Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Emmy(R) winner for 'Seinfeld' and 'The New Adventures of Old Christine') stars as Selina Meyer in VEEP, the story of a woman who becomes vice president, only to discover the job is nothing like she expected, but everything she was warned about. Created by Armando Iannucci (Oscar(R) nominee for co-writing 'In the Loop'), the new comedy series kicks off its eight-episode season SUNDAY, APRIL 22 (10:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.
The long-running Off Broadway favorite Love, Loss, and What I Wore will close tonight, Sunday, March 25, 2012 after playing for two and a half years and 1,013 performances. (March 15th marked the show's landmark 1,000 performance.)
Frog and Peach Theatre Co., Inc. will present an all-star benefit reading of
'Hamlet' on February 21 at The Player's Club with a cast including Darrell
Hammond (Saturday Night Live) as Guildenstern, Austin Pendleton ('My Cousin
Vinnie') as Claudius and the Ghost, Shirley Knight ('Our Idiot Brother,' 'Sweet
Bird of Youth') as Gertrude, David Margulies ('Ghostbusters,' 'Sopranos') as
Polonius and Gravedigger, Fred Willard ('Anchorman,' 'Waiting for Guffman') as
Horatio, Anna Chlumsky ('In the Loop') as Ophelia, Ted Zurkowski ('Boys on the
Side,' co-founder of Frog and Peach Theatre Co.) as Hamlet and Ryan Tramont
('The Hurt Locker') as Laertes. Music is by Ian McDonald (King Crimson,
Foreigner) and performed live by Mr. McDonald.
HBO's new comedy VEEP starring Seinfeld alum Julia Louis-Dreyfus will be premiering on the cable network on April 22nd. VEEP tells the stoy of former Senator Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) who has accepted the call to serve as Vice President of the United States.
Frog and Peach Theatre Co., Inc. will present an all-star benefit reading of
'Hamlet' on February 21 at The Player's Club with a cast including Darrell
Hammond (Saturday Night Live) as Guildenstern, Austin Pendleton ('My Cousin
Vinnie') as Claudius and the Ghost, Shirley Knight ('Our Idiot Brother,' 'Sweet
Bird of Youth') as Gertrude, David Margulies ('Ghostbusters,' 'Sopranos') as
Polonius and Gravedigger, Fred Willard ('Anchorman,' 'Waiting for Guffman') as
Horatio, Anna Chlumsky ('In the Loop') as Ophelia, Ted Zurkowski ('Boys on the
Side,' co-founder of Frog and Peach Theatre Co.) as Hamlet and Ryan Tramont
('The Hurt Locker') as Laertes. Music is by Ian McDonald (King Crimson,
Foreigner) and performed live by Mr. McDonald.
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Frog and Peach Theatre Co., Inc. will present an all-star benefit reading of 'Hamlet' on February 21 at The Player's Club with a cast including Darrell Hammond (Saturday Night Live) as Guildenstern, Austin Pendleton ('My Cousin Vinnie') as Claudius and the Ghost, Shirley Knight ('Our Idiot Brother,' 'Sweet Bird of Youth') as Gertrude, David Margulies ('Ghostbusters,' 'Sopranos') as Polonius and Gravedigger, Fred Willard ('Anchorman,' 'Waiting for Guffman') as Horatio, Anna Chlumsky ('In the Loop') as Ophelia, Ted Zurkowski ('Boys on the Side,' co-founder of Frog and Peach Theatre Co.) as Hamlet and Ryan Tramont ('The Hurt Locker') as Laertes. Music is by Ian McDonald (King Crimson, Foreigner) and performed live by Mr. McDonald.
Producer Daryl Roth announced today that the long-running Off Broadway favorite Love, Loss, and What I Wore will close on Sunday, March 25, 2012 after playing for two and a half years and 1,013 performances. (March 15th marks the show's landmark 1,000 performance.)
Second Stage Theatre celebrated its annual All-Star Bowling Classic last night, February 6th. For over 20 years, stars of stage and screen have come out to bowl in support of Second Stage's award-winning seasons and to assist the theatre in its fund-raising efforts.
Actresses Emily Bergl and Ashley Austin Morris led cast and crew members from the Off Broadway show, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, as they installed Sheetrock in affordable Habitat-NYC homes in Bed-Stuy. Check out photos from the event below!
After a decade of shows at UCB, Magnet, The PIT, and countless bars and venues around New York City, Beauty Love Truth's elegant format of "improv inspired by music" takes it up a notch at Barrow Street Theatre.
TEETH OF THE SONS concerns two brothers -- best friends as kids growing up in Brooklyn -- who find themselves at odds when one of them becomes a born-again Hassidic scholar and the other returns home in need of a place to stay with his pregnant girlfriend.
TEETH OF THE SONS concerns two brothers -- best friends as kids growing up in Brooklyn -- who find themselves at odds when one of them becomes a born-again Hassidic scholar and the other returns home in need of a place to stay with his pregnant girlfriend.
Barefoot Theatre Company - an Off-Broadway theater company now in its 12th season - will present the New York premiere of Joseph Sousa's play TEETH OF THE SONS, with previews beginning April 20 prior to an official press opening of April 22 at Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan. Nicole Haran directs.
HBO has picked up the new comedy series VEEP, created by Armando Iannucci (Oscar(R) nominee for co-writing 'In the Loop') and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Emmy(R) winner for 'Seinfeld' and 'The New Adventures of Old Christine'), it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. Iannucci co-wrote and directed the pilot of the series, which he executive produces along with Frank Rich of New York Magazine and Christopher Godsick ('Take the Lead'); Simon Blackwell, who co-wrote the pilot, co-executive produces and Julia Louis-Dreyfus produces. VEEP, which is expected to shoot in Baltimore, will begin production this fall for 2012 debut on HBO.
Barefoot Theatre Company - an Off-Broadway theater company now in its 12th season - will present the New York premiere of Joseph Sousa's play TEETH OF THE SONS, with previews beginning April 20 prior to an official press opening of April 22 at Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan. Nicole Haran directs.
THE ACTIVE THEATER in association with BUD MARTIN will present Any Given Monday by Bruce Graham on Monday, April 4, 2011 at New World Stages, 2:00pm, in Stage 5. Bud Martin will direct the private reading of the play which was first seen in a co-production between ACT II PLAYHOUSE, Ambler, PA and THEATRE EXILE, Philadelphia, PA. Any Given Monday was the recipient of the 2010 Barrymore Award for Best New Play.