Alfred Uhry News

he third annual Los Angeles Festival of New American Musicals will close with a special concert honoring one of LA's greatest musical theatre composers, Tony Award-winning Jason Robert Brown. The FNAM closing party will be held on August 21, at 4PM. The concert will feature Jason Robert Brown on the piano, accompanied by special guests Adam Pascal, Lara Pulver, Graham Phillips, Nita Whitaker, and The Theatre Geeks of America singing to several of Brown's works.

Jeffrey Ellis has been a fixture on Nashville's theater scene for many years - as a writer, reviewer, director and, of course, his many years with the First Night Awards. After a brief hiatus from theater, Jef's back and Nashville is glad to have him in the theater where he belongs. Writing for BroadwayWorld.com, Jef has kept the world informed of the theater life that happens in Nashville, from incisive reviews to interviews with some of Music City's best-loved local talent.

New Play Festival Auditions: Centre Stage will present its 8th annual New Play Festival October 18-23, 2010 featuring the works of four finalists selected from submissions of playwrights. These plays will be presented in staged readings that begin each evening at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

Kenny Leon, Tony nominated director and Artistic Director of True Colors Theatre Company has been named the recipient of the 2010 Trailblazer Award at this year's NAACP Theatre Awards.

New Play Festival Auditions: Centre Stage will present its 8th annual New Play Festival October 18-23, 2010 featuring the works of four finalists selected from submissions of playwrights. These plays will be presented in staged readings that begin each evening at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

The 2010 Michigan Shakespeare Festival in Jackson, Michigan will run from July 15 to August 8 and will present ROMEO AND JULIET, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, and DRIVING MISS DAISY.

Legacy Theatre's next mainstage production will be BABY, with a book written by Sybille Pearson, music by David Shire, and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. BABY will play from April 16 through May 2, 2010.

Players by the Sea present PARADE, July 16 - July 31. For tickets or more information, please visit www.playersbythesea.org.

New Play Festival Auditions: Centre Stage will present its 8th annual New Play Festival October 18-23, 2010 featuring the works of four finalists selected from submissions of playwrights. These plays will be presented in staged readings that begin each evening at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

Inaugurated in 1971 under director of community programming Leonard DePaur, Out of Doors began as a small festival of street theater, in collaboration with Everyman Theater (co-founded by actress Geraldine Fitzgerald.)

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce the New York premiere of Matthew Lopez's THE WHIPPING MAN, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (The Royal Family, Doubt). The limited engagement will begin previews at MTC's New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street) on Thursday, January 13, 2011 in preparation for a Tuesday, February 1, 2011 opening night.

Inaugurated in 1971 under director of community programming Leonard DePaur, Out of Doors began as a small festival of street theater, in collaboration with Everyman Theater (co-founded by actress Geraldine Fitzgerald.)

Broadway By the Bay (BBBay), the Peninsula's premiere musical theatre company, is proud to welcome Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown for a one-day only master class and concert on Saturday, July 24th.

Opening on July 23rd at 8:00 p.m. in the DeWitt Main Theatre is The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Driving Miss Daisy. The Last Night of Ballyhoo was also the winner of the 1997 Tony Award for Best Play.

Opening on July 23rd at 8:00 p.m. in the DeWitt Main Theatre is The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Driving Miss Daisy. The Last Night of Ballyhoo was also the winner of the 1997 Tony Award for Best Play.

The Hope Summer Repertory Theatre announces a 39th season that will be full of music and heart. This season features productions that will warm your heart, make you laugh and want to sing along, so be sure to fit HSRT's productions into your summer calendar!

Tickets for Manhattan Theatre Club's (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) upcoming American premiere of Tony Award winner Lee Hall's THE PITMEN PAINTERS are now on sale.

As producers Jed Bernstein and Adam Zotovich previously announced, tickets for the Broadway Premiere of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy, will go on sale to the general public beginning tomorrow (Saturday, July 17) at 12:01 a.m., and can be purchased at Telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200.

Players by the Sea present PARADE, July 16 - July 31. For tickets or more information, please visit www.playersbythesea.org.

Producer Orin Wolf and Off the Aisle Productions have announced that It Must Be Him, a new comedy by Kenny Solms, co-creator and writer of the legendary, Emmy Award-winning 'Carol Burnett Show,' will premiere this summer at the Peter J. Sharp Theatre (416 West 42nd Street). Directed by Daniel Kutner, It Must Be Him will begin performances on Tuesday, August 24, and officially open on Wednesday, September 1. The limited engagement ends Sunday, September 26.