Abingdon Theatre Company -- which has produced nearly 60 new American plays in its 16-year history -- launches its 2009-2010 Off-Broadway Season with the world premiere of INVENTING AVI, a new comedy by Robert Cary and Benjamin Feldman, set to begin previews on October 2 at the Abingdon Theatre Complex (312 West 36th Street).
Two-time Tony Award winners NATHAN LANE (The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and BEBE NEUWIRTH (Chicago, Sweet Charity) will star as Gomez and Morticia in THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams. Produced by Stuart Oken, Roy Furman, Michael Leavitt and Five Cent Productions, by special arrangement with Elephant Eye Theatrical, THE ADDAMS FAMILY will open on Broadway Thursday, April 8, 2010 at a Nederlander theatre to be announced. Previews will begin Thursday, March 4, 2010 following a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre in Chicago that begins November 13.
South Coast Repertory kicks off the 2008-09 Season with the World Premiere of its first commissioned musical: An Italian Straw Hat: A Vaudeville.
South Coast Repertory kicks off the 2008-09 Season with the World Premiere of its first commissioned musical: An Italian Straw Hat: A Vaudeville.
Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Artistic Director, Mark W. Jones-Executive Director) announces its mainstage production of Little Shop of Horrors, a musical written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. It's a musical comedy to die for - literally! The musical is based on Roger Corman's 1960 sci-fi comedy and includes several show-stopping numbers including 'Skid Row (Downtown),' 'Somewhere That's Green,' and 'Suddenly Seymour,' as well as the title song. Little Shop of Horrors will run at the Millburn theatre from June 4 through July 6, 2008.
Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, and Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) will present two of Broadway's most versatile performers, Sandy Duncan and Karen Ziemba, in a reading of the new comedy, The Real Tabasco, written by Deborah Grace Winer, formerly of Westport, on Monday, April 14, 7 p.m. The reading is part of the Playhouse's 'Funny Mondays' series, showcasing both new and classic comedies, followed by audience feedback, often with the playwright in attendance.
Abingdon Theatre Company will present Up Close & Personal on Monday, May 21, 2007 at 7:30 PM at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, June Havoc Theatre
Oscar-nominee Sigourney Weaver, who will next appear Off-Broadway in A.R. Gurney's Crazy Mary at Playwrights Horizons, will star as Gypsy Rose Lee in the upcoming HBO film 'Gypsy and Me'
Grey Gardens star and Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole will appear on CBS's national edition of 'The Early Show' this Saturday morning, February 17.
'The View' will welcome award-winning Grey Gardens star Christine Ebersole as a guest-host on Friday, February 9th.
Beginning Tuesday, October 3rd, Chris Hoch will joust across the Shubert Theatre stage as Spamalot's Sir Lancelot.
The Laurie Beechman Theatre, located within The West Bank Café (407 West 42nd St.), is pleased to continue THE AFTER PARTY, an informal social gathering for the theatrically inclined.
Christine Ebersole, who walked off with a slew of awards and rave reviews for her performance in Grey Gardens, will perform on Monday, September 18, in a one-night-only concert to benefit The Actors' Fund of America at New World Stages
Tony Award-winning Grey Gardens star Christine Ebersole will treat fans to a September 18th concert to benefit the Actors' Fund of America
Kevin Chamberlin will succeed P.J. Benjamin as Amos Hart in the Broadway company of Chicago on June 12th
Tap dance legend Fayard Nicholas, one half of the Nicholas Brothers, has passed away at the age of 91
Debra Monk, Karen Ziemba and Edward Hibbert will join David Hyde Pierce in the pre-Broadway world premiere of Kander and Ebb's Curtains at the Ahmanson Theatre in LA this summer
STEEL MAGNOLIAS, the play by Robert Harling, will open Monday, April 4, 2005 at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street, east of Broadway). The production, directed by Jason Moore (Avenue Q), begins previews on March 15, 2005.
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