Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The 2011 MAC Awards, honoring the best of cabaret, comedy, and jazz, were presented in a ceremony on Tuesday, May 10 at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill. Christine Pedi hosted the ceremony.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:26AM[SHARE]Fred Tallaksen will direct and choreograph Disney's Phineas and Ferb! The Best Live Tour Ever!, which will launch with an engagement in Lakeland, FL on August 21, according to a report …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:46AM[SHARE]Composer-lyricist Adam Gwon is the winner of this year's Kleban Prize for lyricists and book writer-lyricist Michelle Elliott has won the Kleban for bookwriting, according to a report i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:15AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for Silence! The Musical, to run June 24 - August 13 at Theater 80 St. Mark's. Christopher Gatelli, who staged the piece at the New York International Fringe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:49AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for Silence! The Musical, to run June 24 - August 13 at Theater 80 St. Mark's. Christopher Gattelli, who staged the piece at the New York International Fring…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Alec Baldwin has withdrawn from Adam Shankman's movie version of the musical Rock of Ages, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was to have played Dennis, the owner of the Bourbon R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM[SHARE]Simon Russell Beale will star in Simon Stephens' Bluebird, to run at Atlantic Stage 2, August 9 - September 9, with an opening on August 22. Gaye Taylor Upchurch will direct the produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:47PM[SHARE]The 67th annual Theatre World Award winners for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performances during the 2010-2011 season have been announced. The awards presentation will be held…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:52PM[SHARE]Colin Hanks will join the cast of Showtime's Emmy Award-winning series Dexter in the coming season, which will begin production in June and begin on air this fall. Hanks, who will appea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:35PM[SHARE]Neil Patrick Harris will return as host of the 2011 Tony Awards, which will be presented at The Beacon Theatre on Sunday, June 12 and broadcast on CBS. Harris previously hosted the awards s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:11PM[SHARE]Jacob Clemente and Liz Pearce will take part in Billy Elliot: Songs and Talk-Back with the Cast, to be offered at the 92YTribeca on Tuesday, May 24 at noon. At the event, the two artists wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AM[SHARE]Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, Jeff Bowen, and Larry Pressgrove will perform in a Develomental Lab Production of Now.Here.This, to be offered June 4-19 at Vineyard Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner will accept an honorary doctor of letters from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York (CUNY), according to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AM[SHARE]The New York dates for the Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan tour have been announced. The production will play The Theater at Madison Square Garden, running December 14-30.
As previously reporte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AM[SHARE]An initial set of dates has been announced for the national tour of Memphis, which will launch, as previously announced, at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, running October 14 - October 23. C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:13AM[SHARE]Dame Edna Everage (aka comedian and drag artist Barry Humphries) will make her pantomime debut in Dick Whittington, to run December 9 - January 15 at the New Wimbledon Theatre. She will pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:43AM[SHARE]The winners of the 2011 Broadway League Awards have been announced. These honors recognize the contributions of those who have displayed exemplary service to the Broadway industry and are co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:26AM[SHARE]The Long Wharf Theatre has announced seven of the eight productions that will comprise its 2011-2012 season, which will include David Rintel's stage adaptation of William Styron's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:22AM[SHARE]Al Pacino will co-star with the previously announced John Travolta in the film Gotti: Three Generations, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Barry Levinson is directing the project, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19AM[SHARE]The Gate Theatre has announced casting for Arthur Schnitzler's novella Dream Story, to run June 9 - July 16. Anna Ledwich has adapted Schnitzler's original and will direct the pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:56AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for a one-performance-only staging of Shylock, Jacob Adler's Yiddish version of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, to be offered on Sunday, May 22 at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:48AM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced the two plays that will comprise its 2011-2012 season for young adults.
The first offering in the series will be Rebecca Gilman's adaptation o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:58AM[SHARE]Urban Stages has announced the individuals it will honor during it annual gala, Stars Shine for Urban Stages' Outreach, to be held at the Boathouse in Central Park on May 23. Funds rai…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2011
PBS has announced the lineup of programs to be offered as part of its inaugural PBS Arts Fall Festival, to air on consecutive Fridays beginning October 14. On each of these evenings, the ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:51PM[SHARE]PBS has announced the lineup of programs to be offered as part of its inaugural PBS Arts Fall Festival, to air on consecutive Fridays beginning October 14. On each of these evenings, the ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:51PM[SHARE]Alicia Silverstone and husband Christopher Jarecki have welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Bear Blu Jarecki, according to a report on People.com. He was born on May 5.
Silverstone…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:22PM[SHARE]Rob Marshall will direct Johnny Depp in a new version of The Thin Man, according to published reports. Marshall is also scheduled to produce the project, which will have a screenplay by Jer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:51PM[SHARE]The Kimmel Center has announced its 2011-2012 season, which will include Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones' Fela!. The show centers on musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's controversial l…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PM[SHARE]Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara will be honored at The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) annual spring gala to be held on Monday, May 9 at the Edison Ballroom. Simon Jones will emcee the evening, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:17PM[SHARE]Principal casting has been announced for a revival of The Wiz, to run June 10-18 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, before playing June 24 - July 16 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Joset…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:01PM[SHARE]Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna will co-host the 2011 National Memorial Day Concert to be broadcast live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on PBS on May 29 at 8pm (EST, check local listing…
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