Jon Robin Baitz News

Stacy Keach to guest star as Merlyn in the New York Philharmonic's 'Camalot' May 7-10, 2008

Rehearsals will begin on Tuesday, April 8 for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) World Premiere production of the new musical SAVED.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting for the sixth and final production of its 2007/2008 Season, the World Premiere of the new musical SAVED.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) is now accepting entries for its popular online lottery LIVEforFIVE for $5 tickets to its next production, The Drunken City, a new play by 2007 Obie Award winner Adam Bock (The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows). A total of 40 tickets will be available for the show via the lottery.

On Monday, February 4 The Vineyard Theatre - where Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Three Tall Women debuted in 1994 - celebrated Albee's 50-year career as one of the world's leading dramatists, as he turns 80 during this theatrical season. Co-hosts for the evening were Tony Award-winners Tyne Daly and Bill Irwin plus international artist Eartha Kitt.

International singing sensation Eartha Kitt - one of only a handful of performers to be nominated for a Tony (three times), a Grammy (twice) and an Emmy Award - is set to join previously announced co-hosts Tony Award-winners Tyne Daly and Bill Irwin with a special performance at The Vineyard Theatre's 80th birthday tribute to Edward Albee on Monday, February 4 beginning at 6pm at The Rainbow Room

Ron Rifkin, John Glover, Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor and Patricia Wettig are set to reprise their roles in Jon Robin Baitz's modern tragedy The Paris Letter for LA Theatre Works. LATW records five performances of The Paris Letter February 20-24 at the Skirball Cultural Center

The Roundtable Ensemble will present the world premiere of Chris Kipiniak's Save the World, a superhero-adventure play at the American Theatre of Actors. Performances will begin on Thursday, January 17, and the official opening night will be Saturday, January 19 at 8PM. Performances will run for four weeks through February 9.

An impressive collection of Broadway and screen celebrities arrived for the officially opening of The Ritz on Thursday, October 11 on Broadway at Studio 54 (254 West 54th St) where it will play a limited engagement through December 2, 2007.

Tony Award-winner and five-time Emmy Award-nominee John Glover, now starring as 'Man in the Chair' in the Tony Award-winning hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone, will sit down with WKCR Radio 'Arts and Answers' host Mihal Gartenberg on Thursday, July 12th from 9:30 - 10:00 p.m.

Tony Award-winner and five-time Emmy Award-nominee John Glover, now starring as 'Man in the Chair' in the Tony Award-winning hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone, will sit down live with CW 11 Morning News anchor Jill Nicolini tomorrow morning Friday, July 6th in the 8:30 a.m. half hour.

According to NYTimes.com, the lineup for New York Stage and Film and Vassar College's 23rd Powerhouse summer theater season will include productions of John Patrick Shanley's Romantic Poetry: A Musical Play, featuring a score by Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls) and starring Mark Linn-Baker and Idina Menzel, Stephen Belber's (Match) new play, Geometry of Fire, and concert readings of Pete Towshend's new rock opera, The Boy Who Heard Music, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T, a musical featuring hit songs originally by Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, the Staple Singers, Wilson Pickett and more.

Repertory Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director James Bundy and Managing Director Victoria Nolan, will present three re-imagined classics, a rediscovered play from the mid-twentieth century, and a world premiere during its 42nd season in 2007-2008.

The Readings at Bay Street Theatre 2007 series will begin Saturday, April 7 at 3 pm with two plays, 365 Days/365 Plays, by Suzan-Lori Parks and directed by Tom Caruso and Save Me, by Stefanie Zadravec, also directed by Tom Caruso.

The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation will present director Daniel Sullivan with the 2007 'Mr. Abbott' Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre on Monday, March 26 at a cocktail reception in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center Plaza.

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Broadway's Tony Award-winning hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone will welcome Tony Award-winner John Glover on April 17th.

Broadway's Tony Award winning hit musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE will welcome Tony Award winner John Glover (Love! Valour! Compassion!, TV's 'Smallville') to the cast in April on a date to be announced.

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