The National Corporate Theatre Fund (NCTF) has announced its plans to honor Tony nominated actress Vanessa Williams at its annual Chairman's Awards Gala to be held on Monday, April 29 at New…
With the official Broadway opening of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella upon us, TheaterMania can't help but take a stroll down memory lane to visit the televised incarnation of the class…
Coming off the release of its 2011 animated film Gnomeo
The American Repertory Theater and Harvard University are not just neighbors. They are now artistic collaborators, and recently announced their participation in the National Civil War Projec…
Anyone in the process of developing a Patrick Stewart bio-pic (we know you're out there somewhere), search no more for your leading man. For years, James McAvoy has been silently building a …
On November 19, 1967, Motown supergroups The Supremes and The Temptations, joined forces on the Ed Sullivan Show for a performance that is now the stuff of legend. Motown was a global sensat…
Molly Smith, Artistic Director of Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage, has announced the 10 productions that will be included its upcoming 2013/14 season, which she promises to be "soaked in histo…
UPDATE: As reported by Deadline (and confirmed by Sony), Oscar nominee and star of Beasts of the Southern Wild, Quvenzhané Wallis, has officially been selected to play the title role in the…
With only weeks remaining until The Last Five Years makes its first off-Broadway return since its New York debut in 2002, Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe are working hard to become Jamie and Cat…
Justin Vivian Bond is returning to the Joe's Pub stage as the one and only finalist in the Mx America pageant, for six solo performances between March 8 and March 30. For those not familiar …
End a musical-theater-themed evening without a show-stopping number? That would be an affront to Dionysus himself. The Academy Awards typically close with an announcement of the year's Best …
This U.K. production of Merrily We Roll Along is definitely…rolling along merrily. Due to high demand and great critical acclaim following its sold-out run at the the Menier Chocolate Fact…
Tony nominees Alfred Molina and Jonathan Groff have mastered both the stage and screen. It's about time they take on the final frontier of radio. Molina and Groff, who co-starred in John Log…
The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Box Office is now selling tickets for its upcoming Broadway production of Orphans to the general public. Written by Lyle Kessler (The Watering Place) and direct…
UPDATE: Emmy Award winner Shia LaBeouf has departed the production due to creative differences, as of February 20th. A replacement for the role of Treat has not yet been announced, but the p…
If you "just don't know what to do" with yourself this Valentine's Day and you're done "wishin' and hopin'" for the "son of a preacher man" to show up at your door with that burning "look of…
Max Crumm is still the one that New York theater wants. (Yeah, we went there.) His last stage appearance was in 2007 in the Broadway revival of Grease, for which he nabbed the leading role o…
No, it's not a re-make of Les Miz with a happier ending for Fantine. Peter Bogdanovich, best known for directing the Academy Award-winning film The Last Picture Show, will be directing a new…
Every show ends sometime (unless you're Phantom), so before the cast takes their final bow, there are a few things we want to know. In the current revival of William Inge's 1953 play Picnic…
UPDATE: The Broadway Backwards benefit concert has added Tony Award winners Len Cariou, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Karen Ziemba to its roster. Cariou, currently appearing as Henry Reagan on …
Quvenzhané Wallis can't seem to hold on to a set of parents. After playing the self-sufficient, motherless five-year-old Hushpuppy in Beasts of the Southern Wild (and achieving the title of…
Tickets are now on sale to the general public for The Nance, a new play by Tony nominated playwright Douglas Carter Beane. Directed by three-time Tony winner Jack O'Brien, the production wil…
Encores! Artistic Director Jack Viertel announced today that Edward Watts will take on the role of Superman (or Clark Kent for those who prefer his civilian name) in the upcoming production …
Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company Michael Kahn has announced five productions scheduled for the company's 2013-2014 season, with a sixth production to be determined at a l…
"I think we're somewhere between idiots and true believers," said Michael Cohl, one of the lead producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Cohl and fellow Spider-Man producer Jeremiah Harr…