Ahmanson Theatre News

Albert Camus' rarely-seen 1948 play THE MISUNDERSTANDING will be performed Off-Broadway this fall, with an official press opening on November 2, 2009 at The Flea Theatre (41 White Street) in Manhattan. Ellen Crawford, widely-known for her many years on the popular television series 'ER,' has joined the cast of THE MISUNDERSTANDING, which is produced by Horizon Theatre Rep and presented by The Flea Theatre.

A Noise Within (ANW) pokes a bit of fun at its own name with some theatrical humor when it stages the joyfully out-of control British farce NOISES OFF by MICHAEL FRAYN, opening Saturday, November 14 and closing Sunday, December 20, 2009 (previews begin November 7).

The West Coast premiere of 'Mary Poppins' opens Sunday, November 15, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre for a limited engagement through February 7, 2010.

Albert Camus' rarely-seen 1948 play THE MISUNDERSTANDING will be performed Off-Broadway this fall, with preview performances beginning October 29 prior to an official press opening on November 2, 2009 at The Flea Theatre (41 White Street) in Manhattan.

Albert Camus' rarely-seen 1948 play THE MISUNDERSTANDING will be performed Off-Broadway this fall, with preview performances beginning October 29 prior to an official press opening on November 2, 2009 at The Flea Theatre (41 White Street) in Manhattan.

TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley presents a festive holiday offering, the West Coast premiere of A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL CELEBRATION, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel.

Current MARY POPPINS star Christian Borle and Sherie Rene Scott led a private industry reading late last week of the musical THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG.

The 2009-2010 season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center continues its seventh season with the innovative and compelling Pilobolus, October 23-25, 2009 at Ahmanson Theatre.

The 2009-2010 season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center continues its seventh season with the innovative and compelling Pilobolus, October 23-25, 2009 at Ahmanson Theatre.

Tony Award winner Beth Leavel, now starring in Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! on Broadway, will be featured on the American Theatre Wing's televised 'Working in the Theatre' series on a 'Leading Ladies 2009' panel this Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 5:00p on CUNY - TV (Channel 75 in the New York metropolitan area).

The national tour of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Monty Python's Spamalot will end after its run at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, CA. The production will run from October 6 - October 18. John O'Hurley ('Seinfeld,' 'Dancing with the Stars') will reprise his role of King Arthur for the musical's final performances.

Get ready for the holiday season with a new musical treat brought to you by Michael Feinstein and David Hyde entitled ‘The Michael Feinstein & David Hyde Pierce Holiday Show'. The show will play Feinstein's at Loews Regency December 1-30, according to the nightclub's official website. Show details have yet to be announced.

Variety reports that the world premiere of a Randy Newman musical project, 'Harps and Angels,' is set to close out the Mark Taper Forum's 2010 season next fall.

West Coast Ensemble presents the fourth and final show of their 2009 season, THREE TALL WOMEN, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee and directed by Michael Matthews (Stupid Kids, The Bacchae). THREE TALL WOMEN will preview on Thursday, November 12 and Friday, November 13 at 8:00pm and will open on Saturday, November 14 at 8:00pm and continue through Sunday, December 20 at West Coast Ensemble - The El Centro Theatre, 800 N. El Centro Ave. in Hollywood.

Broadway's perfectly magical musical MARY POPPINS is pleased to welcome the West End's original ‘Mary', Olivier Award winner LAURA MICHELLE KELLY, and Tony® Award nominee CHRISTIAN BORLE (Broadway's Legally Blonde) beginning Monday, October 12 at 7pm. Produced by Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh, MARY POPPINS will celebrate its three-year anniversary at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) on Monday, November 16.

The 2009-2010 season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center continues its seventh season with the innovative and compelling Pilobolus, October 23-25, 2009 at Ahmanson Theatre.

Broadway's perfectly magical musical MARY POPPINS is pleased to welcome the West End's original ‘Mary', Olivier Award winner LAURA MICHELLE KELLY, and Tony® Award nominee CHRISTIAN BORLE (Broadway's Legally Blonde) beginning Monday, October 12 at 7pm. Produced by Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh, MARY POPPINS will celebrate its three-year anniversary at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) on Monday, November 16.

South Coast Repertory kicks off the 2009-10 Season with Putting It Together, a compilation of Stephen Sondheim songs, that the composer put together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, creating a narrative set at a cocktail party in an elegant Manhattan condo. The non-traditional musical, led by Broadway and television star Harry Groener, has a cast of five (a glamorous but slightly jaded couple, a starry-eyed younger couple and a savvy observer) who sing more than 30 songs that reflect their lives, lifestyles and moods of the moment. Some of the songs will be familiar, some less so, a few were even cut from their original musical scores, but they are all sophisticated, smart and drop-dead droll. All, in other words, Sondheim.

The Creators of 'Spamalot,' WestBeth Entertainment by kind permission of Monty Python present.

The Creators of 'Spamalot,' WestBeth Entertainment by kind permission of Monty Python present For a Few Nights only 'An Evening Without Monty Python' A Jubilation. Starring Jeff B. Davis, Jane Leeves, Alan Tudyk, Rick Holmes and Jim Piddock