Bernard Shaw News

The weather is so beautiful and the dogwoods, azaleas, tulips, and magnolias are in full bloom, and as May rolls around, DC area theatres are bursting with new productions.

Tennessee Repertory Theatre has announced its schedule for the Martha R. Ingram New Works Festival. The festival will be held April 28 - May 8 at Nashville Children's Theatre and will feature staged readings of new plays from seven local playwrights as well as Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner David Auburn.

What did an eminent museum curator, a Dominican Abbess, and George Bernard Shaw have to say to each other? Plenty! The Best of Friends gives us Shaw himself, largely in his own words, along with two extraordinary figures from the early 20th century.

The Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 22nd Season with WHITE WOMAN STREET by Sebastian Barry, author of 'Our Lady of Sligo' and 'The Steward of Christendom'. Directed by Charlotte Moore

Beyond their superior choice in season, ShawChicago puts on a thoroughly entertaining reading with The Doctor's Dilemma. The cast found a pace to the language in which they were able to nail every joke and find the subtleties of Shaw's humor without getting campy. I also never once looked at my watch, which is a fete within itself, being that when Shaw is done incorrectly, it can be unbearably long.

The Pearl Theatre Company will host its exciting and intimate 26th season Gala on Monday, April 26, 2010, honoring award-winning artists Austin Pendleton and Marian Seldes. The evening, which is The Pearl's largest fundraising event of the year, includes a cocktail reception, a three-course dinner, various raffle prizes, and one-of-a-kind live entertainment at The Yale Club of New York.

On Sunday, April 25, off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre concludes the run of of its hit revival of George Bernard Shaw's CANDIDA, recently nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival, at the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) in Manhattan.

Today, we present the final section of the Sondheim Palooza for this week with a discussion of Sondheim's work in the last two decades. The shows themselves stand as solid proof that this is a composer/lyricist still at the absolute height of his abilities and at the top of his game, as we can very clearly hear in the scores for ASSASSINS, PASSION, THE FROGS and ROAD SHOW...

Following sell-outs, in both Kensington Gardens and The O2 in London last year, Three Sixty Entertainment's production of 'PETER PAN' has moved lock, stock and barrel to San Francisco, where it is to be performed in Ferry Park, with previews beginning on 27 April.

On Sunday, April 25, off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre concludes the run of of its hit revival of George Bernard Shaw's CANDIDA, recently nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival, at the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) in Manhattan.

Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW opened John Bull'S OTHER ISLAND: an Irish Comedy of Passion and Potcheen by George Bernard Shaw on Monday, April 19, hosted by New York Post columnist and 'Theater Talk co-host' Michael Riedel. BroadwayWorld was on hand to capture the evening.

The tale of the Cockney girl-turned-aristocrat comes to life at Mercer County Community College's Kelsey Theatre. Pierrot Productions presents the celebrated Broadway musical, 'My Fair Lady,' Fridays, May 7 and 14 at 8 p.m.; Saturdays, May 8 and 15 at 2 and 8 p.m.; and Sundays, May 9 and 16 at 2 p.m. Kelsey Theatre is conveniently located on Mercer's West Windsor campus at 1200 Old Trenton Road.

Wendy Moore, author of the popular novel 'Wedlock,' will pen a novel based on real life Eliza Doolittle, Sabrina Sidney, the basis for the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion and the hit Lerner and Lowe musical, My Fair Lady. The novel, entitled 'How to Create the Perfect Wife,' is currently in publication negotiations.

Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW presents JOHN BULL'S OTHER ISLAND: an Irish Comedy of Passion and Potcheen by George Bernard Shaw

Abingdon Theatre Company presents the New York premiere of John Morogiello's ENGAGING SHAW -- a new Off-Broadway play following the real-life courtship and battle of wits between socialite Charlotte Payne-Townshend and playwright George Bernard Shaw -- with an official press opening April 18 at Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (312 West 36th Street) in Manhattan. Jackob G. Hofmann to direct.

Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre will end its run of CANDIDA -- George Bernard Shaw's classic about a clergyman and his wife who captures the attention of a young poet -- on April 18th at the Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan. Tony and Oscar Award-winner Tony Walton, who helmed the Irish Repertory's acclaimed revivals of Shaw's THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE and MAJOR BARBARA, directed the run of the show.

The A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Program and Young Conservatory present the world premiere production of Riot, celebrated Irish playwright Ursula Rani Sarma's hard-hitting play, in the newest commission from A.C.T.'s international partnership with Britain's Theatre Royal Bath. Directed by Young Conservatory Director Craig Slaight and featuring young actors from the A.C.T. M.F.A. Program and Young Conservatory, Riot follows the story of a young man who lands in a residency clinic for emotionally disturbed teens following an unexpected act of violence. Riot weaves Max's relationships with his fellow patients, his doctor, and his nurses into a moving portrait of the deep human need for connection. The show plays April 1-17, 2010, at Zeum Theater, located at Yerba Buena Gardens (Fourth and Howard streets). Tickets are $15.50-$20.50 and are available by calling A.C.T. Ticket Services at 415.749.2228 or online at www.act-sf.org.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) is to tape the Irish Repertory Theatre's hit revival of George Bernard Shaw's CANDIDA on April 21. As previously announced, the acclaimed production, which recently received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Revival, has been extended until Sunday, April 25 at the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) in Manhattan.

Abingdon Theatre Company presents New York Premiere of John Morogiello's ENGAGING SHAW, directed by Jackob G. Hofmann

Abingdon Theatre Company presents the New York premiere of John Morogiello's ENGAGING SHAW -- a new Off-Broadway play following the real-life courtship and battle of wits between socialite Charlotte Payne-Townshend and playwright George Bernard Shaw -- with an official press opening April 18 at Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (312 West 36th Street) in Manhattan. Jackob G. Hofmann to direct.