http://www.theatermania.com/ Read the latest stories from TheaterMania.com: theatre news, reviews, features, and photos from Broadway to Off-Broadway and beyond! en-us Copyright 2010 TheaterMania.com Inc. http://www.theatermania.com/images/rss.gif http://www.theatermania.com/ The Paley Center for Media in New York is present Celebrating Sondheim at 80, a series of three screening packages put together in honor of Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday. From March 19-21, the package includes the song "The Two of You," written in 1952 for the children's... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/nycs-paley-center-for-media-to-present-celebrating_25753.html 2010-03-13T15:51:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25753 The New Group's production of The Kid: The Musical will now begin previews on April 16, with a new official opening date of May 10. Scott Elliott will direct the production. The change has been made to accommodate the shooting schedule for the musical's star, Christopher Sieber, who will... http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/news/03-2010/new-groups-the-kid-musical-delays-previews-complet_25747.html 2010-03-12T20:30:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25747 Four-time Tony Award winner Zoe Caldwell will join author Mary Z. Maher for a special event celebrating Maher's Actors Talk About Shakespeare, to be held on April 22 at Barnes & Noble/Lincoln Triangle at 7:30pm. The book, published by Limelight Editions, is a collection of interviews with... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/zoe-caldwell-set-for-april-22-barnes-and-noble-app_25750.html 2010-03-12T21:35:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25750 Michelle Williams, Broadway's current Roxie Hart, will be one of the judges who will determine the winner of Be Sensational and Win, a new talent contest being held in conjunction with the Broadway production of Chicago the Musical, running at the Ambassador Theatre. The promotion will provide... http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/03-2010/michelle-williams-to-help-judge-chicago-the-musica_25749.html 2010-03-12T21:07:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25749 The Flea Theater's world premiere of Jonathan Reynolds' Girls In Trouble has extended a third time, and will now run through April 11. Jim Simpson directs the production. Girls In Trouble takes on abortion in the sixties, when backrooms in the wrong part of town offered hope or death.... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/jonathan-reynolds-girls-in-trouble-extends-through_24150.html 2010-03-12T21:01:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24150 The Laguna Playhouse has begun the process of permanently downsizing its operations, according to the Orange County Register. The cost-saving measures are effective immediately and include moving out of a leased space in Laguna Hills, which the company has used for the construction of scenery,... http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/news/03-2010/laguna-playhouse-announces-downsizing-measures_25745.html 2010-03-12T20:19:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25745 Vienna Teng and GrooveLily members Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda are scheduled to perform at Theatreworks Gala 40, to be held on May 8 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Playwright David Henry Hwang will serve as emcee of the event, which will raise funds for the... http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/news/03-2010/david-henry-hwang-groovelily-vienna-teng-set-for-t_25726.html 2010-03-12T15:21:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25726 The New York Philharmonic's SONDHEIM: The Birthday Concert, to be held March 15-16 at Avery Fisher Hall, will be broadcast on PBS' Great Performances during the series' 2010-2011 season. Exact dates will be announced in the near future. As previously announced, David Hyde Pierce... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/new-york-philharmonics-sondheim-the-birthday-conce_25734.html 2010-03-12T17:01:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25734 Songwriter Bobby Cronin and The Lion King's Selloane Nkhela will join the previously announced Bryce Ryness, Joe Iconis Band, Meredith Patterson, and Shonn Wiley for The Other Side of Broadway, to be presented by Broadway Speaks OUT at Space on White, on Sunday, March 21. The concert will... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/bobby-cronin-selloane-nkhela-meredith-patterson-br_25743.html 2010-03-12T19:29:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25743 Flux Theatre Ensemble has announced the playwrights that will be participating in ForePlay, the company's exploratory play reading series, to run Mondays at 7pm March 22 - May 10, at various venues around New York. The plays in the series are written using themes connected to group's... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/bekah-brunstetter-james-comtois-mac-rogers-et-al-s_25742.html 2010-03-12T19:21:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25742 Casting has been announced for the Colony Theatre Company's production of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, to run April 7 - May 9. Jon Lawrence Rivera will direct the piece, which will feature musical direction by Brent Crayon. This revue, originally conceived by Eric Blau... http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/news/03-2010/colony-theatre-announces-casting-for-jacques-brel_25740.html 2010-03-12T18:54:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25740 Brandon Albright will star in the title role of Alan Janes and Rob Bettinson's BUDDY - The Buddy Holly Story, to run April 16 - May 2 at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. Glenn Casale will direct the production, which will feature choreography by Dana Solimando and musical direction... http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/news/03-2010/brandon-albright-to-star-in-la-miradas-buddy-the-b_25739.html 2010-03-12T18:41:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25739 Chris D'Arienzo's Barry Munday will debut at the Southwest Film Festival with a screening on March 13 at 1:30pm. D'Arienzo has both written and directed the movie, which centers on a suburban wanna-be ladies man, who wakes up in the hospital after being attacked in a movie theater,... http://www.theatermania.com/dallas-fort-worth/news/03-2010/chris-darienzos-barry-munday-with-jean-smart-patri_25738.html 2010-03-12T18:30:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25738 Casting has been announced for the next two editions of Musicals Tonight!'s At This Performance... concert series, which will play March 14 and March 15 at the McGinn-Cazale Theatre. These events, which allow Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies to showcase their versatility and... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/tracee-beazer-liz-mccartney-james-romick-et-al-set_25737.html 2010-03-12T18:15:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25737 The cast is set for Robert Schenkkan and Neil Berg's new musical The 12, to run March 19-21 at Riverspace in Nyack, NY. The 12, with story by Schenkkan and music and lyrics by Berg, is a rock and roll concert set in the context of an underground rock band performing what might be their last... http://www.theatermania.com/westchester-rockland/news/03-2010/ron-bohmer-jeremy-kushnier-et-al-set-for-robert-sc_25730.html 2010-03-12T16:03:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25730 The musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will return to London, when the current U.K. tour performs at the New Wimbledon Theatre, March 16-April 3. Based on the MGM/United Artists motion picture and the novel by Ian Fleming, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang features songs by brothers Richard M. Sherman and... http://www.theatermania.com/london/news/03-2010/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-returns-to-london-march-16_25736.html 2010-03-12T18:02:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25736 The Marin Theatre Company (MTC) has announced its 2010-2011 season, which will begin with In the Red & Brown Water (September 9 - October 3), the first piece Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brother/Sister Plays trilogy, directed by Ryan Rilette. As previously announced, the company is... http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/news/03-2010/edward-albee-bill-cain-tarrell-alvin-mccraney-play_25735.html 2010-03-12T17:27:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25735 The previously announced Chicago engagement of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning God of Carnage will not be taking place, according to a report in The Chicago Tribune's Theater Loop blog. There is no word of a replacement production in the series' subscription offering. The report... http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/news/03-2010/god-of-carnage-pulled-from-broadway-in-chicago-sea_25731.html 2010-03-12T16:25:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25731 Phil Collins will receive the Johnny Mercer Award at the 2010 Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony June 17 at the Marriott Marquis in New York, according to a report in Variety. Collins, who rose to fame with the group Genesis in the 1970s, has written such hits as "In the Air Tonight,"... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/phil-collins-to-receive-johnny-mercer-award_25732.html 2010-03-12T16:53:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25732 Full casting has been announced for the Canadian premiere of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, with performances beginning April 20, with an opening set for May 11. The musical focuses on a young rocker hungry for his big break and a small town girl who... http://www.theatermania.com/canada/news/03-2010/rock-of-ages-announces-complete-casting-for-canadi_25733.html 2010-03-12T16:45:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25733 Bryan Batt, Matt Bomer, Kristin Chenoweth, Christine Ebersole, Edie Falco, Mariska Hargitay, Elton John, Eric McCormack, Kelli O'Hara, Joan Rivers and more stars celebrate the Broadway production of Next Fall. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/03-2010/fall-in_25725.html 2010-03-12T15:15:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25725 Porchlight Music Theatre has announced the four shows that will comprise its 2010-2011 season, which will begin with a production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George, to run September 10 - October 31. Over the holidays, the theater will once again present... http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/news/03-2010/meet-john-doe-the-king-and-i-sunday-in-the-park-an_25729.html 2010-03-12T15:42:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25729 John Barrowman will embark on a U.K. concert tour later this year, beginning with an engagement on October 1 at Oxford's New Theatre. The 23-city tour will include a performance at Royal Albert Hall in London (October 4) and at Edinburgh's Playhouse (November 2). Barrowman will be... http://www.theatermania.com/london/news/03-2010/john-barrowman-to-launch-uk-concert-tour-in-octobe_25728.html 2010-03-12T15:29:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25728 Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera will perform Chita Rivera: My Broadway in honor of Atlanta Lyric Theatre's 30th anniversary year fundraising celebration, at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre in Marietta, on May 7 at 8pm. Rivera will be accompanied by a group of Broadway musicians led by... http://www.theatermania.com/georgia/news/03-2010/chita-rivera-set-for-may-7-atlanta-lyric-theatre-f_25727.html 2010-03-12T15:17:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25727 Ralph Fiennes' long-aborning film version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus will begin filming in Serbia next week, according to a report in Reuters. In addition to directing the movie, which uses an adaptation by John Logan, Fiennes will play the title character. Shakespeare's Roman... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/gerard-butler-brian-cox-vanessa-redgrave-set-for-r_25724.html 2010-03-12T14:58:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25724 Joseph Keckler will offer the concert Midnight Mass at Joe's Pub on April 3. The piece will focus on themes of sex and death. Keckler will be accompanied by violinist Dan Bartfield and a live band and will perform a set of original songs from his forthcoming EP, interspersing blues dirges,... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/joseph-keckler-to-offer-april-3-midnight-mass-conc_25723.html 2010-03-12T14:24:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25723 San Diego Repertory Theatre has announced five of the six productions that it will offer during its 2010-2011 season, which will open with a new staging of Hairspray (July 17 - August 5), to be directed by Sam Woodhouse, with assistance from Richard Trujillo. The season will continue in September... http://www.theatermania.com/san-diego/news/03-2010/works-by-athol-fugard-tracy-letts-sarah-ruhl-and-m_25722.html 2010-03-12T14:08:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25722 Streep Tease: An Evening of Meryl Streep Monologues performed by an All-Male Cast has extended its run at The Bang Comedy Theatre. Ezra Weisz has directed the piece which is created by Roy Cruz. Streep Tease currently features Cruz, David Dean Bottrell, Drew Roege, Ron Morehouse, Steve Hasley,... http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/news/03-2010/streep-tease-extends-through-april-24_25721.html 2010-03-12T13:49:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25721 Geoffrey Nauffts' frustrating and problematic play about an unusual gay relationship gets a top-notch Broadway production. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/reviews/03-2010/next-fall_25399.html 2010-03-12T03:00:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25399 Francesca Zambello will take over as artistic and general director of Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York. She will succeed Michael MacLeod. Zambello is also artistic adviser to the San Francisco Opera, has directed productions at the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, the Paris... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/francesca-zambello-to-head-glimmerglass-opera_25720.html 2010-03-12T03:43:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25720 Unchain My Heart, The Ray Charles Musical, featuring the music of Ray Charles with a book by Suzan-Lori Parks, will come to Broadway in the fall, at a theater to be announced. Sheldon Epps will direct the production, which will begin previews October 8, with an opening set for November 7. Casting... http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/03-2010/suzanlori-parks-unchain-my-heart-the-ray-charles-m_25712.html 2010-03-11T22:30:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25712 Academy Award winner and stage veteran Cate Blanchett will star opposite Eric Bana, Saoirse Ronan, and Niels Arestrup. in the adventure thriller Hanna, to be directed by Joe Wright. The movie focuses on a teenage girl (Ronan), who she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a solider;... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/cate-blanchett-saoirse-ronan-eric-bana-to-star-in_25713.html 2010-03-11T21:04:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25713 Regie Cabico, Makoto Hirano, Robert F. Karimi, Dan Kwong, Anula Shetty, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, Catzie Vilayphonh, and Kristina Wong will be featured in Asian Arts Initiative's Home: Far & Near, a festival of Asian American performance-based artists from around the country, to run March... http://www.theatermania.com/philadelphia/news/03-2010/regie-cabico-dan-kwong-kristina-wong-et-al-set-for_25717.html 2010-03-11T22:02:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25717 Bay Street Theatre has announced the creation of a new 99-seat second stage, to be called ANNIE & ELI, in honor of Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach and their lifetime achievements in the theater arts. Lauren Bacall, Zoe Caldwell, Barbara Cook, Harvey Keitel, Brian Murray, Patricia Neal, Mike... http://www.theatermania.com/long-island/news/03-2010/bay-street-to-name-second-stage-after-anne-jackson_25716.html 2010-03-11T21:46:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25716 Legendary performer Diana Ross will embark on a North American tour of More Today Than Yesterday this spring, beginning with an engagement Boston's Citi Performing Arts Center on May 15. The 17-city tour will also include appearances at Radio City Music Hall (May 19), the Chicago Theatre (May... http://www.theatermania.com/boston/news/03-2010/diana-ross-to-embark-on-north-american-tour-of-mor_25715.html 2010-03-11T21:28:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25715 The 5th Avenue Theatre will kick off the city-wide Seattle Celebrates Bernstein! Festival with a free event on Monday, March 22 at 7pm. Performers Greg McCormick Allen, Anne Allgood, Candice Donehoo, Mary Jo DuGaw, Brandon O'Neill, Matt Owen, Sarah Rudinoff, Billie Wildrick and guest artists... http://www.theatermania.com/seattle/news/03-2010/greg-mccormick-allen-anne-allgood-et-al-set-for-5t_25714.html 2010-03-11T21:06:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25714 Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon will be honored with the Film Ensemble of the Year Award for their work in Sex and the City at ShowWest on March 18, according to published reports. The quartet have played Carrie (Parker), Samantha (Cattrall), Miranda (Nixon) and... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/kim-cattrall-kristin-davis-cynthia-nixon-sarah-jes_25710.html 2010-03-11T20:17:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25710 The Academy and Grammy Award-winning Sherman Brothers will receive the Theatre Museum's Career Achievement Award in a ceremony to be held on May 17 at The Players Club. At the event, a Theatre Museum Arts Education Award will be presented to Samuel French Inc. and the Mint Theatre will... http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/03-2010/the-sherman-brothers-samuel-french-inc-mint-theate_25709.html 2010-03-11T20:01:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25709 Josh Towers will play Langston Hughes in the world premiere musical Langston in Harlem, to be presented by Urban Stages, April 9-May 2, with an opening on April 15. The musical utilizes Hughes' writings, with additional contributions from the show's composer Walter Marks and director,... http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/news/03-2010/josh-towers-to-star-in-new-musical-langston-in-har_25679.html 2010-03-11T15:13:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25679 OperaUpClose's production of La Boheme will transfer to the Soho Theatre this summer, running July 27-September 4. Robin Norton-Hale has directed the production, which features musical direction by Andrew Charity. The production uses a new translation by Norton-Hale, which relocates the... http://www.theatermania.com/london/news/03-2010/robin-nortonhales-updated-la-boheme-to-transfer-to_25706.html 2010-03-11T19:32:00+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/25706