Genevieve News

New Hampshire Theatre Project's 2010-11 Season continues with Amadeus, Peter Shaffer's exquisite masterpiece and winner of a Tony Award for Best Play and an Academy Award for Best Film. After 20 years and six versions, this latest script is hailed by reviewers as an 'extraordinarily focused and lucid play' that is far superior to the original which opened on Broadway 30 years ago. Infused with Mozart's brilliant and heartbreaking music, the story of Court Composer Antonio Salieri's fierce jealousy of child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is theatre at its very best - a dramatic power struggle between two imperfect human creatures and their perfect Divine Muse. Directed by Genevieve Aichele, with costume design by Michele Macadaeg and set/lighting design by Quentin Stockwell, NHTP's production takes place in a world that is both magically distant and disconcertingly close to home.

Infamous Commonwealth Theatre (ICT) opens the first production of their 2011 season dedicated to the topic Sacrifice with Henrik Ibsen's A Dolls House, directed by ICT Artistic Director Chris Maher.

The singer-actress Raissa Katona Bennett explores the songbook of Jerome Kern in a new show, "Can't Help Singing - The Music of Jerome Kern," that premieres at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency on Thursday January 13.

Amadeus, Peter Shaffer's exquisite masterpiece and winner of a Tony Award for Best Play and an Academy Award for Best Film, opens Friday, January 7 at New Hampshire Theatre Project.

Abingdon Theatre Company -- which has produced more than 60 new American plays in its 17-year history -- continues its 2010-2011 Season with the New York premiere of HOW I FELL IN LOVE by Joel Fields, a writer for TV's 'Ugly Betty' and 'Raising the Bar' and winner of Abingdon's 2009 Christopher Brian Wolk Award for excellence in playwriting, with previews set to begin January 21, prior to its official press opening on January 30 at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (312 West 36th Street) in Manhattan.

As we welcome in a new year of great theatre in the nation's capital, I thought it would be fun to do one of those “Best of 2010' lists as well as preview what's opening in January on DC area stages. So let's raise our glasses and offer a toast to all those theatre companies who gave us great productions in 2010, and to the upcoming 2011 theatre season!

According to a recent article in the Daily News, 'The Cultural Tourist' writer Howard Kissel will be making a move to the Huffington Post do to restructuring at the Daily News website.

Constantine Maroulis told People Magazine the exciting news that her, and former Rock of Ages co-star, Angel Reed, welcomed their first child, Malena James on Thursday, December 23rd.

This week, Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW presented George Bernard Shaw's beloved classic, HEARTBREAK HOUSE, light comedy about love, life, longing and laughter. BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you photo coverage below.

A casting notice just released by AEA reveals that the Whoopi Goldberg-produced White Noise will play its pre-Broadway engagement at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago this spring. Performances are scheduled to begin on April 1, with an opening date of April 9. Rehearsals begin in February in New York City. Last month, White Noise director Sergio Trujillo has suggested the show may be Chicago-bound, telling the Tribune: 'I think we're going to get it up in Chicago...Soon.'

A festival of new comic theater will warm hearts, lift spirits, and provide a bellyful of laughs during Minnesota's coldest time of year when the Southern Theater presents the Brouhaha Comedy Festival, January 19-23, 2011.

Today, 20 December 2010, Billy Elliot the Musical announces over 435,000 new tickets for sale taking bookings up until 17 December 2011.

This past Friday, Karl Scully played a second sold out solo show at St. Patrick's Church in Bay Shore, NY.

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS: The Morrisville-based Actors' NET of Bucks County continues its fifteenth season with a special holiday season presentation of the family favorite musical comedy Once Upon a Mattress.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party is proud to present the return of Tony Award-winning actress/singer CHRISTINE EBERSOLE and Grammy Award-winning composer/pianist/singer BILLY STRITCH in "A MOST WONDERFUL TIME" on December 19 with shows at 8:30 and 11pm.

On December 16, the Irish Tenors performed at the Beacon Theatre to ring in the holiday season. The Irish Tenors, featuring Ronan Tynan, Finbar Wright, and Anthony Kearns, reunited this year to perform classic holiday songs from their latest Christmas album including: We Three Kings, Winter Wonderland, White Christmas, and Silent Night.

Audiences have just three more weeks to catch Ben Barnes and Genevieve O'Reilly in the stage adaptation of Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong, directed by Trevor Nunn. The production's eighteen-week run must end on 15th January 2011.

Infamous Commonwealth Theatre (ICT) opens the first production of their 2011 season dedicated to the topic Sacrifice with Henrik Ibsen's A Dolls House, directed by ICT Artistic Director Chris Maher.

Broadway star and vocal powerhouse, James Barbour, opened the New York engagement of his six-city Concert Tour at Birdland Jazz Club on Sunday, December 12. Last night, he took the stage again, joined by Broadway vet Morgan James. BroadwayWorld was once again on hand for the engagement and brings you photo coverage below.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party is proud to present the return of Tony Award-winning actress/singer CHRISTINE EBERSOLE and Grammy Award-winning composer/pianist/singer BILLY STRITCH in "A MOST WONDERFUL TIME" on December 19 with shows at 8:30 and 11pm.