Tuesday, February 19, 2013
An orchestra of 36 players. A choir of over 100-singers strong. The best talent Broadway has to offer. And a generation-defining musical by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Fla
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:11PM[SHARE]A new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's legendary musical Les Miserables will come to Broadway in March 2014, producer Cameron Mackintosh has announced. "To my cons…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 16, 2013
The best of the Great Brit theater scene hits the West End this weekend with the arrival of the 6th annual Whatsonstage.com Awards. Held at the Palace Theatre, the awards ceremony and live p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34PM[SHARE]The best of the Great Brit theater scene hit the West End this weekend with the arrival of the annual Whatsonstage.com Awards. Held at the Palace Theatre, the awards ceremony and live perfor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34PM[SHARE]Friday, February 15, 2013
At the Underground Theatre, a room within a bar just south of Columbia University, director/producer John Forslund has staged a revival of a musical you've probably never heard of. Written b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:11PM[SHARE]Who gets to tell Al Pacino that he's been deemed an "Actor in a Featured Role" for his work in the recent Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross? Pacino was placed in that category by the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2013
It's not the Copa, but it'll do. Grammy Award winner and pop icon Barry Manilow, currently headlining at the St. James Theatre in the concert event Manilow on Broadway, was honored on Thurs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:29PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler (Gore Vidal's The Best Man) and Kelly AuCoin (Happy Now?) will lead the cast of the upcoming Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages co-production of Tanya Ba…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:48PM[SHARE]The official YouTube site for the Chicago and Broadway-bound musical Big Fish has given us this lovely Valentine's Day present: "Time Stops," a love song from the show, as sung by two-time T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:34PM[SHARE]There are people who want to be famous, without a specific talent they want to be famous for. People who chose fame over every other life goal, including "happiness." And then there are the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:42PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Hairspray and Catch Me If You Can scribes Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman are a busy pair of songwriters. Not only are they in the midst of filming the sophomore season of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Sunny and Casey, the beautiful canines in the current Broadway revival of Annie, have some competition. Theater, on Broadway and abroad, is going to the dogs. And cats. Literally. From cat a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:14PM[SHARE]Primary Stages' 20th anniversary revival of David Ives' All in the Timing opened off-Broadway on Tuesday, February 12. Following the performance, the cast, creative team, and gue
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Shakespeare in the Park favorites Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family) and Hamish Linklater (Seminar) will once again take the stage of Central Park's Delacorte Theatre this summer when they…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Alan Cumming (Cabaret), who returns to Broadway this April in a groundbreaking one-man production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, took part in the installation of the show's marq…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:27PM[SHARE]Broadway veteran Kevin Gray, one of only a handful of actors to portray both Raoul and the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, has died of a heart attack at the age of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:50AM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2013
Lear deBessonet's astounding production (for The Foundry Theatre) of Good Person of Szechwan, now running at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre, presents a captivating rendering of the 1943 soc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PM[SHARE]The cast and creative team of Manhattan Concert Productions' upcoming one-night-only concert of the musical Ragtime held their first day of rehearsal on Monday, February 11 at the National O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 9, 2013
Country singer Crystal Bowersox will be the latest American Idol runner up to hit the Great White Way when she stars in a revival of Ted Swindley's Always…Patsy Cline, according to The Hol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:12AM[SHARE]Friday, February 8, 2013
The forthcoming Broadway revival of the 1981 musical Pump Boys and Dinettes has been postponed indefinitely. The production, directed by Tony Award winner John Doyle (Sweeney Todd), was to h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:48PM[SHARE]The York Theatre Company has announced principal casting for the remaining three musicals in its Winter 2013 Musicals in Mufti Series: Hollywood Pinafore, Happy Hunting, and Silk Stockings.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:07PM[SHARE]A pair of colliding storms heading across the East Coast on February 8 and 9 won't disrupt performances of Broadway shows. Yet. "As of now, all Broadway shows will play as scheduled," The B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23PM[SHARE]Culture Project's Women Center Stage will present Anna Khaja's acclaimed one-woman show, Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto, beginning Friday, March 8, with an opening set for Mo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:19AM[SHARE]The New Group's production of Jonathan Marc Sherman's new drama, Clive, held its opening night on Thursday, February 7 with a post-performance celebration at the We
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2013
The cast and creative team of Broadway's upcoming Motown: The Musical offered a sneak preview of the world premiere production on Thursday, February 7 at their rehearsal hall, The New 42nd S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2013
After a nationwide talent search, actors Raymond Luke Jr. and Jibreel Mawry have been tapped to share the roles of Young Berry Gordy, Michael Jackson, and Stevie Wonder in the upcoming world…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2013
January was a busy month for George and Martha. Not only did they have to entertain the overwhelmingly soused Nick and Honey, but they had surprise visits from a large assortment of stage an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:28PM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2013
The stars were out on Broadway in January, with four major openings (The Other Place, Picnic, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Manilow on Broadway), a recording session (off-Broadway's Giant), The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:57PM[SHARE]The current Broadway revival of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's The Heiress, starring 2013 Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) and Downtown Abbey heartthrob Dan Stevens, will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18PM[SHARE]New York City Center Encores! opened its 20th anniversary season with a revival of Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Jerome Weidman, and George Abbott's classic musical, Fio
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:38AM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2013
The company of the recent Broadway musical Scandalous is in the recording studio today to lay down tracks for the show's forthcoming album. The star of Kathie Lee Gifford's now-departed musi…
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