Public's King Lear, with Kevin Kline, Moved to Spring '07
by BWW News Desk - Aug 21, 2006
The Public Theater's upcoming production of the classic Shakespeare tragedy King Lear--starring Kevin Kline as the proud monarch of the title--has been moved back from fall of 2007 to spring of 2007
Kevin Kline Replaces Walken in Public's Mother Courage
by BWW News Desk - Jul 13, 2006
The Public Theater has announced that Kevin Kline will replace Christpoher Walken as 'Cook' in the upcoming Shakespeare in the Park's production of Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
Leads Announced for 'Pirate Queen'; Plays Chicago in Oct.
by BWW News Desk - May 12, 2006
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.
Q&A with Composers & Lyricists Joe Drymala and Eric Svejcar
by Maya Cantu - Apr 23, 2006
Joe Drymala and Eric Svejcar aren't a songwriting team, but they have a few things in common besides the fact that they both write musicals. The songs of both men will be sung by performers such as Euan Morton, Robert Cuccioli, Tyler Maynard, Kate Wetherhead and Amanda Watkins on April 26th for their Stuck in the Zipper concert at the Zipper Theatre, and it's safe to say that both like to take risks with their shows...
FESTEN with Bryggman, Hayden, MacGraw and Margulies Begins Previews March 23 and Opens April 9 at Music Box Theatre
by BWW News Desk - Feb 9, 2006
Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.
Full Casting Announced for TARZAN, The Broadway Musical
by BWW News Desk - Dec 8, 2005
The production will star Josh Strickland as Tarzan, Jenn Gambatese as Jane, Merle Dandridge as Kala, Shuler Hensley as Kerchak, Chester Gregory II as Terk, Timothy Jerome as Professor Porter and Donnie Keshawarz as Clayton. Daniel Manche and Alex Rutherford will alternate in the role of Young Tarzan.
Mary Stuart Masterson Stars in The Scottish Play September 19 - November 2
by BWW News Desk - Sep 6, 2005
Red Bull Theater, Artistic Director Jesse Berger, the company that brought us the critical smash hit of Shakespeare's Pericles in 2003, announces their fall season with the return of Revelation Readings, a popular reading series exploring new plays of heightened language and neglected Jacobean plays.
Roundabout's A Touch of the Poet Announces Full Cast
by BWW News Desk - Aug 24, 2005
Starring Gabriel Byrne (Cornelius Melody) with Dearbhla Molloy (Nora Melody), Emily Bergl (Sara Melody), John Horton (Nicholas Gadsby), Byron Jennings (Jamie Cregan), Kathryn Meisle (Deborah), Randall Newsome (Paddy O'Dowd), Ciaran O'Reilly (Dan Roche) and
Daniel Stewart Sherman (Mickey Maloy).