Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Stephen Sondheim will receive the 2011 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize, to be presented to him at the Chicago Humanities Festival on Sunday, November 6.
The prize is part of the Chicago Trib…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:17PM[SHARE]Making War Horse will air on THIRTEEN tonight, August 10, at 8pm.
The documentary goes behind the scenes of the National Theatre of Great Britain's Tony Award-winning production of War…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:59PM[SHARE]Sister Sylvester will present Matt Wilson's Hugh Cox Gets the Pink Slip, at Kenny Scharf's Cosmic Cavern, August 18-28. Kathryn Hamilton will direct.
The story begins when legenda…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:40PM[SHARE]The National Theatre of Great Britain has announced upcoming show titles for its third season of NT LIVE, an initiative to broadcast live performances from the National's stages to cine…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:58PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Betty Buckley will teach a four day song interpretation &
monologue workshop, presented by Collaboration Factory in Los Angeles, August 30-September 2.
Buckley will as…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:38PM[SHARE]Karen Benjamin, Sean Bradford, Haven Burton, Lauren Elder, Miriam Elwell-Sutton, Julie Garnye, Danny Gurwin, Morgan Karr, Sal Sabella, and Brett Teresa will perform in The Roads I'm Tak…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:25PM[SHARE]The cast of Silence! The Musical went into the recording studio on August 8. The original cast recording will be available from Ghostlight Records for purchase and digital download in Octobe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:13PM[SHARE]Judy Gold's newest solo performance, The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom has extended its run at Off-Broadway's DR2 Theatre and will now play through October 22. Amanda Charlton has…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:37AM[SHARE]Cirque du Soleil's acrobatic spectacle Zarkana, currently playing Radio City Music Hall through October 8, will return to New York City in Summer 2012.
This acrobatic rock opera, writt…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:26AM[SHARE]Walnut Street Theatre has announced casting for its season opener, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love, to run September 6-October 23, with an opening on September 14. Bruce Lumpkin w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:53AM[SHARE]Desipina & Co. have announced the cast for its revival of Rehana Lew Mirza's Barriers, which is being presented to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:39AM[SHARE]Miche Braden and the cast of Penguin Rep Theatre's Off-Broadway production of Angelo Parra's The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, rang the closing bell at NA…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:55AM[SHARE]Hunter Parrish will star as Jesus in the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's musical Godspell, which will begin previews at Circle in the Square on October 13, with an official openi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2011
The Chocolate Factory, located in Long Island City, has announced its 2011-2012 season of performances.
The season will kick off with Bessie Award-winner Heather Olson's newest work, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:20PM[SHARE]Westport Country Playhouse, under the artistic direction of Mark Lamos, has announced the five productions that will comprise its 2012 season.
Lamos will direct the season opener, a 25th an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:07PM[SHARE]Mark St. Germain's The Best of Enemies, which recently wrapped up a summer run at Barrington Stage, will play a return engagement at the BSC Mainstage, October 5-16, with an opening on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:51PM[SHARE]Jonathan Hogan, Simone Kirby, and Ciaran O'Reilly will star in the previously reported presentation of Irish Repertory Theatre's production of Molly Sweeney at the Long Wharf Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:32PM[SHARE]Sigourney Weaver and Tom Wopat will star in a remounting of Anne Nelson's The Guys to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, according to The New …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:49PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for Ross Petty Productions' panto production of The Wizard of Oz, to play the Elgin Theatre in Toronto, November 24-January 6. Tracey Flye will direct and cho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PM[SHARE]The Guthrie Theater has announced complete casting for its production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, to run September 10 - November 5, with an opening on September 16. Joe Dow…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:15PM[SHARE]Gary Griffin will direct a concert performance of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's The Sound of Music at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, April 24 at 8pm. Rob Fisher will serve as mu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:37AM[SHARE]Theatre for a New Audience has announced selections for its 2011-2012 season, which will be the final one before moving to its first home in the BAM Cultural District.
As previously reporte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:21AM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award winner James Earl Jones attended a recent performance of Silence! The Musical, playing Off-Broadway at Theatre 80 St. Mark's and visited with the cast afterwards.
…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:53AM[SHARE]Molly Hager, Jeremy Morse, Lance Rubin and Jason 'SweetTooth' Williams will perform in Hell Raisers: A Night of Songs by Joe Iconis, as part of Barrington Stage Company's Musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AM[SHARE]This enormously entertaining show features daring acrobatic feats and a youthful joie de vivre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2011
Jason Danieley, Cheyenne Jackson, Norm Lewis, Marin Mazzie, Euan Morton, Emily Skinner, Vanessa Williams, and Tom Wopat are scheduled to appear in the York Theatre Company's 2011 Oscar …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:52PM[SHARE]Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky has been added to the Pasadena Playhouse schedule, and will run November 1-27. The production, to be directed by Sheldon Epps, replaces the previ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:41PM[SHARE]Dixon Place has announced its Fall 2011 programming.
Featured productions will include writer/director Susanna Cook's The Homophobes: A Clown Show (September 9-24), in which a misunder…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:27PM[SHARE]The performers who will participate in the Thursday, August 11 installment of Broadway in Bryant Park have been announced. The free event begins at 12:30pm at Bryant Park (Sixth Avenue and 4…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:27PM[SHARE]Additional cities have been announced for the national tour of the new musical Million Dollar Quartet, which will launch at the PlayhouseSquare in Cleveland, October 11-23.
The show was ins…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PM[SHARE]The Skirball Center at New York University has announced its Fall 2011/Spring 2012 season.
Theater-related highlights include the previously reported Bill Bailey in Dandelion Mind (Septembe…
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