David Lindsay-Abaire News

DreamWorks Theatricals and NETworks Presentations, LLC. have announced that SHREK THE MUSICAL will play at The State Theatre Center in Easton for 3 performances, Tuesday, February 21 - Thursday, February 23 at 7 PM.

Running February 1-26, Caroline, or Change will be performed in the Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street.

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced its nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County theatre for the year 2011. The 43rd Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards ceremony will take place on Monday, March 19, 2012 at A Noise Within, the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, in its new 33,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art venue in Pasadena, thanks to the generous donation of A Noise Within's management. The theatre is located on the corner of Foothill Boulevard and Sierra Madre Villa Avenue at 3352 East Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91107. Tickets are $40, and should be reserved in advance from the LADCC's website, at www.ladramacriticscircle.com. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. for pre-show hors d'oeuvres (with no-host bar), and the show commences at 7:30 p.m.

As we arrive at the beginning of February, I trust you will want to make plans to see a couple of shows at some of our various Central Coast live performance and theatre venues!

Profiles Theatre continues its 23rd Season with the Midwest premiere of Bachelorette by Leslye Headland, directed by Profiles Associate Artistic Director Darrell W. Cox.

Dancap Productions presents SHREK THE MUSICAL with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori. It will play the Toronto Centre for the Arts, March 20- April 1, for two weeks only.

Avila Productions, LLC, by special arrangement with Cherry Lane Theatre in association with Jack Sharkey, has announced the world premiere of TERESA'S ECSTASY, written by Begonya Plaza and directed by Will Pomerantz.

New Feet Productions will present Leave the Balcony Open, a new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald.

Kentwood Players presenting David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Rabbit Hole" from January 13 to February 18, 2012 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2:00pm at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester (LA 90045).

The Kentwood Players present David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning play RABBIT HOLE from January 13 to February 18, 2012 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2:00pm at the Westchester Playhouse.

Starving Artist Studios, a new performing arts training facility in Central Florida, brings Tony-Award winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown to Orlando for a Concert and Master Class.

The Echo Theater Company has announced it will present the Los Angeles premiere of God's Ear, a play by Jenny Schwartz, directed by Rory Kozoll.

DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions are delighted to confirm full casting for SHREK THE MUSICAL® in 2012, with 11 new performers set to join the company.

Based on the 2001 animated comedy, Shrek is a perfect "gateway drug" to Broadway musicals

Cynthia Nixon returns to MTC to star in the Broadway premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play WIT by Margaret Edson, directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow. The limited engagement of WIT begins previews tonight and opens Thursday, January 26, 2012 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

Acclaimed stage and screen actress Jane Kaczmarek (Broadway's Lost in Yonkers and television's Malcom in the Middle) takes on the role of Margie Walsh in the Geffen Playhouse production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People. Helmed by prominent local director Matt Shakman, an Emmy Award winner for his television directing work and current artistic director of LA's Black Dahlia theater, the West Coast premiere of Good People, presented by One West Bank, begins in previews on April 3, 2012 and officially opens in the Gil Cates Theater at the Geffen Playhouse on April 11, 2012.

Profiles Theatre continues its 23rd Season with the Midwest premiere of Bachelorette by Leslye Headland, directed by Profiles Associate Artistic Director Darrell W. Cox.

Shrek The Musical will spread goodwill and cheer this festive season. On Thursday, December 15, 2011, students from Blessed Sacrament RC Primary School, Islington treated audience members to Christmas carols following the matinee performance at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

The Echo Theater Company has announced it will present the Los Angeles premiere of God's Ear, a play by Jenny Schwartz, directed by Rory Kozoll.

SHREK THE MUSICAL will play the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Wed. Dec. 14 & Thurs. Dec. 15 at 7:30 pm.