Philip Glass News

New York Theatre Workshop announces that the opening night for Beckett Shorts, an evening of four one-act plays written by Samuel Beckett and directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, will now be Tuesday, December 18.

Stew - whose new musical Passing Strange will begin performances on Broadway Feb. 8, 2008 at the Belasco Theatre - is one of five special guest hosts who will divulge the music they just cannot live without during WNYC Radio's annual weeklong 'Must Have Festival' December 10 to 14. Stew's evening of 'Must Have' music will conclude the weeklong Festival, broadcasting on December 14 at 7PM.

The opening of the 56th annual BMI Student Composer Awards competition was announced today by BMI President and CEO Del Bryant and BMI Foundation President Ralph N. Jackson. The competition, which is co-sponsored by BMI and the BMI Foundation, will award $20,000 in prizes. Student composers under the age of 28 who are citizens of the Western Hemisphere. All entries must be postmarked no later than Friday, February 15, 2008.

Ravinia Festival has commissioned award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones, who most recently won a Tony for his choreography for Spring Awakening, to create a new full-evening work, tentatively titled A Good Man, inspired by Abraham Lincoln and celebrating the slain president's 2009 bicentennial.

New York Theatre Workshop announced that Beckett Shorts, an evening of four one-act plays written by Samuel Beckett and directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, will begin performances Wednesday, December 5 at 8PM at New York Theatre Workshop. Opening night is scheduled for Sunday, December 16 at 7PM.

The Menier Chocolate Factory is delighted to announce that this year's Christmas extravaganza will be La Cage aux Folles. Tickets, which went on sale on September 4, are selling extremely fast. The show is breaking Box Office records at the Chocolate Factory and some performances are already sold out.

Feinstein's at Loews Regency will continue their Fall 2007 season with the new musical revue Rendezvous, which celebrates the music of Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour and more, from October 2 - 6. All shows are at the Regency Hotel.

Timing a bit off: Mississauga Players offer sextet of one-act comedies.

The Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera (ENO) are joining forces for two collaborations in future seasons: a new co-production of John Adams's Doctor Atomic, directed by Penny Woolcock, and a co-production of the new opera by Osvaldo Golijov and Anthony Minghella that has been commissioned by the Met

Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, writers of the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, are the librettists for THE ADDAMS FAMILY, Drama Desk Award-winning composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party) is writing the score, and Improbable Theater founders Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter) will direct and design. EET plans to premiere THE ADDAMS FAMILY in the 2009-2010 Broadway season, preceded by an out-of-town tryout.

The Clockwork Theatre has just announced that an Owen M. Smith-directed production of David Ives' Don Juan In Chicago will play a limited engagement at The Kirk Theatre at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street between 9th & Dyer Avenues), with performances beginning Saturday, May 26 and continuing until Saturday, June 9.

New York Theatre Workshop has announced plans for NYTW's 25th anniversary season, beginning June of this year

Yale Repertory Theatre and Yale School of Drama have announced the appointment of Susan R. Hood to the position of Press Director.

The complete schedule for Lincoln Center Festival 2007, which will run July 10-29 and include 93 performances and events by artists and ensembles from 14 countries, has been announced.

Theatre directors Mary Zimmerman, Adrian Noble, Richard Jones and John Doyle will be among those staging operas at the Met during the opera company's 2007-2008 season.

The characters and conventions of film noir get flamboyantly comical facelifts in Adrift in Macao, a new musical by Peter Melnick and Christopher Durang that, as presented by Primary Stages, will open at 59E59 Theaters on February 13th. Melnick has previously written musicals and has scored many films and TV shows, and Adrift in Macao is the talented composer's most high-profile project to date.

Stanford University and The Public Theater today announced a long-term, three-tiered partnership that will create new theatrical works, support emerging and established artists, cultivate new audiences, and foster innovation and diversity in the arts at Stanford and in the American theater industry.

Book of Longing, Swan Lake, and The Constant Wife, all part of this years Spoleto Festival in Charlston.

The 13th performance of High Fidelity, also being the press performance I attended, wound up being the show's final night on Broadway. A pity. I much prefer reviewing enjoyable musicals than eulogizing them.