J.M. Barrie News

IMDB.com is reporting that Katie Holmes, who plays her final performance today in All My Sons is already making plans to return to the Great White Way. The film site reports that she's 'bagged the lead' in a musical version of the film Finding Neverland.

This fall, New York City celebrates the 90th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's birth with a three-month long festival of his work presented by Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic. But if you want to see Bernstein's Peter Pan, you'll have to visit Santa Barbara. The Santa Barbara Theatre proudly announces the first American revival of Leonard Bernstein's Peter Pan. SBT artistic director Albert Ihde directs 12 performances at the Lobero Theatre, December 19 to 28, with two low-priced previews on December 17 and 18.

The Santa Barbara Theatre: LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S PETER PAN gets rare revival in Santa Barbara.

This fall, New York City celebrates the 90th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's birth with a three-month long festival of his work presented by Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic. But if you want to see Bernstein's Peter Pan, you'll have to visit Santa Barbara. The Santa Barbara Theatre proudly announces the first American revival of Leonard Bernstein's Peter Pan. SBT artistic director Albert Ihde directs 12 performances at the Lobero Theatre, December 19 to 28, with two low-priced previews on December 17 and 18.

Next summer, from 26 May to 30 August 2009, a new production of JM Barrie's Peter Pan will be performed in the specially commissioned Neverland Pavilion in London's historic Kensington Gardens.

The Santa Barbara Theatre: LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S PETER PAN gets rare revival in Santa Barbara.

Under the new leadership of Artistic Director Henry Godinez and Managing Director Barbara Butts, the Theatre and Interpretation Center (TIC) at Northwestern University will kick off its 28th season in October with the Tony Award-winning musical 'Sweeney Todd' by Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim.

Irondale Ensemble Project will indeed grow up this fall when they move in to their fancy new digs, The Irondale Center (at the historic Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 South Oxford St, Bklyn, NY bet. Lafayette and Fulton Street). They will inaugurate their new Off-Broadway cultural center with a revival of their interpretation of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan directed by Jim Niesen beginning October 22nd. Performances are through November 8th and run Wednesdays - Saturdays at 8 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM, Sundays at 3 PM.

Autumn brings the celebrated musical, Les Misérables, to the Ogunquit Playhouse stage September 10 through October 12th, with a once-in-a-lifetime, all-star cast.

Fans of Peter Pan will meet all the boys, girls and rogues again-this time in a musical adventure-when South Coast Repertory's Summer Players present Peter Pan in the Nicholas Studio August 9-10 and 16-17.

This fall the Vineyard Theatre presents WIG OUT! by Tarell Alvin McCraney and directed by Tina Landau.

The Ogunquit Playhouse is please to announce a star-studded cast for its stunning production of the magnificently romantic Lerner and Loewe musical, My Fair Lady, opening on August 13th and running through September 6th. This beloved musical tells the tale of a stringent linguist, Professor Henry Higgins, who bets a colleague he can turn flower vendor Eliza Doolittle from a guttersnipe into a duchess.

La Jolla Playhouse will present Peter and the Starcatchers, a new play, as part of its Page to Stage program in the Winter of 2009, by special arrangement with Disney Theatrical Productions.

The Ogunquit Playhouse is the proud recipient of an American Masterpiece Grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, in the amount of $20,000 for the re-staging of Lerner and Loewe's timeless classic My Fair Lady.

The Weinstein Co. is going to start producing for Broadway.

Fans of Peter Pan will meet all the boys, girls and rogues again-this time in a musical adventure-when South Coast Repertory's Summer Players present Peter Pan in the Nicholas Studio August 9-10 and 16-17.

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron--the producers of film version of Hairpray--will bring a movie musical of Peter Pan to the small screen

'Come to the Place where Dreams Are Born!' This all-new production of J.M. Barrie's classic tale is presented with great imagination and respect for the creators of this enchanting story.

John McCormack and J.J. Kandel in association with The Open Book will present 'Summer Shorts,' a festival of new American short plays, at 59E59 Theaters

Arena Stage announces Mabou Mines' Peter & Wendy, the highly anticipated adaptation of J.M. Barrie's story of Peter Pan and Wendy, which magically comes to life this season in the Kreeger Theater, April 27 through June 24, 2007