Stephanie Berry News

Crossroads Theatre Company Presents The Genesis Festival of New Plays and Voices: March 27 - March 29 Friday March 27 at 8:00 pm: A Second Wind by Ben Bettenbender Directed by Marshall Jones, III Un Segundo Viento ... set in a central Jersey college town in 1982, the power of love for a young couple is tested when faced with a passionate sibling rivalry. The twenty-somethings must make choices about what, and whom, they are willing to fight for.

NEW PERSPECTIVES THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to present CYCLONE (AND THE PIG-FACED LADY), a new musical with book and lyrics by DANA LESLIE GOLDSTEIN, music by Rima Fand and direction by Elysa Marden, as part of the NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 2008. Tickets are $20.00 and can be purchased at www.nymf.org/Show-918.html. Performances run Tuesday, September 23rd at 8:00 pm, Wednesday, September 24th at 1:00 pm, Sunday, September 28th at 4:30 pm, Wednesday, October 1st at 8:00 pm, Friday, October 3rd at 4:30 pm, and Saturday, October 4th at 8:00 pm. TBG THEATER is located at 312 West 46th Street, just off 8th Avenue.

NEW PERSPECTIVES THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to present CYCLONE (AND THE PIG-FACED LADY), a new musical with book and lyrics by DANA LESLIE GOLDSTEIN, music by RIMA FAND and direction by ELYSA MARDEN, as part of the NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 2008.

Ensemble Studio Theatre proudly announces the World Premiere of On The Way to Timbuktu, a new play written by and starring Petronia Paley, directed by Talvin Wilks. Performances begin December 6 as a limited engagement through December 21 only. Ensemble Studio Theatre

Distracted, a world premiere play by Lisa Loomer, opened Sunday afternoon at the Mark Taper Forum in downtown Los Angeles. With Rita Wilson, wife of Tom Hanks, starring in the show, many Hollywood friends and turned out on the sunny afternoon for the play and after party, at the adjacent Dorothy Chandler Pavilion...

Upon first entering the Mark Taper Forum, distraction ensues with three large television screens barraging the theatre with television clips ranging from CNN to the 'Price is Right,' all hoping to establish the overwhelming drowning feeling created in a world full of immediate and all too accessible information coming from anywhere and everywhere...

Rita Wilson, Bronson Pinchot and Johanna Day will star in Lisa Loomer's Distracted, which will begin at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum on March 15th, open on March 25th and run through April 29th

The Arden Theatre Company's production of Sweeney Todd received the most Barrymore Awards, with Elegies: A Song Cycle, Take Me Out, Chasing Nicolette, The Lives of Bosie and more as other winners of the Philadelphia-area awards

The Arden Theatre Company's staging of Sweeney Todd earned the most Barrymore nominations this season; Bill Irwin and Bronson Pinchot are also nominees