Bernard Shaw News

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Trenton playwright Mark Violi's World War II drama Riding the Comet will enjoy its world premiere production at Actors' Net.

Guthrie Theater Artistic Director Joe Dowling today announced that longtime Guthrie actor J. C. Cutler will play the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the Theater's 2011 production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, presented by U.S. Bank.

THE PEARL THEATRE COMPANY (J.R. Sullivan, Artistic Director) released today that Obie Award winner and Pearl company member Sean McNall will portray the doomed king in Shakespeare's poetic and powerful RICHARD II.

KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Celebrates 20th Anniversary Season A Sizzling Line Up of Smash Broadway Hits, Comedy Giants and Rock, Pop & Classical Music Superstars Joshua Bell, Chris Botti, Cleveland Orchestra, Larry King, Kings of Salsa, Patti LaBelle, Larry the Cable Guy, Huey Lewis & The News, Matisyahu, Dennis Miller, Bernadette Peters, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Pinchas Zukerman, Diana Krall, Martin Short, Wanda Sykes, & THE ADDAMS FAMILY, DAMN YANKEES, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, FOREVER TANGO, HAIR, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, LES MISÉRABLES, MAMMA MIA!, MY FAIR LADY, SOUTH PACIFIC And So Much More!

Stage West announces its lineup for the 33rd season! The new season offers a uniquely entertaining mix of plays, ranging from Shaw to Stoppard, and including the winner of Stage West's 2010 Texas Playwriting Competition.

LINES by Terence Patrick Hughes (Finding the Rooster at 13th Street Rep) is a gripping new play about race and humanity set in a fictional yet familiar country where a line has been laid down, separating blacks and whites. The production will be directed by Horse Trade Theater Group Artistic Director Heidi Grumelot (Donnie and the Monsters; PunkRockLoveSong) and presented by Horse Trade Theatre in association with Ice & Fire Theatre of London.

Westchester Broadway Theatre presents My Fair Lady, a show adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play 'Pygmalion' and Gabriel Pascal's motion picture.

THE PEARL THEATRE COMPANY (J.R. Sullivan, Artistic Director) presents a new production of Eugène Ionesco's THE BALD SOPRANO.

The Boulevard Theatre, 2252 South Kinnickinnic, opens its 26th season with the Wisconsin premiere of playwright Annie Baker's charming, quirky comedy ' CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION' (running Wednesday, August 17 through Sunday, September 4, 2011).

KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Celebrates 20th Anniversary Season A Sizzling Line Up of Smash Broadway Hits, Comedy Giants and Rock, Pop & Classical Music Superstars Joshua Bell, Chris Botti, Cleveland Orchestra, Larry King, Kings of Salsa, Patti LaBelle, Larry the Cable Guy, Huey Lewis & The News, Matisyahu, Dennis Miller, Bernadette Peters, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Pinchas Zukerman, Diana Krall, Martin Short, Wanda Sykes, & THE ADDAMS FAMILY, DAMN YANKEES, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, FOREVER TANGO, HAIR, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, LES MISÉRABLES, MAMMA MIA!, MY FAIR LADY, SOUTH PACIFIC And So Much More!

Chicago's avant-garde director, Max Truax, helms Henrik Ibsen's forgotten epic Brand.

The Old Globe has announced it's upcoming events from September through December. Among the theatre's offerings are THE TEMPEST, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, and SOMEWHERE.

Sound Theatre Company presents PYGMALION, George Bernard Shaw's immortal comedy about class identity and transformation, for only ten performances this August at Seattle Center's Center House Theatre. Eliza Doolittle, Henry Higgins and all your favorite characters fill the play that inspired the celebrated hit musical, My Fair Lady. A late summer delight, don't miss this romantic battle of wits opening August 19th and running through August 28th. PYGMALION performs Thursday through Sunday at 7:30 and 2:00pm including two Pay What You Can performances and a $10 Preview. Tickets for all performances are available online through Brown Paper Tickets www.brownpapertickets.com. See www.soundtheatrecompany.org for more information.

2011 has already become a defining year in the history of civil rights movements, with the long-awaited legalization of same-sex marriage in New York State.

The first London production for 90 years of St John Ervine's searing Belfast tragedy Mixed Marriage, first seen at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, plays for a four-week season from Tuesday, 4 October 2011 (Press Night: Thursday, 6 October 2011 at 7.30pm) at the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre.

The Denver Center Theatre Company will begin selling single tickets to the upcoming 2011/2012 season on Sunday, August 14. Tickets may be purchased online at www.denvercenter.org, by phone at 303.893.4100 (TTY 303.893.9582) or at the Denver Center Ticket Services in the lobby of the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex, Mon - Sat from 10am to 6pm. Special hours on Sunday, August 14 are from 10am to 2pm at the walkup counter in the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex. Phone agents will also take calls during this time.

Wes Driver directs a thoroughly charming and beautifully acted revival of G.K. Chesterton's first play, Magic, now onstage at the Shamblin Theatre on the David Lipscomb University campus in a sumptuously appointed production from Blackbird Theatre Company. Featuring a stellar cast of Nashville stage professionals, Magic might best be described as a gentle drawing-room comedy from the post-Edwardian period (it debuted in 1913) that somehow remains relevant and intriguing almost 100 years after its premiere.