Dick Baker News

American Stage Theatre Company opens the 28th annual American Stage in the Park with the musical production of THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, running April 24, 2013 and closing May 26, 2013. THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is a musical comedy sure to get the audience laughing. This production was conceived by Rebecca Feldman with music and lyrics by William Finn, a book by Rachel Sheinkin and additional material by Jay Reiss. The core of this play centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley High School with six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves. These kids eventually learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser. THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is a hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.

Casting has been announced for freeFall Theatre's upcoming production of The Frogs, adapted by Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove and later more freely adapted by Nathan Lane.

Casting has been announced for freeFall Theatre's upcoming production of The Frogs, adapted by Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove and later more freely adapted by Nathan Lane.

American Stage Theatre Company will produce the Broadway smash hit musical that changed a generation, HAIR, during the theatre's 25th anniversary production of American Stage in the Park, April 21 thru May 16. Pay What You Can nights are April 21 and 22.

American Stage Theatre Company will produce the off-Broadway smash hit musical-comedy, ALTAR BOYZ, during the theatre's 24th annual production of American Stage in the Park, April 15 thru May 10. Pay What You Can nights are April 15 and 16. Gala Under the Stars will be April 17 (fundraiser event).