Ed Penn News

The Festival de Cannes celebrated Haiti: Carnival in Cannes last night, a benefit event on Thierry Fremaux's initiative presented by Giorgio Armani in support of Sean Penn's J/P Haitian Relief Organization

Gruesome Playground Injuries has its Canadian premiere today, and BWW is talking to stars Peter Mooney and Janet Porter about the show, their own personal love lives and of course, matters of the heart.

Tracing the development of artistic director Sydney Skybetter's formalism, Brooklyn-based skybetter and associates will perform Near Abroad (2008), The Laws of Falling Bodies (2009), Temporary Matters (2011), Little Boy (2012) and the World Premiere of For Want of Sleep, featuring a commissioned score by composer Sxip Shirey.

Tracing the development of artistic director Sydney Skybetter's formalism, Brooklyn-based skybetter and associates will perform Near Abroad (2008), The Laws of Falling Bodies (2009), Temporary Matters (2011), Little Boy (2012) and the World Premiere of For Want of Sleep, featuring a commissioned score by composer Sxip Shirey.

On Wednesday April 4, the bands The New Empires and The Cumberland Collective will perform together at Rhythm & Brews in Chattanooga at 9:00 PM.

Musicals Tonight! (The Lion Theatre 410 West 42nd Street) presents Jerome Kern's SITTING PRETTY April 17-29: Tuesdays through Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2pm.

On Wednesday April 4, the bands The New Empires and The Cumberland Collective will perform together at Rhythm & Brews in Chattanooga at 9:00 PM.

Tracing the development of artistic director Sydney Skybetter's formalism, Brooklyn-based skybetter and associates will perform Near Abroad (2008), The Laws of Falling Bodies (2009), Temporary Matters (2011), Little Boy (2012) and the World Premiere of For Want of Sleep, featuring a commissioned score by composer Sxip Shirey.

Michael Weber, Artistic Director of Porchlight Music Theatre, announces Porchlight's 18th season. The season includes the Chicago premiere of A Class Act, September 1 - October 14; a new to Chicago holiday production of The Gifts of the Magi, November 17 - December 30 and two classics of the American musical canon: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, February 2 - March 17, 2013 and Pal Joey, April 20 - June 2, 2013. Weber described Porchlight's 2012 - 2013 18th season as "Continuing the path we began in 2011, by presenting Chicago's audiences with incomparable productions that not only entertain but also challenge audiences to see music theatre in a new way." "Early Bird" Season Membership Renewals are on sale March 6 - April 1. New Season Memberships go on sale Monday, April 2 and single tickets to the 2012-2013 season go on sale Monday, April 23. All memberships are available at porchlightmusictheatre.org or by phone at 773.777.9884.

Theater Schmeater, in association with ACT - A Contemporary Theatre's Central Heating Lab, is pleased to celebrate our 20th anniversary season with the return of our popular presentation of The Twilight Zone: Live! opening on Friday April 6 in A Contemporary Theatre's Bullitt Cabaret space.

You can hardly swing a cat in Nashville without hitting someone in costume as Edna Turnblad or her dancing progeny Tracy, so popular has the show become with local theaterati. But, truth be told, if I never live to see another Hairspray, I can now die a happy man: Because I saw director/choreographer Justin Boccitto's exceptional, extraordinary and exhilarating take on the show, starring a phenomenal cast of Lipscomb University theatre students who so brilliantly bring the now-iconic characters of 1962 Baltimore to life with thorough commitment and so much energy you can't help but leave the theater with a spring in your step and a song in your heart.

On last night's episode of HAPPY ENDINGS, guest star Megan Mullally played Penny's perpetually optimistic mom who was in town for a singing gig at the boat show.

JOE'S PUB at The Public Theater, set to reopen October 4th, 2011 from a top to bottom renovation, debuted in October 1998 and quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance.

ComposersCollaborative, inc. will present 110 for 911, an extended solo composition for speaking pianist and electronics by pianist, composer and CCi Artistic Director Jed Distler.

ComposersCollaborative, inc. will present 110 for 911, an extended solo composition for speaking pianist and electronics by pianist, composer and CCi Artistic Director Jed Distler.

Sweet & Tart Productions, in association with Art of Warr Productions, is pleased to announce a rare revival of the Tony Award nominated musical, SIDE SHOW.

Energetic, fun-loving, and dynamic, HAIRSPRAY is still delighting audiences at the Lyric Theatre, Star City in Sydney, as this reviewer saw while attending the show on Wednesday, 27 July.