Genevieve News

While theatre insiders are speculating quite heavily that this current 'feud' between Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna is just a hoax and that the two will soon announce that they'll be performing together, it's now Dame Edna's turn to release a new statement...

Jim Caruso?s Cast Party is set to present the return of Patrick DeGennaro to the Broadway at Birdland concert series. Patrick DeGennaro will bring 'Unbroken' to Birdland on Monday, November 9th at 7:00pm.

The Garden Theatre presents the Voci Dance production of The Games We Play from November 6-8, 2009, at the Garden Theatre (160 West Plant Street). Known for charming audiences with their combination of theatricality and physicality, Voci Dance explores the games we all play - on the playground, in relationships, and in life.

The complete cast and creative team is set for the Globe's 12th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The annual holiday musical, directed by Benjamin Endsley Klein with book and lyrics by Timothy Mason and music by Mel Marvin, will run in the Old Globe Theatre November 21 - December 27.

DR. SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! Book and Lyrics by Timothy Mason, Music by Mel Marvin, Original Production Conceived and Directed by Jack O'Brien, Directed by Benjamin Endlsey Klein, Original Choreography by John DeLuca, Musical Direction by Ron Colvard, Additional choreography by Bob Richard, Choreography Restaged by James Vasquez

Ravi Roth, currently appearing as Abraham in the smash hit Off-Broadway musical 'Altar Boyz,' will be the guest on Blog Talk Radio's 'Let's Do Lunch' Friday, November 6th at 2:30 p.m. at BlogTalkRadio.com.

The Garden Theatre presents the Voci Dance production of The Games We Play from November 6-8, 2009, at the Garden Theatre (160 West Plant Street). Known for charming audiences with their combination of theatricality and physicality, Voci Dance explores the games we all play - on the playground, in relationships, and in life.

The anticipated new Broadway production of Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Tony Award® winning musical RAGTIME began performances at the Neil Simon Theatre (250 West 52 Street) on Friday, October 23 for an official opening on Sunday, November 15, 2009.

After a smash sellout at the August Wilson Theater with their 15th Anniversary Reunion Benefit Concert of The Who's Tommy last December, ROCKERS ON BROADWAY returned to BB King's on Monday November 2nd with another star-studded benefit show. Directed by Donnie Kehr, ROCKERS ON BROADWAY-Celebrating the '60s honored the songs and performers from Rock's greatest decade and will feature a 'who's who' of classic recording artists performing alongside some of the biggest stars on Broadway, all to benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS, Broadway Dreams Foundation and the Bendheim Center/Scholarship Fund.

After a smash sellout at the August Wilson Theater with their 15th Anniversary Reunion Benefit Concert of The Who's Tommy last December, ROCKERS ON BROADWAY returned to BB King's on Monday November 2nd with another star-studded benefit show. Directed by Donnie Kehr, ROCKERS ON BROADWAY-Celebrating the ‘60s honored the songs and performers from Rock's greatest decade and will feature a 'who's who' of classic recording artists performing alongside some of the biggest stars on Broadway, all to benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS, Broadway Dreams Foundation and the Bendheim Center/Scholarship Fund.

Hold on tight, because Victory Gardens Theater's smash hit winter musical The Snow Queen - conceived by Chicago folk music legend Michael Smith, Tony Award-winning director Frank Galati, and master puppeteer Blair Thomas & Co - is sledding back into town for her fourth season as Chicago's #1 alternative to traditional holiday fare.

Nevermore 2009, one-man reenactments, a mock-funeral, exhibits and film festivals; Baltimore has its share of Edgar Allen Poe celebrations in this, the 200th anniversary of his birth. Single Carrot Theatre, debuting a workshop theatre space in a laboratory setting for the first time, will present a different kind of tribute altogether in the Poe Project, an interactive, process-based work derived from the writings of Poe himself.

Nevermore 2009, one-man reenactments, a mock-funeral, exhibits and film festivals; Baltimore has its share of Edgar Allen Poe celebrations in this, the 200th anniversary of his birth. Single Carrot Theatre, debuting a workshop theatre space in a laboratory setting for the first time, will present a different kind of tribute altogether in the Poe Project, an interactive, process-based work derived from the writings of Poe himself.

The Garden Theatre presents the Voci Dance production of The Games We Play from November 6-8, 2009, at the Garden Theatre (160 West Plant Street). Known for charming audiences with their combination of theatricality and physicality, Voci Dance explores the games we all play - on the playground, in relationships, and in life.

New Hampshire Theatre Project of Portsmouth is among 12 New Hampshire arts organizations that have received Arts Jobs grants. The grants are paid for through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and distributed through the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. In New Hampshire, 42 jobs are being preserved with the help of these grants.

Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Saturday, October 24, 2009.

The Abominable Showman got his due in a rousing celebration at Town Hall last week.

Those four Jews were in a room bitching again last Sunday afternoon. No, I don't mean The Marvelous Wonderettes. I mean Whizzer, Jason, Mendel and Marvin, also known as Stephen Bogardus, Jonathan Kaplan, Chip Zien and Michael Rupert. As any fan of neurotic, gay musical theatre will tell you, they were the quartet who first opened the 1992 Broadway production of Falsettos with William Finn's frenetic patter, 'Four Jews in a Room Bitching.'

Members of the companies of Broadway shows including MARY POPPINS, THE LION KING, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and others will have the opportunity to show off their hidden, behind-the-scenes talents when their handiwork is featured in the 6th annual 'ActorCrafts' fair on Saturday, November 21, 2009 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Holy Cross School (332 West 43 Street) in Manhattan.

Tales & Tricksters is a whimsical collection of stories and poems that will tickle the funny bone and delight the young at heart.