Ricky Ian Gordon News

Virginia's Signature Theatre heats up during the dog days of summer with their annual Sizzlin' Summer Cabaret, a 3-week series featuring thirteen individual acts sure to keep things red hot.

According to Baz Bamingboye in his Daily Mail UK column, the Weinstein Company is planning a four-week workshop of the new musical, Finding Neverland, this fall in New York. The workshop, directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford is said to star Julian Ovenden as J.M. Barrie and Kelli O'Hara as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. Bamingboye writes that 'if it works - and Ovenden and O'Hara are available - the Weinsteins will launch a big production for Broadway.'

The American Theatre Wing today announced that applications are now being accepted for the 2012 Jonathan Larson® Grants. The grants, given annually to honor emerging composers, lyricists and book writers, help to continue Tony® Award-winning composer Jonathan Larson's dream of infusing musical theatre with a contemporary, joyful, urban vitality.

Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its 23rd Season with TRYST, Karoline Leach's romantic thriller about two lost souls and their secrets, set to begin previews on the company's Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage on July 1, prior to its official press opening July 7. Joe Brancato, whose Off-Broadway credits include COBB, directs.

Daniel Wolfsbauer Productions and The Open Acting Academy Hamburg-Wien are pleased to announce the US premiere of SURVIVING LOVE, written by Robert Chionis and directed by Stephan Perdekamp. In association with the Midtown International Theatre Festival, SURVIVING LOVE performs on: Wednesday, July 20 at 8:30 PM, Saturday, July 23 at 5:00 PM and Sunday, July 24 at 12:00 PM. Performances are at Main Stage Theatre (312 W. 36th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues. Via subway take the A, C, E, 2, 3 to 34th Street-Penn Station; and the B, D, F, M, N, Q, R to 34th Street-Herald Square.). The regular ticket price is $18 ($15 for students and seniors). For tickets, call Ovation Tix on 866-811-4111 or visit www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/834985. For more information, visit SURVIVING LOVE on Facebook at www.facebook.com/survivinglovenyc.

The Opera Theater of Pittsburgh's unique rendition of EURIDICE AND ORPHEUS ran June 9th through June 11th as an open-air production in Pittsburgh's famous Allegheny Cemetery. Featuring music and libretto by Ricky Ian Gordon (DREAM TRUE, THE GRAPES OF WRATH), the affecting opera marked the company's third collaboration to date with dance-oriented Attack Theatre.

The Glimmerglass Festival, the Central New York opera and musical theater summer festival, has announced its 2012 season.

Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its 23rd Season with TRYST, Karoline Leach's romantic thriller about two lost souls and their secrets, set to begin previews on the company's Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage on July 1, prior to its official press opening July 7. Joe Brancato, whose Off-Broadway credits include COBB, directs.

OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new online resource: the Career Guide for Opera.

Virginia's Signature Theatre heats up during the dog days of summer with their annual Sizzlin' Summer Cabaret, a 3-week series featuring thirteen individual acts sure to keep things red hot.

Virginia's Signature Theatre heats up during the dog days of summer with their annual Sizzlin' Summer Cabaret, a 3-week series featuring thirteen individual acts sure to keep things red hot. Headlining the talented array of solo artists assembled will be Tony Award® nominee Marc Kudisch (Broadway's 9 to 5, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, andThoroughly Modern Millie) with his What Makes Me Tick cabaret coming straight from Feinstein's. Broadway star Julia Murney (Elphaba in Wicked and a Drama Desk nominee for The Wild Party) will also be performing for two nights with her own mix of renowned stage songs.

Brooklyn's AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP), 'known for bringing cutting-edge vocal production to the masses,' (New York) will present The Voice of Brooklyn, its third annual free outdoor concert of new songs and old standards in Fort Greene Park in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.