Friday, May 20, 2011
Presenters have been announced for the 2011 Drama Desk Awards. As previously announced, the prizes will be presented at a ceremony to be held at Hammerstein Ballroom on Monday, May 23, host…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:59PM[SHARE]Horizon Theatre Rep has announced casting for Robert Lowell's Benito Cereno, to run June 16 - July 10 at The Flea Theatre. Alfred Preisser will direct the production, which will have f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:08PM[SHARE]ABC has released an excerpt of a Nightline interview with Bono and the Edge, the composers of the new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The episode is scheduled to air on Frida…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:44PM[SHARE]Michael Arden, Scott Bakula, Avery Brooks, Christopher B. Corrigan, Richard Dreyfuss, Jeremy Gumbs, Joshua Henry, Kellee Knighten Hough, Kevin McAllister, Michael McElroy, Anika Noni Rose, D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:35PM[SHARE]Academy Award winner Holly Hunter will join the previously reported stars Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal in the film, Still I Rise, according to Deadline.com. Daniel Barnz will helm the f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM[SHARE]Patrick Stewart and Susannah Fielding have officially opened in Rupert Goold's production of The Merchant of Venice, playing in repertory at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-u…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:50AM[SHARE]The winners of Independent Theater Bloggers Association's third annual Patrick Lee Theater Blogger Awards have been announced.
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson has been named Outstanding N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:30AM[SHARE]Playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has been named a co-producer and writer of FOX's Glee and will write the screenplay for a remake of Stephen King's Carrie, according to a report …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:13AM[SHARE]The Atlanta-based Actor's Express has announced its 2011-2012 season, which will open with Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Spring Awakening. Freddie Ashley will direct this musica…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2011
Willard Beckham's lighter-than-air musical about an aspiring country music songwriter benefits from a host of fine performances.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Joel Zwick will direct a musical version of the 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle, to run June 12 - July 15 at The Pasadena Playhouse.
With a book by Jeff Arch, who wrote the film's orig…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PM[SHARE]Kathleen McNenny, Frances Sternhagen and Richard Thomas will appear in a script-in-hand reading of A. R. Gurney's The Golden Age on Monday, June 20, 7pm at Westport Country Playhouse. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:12PM[SHARE]Roman Polanski's film version of God of Carnage and David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, based on Christopher Hampton's play The Talking Cure, will debut at the 68th Venice …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AM[SHARE]CW has announced its new 2011-2012 slate of television series, many of which will feature prominent stage veterans.
Scott Porter will appear in Hart of Dixie, which will focus on Zoe Hart, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AM[SHARE]CW has announced its new 2011-2012 slate of television series, many of which will feature prominent stage veterans.
Scott Porter will appear in Hart of Dixie, which will focus on Zoe Hart, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AM[SHARE]Soho Theatre has announced casting for Lou Ramsden's Hundreds and Thousands, to run June 21 - July 16. Lisa Spirling will direct the production.
The play, a twisted fairytale for o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:11AM[SHARE]Alison Pill will join the cast of the Aaron Sorkin's drama pilot for HBO tentatively titled More As This Story Develops, according to a report on Deadline.com.
The show will center on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:56AM[SHARE]Matilda The Musical will transfer to the West End's Cambridge Theatre, beginning performances on October 18. The show premiered last December at the company's Courtyard Theatre in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Nilaja Sun will bring her award-winning solo show No Child... to the Barrow Street Theatre, to run June 5-25. Hal Brooks has directed the production.
The piece is inspired by Sun's ex…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:57PM[SHARE]Casting for the new film Seeking a Friend for the End of the World has been announced. Lorene Scafaria will direct the project, for which she has written the screenplay.
The movie is set i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:52PM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for North Shore Music Theatre's production of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's My Fair Lady, to run June 7-19. Charles Repole will direct …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:05PM[SHARE]Hugh Jackman will perform a two week engagement of his show, Hugh Jackman in Concert at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, running July 5-17, according to a report in the Star.
In …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:29PM[SHARE]Broadway producer Randall L. Wreghitt has passed away, due to complications from recent carbon monoxide poisoning.
His 2001 production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest received the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:13PM[SHARE]Maggie Gyllenhaal will play the title role in the previously announced reading of Alan Alda's new play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, which will be presented as part of the 2011…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:26PM[SHARE]Bard SummerScape has announced casting for David Eldridge's translation of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck, to run July 13-24. As previously announced, Caitriona McLaughlin will dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AM[SHARE]Steve Cuiffo will offer three performances of Steve Cuiffo Is Lenny Bruce: Alive in Greenwich Village at Le Poisson Rouge on July 9, 16 and 23 at 8:30pm.
The show is a compilation of Bruc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:29AM[SHARE]Joel Edgerton has joined the cast of Baz Luhrmann's forthcoming film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, according to a report on Deadline.com.
The book centers o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:10AM[SHARE]Baba Brinkman will return to New York with his show The Rap Guide to Evolution, performing at the Soho Playhouse, beginning on June 17 in anticipation of an official opening on June 26. Dod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:50AM[SHARE]The Laurie Beechman Theatre has announced its June performance schedule, which will include, as previously announced, the ongoing FringeBENEFITS series, which highlights hits from the New Yo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams, along with Mila Kunis, will play a trio of witches in Disney's Oz, the Great and Powerful, according to a report in Variety. Sam Raimi is directing …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:48PM[SHARE]An initial list of presenters has been announced for the 2011 Drama Desk Awards. As previously announced, the prizes will be presented at a ceremony to be held at Hammerstein Ballroom on Mo…
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