Michael Bush News

Kristine Nielsen will star alongside Carson Elrod, Erik Heger and Michael Tucker in MTC's Based on a Totally True Story, which opens on April 11th

Beauty of the Father, a new play by Nilo Cruz starring Priscilla Lopez, opened at MTC on January 10th

Kristine Nielsen and Michael Tucker will co-star in MTC's upcoming Based on a Totally True Story

Birdland is proud to present - direct from the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's Cabaret and Performance Conference under the new artistic leadership of Michael Bush (Director of Artistic Production for Manhattan Theatre Club) - award-winning actress Suzzanne Douglas in her brand new cabaret theatre evening, Lucky to Be Me, on Tuesday, November 15.

This November, Ruth Williamson, Suzzanne Douglas and Penny Fuller will perform their respective cabaret shows at Birdland

VICTORIA CLARK, CELIA KEENAN-BOLGER, BRAD OSCAR, EUGENE LEE, MARSHA NORMAN, DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE, LUCY SIMON AND DAVID YAZBEK AMONG PARTICIPANTS IN NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL'S STAR-STUDDED SEMINAR SERIES.

Michael Aman, who wrote the book and lyrics with Oscar E. Moore gives us the scoop on the show's festival stop.

A press conference for the 2005 NYMF took place on August 30th with a special preview of The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, The Big Time, The Mistress Cycle, Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, No Boundaries, Plane Crazy, and Project Footlight.

The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde, a new musical about the folk legends, will run from September 14th through September 25th as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival

Patrick Marber's riff on the Strindberg classic, After Miss Julie, has been added to Manhattan Theatre Club's '05-'06 season line-up, and another new piece by Ariel Dorfman has also been scheduled

MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB will present its annual Winter Benefit, 'An Intimate Night,' an evening featuring Broadway stars LESLIE UGGAMS, PATRICK CASSIDY and KELLI O'HARA on Monday, January 24 at the Plaza Hotel (Fifth Avenue at Central Park South).