George Bernard Shaw News

The website for THE NEIL SIMON PLAYS, the Broadway revivals of BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and BROADWAY BOUND, is now live at www.TheNeilSimonPlays.com.

South Coast Repertory kicks off the 2009-10 Season with Putting It Together, a compilation of Stephen Sondheim songs, that the composer put together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, creating a narrative set at a cocktail party in an elegant Manhattan condo. The non-traditional musical, led by Broadway and television star Harry Groener, has a cast of five (a glamorous but slightly jaded couple, a starry-eyed younger couple and a savvy observer) who sing more than 30 songs that reflect their lives, lifestyles and moods of the moment. Some of the songs will be familiar, some less so, a few were even cut from their original musical scores, but they are all sophisticated, smart and drop-dead droll. All, in other words, Sondheim.

Ways of the Heart, the final trio in the Shaw Festival's historic presentation of Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 collection, opened at the Court House Theatre on Saturday, August 1, 2009.

The second annual edition of 1st Irish, a five-week-long all-Irish theatre festival coordinated by Origin Theatre Company, runs from September 1 to October 4.

Laurel Mill Playhouse, located at 508 Main Street in historic Laurel, MD., presents Don Juan in Hell (Man and Superman) by George Bernard Shaw.

Writers' Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce the extension of the World Premiere of A Minister's Wife, a new musical adapted from Candida by George Bernard Shaw, with music by Joshua Schmidt and lyrics by Jan Tranen. A Minister's Wife was adapted by Austin Pendleton and is directed by Michael Halberstam. The production will now run through August 9, 2009, at Writers' Theatre, 325 Tudor Court in Glencoe.

Abingdon Theatre Company -- which has produced nearly 60 new American plays in its 16-year history -- launches its 2009-2010 Off-Broadway Season with the world premiere of INVENTING AVI, a new comedy by Robert Cary and Benjamin Feldman, set to begin previews on October 2 at the Abingdon Theatre Complex (312 West 36th Street).

Olney Theatre Center?s 72nd season takes audiences from ancient Greece and a childhood home in Dublin to a British country estate and the Big Apple. Subscription Season 2010 offers three professional area premieres among its varied upcoming productions.

The fifth mainstage summer production at Cortland Repertory Theatre will be the theatre's regional debut of the timely, riveting and highly theatrical courtroom drama Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.

Writers' Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce the extension of the World Premiere of A Minister's Wife, a new musical adapted from Candida by George Bernard Shaw, with music by Joshua Schmidt and lyrics by Jan Tranen.

Cape Rep Theatre will produce the classic Broadway Musical My Fair Lady by Allan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe as part of the 2009 Indoor Theatre Season. My Fair Lady will open July 30 and run through August 29. Tickets, priced at $28, are available by calling 508.896.1888 or visiting www.caperep.org.

The fifth mainstage summer production at Cortland Repertory Theatre will be the theatre's regional debut of the timely, riveting and highly theatrical courtroom drama Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. From August 5 - 15, playwright Moisés Kaufman's play will be on the CRT stage in the Edward Jones Playhouse at the Little York Pavilion.

MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION by George Bernard Shaw was performed Monday, July 20 at 7pm at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South (20th St. east of Park Av), continuing the Project Shaw series. Mrs. Warren's Profession starred Michael Cristofer, Tyne Daly, Sean Dugan, Xanthe Elbrick, George S. Irving, Brian Murray, and narrator Howard Kissel, with guest host from NEWSWEEK: JEREMY McCARTER. Produced and directed by David Staller. BroadwayWorld.com was there to spent the evening with the talented cast!

MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION by George Bernard Shaw plays Monday, July 20 at 7pm at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South (20th St. east of Park Av).

MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION by George Bernard Shaw plays Monday JULY 20 at 7pm at THE PLAYERS, 16 Gramercy Park South (20th St. east of Park Av.)

MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION by George Bernard Shaw plays Monday JULY 20 at 7pm at THE PLAYERS, 16 Gramercy Park South (20th St. east of Park Av.)

Readers' Ensemble Company presents four staged readings at The University of the Streets, 130 East 7th Street, New York City. $8 All Seats (check the website for discounts).

MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION by George Bernard Shaw plays Monday JULY 20 at 7pm at THE PLAYERS, 16 Gramercy Park South (20th St. east of Park Av.)

MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION by George Bernard Shaw plays Monday JULY 20 at 7pm at THE PLAYERS, 16 Gramercy Park South (20th St. east of Park Av.)

Cape Rep Theatre will produce the classic Broadway Musical My Fair Lady by Allan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe as part of the 2009 Indoor Theatre Season. My Fair Lady will open July 30 and run through August 29. Tickets, priced at $28, are available by calling 508.896.1888 or visiting www.caperep.org.