ShawChicago, in association with Chicago DCA Theater, returns to the Studio Theater with a concert reading of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man. The production closes Sunday, May 15, 2011, at the Studio Theater in the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street.
Tennessee Repertory Theatre has announced its schedule for the Martha R. Ingram New Works Festival.
Currently in previews, Lincoln Center Theater's production of A MINISTER'S WIFE, a new musical with book by Austin Pendleton, music by Joshua Schmidt and lyrics by Jan Levy Tranen, based on Candida by George Bernard Shaw, conceived and directed by Michael Halberstam, opens Sunday, May 8, at 6:45pm. The cast for A MINISTER'S WIFE features Liz Baltes, Kate Fry, Drew Gehling, Marc Kudisch and Bobby Steggert. Here's a first look at a montage from the production!
It's obvious that Bobby Steggert is beginning to feel very much at home in the bowels of Lincoln Center. He's in the very dressing room that he had less than a year ago when he appeared in their production of A. R. Gurney's delightful play THE GRAND MANNER. Now he's playing Eugene Marchbanks in Joshua Schmidt and Jan Levy Tranen's A MINISTER's WIFE; a musical treatment of George Bernard Shaw's CANDIDA which opened on Sunday, May 8th.
LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater's programming initiative devoted to producing the work of new artists and developing new audiences, has begun rehearsals for its world premiere of 4000 Miles, a new play by Amy Herzog, directed by Daniel Aukin. Greta Lee and Zoe Winters will join the previously announced Gabriel Ebert and Mary Louise Wilson in the third production of LCT3's 2010-2011 season. 4000 Miles will begin performances Monday, June 6, and run through Saturday, July 2 at The Duke on 42nd Street, a New 42nd Street® project (229 West 42 Street). Opening night is Monday, June 20.
Encompass New Opera Theatre (Nancy Rhodes, Artistic Director and Mara Waldman, Music Director) presents the World Premiere of Angel of the Amazon, a new music drama with libretto and music by Evan Mack at The Jerome Robbins Theater at Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, NYC.
Lincoln Center Theater's production of A MINISTER'S WIFE, a new musical with book by Austin Pendleton, music by Joshua Schmidt and lyrics by Jan Levy Tranen, based on Candida by George Bernard Shaw, conceived and directed by Michael Halberstam, opened last night May 8. The cast for A MINISTER'S WIFE features Liz Baltes, Kate Fry, Drew Gehling, Marc Kudisch and Bobby Steggert. BroadwayWorld was on hand to celebrate opening night and brings you photo coverage below!
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Lincoln Center Theater's production of A MINISTER'S WIFE, a new musical with book by Austin Pendleton, music by Joshua Schmidt and lyrics by Jan Levy Tranen, based on Candida by George Bernard Shaw, conceived and directed by Michael Halberstam, will officially open tonight, Sunday, May 8, at 6:45pm.
Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) has announced that Liz Baltes, Kate Fry, Drew Gehling, Marc Kudisch and Bobby Steggert will comprise the cast of its upcoming production of A MINISTER'S WIFE, a new musical with book by Austin Pendleton, music by Joshua Schmidt and lyrics by Jan Levy Tranen, based on Candida by George Bernard Shaw. A MINISTER'S WIFE, which was conceived and will be directed by Michael Halberstam, will open on Sunday, May 8 at 6:45pm at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 West 65 Street).
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw's classic comedy about dapper Henry Higgins and his attempts to make a lady out of Eliza Doolittle, is currently in rehearsal at Everyman Theatre and is set to open on Friday, May 20th.
The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its fifth season of the New Works Reading Series, supporting new plays and emerging playwrights, with a free reading of Thomas Delaney's A SOLO FOR TWO VOICES on Friday, May 6 at 3 p.m. at the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) in Manhattan. Ciaran O'Reilly, who helmed THE EMPEROR JONES and the world premiere of BANISHED CHILDREN OF EVE, directs.
Encompass New Opera Theatre (Nancy Rhodes, Artistic Director and Mara Waldman, Music Director) presents the World Premiere of Angel of the Amazon, a new music drama with libretto and music by Evan Mack at The Jerome Robbins Theater at Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, NYC. Performances begin May 6 and run through May 22.
The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its fifth season of the New Works Reading Series, supporting new plays and emerging playwrights, with a free reading of Thomas Delaney's A SOLO FOR TWO VOICES on Friday, May 6 at 3 p.m. at the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) in Manhattan. Ciaran O'Reilly, who helmed THE EMPEROR JONES and the world premiere of BANISHED CHILDREN OF EVE, directs.
The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its fifth season of the New Works Reading Series, supporting new plays and emerging playwrights, with a free reading of Thomas Delaney's A SOLO FOR TWO VOICES on Friday, May 6 at 3 p.m. at the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) in Manhattan. Ciaran O'Reilly, who helmed THE EMPEROR JONES and the world premiere of BANISHED CHILDREN OF EVE, directs.
ESP announces, as its May reading, George Bernard Shaw's Getting Married. The family members of the Bishop of Chelsea come to his house on the day he is readying his youngest daughter for marriage, and all manner of romantic hell breaks loose. One of the Bishop's brothers is madly pursuing the Bishop's sister-in-law, who herself has definite ideas about not traipsing down the aisle; the other brother is getting divorced from a wife who is rather seriously interested in having two husbands.
Hot on the heels of the acclaimed sell-out world premier of Terence Rattigan's Less Than Kind, the revival of Henrik Ibsen's 1894 masterpiece, Little Eyolf continues Jermyn Street Theatre's artistic policy, under the stewardship of Gene David Kirk, of presenting both little performed European and American classics and vibrant new plays and musicals.
The Alley Theatre was founded over sixty years ago as Houston's theatre company. It exists to provide audiences with the highest quality theatre, offering a wide variety of work including new plays, classics, the re-discovered and the rarely-performed, and new musical theatre, with an emphasis on new American works - to provide the inspirational and the provocative - to make our audiences think, feel, dream and be entertained. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean Gladden, the Alley is committed to moving forward to increase its reach into the community, to further its collaboration with the best theatre artists working today, and to encourage and cultivate the new voices, new work, new artists of the American theatre. For more information call 713-220-5700.
Government in gridlock! Parties refusing to compromise! A charismatic leader ruling as much by personal appeal as by principles! No, not the present day - Shaw's 'political extravaganza,' written in the past and set in the future, is amazingly topical and as funny as it is foresighted. The Stage Guild presents GBS for the twentieth time!
Gingold Theatrical Group - which made history as the first company ever to present every play (including full-length works, one-acts and sketches) written by George Bernard Shaw - continued its sixth year of PROJECT SHAW with AN EVENING OF SHAW AND SHAKESPEARE on Monday, April 25 at 7pm at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan.
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