Rent Tour 2005 - Articles Page 21

VITAL THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce the first production if its 2005-2006 season. 'REBOUND & GAGGED,' by AARON GINSBURG and featuring JASON GILBERT, MATT HOBBY, NIA McGOVERN, JEFF MEACHAM, and SARAH BETH-LEE WILLIAMS.

Rob Evan has been cast as King Solomon in the musical Sheba, which will receive staged readings by the Amas Six O'Clock Musical Theatre Lab as part of the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival

Eden Espinosa,Bernadette Peters, Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam Guettel, Cheyenne Jackson, Judy Kuhn, Terrence Mann, Phyllis Newman, Elizabeth Parkinson, Phylicia Rashad, Keith Roberts, Jai Rodriguez, Brooke Shields, Daniel Sunjata and the casts of Avenue Q and Rent have joined the line-up.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz and Executive Director Steve Asher) have announced the 2005-06 season, which will include two plays by José Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries).

Sony Pictures Digital has created the first ever mobile charity donation program based on the upcoming release of Revolution Studios film RENT!

She's appeared on Broadway in Forum, Les Miserables, Good Vibrations and Little Shop of Horrors, starring alongside a wide range of performers from Colm Wilkinson, to Nathan Lane, Whoopi Goldberg and Joey Fatone. In the Summer of 2005 though, Jessica-Snow Wilson is playing to smaller audiences, having just finished in the Fringe Festival, and next up - NERDS in NYMF.

The pair will co-host the 14th annual BROADWAY ON BROADWAY, a free outdoor concert in Times Square on Sunday, September 18 at 11:30am. Performances are expected from All Shook Up, Avenue Q, Beauty and the Beast, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hairspray, Lennon, The Light in the Piazza, The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, The Producers, Rent, Sweet Charity, Sweeney Todd, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Wicked. New shows The Color Purple, Souvenir and In My Life will perform as well.

The star of HBO's 'Six Feet Under' will perform with the Roundabout Theatre Company in November.

In what has been a first for The Provincetown Theater, tickets for all four Idina Menzel performances from August 20 - 23, 2005 sold in record time.

Cast members from the upcoming film version of Rent as well as Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell will appear at Bryant Park during a number of dance and theatre celebrations from July 25th to August 7th

The Actors' Fund's Auction of 1000 Stars 2005 has started, and a number of benefit performances are still lined up for the rest of the summer, as well

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) will present the New York Premiere of Noah Haidle's play Mr. Marmalade, directed by Michael Greif at the Laura Pels Theatre (Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre; 111 West 46th Street).

Two new plays and a musical will be part of Playwrights Horizons' exciting 2005-2006 season, of which 3 other plays have already been announced

Seth Rudetsky, Michael Riedel, Jeffrey Seller and Jeff Whitty will sit down for a Tony Talk at Ars Nova, tonight, June 1st

After nine years, Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical 'Rent' is going to the silver screen and only 'Access Hollywood' co-host Billy Bush is on the set.

Rent celebrates its ninth anniversary at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre on Friday, April 29.

NEIL BERG presents his ALL NEW tribute to the Great White Way, 100 YEARS OF BROADWAY, at the newly renovated 800-seat Tarrytown Music Hall on Saturday, May 21, 2005, at 8PM.

One performance only at The Zipper Theatre on Monday, April 11, 2005 at 8pm.

MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce four of the productions for its 2005-2006 season, including two shows on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and two productions at MTC's Off-Broadway theatres at NY City Center (55th Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues).

A former 9-5 business employee embarks on a career in theatre...and learns quite a lot about himself along the way.

Please join Matt and Ryan as they play originals and covers and blow the buckle off The Belt!

For the third consecutive year, the League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc., has awarded New York Education Grants to Broadway-related audience development programs with schools, community outreach, and other social organizations.

Winners of the 2005 Richard Rodgers Awards competition for musical theatre were announced by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.