ONE OF THE MOST UPROARIOUSLY FUNNY MUSICALS IN YEARS, URINETOWN IS A HILARIOUS TALE OF GREED, CORRUPTION, LOVE, AND REVOLUTION IN A TIME WHEN WATER IS WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD. IN A GOTHAM-LIKE CITY, A TERRIBLE WATER SHORTAGE, CAUSED BY A 20-YEAR DROUGHT, HAS LED TO A GOVERNMENT-ENFORCED BAN ON PRIVATE TOILETS. WITH A WINK TO ITS OLD “UNISEX” BATHROOMS, CIRCLE CAN’T HELP BUT RELISH THIS EDGY MUSICAL TREAT.
In this edition: Local audiences treated to a variety of great theatre – Shakespeare in Ellicott City, Gay Boys in Mt. Vernon (Surprise!), Flappers in Columbia, 80’s Teens in Baltimore! Plus acclaimed runs end this week at Fell’s Point Corner Theatre and CenterStage and classics continue at Everyman and Vagabonds! Plus new Broadway reviews added to list.
Sigourney Weaver will return to the stage in Crazy Mary, a world premiere play by A.R. Gurney that will be presented at the Playwrights Horizons Mainstage in May of 2007
Greg Kotis' Pig Farm, presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company, will begin previews on Friday, June 9th and officially open on Tuesday, June 27th at Off-Broadway's Laura Pels Theatre
Kate Shindle, Rachel deBenedet and more will star in Lover, Liar, Lady...the women of kander and ebb in Stamford, TC on June 5th
Inside this edition: Kids free for Shakespeare in the park! New shows at Spotlighters and Vagabond Players! Acclaimed runs continue at Mobtown and Fell’s Point Corner Theatre! Stage Management Workshop offered! New York reviews for Baltimore audiences!
Inside this edition: A contest reminder! Mobtown extends 'Van Gogh'! Readers' reviews and comments! Shakespeare in the park! New York reviews for Baltimore audiences! Plus: What's playing in Charm City!
Ghostlight Records will release a cast recording of White Christmas--featuring Brian D'Arcy James, Anastasia Barzee, Jeffry Denman and Meredith Patterson--in fall of 2006
The cast of the upcoming Greg Kotis play Pig Farm--Denis O'Hare, Katie Finneran, Logan Marshall-Green and John Ellison Conlee--as well as Kotis and director John Rando gathered to meet the press and pose for photos on May 12th
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.
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Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents John Ellison Conlee, Katie Finneran, Logan Marshall-Green and Denis O'Hare in the co-world premiere (in collaboration with the Old Globe, San Diego, CA) of Greg Kotis's new comedy Pig Farm, directed by John Rando.
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The Helen Hayes Awards honor achievement, celebrate, and promote the Washington D.C. professional theatre.
PS Classics, the nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of American musical theatre, will release the world premiere recording of Ricky Ian Gordon and Tina Landau's Dream True on May 23
James Badge Dale ('24'), Emmy and Golden Globe Nominee Wendie Malick ('Just Shoot Me'), Mark Moses ('Desperate Housewives') and Ashley Williams ('Huff,' 'Good Morning Miami') will star in the U.S. premiere of BURLEIGH GRIME$.
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Nancy Opel and Bryan Batt are among the stars of John Epperson's--a.k.a Lypsinka's--new play My Deah, running April 21st through May 7th
This summer, two-time Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominee Wendie Malick (NBC's 'Just Shoot Me') returns to the New York stage in BURLEIGH GRIME$, a new comedy by Roger Kirby, opening Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at New World Stages.
10 DAYS ON EARTH is the latest piece from Ronnie Burkett's Theatre or Marionettes.
Pit Bull Theatre Productions will present a one-night only reading of Kander and Ebb’s Flora, The Red Menace Sunday, March 26, 2006 at 7pm.
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The Pajama Game opened on February 23, 2006 and BroadwayWorld was there to capture all the festivities of the opening night party!
The 2006-2007 season of The Roundabout Theatre Company has been announced, with Audra McDonald to star as Lizzie Curry in the theatre's revival of the musical 110 in the Shade
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