Michael Pemberton News

This summer, the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre features exciting performances ranging from its specialty, fully staged musicals with Ititle of show] and Chess, to its popular cabaret evenings of show tunes, jazz, blues, and rock.

It is always so exciting going to see a World Premiere of a musical. This happens often at the Signature Theatre thanks to the their 'American Musical Voices Project' (the largest single musical theater commissioning and producing initiative of any U.S. theater) sponsored by the Shen Family Foundation.

This summer, the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre features exciting performances ranging from its specialty, fully staged musicals with Ititle of show] and Chess, to its popular cabaret evenings of show tunes, jazz, blues, and rock.

HERE Arts Center proudly brings to life SOUNDING, a new seven-character play driven by original text and lyrics, along with cinematic video and a unique soundscape influenced by the music of Patti Smith, Bartok and Portishead. Written by Jennifer Gibbs and directed by Kristin Marting, this production runs Wednesday, February 17- Saturday, March 13 at HERE Arts Center. Official Opening Night is set for Saturday, February 20 at 8:30 PM.

HERE Arts Center proudly brings to life SOUNDING, a new seven-character play driven by original text and lyrics, along with cinematic video and a unique soundscape influenced by the music of Patti Smith, Bartok and Portishead. Written by Jennifer Gibbs and directed by Kristin Marting, this production runs Wednesday, February 17- Saturday, March 13 at HERE Arts Center. Official Opening Night is set for Saturday, February 20 at 8:30 PM.

HERE Arts Center proudly brings to life SOUNDING, a new seven-character play driven by original text and lyrics, along with cinematic video and a unique soundscape influenced by the music of Patti Smith, Bartok and Portishead. Written by Jennifer Gibbs and directed by Kristin Marting, this production runs Wednesday, February 17- Saturday, March 13 at HERE Arts Center. Official Opening Night is set for Saturday, February 20 at 8:30 PM.

Every little step an actress takes can lead her to a Broadway musical. Or a regional theater. Or a cabaret. Or a Fringe show.

Sometimes something is just entirely too weird, quirky & brilliant for words to describe-but for lack of a better method, we're still obligated to try. Such is the case with The Eelwax Jesus Show. The brainchild of a group of professional stage and film actors with a penchant for underground rock and severely overactive imaginations, Eelwax Jesus is an audiovisual mad scientist's experiment-a Frankensteinian endeavor that fuses theater, live music, and visual art into an unprecedented and entirely unforgettable new organism.

Sometimes something is just entirely too weird, quirky & brilliant for words to describe-but for lack of a better method, we're still obligated to try. Such is the case with The Eelwax Jesus Show. The brainchild of a group of professional stage and film actors with a penchant for underground rock and severely overactive imaginations, Eelwax Jesus is an audiovisual mad scientist's experiment-a Frankensteinian endeavor that fuses theater, live music, and visual art into an unprecedented and entirely unforgettable new organism.

Justice takes the stage when Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 Tenth Avenue, presents Dahlia: A Very Nearly True Theatrical Fantasia, a new play by P. Seth Bauer, directed by Heath Cullens, with video projections by Tal Yarden, for three performances only Friday, Saturday and Monday, October 24, 25 and 27, at 7:00 pm, at the John Jay College Gerald W. Lynch Theater ,899 Tenth Avenue at 58th Street.

Justice takes the stage when Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 Tenth Avenue, presents Dahlia: A Very Nearly True Theatrical Fantasia, a new play by P. Seth Bauer, directed by Heath Cullens, with video projections by Tal Yarden, for three performances only Friday, Saturday and Monday, October 24, 25 and 27, at 7:00 pm, at the John Jay College Gerald W. Lynch Theater ,899 Tenth Avenue at 58th Street.

On September 4th, 2008 MAMMA MIA! became the sixteenth longest running show in Broadway history, surpassing Hello Dolly! Nearly seven years after opening at the Winter Garden Theatre, MAMMA MIA! has remained in the Million Dollar Club, and among Broadway top five selling musicals for the past seven consecutive weeks, a landmark not achieved since 2002.

Starting August 13th, 2008 actor Michael Pemberton will join casting of Mamma Mia! on Broadway as Bill Austin. Pemberton will play the role through September 7th. After September 7th Pierce Bunting will resume the role.

Starting August 13th, 2008 actor Michael Pemberton will join casting of Mamma Mia! on Broadway as Bill Austin. Pemberton will play the role through September 7th. After September 7th Pierce Bunting will resume the role.

heAtrainplays are a celebration of New York, created by six teams while traveling the entire route of the A train, from 207th Street & Broadway to Far Rockaway and back. On Tuesday evening, June 24th, four librettists will hop on the A train at 207th Street and begin writing the books for four 15-minute musicals, all set on the A train. Before each of the teams begins their journey, they pick a number between 3 and 5 to set the number of characters, then they choose headshots from a blind draw to determine who is in each piece. When the librettists reach the Far Rockaway stop, they randomly select, through another blind draw, their collaborative lyricists, composers, directors and choreographers, who have been awaiting their arrival at a nearby McDonald's with two playwrights joining them and just beginning their journey. Two directors will meet the creators of the now finished plays at 207th Street and they all proceed to Columbus Circle where they meet the pre-selected pool of actors, decipher their scribbles, copy the scripts and begin rehearsals. They have until show time THE NEXT DAY, Wednesday night, June 25th at 8:00PM to develop these works into six exciting new musical experiences to be shared with the audience at New World Stages on the set of the hit musical Altar Boyz.

'theAtrainplays' returns to Off-Broadway, with the latest incarnation, theAtrainplays vol. XXII, performing for one night only on Wednesday, June 25th at 8PM at New World Stages.

Tony Award nominee Hank Azaria, who stars as David Sarnoff in Broadway's The Farnsworth Invention, will be featured on ABC-TV's 'Live with Regis & Kelly' on Tuesday, January 15 (show airs in the New York area on WABC-TV Channel 7 at 9AM).

Hank Azaria, Jimmi Simpson and Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff from Broadway's The Farnsworth Invention, will be featured on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday tomorrow, Friday, January 11 at 3:20PM. Science Friday is heard in the New York area on WNYC Radio at 93.9FM and 820AM from 2PM to 4PM.

Broadway's The Farnsworth Invention celebrated its best week yet at the Music Box Theatre. The new play by Aaron Sorkin grossed $346,739.00 for the week ending December 30, 2007.

Tony nominee Hank Azaria, who stars as David Sarnoff in Broadway's The Farnsworth Invention, will be a guest on the CW-11 Morning show tomorrow, Thursday, January 3 between 8:30am and 9:00am.