Alliance Theatre News

A world premiere adaptation of Jane Austen's romantic comedy Emma by Artistic Director Michael Bloom takes the stage at The Cleveland Play House.

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Atlanta's Tony Award-winning Alliance Theatre will partner to produce the world premiere of renowned playwright Pearl Cleage's comedy The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years this fall.

Atlanta's nationally acclaimed Alliance Theatre, recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award®, and Artistic Director Susan V. Booth are proud to announce the 2010-11 Season for the Alliance Stage, the decidedly underground Hertz Stage and the Alliance Children's Theatre. The 42nd season celebrates American icons and American ideas through the best-of-class playwriting, music, dance and comedy.

Please be advised that the 1:30pm and 7:30pm performances of Lost in Yonkers at Paper Mill Playhouse on Thursday, February 25th are cancelled due to inclement weather. Lost in Yonkers ticket holders can call the Paper Mill Playhouse Box Office at 973-376-4343 to reschedule into another performance.

The new Broadway musical, COME FLY AWAY, conceived, choreographed, and directed by Tony Award-winner Twyla Tharp and featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra, will open this spring at the Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway). Previews will begin on Monday, March 1, 2010 with an opening night slated for Thursday, March 25. COME FLY AWAY played its sold-out, critically lauded world premiere engagement at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre this fall.

The Alliance Children's Theatre celebrates the legendary culture of ancient China where traditions are fundamental and the family honor supreme in the action-packed stage adaptation of Disney's Mulan, an exotic musical based on the animated Disney movie.

MULAN, a musical based on the Disney animated movie of the same name, will premiere at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre on February 24th and run through March 19th.

Asolo Rep announces additional casting for award-winning Managing Maxine, Janece Shaffer's new play that takes a straight forward look at sex, love and life after 70. The cast features Howard Elfman as Louis, the role he originated last season in the world premiere of Managing Maxine at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.

InterAct Theatre Company continues its long-time relationship with Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-nominated playwright, Lee Blessing, by producing the World Premiere his latest drama, WHEN WE GO UPON THE SEA, which begins performances Friday, April 9, and has its official Opening Night on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. WHEN WE GO UPON THE SEA takes aim at an American populace that has grown strikingly complacent in the wake of extraordinary global challenges, exposing one of the world's most intriguing and influential conflicts: the battle between the elected leader of the free world and a democracy of millions.

Jazz and swing will thrive on U Street as Duke Ellington's music comes home to the Lincoln Theatre in Arena Stage's upcoming musical Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies.

Khalidi's TENNIS IN NABLUS Ends Its Run at Alliance Theatre on Feb. 21

Fences, August Wilson's powerful story of a fractured African-American family in 1950s Pittsburgh, will play its final show on February 21.

Paper Mill Playhouse has announces casting for Lost in Yonkers. Directed by Michael Bloom, Lost in Yonkers will run at the Millburn theater from February 17 through March 14, 2010. Lost in Yonkers was selected by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as part of the American Masterpieces Series in New Jersey. American Masterpieces is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts. Official opening is Sunday, February 21th at 7:00pm.

The Huntington Theatre Company continues its 28th season - a season of American stories - with Stick Fly, Huntington Playwriting Fellow Lydia R Diamond's smart, moving, and funny portrait of a complex African-American family.

Lookingglass Theatre Company presents Trust, written by Ensemble Member David Schwimmer and Andy Bellin, based on the screenplay by Andy Bellin and Rob Festinger and directed by Ensemble Members David Schwimmer and Heidi Stillman.

Appleton, Wisconsin's Rebel Alliance Theatre will presents William Shakespeare's THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Thursday, Friday, and Saturday February 18, 19, and 20 and 25, 26, and 27. The production will play at the Omro Wedding Chapel from 7 pm - 10:30 pm.

he irresistible, finger-snappin' and toe-tappin' Tony® Award-winning musical revue, Ain't Misbehavin', a celebration of the music of Thomas "Fats" Waller, shimmies onto San Jose Repertory Theatre's stage March 13.

Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Artistic Director, Mark W. Jones-Executive Director) is proud to announce casting for Lost in Yonkers.

Paper Mill Playhouse has announces casting for Lost in Yonkers. Directed by Michael Bloom, Lost in Yonkers will run at the Millburn theater from February 17 through March 14, 2010. Lost in Yonkers was selected by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as part of the American Masterpieces Series in New Jersey. American Masterpieces is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts. Official opening is Sunday, February 21th at 7:00pm.

LOOKINGGLASS ALICE is set to open at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta on March 31st and run through May 2nd.