Thursday, September 22, 2011
Casting has been announced for Odyssey - The Epic Musical, to run October 21 - 30 at the American Theatre of Actors. Matt Britten will direct the production, which will have choreography by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:32PM[SHARE]Stage designer John Conklin and singer Risë Stevens, along with general director Speight Jenkins, and composer Robert Ward will receive NEA Opera Honors at a ceremony to be held on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:51PM[SHARE]Tyler Perry is in pre-production for a movie version of his The Marriage Counselor, according to a report in Variety.
The story of the piece, first seen on stage in 2008, centers on an ac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:34PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Ellen Barkin and Lily Tomlin will be among the honorees at the 14th Annual Savannah Film Festival, to run October 29 - November 5.
Actor James Marsden and Oscar-winning …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:08PM[SHARE]An initial lineup of performers has been announced for King James Bible: the twelve extracts, to run October 6 - November 6 in the Lyttleton Theatre at the National Theatre. The series, off…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:50PM[SHARE]Adam Shankman will receive the Visionary Award from Outfest, in recognition of his contributions to LGBT arts and media visibility, at the Legacy Awards ceremony to be held on October 20 at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PM[SHARE]Emmy Award winner Susan Lucci attended a recent performance of Newsies, playing at the Paper Mill Playhouse. Following the show, she spent time backstage with the production's company.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:30AM[SHARE]Karen Black and David Proval will star in Ellen Malayer's Moses Supposes, to run October 8 - December 4 at the Zephyr Theatre. Lee Sankowich will direct the production.
The comedy ce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The Weinstein Company has acquired the North American rights to Paulo Sorrento's This Must Be the Place, according to a report in Variety. Sorrento has written the script for the movie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:02PM[SHARE]The New Group has announced casting for Thomas Bradshaw's Burning, to run October 26 - December 17 at Theatre Row. Scott Elliott will direct the production.
Burning tells the intersec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:12PM[SHARE]Ana Gasteyer will join Julian Fleisher for a concert at Joe's Pub to be offered on October 10 at 7pm.
The concert will feature a variety of popular songs in bold interpretations. Gast…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PM[SHARE]Harry Connick, Jr. appeared on the September 20 episode of ABC's Dancing With the Stars, singing the title song from Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane's On a Clear Day You Can See Fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:57PM[SHARE]Pan Asian Rep has announced casting for Shanghai Lil's, to run November 11-27 at the West End Theatre. Tisa Chang will direct the production, which will feature choreography by Susan A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:11AM[SHARE]Mitch Sebastian will direct and choreograph Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson's Pippin, to run November 22-February 25 at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
The show centers on how Pip…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:52AM[SHARE]Julie Atherton, Annalene Beechey, Daniel Boys, Sarah Earnshaw, Ashleigh Gray, Ross Hunter, Michael Jibson, Sarah Lark, Rebecca Lock, Cassie McIvor, Amy Pemberton, Stuart Matthew Price, Laure…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:04AM[SHARE]Surflight Theatre has announced casting for All Hands on Deck!, to run September 21 - October 2. Jody Madaras, who's written the book for the piece that he has co-conceived with Quincy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Gregory Harrison will guest star on ABC's Body of Proof, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He will play an anatomy professor who finds, during a class, that one of his cadavers has …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:11PM[SHARE]The Broadway production of The Book of Mormon, playing at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, will offer a special Actors Fund performance on Wednesday, December 7 at 1pm. This special perfor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PM[SHARE]Rick Bayless in Cascabel: Dinner - Daring - Desire will play a limited engagement at the Lookingglass Theatre, March 23 - April 22. The piece has been created by Bayless, along with Heidi S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PM[SHARE]A two CD recording of The Phantom of the Opera at Royal Albert Hall concerts scheduled for October 1-2 will be released by Really Useful Group/Polydor on November 14. As previously announce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:11PM[SHARE]Long Wharf Theatre has announced casting for Aint' Misbehavin', to run October 26 - November 20. Richard Maltby, Jr., who originally directed the revue, which he conceived on Broa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:41AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall will direct and choreograph a musical version of the popular 1982 film Diner, scheduled to open on Broadway in the fall of 2012. Prior to its run in New …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34AM[SHARE]Laurie Metcalf will play Mary Tyrone opposite the previously announced David Suchet as James Tyrone in a West End revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, ac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:42AM[SHARE]The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the winners of its 2011 MacArthur Fellowships, often called "the genius grants." Each fellow will receive $500,000…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:21AM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2011
Broadway at Birdland has announced an additional lineup of performers in October.
Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich will bring The Marcy and Zina Show to the club on Monday, October 3 at 7pm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2011
Although problems abound in this staging of Shakespeare's rarely seen history play, the lucid production features several notable performances, particularly from Vince Gatton in the title …
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2011
Tony Award winner Beth Leavel and Broadway star Alexander Gemignani will serve on the judging panel for the first installment of the 2011 edition of NYMF's Next Broadway Sensation Compe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:31PM[SHARE]Alison Fraser will join Michael Urie in Tennessee Williams' Dirty Shorts, to be offered on Sunday, September 25 as part of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. She repl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PM[SHARE]MTV has given a series order to Craig Wright's Underemployed, according to Variety.
The project focuses on five 20-somethings in Chicago who find themselves struggling to make ends me…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2011
An final list of presenters for the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, September 18 in Los Angeles and broadcast live on FOX, has been announced.
Presenters will incl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32PM[SHARE]An final list of presenters for the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, September 18 in Los Angeles and broadcast live on FOX, has been announced.
Presenters will incl…
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