Cutting Ball Theater Announces 2012-13 SeasonJune 8, 2012San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater today announced the lineup for its 13th season. The season opens in October with Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep, August Strindberg's Chamber Plays in new translations by Paul Walsh, directed by Cutting Ball Artistic Director Rob Melrose; this will be the first time all five of Strindberg's Chamber Plays will be performed together in repertory in any language.
DOMA Theatre Company Presents JEKYLL AND HYDE, 7/6-29June 8, 2012Caught between good and evil, one man must ultimately face the darkness that lurks within him. DOMA Theatre Company unleashes the third offering in an ambitious season of musicals with book/lyricist Leslie Bricusse and composer Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde, the Musical. The Tony-nominated Broadway sensation is set for a limited run, July 6-29, at the intimate MET Theatrein Hollywood with DOMA artistic director Marco Gomez at the helm,Angela Todaro choreographing, and musical direction by 21-year-old prodigy Chris Raymond, a protege of Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown.
STAGE TUBE: In Rehearsal for Irish Rep's OLIVER! With Brian Stokes Mitchell, Melissa Errico and More!June 8, 2012Off-Broadway's acclaimed Irish Repertory Theatre presents its 2012 Annual Benefit Gala, a concert performance on Broadway of Lionel Bart's OLIVER! - a glorious, Tony Award-winning musical adaptation of the classic Dickens tale of 1850's London in the time of the Industrial Revolution - on Monday, June 11 at The Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street) in Manhattan. Get a first look into rehearsal below!
LEAVING IKEA Opens 6/8 at the Brooklyn LyceumJune 8, 2012Brooklyn based theatre collective The Artful Conspirators present Leaving IKEA: a play in two cantos directed by David A. Miller. The play, written by Monica Flory and Dano Madden, will receive its World Premiere June 7 to 24, 2012 at the Brooklyn Lyceum.
The Barn Theatre Opens PAL JOEY, 6/19June 8, 2012Joey (Barn Theatre newcomer Joseph Anthony Byrd) has the voice of an angel, easy good looks, and a dangerous dream - to headline in his own nightclub. Joey intrigues virtually everyone he meets, but has some colossal character flaws to go with all those smooth moves.
Photo Flash: First Look - LCT3's SLOWGIRL!June 8, 2012The LCT3 production of Slowgirl, a new play by Greg Pierce, directed by Anne Kauffman and featuring Željko Ivanek and Sarah Steele will open on Monday, June 18 at 7 pm. This world premiere is the first production to be presented by LCT3 in its new home, The Claire Tow Theater, on the roof of Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street). View photos below!
Photo Flash: Westchester Broadway Theatre's GEORGE MJune 8, 2012EORGE M! tells the life story of George M. Cohan, a giant of the American Musical Theater who gave us such songs asYankee Doodle Dandy, Over There, You're A Grand Old Flag, and Give My Regards to Broadway. The show follows him over a 60-year period period from the late 1880s until 1937. The story begins with his childhood in Rhode Island on the vaudeville circuit with his parents and sister as 'The Four Cohans,' continuing to New York, where he starts his 25-year absolute reign of the Broadway stage.
A.C.T. to Host THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS Talkback, 6/18June 8, 2012American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) will welcome legendary Broadway songwriter and lyricist John Kander (Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman), five-time Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Contact) and book writer David Thompson (Steel Pier, Chicago) for a one-night only conversation with A.C.T. Artistic Director Carey Perloff on Monday, June 18, at 6:30 p.m.
Theater Talk Welcomes STREETCAR Cast and More This WeekendJune 8, 2012A Streetcar Named Desire stops at THEATER TALK for Tony Awards weekend, with stars Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker, joined by producer Stephen C. Byrd, discussing the historic Broadway production with series co-hosts Michael Riedel of the New York Post and executive producer Susan Haskins. Also on board in a separate interview is comedian-character actor-writer Rob Bartlett, most recently seen in the revival of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
MY GIRLFRIEND’S BOYFRIEND Postponed as Part of TBS Just for Laughs FestivalJune 8, 2012Unfortunately, TBS Just For Laughs has announced that the performances of Mike Birbiglia's critically acclaimed one-man-show, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, originally scheduled to take place June 12-16 at Victory Gardens Theatre as part of the TBS Just For Laughs Chicago festival, have been postponed due to technical production issues. TBS Just For Laughs will present the engagement at Victory Gardens Thursday - Monday, October 25-29, instead. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience.
The Bushnell Announces Tenth Annual Vocal Fellowship Concert, 6/17June 8, 2012The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts is has announced the tenth annual concert of the Ensign-Darling Vocal Fellowship will be held at The Bushnell's Belding Theater on Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. The performance is free and open to the public.