Richard Alfieri News

For the fifth production in their 39th annual season, Cortland Repertory Theatre will present the Central New York premiere of the modern comedy/drama 'Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks' by Richard Alfieri.

SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS is a comedy by Richard Alfieri August 18 - 28. Making its Central NY debut!

The Vagabond Players, America's Oldest Little Theatre, announced the lineup for its 95th season. The shows are certainly not to miss and the theatre is one rich with history. Some of the shows include Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Death of a Salesman, and Six Degrees of Separation.

For the fifth production in their 39th annual season, Cortland Repertory Theatre will present the Central New York premiere of the modern comedy/drama 'Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks' by Richard Alfieri.

David Hirson was born in New York City and was educated at Yale and Oxford. He is the author of two plays for the theatre, La Bête (1991) and Wrong Mountain (2000), both of which have been produced on Broadway. He has received numerous honours for his work, including the 1992 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy. The original Broadway production of La Bête was nominated for five Tony awards in 1991. A collected edition of his plays is published by Grove Press. He is currently working on a new version of Die Fledermaus for the Metropolitan Opera.

The Daily Mail is reporting that actor David Hyde Pierce will team up with British actress and comic Joanna Lumley for a revival of David Hirson's comedy drama 'La Bete'. Joining the duo will be Mark Rylance, currently starring in Jerusalem at the Apollo.

First-year Festival Director John Cooper has dubbed the 2010 Sundance Festival a reboot, calling for a return to the Festivals rebellious roots.

Timed to coincide with the launching of a newly designed website at www.cortlandrep.org, Cortland Repertory Theatre is announcing their 39th season for the summer of 2010.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will conclude its star-studded Fall 2009 season with the first joint engagement of the club's founder MICHAEL FEINSTEIN and Emmy and Tony Award winning Broadway and TV star DAVID HYDE PIERCE from December 1 - 30

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will conclude its star-studded Fall 2009 season with the first joint engagement of the club's founder MICHAEL FEINSTEIN and Emmy and Tony Award winning Broadway and TV star DAVID HYDE PIERCE from December 1 - 30

The Falcon Theatre and Arthur Murray Dance Studios of Sherman Oaks team up to help theatre patrons dance like the stars. An hour prior to the Thursday performances of Richard Alfieri's Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, the second production in the Falcon Theatre's 2008-2009 'Bringin' the FUNNY' All-Comedy subscription season, Arthur Murray Sherman Oaks will be providing free dance lessons in the Falcon Theatre lobby.

The Falcon Theatre and Arthur Murray Dance Studios of Sherman Oaks team up to help theatre patrons dance like the stars. An hour prior to the Thursday performances of Richard Alfieri's Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, the second production in the Falcon Theatre's 2008-2009 'Bringin' the FUNNY' All-Comedy subscription season, Arthur Murray Sherman Oaks will be providing free dance lessons in the Falcon Theatre lobby.

The Falcon Theatre presents Richard Alfieri's Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, the second production in its 2008-2009 'Bringin' the FUNNY' All-Comedy subscription season. Constance Towers, star of Broadway and the popular soap opera General Hospital, and Jason Graae, award-winning musical theater and TV actor, star in this revival of the Broadway and international hit play, directed again by Arthur Allan Seidelman and choreographed by Kay Cole.

Claire Bloom and Billy Zane will co-star in an upcoming West End production of Richard Alfieri's play Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks