Ahmanson Theatre News

Nominations for the Ovation Awards, celebrating achievement in Los Angeles-area theatre, have been announced

Donna Lynne Champlin Reprises Role At New York Musical Theatre Festival

Michael Ingersoll has been cast as Nick Massi in the upcoming Jersey Boys tour

The national tour of Jersey Boys has replaced the new Motown musical Ain't No Mountain High Enough on the Ahmanson Theatre's 2006-2007 line-up

Back in NYC after doing sketch comedy and nonmusical theater in L.A., Angela will play the 'Drowsy' lead Janet for a week in September.

More tour dates--including Brooklyn--have been added to the upcoming US tour of Matthew Bourne's dance piece Edward Scissorhands, based on Tim Burton's 1990 gothic fantasy

The acclaimed Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA will present Kander and Ebb's The Visit, which will be presented as the first show of its 2007-2008 season

The Kander and Ebb musical All About Us, based on the Thornton Wilder play The Skin of Our Teeth, will be presented at the Westport Country Playhouse in CT from April 10th through 28th, 2007.

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Tour dates have been announced for the upcoming national tour of Reginald Rose's classic courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men

Adriane Lenox, Chris McGarry and Lisa Joyce will join Cherry Jones in the upcoming national tour of Doubt

The New York Musical Theatre Festival's Next Link presentation of The Flight of the Lawnchair Man, playing from September 13th through 18th, will reunite its 2005 Goodspeed Opera cast--including Sweeney Todd's Donna Lynne Champlin--as well as much of its creative team

DOUBT, the winner of the 2005 Tony Award® and Pulitzer Prize for Best Play, will complete its triumphant Broadway run this Sunday, July 2. DOUBT, which is written by John Patrick Shanley and directed by Doug Hughes, will have played 525 performances, and 25 previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street). When it completes its run, DOUBT will be the fifth longest running play of the past 10 years.

While Edward Hibbert performs in the Los Angeles premiere of Kander and Ebb's Curtains at the Ahmanson Theatre, Noble Shropshire will take on his role as dry-witted Underling in The Drowsy Chaperone from July 3rd through September 10th

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming national tour of The Light in the Piazza, which will circle the country for 50 weeks beginning in August

Casting is now complete for the highly anticipated world premiere of the Kander and Ebb musical Curtains, which will begin previews at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre on July 25th, open on August 9th and run through September 10th

Rick Miramontez, the New York and Los Angeles-based publicist, will join OPR/Origlio Public Relations, the Manhattan-based publicity firm, as Managing Partner; the firm will soon become O & M--Origlio/Miramontez Co.

DOUBT, the winner of the 2005 Tony Award(r) and Pulitzer Prize for Best Play, will complete its triumphant Broadway run on Sunday, July 2.

Elena Shaddow will play Clara in the national tour of The Light in the Piazza, as well as Magnolia in the upcoming limited engagement London revival of Show Boat