George Bernard Shaw News

Single tickets went on sale today for Maine State Music Theatre's 2010 Season! The titles will be as follows: ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE, MY FAIR LADY, CHICAGO, and Monty Python's SPAMALOT.

The Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 22nd Season with WHITE WOMAN STREET by Sebastian Barry, author of 'Our Lady of Sligo' and 'The Steward of Christendom'. Directed by Charlotte Moore

What did an eminent museum curator, a Dominican Abbess, and George Bernard Shaw have to say to each other? Plenty! The Best of Friends gives us Shaw himself, largely in his own words, along with two extraordinary figures from the early 20th century.

Sell a Door Theatre Company brings George Bernard Shaw's comedy about adult immaturity PHILANDERER to Greenwich Playhouse July 20 through August 15. Show times are Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 4pm. Tickets are £12, £10 (concs.) and are available by phone 020 8858 9256 and email boxoffice@galleontheatre.co.uk.

President Thomas J. Schwarz, will preside at the 38th Commencement ceremony at Purchase College State University of New York on Friday, May 14 at 1 PM on the West Lawn adjacent to The Performing Arts Center (735 Anderson Hill Road). Degrees will be awarded to approximately 1032 undergraduates and 55 graduate students.

Writers' Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce that A Minister's Wife, Writers' Theatre's musical adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Candida, will be produced by Lincoln Center Theater in the 2010-11 season. The original musical was conceived and directed by Michael Halberstam, adapted by Austin Pendleton with music by Joshua Schmidt and lyrics by Jan Tranen. The Lincoln Center production will be directed by Halberstam. Performances begin on Thursday, April 7, 2011 and opens on Thursday, May 5, 2011 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 West 65 Street, New York City).

Lortel Statues for 14 categories and 2 special awards were handed out by celebrity presenters at the 2010 Lucille Lortel Awards at a live awards ceremony tonight at Terminal 5. Hosted by the Off-Broadway League, the live show was co-hosted by Bryan Batt and Bebe Neuwirth and featured performances by Alan Menken, STOMP, Seth Rudetsky, Edward Watts of The Fanasticks and LaChanze.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who will be appearing in both THE MERCHANT OF VENICE and THE WINTER'S TALE at Shakespeare in the Park shows this summer at the Delacorte Theatre sat down alongside costar Lily Rabe to discuss the shows and their experiences working on them.

Stoneham Theatre will close 'My Fair Lady'; directed by Caitlin Lowans and featuring Robyn Lee and Timothy John Smith on May 2nd.

Abingdon Theatre Company closes the New York premiere of John Morogiello's ENGAGING SHAW -- a new Off-Broadway play following the real-life courtship and battle of wits between socialite Charlotte Payne-Townshend and playwright George Bernard Shaw -- on May 2nd at Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (312 West 36th Street) in Manhattan. Jackob G. Hofmann to direct.

The Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 22nd Season with WHITE WOMAN STREET by Sebastian Barry, author of 'Our Lady of Sligo' and 'The Steward of Christendom'. Directed by Charlotte Moore

Baz Bamigboye speculates in the U.K. Daily Mail that filming for the upcoming My Fair Lady film remake by Emma Thompson, allegedly starring Carey Mulligan, may be delayed until 2011.

Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW presents MAJOR BARBARA- George Bernard Shaw's irreverent comedy of just about everything Monday, May 24 at 7pm at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South)

The weather is so beautiful and the dogwoods, azaleas, tulips, and magnolias are in full bloom, and as May rolls around, DC area theatres are bursting with new productions.

Tennessee Repertory Theatre has announced its schedule for the Martha R. Ingram New Works Festival. The festival will be held April 28 - May 8 at Nashville Children's Theatre and will feature staged readings of new plays from seven local playwrights as well as Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner David Auburn.

What did an eminent museum curator, a Dominican Abbess, and George Bernard Shaw have to say to each other? Plenty! The Best of Friends gives us Shaw himself, largely in his own words, along with two extraordinary figures from the early 20th century.

The Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 22nd Season with WHITE WOMAN STREET by Sebastian Barry, author of 'Our Lady of Sligo' and 'The Steward of Christendom'. Directed by Charlotte Moore

Beyond their superior choice in season, ShawChicago puts on a thoroughly entertaining reading with The Doctor's Dilemma. The cast found a pace to the language in which they were able to nail every joke and find the subtleties of Shaw's humor without getting campy. I also never once looked at my watch, which is a fete within itself, being that when Shaw is done incorrectly, it can be unbearably long.

On Sunday, April 25, off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre concludes the run of of its hit revival of George Bernard Shaw's CANDIDA, recently nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival, at the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) in Manhattan.

Today, we present the final section of the Sondheim Palooza for this week with a discussion of Sondheim's work in the last two decades. The shows themselves stand as solid proof that this is a composer/lyricist still at the absolute height of his abilities and at the top of his game, as we can very clearly hear in the scores for ASSASSINS, PASSION, THE FROGS and ROAD SHOW...