Monday, April 22, 2013
Following a successful run in New York City this past November, iLuminate, the dance troupe made famous by their third-place finish in season six of NBC's hit show America's Got Talent, will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:37PMBerkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone announced at the nonprofit's April 20 annual gala that the company will be hosting Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart this August for a pre-Broadway…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:17AMFiona Shaw returns to Broadway for the first time since 2003 in this one-woman tour-de-force performance at the Walter Kerr Theater. In the play, adapted from a work by Irish novelist Colm …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMSunday, April 21, 2013
Vassar College's Powerhouse Theater has a star-studded lineup for its upcoming season, scheduled to run from June 21-July 28. The season will include fully staged productions of Seth Zvi Ro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMTony and Olivier Award winner Alan Cumming is taking Broadway by storm with his solo performance of Macbeth, opening tonight at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Cumming is joined by Jenny Sterl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMSaturday, April 20, 2013
Vicky Featherstone has announced the roster of productions to open her first season as artistic director of the Royal Court. Two of the upcoming productions will be part of the Theatre Local…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMFriday, April 19, 2013
UPDATED: Allison Case and Jay Armstrong Johnson from Broadway's recent country-fried musical, Hands on a Hardbody, will offer a special performance of the ballad "I'm Gone" at the broadwayUN…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:32PMMultiple Tony Award- and Oliver Award-winning composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has his sights set on a West End run for his newest musical, Stephen Ward, by the end of 2013. According to a repo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMAh, to be a leading lady in a great big Broadway show… That's all Motown superstar Diana Ross has ever wanted. But alas — save a brief concert engagement at The Palace Theatre in 1976 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThursday, April 18, 2013
Write, compose, cast, direct, rehearse, tech, and perform — even if a production is in a hurry, that process will take at least two years… Has Smash taught us nothing? For the fifth tim…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:14PMGayfest, a not-for-profit New York City arts organization dedicated to developing LGBT and other minority works for the stage, film, and television, has announced the lineup for its fifth bi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PMOriginally constructed in 1860, the Tobacco Warehouse, in its roofless state, lies between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges as a symbol of the downtown Brooklyn waterfront's shipping activ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:20PMSyracuse Stage has selected six plays for its upcoming 2013/'14 season that honor the memory of the late Arthur Storch (1925-2013), the company's founding producing artistic director. "For …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:50PMWith the 101st anniversary of the Titanic's sinking only days behind us, news of an upcoming London production of the musical that honors the ship's fateful maiden voyage could not have come…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
The Women's Project Theater's new Allison Moore comedy, Collapse, surely lives up to its name. Things are collapsing left and right — bridges, marriages, the economy (I spy a metaphor) —…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Less than one year after Shakespeare in the Park's elaborate rendering of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods, the McCarter Theatre Center has annou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:10PMSamuel H. Crothers, the Tony Award-winning producer of shows including Sweeney Todd, La Cage aux Folles, and The Will Rogers Follies, passed away at his home in Boynton Beach, FL after battl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:01PMBerkshire Theatre Group Artistic Director and CEO Kate Maguire has announced three new additions to the company's 85th summer season. On the heels of a successful children's production of O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:51AMThe work of playwright Clifford Odets officially returns to the Broadway stage tonight with Roundabout Theatre Company's opening of The Big Knife at the American Airlines Theatre. Tony Awar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMMonday, April 15, 2013
The results are in! The winners and nominated finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize awards have been announced. Established in 1917, the Pulitzer Prize has become one of the most revered pri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:42PMTo celebrate the arrival of Tony Awards season, New York City's Paley Center for Media will be hosting the 3rd Annual Tony Awards Film Series. Slightly less than a month prior to Radio City …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:26PMSunday, April 14, 2013
After tonight, Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer and Motown founder Berry Gordy will have officially conquered the final frontier: Broadway. Motown: The Musical, with a book written by Gordy hims…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:06AMFriday, April 12, 2013
The theatrical rendering of author Tucker Max's alcohol-soaked adventures has plans for a limited engagement run at The Cabaret at Roy Arias Studios and Theatres. Performances are scheduled …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:32PMKerry Butler is officially more than just a Broadway beltress. It turns out that if you strip away her roller skates, hairspray, and eleven o'clock number, you find an honest-to-goodness act…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:04PMThe West End smash hit Billy Elliot The Musical will welcome four new cast members to the Victoria Palace Theatre beginning May 13. Anna-Jane Casey (Spamalot) will join in the role of Billy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:17PMIke Holter's new off-Broadway play, Hit the Wall, has scheduled its final performance at Greenwich Village's Barrow Street Theatre for April 28. Directed by Eric Hoff and featuring original …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:12AMThursday, April 11, 2013
MCC has announced the first two productions slated for its 2013/14 season. As was previously reported, its first production, jointly produced with Manhattan Theatre Club, will be the world p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:09PMOff-Broadway's Mint Theater has announced the complete cast for its upcoming American premiere of English dramatist N.C. Hunter's A Picture of Autumn. The play will run from May 23-July 14 w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:57PMJohn Doyle, best known for his minimalist direction of Stephen Sondheim musicals including the Broadway productions of Company and Sweeney Todd (for which he won a Tony Award), as well as Cl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:14PMUPDATED: The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) has announced its complete list of Elliot Norton Award nominees, as well two additional special honorees who will join the previous Lif…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMThe long-awaited opening of the critically acclaimed across-the-pond musical has finally arrived. Matilda The Musical, will celebrate its opening this evening at the Shubert Theatre before i…
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