Ted August News

Courthouse Center for the Arts Announces FAME -8/13-23. Join students as they go through 4 years of vigorous training at NY's prestigious Performing Arts High School. Tickets are $24 for Adults, $20 for Seniors/CCA Members, and $15 Students. Visit www.courthousearts.org or call (401) 782-1018 for more information or to purchase tickets.

The Utah Shakespearean Festival opens its 17th annual New American Playwrights Project (NAPP) on Thursday, August 13, featuring works by Jim Lord and Fred C. Adams of Cedar City, UT. Staged readings of Lord's 'Big Dance' and Adams' 'Nell Gwyn' will be performed in the Auditorium Theatre August 13-14, 20-21, and 25-28 at 10 a.m.

Courthouse Center for the Arts Announces FAME -8/13-23. Join students as they go through 4 years of vigorous training at NY's prestigious Performing Arts High School. Tickets are $24 for Adults, $20 for Seniors/CCA Members, and $15 Students. Visit www.courthousearts.org or call (401) 782-1018 for more information or to purchase tickets.

Courthouse Center for the Arts Announces FAME -8/13-23. Join students as they go through 4 years of vigorous training at NY's prestigious Performing Arts High School. Tickets are $24 for Adults, $20 for Seniors/CCA Members, and $15 Students. Visit www.courthousearts.org or call (401) 782-1018 for more information or to purchase tickets.

The Utah Shakespearean Festival opens its 17th annual New American Playwrights Project (NAPP) on Thursday, August 13, featuring works by Jim Lord and Fred C. Adams of Cedar City, UT. Staged readings of Lord's 'Big Dance' and Adams' 'Nell Gwyn' will be performed in the Auditorium Theatre August 13-14, 20-21, and 25-28 at 10 a.m.

To mark two decades at the creative helm of McCarter Theatre Center, Artistic Director Emily Mann has announced the 2009-2010 Theater Season, which will include the revival of an audience favorite, an eighteenth-century comic masterpiece, a knockout world premiere drama, a contemporary American classic, and a soaring new musical.

The Utah Shakespearean Festival opens its 17th annual New American Playwrights Project (NAPP) on Thursday, August 13, featuring works by Jim Lord and Fred C. Adams of Cedar City, UT. Staged readings of Lord's 'Big Dance' and Adams' 'Nell Gwyn' will be performed in the Auditorium Theatre August 13-14, 20-21, and 25-28 at 10 a.m.

Annex Theatre presents the world premiere of Penguins: Episode One, Heaven the Hard Way, the latest from prominent Seattle playwright Scot Augustson (Sgt. Rigsby & His Amazing Silhouettes, Plants and Animals). This dark and comic look at the dangerous underworld of priests versus nuns is part of Annex's Late Night Series, running August 8-28 at 10:30 pm.

Annex Theatre presents the world premiere of Penguins: Episode One, Heaven the Hard Way, the latest from prominent Seattle playwright Scot Augustson (Sgt. Rigsby & His Amazing Silhouettes, Plants and Animals). This dark and comic look at the dangerous underworld of priests versus nuns is part of Annex's Late Night Series, running August 8-28 at 10:30 pm.

To mark two decades at the creative helm of McCarter Theatre Center, Artistic Director Emily Mann has announced the 2009-2010 Theater Season, which will include the revival of an audience favorite, an eighteenth-century comic masterpiece, a knockout world premiere drama, a contemporary American classic, and a soaring new musical.

Flux Theatre Ensemble concludes its 2008 Season of Transformation with the world premiere of Johnna Adams' epic Angel Eaters Trilogy. The Trilogy follows three generations of a family cursed with the gift of raising people from the dead. The three plays of the Trilogy, Angel Eaters, Rattlers, and 8 Little Antichrists, will run in rep beginning November 3 at The Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher Street. The production will run through November 22. On Saturdays, intrepid audiences will be able to catch all three shows in chronological order.

The Canadian Stage Company opens its 2008/09 Bluma Appel Theatre season with Frost/Nixon, the 2007 Tony Award®-nominated play by Peter Morgan, award-winning author of The Last King of Scotland and The Queen. Tony Award®-winning stage and screen veteran Len Cariou (star of the original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd) plays the role of President Richard Nixon and is joined by David Storch (Canadian Stage's Lonesome West) as TV talk-show host David Frost. Three-time Dora Award-winner Ted Dykstra (Canadian Stage's Fire) directs. A co-production with Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, Frost/Nixon had its Canadian premiere September 18, 2008 in Vancouver. The production transfers to the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto October 13 to November 8, 2008.

Prospect Theater Company's 10th anniversary concert will be held Sept. 21 at Off-Broadway's 37 Arts. Falsettos' Stephen Bogardus will host the 9 PM concert, which will boast the talents of David Abeles, Jim Bauer, Jennifer Blood, Matt Cavenaugh, Gavin Creel, Jennifer Damiano, Malcolm Gets, Piper Goodeve, Adam Jacobs, Jose Llana, Jeff McCarthy, Meghan McGeary, Mark Mozingo, Brian Munn and Liz Power as well as members of the cast of the upcoming Prospect production of Illyria: Dan Sharkey, Ryan Dietz, Jim Poulos and Tina Stafford. 37 Arts is located in Manhattan at 450 West 37th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues. Tickets, priced $25, can be purchased by calling (212) 352-3101 or by visiting www.nymf.org.