Genevieve News

Last night was the Drama League's 35th Annual Benefit Gala: A Musical Celebration of Broadway honoring film, television, theater icon and three-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane. The black-tie evening also celebrated theater producer Fran Weissler for Visionary Leadership in American Theater. BroadwayWorld was there and you can check out all the photos below!

"Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play," written by Anne Washburn and directed by Kyle Cooper, features a group of survivors after the collapse of civilization. The survivors surround a campfire and reminisce about the plot of an episode of "The Simpsons" television show titled "Cape Feare." The production runs November 9-December 2, 2018 in the Young Theatre on campus with Musical Direction by Craig Shields and Choreography by Angeline Mirenda.

Last night, Schimmel Center presented the first of two Salon Songbook concerts this season, Feeling Wicked: The Magical Side of the American Songbook. The concert, created and hosted by Deborah Grace Winer-formerly the artistic director of the acclaimed 92Y series Lyrics and Lyricists-explored the mysterious, magical, and miraculous side of the American Songbook with songs by Harold Arlen, Lerner and Loewe, Cy Coleman, Stephen Schwartz, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Disney classics, and more.

BROADWAY MEMORIES is the latest concert in Patchogue Theatre's new Broadway series with New York Casting Director and Producing Artistic Director Stephen DeAngelis. In Broadway Memories, five of Broadway's finest performers gather on stage to belt some of Broadway's most memorable musical numbers and share anecdotes from their careers. Scheduled performers include TODD BUONOPANE (Chicago; Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Grease), Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner ROBERT CUCCIOLI (Jekyll & Hyde; Les Miserables; Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark), JANINE DIVITA (If/Then; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Anything Goes; Grease), DAN'YELLE WILLIAMSON (Memphis; Scandalous) and JENNIFER HOPE WILLS (The Phantom of the Opera; Wonderful Town; Beauty and the Beast; The Woman in White). Musical Director / Accompanist will be Wendy Cavett (Hamilton; Come From Away). Relive your favorite Broadway hits live on stage performed by some of Broadway's biggest stars right now.

99 WOMEN, a play by Genevieve Flaven, directed by Genevieve Yiming Wang, opened at the Glicker-Milstein Theater on November 1st, 2018. This production with Columbia Blue Glaze Theater explores what it means to identify as a woman in contemporary times. Boldly presenting 99 monologues in three languages with an All-Asian Cast, the play has caught the attention of mainstream media both in the United States and in the People's Republic of China, including Forbes China, Elle China, Voice Of America, China Daily, SinoVision China, World Journal, and The Global Times. The play is part of the ongoing project "The 99 Project" and has been staged internationally in Shanghai, India, and France. Miss Wang addresses the audience in the premiere, "From 99 to 100, we are always in search of one more story."

After producing Off-Broadway's first ancient Chinese drama 'Where Is My Maple Town,' Genevieve Yiming Wang directs'99 Women,' a new play written by Genevieve Flaven. It opens at Glicker-Milstein Theatre on November 1st, 2018. The play incorporates three different languages (Mandarin-Chinese, French, and English), all of which will be featured in this production.

Columbia Blue Glaze Theater will be staging a production of 99 Women by French playwright Genevieve Flaven in the Glicker-Milstein Theater. The production, directed by Genevieve Wang, seeks to explore what it means to identify as a woman in contemporary times and tells the stories of 99 women from all over the world. The stories, based on interviews conducted with real women, will be told in the form of sequential monologues about their individual lived experiences. What happens when a woman does not conform to the ideals of society? Or even when they do conform? The characters in this play speak of their bodies, their families, their friends, the men in their lives, their relationships with other women, and most importantly, they speak of themselves. 99 Women does not promise to provide answers, but rather, seeks to complicate the audience's understanding of what it means to exist as a woman in a world where women's voices are more important than ever.

Jon Spencer and director Alex Italics return with another psychedelic, wickedly hilarious trip into the rotten core of the American dream!

Irvine Barclay Theatre was recently informed that Bebe Neuwirth is withdrawing from her concert engagement at Irvine Barclay Theatre on March 16th. Scheduling conflicts will preclude her from being able to perform at the Barclay as planned. In her stead, the Barclay is announcing a performance on the same date, March 16, 2019 at 8pm, of 4 GIRLS 4 featuring four legendary Broadway singers and actresses.

Columbia Blue Glaze Theater will be staging a production of 99 Women by French playwright Genevieve Flaven in the Glicker-Milstein Theater. The production, directed by Genevieve Wang, seeks to explore what it means to identify as a woman in contemporary times and tells the stories of 99 women from all over the world. The stories, based on interviews conducted with real women, will be told in the form of sequential monologues about their individual lived experiences. What happens when a woman does not conform to the ideals of society? Or even when they do conform? The characters in this play speak of their bodies, their families, their friends, the men in their lives, their relationships with other women, and most importantly, they speak of themselves. 99 Women does not promise to provide answers, but rather, seeks to complicate the audience's understanding of what it means to exist as a woman in a world where women's voices are more important than ever.

This week the Actors Fund honored 2017 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award winner Baayork Lee; Tony and Drama Desk Award winner Jerry Mitchell; Emmy Award winner John Deluca; and Tony nominated, Emmy and Academy Award winner Rob Marshall; with a special Actors Fund Medal of Honor presented to actress, dancer and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, at The Actors Fund's Career Transition For Dancers Masquerade Ball.

After producing Off-Broadway's first ancient Chinese drama 'Where Is My Maple Town,' Genevieve Yiming Wang directs'99 Women,' a new play written by Genevieve Flaven. It opens at Glicker-Milstein Theatre on November 1st, 2018. The play incorporates three different languages (Mandarin-Chinese, French, and English), all of which will be featured in this production.

AVENUE Q welcomes new cast members, Matt Dengler, Lacretta, Jamie Glickman and Rob Morrison, along with the previously announced addition of Gizel Jimemez as the legendary show continues to perform Off Broadway at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) in NYC. AVENUE Q is now in its 16th year on stage in NYC.

The #PhantomFashion30 designs were revealed during an exclusive invite-only event sponsored by Bank of America on Tuesday, October 30. BroadwayWorld was there at the event and you can check out photos of the stars arriving, as well as the performance at the event, below!

The Phantom of the Opera celebrated its unprecedented 30th Anniversary in New York City on January 26, 2018. To mark the occasion, 30 designers were tasked to transform the look of the iconic Phantom mask -originally designed by Maria Bjornson and realized by milliner Rodney Gordon - in their own aesthetic vision for a one-of-a-kind mask.

Columbia Blue Glaze Theater will be staging a production of 99 Women by French playwright Genevieve Flaven in the Glicker-Milstein Theater. The production, directed by Genevieve Wang, seeks to explore what it means to identify as a woman in contemporary times and tells the stories of 99 women from all over the world. The stories, based on interviews conducted with real women, will be told in the form of sequential monologues about their individual lived experiences. What happens when a woman does not conform to the ideals of society? Or even when they do conform? The characters in this play speak of their bodies, their families, their friends, the men in their lives, their relationships with other women, and most importantly, they speak of themselves. 99 Women does not promise to provide answers, but rather, seeks to complicate the audience's understanding of what it means to exist as a woman in a world where women's voices are more important than ever.

The Animals and Children Took To The Streets twists together retro imagery and animation with cabaret and mime for some elegantly sinister storytelling.

The 2019 Adelaide Festival program to be launched on 30 October 2018 at the Adelaide Town Hall and on 31 October at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, demonstrates conclusively that the Adelaide Festival, Australia's pre-eminent arts festival, remains the dominant creative powerhouse of Southern-hemisphere celebrations.

"Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play," written by Anne Washburn and directed by Kyle Cooper, features a group of survivors after the collapse of civilization. The survivors surround a campfire and reminisce about the plot of an episode of "The Simpsons" television show titled "Cape Feare." The production runs November 9-December 2, 2018 in the Young Theatre on campus with Musical Direction by Craig Shields and Choreography by Angeline Mirenda.

Stephen DeAngelis presented BROADWAY FRIGHT NIGHT, a celebration of songs from musicals with Supernatural, Horror and Sci-Fi themes, on Monday, October 29th at Green Room 42, Green Fig.