Matt Cowart News

'All Fall Down', directed by Lonny Price ('A Class Act') and Matt Cowart (Assistant Director, '110 in the Shade'), opens this Friday, October 9th at the 45th Street Theatre. This new musical, which stars two-time Tony Award nominee ('42nd Street', 'On the Town') and Drama Desk nominee ('Xanadu') Mary Testa along with Jenn Colella ('Urban Cowboy'), Charlie Pollock ('9 to 5', 'Urinetown') and Casey Predovic, has already sold out select performances.

All Fall Down', an official selection in the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), is hosting a fundraising sweepstakes and encouraging future fans to become show donors in the process.

Mary Testa, two time Tony Award nominee ('42nd Street', 'On the Town') and Drama Desk nominee ('Xanadu'), Jenn Colella ('High Fidelity', 'Urban Cowboy'), Charlie Pollock ('9 to 5', 'Urinetown') and Casey Predovic star in the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) production 'All Fall Down', with musical staging by Josh Rhodes (Assistant Choreographer, 'The Drowsy Chaperone') and direction by Lonny Price ('A Class Act') and Matt Cowart (Assistant Director, '110 in the Shade').

The Barrow Group Theatre will present the world premiere of Makeout Session by Kenan Minkoff. The show will begin previews October 6 toward an official opening on October 20.

The two new musicals that will be presented as part of The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Music Theatre Conference in Waterford, CT from July 15th through 29th will be studded with starry casts; Veanne Cox, Jenn Collela, Anne L. Nathan and Megan McGinnis are among the performers set to take part in the shows