The musical comedy takes place in turn-of-the-century Paris, where La Mome Pistache, proud owner of the Bal du Paradis, famous for its sexy can-can girls, spars with Aristide Forestier, a self-righteous judge determined to close all Parisian dance halls.
BroadwayWorld.com's New and Updated Who's Who Entries for the Week of 2/11/2007. Updates include:
Andrew Bryan, Bruce Dow, Amanda Flynn, Elliot Joseph, Norman Kern, Elaine J McCarthy, Elli, John Moses, Scott Nevins, Dave Pierce, Kate Swan, Max von Essen, Jason Watson, Sharon Wheatley.
La Jolla Playhouse Artistic Director Des McAnuff is proud to announce the complete line-up of shows in the compelling 2007/2008 season.
Edge Theater artistic director Carolyn Cantor and producer David Korins have announced that Bingo Night 2007, a benefit for the theater company, will take place Monday, February 12 at 8pm at Epiphany Church, Second Avenue at 22 Street. This year's celebrity Bingo callers include Patricia Clarkson and Will Forte.
BroadwayWorld.com's New and Updated Who's Who Entries for the Week of 2/4/2007. Updates include:
Hannah DelMonte, Natalie Douglas, Elliot Joseph, Ron Melrose, Scott Nevins, Dave Pierce, Andrea Ross, Toni Stanton, Melissa Strom, Julius Thomas III, Sal Viviano, Max von Essen, Anthony Wayne, Bill Weeden, Sharon Wheatley.
This week's Nightlife Awards ceremony at Town Hall was a plethora of the top talent the city has to offer
Celebrating its unparalleled catalogue of classic musical theater recordings, Masterworks Broadway recently released Legends of Broadway - a new series of CDs highlighting the careers of four of Broadway's greatest stars in their signature roles. Beginning January 31, you can hear these legendary ladies - Barbara Cook, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters and Chita Rivera - talk about their most beloved performances in four free podcasts, available through iTunes.com and MasterworksBroadway.com.
BroadwayWorld.com's New and Updated Who's Who Entries for the Week of 1/28/2007. Updates include:
Matt Bailey, Donald Brenner, Casey Clark, John Treacy Egan, Connor Gallagher, Kate Erin Gibson, Larry Hamilton, Jeffrey Landman, Constantine Maroulis, Nina Negri, Andrea Ross, Melissa Strom, Marty Thomas, Julius Thomas III, Max von Essen, Anthony Wayne, Bill Weeden, David Weitzer.
BWW Discounts! New theatre offers all-girl Shakespeare! BPF offers free staged reading! Best bet! New shows at CenterStage, FPCT! Plus news of Wicked in Baltimore!
BroadwayWorld.com's New and Updated Who's Who Entries for the Week of 1/21/2007. Updates include:
Michael Barra, Jen Bender, Larry Blank, Mark Bramble, George Costacos, Connor Gallagher, Kate Erin Gibson, Larry Hamilton, Kristin Huxhold, Jeffrey Landman, Ann Mandrella, Constantine Maroulis, Katie Micha, Nina Negri, Steve Orich, Mindy Reid, Rusty Ross, Molly Ryan, Shayna Steele, Max von Essen, Emma Wahl, Bill Weeden, Rachel York.
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Primary Stages will present the New York premiere of Adrift in Macao, a new musical with book and lyrics by Christopher Durang and music by Peter Melnick. Adrift in Macao begins performances Tuesday evening, January 23, 2007 for a limited engagement through Sunday afternoon, March 4, 2007 at 59E59 Theaters
The American Musicals Project has announced its AMP Concert Series 2007, 'The Art of the Musical,' which will include a performance by Isabella Rossellini as legendary German actress and singer Lotte Lenya
A new Best Bet! News of CenterStage youth programs, new shows and a 2006 recap!
BroadwayWorld.com's New and Updated Who's Who Entries for the Week of 1/14/2007. Updates include:
Michael Barra, Larry Blank, Tituss Burgess, Jennifer Cody, George Costacos, Katrina Rose Dideriksen, Kurt Domoney, Harris Doran, Matthew Gumley, Elliot Joseph, Matthew Kilgore, Yvette Lawrence, Ann Mandrella, Constantine Maroulis, Trista Moldovan, Eric Nelsen, Steve Orich, Mindy Reid, Ben Rimalower, Jeff Rizzo, Michael Rupert, Molly Ryan, Steven Silverstein, Shayna Steele, Max von Essen, Emma Wahl, Jason Watson, Jason Wooten, Steven Yuhasz.
CanStage presents Necessary Angel's production of HALF LIFE, written by John Mighton and directed by Daniel Brooks. Limited engagement through February 3rd at the Bluma Appel Theatre.
Toronto, ON...Prize-winning Canadian playwright John Mighton's latest play Half Life premiered to rave reviews in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Scotland. It has been showered with accolades including the Governor General's Award for Drama and a Dora Award for Outstanding New Play.
'CanStage is thrilled to be presenting this beautiful play on the large Bluma Appel Theatre stage, giving a bigger and more broadly-based audience an opportunity to experience this exciting new Canadian work,' enthused CanStage Artistic Producer Martin Bragg.
The Necessary Angel production of Half Life will subsequently travel across Canada and be presented in Winnipeg at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in February 2007, and Vancouver at the Arts Club Theatre in March 2007. It is scheduled to be part of the Melbourne Theatre Festival in Australia in October 2007.
Directed by Daniel Brooks, the cast of Half Life features the original cast of Laura de Carteret as Anna, Barbara Gordon (CanStage's Homechild) as Agnes, Carolyn Hetherington (CanStage's Written on Water) as Clara, Maggie Huculak (CanStage's A Midsummer Night's Dream) as Tammy, Randy Hughson (CanStage's Homechild) as Reverend, Diego Matamoros as Donald and Eric Peterson (CanStage's Homechild) as Patrick.
Joining Mr. Brooks is a creative team that includes set and costume designer Dany Lyne (CanStage's Hair), lighting designer Andrea Lundy (CanStage's The Comedy of Errors), sound designer Richard Feren, stage manager Crystal Salverda and assistant stage manager Kate Porter.
Clara and Patrick meet in a nursing home for veterans and their families. They begin to fall in love, thinking they are rekindling an old flame. Have they met before? As Clara and Patrick's middle-aged children watch their faltering parents, the older couple rediscovers beauty and love in the twilight of their lives. Half Life is a poetic and moving meditation on identity, aging and the nature of memory.
John Mighton's plays Scientific Americans, Possible Worlds, A Short History of Night, Body and Soul, The Little Years and Half Life have been performed across Canada, as well as in Europe, Japan and the United States and have won several national awards including a Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for Possible Worlds, A Short History of Night and Half Life. Possible Worlds was made into a full-length feature film directed by renowned director/playwright Robert Lepage. In 2005 Mr. Mighton was awarded the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre for his body of work. Mr. Mighton holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto. For the past eight years he has coordinated the highly acclaimed JUMP program, designed to tutor children who are having difficulties in math.
Daniel Brooks is a prolific and versatile artist whose innovation and risk-taking have made him a leader within the Canadian cultural landscape. A director, writer, actor and teacher, Mr. Brooks has been recognized with accolades and awards throughout Canada and around the world. A tremendous mentor and inspiration to an entire generation of theatre artists, Mr. Brooks was the recipient of the inaugural Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. Some of his creations include Red Tape and 86; An Autopsy (with Don McKellar and Tracy Wright); The Lorca Play, House, Here Lies Henry, Monster and Cul de sac (all with Daniel MacIvor); The Noam Chomsky Lectures and Insomnia (with Guillermo Verdecchia), Bigger Than Jesus (with Rick Miller) and The Good Life. His work as a director includes John Mighton's Possible Worlds and Half Life, Goethe's Faust, and Beckett's Endgame. His most recent play is The Eco Show. He is currently the artistic director of Necessary Angel Theatre Company.
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PREVIEWS: January 8-10, 2007
OPENS: January 11-February 3, 2007
SCHEDULE: Monday-Saturday 8:00 p.m., Wednesday matinee 1:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee 2:00 p.m.
TICKETS: $20-$95
LOCATION: CanStage - Bluma Appel Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts,
27 Front St. E.
BOX OFFICE: Tickets are available in person at the CanStage Customer Service Centres, 26 Berkeley St. or 27 Front St. E., by telephone at CanStage 416-368-3110 and Ticketmaster at 416-872-1111, and online at www.canstage.com
Rush seats are available for any performance one hour prior to show time. Rush seats are half the regular ticket price. For Monday nigh performances only, pay-what-you-can tickets are available in person at the CanStage Box Office beginning at 10:00 a.m. on the day of the performance.
Special Group Rates available. For details call Heather Burns at
416-367-8243 ext. 266.
Other activities to enhance your theatre-going experience:
CanStage Tea Talks and Talk Backs - These informal post-performance question and answer periods give you an opportunity to meet the artists immediately following a production. Contact Patty Jarvis at 416-367-8243 ext. 245 for details
The award-winning Beatles concert, RAIN - The Beatles Experience is adding four more performances to the Toronto engagement, now running January 18 - 21 and 25 - 28, 2007 at The Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts!
The most honored show in Broadway history, the MEL BROOKS musical comedy THE PRODUCERS, at Paris Las Vegas announces today that during previews, locals can purchase tickets for $60 (including taxes and service charges) with valid Nevada ID. Previews begin January 31, 2007 and run for one week.
The Board of Directors and the Executive Director/ Producer of The ColumnTheatre Awards have announced that film and stage star Christian Campbell, Tony Award-nominee Stephanie D'Abruzzo, and theatre veteran and 'Ugly Betty' star Michael Urie will appear at the 2007 Column Awards Gala on Monday February 26th, 2007
New Discount! A new audition notice! Two new theatres! A new Best Bet!
BroadwayWorld.com's New and Updated Who's Who Entries for the Week of 1/7/2007. Updates include:
Ben Rimalower, Jennifer Cody, Matthew Kilgore, Kurt Domoney, Harris Doran, Jeff Rizzo, Jonathan B. Wright, Ann Mandrella, Liz Donathan, Katherine Von Till, Constantine Maroulis, Justin Boccitto, Erika Amato, Raymond J. Lee, Michael Gruber, Jim Coleman, Anthony Wayne, Shayna Steele, Emma Wahl, John Selya, William Ryall, Keith Roberts, Elizabeth Parkinson, Katie Micha, Charles Leipart, Marty Lawson, Andrew Keister, Shoshana Bean, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Rob Bartlett.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), an annual three-week event created in 2004 to smash the developmental glass ceiling and highlight the vibrant community of writers and artists working in musical theatre today, will be accepting open submissions from January 1 through March 1 for its fourth season. This year's festival will run from September 17 through October 7, 2007.
Chicago ticket winners announced! Your letters answered! Coming Soon to Baltimore.BroadwayWorld.com!
The fifth annual Nightlife Awards will be held January 29th at New York's Town Hall.
On the heels of its production of Goethe's Faust, Target Margin Theater, Off Off Broadway's Obie Award-winning company, is going Greek for the upcoming 2006-2007 Season. Artistic Director David Herskovits has announced three new productions that explore our relationship to ancient Greek literature.
Bernstein and Sondheim, Shaffer and Chekhov will be part of Barrington Stage Company's 2007 summer Mainstage season, which will be presented in the company's fully renovated theatre at 30 Union Street in Pittsfield
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