Berger News

Nuns with guns are back this summer in a fully-loaded, blasphemous new installment of Annex Theatre's Penguins 3: The Bishop's Bastard written by Scot Augustson and directed by Bret Fetzer.

Music Theatre of Connecticut School of the Performing Arts presents 'Disney's High School Musical 2,' a fully staged and costumed production performed by MTC School of Performing Arts students, ages seven and up.

Water Works Theatre Company and Terp Theatre have partnered to bring Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona to life for hearing and deaf audiences.

For 36 years, University of Houston professor emeritus Sidney Berger has been a driving force behind the Houston Shakespeare Festival. Each summer, the event provides Houstonians an opportunity to celebrate the Bard's work during performances at Miller Outdoor Theatre.

As a centerpiece of the Morrisville Business Association's borough-wide celebration of a 'Revolutionary Weekend,' Aug. 20 - 22, the nonprofit Actors' NET of Bucks County presents an encore production of the award winning musical 1776.

Nuns with guns are back this summer in a fully-loaded, blasphemous new installment of Annex Theatre's Penguins 3: The Bishop's Bastard written by Scot Augustson and directed by Bret Fetzer.

The Lark Play Development Center is proud to announce the 2010-11 Playwrights Workshop Fellows, which include Neena Beber (Jump/Cut), Carla Ching (2G Artistic Director), Greg Kotis (Urinetown), Tommy Smith (P73 Fellow, Lark PONY Fellow), and Playwright-in-Residence Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife).

THE OJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE (OPC) is thrilled to announce its 2010 Season - 13th Annual program of playwrights, readings and special performances featuring some of the most talented, established and up-and-coming playwrights writing today.

Today, the creative team was announced for the much anticipated SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off the Dark musical, opening this winter at the Hilton Theatre on Broadway. The team includes: Daniel Ezralow (Choreography), George Tsypin (Scenic Design), Academy Award®-winner Eiko Ishioka (Costume Design), Tony® Award-winner Donald Holder (Lighting Design), Jonathan Deans (Sound Design) and Teese Gohl (Musical Supervision).

MTV has greenlit season two of its original comedy series 'The Hard Times of RJ Berger,' building on the network's growing slate of scripted programming, which includes recently announced greenlights for 'Skins' and 'Teen Wolf.' The second season of 'Hard Times' underscores MTV's broader programming strategy to leverage the success of its reality franchises to develop and nurture a range of new scripted series for the network's millennial audience.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) announces eight selected readings. The festival will run from July 12 - August 1, 2010. Tickets to the readings are FREE.

Sacramento Music Circus has announced the casting for its sixtieth summer season. The seven-show season will include the Music Circus premieres of 'Spamalot,' 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' and 'The Marvelous Wonderettes' and new stagings of 'Oklahoma!,' 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,' '42nd Street' and 'Funny Girl,' the latter returning to Music Circus after an 18-year absence.

To open its 30th anniversary summer season, Moonlight Stage Productions presents the most American of American musicals, Rodgers and Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA! from July 14-31 at the Moonlight Amphitheatre.

New Line Theatre closes its nineteenth season with the first St. Louis production in many years of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera EVITA, running July 8-31, 2010, at the Washington University South Campus Theatre (formerly CBC High School), 6501 Clayton Road, just east of Big Bend. Tickets are on sale now, through Metrotix, 314-534-1111.

Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd Artistic Director and Richard M. Parison, Jr. Producing Director, continues the 2010 Mainstage season with Alan Ayckbourn's social-climbing comedy Absurd Person Singular, with performances beginning August 12 and running through August 29. Opening Night is August 15 at 5:00pm.

Music Theatre of Connecticut School of the Performing Arts presents 'Disney's High School Musical 2,' a fully staged and costumed production performed by MTC School of Performing Arts students, ages seven and up.

Annex Theatre presents a bold new culture-bending play about a future 'right- thinking' America in Her Mother Was Imagination by local playwright Elizabeth Heffron, directed by Ellie McKay. Her Mother Was Imagination opens on Friday July 30th, 8pm and runs Fri & Sat through August 28th with PWYC August 6th & 7th and Industry Night (PWYC) August 16th at Annex Theatre, corner of 11th & East Pike Street in the heart of Seattle's Capitol Hill. $15 General, $5 TPS/Student/Senior/Military.

Summer's here. For many Houstonians, it's the season for swimming pools, sun tans and, of course, Shakespeare.

Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Artistic Director, Mark W. Jones-Executive Director) is proud to present 120 of the region's most talented young artists from Paper Mill Playhouse's Summer Musical Theatre Conservatory in a fully produced, original concert on the Paper Mill main-stage titled 'New Voices of 2010: Pure Imagination', a tribute to the songs and shows that opened the doors of our imagination and took us to remarkable places.

New Village Arts, Carlsbad's award-winning, professional theatre is very proud to announce its Tenth Season. This will be NVA's biggest season ever, with eight full productions, NVA's first musical and two local premieres. Over the past nine seasons, NVA has established itself as one of the most important mid-sized theatres in San Diego, producing over 40 highly acclaimed productions, including a world-premiere holiday show, multiple regional and local premieres, unforgettable American and world classics, the intense work of Sam Shepard and the popular FREE Shakespeare in the Park. New Village Arts honors that history in Season 10 and introduces some exciting new traditions for North County, by selecting shows that honor the history of the company, recognize the amazing current growth and give an intriguing glimpse into the future. All of the plays take us on an adventure - into growing up, learning about love and loss and celebrating the power of the human soul.