Brian Hutchison News

Broadway's cuddliest friends kick off a new year with the 13th annual BROADWAY BEARS auction on Sunday, February 14, 2010 at the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, in support of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Sure to out-do last year's collection, 43 one-of-a-kind BROADWAY BEARS - each dressed in original, handmade costumes representing some of the theater's most legendary performers and/or performances - will be put up for auction.

Valerie Harper, who is about to return to Broadway as Tallulah Bankhead in LOOPED, will be a guest on WOR's 'Joan Hamburg Show' today Wednesday, February 3rd from 12:30- 1 PM on 710AM.

The producers of LOOPED, the new Broadway comedy, announced today that Brian Hutchison and Michael Mulheren will complete the company. They join Valerie Harper in the Matthew Lombardo comedy, directed by Rob Ruggiero. LOOPED will play the Lyceum Theatre . Previews begin on February 19 and opening night is Sunday March 14.

No dear playgoers, it has not come to pass that some smart producer put up a quickie, low-budget revival of Spamalot in the Barrymore Theatre and tried cutting costs by removing all the songs. But there's definitely a Pythonic style in the look and text of Ionesco's Exit The King as co-adapted by Geoffrey Rush (who also stars) and Neil Armfield (who also directs). You can sense it in the way Brian Hutchison, as a faithfully detail-oriented armored guard, dutifully announces each royal occurrence as it happens, correcting himself, when necessary, with bellowing authority ('The King is dead.'... 'The King's alive.'... 'Long live the king.'). It's there when AndRea Martin, as a sullen, much-abused servant, makes a comic production out of trying to keep the monarchs' royal robes draped straight, and it's abundantly present when Rush, as the 400-year-old King Berenger, who is down to his last 90 minutes of life ('When the play is over you'll be dead.'), kicks up what's left of his heels in a silly little dance.

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Variety reports that Oscar winner Susan Sarandon will screen her latest two film projects at the 2009 Hamptons Film Festival.

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The award winning talent on Bay Street's stage continues, as the next production swung into full gear on July 7th with Mercedes Ruehl in the American Premiere of Dinner. In this outrageously funny chiller by Moira Buffini, the climax is one that audiences should be careful not to share with others!

As the end of June approaches, so too does the final curtain on Bay Street's bewitching comedy, Bell, Book and Candle, by John Van Druten. Recently reviewed by the press as 'beautifully cast, marvelously acted, ebulliently directed and stunningly designed...,' this first fully-staged production of Bay Street's Summer 2009 season is a unanimous success.

'Revenge is a dish best served cold,' but at this dinner party it is served frozen. Dinner, an American Premiere written by Moira Buffini, is a wicked satirical comedy, where caustic comments fly like poisonous darts across the dinner table.

As the end of June approaches, so too does the final curtain on Bay Street's bewitching comedy, Bell, Book and Candle, by John Van Druten. Recently reviewed by the press as 'beautifully cast, marvelously acted, ebulliently directed and stunningly designed...,' this first fully-staged production of Bay Street's Summer 2009 season is a unanimous success.

The critically acclaimed Broadway production of EXIT THE KING will begin the final two weeks of its limited engagement, set to end Sunday, June 14 at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street). The production will have played 21 previews and 93 regular performances.

EXIT THE KING's Tony nominated Geoffrey Rush is currently featured in the July issue of Vanity Fair, now on stands. Rush was photographed by Howard Schatz for the magazine's ?In Character' feature.

The critically acclaimed Broadway production of EXIT THE KING will begin the final two weeks of its limited engagement, set to end Sunday, June 14 at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street). The production will have played 21 previews and 93 regular performances.

EXIT THE KING's Tony nominated Geoffrey Rush is currently featured in The New Yorker's new video series, Conversations with John Lahr.

EXIT THE KING's Tony nominated star Geoffrey Rush joined the Sardi's Wall of Fame this week and BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the moment. Rush has been nominated for the Tony and Drama League Awards and won the Dream Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards. EXIT THE KING is a limited engagement on Broadway, running through June 14, 2009.

EXIT THE KING's Susan Sarandon will be a live guest on 'Live with Regis & Kelly' this Thursday, May 21 between 9-10AM. EXIT THE KING is a limited engagement, through June 14 only.

EXIT THE KING's Tony nominated Geoffrey Rush will be a featured guest on 'CBS2 News Sunday' this Sunday, May 17 at approximately 6:50AM. For his portrayal of ?King Berenger,' Rush has been nominated for the Tony, Drama Desk and Drama League Awards and won the Outer Critic Circle and Theatre World Awards. EXIT THE KING is a limited engagement, through June 14 only.

13P, the OBIE-winning company comprising 13 playwrights presented its spring benefit The First (and Last) Annual 'THIRTINI AWARDS' at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, for one performance only on Monday, May 11.

San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater today announced that due to overwhelming popular response, the company will extend its Bay Area Premiere of Will Eno's London and Off-Broadway hit THOM PAIN (based on nothing) a second time; the company has added three weeks of shows in addition to the previously announced extension to April 19. THOM PAIN (based on nothing) plays now through May 9.