Michael Mann News

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the first new Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie, after a 48 year absence, as the inaugural production of the new Henry Miller's Theatre (124 West 43rd Street) beginning Thursday, September 10th, 2009 with an official opening on Thursday, October 15th, 2009. This will be a limited engagement through January 10th, 2010.

Tony winner Billy Crudup has joined the cast of the new Columbia Pictures film 'Eat, Pray, Love,' an adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir. Crudup will appear alongside Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem and Richard Jenkins, according to trade paper Variety.

Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse season will continue through Sunday, August 2, with the Mainstage play Vera Laughed (through 8/2); the Martel Musical Tina Girlstar (7/31 - 8/1); the ever-popular Readings Festival 2 (7/30 - 8/2); and a free concert reading by the Powerhouse Apprentice Company of the new musical Hello! My Baby.

Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse season will continue through Sunday, August 2, with the Mainstage play Vera Laughed (through 8/2); the Martel Musical Tina Girlstar (7/31 - 8/1); the ever-popular Readings Festival 2 (7/30 - 8/2); and a free concert reading by the Powerhouse Apprentice Company of the new musical Hello! My Baby.

The third offering on Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater Mainstage this season will be Keith Bunin's funny, sexy, romantic, and moving story Vera Laughed, about a great writer living in exile - with his wife and his mistress. Vera Laughed will open on Wednesday, July 22, and run through Sunday, August 2, at the Powerhouse Theater on the Vassar College campus.

After a 48 year absence, Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the first new Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie as the inaugural production of the new Henry Miller's Theatre (124 West 43rd Street) beginning Thursday, September 10th, 2009 with an official opening on Thursday, October 15th, 2009. This will be a limited engagement through January 10th, 2010.

I?ve put together a list of some great Hollywood films that are either celebrating the holiday, or reminding us of our country's past. So queue up your Netflix, or wander down to the nearest Blockbuster ? should your neighborhood still have one ? and enjoy the show. And try for Blu-Ray whenever possible. DVDs are so last decade...

WET Announces Casting for 2009 INKubator Summer Series June 15 - 29 at The DR2 Theatre, featuring new plays by Melissa James Gibson, Cusi Cram & Kate Robin starring Christina Kirk, Charlotte Booker, Gareth Saxe, Keith Reddin, Darren Pettie & more

WET Announces Casting for 2009 INKubator Summer Series June 15 - 29 at The DR2 Theatre, featuring new plays by Melissa James Gibson, Cusi Cram & Kate Robin starring Christina Kirk, Charlotte Booker, Gareth Saxe, Keith Reddin, Darren Pettie & more

After a 48 year absence, Bye Bye Birdie will return to Broadway this fall presented by Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) in a production starring John Stamos (Albert Peterson), Gina Gershon (Rose Alvarez), Bill Irwin (Mr. Harry MacAfee) and Jayne Houdyshell (Mrs. Mae Peterson). Directed & choreographed by Robert Longbottom, Bye Bye Birdie has a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. Roundabout is proud to welcome back three artists who have previously worked at the theatrical institution: John Stamos, Gina Gershon and Bill Irwin.

Hang On is a spectacular new family production, which will catapult the audience into an aerial world of dizzying new thrills, where the impossible becomes possible. A first time co-production between two award winning companies - children's theatre company Theatre-Rites and aerialists Ockahm's Razor, Hang On will mix contemporary circus, movement humour and live percussion to create a new magical production for adults and children aged five plus.

After a 48 year absence, Bye Bye Birdie will return to Broadway this fall presented by Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) in a production starring John Stamos (Albert Peterson), Gina Gershon (Rose Alvarez), Bill Irwin (Mr. Harry MacAfee) and Jayne Houdyshell (Mrs. Mae Peterson). Directed & choreographed by Robert Longbottom, Bye Bye Birdie has a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. Roundabout is proud to welcome back three artists who have previously worked at the theatrical institution: John Stamos, Gina Gershon and Bill Irwin.

Hang On is a spectacular new family production, which will catapult the audience into an aerial world of dizzying new thrills, where the impossible becomes possible. A first time co-production between two award winning companies - children?s theatre company Theatre-Rites and aerialists Ockham?s Razor, Hang On will mix contemporary circus, movement humour and live percussion to create a new magical production for adults and children aged five plus.

Hang On is a spectacular new family production, which will catapult the audience into an aerial world of dizzying new thrills, where the impossible becomes possible. A first time co-production between two award winning companies - children's theatre company Theatre-Rites and aerialists Ockahm's Razor, Hang On will mix contemporary circus, movement humour and live percussion to create a new magical production for adults and children aged five plus.

Additional casting has been announced for the Donmar Warehouse production of MARY STUART, Friedrich Schiller's classic play in a new version by Peter Oswald, which opens April 19, 2009 at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street). The production, starring its acclaimed original London leads Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter and directed by Phyllida Lloyd, begins previews on March 30, 2009 for a limited run of 20 weeks only.

MIAMI LIBRE, a new bilingual stage musical about a musician's search for love and liberty from Miami to Havana, that unites our community's most talented musicians, dancers, and creative artists. Starring Telemundo NBC telenovela star Jencarlos Canela and Cuban-born actress and dancer Everlayn Borges, this sexy new musical

Playwrights Horizons has announced a cast change for the New York premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House, Eurydice). Drama Desk Award winner and Playwrights Horizons alum T. Ryder Smith will assume the role of Gordon (the 'dead man' of the title) beginning Tuesday, February 19.

Starring Gabriel Byrne (Cornelius Melody) with Dearbhla Molloy (Nora Melody), Emily Bergl (Sara Melody), John Horton (Nicholas Gadsby), Byron Jennings (Jamie Cregan), Kathryn Meisle (Deborah), Randall Newsome (Paddy O'Dowd), Ciaran O'Reilly (Dan Roche) and Daniel Stewart Sherman (Mickey Maloy).