David Lindsay-Abaire News

Producers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman announced the complete Broadway cast of AMERICAN IDIOT today. The production will begin previews on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 and open on Broadway Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at the St. James Theatre (246 West 44 Street).

Common Ground Theatre (www.cgtheatre.com) is a performance and teaching space located in west Durham, offering performing arts and educational groups a flexible, well-equipped alternative space.

Ordinary Days, Adam Gwon's charming musical ode to New York, will kick off the new year at South Coast Repertory. Fresh from a successful run at the Roundabout Theatre Company, Ordinary Days will close on January 24 on the Julianne Argyros Stage.

Theatre Southwest will present their production of David Lindsey-Abaire's play, WONDER OF THE WORLD, beginning December 31st with a special New Years Gala. The show will run through January 23rd. The cast for the production will include James Reed, Stacy A. Spaeth, Ananka Kohnitz, Cheryl Tanner, Brian Heaton, Jeanette Sebesta, and John Kaiser. The show is directed by David Holloway.

Convergence-Continuum has announced its upcoming productions for the 2010 season.

Fences, August Wilson's powerful story of a fractured African-American family in 1950s Pittsburgh, comes to South Coast Repertory's Segerstrom Stage January 22 through February 21.

Million Dollar Quartet has announces its new Chicago cast: Emmy Award-winning actor David Lago (Elvis Presley), accomplished musician/performer Lance Lipinsky (Jerry Lee Lewis), Chicago musician and actor Gabe Bowling (Carl Perkins), and Jeff Award nominee Sean Sullivan (Johnny Cash). The cast also includes Tim Decker ('Father of Rock 'n' Roll' Sam Phillips) and original Chicago cast members Kelly Lamont (Elvis' girlfriend Dyanne), Billy Shaffer (Fluke/Drummer) and Chuck Zayas (Jay Perkins/Bass). The new cast will begin performances on February 3, 2010.

AUDITIONS at Gallery Theater- Auditions will be held at the theater, 210 NE Ford St, McMinnville, OR.

South Coast Repertory tackles science fiction in its latest Theatre for Young Audiences production, an original adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's wildly popular young adult novel, A Wrinkle in Time. SCR Associate Artistic Director John Glore adapted this story of siblings Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, who travel through time to save their father from the dark force of It. Directed by Shelley Butler, Wrinkle runs Feb. 5-27 on the Julianne Argyros stage.

Stephen Sondheim turns 80 on Monday, March 22nd, 2010 and he will celebrate this landmark event with Roundabout Theatre Company at a special performance of Sondheim on Sondheim and star-studded tribute at Roundabout's 2010 Spring Gala: Sondheim 80.

Upcoming Events at DC Arts Center- Looking for a break from a cold and dreary winter? Escape this January into artist Adam de Boer's highly anticipated show, Memory Meets Imagination Halfway.

Silver Spring Stage presents Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman, directed by Jacy D'Aiutolo and produced by Matt Berman, an award winning political thriller, drawn from the author's native Chile, where roles are reversed between the torture survivor turns the table on her suspected oppressor. Death and the Maiden will perform weekends January 15 to February 7.

Goblins, ghouls and ghosts of the 1980s haunt SCR's latest world premiere, Doctor Cerberus, which makes its debut April 11 - May 2 on the Julianne Argyros Stage.

Award-winning stars are aligning for the annual Gala Benefit supporting the Ojai Playwrights Conference on Saturday, January 30, 2010 in Ojai, California.

Auditions for Kimberly Akimbo, by David Lindsay-Abaire will be held at the Dayton Theatre Guild, 430 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH 45410 on Monday and Tuesday, January 11 & 12, 2010, at 7 PM (both nights). Performance dates are Friday-Sunday, February 26-March 14, 2010. This production will be directed by Saul Caplan.

Auditions for Kimberly Akimbo, by David Lindsay-Abaire will be held at the Dayton Theatre Guild, 430 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH 45410 on Monday and Tuesday, January 11 & 12, 2010, at 7 PM (both nights). Performance dates are Friday-Sunday, February 26-March 14, 2010. This production will be directed by Saul Caplan.

Silver Spring Stage presents Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman, directed by Jacy D'Aiutolo and produced by Matt Berman, an award winning political thriller, drawn from the author's native Chile, where roles are reversed between the torture survivor turns the table on her suspected oppressor. Death and the Maiden will perform weekends January 15 to February 7.

In a story in Saturday's edition of the Wall Street Journal, drama critic Terry Teachout compiles a list of the 11 plays that rendered the most productions between 2000-01 and 2009-2010.

Auditions Jan. 5 and 6, 7pm. This 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner was written by David Lindsay-Abaire. It charts a family's bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.

Fences, August Wilson's powerful story of a fractured African-American family in 1950s Pittsburgh, comes to South Coast Repertory's Segerstrom Stage January 22 through February 21.