Genevieve News

AVI SCHER & DANCERS presents its debut New York Season with a program including two World Premiere productions and four New York Premieres from April 3-5, 2010 at The Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W. 55th Street, NYC (at Ninth Avenue). Performances: Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm, Monday at 8pm. Tickets are $22 (students $12) and are available at www.smarttix.com or by phone at 212-868-4444.

Kicking off their 2010 season, Drury Lane Oakbrook, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, presents an epic production of the nostalgic and powerful portrait of life in turn of the century America, RAGTIME. Previewing March 18, opening March 24, and running through May 23, the riveting production will be directed and choreographed by Rachel Rockwell, who received a Jeff Award nomination for her direction of last season's smash hit Miss Saigon. Quentin Earl Darrington will star as "Coalhouse Walker" (Broadway: RAGTIME, National Tours of THE COLOR PURPLE, RAGTIME and THE LION KING; and Regionally RAGTIME at Paper Mill Playhouse; ABYSSINIA at Goodspeed Opera House; A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at California Music Theatre, and DREAMGIRLS at Madame Walker Theatre; and Valisia Lekae (Broadway: RAGTIME, 110 IN THE SHADE, THE THREEPENNY OPERA; Off-Broadway: ALMOST HEAVEN; 1st National Tours of ALL SHOOK UP, MAMMA MIA) will star as "Sarah".

A collaboration between Single Carrot Theatre, the Center for International Theatre Development, and Towson University brings Russian playwrights and a Fulbright Scholar to Baltimore.

Theatre Exile is proud to announce the world premiere of Any Given Monday by Bruce Graham, the 'dean of Philadelphia dramatists' (Philadelphia Inquirer).

Barb Jungr, one of the most inventive, original and critically acclaimed singers performing in New York today, returns to the Café Carlyle at the Carlyle Hotel for two weeks only, from February 25 to March 4, to launch a new series of late shows designed to provide an attractive new entertainment option for the Café Carlyle's sophisticated clientele.

This week, Broadway Musicals of 1927 kicked off the Town Hall's 10th Anniversary season of the critically acclaimed Broadway By The Year® series. Alexander Gemignani directed and starred in the show alongside Finian's Rainbow's Kate Baldwin and Christopher Fitzgerald, Melinda Sullivan, Kendrick Jones, Carole Bufford, Marc Kudisch (9 to 5), Chad Kimball (Memphis), and Quentin Earl Darrington, Bobby Steggert, Ron Bohmer, and Christiane Noll from Ragtime. Broadway Musicals of 1927 is created, written and hosted by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall. Ross Patterson musical directed the event, beginning his tenth season as the musical director of Broadway by the Year®.

Philadelphia playwright Bruce Graham, who penned the highly acclaimed new play Any Given Monday, is moonlighting as an actor - joining the cast when Any Given Monday moves to the Act II stage March 3-28. Act II Associate Artistic Director Harriet Power directs this sharp-tongued 'comedy of morals', co-produced with Center City-based Theatre Exile.

Last night, Sunday, February 21, Paper Mill Playhouse opened their production of Lost in Yonkers. Directed by Michael Bloom, Lost in Yonkers will run at the Millburn theater through March 14, 2010. Lost in Yonkers was selected by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as part of the American Masterpieces Series in New Jersey. American Masterpieces is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts.

In association with the Center for InterNational Theatre Development's New Directors-New Voices Project and Towson University, Single Carrot Theatre will be presenting leading Russian playwrights in Baltimore for the first time.

Newmusicaltheatre.com, the first website ever exclusively devouted to selling sheet music by musical theatre writer, adds Jeremy Schonfeld'd sheet music catologue today.

After selling out NYC's first revival of Caroline, or Change this winter, The Gallery Players is proud to open the spring with Arthur Millers' classic The Crucible. Directed by The Gallery Players' Artistic Director Heather Siobhan Curran, the 1953 Tony Award winner for Best Play opens Saturday, March 20 2010.

Barb Jungr, one of the most inventive, original and critically acclaimed singers performing in New York today, returns to the Café Carlyle at the Carlyle Hotel for two weeks only, from February 26 to March 4, to launch a new series of late shows designed to provide an attractive new entertainment option for the Café Carlyle's sophisticated clientele.

Jacksonville University has honored 75 of its most distinguished and influential alumni, faculty and staff by inducting them as the inaugural group of 'Distinguished Dolphins,' a designation that recognizes the individuals' accomplishments and contribution to Jacksonville and American society, in tribute to the University's 75th Anniversary.

On Monday, February 15 at 8:30pm, Feinstein's at Loews Regency (540 Park Ave) will welcome Ryan Silverman for a solo evening of American Songbook classics.

Fulfilling our mission of bringing high quality educational programs to the community, New Hampshire Theatre Project offers Summer Theatre Camps as a great way to educate youth about the world and work of theatre.

Genevieve Bennett, creator of the 2008 Twin Cities Chekhov Festival and director of its sold-old production of The Seagull, has proved to be one of the Twin Cities most promising young directors.

Please be aware that our opening night performance of ANY GIVEN MONDAY, scheduled for tonight, 2/10, at Plays and Players Theatre, has been canceled.

Monday, February 8 saw the launch of the 2010 24 Hour Musicals. The cast included stars Malcolm Gets, Cady Huffman, Kathleen Turner, Jeanine Tesori, in addition to John Ellison Conlee, Christopher Gatelli, Adam Gwon, Julia Jordan, Moisés Kaufman, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Richard Kind, Nancy Opel, Steven Pasquale, Mo Rocca, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Ted Sperling, Tracie Thomas, Alicia Will, and David Yazbeck.

Sydney Theatre Company's TOT MOM will close on February 7, 2010.

He's been on Broadway in 'Bombay Dreams', Center Stage now twice, and a film with Mike Myers. Meet Manu Narayan.