Saturday, September 21, 2013
On Wednesday, September 18, Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons (Nice Work If You Can Get It) and two-time Tony winner Stephen Spinella (Angels in America: Perestroika) celebrated the openi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMFriday, September 20, 2013
On Wednesday evening, Sept. 18, Tony Award-winning playwright and director Mary Zimmerman's new stage adaptation of The Jungle Book celebrated its second opening night at Boston's Huntington…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:32PMIf you saw Sutton Foster's 2011 Tony acceptance speech, then you've heard the name Julien Havard. Havard met Foster in 2002 when he was hired as her backstage dresser during Thoroughly Mode…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:10AMThursday, September 19, 2013
Sixteen-time Grammy Award winner Sting's Broadway-bound musical, The Last Ship, has announced plans to sail onto the Great White Way in fall 2014. Before its New York arrival, the production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23PMHere We Come, a new show parodying the 1960s rock band/sitcom gang The Monkees, is coming to the C.O.W. Theater on the Lower East Side for two performances, on September 27 and 28. The produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMThe Roy Rogers Family Entertainment Corporation, Happy Trails, LLC, and the Spangler Group have announced plans to mount a new Broadway musical inspired by the life and music of American sin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:26AMEric Simonson has found his niche turning some of pop culture's most legendary sports figures into characters for the stage. In 2011 he brought the story of Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:07AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company has announced plans to extend the run of its upcoming production of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet for one additional week, through Sunday, November 10. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:11PMTracy Letts, Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Tony Award-winning actor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (August: Osage County), will host the fifth annual …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMActors' Shakespeare Project will open its 10th season with a production of Shakespeare's tragic love story Romeo & Juliet. Performances are set to begin on October 2 at Boston's Strand Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:56PMAfter two years of weekend performances off-Broadway at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, producer Matt Murphy announced that The Berenstain Bears LIVE! in Family Matters, the Musical ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:01AMBroadway veterans ventured into TV Land on Monday evening to attend NBC's 2013 Fall Launch Party held at New York City's exclusive lounge Top of the Standard. Tony nominee Raúl Esparza (Co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:53AMAll the Way, Robert Schenkkan's theatricalized account of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's first year in office, is now in previews at the world-renowned American Repertory Theater at Harva…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36AMSeven years ago, Irina Brook was struck by what she self-mockingly labels a "strange puritanical desire to be true to myself." Daughter of the legendary director Peter Brook, her own directo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
The complete cast of the hit downtown production of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 will continue performances in the Times Square area beginning Tuesday, September 24. The show's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:19PMFrom Times Square to the Empire State Building, Broadway's favorite sirs are making their way through New York City's most popular tourist attractions, and taking a moment to plug their upco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMOn Monday, October 7, the August Wilson Theatre (home of Jersey Boys) will host a special one-night-only benefit concert, Chita: A Legendary Celebration, honoring the career of two-time Tony…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:37AMMonday, September 16, 2013
The sixth annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival brings the bar to the theater and the theater to the bar in Ronan Noone's two-person time-jumping play, The Compass Rose. Now playing at the smal…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMPrimary Stages has announced that Joe Pantoliano a.k.a. "Joey Pants" (The Sopranos), who was cast in the role of Yogi Berra in its upcoming production of Bronx Bombers, has left the play bec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:21PMMore casting has been announced for NBC's upcoming live production of The Sound of Music, headlined by the previously announced Grammy-winning country singer Carrie Underwood as Maria Rainer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:27PMPlaywrights Horizons has announced an extension for its New York premiere production of Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play. Originally scheduled to run through October 6, the pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:11PMProducer Ken Davenport has announced that The Awesome 80s Prom will end its record-breaking nine-year run at The Wall on November 2. The production is reported to have lost its lease of the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AMJenn Colella, George Dvorsky, Christiane Noll, and Sal Viviano will gather together at Barnes & Noble (at East 86th Street and Lexington Avenue) on Friday, September 20, at 5pm to celebrate …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:02AMFriday, September 13, 2013
"It's a vulnerable time," said two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster. Not only is the Broadway actress-turned-television-star currently performing an intimate cabaret at Café Carlyle, sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:52PMAcademy Award winner and four-time Tony nominee Estelle Parsons (Nice Work If You Can Get It) and two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella (Spring Awakening) are currently starring in Eri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:26PMThursday, September 12, 2013
Grammy Award-winning pop icon k.d. lang has been announced as the second guest star to join Broadway's upcoming Cotton Club-themed musical, After Midnight. She will join the production from …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:44PMPlaywright Stephen Belber will present the New England premiere of his new drama, The Power of Duff, at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company. The play will be produced in association with New…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:38PMThe New York Times reported today that the critically acclaimed off-Broadway hit Buyer & Cellar, starring Drama Desk Award winner Michael Urie in a tour-de-force solo performance, recouped …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMPulitzer Prize winner George Kelly's Philip Goes Forth will open off-Broadway at the Mint Theater on September 22 (its original opening date had been set for September 16). Jerry Ruiz (Love …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AMArena Stage resident playwright Charles Randolph-Wright is preparing for the world premiere of his new play, Love in Afghanistan, set to run at the Washington, D.C. theater from October 11-N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:45AMWednesday, September 11, 2013
In 1965, boxing heavyweight and Muslim champion of black America Cassius Clay (soon to become Muhammad Ali) recruited the unlikely expertise of Hollywood's most successful black film star, S…
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