David Lee News

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces the 2012 TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series. The three plays that will be presented are Foreclosure by Vincent Delaney, produced by Mondays Dark Theatre Company and Kenny Howard of The Broadway Consortium; Appendage by Derek Murphy, produced by Tweiss Productions (Sharon Weiss & Eileen B. Weiss); and The Sin Eater by Michael Bettencourt, produced by Block & Tackle Productions, Inc. and Elfin Frederick Vogel. The selected plays will be read on Mondays, June 4, 11, and 18 respectively, at 7pm at The Roy Arias Theatre, 300 W. 43rd Street, 5th Floor, Studio 500, NYC. Admission is FREE but reservations are required: email TRUStaff1@gmail.com or call 212-714-7628.

The Gregg Rolie Band kicks-off the Spencer Theater's 15th Summer Season of shows tonight, May 26 at 8 p.m. Packed with festival feel, this will be an outdoor concert packed with Santana hits and hefty riffs of era favorites. Enjoy lawn seating ($49) and table seating ($59). Outdoor cash bar service will be available, as will a pre-show Enchilada Buffet ($20) starting at 6 p.m. Bring blankets or chairs. Call the Box Office at 575.336.4800 or go to www.spencertheater.com for tickets.

2012 Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award nominee Melissa Van der Schyff (Bonnie & Clyde), fellow 2012 Drama Desk Award nominee, Claybourne Elder (One Arm, also seen in Bonnie & Clyde) and Darren Ritchie (Broadway's Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure, Dracula, the Musical, Little Shop of Horrors) will star in a special industry reading of Vincent Delaney's new play Foreclosure, presented by Mondays Dark Theatre Company as part of the TRU ("Theater Resources Unlimited") New Play Reading Series, on Monday, June 4 at 7:00 PM at the Roy Arias Off-Broadway Theater in Manhattan.

The Gregg Rolie Band kicks-off the Spencer Theater's 15th Summer Season of shows on Saturday, May 26 at 8 p.m. Packed with festival feel, this will be an outdoor concert packed with Santana hits and hefty riffs of era favorites. Enjoy lawn seating ($49) and table seating ($59). Outdoor cash bar service will be available, as will a pre-show Enchilada Buffet ($20) starting at 6 p.m. Bring blankets or chairs. Call the Box Office at 575.336.4800 or go to www.spencertheater.com for tickets.

THE ELEPHANT IN MY CLOSET comes to South Carolina for one night only at 8pm, tonight, April 24th at Centre Stage, 501 River Street, Greenville, SC. The show, which contains adult language, was Written by David Lee Nelson and Created with Adam Knight.

Passage Theatre Company, Trenton's only professional theater company, will wrap up its 2011-2012 season with Slippery as Sin, running from May 17 to June 3. David Lee White's comic thriller will be directed by Adam Immerwahr - the same team that delivered the 2010 smash hit, Blood: A Comedy.

Last year, BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theater website on the Internet, launched a comprehensive Student Database listing college and university performing arts programs across the country. This free service makes it easier for prospective students by showcasing programs searchable by schools, location, degrees and concentrations.

THE ELEPHANT IN MY CLOSET comes to South Carolina for one night only at 8pm on April 24th at Centre Stage, 501 River Street, Greenville, SC. The show, which contains adult language, was Written by David Lee Nelson and Created with Adam Knight.

After a weekend of large houses and enthusiastic crowds viewing enhanced stage readings of four new plays and one new musical, At The Flash by Sean Chandler and David Leeper was named the winner of the 2012 Great Gay Play and Musical Contest.

Van Halen has added 18 concerts to its highly successful "2012 North American Tour" to include Detroit's Joe Louis Arena on Thursday, July 19 at 7:30 p.m. Ky-mani Marley is the opening act for all added concerts.

Van Halen has added 18 concerts to its 2012 North American tour. The newly added dates begin July 7 with an encore performance at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Second shows have also been added in the Detroit and New York/New Jerseyareas, as well as Philadelphia. Ky-mani Marley is the opening act for all added concerts. The full itinerary can be found below.

Pride Films and Plays announces that five finalists have been named in the 2012 Great Gay Play and Musical Contest, as PFP continues to explore 'What's New and Who's Next' in LGBT film and theater. The finalists are: At The Flash, by Sean Chandler and David Leeper, Woodland Hills, CA Lost in History, by Adam Siegel, Maplewood, NJ Hello Norma Jeane, by Dylan Costello, London, UK Mr. Teddy, by George Smart, Quincy, MA Under A Rainbow Flag, a new musical, by Leo Schwartz, Chicago, IL Check out the event photos below!

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) presents the world premiere of STOREFRONT CHURCH, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award® winner John Patrick Shanley and starring Bob Dishy, Giancarlo Esposito, Zach Grenier, Ron Cephas Jones and Tonya Pinkins. STOREFRONT CHURCH will begin previews Wednesday, May 16; officially open Monday, June 11; and play a limited engagement through Sunday, June 24 Off-Broadway as the first production to return to Atlantic's main stage Linda Gross Theater in Chelsea following completion of a historic $8.3M renovation.

The Bay Area premiere of San Jose Rep's God of Carnage begins previews tonight. This winner of the 2009 Tony Award® for Best Play was written by Yasmina Reza and translated by Christopher Hampton. The production runs from March 22 to April 15, 2012, with Opening Night on Wednesday, March 28 at 7:30 pm.

This weekend, the 32nd Annual Tejano Music Awards Fan Fair will take over downtown San Antonio, through March 18, 2012, as hundreds of bands and thousands of fans from near and far fill historic Market Square to hear the three-day Tejano music marathon.

This weekend, the 32nd Annual Tejano Music Awards Fan Fair will take over downtown San Antonio, March 16-18, 2012, as hundreds of bands and thousands of fans from near and far fill historic Market Square to hear the three-day Tejano music marathon.

The Texas Talent Musicians Association will present the 32nd Annual Tejano Music Awards Fan Fair, March 16, 17, 18, 2012, in downtown San Antonio's Market Square. The free festival continues its tradition as the leading event to promote Tejano music - a unique American genre with rock, soul and pop influences but performed in Spanish.

This weekend, the 32nd Annual Tejano Music Awards Fan Fair will take over downtown San Antonio, March 16-18, 2012, as hundreds of bands and thousands of fans from near and far fill historic Market Square to hear the three-day Tejano music marathon.

Pride Films and Plays announces that five finalists have been named in the 2012 Great Gay Play and Musical Contest, as PFP continues to explore 'What's New and Who's Next' in LGBT film and theater.

Die 2. Berliner Seefestspiele werden 2012 von Oscar-Preisträger Volker Schlöndorff inszeniert, einem der bedeutendsten und international erfolgreichsten Vertreter des deutschen Films. Vom 16. August bis zum 2. September führt Schlöndorff die Regie des französischen Opernklassikers am Berliner Wannsee.