August Wilson News

The New American Theatre Company NY (The NATCNY) is pleased to announce its upcoming benefit performance of excerpts from An Urban Christmas Carol, directed by the company's founding artistic director and veteran Broadway actor DeMone. The event will be held on Monday, December 14, 2015, at Events at Stone Park, located in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Casting will be announced shortly.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Nicolas Dromard (MARY POPPINS, THE BOY FROM OZ) will join the cast of JERSEY BOYS later this month. Dromard will play Tommy DeVito (which he previously played in the 1st national tour), temporarily taking over for Richard H. Blake. He joins the company on December 21.

BroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ: Rush, Lottery & Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 11/27/2015.

Read on to catch up on this past week's trends: November 20-26.

The cast of the long-running hit musical JERSEY BOYS, now celebrating ten years on Broadway, performed a medley of songs on yesterday's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS.

Fresh off its world-premiere run in Minneapolis, Children's Theatre Company's new production about an 11-year-old spelling prodigy comes to Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. The show is adapted for the stage by veteran playwright Cheryl L. West (Arena's Pullman Porter Blues, Jar the Floor), who partners with celebrated director Charles Randolph-Wright (director of Broadway's Motown and an inaugural resident playwright with Arena Stage, where he premiered his play Love in Afghanistan). AKEELAH AND THE BEE runs now through December 27, 2015 in the Kreeger Theater, and BroadwayWorld has photos from the opening night festivites at Arena Stage below!

Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of IMPORTANT HATS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, the new comedy by Emmy Award nominee Nick Jones, directed by Tony Award nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel, opens tonight, November 23, 2015 at The Studio at Stage II - Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series at New York City Center - Stage II (131 West 55th Street).

BroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ: Rush, Lottery & Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 11/20/2015.

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance presents The Wild Party, November 20-December 5, 2015 at the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre.

Read on to catch up on this past week's trends: November 6-12.

Tickets are on sale now for the return engagement of the Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC), Tuesday, April 26 through Sunday, May 1, 2016.

A former military man has a poignant message about the limits of human compassion.

Sometimes it seems there is so much theater happening that it's difficult to keep track of it all. From personal experience, despite all the datebooks, smart phones, tablets, desktop computers and laptops...it's hard to keep everything straight in this wacky business of the show.

In Broadway Roundup und West End Roundup fassen wir jeweils einmal im Monat die wichtigsten Meldungen aus den zwei großten Musical-Metropolen der Welt zusammen. Dabei erwarten euch Informationen zu den neusten Erfolgsshows, Bekanntmachungen und Geruchte zu zukunftigen Projekten, Berichte uber Hollywood Stars die derzeit auf der Buhne zu sehen sind, neue Cast-Recordings und vieles mehr. Broadway Roundup gibt es jeweils zur Monatsmitte, West End Roundup zum Monatsanfang.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) celebrates the 2015 holiday season with a wide variety of concert programming, from the traditional annual performances of Handel's Messiah with the Concert Artists of Baltimore to a one-of-a-kind experience that pairs world-class acrobats and gymnasts with music by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, in an exciting program titled Cirque de la Symphonie.

Signature Theatre just announced a second one-week extension for INCIDENT AT VICHY, by Arthur Miller and directed by Michael Wilson, due to its sold-out run. INCIDENT AT VICHY will now play through Sunday, December 20, 2015. The production opens Sunday, November 15 in The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues).

BroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ: Rush, Lottery & Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 11/13/2015.

Court Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Charles Newell and Executive Director Stephen J. Albert, announces casting for the Midwest Premier of Terry Teachout's Satchmo at the Waldorf, directed by Charles Newell.

Which JERSEY BOYS song best describes your personality? Find out in this week's quiz!

Turkeys are on-sale at your local supermarket, so there's no better way to know Thanksgiving is just around the corner - yep, less than two weeks away! - which means that local theater companies will be unleashing their holiday season productions with enough productions of A Christmas Story (both the musical and the play), It's A Wonderful Life and Ebenezer Scrooge-led shows that you could shake a stick at!