Thursday, August 1, 2013
This evening at 7pm, Drama Desk Award winner Brian d'Arcy James (Shrek) and Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin (star of the upcoming Broadway musical Big Fish), celebrate the release of the Gia…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:02AMArena Stage has announced the lineup of projects to join its Kogod Cradle Series for the 2013-14 season. As part of the American Voices New Play Institute, the series is dedicated to promoti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:55AMWednesday, July 31, 2013
The name "Shida," translated to English from its original Swajili, literally means "difficulty" — an appropriate choice considering the list of tragedies the central-character fights to ov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTo the general public, Steven Pasquale is probably most recognizable when donning his Rescue Me fireman's uniform. However, beneath the bunker gear, you'll find an honest-to-goodness musical…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:10PMMary Bridget Davies may be new to Broadway, but she's no rookie when it comes to Janis Joplin. Davies, a Cleveland-born blues singer, first leant the iconic Joplin rasp to her voice back in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:31PMTuesday, July 30, 2013
Veteran actress Eileen Brennan, whose career spanned the mediums of television, film, and stage, passed away at her home in Burbank, California on Sunday, July 28 after a battle with bladder…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:22PMAtlantic Theater Company Artistic Director Neil Pepe and Managing Director Jeffory Lawson have announced casting for their upcoming world premiere production of Women or Nothing, the first f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMFriday, July 26, 2013
Producers Daryl Roth and Eva Price have released the newest wave of casting announcements for the upcoming Broadway production of A Time to Kill, a new play based on John Grisham's bestselli…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:39AMIn May, 2013, an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data revealed that women provide either the sole or primary source of income in 40% of all households with children under the age of 18. This …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:47AMRenée Elise Goldsberry is currently blowing the roof off City Center, starring in five performances of the 1978 hit off-Broadway musical I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Roa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMTuesday, July 23, 2013
On Monday, July 22, the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation held its annual IT Award nomination party, celebrating the work of the off-off-Broadway artists from the past season. The free …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:24AMMonday, July 22, 2013
Matthew-Lee Erlbach joins the ranks of this year's great solo performances with his new show, Handbook for an American Revolutionary, now enjoying an off-Broadway world premiere at the downt…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMGlee co-creator Ryan Murphy broke his silence since the July 13 death of series star Cory Monteith due to an overdose of heroin and alcohol. In an interview with TVLine.com, Murphy stated th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:13PMBroadway vets Mo Brady (The Addams Family) and Nikka Graff Lanzarone (Chicago) have released the third episode of their podcast series, The Ensemblist, available via iTunes. The Ensemblist …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMThe Atlantic Theater Company has announced a new discount ticket initiative called Back20. Set to take effect during its upcoming 2013-14 season, each preview performance of a mainstage prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:11AMFriday, July 19, 2013
The International Order of Sodomites is moving from the West Village — its home for the past four seasons — uptown to 54 Below to hold its monthly comedy/variety show, The Meeting. The g…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:52PMIf there were a degree in Annie, Richard Sabellico would have earned his PhD several times over. After taking on the role of the "Easy Street"-loving swindler ‘Rooster' in the original Br…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:05PMThe Amoralists, off-Broadway's acclaimed downtown theater troupe, has announced casting for The Cheaters Club, the second and final production of its summer season. Following a successful N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:56AMBenj Pasek and Justin Paul, the Tony-nominated composing duo behind Broadway's A Christmas Story, will make their San Francisco debut with two performances at Feinstein's, the legendary nigh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:50AMThe results are in and Broadway legend Elaine Stritch (A Little Night Music) has nabbed herself an eighth Emmy Award nomination for her guest performance on NBC's comedy series "30 Rock." I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThursday, July 18, 2013
Off-Broadway's Potomac Theatre Project celebrated its landmark 27th opening night at New York City's Maritime Hotel. Among the evening's guests were Kristine Nielsen, the Tony-nominated sta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PMPlans have been confirmed for Grammy Award-winning recording artist, "American Idol" season three winner, and Theatre World Award winner Fantasia Barrino (The Color Purple) to join the Broad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PMThe nominees for the 2013 Primetime Emmy Awards were announced this morning at a ceremony hosted by Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul and none other than Tony host extraordinaire, Neil Patrick Ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Five years ago today, the all-star quartet comprised of Tony Award-nominated book writer Hunter Bell, composer Jeff Bowen, Heidi Blickenstaff, and Susan Blackwell celebrated the Broadway ope…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:12PMJulian Po
by Zachary Stewart The line was justifiably long for the penultimate performance of Julian Po at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre. Patrons jockeyed for position in the "genera…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PMOn Tuesday, July 16 film and television star Shia LaBeouf and Orphans producers Robert Cole and Frederick Zollo announced that a settlement had been reached in regards to the unfair-terminat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:49AMTuesday, July 16, 2013
Eight years ago, Julianne Brienza launched the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington D.C., filling what she saw as a void in the city's artistic community. Today, as executive director (and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:05PMSignature Theatre Artistic Director James Houghton and Executive Director Erika Mallin have announced complete casting for their upcoming world premiere production of Horton Foote's The Old …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:08PMOn July 12, Simon Reade's stage adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice opened at Minneapolis/St. Paul's renowned Guthrie Theater, one of five regional houses current…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AMMonday, July 15, 2013
English playwrights and salacious profanities are the centerpieces of Potomac Theatre Project this summer. The two plays the company has chosen for its five-week repertory season (now playin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:54PMFor all of you Idina Menzel fans out there, now is your chance to get your tickets to see the Tony Award-winning beltress in her newest Broadway-bound show If/Then. Earlier this morning, a c…
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