http://www.theatermania.com/home 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/home Comedians Susie Essman, Janeane Garofalo, and Sherri Shepherd are scheduled to appear in Stand-Ups Give BAC on February 23 at Carolines on Broadway. The one-night-only event is a benefit... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24836 2010-02-09T16:42:29+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24836 Jude Law is set to star alongside Matt Damon in Stephen Soderbergh's action-thriller Contagion, according to a report in Variety. The movie is scheduled to begin filming later this ... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24835 2010-02-09T16:09:51+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24835 Casting has been announced for Suzanne Brockmann and Will McCabe's Looking for Billy Haines, to play the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row, March 11 - May 22 with an opening on March 25. Brockmann will... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24834 2010-02-09T15:52:39+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24834 Tim Robbins and Peter Sarsgaard have joined the cast of the Green Lantern movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Martin Campbell is directing the film, which is based on the DC Comics superhero. Robbins will play Senator Hammond, the disapproving father of the... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24833 2010-02-09T15:37:07+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24833 Rachel Weisz will star opposite Daniel Crag in the movie Dream House, according to a report in Variety. Jim Sheridan will direct the film, which has a screenplay by David Loucka. Dream House focuses on a New York publishing exec (Craig) who relocates his wife... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24832 2010-02-09T15:16:20+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24832 James Barbour, Charles Busch, Len Cariou, Edie Falco, Victor Garber, Donna Murphy, Bernadette Peters, Will Swenson and more stars salute Angela Lansbury at the annual Drama League gala. http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24831 2010-02-09T15:05:32+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24831 Casting has been announced for Blue Coyote Theater Group's production of Matthew Freeman's Glee Club, to be performed at the Access Theater, March 3-April 3, with an opening on March 6. Kyle... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24830 2010-02-09T15:04:18+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24830 Michelle Williams joined the Broadway cast of Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre as Roxie Hart on Monday,... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24829 2010-02-09T14:59:26+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24829 New York Neo-Futurist members Desiree Burch, Cara Francis, and Erica Livingston will perform their new piece The Soup Show at <a... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24828 2010-02-09T14:49:03+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24828 Jeremy Bloom's La Boheme (Spoken) will play a five performance engagement at The Flea Theater, running... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24827 2010-02-09T14:23:18+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24827 Christy Carlson Romano will join the previously announced Peter Scolari in Ben Andron's comedy <a... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24826 2010-02-09T13:59:54+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24826 John Tartaglia's Imaginocean will play at <a href=http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/theaters/new-world-stages_4123/... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24825 2010-02-09T13:45:52+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24825 Tony Award winner B.D. Wong will be the Narrator when the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra performs Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" at 8pm on Friday, February 12 at at Peter Norton Symphony Space. Led by guest conductor Matthew Oberstein, the orchestra will also perform George... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24824 2010-02-08T23:09:44+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24824 Goodspeed Musicals will honor Oscar-winning songwriter Paul Williams at its annual gala on Saturday, June 12 with The Goodspeed Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre in recognition of his extraordinary career. Proceeds from the gala, which will include entertainment by... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24823 2010-02-08T22:27:36+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24823 The Maltz Jupiter Theatre has announced the lineup for its 2010-1011 season. The company will begin its season with a revival of Reginald Rose's drama Twelve Angry Men (November 2-14),... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24822 2010-02-08T22:24:58+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24822 Shoes, a new musical revue, will run September 3-11 at Sadler's Wells. The piece will be devised by director/choreographer Stephen Mear and composer-lyricist Richard Thomas. The dance revue focuses on footwear and will include such numbers as "Vex in the City," "Imelda Marcos... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24821 2010-02-08T22:08:25+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24821 Italian-born opera and pop singer Andrea Bocelli will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, March 2, according to Variety. Bocelli has recorded over 20 albums in his career; his most recent CD My Christmas, was released in November, 2009. He is well... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24820 2010-02-08T22:02:40+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24820 The creative teams and additional casting have been announced for the four musicals that will be presented at The 24 Hour Musicals at The Gramercy Theatre on February 8 at 7:30pm. <a... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24819 2010-02-08T21:56:17+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24819 Nominations for the 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards will be announced from The New York Friars Club on Monday, May 3 at 9:30am. The awards ceremony will be held on Sunday evening, May 23, at a location to be announced. The Drama Desk is an organization of theater critics, writers, and... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24817 2010-02-08T21:02:21+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24817 Cynthia Nixon, Michael O'Keefe, and Staceyann Chin will participate in The Sixties, to be offered at Symphony Space on February 24 at 7pm. Isaiah Sheffer will host the program, which is part of... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24816 2010-02-08T21:00:58+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24816 Playwrights Annie Baker and Sheila Callaghan will join directors Karen Carpenter, Pam McKinnon, and Susan H. Schulman for a Drama Desk panel entitled Women at Work: Directing and Writing for the Theater, to be held at BMI (320 West 57th Street, 3rd Floor) on Thursday, February 25... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24815 2010-02-08T20:43:52+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24815 Manhattan Theatre Club has canceled the February 9 performance of Bill Cain's Equivocation. Previews for the new play will now begin on February 10. The delay will allow the company to have an... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24813 2010-02-08T20:27:17+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24813 Cast members from the Broadway revival of Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor will join director Stanley Tucci for a conversation about the show at the 92YTribeca on March 1 at 7pm. Scheduled to... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24811 2010-02-08T20:06:28+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24811 Broadway veterans Matt Doyle and Celina Carvajal will play the roles of John and Tierney in a reading of Jon Weissberg's new play, Here Today, to be presented at Theatre Row on Monday, February 15. David Alpert will direct. The play is a darkly comedic love story that covers... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24810 2010-02-08T20:02:58+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24810 Two-time Emmy Award-winner John McDaniel, cellist Peter Sachon and Broadway veteran Terri White will join the <a... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24807 2010-02-08T19:30:33+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24807 Stephen Kunken will play Andy Fastow, disgraced chief financial officer of Enron, opposite the previously announced star <a... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24805 2010-02-08T18:56:55+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24805 Tony Award winner Lea Salonga will join the previously announced Gary Beach, Tituss Burgess, Mario Cantone, Len Cariou, Raul Esparza, Tony Goldwyn, <a... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24804 2010-02-08T18:48:17+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24804 Anya Garnis and Pasha Kovalev, best known for their appearances on So You Can Dance USA, will join the touring company of Burn the Floor when it plays at the Kravis Center, running May 4-9.... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24802 2010-02-08T18:35:41+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24802 Haskell King delivers an emotionally connected performance in Daniel Reitz's uneven new solo play. http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24801 2010-02-08T18:10:11+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24801 The producers of Broadway's Billy Elliot the Musical have teamed with Fidelity FutureStage to sponsor the second annual Fidelity FutureStage Playwriting Contest. New York City area... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24800 2010-02-08T17:55:43+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24800 Mary Martello will perform her solo show Happily Ever After at The Adrienne Theatre, running March 4-28. Jennifer Childs will direct the production, which will feature musical direction... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24799 2010-02-08T17:54:46+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24799 Drama Desk Award nominee Mikel Sarah Lambert will star in Pulse Ensemble Theatre's production of Edward Percy and Reginald Denham's Ladies in Retirement, to play <a... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24798 2010-02-08T17:25:01+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24798 Tony Award winner Michael Rupert will reprise his role of Professor Callahan in the national tour of <a href="http://www.theatermania.com/touring-productions/shows/legally-blonde-the-musical_142797/"... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24797 2010-02-08T17:06:09+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24797 The Actors' Playhouse will present Michael McKeever's award-winning play Melt at the Miracle... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24796 2010-02-08T16:46:40+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24796 Stage and screen star Henry Winkler will join the cast of the USA series Royal Pains as Eddie Lawson, father to the series' main characters, Hank (Mark Feuerstein) and Evan (Paulo Costanzo). The series will begin its second season this summer. Winkler has appeared on Broadway... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24795 2010-02-08T16:45:28+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24795 Madison Square Garden will hold auditions for dogs to win a "barking role" in The 101 Dalmatians Musical, which will play <a... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24794 2010-02-08T16:31:06+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24794 The Royal Shakespeare Company will have a six-week residency, July 6-August 14, 2011, at the Park Avenue Armory as part of the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival. The company, which will... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24793 2010-02-08T15:58:57+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24793 Manhattan Theatre Club has announced an extension of its Broadway production of Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, at the the <a... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24792 2010-02-08T15:36:33+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24792 Alex Ellis, Colin Hanlon, Jeremy Jordan, and Marissa McGowen will star in a reading of the musical Next Thing You Know, featuring music by Joshua Salzman, with book and lyrics by Ryan Cunningham. It will be presented by The Theatre Company at CAP21 on Monday, February 22 at 7:30pm.... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24791 2010-02-08T15:13:20+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24791 Sean Hayes, Nathan Lane, Laura Linney, and Liev... http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24790 2010-02-08T14:37:13+00:00 http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/24790