Julie Taymor News

On Monday, November 22, 2010, the Broadway company of the international musical smash CHICAGO is pleased to welcome back Tony Award nominee Tom Hewitt in the role of slick criminal lawyer Billy Flynn.

Filipino-American Broadway star Adam Jacobs ('Les Miserables', 'Mamma Mia') is currently essaying the coveted role of Simba in Disney Theatrical Productions' North American touring production of ground-breaking, multi-award winning musical 'The Lion King'. The show plays the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago, IL until Saturday, November 27, 2010. Upcoming tour engagements will include Durham, NC January 4 to 30, 2011; Providence, RI February 1 to 20, 2011; Schenectady, NY February 22 to March 20, 2011; Rochester, NY March 22 to April 17, 2011; Toronto, ON Canada April 19 to May 22, 2011; Dayton, OH June 14 to July 10, 2011; and Montreal, QC Canada August 9 to September 4, 2011.

Nueva Escena is pleased to present HARDWARE DREAMS, written and performed by Sunilda Caraballo, directed by Joe Ricci. HARDWARE DREAMS will play a 1-week limited engagement at Theater for the New City (115 1st Avenue, between East 9th and East 10th St.), as part of the Borimix Festival 2010. Performances begin Thursday, November 18th through Sunday, November 21st.

Nueva Escena is pleased to present HARDWARE DREAMS, written and performed by Sunilda Caraballo, directed by Joe Ricci.

An exciting range of performances, including, Behind-the-Scenes at Harlem's famed Apollo theater, a New York Film Festival Sneak Preview, the U.S. Premiere of La Gruta de Baba, a multimedia work by leading contemporary Mexican composer/singer Juan Pablo Villa, the Fish Police, South London funk-punk-hip hop band in its U.S. debut, new works by Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects, and Christmas in Balthrop Alabama, a down-home style, off-beat holiday celebration, are on the schedule for the new fall season of Target®Free Thursdays at the David Rubenstein Atrium.

With eye-popping sets, fierce costumes, and an electric young cast, Julie Taymor and Bono bring Spider-Man, the $60+ Million rock musical, to Broadway. Contributing Editor Adam Green goes backstage at the Foxwoods Theatre to give Vogue readers an advance peek at the new production in the December issue (on newsstands nationwide November 23rd).

Already delayed because of safey issues regarding the many flying stunts in the show, SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK will get anoher visit from safety inspectors on Wednesday, according to the NY Times. Inspectors have so far been able to see only 13 of 27 flying stunts for the new show. All 27 must be approved before public performances can begin.

A prolific member of the Dance New Amsterdam (DNA)/New York creative community, Nicole Wolcott, has invited Fischerspooner's Vanessa Walters and Wooster Group's Omar Zubair, to collaborate on her first evening-length world premiere, 100 Beginnings.

The Joyce Theater Foundation, in association with The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, REDCAT (Los Angeles), Dance Affiliates (Philadelphia), ODC Theater (San Francisco) and On the Boards (Seattle), is pleased to announce the 12 choreographers who will participate in The A.W.A.R.D Show! 2010: New York City, taking place at Joyce SoHo from November 17-20, 2010 at 7 p.m.

On Wednesday, November 17 at 7 p.m., the Epic Theatre Ensemble will present a staged reading of Kate Fodor's acclaimed play Hannah and Martin at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. David Strathairn and Melissa Friedman will star in this play about the controversial relationship between Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt and her mentor and lover, Martin Heidegger, the renowned philosopher who used his fame and brilliance to help further the goals of the Nazi party.

The New York Times reports today that Brittish film actor Matthew James Thomas will likely share the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man with Reeve Carney for the upcoming Broadway production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Thomas will take on the role twice a week due to the demanding nature of the part. The Times notes that Carney will play all of the production's preview performances. Thomas would step in twice a week beginning after the show's opening on January 11, 2011.

The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), the not-for-profit foundation of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), announces Director Ciarán O'Reilly (Irish Repertory Theatre's THE EMPEROR JONES) and Choreographer Byron Easley (urbanStages' LANGSTON IN HARLEM) as winners of the Joe A. Callaway Award for the 2009-2010 Theatre Season, presented in a ceremony on Monday, November 15 in Manhattan.

Disney Theatrical Productions and the Providence Performing Arts Center are pleased to announce that tickets for the long-awaited return engagement of Disney's THE LION KING will go on sale to the public on Saturday, November 6 at 10A at the PPAC Box Office, located at 220 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence, online at www.ppacri.org or by phone at (401) 421 - ARTS (2787). THE LION KING, which Channing Gray from The Providence Journal heralded as 'a thrilling spectacle,' will triumphantly return to the PPAC stage on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 for a limited three-week engagement through Sunday, February 20, 2011. The press opening night is Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 7:30P.

Kathleen Turner and Matthew Rhys will reprise the roles they created in the original West End production when L.A. Theatre Works records Terry Johnson's hit stage adaptation of The Graduate for radio.

With eye-popping sets, fierce costumes, and an electric young cast, Julie Taymor and Bono bring Spider-Man, the $60+ Million rock musical, to Broadway. Contributing Editor Adam Green goes backstage at the Foxwoods Theatre to give Vogue readers an advance peek at the new production in the December issue (on newsstands nationwide November 23rd).

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark will begin preview performances on Broadway on Sunday, November 28, 2010, at 6:30 p.m. Opening Night is now set for Tuesday evening, January 11, 2011. Directed by Julie Taymor and featuring a book by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger, and new music and lyrics by U2's Bono and The Edge, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark will open at Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre (213 West 42nd Street). The first images of the show have surfaced in a series of photos taken by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue.

Disney's landmark musical event, THE LION KING celebrates 13 years on Broadway on Saturday, November 13th at the Minskoff Theatre (200 West 45th Street, NYC).

Disney's landmark musical event, THE LION KING celebrates 13 years on Broadway on Saturday, November 13th at the Minskoff Theatre (200 West 45th Street, NYC).

BroadwayWorld Spain te trae un resumen de los castings que se están realizando para la primera producción española de El Rey León, que llegará a nuestro país gracias a Stage Entertainment. El equipo de Disney Theatricals, formado por John Stefaniuk y Clement Ishmael charlaron con nosotros acerca de este proceso de audiciones.

Today the auditions for the first ever Spanish production of The Lion King, one of the most anticipated musicals of all time, have started in Madrid, where it will open in Teatro Lope de Vega, no official date yet. Stage Entertainment expects over 2.000 artists to audition from registering on their website just one week after it opened, and for today more than 700 people, singers and dancers, have gathered in Teatros del Canal del Madrid.