Witch, the character she played in Chicago. Thompson was…
If the Supreme Court's recent rulings on DOMA and Prop. 8 have taught us anything, it's that sometimes our country can be kind of awesome. Of course, the theater community has known that all…