Sean Mackey News

AWA Partners has just announced that they are joining forces with OBB/Off Broadway Booking to expand operations as a full-service agency. The new company will operate under the banner of AWA Partners and provide tour direction and booking for attractions spanning from multi-week national tours to single night performances, domestically and internationally, and in venues ranging from performing arts centers of all sizes to arenas and clubs. Partners in the newly expanded company will be L. Glenn Poppleton, Alison Spiriti and Orin Wolf. L. Glenn Poppleton will serve as president of the agency. Alan Wasser and Allan Williams will continue as founding partners in the company.

Alan Wasser, Allan Williams, and Alison Spiriti are pleased to announce that L. Glenn Poppleton and AVID Touring have joined forces with AWA Touring to create a new full-service Booking Agency called AWA Partners.

The cast and production team of the new off-Broadway show, 'The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero,' celebrated their Opening Night with a party at Borgo Antico on Sunday, June 17.

JOY, the new romantic comedy by John Fisher, will play its final performance at Off-Broadway's Actors' Playhouse (100 Seventh Ave. South) on Sunday, September 25, 2005.

JOY, John Fisher's gay/lesbian romantic comedy, will open at the Actors' Playhouse on August 14th

Previews begin on Sunday, July 31 for JOY, a new romantic comedy that follows a group of college friends as they fall in and out of love in San Francisco over the course of a year.

The cast of 'JOY' features Becca Ayers (Sarah, Plan and Tall) as Elsa, Ben Curtis (of 'Dude, you're gettin' a Dell' fame) as Christian, Harris Doran (Actors' Fund Hair) as Paul, Gavin Esham (Naked Boys Singing) as Corey, Natalie Joy Johnson (Bare: a pop opera) as Kegan, Brian Patacca (The Donkey Show) as Matt/Adam, Christopher Sloan (Insomnia) as Gabriel and Sheridan Wright (The Producers) as Darryl. Gregory Marcel (Funeral Games) serves as the male swing.