Thursday, April 11, 2013
The 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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:30PMUPDATED: The world premiere the Boston production of Chris Miller, Nathan Tysen, and Claudia Shear's Tuck Everlasting has been postponed "due to a lack of theatre availability for its planne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:17PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
The International Order of Sodomites (IOS) will host its next monthly variety show, The Meeting, on Thursday, April 18 — never has such a formal sentence described a tribute to the film Sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:57PMAnd you can't lower an audience's expectations much more than using the title of your work to warn your audience: "You're Gonna Hate This." Lindsay Mendez and Michael Holland, who worked to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:32PMFor those of us who have longed for the soothing voice of Laura Osnes to sweeten our morning commutes with the classic tunes of Rodgers and Hammerstein, the wait is almost over. Ghostlight R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:14PMI smell witchcraft. After leaving New York's Little Shubert Theatre in September 2012 for a North American tour, Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience has boomeranged its way back…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:15PMMonday, April 8, 2013
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher passed away from a stroke on Monday, April 8. Nicknamed the "Iron Lady" for her rigid style of leadership, Thatcher was the Leader of the Cons…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:51PMMarin Ireland, successful stage, film, and television actress, has traded one Homeland for another. After inducing several water-cooler moments as the suicidal terrorist Aileen Morgan on the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:28PMYes, that School of Rock. The one starring Jack Black and that girl from Nickelodeon. In an era when every film with a remotely musical theme eventually finds itself on Broadway, all we can …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:51PMThe Geffen Playhouse has announced plans for a nine-production season, including three world premieres/adaptations, three West Coast premieres, and two works by Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-win…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:26AMFriday, April 5, 2013
UPDATED: The four actors joining the previously announced Broadway veteran and Drama Desk Award nominee Bryce Ryness (Hair) for The New Theatre at 45th Street's production of Around the Worl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:10PMUPDATED: Rob McClure, who recently shot to Broadway stardom in the title role of Broadway's Chaplin, will be joining the previously announced Tony Danza in Honeymoon in Vegas, the latest mus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AMBerkeley Repertory Theatre has announced plans to conclude its 45th season with a reunion of Broadway talent. Tony Award-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Les Waters, who have col…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51AMThursday, April 4, 2013
Something smells funky…and it's heading towards Broadway. An Equity casting notice broke news of plans for another workshop for the new soul-funk musical, Super Fly, based on the 1972 fil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:38PMThis summer, New York City Center Encores! will be launching Off-Center, a series of performances that features some of off-Broadway's most seminal musicals, presented by some of Broadway's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:20PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) is officially critically acclaimed. On Monday, May 13, the Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) will present the liv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMTonight marks the official Broadway opening of the fabulously dragified musical Kinky Boots at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Featuring a score by Grammy Award-winning pop star Cyndi Lauper and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Penguin Rep Theatre of Stony Point, New York has announced the four productions to join its 2013 mainstage season roster. Opening the season is the New York premiere of Class, a new play by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:54PMCombine your favorite audio book with your favorite NOW CD, add a dash of Alan Cumming, and you've got the most sophisticated thing ever to happen to long car trips. Tony and Emmy Award winn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:29AMOn Monday, April 1, Fort Lauderdale's Broward Center for the Performing Arts hosted the 37th annual Carbonell Awards, honoring South Florida's breadth of theatrical talent. Nominations for t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:18AMMonday, April 1, 2013
Tony and three-time Emmy Award winner Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God) will be returning to the New York stage for the first time since her 1998 off-Broadway performance in Killer Joe. She will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:44PMIt seems that Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family) has even bigger fish to fry out west than he does on Broadway. The Tony- and Grammy Award-nominated composer and lyricist of Broadway's upcomin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:44PMOver 14 years in the making, the day has finally arrived. Nora Ephron's final play, Lucky Guy, which began its life in the late '90s as a screenplay, is celebrating its Broadway opening toni…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMGingold Theatrical Group's eight-year-old Project Shaw series will present a reading of Shaw's Admirable Bashville on April 29 at The Players Club. Produced and directed by the company's fou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:48PMThe Newsies are dreaming bigger than getting their picture in the "papes" these days. This morning on Good Morning America, the cast of Disney's Tony Award-winning musical Newsies served up …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:28PMNow in its 10th season, the nonprofit theater company Musicals Tonight! will host its next concert on April 7 at the Lion Theatre. This will be the second in a series of three spring concert…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:01AMFriday, March 29, 2013
It looks like Harold Prince will have to wait a little longer before collecting his 22nd Tony Award. Prince of Broadway, a musical revue of songs from the illustrious career of the 85-year-o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:24PMIn the true spirit of Broadway camaraderie, composer Jonathan Reid Gealt has gathered together some of the biggest stars of the Great White Way to record his songs for an acoustic nine-track…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AMIn honor of the late Nora Ephron and the upcoming April 1 opening of her play, Lucky Guy, which is already out-box-officing some of Broadway's biggest musicals, take a few minutes to watch t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMThursday, March 28, 2013
After bursting onto the big screen as Enjolras in the recent blockbuster film adaptation of Les Misérables, Aaron Tveit is returning to the Big Apple to display his talents on a more intima…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:37PMAmerican screenwriter and Broadway playwright Fay Kanin, best-known as the first female to complete a term as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday, Ma…
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