Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Eddie Murphy has withdrawn as host of the 84th Annual Academy Awards, according to published reports. The ceremony will be held on February 26 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:10PM[SHARE]Playwright/activist Larry Kramer, playwright Terrence McNally, and director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell will be among the interview subjects featured in the new documentary, 30 Years From H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PM[SHARE]Stage and screen star Morgan Freeman will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It will be given to him at the 69th annual Golde…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:23PM[SHARE]Stage and screen stars Edie Falco and Oliver Platt will co-host the Gotham Independent Film Awards, according to Deadline.com. The ceremony will be held at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, No…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:12PM[SHARE]The Arlington, Virginia-based Signature Theatre will hold its annual New Year's Eve party on Saturday, December 31, which will begin with a performance of Signature's production of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:44PM[SHARE]Segerstrom Center for the Arts will present its first Off Center Festival, featuring a mix of contemporary theater, music, dance and performance art, to be presented January 13 - 21.
The fe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04PM[SHARE]Todrick Hall, Melody Hollis, James Snyder, Allie Trimm, and Jessica Snow-Wilson will be featured performers at the album pre-release concert of musical theatre songwriting team Jordan Beck a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:37PM[SHARE]The Barbican in London has announced its full slate of productions for its 2012 season, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com.
As previously reported, highlights include Cate Blanchett…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Russell Simmons, who produced the Broadway run of Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam as well as its television incarnation, was honored at The Fortune Society annual benefit, held at Tribeca Roo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:16PM[SHARE]AIDS Service Center NYC held its 20th Anniversary gala at the Bryant Park Grill on Monday, November 7.
Actress Lili Taylor was among the honorees, and celebrity guests also included Judy Go…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:28PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz will star opposite Emmy Award nominee Elizabeth Reaser in Second Stage Theatre's revival of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:11PM[SHARE]Comedian Lewis Black will host a benefit for Williamstown Theatre Festival, to be held at the Edison Ballroom in New York City on Monday, November 14 at 6:30pm.
The event will feature Tony …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:03PM[SHARE]Tony Award and Emmy Award winner Jeffrey Wright will guest star on FOX TV's House, according to TVLine.com.
The episode will be written by Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend and David Foste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PM[SHARE]Julie Taymor has filed a lawsuit against the producers of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, according to a report in Variety.
The trade publication quotes a statement from Taym…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:35PM[SHARE]The Roundabout Theatre Company will present the Broadway premiere of Marc Camoletti's classic farce Don't Dress For Dinner, adapted by Robin Hawdon, at the American Airlines Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM[SHARE]Performers have been announced for Winter Rhythms, a series of musical evenings to benefit Urban Stages' Outreach Program, which provides free arts in education throughout New York Cit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PM[SHARE]Composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and cast members from the Broadway production of Follies -- including stars Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Danny Burstein, Ron Raines, and Elaine Paige --…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:45PM[SHARE]Broadway veteran Anthony Rapp will star in a reading of Nocturne, written by his brother, playwright Adam Rapp. The event, called Rapp Reads Rapp, will benefit Royal Family Productions, and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AM[SHARE]Stage and screen star Hayley Atwell will play the heroine Sara in the 3D film, The Return Of Captain Nemo, according to Deadline.com.
The film is a sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:24AM[SHARE]A kickoff cocktail reception for the committees and sponsors of the 30th Fred & Adele Astaire Awards Gala was held at the theater district's Remi Restaurant on Monday, November 7.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:16AM[SHARE]Michael Iannucci and Amy Warren will star as Shlemiel and Mrs. Shlemiel, respectively, in Shlemiel the First, co-presented by Theatre for a New Audience, National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbien…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:49AM[SHARE]Michael Patrick Walker celebrated the release of Out of Context, from Yellow Sound Label, with a concert at Birdland on November 7, as part of Broadway at Birdland.
Among the participants…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AM[SHARE]Michael Patrick Walker celebrated the release of Out of Context, from Yellow Sound Label, with a concert at Birdland on November 7, as part of Broadway at Birdland.
Among the participants…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AM[SHARE]Oscar nominee James Franco will collaborate with Laurel Nakadate in Three Performances in Search of Tennessee, a three-part project based around Tennessee Williams' famous play The Glas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:07AM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2011
The Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's musical based on the Book of Matthew is a lot of fun, but only rarely passionate.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Shirley Knight attended the Friday, November 4 performance of the Off-Broadway production of A Charity Case, at the Clurman Theatre.
Written and directed by Wendy Beckett…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:06PM[SHARE]McCastmore Productions will present The Homecoming 40th Anniversary - A Walton Family Reunion, to take place at the Jersey Loew's on Friday, December 2, at 7pm.
The event will reunite …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:01PM[SHARE]The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will kick off its first 2011-20112 NJSO POPS concert series with Home for the Holidays with Brian Stokes Mitchell, to be presented at the State Theatre in N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:44PM[SHARE]The Shaw Festival has announced principal casting and creative team information for its upcoming 2012 Court House Theatre productions.
Marla McLean and Graeme Somerville will star in A Man …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:34PM[SHARE]Melissa Manchester has joined the line-up for Encompass New Opera Theatre's celebration of Oscar winner and Tony Award winner Marvin Hamlisch during the organization's annual gala,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:17PM[SHARE]The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will honor Vanessa Redgrave for her five decades in film, according to The Associated Press. A ceremony will be held for her on Sunday, Novemb…
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