King Brill

The production sold out the entire season long before the opening night.

Just one year in, the Harold Ramis Film School at The Second City has already set the bar for creative comedic storytelling.

With each production, Nuance Theatre Co. is gaining a reputation of presenting incredible theatrical performances.

With each production, rising Nu•ance Theatre Company is gaining a reputation of presenting incredible theatrical performances.

With each production, rising Nu•ance Theatre Company is gaining a reputation of presenting incredible theatrical performances.

With each production, Nu•ance Theatre Co. is gaining a reputation of presenting incredible theatrical performances  -  whether compelling ensemble acting, atmospheric lighting and sound that enrich ghostly projections,  innovations creating actual rain on stage (Condemned), or ambitious and immersive set designs (as in a depression-era union warehouse (Waiting for Lefty), a 1930's-style tenement apartment (Awake and Sing!), and the stone walls of Elsinore Castle complete with a draw bridge and ghost (Hamlet) to name just a few.

With each production, rising Nu•ance Theatre Company is gaining a reputation of presenting incredible theatrical performances.

Written and performed by Mariah MacCarthy, Baby Mama: One Woman's Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People tracks her true-to-life adoption journey, from an accidental conception to the placement of her child with the gay couple of her dreams.

Written and performed by Mariah MacCarthy, Baby Mama: One Woman's Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People tracks her true-to-life adoption journey, from an accidental conception to the placement of her child with the gay couple of her dreams. All the while MacCarthy manages to live her life, date, and even attend the occasional orgy.

This month, BWW's Debut of the Month column features four of the talented actors who are making their Broadway debuts in the exciting revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's iconic musical Cats. Today we speak with Christine Cornish Smith, who makes her Broadway debut in the role of Bombalurina!

Lead by Artistic Directors Sam Butler and David Harradine, Fevered Sleep is an award winning innovator in theatre-making and cross-art form projects for children and adults, and this summer it's presenting two pieces of work for young children aged 3 - 5, one indoors and one outdoors. In addition their touring installation of IT'S THE SKIN YOU'RE LIVING IN will be part of Kids Day at The Place.

The Tank presents Puppet Playlist #11: Simon and/or Garfunkel on Thursday, September 8, 2011; 7:30pm, Thursday, September 8, 2011; 9:30pm, and Friday, September 9, 2011; 7:30pm

With a 2011 Tony nomination for Best Featured Actor In A Play for his magnetic turn in the critically-hailed revival of Larry Kramer's THE NORMAL HEART on Broadway and a leading role on Showtime's THE BIG C co-starring real-life close friend Laura Linney, as well as a busy film career that boats memorable turns in THE REF, ME & MY SHADOWS: LIFE WITH JUDY GARLAND, FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, the recent remake of THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 and TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, John Benjamin Hickey is a very busy man. Nevertheless, he was kind enough to recently take some time out of his beyond busy schedule to talk all about his stage and screen career - including sharing some revealing anecdotes about starring in THE CRUCIBLE with Liam Neeson and Linney, as well as working with the esteemed playwright Arthur Miller himself, in addition to his work in Terrance McNally's LOVE, VALOUR, COMPASSION, Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall's revival of CABARET, and, of course, all about the George C. Wolfe/Joel Grey production of THE NORMAL HEART starring director/actor Joe Mantello that he is participating in now. Plus, we have his thoughts on his recent GOOD WIFE appearance, feelings on the place of political theatre in society today, what roles he would like to take on in the future, his affection for the work of Edward Albee - and much, much more.

To accrue all the characters, characteristics and components of a career as diverse and varied as that of stage and screen star John Leguizamo would be near-impossible for even the most gifted performers in the galaxy. Having appeared in nearly ninety films so far in his twenty-five year career - including a musical, MOULIN ROUGE, and an adaptation of Shakespeare, ROMEO + JULIET, both for noted directed Baz Luhrmann - as well as five off-Broadway and Broadway solo shows - MAMBO MOUTH, SPIC-O-RAMA, FREAK, SEXAHOLIX and, now, GHETTO KLOWN - Leguizamo is consistently challenging himself and revealing new sides to his personality and skills as an actor and performer with his daring choices of roles and searing performances. In this comprehensive career retrospective, we cover Broadway, Hollywood and much more and we even have his first comments on his new feature film opening this weekend, THE LINCOLN LAWYER. From Todd Haynes' POISON to Brian DePalma's CASUALTIES OF WAR and CARLITO'S WAY, to Spike Lee's SUMMER OF SAM, to TO WONG FOO, SUPER MARIO BROS. and more; singing Sondheim's 'Send In The Clowns'; plus, stories on his recently departed co-stars Dennis Hopper (LAND OF THE DEAD) and Brittany Murphy (SPUN), and first news on the David Koresh biopic WACO co-starring Kurt Russell and Adrien Brody, and FUGLY with Radha Mitchell - Leguizamo‘s performances speak (and sing) for themselves. King, cartoon, criminal, artist, clown or klown - Leguizamo can play them all. And play them damn well, as well.

As we move toward one of those two pesky days in our lives that we can't avoid - namely 'dying and paying taxes,' a number of our California Central Coast theatres and live entertainment venues have some newly opened, soon to open, or soon to close performance opportunities for your viewing pleasure!

Eventide Arts will hold open auditions for Terrance McNally's Tony-winning play, MASTER CLASS on March 7 & 8 at 6:30pm at the Gertrude Lawrence Stage, Dennis Union Church, 713 Main Street, Rte. 6A in Dennis Village (rear entrance).

Olympia Dukakis gives an achingly passionate yet tender performance in her one-woman concert reading of an 80-year-old Jewish woman who journeys from the poverty of the Ukraine to the riches of Miami Beach - and everywhere in between