Alfred Hitchcock News

Following a heartfelt and entertaining memorial for Sidney Lumet at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall with speakers and performers including Lauren Bacall, Walter Bernstein, Bobby Cannavale, Glenn Close, Jonathan Demme, James Gandolfini, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jenny Lumet, David Mamet, Phylilis Newman and Christopher Walken among others, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the details today for a retrospective of the admired and beloved director's work, Prince of the City: Remembering Sidney Lumet which will screen at the Walter Reade Theater July 19 - 25.

Victoria Theatre Association and the Heidelberg Distributing Company present the 2011 Michelob Ultra Cool Films Series showing of Victor Fleming's The Wizard of Oz, August 5-7, 2011 at the historic Victoria Theatre.

George Street Playhouse Artistic Director David Saint announced the slate of productions for the fall and winter of the New Brunswick theatre's 2011-2012 season - its 38th. Keeping true to its mission of producing new work, the season will begin with two world premieres - both musicals -followed by a New Jersey premiere of a recent Tony Award-winning play and a recent Broadway comedy in the spring of 2012.

Famous pop star siblings Jimmy & Cherry, along with their manager Captain Leo and pet monkey Boots, have been kidnapped while leaving their recording studio and whisked into another galaxy by an Evil Alien Overlord who threatens to blow up the planet Earth unless they entertain him. As our heroes try to plot their escape they must circumvent the efforts of their foil, Jane, the sexy housekeeper, who might just be a robot spy! Take off into outer space with Radio Deluxembourg, a multimedia, rock musical, sci-?, comedy experience!

A fast-paced Tony-award-winning comedy BOEING-BOEING will be staged at the Saint Michael's Playhouse July 20-30 in the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College.

Berwick's Hackmatack Playhouse continues their 40th anniversary summer with 'Singin' In the Rain' (one of Hackmatack's most popular productions in 1996) opening Wednesday, July 27 through Saturday Aug 13.

Victoria Theatre Association and Heidelberg Distributing Company present a showcase of three famous films by zany director Mel Brooks.

Anchorage Community Theatre, in partnership with Dave Block and Midnight Sun Theatre, presents The 39 Steps, based on the classic Alfred Hitchcock movie, this week on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening at 7 PM and Sunday afternoon at 3 PM.

Born Georgette Lizette Withers on March 12, 1917 in Karachi, India, she was known as 'Googie' from an early age. Her family returned to England when she was aged seven and she began acting at the age of 12, appearing at the Victoria Palace in The Windmill Man. A student at the Italia Conti Academy of Arts, she was a dancer in a West End production when she was offered work as a film extra in Michael Powell's The Girl in the Crowd (1935). She arrived on the set to find one of the major players in the production had been dismissed, and she was immediately asked to step into the role.

Victoria Theatre Association and Heidelberg Distributing Company present the Second Annual Cool Films Series Beer-Tasting, July 22nd and 23rd at the historic Victoria Theatre in downtown Dayton.

Victoria Theatre Association and the Heidelberg Distributing Company present the hilarious film, Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, July 15-17, 2011 at the historic Victoria Theatre.

Anchorage Community Theatre, in partnership with Dave Block and Midnight Sun Theatre, presents The 39 Steps, based on the classic Alfred Hitchcock movie, this week on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening at 7 PM and Sunday afternoon at 3 PM.

Producers Ben Sprecher and Louise Forlenza, in association with Tony Fusco and Larry Feinman, and by special arrangement with/and based on the Vereinigte Buhnen Wien GmbH production, announced that the new musical REBECCA, based on the classic novel by Daphne du Maurier novel, will open on Broadway Sunday, April 22 at a Shubert theater to be announced. Previews will begin Tuesday, March 27. Sierra Boggess (currently starring in Master Class, The Little Mermaid, Love Never Dies) is in negotiations to play the role of 'I.'

Hackmatack Playhouse actor Stewart Urist, as Pseudolus, opens 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' with the familiar Stephen Sondheim song, 'Comedy Tonight.'