Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:42PM[SHARE]The cast of Million Dollar Quartet will offer a free concert on Friday, May 20 at 12:15pm in the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium at the Harold Washington Library Center. The event will help celeb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:50PM[SHARE]The New American Shakespeare Tavern has announced its 2011-2012 season. The company will begin the year with repertory productions of the Bard's earliest comedies, The Two Gentlemen of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:40PM[SHARE]John Turturro will direct Relatively Speaking, a triple bill of comedies by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May, to begin previews in September for an official opening in October. Castin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PM[SHARE]Kristin Chenoweth's debut single, "I Want Somebody (Bitch About)" will be released on May 31 and a music video for the song will make its debut on Country Music Television (CM…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:22PM[SHARE]Matthew Morrison has announced that he will be joining the New Kids on the Block / Backstreet Boys (NKOTBSB) summer tour, which is scheduled to play various venues in the U.S. and Canada fro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:56PM[SHARE]Michael Feast will replace Simon Ward as Alfred P. Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, scheduled to open at the West End's Garrick Theatre on May 25, according to a repor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02PM[SHARE]Brian Kerwin, Andrea Martin, and Debra Monk will star in two staged reading performances of Monk's new comedy Dick & Lola, to be offered on May 20 and 21 at the Vineyard Playhouse o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:16PM[SHARE]Frank W. Abagnale Jr., whose youthful adventures are the basis for the new Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can, will host an on stage, post-show talk backs and Q & As at the Neil Simon …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PM[SHARE]Primary Stages has announced casting for Charles Busch's Olive and the Bitter Herbs, to run July 26 - September 3 at 59E59 Theaters. Mark Brokaw will direct the production.
Th play ce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:24AM[SHARE]Westport Country Playhouse has announced complete casting for W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle, to run June 7-25. Nicholas Martin will direct the production.
The play centers on Lord …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AM[SHARE]Rufus Norris's production of Damon Albarn's new opera Doctor Dee will be part of the 2011-2012 season at English National Opera (ENO), beginning performances on June 25, 2012 at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:14AM[SHARE]Penguin Rep Theatre has announced complete casting for Angelo Parra's The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, which will begin performances on June 7 at St. Luke&apo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36AM[SHARE]Katharine Houghton and Robert Eli will star in Cause Celebrè's production of Tennessee Williams' The Pretty Trap, to run August 2-August 21 at The Acorn Theatre on Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21AM[SHARE]The Shaggs' 1969 album Philosophy of the World has been reissued in a private-label recording by Playwrights Horizons and New York Theatre Workshop in tandem with the companies' c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:04AM[SHARE]Stage veteran Caroline O'Connor will play Momma Rose in Gypsy at Leicester Curve, to run March 13-April 14, according to report on Whatsonstage.com. Paul Kerryson will direct the produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:47AM[SHARE]Additional casting has been announced for the HBO comedy pilot, Spring/Fall, according to a report on Deadline.com. Jake Kasdan will direct the project, which will have a script by Kate Rob…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:21AM[SHARE]New casting has been announced for the West End production of Mamma Mia!, playing at the Prince of Wales Theatre, beginning on June 13.
The new company will feature Sally Ann Triplett as …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:13AM[SHARE]Goodspeed Musicals has announced complete casting for Show Boat, to run July 1- September 11 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT. Rob Ruggiero will direct the production, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:50AM[SHARE]Ashlie Atkinson, Kwaku Driskell, Peter Jay Fernandez, Kyle Knauf, Michael Markham, Eric T. Miller, David Sedgwick, and Rick Zahn are set to take part in Northpoint: Voices from a Kentucky Pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:02AM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2011
The winners of the 29th Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards have been announced. The prizes were presented in a ceremony held on May 15 at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, ho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:26PM[SHARE]Lauren Velez will reprise her performance as Cuban musical sensation La Lupe in They Call Me La Lupe on June 4 at 7pm at Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture. Veronica Caicedo has directe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:14PM[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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:16PM[SHARE]Preliminary casting has been announced for Atlantic Theater Company's 10 X 25, to run May 18 - June 28 at Atlantic Stage 2. The series is a festival of 10-minute plays written by 25 pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:18AM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride, to run June 23 - July 18 in the Sheffield Theatres' Studio Theatre. Richard Wilson will direct the produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tyne Daly, Quentin Earl Darrington, John Glover, and Kathleen Turner will appear at the Philadelphia Theatre Company's annual gala to be held on Monday, June 6 in the Grand Ballroom of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominated British playwright Pam Gems has died, according to a posting on the website for United Artists, which represented her. She was 85.
Gems received a Tony Award nominatio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AM[SHARE]Andrea Marcovicci will teach a Master Class on the Art of Cabaret on Monday, May 23 at 10:30am in New York City. She will be joined by her long-time musical director and teaching partner Sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:41AM[SHARE]The winners of the 2010-2011 Outer Critics Circle Awards have been announced. The awards will be presented in a ceremony to be held at Sardi's on May 26.
The Book of Mormon has won f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:43AM[SHARE]Manchester Royal Exchange has announced complete casting for Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, to run May 18 - June 25. Sarah Frankcom will direct the production.
The play un…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:20AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for Nancy Holson's Ludwig Live!, to run June 30-August 30 at Seven Hills Cabaret in Lenox, Massachussetts
The show is an irreverent song-filled cabaret about…
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