Monday, April 25, 2011
Stage and screen star George Hamilton will star in the national tour of La Cage Aux Folles, which will launch in October in Des Moines, Iowa. Additional casting will be announced at a later …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Savion Glover will be part of Wycliffe Gordon's Jazz à la Carte, a variety show featuring the music of Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, and Cab C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:54PM[SHARE]The nominations for the 2011 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards, honoring the best in dance and choreography on stage and in film, will be announced on Tuesday, April 26 by actor Lee Roy Reams.
…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PM[SHARE]Daytime Emmy Award winner and stage veteran Tom Pelphrey will lead the cast of Ric Klass' new film, Excuse Me for Living, according to Variety.
The actor will play a rich medical stude…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:06PM[SHARE]Alan Champion, a hearing-impaired sign-language interpreter who worked on Broadway for nearly 30 years, died of appendix cancer on Friday, April 22 in Ramona, Oklahoma, according to The New …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AM[SHARE]Tyne Daly, Ariana Grande, John Larroquette, Judith Light, Jan Maxwell, Liza Minnelli, Brooke Shields, and more stars join Nina Arianda, Jim Belushi, Robert Sean Leonard, and the company of B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 23, 2011
The award-winning actress discusses playing the sexy Hedy La Rue in the hit Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2011
Marianne Elliott will direct Viva Frorever, the new musical based on the songs of the hit group The Spice Girls, which is expected to bow in the West End in late 2012.
The show will be prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21PM[SHARE]New York City Opera honored composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz at its April 21 gala benefit with a concert, Defying Gravity: The Music of Stephen Schwartz.
The concert starred Broadway …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02PM[SHARE]Laura Benanti, Charlie Cox, America Ferrera, Gina Gershon, Gillian Jacobs, Janet McTeer, Jerry Mitchell, and more luminaries join Mark Rylance, John Gallagher, Jr. and the company of Jez Bu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2011
Tony Award nominee Ethan Hawke and his wife, Ryan, are expecting their second child together, according to People Magazine.
The couple, who married in 2008, have a daughter, Clementine Jane…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:50PM[SHARE]Time Magazine has announced the selections for its annual "Time 100" list of the world's most influential people.
Among those who were selected are stage veterans Matt Damon,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:07AM[SHARE]Joy Behar, Mario Cantone, Adam Lambert, Brooke Shields, Sylvester Stallone, Barbara Walters, and more stars join Whoopi Goldberg, Patina Miller, Victoria Clark and the company of Sister Act …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Taye Diggs, Melissa George, David Harbour, and Julia Stiles are attached to star in Between Us, the film adaption of Joe Hortua's 2004 Off-Broadway play, according to Deadline.com. Dan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:05PM[SHARE]Stage and screen star Vanessa Williams will write a motivational book for women with her mother, Helen Williams, to be released by Gotham Books in Fall 2012, according to EW.com.
The site …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:05PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin and her husband, actor Graham Rowat, are now parents of a baby boy, Colin.
Baldwin received a Tony nomination for Finian's Rainbow. Her many stage credi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:43AM[SHARE]Nikki Blonsky, Alan Cumming, Michael Douglas, Bill Irwin, Carson Kressley, Elaine Stritch, and Rachel York join Kathleen Turner and the company of Broadway's High at their opening.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2011
British actress Elisabeth Sladen, who was best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the longrunning BBC sc-fi show Doctor Who and its spinoff, The Sarah Jane Adventures, has died in Eng…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:51PM[SHARE]The New York Pops has announced updated casting for Celebrate Hope, a grand gala concert celebrating the legacy of late actor and comedian Bob Hope, at 7pm on Monday, May 2 at Carnegie Hall.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:43PM[SHARE]Actors Robert De Niro, Jude Law, and Uma Thurman will be among the jurors for the annual Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 11.
The jury, which will decide on the awards for the F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Sir Elton John will return to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in September for a three-year run of his new show The Million Dollar Piano, according to EW.com.
John is one of t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:51PM[SHARE]The original cast album of the Broadway musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is now available for digital download and will officially be released by Ghostlight Records on Tuesd…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PM[SHARE]Jump, the internationally-renowned live-action martial arts comedy, will been seen in a new Off-Broadway production at New World Stages, beginning on Wednesday, May 11. The production, which…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:10PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Sir Derek Jacobi will be the guest of honor at The Ensemble Theatre Company of New York's annual fundraiser to be held at 7:30pm on Thursday, June 9 at The Riverside C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02PM[SHARE]The Original Cast recording of the Broadway revival of the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, now at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, will be released in stores by Decca Rec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:18PM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2011
The Guthrie Theater has announced 14 plays of its 2011-2012 season.
The season will include Joe Dowling's production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, starring Dea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:21PM[SHARE]Presenters and performer have been announced for the 27th Helen Hayes Awards ceremony, honoring the best in D.C.-area theatr, to be held at the Warner Theatre on Monday, April 25.
Presente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:30PM[SHARE]Million Dollar Quartet stars Eddie Clendening, Victoria Matlock, and James Moye will perform in The Boogie in the Butt Benefit concert, to be held at 8pm on Sunday, April 24 at the Triad The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:08PM[SHARE]Cedric the Entertainer, who co-starred in the 2008 Broadway revival of American Buffalo, will develop a series for TVLand, which will be based on the character of a minister he will portray…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:37PM[SHARE]Stage stars Paul Dano, Scott Glenn, Whoopi Goldberg, Zoe Kazan, Dianne Wiest, and Patrick Wilson will be among the jurors for the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, to be held in New York City,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:16PM[SHARE]Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theater will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a special Gala at the historic Edison Ballroom at 4pm on Sunday, May 22.
The event will be co-hosted by…
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