Thursday, March 28, 2013
American 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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:50PMCasting has been announced for Mike Bartlett's new off-Broadway play, Bull, which is scheduled for a limited run from April 25-June 2 at 59E59 Theaters. It will be presented as part of the c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:38AMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Industry members and theater enthusiasts sat side by side at the Drama Desk's Spring Luncheon and Panel Discussion on Friday, March 22 on the 4th floor of the iconic Sardi's. Beneath the car…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:29PMAs part of its Obie Award-winning Revelation Readings series, the Red Bull Theater is presenting Strindberg Soundscapes on Monday, April 15 at St. Stephen's Church. The event will include re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PMAfter sharing the 54 Below stage with stars like Santa Claus and Jeremy Jordan, you would think rock-and-roll/musical-theater writer Joe Iconis' performances had reached their peak of star p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:14AMMonday, March 25, 2013
Watching the Tony Awards with a group of theater fans is like watching the Super Bowl with…sports fans. Part of the tradition is becoming inappropriately emotionally involved with the succ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:53PMForever Dusty, Kirsten Holly Smith and Jonathan Vankin's new bio-musical chronicling the life of British pop star Dusty Springfield, has announced it will conclude its off-Broadway run on Ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:16PMFriday, March 22, 2013
Pasadena Playhouse has announced five of the six productions that will fill the roster for its upcoming 2013-14 season. One of the season's most anticipated events is the world premiere of A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:22PMOn March 29, Disney's newest Broadway hit, Newsies, will celebrate one year at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre. But instead of accepting gifts, Thomas Schumacher and the kind folks at Disney …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:15PMSorry William Shatner, you've been upstaged by two living legends of Broadway — it's best if you just pick a new birthday. Yes, this, the 22nd day of March is the birthday of both the gre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMThursday, March 21, 2013
"Theater is a community — whether you are an actor in Anchorage, a playwright in Portland, or a Newsie in New York City." This is the foundation of the broadwayUNLOCKED campaign, which emp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:50PMIn the words of Oda Mae Brown: Schenectady, you in danger, girl! The Broadway and West End musical Ghost will launch its first U.S. national tour and its first stop will be in Schenectady, N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03PMEver heard of the musical Georgy? How about Rockabye Hamlet? It's not your fault if you haven't; audiences were only given a handful of opportunities to see them the first time around. But t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:15AMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Well, they may not be marrying each other, but this is definitely the next best thing. Sir Ian McKellen will be officiating at the upcoming wedding of Sir Patrick Stewart and his fiancée, 3…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:06PMAllan Buchman, Founder and Artistic Director of New York City's Culture Project, has announced that the company will be changing the name of its mainstage venue from the 45 Bleecker to the L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:20PMMonday, March 18, 2013
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PMOriginal cast members of the 2012 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical, Once, will play their last performance with the show on Sunday, March 24. Tony Award winner Steve Kazee, Tony Award nomi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:57PMHarvard University will soon be reviving the Democratic chant of "All the Way with LBJ." To open its 2013-14 season, Cambridge's A.R.T. will present All the Way at the Loeb Drama Center, wit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PMMaria Striar, Producing Artistic Director of the four-time Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb, has announced plans for its 18th Summerworks season. From May 24-June 29, Manhatt…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:59AMFriday, March 15, 2013
Before Tony nominees Christopher Durang and Sigourney Weaver went all Chekhovian on us with Durang's new Broadway play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, in which Weaver is currently starr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMThursday, March 14, 2013
On April 5, singing-dancing-comedienne-actress Bette Midler will make her highly anticipated return to Broadway in the one-woman show, I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, starring as…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:05PMArtistic Director George Mount announced the two comedic and two dramatic plays that will make up the Seattle Shakespeare Company's 2013/14 season.
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:03PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
"If you drink it back in three sips, it goes down smoother than oil," says Caroline, a character in the Public LAB's Detroit '67, describing the proper way to finish off a Bali Hai cocktail.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMCarrie White is finally making her way to the City of Angels. Carrie the Musical, based on the 1974 horror novel by Stephen King, will receive its Los Angeles premiere from The Transfer The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:36PMMonday, March 11, 2013
Tickets for the Broadway revival of The Trip to Bountiful are now on sale at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre Box Office. Set to begin previews on March 30 and to open on April 23, its four-pers…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMFriday, March 8, 2013
Matthew Paul Olmos has already won the lottery of playwriting and is now ready to cash in on his winnings. Last year, in honor of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club's 50th season and the orga…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:41PMOn May 1, 2004, 37-year-old actor Tristan Sturrock (Broadway's Brief Encounter) suffered a 10-foot fall that left him paralyzed from the neck down. Now, almost ten years later, Sturrock has …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMTickets are now on sale at the Marquis Theatre Box Office for Jekyll
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMThursday, March 7, 2013
Off-Broadway's Drama Desk and OBIE award-winning Transport Group announced today that its New York premiere of the new musical The Memory Show, will begin performances on April 16 with an of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:12AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
LAByrinth Theater Company, a staple of downtown New York City culture, has announced the works to be presented at its NEWYORKNEWYORK Festival. The festival will be held from March 18-24 at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:53AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Signature Theatre has announced the eight productions that will join the lineup for its 2013/14 season, half of which will be making their world premieres. The season will open with a produc…
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