Doug Haverty News

The new collection, EVERYONE HAS A STORY: THE SONGS OF ADRYAN RUSS, offers Broadway, pop, cabaret - even a holiday song - by this lyricist/composer of Inside Out, the award-winning off-Broadway musical about five women in group therapy that played New York's Cherry Lane and many theaters country-wide.

Joel Evans and Adryan Russ released CHANGING MY TUNE as a compilation of their best songs, representing the culmination of a creative partnership which has garnered numerous film and television placements.

Kritzerland has announced the release of the Original Broadway Cast Album of The People in the Picture, starring Tony Award winning actress Donna Murphy. The new CD features Book & Lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart, with Music by Mike Stoller & Artie Butler and is now available for purchase at www.kritzerland.com.

The Lyric Theatre on N. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles has announced a season of four plays for 2012, which will kick off February 10 with a new production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, followed by two world premieres, Jupiter Zoom by Callie Kimball, and Feedback by Jane Miller, and concluding with Aftershocks by Doug Haverty.

Sam and Bella Spewack's My Three Angels is one of those black yet heartwarming Christmas comedies, akin to It's A Wonderful Life, that really digs into the underbelly of the human condition. Christmas is never joyful for those facing unsettling economic and personal problems that cry out for even a temporary solution. Remedy? Out of the blue come three uniquely different convicts on a work release program who take jobs with a shopkeeper and his family on Devil's Island. They may begin with menial jobs, but through their darkly scheming, treacherous manner end up producing miracles. Now on stage at Group rep in NoHo, Larry Eisenberg's production of My Three Angels emanates heart and soul guaranteed to make it a truly big hit this holiday season.

The Group Rep is set to present Sam and Bella Spewack's dark comedy MY THREE ANGELS, directed by Larry Eisenberg, produced by Laura Coker and Troy Whitaker, opening Friday, December 9 at 8pm, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm, December 9, 2011 - January 15, 2012 (12/25 and 01/01, 7pm shows only) at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in the NoHo Arts District, North Hollywood, CA 91601.

Actor/playwright Doug Haverty has had a very busy 2011 both on stage and off. He discusses the local productions given his musicaliGhost and play Next Window, Please and his acting roles in two GRT productions: the recently closed Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and the upcoming My Three Angels, set to open December 9.

The Group Rep is set to present Sam and Bella Spewack's dark comedy MY THREE ANGELS, directed by Larry Eisenberg, produced by Laura Coker and Troy Whitaker, opening Friday, December 9 at 8pm, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm, December 9, 2011 - January 15, 2012 (12/25 and 01/01, 7pm shows only) at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in the NoHo Arts District, North Hollywood, CA 91601.

Off-Broadway musical INSIDE OUT has just been re-released on Kritzerland Records. A therapy group, headed by group leader (Grace), is transformed forever when a new person (Dena) joins the group and winds up being a catalyst for change in the lives of (Sage) a flower child of the ‘80s, a powerful businesswoman (Liz), a gay, bank employee single mom (Chlo) of a teenage son, and (Molly), a mother of two young children who's dealing with weight issues. Featuring tuneful music by Adryan Russ and insightful lyrics by Russ and Doug Haverty, Inside Out, is every bit as timely today as it was when it premiered off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater, where it received excellent reviews and praise for its amazing cast.

Actor/playwright Doug Haverty's latest world premiere play is a slice of life drama about the inner workings of a bank centering around the tellers who comprise the banking team. Entitled Next Window Please, the piece, despite its commendable message during our troubled economic times and its excellent cast and direction, now onstage at the GROUP rep in NoHo, never catches fire theatrically.

The Group Rep is proud to present the World Premiere dramedy, NEXT WINDOW, PLEASE by award-winning playwright Doug Haverty, directed by Richard Alan Woody, produced by Fran Freedman for the Group Rep, Saturday, August 13 - Saturday, September 17, 2011, at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in the NoHo Theatre and Arts District of North Hollywood.

Doug Haverty and Adryan Russ are getting ready to open their latest musical, iGhost, May 20th at the Lyric Theare in Los Angeles. Here they talk about what it's like to be longtime collaborators.

The Lyric Theatre on N. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, Dorrie Braun, Founder and Executive Director, has announced the world premiere of iGhost, a new musical with book by Doug Haverty, music by Adryan Russ, and lyrics by Adryan Russ and Doug Haverty, replacing the previously announced Dear World.

Last mounted by Group rep in 2008, Daniel Sullivan's intelligent and very funny Inspecting Carol is a farcical look at a production of Dickens' A Christmas Carol by a regional theatre, in this case the fictional Soap Box Playhouse. Group rep's current superb cast make their second production of it a worthy view.

Every once in awhile a new musical comes along that feels truly original. Theatre West is mounting what looks to be just such a show this month with Sally Spectre The Musical, A Children's Horror Story for Adults.

The 2009 Festival of New American Musicals, a four-month musical theatre festival, will be held in April through July, 2009, throughout Southern California. Marcia Seligson, Bob Klein, and Linda Shusett are the Executive Producers of the second annual Festival.

LML MUSIC released HALLWAYS, The Songs of Carol Hall on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 nationally in stores and online at iTunes and Amazon.com. The CD's critical and popular success has led to a second printing which was shipped Tuesday, January 20th nationally. The CD also remains available online at iTunes and Amazon.com. The first person ever to record one of Carol Hall's songs was the young Barbra Streisand. Subsequently, her songs were performed by such extraordinary singers as Tony Bennett, Barbara Cook, Margaret Whiting, Julie Wilson, Chita Rivera, Michael Feinstein, Mabel Mercer, Amanda McBroom, Lari White, Olivia Newton-John, Maureen McGovern, RuPaul, Miriam Makeba, David Campbell, Frederica von Stade, Kermit the Frog and Big Bird. Among others. She's also one of the few songwriters to have a hit Broadway show. Her classic musical The BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS entertained Broadway audiences for almost five years, received a Grammy nomination for its cast album, and became a popular film starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton. Dolly's recording of Carol's song 'Hard Candy Christmas' won an ASCAP Most Performed Country Song Award, and the film generated an ACADEMY AWARD nomination for Charles Durning, singing 'The Sidestep' as the slippery Governor of Texas.