Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:49PMBroadway stars gathered together at the Edison Ballroom on Monday night to honor Shubert Organization Chairman Philip J. Smith in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:49PMMonday, March 4, 2013
On the heels of the great success of the musical, Giant, the Public Theater and Dallas Theater Center's last collaboration, the two have decided to join forces once again to produce the new …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PMSaturday, March 2, 2013
The Music Box Theatre box office is now open for business, selling tickets to the general public for the upcoming Broadway revival of Pippin. Coming directly off a successful run at the Amer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMFriday, March 1, 2013
The National Corporate Theatre Fund (NCTF) has announced its plans to honor Tony nominated actress Vanessa Williams at its annual Chairman's Awards Gala to be held on Monday, April 29 at New…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:43PMWith the official Broadway opening of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella upon us, TheaterMania can't help but take a stroll down memory lane to visit the televised incarnation of the class…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMThursday, February 28, 2013
Coming off the release of its 2011 animated film Gnomeo
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PMThe American Repertory Theater and Harvard University are not just neighbors. They are now artistic collaborators, and recently announced their participation in the National Civil War Projec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Anyone in the process of developing a Patrick Stewart bio-pic (we know you're out there somewhere), search no more for your leading man. For years, James McAvoy has been silently building a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:09PMTuesday, February 26, 2013
On November 19, 1967, Motown supergroups The Supremes and The Temptations, joined forces on the Ed Sullivan Show for a performance that is now the stuff of legend. Motown was a global sensat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:15PMMolly Smith, Artistic Director of Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage, has announced the 10 productions that will be included its upcoming 2013/14 season, which she promises to be "soaked in histo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:53AMSunday, February 24, 2013
UPDATE: As reported by Deadline (and confirmed by Sony), Oscar nominee and star of Beasts of the Southern Wild, Quvenzhané Wallis, has officially been selected to play the title role in the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:16PMThursday, February 21, 2013
With only weeks remaining until The Last Five Years makes its first off-Broadway return since its New York debut in 2002, Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe are working hard to become Jamie and Cat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:49PMJustin Vivian Bond is returning to the Joe's Pub stage as the one and only finalist in the Mx America pageant, for six solo performances between March 8 and March 30. For those not familiar …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:41PMEnd a musical-theater-themed evening without a show-stopping number? That would be an affront to Dionysus himself. The Academy Awards typically close with an announcement of the year's Best …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:52AMWednesday, February 20, 2013
This U.K. production of Merrily We Roll Along is definitely…rolling along merrily. Due to high demand and great critical acclaim following its sold-out run at the the Menier Chocolate Fact…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:10PMTony nominees Alfred Molina and Jonathan Groff have mastered both the stage and screen. It's about time they take on the final frontier of radio. Molina and Groff, who co-starred in John Log…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:24PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Box Office is now selling tickets for its upcoming Broadway production of Orphans to the general public. Written by Lyle Kessler (The Watering Place) and direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:55AMUPDATE: Emmy Award winner Shia LaBeouf has departed the production due to creative differences, as of February 20th. A replacement for the role of Treat has not yet been announced, but the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:55AMThursday, February 14, 2013
If you "just don't know what to do" with yourself this Valentine's Day and you're done "wishin' and hopin'" for the "son of a preacher man" to show up at your door with that burning "look of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:17PMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Max Crumm is still the one that New York theater wants. (Yeah, we went there.) His last stage appearance was in 2007 in the Broadway revival of Grease, for which he nabbed the leading role o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMNo, it's not a re-make of Les Miz with a happier ending for Fantine. Peter Bogdanovich, best known for directing the Academy Award-winning film The Last Picture Show, will be directing a new…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:16PMTuesday, February 12, 2013
Every show ends sometime (unless you're Phantom), so before the cast takes their final bow, there are a few things we want to know. In the current revival of William Inge's 1953 play Picnic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMUPDATE: The Broadway Backwards benefit concert has added Tony Award winners Len Cariou, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Karen Ziemba to its roster. Cariou, currently appearing as Henry Reagan on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:10PMMonday, February 11, 2013
Quvenzhané Wallis can't seem to hold on to a set of parents. After playing the self-sufficient, motherless five-year-old Hushpuppy in Beasts of the Southern Wild (and achieving the title of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:34PMSunday, February 10, 2013
Tickets are now on sale to the general public for The Nance, a new play by Tony nominated playwright Douglas Carter Beane. Directed by three-time Tony winner Jack O'Brien, the production wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMThursday, February 7, 2013
Encores! Artistic Director Jack Viertel announced today that Edward Watts will take on the role of Superman (or Clark Kent for those who prefer his civilian name) in the upcoming production …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:03PMArtistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company Michael Kahn has announced five productions scheduled for the company's 2013-2014 season, with a sixth production to be determined at a l…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMWednesday, February 6, 2013
"I think we're somewhere between idiots and true believers," said Michael Cohl, one of the lead producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Cohl and fellow Spider-Man producer Jeremiah Harr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:46PMTuesday, February 5, 2013
Originally presented as a one-night-only performance at Birdland in July, Julie Halston's solo comedy show, Classical Julie, will return to the popular jazz club for a full month residency o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:13PMA joint statement from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group and AEG Live explaining the postponement of the UK tour of Jesus Christ Superstar revealed that plans for a US tour are in th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:08PM 
