Harry A. Jansen News

On the Monday, November 15, 2010 episode of the ABC show, THE VIEW, host Whoopi Goldberg talked about THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS. Here's what she said...

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center presents "one singular sensation" with the new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony® Award-winning musical A Chorus Line for a limited one-week engagement November 9 through 14.

The Tony Award-nominated The Lion in Winter by James Goldman takes the stage at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey for a four-week run beginning October 20 and continuing through November 14.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents its 6th annual First Look Repertory of New Work-three developmental productions of new plays presented in rotating repertory playing October 27 - November 14, 2010 in Steppenwolf's Merle Reskin Garage Theatre, 1624 N. Halsted St.

In this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly (November 19th is the cover date), THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS makes the magazine's 'The Must List'. Writing about the show, the magazine notes that 'As musicals go, the telling of the painful history of nine black men falsely accused of rape in 1931 could seem a challenge. But Boys is a moving, subversive look at America's racist past, set to a glorious score.'

The cast and crew of THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS welcomed their second star-studded visitor this week, stage and screen actress Whoopi Goldberg, on Thursday, November 11, 2010. Denzel Washington and his wife stopped by earlier this week.

Glee has released some sneak peaks of the songs from the new episode 'The Substitute.' The Substitute is the twenty-ninth episode of Glee, and seventh episode in the second season. It will be aired on November 16th, 2010.

LCT3's world premiere production of THE COWARD, a new play by Nick Jones, directed by Sam Gold, opens on Monday, November 22 at 6:45 pm at The Duke on 42nd Street, a NEW 42ND STREET® project, 229 W. 42 Street. LCT3 is Lincoln Center Theater's programming initiative devoted to producing the work of new artists and developing new audiences. THE COWARD is the first of three LCT3 productions during its 2010-2011 season.

Stage and screen actor Denzel Washington, who received his first Tony award for FENCES, visited the cast and company of THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS on Tuesday, November 9, 2010. THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS began previews on October 7 at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street) and opened on October 31, 2010. THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS stars John Cullum as Interlocutor, Joshua Henry as Haywood Patterson, Colman Domingo as Mr. Bones, Forrest McClendon as Mr. Tambo, Sharon Washington as The Lady, Josh Breckenridge as Olen Montgomery, Derrick Cobey as Andy Wright, Jeremy Gumbs as Eugene Williams, Rodney Hicks as Clarence Norris, KendRick Jones as Willie Roberson, James T. Lane as Ozie Powell and Ruby Bates, Julius Thomas III as Roy Wright, and Christian Dante White as Charles Weems and Victoria Price. The production also features E. Clayton Cornelious, JC Montgomery, Clinton Roane and Cherene Snow.

The spring 2011 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, it was announced by the Museum today.

THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS began previews on October 7 at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street) and opened on October 31, 2010. The production team has just released the latest television spot for the show, including quotes of acclaim. Click below for a look!

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center presents "one singular sensation" with the new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony® Award-winning musical A Chorus Line for a limited one-week engagement November 9 through 14.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony® Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center for a limited one-week engagement November 9 through 14. Tickets for A Chorus Line start at $43 and go on sale Friday, September 24, 2010 at 10:00 a.m

THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, the exhilarating new Kander & Ebb musical, opened Sunday, October 31 at the Lyceum Theatre. Since it's celebrated opening, the show has been the target of protests, as was first mentioned on BroadwayWorld.com's Broadway Message Board HERE and is still be debated HERE. One poster calling for a boycott of the show asks: 'When is Racist Terrorism Musical Entertainment? Where is the Song and Dance Musicals about Gas Chambers, World Trade Center or Japanese Internment Camps?'

Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director) will present the world premiere of Imagining Heschel, a new play by Colin Greer, directed by Larry Moss, who was last represented Off-Broadway by his acclaimed production of Syringa Tree. The two-character play will feature actors Richard Dreyfuss and Rinde Eckert. Performances begin at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street, NYC) on Thursday, November 4th, 2010, and continue through Sunday, November 28th, 2010, for 20 performances only. An official opening night is set for Monday, November 8, 2010.

LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater's programming initiative devoted to producing the work of new artists and developing new audiences, has announced that Steven Boyer, Jarlath Conroy, John Patrick Dougherty, Stephen Ellis, Richard Poe, Kristen Schaal, Jeremy Strong, and Christopher Evan Welch will be featured in its world premiere production of THE COWARD, a new play by Nick Jones, directed by Sam Gold, the first of LCT3's three productions during the 2010-2011 season.

Grosse Pointe Theatre presents the classic musical, Annie Get Your Gun, music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields.

Previews begin Monday, November 8 at 8pm at The Duke on 42nd Street, a NEW 42ND STREET® project, (229 W. 42 Street), for LCT3's world premiere production of THE COWARD, a new play by Nick Jones, directed by Sam Gold. LCT3 is Lincoln Center Theater's programming initiative devoted to producing the work of new artists and developing new audiences.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning® musical A CHORUS LINE comes to The Morris Performing Arts Center in South Bend for a limited engagement November 5th through 6th.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning® musical A CHORUS LINE comes to The Morris Performing Arts Center in South Bend for a limited engagement November 5th through 6th.