Genevieve News

Celebrity judges, showbiz-inspired design challenges and an impressive exhibition of creativity await viewers of the returning HGTV Design Star. Premiering on Tuesday, May 29, at 9 p.m. ET/PT, the series' seventh season highlights talented interior designers, stylists and artists as they compete to win their own HGTV show.

David Saint took time out of his busy schedule to speak with BWW about the current National tour of West Side Story as well as to remember his close friend and trusted mentor, famed librettist, director and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, who passed away a year ago at the age of 93.

Tenors Daniel Rodriguez, Andy Cooney and Ronan Tynan performed in concert last night, April 28, at Our Lady of Lourdes Auditorium for a benefit show for Tenor Michael Amante's (one of the New York Tenors) wife Seema, who passed away suddenly on December 28, 2011, leaving Amante and his three young children with financial difficulties. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the benefit below!

York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director), celebrating the legendary librettist and lyricist Tom Jones with Musicals in Mufti: The Tom Jones Festival, presents the fourth musical in the spring series: Colette Collage, with Book & Lyrics by Tom Jones and Music by Harvey Schmidt. The limited engagement will play 5 performances only now through April 29 at The York Theatre at Saint Peter's (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). BroadwayWorld brings you photos from last night's opening with Christine Andreas, Vanessa Reseland, Jo Ann Cunningham and more below!

A previously announced event at the Gallo Center for the Arts has taken on added star power with the news that performers from the Fox Television hit "Glee" will be appearing. The television show's casting director Robert Ulrich of Modesto, and his wife, actress Kim Johnston-Ulrich of Ripon, are to be honored in April at a "Hometown Heroes" event, a continuing series at the Gallo Center that salutes area residents who have achieved national success in their fields.

Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW presented George Bernard Shaw's WIDOWERS' HOUSES - the play that started him on his epic playwriting journey - on Monday, April 23 at The Players Club in Manhattan. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the show, which was produced and directed by David Staller, and brings you photo coverage below!

The NHTP Senior Repertory Company presents Antigone, running May 18-27, in a translation by Lewis Galantiere from the play by Jean Anouilh, which was adapted from the original Greek play by Sophocles. Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, is sentenced to execution for burying her dead brother after her uncle, King Creon, declares that his body is to be left for the vultures. The prohibition against desecrating the dead is almost as old as war itself; and recently brought swift punishment to American Marines in Afghanistan.

Beginning Wednesday, April 25 and running through Wednesday August 8, Go Comedy! Improv Theater will host the third annual Bailout Improv Tournament Spectacular (BITS).

The limited engagement will be at The Way Off Broadway Theatre in the Willowtree Plaza off the Golden Mile (Route 40 West) in Frederick, Maryland with performances Thursday evening, May 24, Friday, evening May 25, and Saturday evening, May 26, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students and must be purchased with cash or check. Tickets can be purchased by visiting the theatre's Box Office or calling (301) 662-6600.

PERFECT CRIME, Warren Manzi's long-running funny, romantic thriller, celebrated its 25th anniversary Off Broadway last Wednesday, April 18, 2012, with performance number 10,233. PERFECT CRIME is the longest-running play in the history of New York theater. See photos from the celebration below!

EBE Ensemble (Eric Alba, Artistic Director) will present the fifth installment of their New York Innovative Theatre Award-winning one-act play festival, May 3-12 at the 4th Street Theatre (83 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery). Elephants on Parade 2012 will feature new plays by Jeff Carter, Patrick Gabridge, Barbara Lindsay, Jen Silverman, Sonya Sobieski, and John Weagly.

The New Hampshire Theatre Project closes its production of Dreaming Again, written and directed by Genevieve Aichele with music by Agnes Charlesworth, tonight, April 15.

EgoPo Classic Theater ends its world premiere of The Golem. This one-of-a-kind devised theatrical event was created by the cast under the direction of EgoPo's literary director, Brenna Geffers. The second installment of EgoPo's season long Festival of Jewish Theater, The Golem was performed at the Prince Music Theater and closes tonight, April 15.

The New Hampshire Theatre Project presents Dreaming Again, written and directed by Genevieve Aichele with music by Agnes Charlesworth, April 13-15. Dreaming Again is an original dramatic play based on stories of Granite State immigrants and refugees who have resettled in New Hampshire over the past 100 years. Drawn from interviews with 30 different contemporary immigrants, as well as literary and historic sources, Dreaming Again celebrates both the joys and difficulties of arriving as a stranger and learning how to be a citizen in your new home. As a recent immigrant says so eloquently: Like a child, I am teaching myself how to dream again.

After a successful Kickstarter campaign with GrooveBox Studios, Go Comedy! Improv Theater is set to welcome back Robocop! The Musical May 31st with a new, professionally recorded score, original cast album and more.

Leading lady Catherine Russell has performed the role of Margaret Thorne Brent more than 10,000 times since the play's Off Broadway opening on April 18, 1987, and she has yet to take a single sick day off.

EBE Ensemble will present the fifth installment of their award-winning one-act play festival with performances running from May 3 to 12 at the 4th Street Theatre (83 E 4th Street, between 2nd Ave and Bowery). Elephants on Parade 2012 will feature new plays by Jeff Carter, Patrick Gabridge, Barbara Lindsay, Jen Silverman, Sonya Sobieski, and John Weagly.

Single Carrot Theatre presents a spectacularly inventive interpretation of Charles Mee's HOTEL CASSIOPEIA.

York Theatre Company is celebrating the legendary librettist and lyricist Tom Jones with Musicals in Mufti: The Tom Jones Festival this spring. First up was Roadside, with Book & Lyrics by Tom Jones and Music by Harvey Schmidt. Directed by David Glenn Armstrong, the cast featured original Roadside cast member Ryan Alexander, Erick Devine (Seussical), Janine DiVita (Odyssey, The Musical), Jamie LaVerdiere (The Producers), Daniel C. Levine (Les Miserables), Ed Watts (The Fantasticks) and Nick Wyman (The Phantom of the Opera).

On Saturday, March 24, Judy Collins joined Ronan Tynan onstage at the St. George Theatre in Staten Island. BroadwayWorld was there and brings you photo coverage below!