Peter Fitzgerald News

On February 17th, Off-Broadway's Evil Dead the Musical will play its final performance (beginning at 11 PM) at New World Stages.

Jeb Brown will replace Will Chase in the one-night only, newly-adapted concert version of Working, a benefit for the Actor's Fund of America, which will take place next Monday, February 19, 2007 at The Zipper Theatre

Two-time Tony Award-nominee Mary Testa has been added to the one-night only, newly-adapted concert version of Working, a benefit for the Actor's Fund of America,

On February 17th, Off-Broadway's Evil Dead the Musical will play its final performance (beginning at 11 PM) at New World Stages

On Friday, January 26th, the Off-Broadway hit Evil Dead the Musical celebrates its 100th performance.

The Zipper Theatre, Ryan Hill and John Johnson are pleased to announce a one-night only, newly adapted concert version of WORKING, the 1978 musical adapted from the acclaimed non-fiction book by Studs Terkel. This one-night only premiere concert event to benefit the Actor's Fund of America will take place on Monday, February 19, 2007 at The Zipper Theatre (336 West 37th Street, between 8 th and 9th Avenues).

Jayne Paterson will join Constantine Maroulis in the hit musical revival of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, directed by Gordon Greenberg, now playing Off-Broadway at The Zipper Theatre

Off-Broadway's Evil Dead The Musical heads to the studio to record its original cast recording on Sunday, December 17

The national tour of Movin' Out, the Tony Award-winning new musical conceived, choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp and based on 24 classic songs by Billy Joel, will play its final performance on Sunday, January 21, 2007 in Birmingham, Alabama, after 1,111 performances and three years of touring North America and Japan

For those very cultured New York theatre-goers who felt last season's Martin McDonagh bloodbath The Lieutenant of Inishmore wasn't quite graphically violent enough to satisfy their very refined tastes, might I suggest an evening at the latest offering to grace the Off-Broadway stage, Evil Dead: The Musical. It's freakin' awesome.

La Jolla Playhouse has announced a two-week extension of Des McAnuff's re-imagination of the Tony Award-winning classic, The Wiz

Jim Stanek will replace Drew Sarich in the Off-Broadway revival of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Due to scheduling conflicts, Wayne Brady has withdrawn from the eagerly anticipated La Jolla Playhouse revival of The Wiz; Rashad Naylor has replaced him as Scarecrow

Variety reports the casting for the upcoming La Jolla production of The Wiz, directed by Des McAnuff. The show will feature Wayne Brady (Scarecrow), David Alan Grier (the Wizard), Nikki M. James, (Dorothy), Tituss Burgess (the Lion) and Michael Benjamin Washington (Tin Man).

On Sunday, July 16, 2006, Off-Broadway's Burleigh Grime$ will play its final performance at New World Stages

Director David Warren's slick, sexy and fast-moving production can't save this weak script

Burleigh Grimes$, which began previews on May 23rd at New World Stages (340 W. 50th St., formerly Dodger Stages), will open on Thursday, June 13th.

Emmy and Golden Globe-nominee Wendie Malick, currently on the boards in the new Off-Broadway comedy Burleigh Grime$, is slated to make guest appearances on two of New York's top local morning news shows in the coming days

Movin' Out will play Chicago from June 28th thorugh July 9th

On Sunday, May 21st at 3 PM, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial will have its final performance at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre