STAGE TUBE: First Look - The 'GODSPELL Cast of 2032' in Performance!May 23, 2012Following an afternoon of open-call auditions for kids last month in which more than 500 kids (ages six to 16) were seen, the creative and producing team of GODSPELL selected five boys and five girls (plus one 'swing') to perform a special encore number at the curtain call on Tuesday, May 22. View the performance below!
Bay City Players Stages of Discovery Announces Summer WorkshopsMay 23, 2012In July and August, Bay City Players Stages of Discovery will hold a series of workshops focusing on some of the performance and technical aspects of theatre. Students will participate in activities that help to develop skills in theatre arts.
Theater Wit Extends TIGERS BE STILL Through 6/16May 23, 2012Theater Wit has announced a two-week extension of Tigers Be Still, described as 'a savagely funny dark comedy about a 20-something woman who stops being a total disaster and gets her life back on track.'
SummerNights Concert Series at The Jewish Museum Begins 7/12May 23, 2012The Jewish Museum's SummerNights program returns, presenting live world music in a concert setting on three Thursdays in July. Each concert begins at 7:30 pm. Howard Fishman and Band kick off SummerNights on July 12 with a blend of jazz, soul, country, blues, gospel and experimental music.
Telluride Blues & Brews Festival's Music Lineup AnnouncedMay 23, 2012The 19th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival featuring Phil Lesh & Friends, Gov't Mule, and The B-52s announced recently added musical guests Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Little Feat, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Anders Osborne, Heartless Bastards, Phil Wiggins & Rev. John Wilkins, Orgone, Kelley Hunt, Pickwick, Monophonics, and Big Jim Adam & John Stilwagen to the festival lineup. Previously released acts will include peformances by The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, MarchFourth Marching Band, Tab Benoit, Little Hurricane and The Lee Boys.
STREEP TEASE to Play the Outlaugh Comedy Festival, Opening 6/15May 23, 2012Streep Tease: An Evening of Meryl Streep Monologues performed by an All-Male Cast returns to LA for a limited engagement headlining the Outlaugh Comedy Festival (taking place within the Hollywood Fringe Fest), opening June 15 at Theatre Asylum, it was announced today by the show's Creator and Co-Executive Producer Roy Cruz.
MCC Theater to Present Benefit Performances of THE HEART OF THE MATTER, 6/13-16; Krysten Ritter HeadlinesMay 23, 2012MCC Theater today announced they will present Playwright-in-Residence Neil LaBute's 'shorts' series, The Heart of the Matter, for four special benefit performances that will take place June 13, 14, 15 and 16, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC). The staged reading will feature actor Krysten Ritter (ABC's "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23," AMC's "Breaking Bad"), with additional cast members to be announced shortly. Carolyn Cantor, who recently directed Regrets at Manhattan Theatre Club and MCC's production of LaBute's In a Dark Dark House, will direct. Proceeds will support MCC Theater's Playwrights' Coalition program, free PlayLab reading series and literary development activities.
THE BOOK OF MORMON's Limited Engagement in LA Set to Begin Public Ticket Sales 6/10May 23, 2012As previously announced, THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine 2011 Tony Awards including Best Musical, will make its West Coast premiere in a strictly limited 12-week engagement from September 5 through November 25, 2012 at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. Tickets for the engagement will go on sale to the general public June 10, the LA Times reports today.
2012 Tony Awards Will Host Times Square Visitor Center ShowcaseMay 23, 2012The Tony Awards will host the second annual Tony Awards Showcase at the Times Square Museum and Visitor Center (located on Seventh Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets). The Tony Awards Showcase will run from today through the Tony Awards on Sunday, June 10th. Admission to the 2012 Tony Showcase is free to the public.