Christopher Ashley News

Joe Mandragona, Jenny Fellner and Susan Anton will headline the 30-stop national tour of All Shook Up, for which dates and cities have been announced

Christine Baranski, Jeff Daniels, George Grizzard, Mark Linn-Baker and Sian Phillips will be among the stars who will appear in Manhattan Theatre Club's 2006-2007 season

Anthony Rapp, Alan Cumming, Barrett Foa, Peter Sarsgaard and more will star in a benefit reading of Joe DiPietro's Men at Ars Nova on June 19th

The Barrington Theatre Company's first Musical Theatre Lab will feature workshops of three new shows, including one by the creators of Grey Gardens

The Center Theatre Group has announced the casting of film star Laurence Fishburne in Without Walls, a new play by Alfred Uhry running at the Mark Taper Forum from June 1st through July 16th at the Los Angeles Theatre

Combining all-time favorite Elvis Presley songs with a surefire rock'n'roll story, All Shook Up, the musical that took Broadway by storm last season, will launch a 35-city First National tour starting September 12th at Milwaukee's Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.

Variety reports this morning that the cult-film Xanadu is set to arrive Off-Broadway in the Spring 207. The musical will have a book by Douglas Carter Beane, and direction by Christopher Ashley.

A national tour of All Shook Up will launch in Milwaukee in September of this year

Donna English, Jenny Fellner and Tom Hewitt will be featured in a March 9th private industry reading of Matthew Wilder and David Zippel's Princesses

BroadwayWorld was there for the opening night party of Defiance, the new John Patrick Shanley drama that opened on February 28th

The Princess Grace Foundation-USA has announced the availability of applications for the 2006 Princess Grace Awards in Theater and Playwriting with application and postmark deadlines of March 31, 2006

On October 24th, dozens of stars such as Adam Pascal, Rosie Perez, Cady Huffman, Amanda Peet, as well as a number of prominent writers and directors will take part in the 24 Hour Plays at the American Airlines Theatre

A look back at three entries from the New York Musical Theater Festival

30 Days of NYMF on BroadwayWorld continues with the scoop on The Big Time, with Douglas Carter Beane and Douglas J. Cohen's The Big Time.

Fresh from being interviewed on 'Breakfast with the Arts,' All Shook Up's Cheyenne Jackson will appear with Jenn Gambatese on Good Morning America on August 10th and on 'All My Children' on September 14th

All Shook Up's Cheyenne Jackson and Jenn Gambatese will perform 'Follow That Dream' on an episode of All My Children on September 14th

Cheyenne Jackson will serve as the emcee for the latest Monday Nights, New Voices concert at the Duplex, where All Shook Up ensemble members will perform on July 25th

Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) opens this year's Nikos Stage season with Create Fate on July 13 at 8:00 p.m.

Michael McKean, Joe Pantoliano, Sarah Chalke and Gaby Hoffman have been cast in some of the shows featured in this summer's Williamstown Theatre Festival, which runs from July 6th to August 28th