Recent work includes: Chess (Kennedy Center), WarholCapote (ART), Michael Moore's The Terms of My Surrender (Belasco), and the world premiere of Nico Muhly's opera Marnie at London's ENO. Broadway Credits include: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony Award, best musical revival, also National Tour), Spring Awakening (Tony Award/Best Musical and Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Director; also London, National Tour, Vienna, Tokyo, and Seoul productions); American Idiot (also co-author, Drama Desk Award for Best Director; also US, UK and Asia tours); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award/Best Musical also London and National Tour), Side Man (Tony Award/Best Play also London and Kennedy Center Productions), A View from the Bridge (Tony Award/Best Revival), Everyday Rapture, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Triumph of Love. Off-Broadway credits include: Love, Love, Love (Roundabout), Brooklynite (Also co-author, Vineyard), Whorl Inside A Loop (with Dick Scanlan, Second Stage), 10 Million Miles (Atlantic). National Tour: Angels in America. London: a record-breaking West End run of Funny Girl and UK tour. Tokyo: As You Like It (Toho Theatre). Film: The Seagull, A Home at the End of the World, and Flicka. Television: Smash (Director/Producer, Season One) and two seasons of Alpha House for Amazon. Opera: a celebrated production of Rigoletto (Met). He serves on the Board of New York Stage and Film. @MichaelMayerDIR. This one is for Beatrice Terry.
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Michael Mayer, Funny Girl
Michael Mayer, Little Shop of Horrors
Michael Mayer, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Michael Mayer, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Michael Mayer, American Idiot
Michael Mayer, American Idiot
Michael Mayer, Spring Awakening
Michael Mayer
Michael Mayer, Spring Awakening
Michael Mayer, Spring Awakening
Michael Mayer, Spring Awakening
Michael Mayer, Spring Awakening
Michael Mayer, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Michael Mayer, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Michael Mayer, Uncle Vanya
Michael Mayer, A View from the Bridge
Michael Mayer, You're a Good Man
Michael Mayer, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Michael Mayer, A View from the Bridge / Side Man
Michael Mayer, A View From the Bridge
Michael Mayer, A View from the Bridge
Michael Mayer, America Dreaming
Get a first look at photos of the world premiere of Galileo: A Rock Musical, performing at Berkeley Rep.
San Francisco / Bay Area is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Selections for May 2024 include Galileo, Evita and more!
Due to popular ticket demand, Berkeley Repertory Theatre has extended the world premiere musical, Galileo: A Rock Musical. Learn how to purchase tickets!
The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts announced its 16th season of Kravis On Broadway brimming with Tony Award®-winning hits. The 2024 – 2025 Kravis On Broadway season showcases Broadway’s finest with a subscription package power-packed with 32 Tony Awards® among them.
The Drama League has announced the nineteen stage directors receiving the 2024 fellowships, assistantships, residencies, and fund programs collectively known as The Directors Project.
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An all new video has been released from the sitzprobe for GALILEO: A ROCK MUSICAL, starring Raúl Esparza, Jeremy Kushnier, and more! Check out the video here!
In the video here, Katerina McCrimmon (Fanny Brice) and Melissa Manchester (Mrs. Brice) sit down with ABC7 News Bay Area to discuss the FUNNY GIRL national tour, making a stop at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco through May 26, 2024.
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Screen Actors Guild Award winner Sarah Hyland and stage and film star Andrew Barth Feldman will star as Audrey and Seymour in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Learn more here!
Center Theatre Group has announced its full slate of programming under Snehal Desai's artistic leadership with its 2024/25 Season called 'One CTG. One LA.' The company has also revealed that the Mark Taper Forum will reopen after 16 months of closure.
Watch Raúl Esparza and Jeremy Kushnier perform 'Believe the Day is Coming' and hear the GALILEO: A ROCK MUSICAL creative team discuss the show's theme of truth vs. power in the video here!
The producing team behind A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, has raised $750,000 in honor of singer, songwriter, and performer Neil Diamond and the one million people in the U.S. living with Parkinson's disease.
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PNC Broadway in Kansas City has announced that new Season Ticket Packages for the 24–25 Broadway season are available now.
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Michael Mayer has written 2 shows including The Flamingo Kid (Bookwriter), American Idiot (Bookwriter).
Michael Mayer has been nominated for various awards throughout his career. Some of his nominations include Outstanding Direction of a Musical at the Drama League Awards for "Funny Girl," Outstanding Director of a Musical at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Little Shop of Horrors," and Best Direction of a Musical at the Tony Awards for "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." He has also been recognized with nominations such as Best Director - Play at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "A View from the Bridge / Side Man" and Outstanding Director - Musical at the Drama Desk Awards for "America Dreaming."
Michael Mayer has won several awards throughout his career, including Outstanding Director of a Musical from the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Little Shop of Horrors," Best Direction of a Musical from the BroadwayWorld Awards for "American Idiot," Outstanding Director of a Musical from the Drama Desk Awards for "American Idiot," Best Direction of a Musical from the BroadwayWorld Awards for "Spring Awakening," Founders Award for Excellence in Directing from the Drama League Awards, Outstanding Director of a Musical from the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Spring Awakening," Best Direction of a Musical from the Tony Awards for "Spring Awakening," Outstanding Director of a Play from the Drama Desk Awards for "Spring Awakening," Outstanding Director - Play from the Drama Desk Awards for "Uncle Vanya," Outstanding Director - Play from the Drama Desk Awards for "A View from the Bridge," Best Director - Play from the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "A View from the Bridge" and "Side Man," and Outstanding Director - Play from the Drama Desk Awards for "A View from the Bridge."
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