Monday, August 1, 2011
Legendary stage and film director Arthur Penn, who won the Tony Award for the original Broadway production of William Gibson's The Miracle Worker, has died at age 88, according to published …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Stage and screen star Shirley MacLaine will star opposite Jack Black, Matthew McCounaghey, and Rip Torn in director Richard Linklater's new dark comedy Bernie, according to published reports…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]John Wells is set to the direct the film version of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony winning Broadway play August: Osage County, and playwright Tracy Letts will write the adaptation, according to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Emmy Award winner Candice Bergen will deliver a sequel to her 1984 memoir Knock Wood, to be released in 2012, according to EW.com.Bergen will appear next month in a special concert version o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Dan Lauria, Judith Light, and Thomas Kail discuss working on the new Broadway play about legendary football coach Vince Lombardi.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]The Metropolitan Opera and The Juilliard School will co-produce Bedrich Smetana's The Bartered Bride at Juilliard's Peter Jay Sharp Theater on February 15, 17, and 20. Stephen Wads…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]New York magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss announced today that Scott Brown will be the magazine's theater critic as of September 21. Brown has been a part-time reviewer for the magazi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC), the not-for-profit producing entity at the historic Theatre By The Sea, will host their first fundraising event, Beyond the Sea on Saturday, September 25 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for Classic Stage Companys' popular Books On Stage reading series.On Monday, September 27, CSC will present Milan Kundera's Jacques and His Master, adapt…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Bill Bailey's new show, Dandelion Wine, will run from November 2-December 7 at Wyndham's Theatre, according to Whatsonstage.com.The show, which debuted this month at Leicester Squa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Former Broadway star Usher is among the nominees for the MTV European Music Awards, to be handed out on November 7 in Madrid.Usher, who briefly starred in Chicago, is up for Best Pop, Best M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Tom Hooper's film The King's Speech, starring Tony Award and Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth, has won the People Choice Award at this year's Toronto Film F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Leslie Uggams will bring her new show ,Uptown/Downtown, to the Reagle Music Theatre in Waltham, Massachusetts on October 16 and 17 at 2pm.In the show -- which played New Yo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Sir Elton John will be among the performers at The Speaking Clock Revue, a benefit for The Particpant Foundation, to be held on October 20 at the Beacon Theatre.The concert will also feature…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Showtime has ordered a seventh season of its hit series Weeds and a second season of its recently-launched series The Big C, both of which will air in 2011.Weeds stars Emmy Award winner Mary…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Stage and screen star David Hasslehoff and his partner, Broadway veteran,Kym Johnson, became the first pair to be eliminated from the11th season of ABC's Dancing With the Stars. The sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]The Colony Theatre Company has announced cast and creative team for its production of John van Druten's Bell Book and Candle, to run October 20-November 21. The production will be direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]HBO has renewed its brand-new drama Boardwalk Empire for a second season, according to published reports. The series, which is set in 1920s Atlantic City, stars Steve Buscemi and is co-produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Helen Hayes Award winners Sherri L. Edelen and Nancy Robinette will star in Signature Theatre's production of writer-director Joe Calarco's comedy, Walter Cronkite Is Dead, to run …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Screenwriter Irving Ravetch, who adapted William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs for film, has died in Los Angeles at age 89, according to The Associated Press.Ravetch and his …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Pop singer Lesley Gore will not be able to join the Broadway cast of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, at the Nederlander Theatre, for a special encore performance on Friday, September 24,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Jackie Hoffman, who is currently starring in the hit Broadway musical The Addams Family, will return to Joe's Pub with her new show, Jackie Five-Oh: A Celebration of Jackie Hoffman's First 5…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Award-winning stage and screen star Stanley Tucci will receive the 2010 Hamptons Film Festival Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award, and will take part in a special conversation on Sunday…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominees Hope Davis and Tony Roberts will perform at the next installment of Selected Shorts, to take place at 7pm on Wednesday, October 13 at Symphony Space.The evening, to be in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that its chairman, David M. Rubenstein, is making a $10 million donation over five years.The gift includes $5 million for the Nat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]The award-winning superstar discusses her new movie, You Again, and her continuing turn in Broadway's Promises, Promises.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Film director Baz Luhrmann will create and co-produce a stage musical of his film Strictly Ballroom.The production will be designed by Catherine Martin. A full production schedule and locati…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Lifetime has renewed the series Drop Dead Diva for a third season of 13 episodes, to air in 2011, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The show stars Broadway veteran Brooke Elliott as Jane/…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Lionsgate Films has acquired John Cameron Mitchell's big-screen version of David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Rabbit Hole, and will distribute it for limited release on Decem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch will receive the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center's Rand Schrader Distinguished Achievement Award at the Center's 39th Anniversary Gala & Auction on Saturday, ...
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]The popular actors discuss returning to Broadway in Neil Pepe's revival of David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre.
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