Jeremy Jordan, Rashidra Scott, Rachel Potter et al. Set for Broadway Impact Concert, 8/29August 14, 2011On Monday August 29th, 2011, Jonathan Reid Gealt and Matt Hinkley team up to bring you an evening of songs to raise money for Broadway Impact. Founded by Rory O'Malley (Book of Mormon), Gavin Creel (Hair), and Jenny Kanelos, Broadway Impact is a grassroots organization of the Theatre community and it's fans, mobilizing in support of marriage equality.
Auditions 8/15 for the 2011 New Play Festival at Centre StageAugust 14, 2011Open auditions for the 2011 New Play Festival will be held tomorrow August 15 & Tuesday August16, at 7:00 pm at Centre Stage. This is an excellent opportunity for all, the experienced actor, the novice actor or someone who has never auditioned before to try their hand with a play in the making. A group of four plays will be performed at the festival, September 12th - 16th, readers theatre style, with the voted favorite receiving a staged production in January 2012. There are a variety of roles for men and women to be cast (breakdown below). Check it out! For more information call the theatre at 233-6733!
Jennifer Sheehan Debuts at Bob Egan's, 9/3August 14, 2011Jennifer Sheehan, winner of the Noël Coward Foundation Cabaret Award and the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Julie Wilson Award, brings her critically-acclaimed show, 'You Made Me Love You: Celebrating 100 Years of the Great American Songbook' to Bob Egan's in New Hope on Saturday September 3. Show time is at 8:30 pm. Tickets are $25.00
SWEENEY TODD's Sarah Rice Makes New Hope Debut, 9/2August 14, 2011Sarah Rice, who first received attention as Johanna in original Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim's multiple-award winning musical, 'Sweeney Todd,' brings her show 'Screen Gems' to Bob Egan's in New Hope, Friday, September 2. Show time is at 8:30 pm. Tickets are $30.00
SING! SING! SING! Presents 'The ABCs of Broadway,' 8/13August 14, 2011SING! SING! SING!, the Great American Songbook Sing-In, assembles some of the greatest Broadway songs from musicals titled A through C in THE ABCs OF BROADWAY! - and you're invited to sing along on Tuesday, August 16 (2011) at 7 p.m. at The Triad in New York City.
HABIT OF ART Opens at The Metheny Theatre, 9/7August 14, 2011The Studio Theatre follows up its 2008 hit production of The History Boys with Alan Bennett's next play, The Habit of Art. Deep in the bowels of London's National Theatre, rehearsals for a new play go apace: Benjamin Britten is having trouble with his latest opera and seeks out his collaborator, poet W. H. Auden, after a twenty-five year separation. Between visits by a rent boy and a biographer-whom Auden briefly mistakes for the rent boy-these aging artists wrestle with their desires, their jealousies, the ephemeral connection between creativity and inspiration, and all the reasons their friendship fell apart.
TWITTER WATCH: Alan Menken Wants SISTER ACT RecordingAugust 14, 2011BroadwayWorld.com presents Twitter Watch, which brings you only the best and most interesting reports straight from the mouths of Broadway stars, shows and more on the hot social networking service - Twitter!
DEAD GUY, THIS WONDERFUL LIFE, UNDERSTUDY et al. Set for Williamston Theatre SeasonAugust 14, 2011The Williamston Theater, mid-Michigan's award winning professional theatre company located at 122 S. Putnam in downtown Williamston, kicks off its 2011-2012 Season in September. This season will have two World Premieres along with some familiar faces in familiar roles. The season will include: The Dead Guy by Eric Coble, This Wonderful Life by Steve Murray, the World Premiere of Dead Man's Shoes by Michigan playwright Joseph Zettelmaier, the World Premiere of The Usual: A Musical Love Story by Alan Gordon and Mark Sutton-Smith, The Understudy by Theresa Rebeck and Red, White and Tuna by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard.
STAGE TUBE: Performance Highlights from Goodspeed's SAMANTHA BROWNAugust 14, 2011Fresh from their hit Broadway turns, Meghann Fahy (Next to Normal) and Andrew Durand (Spring Awakening) lead The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown. Talkin' Broadway calls the show's writing team of Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk 'the most important young writers in musical theatre today.' This original musical for Broadway's next generation will run through August 28, 2011 at The Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, Conn., Goodspeed's home for developing new works. Click below for performance highlights from the show!
Playwright Edward Albee Receives MacDowell Medal 8/14August 14, 2011The MacDowell Colony, one of the nation's leading artist residency programs, will present its 52nd Edward MacDowell Medal to renowned playwright Edward Albee on Sunday, August 14th. Since 1960, The MacDowell Medal has been awarded annually to an individual artist who has made an outstanding contribution to his/her field. The award is rotated among the seven artistic disciplines practiced at MacDowell; this will be the third time the Medal has been awarded to a playwright. Albee joins an impressive list of past Medal recipients, including playwrights Thornton Wilder (1960) and Lillian Hellman (1976), visual artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1972), composer Leonard Bernstein (1987), architect I.M. Pei (1998), filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1989), interdisciplinary artist Merce Cunningham (2003), and writer Alice Munro (2006).