James T Harding - Page 24

Last night, the Paley Center celebrated Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award-winner Christopher Plummer's television work (including Hamlet at Elsinore, Little Moon of Alban, and The Thorn Birds). Plummer appeard at the event, moderated by David Edelstein (Film Critic, New York Magazine and CBS Sunday Morning). Check out the photos below!

The 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Programme will be available in the Fringe Shop, 180 High Street, Edinburgh from 10.00 on Thursday 31 May onwards, and in a variety of outlets from 15.00 on Thursday 31 May. The programme can also be viewed online as a PDF from the afternoon of 31 May at edfringe.com.

Pleasance London has announced the line up for its 2012 Edinburgh Preview Season. This year is bigger and better than ever featuring some of the freshest young talent alongside some of the most recognised names in theatre and comedy. Tickets are available from just £5.

A new cast has been announced for The Woman in Black, one of the most exciting, gripping and successful theatre events ever performed, now in its 23rd year in the West End in a production revisited by original director Robin Herford. Adam Best will play The Actor and Ken Drury will play Arthur Kipps from the 3rd of July, 2012.

It's here! Today, Cameron Mackintosh released the trailer for the upcoming movie of the long-running Broadway musical LES MISERABLES based on Victor Hugo's 19th-century French fable of social injustice. Check it out below - the trailer is dominated by Anne Hathoway's rendition of 'I Dreamed a Dream' from her role as Fantine.

A. D. Players has announced its 2012-2013 season, opening with the Houston professional premiere of Steven Dietz's award winning play, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, and followed by the Houston premiere of The First Church of Texaco by Andrew William Librizzi and the Southwest Premiere of Malcolm and Teresa by Cathal Gallagher. These productions are complemented by sequels to audience favorites, Sanders Family Christmas, written by Connie Ray and conceived by Alan Bailey with musical arrangements by John Foley and Gary Fagin, and Anne of Avonlea by Jeannette Carlisle.

Kids Week has revealed a record line-up of 38 shows offering free tickets and activities for children as part of the Kids Week initiative from 1 until 31 August 2012, in an announcement highly anticipated by children and families across London and the UK.

Almost 17,000 stadium seats go on sale today (30 May 2012) for the West End transfer of Chariots of Fire. Following its sell-out run at Hampstead Theatre, Edward Hall's production will open at the Gielgud Theatre on 23 June 2012 where it is currently booking to 10 November 2012. Inspired by Colin Welland's original screenplay, award-winning playwright Mike Bartlett's new adaptation is based on the true story of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams' inspirational tale of hope, honour and belief.

The Tell Theatre Company has announced they will present BUD, a bravura one-man comedy by acclaimed Cornish writer Nick Darke, from 17 June to 8 July, 2012, at the Kings Head Theatre, London. Directed by Penny Cliff, the production will star Neil Sheffield.

Oberon in association with the Ministry of Theater will present a pre-New York tryout of ROLLER DISCO THE MUSICAL!, an unautherized parody of the classic film Roller Boogie, from May 30 to August 30 at Oberon in Cambridge Massachusetts, with its world premiere opening night on June 13. With executive producer Pablo Rojas, Roller Disco aims to transfer to Off-Broadway in Spring 2013.

Lillian Hellman's riveting drama THE LITTLE FOXES is being presented by the Actors' NET of Bucks County; the show performs three weekends, June 8 to 24, at the Heritage Center in Morrisville, PA. Check out the publicity photos below!

A highlight of Lincoln Center Festival will be DruidMurphy, three plays (Conversations on a Homecoming, A Whistle in the Dark, and Famine) by Tom Murphy, staged by Garry Hynes for Druid Theatre Company from July 5-14 in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater. To complement these performances, Fordham University's Institute of Irish Studies, The Galway University Foundation, and the National University of Ireland, Galway will host an all-day symposium on July 12 from 1-6:30 PM at Keogh Studio Theater, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, 113 W. 60th Street at 9th Avenue.

Dixon Place will present the world premiere of Rachel Klein's Symphony of Shadows: A Tale from the Land Beyond the Veil from June 7-23 at Dixon Place, New York. This movement-based spectacular tells the story of a woman combating a variety of sleep disorders, phantasmagorical night terrors, hypnotic horrors & other visually stunning conjurings from the subconscious depths of her own disturbed mind. Symphony of Shadows merges striking elements of circus & aerial arts, dance & movement, burlesque & operatic productions to vividly illustrate its storyline in a genre-defying form which "evokes a live-action silent film." Symphony of Shadows was commissioned by Dixon Place as a world premiere as part of the theater's Monde Cane original works series.

On June 8, TheatreWorks New Milford proudly opens GOLDA'S BALCONY by William Gibson, the dynamic one-woman production centering on the first female prime minister of Israel. The curtain rises at 8:00 p.m. for a four-week run.

Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston has announced the full cast of A Chorus Line, the landmark Tony Award-winning musical which opens the company's 44th consecutive summer season. Starring Golden Globe nominee Lorenzo Lamas (The Bold and the Beautiful, Air America, Renegade, Falcon Crest) as Zach, A Chorus Line runs June 15-24 in the Robinson Theatre, 617 Lexington Street, Waltham.

Live from the red carpet, co-hosts Janice Zolf and Dan Chameroy bring you the opening night of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 60th season. Meet Festival favourites and special guests as they arrive to see the 2012 production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

After having appeared at ComedySportz (Hollywood), Actor's Circle Theatre (West Hollywood), Grand Central Art Center (Orange County) and its first staged reading out-of-state in Boise, Idaho, "Princes Don't Live in Cyberland" is heading back to Hollywood for one-night only at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Check out the trailer video below.

Thanks to funding from the Lincoln Financial Foundation, Pontine Theatre is bringing its original stage adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES to eight New Hampshire assisted living facilities.

Bill Kenwright and John Miller will present a strictly limited West End season of SOUL SISTER, the new musical inspired by the music, life and times of Ike and Tina Turner, which caused a sensation during its inception at the Hackney Empire. Featuring Emi Wokoma as 'Tina Turner' - who's vocal and dance talents have attracted huge critical and public acclaim since the production's launch - SOUL SISTER will play at the Savoy Theatre from 20 August - 29 September 2012, with opening night on 23 August at 7pm.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the award-winning worldwide smash hit Broadway musical, is returning to Washington, D.C. Produced by NETworks Presentations, this elaborate theatrical production will come to life on stage at the National Theatre for two weeks only, June 12 through June 24. Check out the trailer video featuring footage from the show.