Tom Sawyer News

Cabaret St. Louis proudly presents Linda Purl's cabaret show 'Come Rain or Come Shine' for the opening of their Fall 2010 Season. Ms. Purl performs September 8-11, 2010 at 8 pm the Kranzberg Arts Center - 501 North Grand.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced complete casting today for the concert version of Paul Simon's THE CAPEMAN, running August 14-16 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Ivan Hernandez completes the cast as Salvador Agrón. All performances for the three night concert version of THE CAPEMAN will be at 8 p.m. Free tickets will be distributed the day of the show.

The Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Theatre Company, Inc. production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince, returning to the Benedum Center, August 25-September 19, 2010, has announced casting for the production's farewell Pittsburgh engagement.

Michele Lee brought her acclaimed night club act Catch the Light to the California International Theatre Festival @ Founder's Hall in Calabasas for one night only Saturday July 24. Although suffering from a bout of laryngitis, Lee proved the consummate trouper, doing about half of her show and substituting a few other songs to suit the lower registers of her voice. Lending a helping hand was Festival Director actress/singer Linda Purl who sang 2 sets of tunes, thus giving Lee some rest time in the wings. Ah, the unpredictability of live theatre! Sometimes it's wondrous.

California International Theatre Festival 2010 season is presented by the City of Calabasas with Linda Purl as Festival Director, M. Edgar Rosenblum as Executive Director and Tammy Taylor as Festival Producer. The Festival will take place in several Calabasas locations and will include distinguished international productions.

A new developmental production of Platinum (www.PlatinumTheMusical.com) starring Tony Award nominee Liz Larsen (The Most Happy Fella, A New Brain) and Sarah Litzsinger (Beauty and the Beast, Amour) will be presented by UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. as part of the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced initial casting today for the concert version of Paul Simon's THE CAPEMAN, running August 14-16 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. All performances for the three night concert version of THE CAPEMAN will be at 8 p.m. Free tickets will be distributed the day of the show.

Geraldine Librandi (Pattie Leotardo in 'The Sopranos') and Reiko Aylesworth ('24' and 'Predator VS. Alien') will lead the cast of the edgy and poignant new play LOST AND FOUND as part of the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival.

The Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Theatre Company, Inc. production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince, has announced casting for its farewell engagement.

California International Theatre Festival 2010 season is presented by the City of Calabasas with Linda Purl as Festival Director, M. Edgar Rosenblum as Executive Director and Tammy Taylor as Festival Producer. The Festival will take place in several Calabasas locations and will include distinguished international productions.

Trevor Nunn will direct the first major London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Charles Hart's Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory, previewing from 07 July with press night on 15 July and running until 26 September. Designs are by David Farley with choreography by Lynne Page, lighting by Paul Pyant, musical supervision by Caroline Humphris, orchestrations by David Cullen and sound by Gareth Owen. Trevor Nunn previously directed the world premiere of Aspects of Love and returns to the piece to direct this new intimate version.

Geraldine Librandi (Pattie Leotardo in 'The Sopranos') and Reiko Aylesworth ('24' and 'Predator VS. Alien') will lead the cast of the edgy and poignant new play LOST AND FOUND as part of the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival.

Trevor Nunn will direct the first major London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Charles Hart's Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory, previewing from 07 July with press night on 15 July and running until 26 September. Designs are by David Farley with choreography by Lynne Page, lighting by Paul Pyant, musical supervision by Caroline Humphris, orchestrations by David Cullen and sound by Gareth Owen. Trevor Nunn previously directed the world premiere of Aspects of Love and returns to the piece to direct this new intimate version.

JOE MOORE and PAT SAJAK star in THE BOYS IN AUTUMN, Bernard Sabath's provocative Broadway play that depicts a reunion between two of the most beloved characters in American literature, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, 50 years after they parted ways as boyhood pals.

JOE MOORE and PAT SAJAK star in THE BOYS IN AUTUMN, Bernard Sabath's provocative Broadway play that depicts a reunion between two of the most beloved characters in American literature, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, 50 years after they parted ways as boyhood pals.

MAC Award nominated songwriter Drew Fornarola (COLLEGE The Musical) and Broadway's Marshall Pailet (writer - 'On a Glorious Day;' Fringe's upcoming JURASSIC PARQ: The Broadway Musical) team up to rock the Laurie Beechman Theatre on Wednesday, June 23 at 9:30pm, joined by some of Broadway's top young talent. Fornarola and Pailet will present selections from their shows, as well as debuting a set of songs from their first full-length collaboration, SUPER CLAUDIO BROS.: A Videogame Musical, which will have its world premiere this summer in Washington, DC (commissioned and produced by the New Musical Development Foundation, executive producer Charlie Fink). The evening will be directed by Scott Elmegreen with music direction by Zak Sandler.

Actress Kristen Bell is in talks to star with Drew Barrymore in the upcoming film 'Whales,' contactmusic.com reports. The film is based on a true story of a journalist and a charity worker who worked together to free whales trapped in Arctic ice, while dealing with tension between Russia and the United States. Bell would play the journalist, who relies on her looks to create a story.

Yale Rep's original musical, 'POP!' and Hartford Stage's production of Horton Foote's marathon 'The Orphans' Home Cycle' are big winners of the 20th annual Connecticut Critics Circle. Between them, Yale and Hartford took 11 awards out of a total of 19, with Yale pulling off a first-time feat of copping both outstanding play and musical.

The stage is set for a summer of adventures called the 'Classic Adventure Series' under an open-air tent theater in Waveny Park beginning June 12, from the Summer Theatre of New Canaan (STONC), a professional nonprofit theatre company.

People's Light & Theatre Company in Malvern launches its 2010-2011 Season with a mixture of action, comedy, and drama. A thread that runs through each of the plays this year is the concept of family: the family to which one is born, a family of co-workers and friends, or a family created through union with another.