David Ives News

Ghostlight Records will release the cast album of White Christmas on October 17th

Stephen Flaherty, Frank Galati, Gary Griffin, Mary Zimmerman, David Ives and James Lapine, as well as performers Tyler Hanes, Rondi Reed, Mary Beth Peil, Hollis Resnik, Anthony Crivello and E. Faye Butler are among the nominees for the 2006 Joseph Jefferson Awards, which recognize achievement in Chicago-area Equity theatre

Tony Award-nominee Stephen Bogardus and Sarah Uriarte Berry will headline the cast of the St. Louis Muny's White Christmas, the stage version of the Irving Berlin film classic that has fast become a regional favorite; it will run from July 24th through July 30th

Rick Miramontez, the New York and Los Angeles-based publicist, will join OPR/Origlio Public Relations, the Manhattan-based publicity firm, as Managing Partner; the firm will soon become O & M--Origlio/Miramontez Co.

Ghostlight Records will release a cast recording of White Christmas--featuring Brian D'Arcy James, Anastasia Barzee, Jeffry Denman and Meredith Patterson--in fall of 2006

Encores!'s latest production helps prove this classic and wholly original musical deserves a higher place in the standard American theatre repertory

ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE (Curt Dempster, Founder/Artistic Director) will present MARATHON 2006, E.S.T.'s 28th annual festival of new one-act plays, at E.S.T. (549 West 52nd Street). Performances begin Friday, May 23rd and continue through Sunday, June 25th.

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) has announced casting for the first production of its 2006-2007 season: the world premiere of Indian Blood by A.R. Gurney.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents John Ellison Conlee, Katie Finneran, Logan Marshall-Green and Denis O'Hare in the co-world premiere (in collaboration with the Old Globe, San Diego, CA) of Greg Kotis's new comedy Pig Farm, directed by John Rando.

Tonight, April 26th, PBS will air a presentation of the Carnegie Hall South Pacific concert starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Rebe McIntire

A cast recording of the sold-out South Pacific concert that was presented at Carnegie Hall last summer will be released on April 18th

Primary Stages' 2006-2007 season will feature works by Christopher Durang, Terrence McNally and A.R. Gurney, as well as performances by stars such as Marian Seldes, Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter

This musical Arabian night is more of a tired businessman show gleefully passing itself off as high art

From March 10th through April 23rd, Anthony Crivello and Linda Hart will star in A Flea in Her Ear at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

One-act plays by Chekhov, Shaw and more will be featured in All-in-One, opening February 8th and running through the 12th

Off-Broadway¹s Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Executive Producer - Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director ­ Elliot Fox, Managing Director) and Bloomingdale¹s have formed a corporate partnership in celebration of the New York Premiere of Charles Grodin¹s new play, The Right Kind of People, which begins performances at Primary Stages, the resident company at 59E59 Theaters, Tuesday, January 24, 2006, and is slated to run until Sunday, March 5, 2006.

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will host a production of the Irving Berlin musical White Christmas--currently seen in 3 US cities--during the 2006 holiday season

The June Carnegie Hall concert production of South Pacific, with Reba McIntyre and Brian Stokes Mitchell, will air on PBS in April of 2006

Three productions of Irving Berlin's White Christmas will be presented in L.A., San Francisco and Boston this holiday season

On November 7th, Primary Stages held its 21st Anniversary Gala honoring Tony Award-winning Choreographer and Director, Susan Stroman at Tavern On The Green. On hand for the festivities were Nathan Lane, Charles Grodin, Karen Ziemba, Boyd Gaines and many more.