Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Manhattan Theatre Club announced today that Remy Auberjonois will replace Tony Award nominee Jeremy Shamos in the role of Jeff in Broadway's The Assembled Parties, now running at the Samuel …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2013
The Amoralists, a fierce downtown theater company, celebrated the New York premiere of their newest comedy, Rantoul and Die, on Monday night at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Written by Mark Robe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:12PM[SHARE]On Wednesday, June 26 at 8pm, Broadway houses will dim their lights for one minute in honor of the late film, stage, and television actor James Gandolfini, who passed away on June 19 at the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:18PM[SHARE]George Street Playhouse Artistic Director David Saint has announced four of the five plays that will fill the slate for the theater's 40th season. The season will open with a world premiere…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:32AM[SHARE]On Sunday night, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS raised a record-breaking $1,430,241 (compared to last year's total of $1,254,176) through the 23rd edition of its annual star-studded burle…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:47AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2013
Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch, the Emmy Award-winning costars of the landmark television series Taxi, will reunite at Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles for a production o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:10PM[SHARE]London's West End revival of Marvin Hamlisch's 1975 musical A Chorus Line has announced that it will be closing at the London Palladium on August 31, despite plans to run through January 201…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AM[SHARE]In an act of parental desperation, Joan Parker and her husband signed their son Dan up for an audition at Boston Children's Theatre after noticing a sudden change in his demeanor: "Dan, who …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 21, 2013
The Dramatists Guild of America has invited a star-studded lineup of artists to join the conversation at its second national conference, entitled Having Our Say: Our History, Our Future. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PM[SHARE]Following a successful reading at 92Y Tribeca in May 2012, Handbook for an American Revolutionary, both written and performed by Matthew-Lee Erlbach (Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower), will rec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2013
Nell Benjamin knows a thing or two about making heroines out of tall blondes. Back in 2007 she and her husband, Laurence O'Keefe, cowrote the music and lyrics for Legally Blonde The Musical,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Playwrights Horizons has announced complete casting for its New York premiere productions of Anne Washburn's new play Mr. Burns, a Post Electric Play. The production will launch the company'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04PM[SHARE]Norma Desmond is finally getting close to Hollywood.
Musical Theatre West will conclude its 60th season with a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, set to run from July 12-J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:10AM[SHARE]Multiple Tony Award-winning producer Cameron Mackintosh plans to bring Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's iconic musical Miss Saigon to the West End's Prince Edward Theatre in May …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Ithaca, New York's Hangar Theatre opened its 2013 season on June 13 with a production of the Neil Simon comedy Last of the Red Hot Lovers, scheduled to run through June 29. Hangar Associ
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:54PM[SHARE]On June 27, Los Angeles' Independent Shakespeare Company is heading to the Old Zoo at Griffith Park for another season of free Shakespeare. The largest free Shakespeare festival ever to come…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:38AM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart) is following up her recent off-Broadway appearances in productions of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (2009) and Three Sisters (2011) at Classic S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:07AM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2013
Four-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally (Ragtime) opened the world premiere of his new play, Mothers and Sons, on Friday, June 14 at Bucks County Playhouse. Mothers and Sons follows a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:20PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award nominee and 2012 Drama Desk Special Award recipient Mary Testa (Queen of the Mist) is set to star in Geraldine Aron's one-woman comedy My Brilliant Divorce at Sarasota, F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:27PM[SHARE]Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch has announced principal casting for Chautauqua Theater Company's upcoming 30th anniversary season, which is set to include Tennessee Williams' classic fami…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2013
New York City's Squeaky Bicycle Productions will open its newest production, Dylan Lamb's Alligator Summer, at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex on June 20, scheduled to run through July 7. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PM[SHARE]On Tuesday, June 11, the North Shore Music Theatre opened its production of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Coming to the North Shore stage for the first time…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Alice Ripley, best known for her 2009 Tony Award-winning performance as mother and wife Diana Goodman in the Broadway musical Next To Normal, plans to star in a production of Carrie: The Mus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:39PM[SHARE]Broadway stars will be on hand at The Recording Academy Honors to honor the Grammy Award-winning creators of the hit musical Les Misérables: Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, and Claude-Mich…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PM[SHARE]As the Bard taught us, "Brevity is the soul of wit." At Ensemble Studio Theatre, wit seems to also be the soul of brevity. Five comedies make up Series C of EST's 34th Marathon of One Act Pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:29AM[SHARE]Watch out, Vegas: Your most fabulous drag queens will soon have some stiff competition. Broadway's new Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein musical Kinky Boots, recent recipient of six Tony Awards …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark will be hosting a special "Dads Go Free" ticket giveaway for the 3pm performance on Sunday, June 16 in honor of Father's Day. Ticket buyers who purchase one full…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:05PM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2013
Finally, the quirky old man who always has a story to tell, a ditty to hum, and a nap to take is not just a piece of furniture in a room full of young and rambunctious hooligans. A Picture …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Christopher Durang's Chekhovian sendup, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, has announced a second and final extension to its run, following its win for Best Play at last evening's Tony Awa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:42PM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for Center Theatre Group's upcoming production of A Parallelogram, a new play Bruce Norris, best known for his 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning and 2012 Tony A…
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