Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
On September 16, Heliotrope Books will publish longtime theater press agent Susan L. Schulman's memoir, Backstage Pass to Broadway: True Tales From a Theatre Press Agent. To celebrate the bo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:30PMOn Friday, September 6, three-time Tony Award nominee Rebecca Luker (Mary Poppins) temporarily took over Victoria Clark's role as the Fairy Godmother in Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMTony Award winner and six-time Emmy Award winner Tyne Daly will be the subject of the next Oral History Project interview to be videotaped for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive. Presented…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AMOn September 15, 2011, the Tony Award-winning musical Newsies first opened its doors at Millburn, New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse for its limited regional run. Two years later, the product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:43AMMonday, September 9, 2013
In one of the most hotly anticipated Twitter events of the season, Sir Patrick Stewart officially confirmed his marriage to 35-year-old jazz singer Sunny Ozell via a TwitPic of the couple fr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:12PMEpisode six of Mo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone's Broadway-themed podcast, The Ensemblist, is now available for download. The new installment, entitled "The Road to Broadway," features in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:46PMLincoln Center Theater has announced casting for its world premiere production of Luce, which marks the playwriting debut of recent Juilliard graduate JC Lee. May Adrales (The Dance and the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:31PMKatie Couric's popular new talk show, Katie — the number-one new syndicated talk show of the 2012-13 season — is back for a second season, the first episode set to air on Monday, Septemb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMSunday, September 8, 2013
As patrons enter the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre, the Twitter handle @SignatureTheatr is projected over the stage as a welcoming invitation to engage with the theater's virtual communit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMAmerican Games, an Araca Project production developed primarily by recent alums of Syracuse University's various BFA programs, honorably represents the educational spirit of the project's mi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:48AMFriday, September 6, 2013
On Wednesday, September 4, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg formally announced the plans for St. Ann's Warehouse to begin renovations on the historic Tobacco Warehouse on the Brooklyn W…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04PMThe cast of Hands on a Hardbody, the Broadway musical about a group of down-on-their-luck Texans vying to win a shiny red pickup truck, performed a selection of numbers from the now-closed s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:15AMStage-industry veteran Andy Perez has just been named press director of Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse, one of the country's most renowned regional theaters. Perez succeeds interim publicists…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:37AMAs one of the newest Disney properties to undergo the screen-to-stage transformation, The Jungle Book — which is following up its recent world premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre with a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:02AMWorldwide entertainment phenomenon Blue Man Group, founded by Chris Wink, Phil Stanton, and Matt Goldman, will unveil its never-before-seen orchestral show for two performances at Los Angele…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThursday, September 5, 2013
John Tartaglia, best known in the Broadway world for his Tony-nominated dual-performance as Princeton/Rod in Avenue Q, is ditching the puppet and going hands-free for two performances of Dec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:24PMBedlam Theatre Company has announced upcoming productions of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet and George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, a dramatization of Joan of Arc's life. Both plays will be perf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:20PMWashington, D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts issued a star-studded partial cast list for the previously announced world premiere of Little Dancer, a new musical written …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:57PMAs East Haddam, Connecticut's Goodspeed Musicals says goodbye to the Jerry Herman classic Hello, Dolly! — its run ends on Sunday, September 8 — the cast enjoyed one last hurrah filming a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PMIl Divo, the operatic pop group created by American Idol's Simon Cowell, will come to Broadway for a limited six-night series of concerts from November 7-November 13 at the Marquis Theatre. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMIl Divo, the operatic pop group created by American Idol's Simon Cowell, will come to Broadway for a limited six-night series of concerts from November 7-November 13 at the Marquis Theatre. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMWednesday, September 4, 2013
Chicago's Theatre at the Center has announced the roster of productions set for its 2014 season. One of the season's main events will take place next fall when Women on the Verge of a Nervo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:59PMThis Sunday, September 8, between noon and 5pm, TheaterMania will set up shop between East 74th and East 75th Streets on Third Avenue for the 38th Annual Third Avenue Community Benefit Stree…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:45PMClassic Stage Company has announced the remainder of the cast who will join leading lady Elizabeth Olsen in the upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet that will kick off the company's 2013-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PMThe Old Globe in San Diego, California, is just weeks away from kicking off its 2013-14 season with a production of The Last Goodbye, a new musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, featuring …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMTuesday, September 3, 2013
The American Theatre Wing, best known as the founder of the Tony Awards, has announced the 10 nonprofit theater companies that will receive the 2013 National Theatre Company Grants. The reci…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMFriday, August 30, 2013
Two-time Tony Award nominee Christopher Sieber (Shrek) will join the cast of Pippin in the role of King Charlemagne for 16 performances while Tony nominee Terrence Mann is on vacation. Siebe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:41AMSeamus Heaney, celebrated Irish poet, translator, lecturer, and playwright, died at a hospital in Dublin on Friday, August 30, following a short illness. He was 74 years old. The first of n…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMThursday, August 29, 2013
Vineyard Theatre Artistic Director Douglas Aibel and Co-Artistic Director Sarah Stern have named Christopher Chen as the 2013 recipient of The Vineyard Theatre's Paula Vogel Award for Playwr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMIn an act of extreme fandom, same-sex Mississippi couple Scott Barnes and Gary Holcomb extended a wedding invitation to Avenue Q power couple Rod and Ricky, who were themselves wed over two …
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