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Photos: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Cast Signs Albums at Barnes & Noble
by Nicole Rosky - Aug 28, 2024

Just yesterday, New York's Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue hosted a CD signing for the Water for Elephants: Original Broadway Cast Recording. Check out photos here!

Grant Gustin & More to Join WATER FOR ELEPHANTS CD Signing at Barnes & Noble
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 26, 2024

New York's Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue will host a CD signing for the Water for Elephants: Original Broadway Cast Recording. Learn how to attend.

Wake Up With BroadwayWorld August 19, 2024
by - Aug 19, 2024

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is August 19, 2024 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend.

Notes on a Score: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS
by Joey Mervis - Aug 18, 2024

We continue the series with the three of the seven composers of Water For Elephants: Pigpen Theatre Co.'s Alex Falberg, Matt Nuernberger, and Ryan Melia. Watch as they unpack Jacob's emotional Act 1 ballad, 'Silver Stars.' Watch in this video!

Video: Inside Rehearsal for The Old Man and The Old Moon at South Coast Repertory
by Joshua Wright - Jul 10, 2024

Go inside rehearsals for South Coast Repertory's producton of The Old Man and The Old Moon, with book, music and lyrics by PigPen Theatre Co in this all-new video.

THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON Comes to South Coast Repertory Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Jun 12, 2024

South Coast Repertory will return for a final summer at Mission San Juan Capistrano with The Old Man and The Old Moon, book, music and lyrics by PigPen Theatre Co.  The Outside SCR offering, which performs outdoors under the stars, runs July 20-Aug. 11.

Photos: Meet the Cast of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS on Broadway
by Bruce Glikas - Feb 6, 2024

Let the circus begin! Rehearsals are officially underway for the upcoming Broadway musical Water for Elephants and BroadwayWorld was inside rehearsals with the cast. Check out photos from inside the big day!

Photos: On the Red Carpet for the Drama League's Embrace the Season Gala
by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - Nov 14, 2023

Just last night, the Drama League celebrated Embrace The Season: A Drama League Celebration, the venerated gala event amplifying the extraordinary productions gracing stages in New York City each season. BroadwayWorld was there for the special night and you can check out photos from the red carpet arrivals here.

BWW Review: THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX at Berkeley Repertory Theatre is PigPen Theatre Co.'s stunning re-imagining of the award-winning book and film.
by Steve Murray - Nov 26, 2019

BWW Review: THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX at Berkeley Repertory Theatre is PigPen Theatre Co.'s stunning re-imagining of the award-winning book and film.

Photo Flash: First Look at THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX at Berkeley Rep
by Stephi Wild - Nov 24, 2019

Berkeley Repertory Theatre today announced the full cast and creative team for PigPen Theatre Co's The Tale of Despereaux: A New Musical. Coming off a successful run at The Old Globe in San Diego, where it had its world premiere, The Tale of Despereaux, with book, lyrics, and music by PigPen Theatre Co. and directed by Marc Bruni and PigPen Theatre Co., will begin previews at Berkeley Rep on Thursday, November 21, 2019 and run through Sunday, January 5, 2020. Press night will be on Monday, November 25, 2019. Tickets are on sale now at www.berkeleyrep.org or 510 647-2949.

Berkeley Rep Announces Full Cast And Creative For THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX
by Stephi Wild - Nov 2, 2019

Berkeley Repertory Theatre today announced the full cast and creative team for PigPen Theatre Co's The Tale of Despereaux: A New Musical. Coming off a successful run at The Old Globe in San Diego, where it had its world premiere, The Tale of Despereaux, with book, lyrics, and music by PigPen Theatre Co. and directed by Marc Bruni and PigPen Theatre Co., will begin previews at Berkeley Rep on Thursday, November 21, 2019 and run through Sunday, January 5, 2020. Press night will be on Monday, November 25, 2019. Tickets are on sale now at www.berkeleyrep.org or 510 647-2949.

BWW Review: THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX at The Old Globe
by E.H. Reiter - Jul 18, 2019

TALE OF DESPEREAUX by PigPen Theatre Co. at The Old Globe Theatre is based on the children's book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo, and deftly explores love, loss, dreams, and forgiveness in this charmingly whimsical musical.

Photo Flash: THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX Opens At The Old Globe
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 11, 2019

The acclaimed PigPen Theatre Co. charmed and astonished Globe audiences with The Old Man and The Old Moon. Now they return, bringing their one-of-a-kind theatrical and musical inventiveness to Kate DiCamillo's beloved, Newbery Medal–winning modern fable.

Bianca Norwood, Taylor Iman Jones Cast in The Old Globe's THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX
by Julie Musbach - Jun 4, 2019

The Old Globe announces cast and creative team as PigPen Theatre Co. returns with a world premiere musical: The Tale of Despereaux.

BWW Review: THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON Takes an Epic Journey at The Wallis
by Ellen Dostal - Mar 7, 2019

Remember the joy of being a kid and spending hours upon hours acting out stories using whatever you could find? When two sticks stood in for a swordfight to save the day or a towel became the mantle of a king? That's what it feels like watching PigPen Theatre Co. in THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON at The Wallis. 

BWW Interview: PigPen On Camaraderie, Roles, & THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON
by Gil Kaan - Feb 25, 2019

PigPen Theatre Company will be bringing their latest show THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON to The Wallis March 2, 2019. The seven-member PigPen Theatre Company, together since meeting in 2010 as undergrads at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, have become so tight-knit; they finish each others' sentences. So, it's only fitting in this round-robin, free-for-all of an interview that everyone answers at once, or in partial sentences. In this organized chaos of a Q&A session, I will attribute all the answers simply to the collective 'PigPen,' of which these charming seven go by their individual names of Alex Falberg, Ben Ferguson, Curtis Gillen, Ryan Melia, Matt Nuernberger, Arya Shahi and Dan Weschler.

PigPen Theatre Co.'s THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON Comes to The Wallis
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 31, 2019

PigPen Theatre Co.'s THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON, a fantastical song-filled fable for all ages, directed by Stuart Carden and PigPen Theatre Co., opens at the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts on Saturday, March 2 and continues through Sunday, March 17, 2019, in The Wallis's Bram Goldsmith Theater.

Lineup Announced For Fifth Annual POWERS NEW VOICES FESTIVAL at the Old Globe
by BWW News Desk - Jan 12, 2018

The Old Globe today announced it will present the fifth annual Powers New Voices Festival, a weekend of readings of new American plays by professional playwrights, playing January 12 14, 2018. The festival will kick off today, January 12 at 7:30 p.m. with Voices of the Community: Celebrating Local Playwrights, an evening of work created by San Diego residents through the Globe's arts engagement initiatives Community Voices and coLAB, and will continue with four readings by some of the most exciting voices writing for the American theatre today. The new American play readings commence on Saturday, January 13 at 4:00 p.m. with Laurel Ollstein's They Promised Her the Moon, directed by Giovanna Sardelli (Somewhere, The Whipping Man at the Globe), followed at 7:30 p.m. by Too Heavy for Your Pocket by Jir h Breon Holder, directed by Patricia McGregor (Globe for All's Measure for Measure).The Festival continues on Sunday, January 14 at 3:00 p.m. with The Tale of Despereaux, with book, music, and lyrics by PigPen Theatre Co. (The Old Man and The Old Moon at the Globe), based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo and the Universal Pictures animated motion picture. The Festival will wrap up that evening at 7:30 p.m. with The Great Leap by Lauren Yee, directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg (Globe's Skeleton Crew).

Lineup Announced For Fifth Annual POWERS NEW VOICES FESTIVAL at the Old Globe
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 9, 2017

The Old Globe today announced it will present the fifth annual Powers New Voices Festival, a weekend of readings of new American plays by professional playwrights, playing January 12 14, 2018. The festival will kick off on Friday, January 12 at 7:30 p.m. with Voices of the Community: Celebrating Local Playwrights, an evening of work created by San Diego residents through the Globe's arts engagement initiatives Community Voices and coLAB, and will continue with four readings by some of the most exciting voices writing for the American theatre today. The new American play readings commence on Saturday, January 13 at 4:00 p.m. with Laurel Ollstein's They Promised Her the Moon, directed by Giovanna Sardelli (Somewhere, The Whipping Man at the Globe), followed at 7:30 p.m. by Too Heavy for Your Pocket by Jir h Breon Holder, directed by Patricia McGregor (Globe for All's Measure for Measure).The Festival continues on Sunday, January 14 at 3:00 p.m. with The Tale of Despereaux, with book, music, and lyrics by PigPen Theatre Co. (The Old Man and The Old Moon at the Globe), based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo and the Universal Pictures animated motion picture. The Festival will wrap up that evening at 7:30 p.m. with The Great Leap by Lauren Yee, directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg (Globe's Skeleton Crew).

BWW Review: THE OLD MAN AND THE MOON Brings Tall Tales to The Old Globe
by E.H. Reiter - May 27, 2017

The PigPen Theatre Co. bring THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON to the Old Globe thorugh June 18th.