George Street News

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK star Laverne Cox attended IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU on Broadway last night - check out a look back at her visit below!

David Hyde Pierce, winner of four Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Dr. Niles Crane on Frasier, and multiple Emmy Award winner David Lee, Frasier's co-creator and executive producer, will reunite to discuss what goes into making a hit television show. At this onstage conversation event co-produced with Gimlet Media's Alex Blumberg (formally of This American Life and Planet Money), Pierce and Lee talk about what worked, what didn't work, and how to develop a memorable character. A part of Lincoln Center's Masters on Masters series, the conversation will be held tonight at 7:30pm, at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage. BroadwayWorld will be bringing you a livestream of the conversation, and you can tune in at 7:30pm to watch the full event!

George Street Playhouse Artistic Director David Saint has announced the slate of plays scheduled for the New Brunswick theatre's 2015-2016 season. George Street's 42nd Season consists of a slate of four plays ranging from Mysterious Musical Comedy Mayhem to Sex With Strangers. 

THE TOXIC AVENGER returns with the composer in tow!

This week at 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com or call (646) 476-3551.

The Toxic Avenger, winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, comes to 54 Below for this special one-night-only concert reunion tonight, June 8th, at 7:00PM, featuring cast members from all of its incarnations (Off-Broadway, Alley Theatre, George Street Playhouse).

It was announced today that Judy Blazer will join the cast of the Tony Award winning Best Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, in the role of Miss Shingle.  She will begin performances on Tuesday, June 30.  Carole Shelley, who currently fills the role, will play her final performance on Sunday, June 28.

The tenth anniversary season of South Shore Conservatory's (SSC) Duxbury Music Festival (DMF) concert series begins with an Opening Concert, featuring repertoire programmed by Festival Director Stephen Deitz, on Sunday, July 19, 6:30 pm. The concert's outdoor venue overlooks Duxbury's Back River and Powder Point Bridge, on the tented lawn at the home of Diane and Sherm Hoyt, providing incomparable views and backdrop for the performance.

George Street Playhouse and Artistic Director David Saint are pleased to present Tony and Emmy Award winners DAVID HYDE PIERCE and DEBRA MONK in A.R. Gurney's classic love story, Love Letters, on the New Brunswick stage for one night only tonight, June 3 at 8pm. The modern classic two-hander will be helmed by GSP Artistic Director DAVID SAINT.

THE TOXIC AVENGER returns!

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: Two plays open off-Broadway, Andrew Lloyd Webber gives a sneak peek at his rockin' new musical and more!

Tickets for all concerts and events of the 10th season of South Shore Conservatory's (SSC) Duxbury Music Festival (DMF) are now on sale.  The performance schedule includes faculty and guest artist concerts, and free festival recitals throughout the Duxbury community.  Festival Director Stephen Deitz has recruited impressive faculty and students from around the world to delight audiences with their talents in competition and performance during the two and a half week festival.

Louisville's stages are anything but dark this summer.

Academy Award-winning actress Sally Field stopped by the Brooks Atkinson to see her pal, Tyne Daly and company in IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU yesterday. The two co-star in the upcoming feature film, HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS, in which Field plays a woman in her sixties who has a romantic relationship with a young co-worker. Scroll down for photos!

Producer Daryl Roth, along with her husband Steve, and director David Hyde Pierce hosted Mayor Bloomberg and Diana Taylor at IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU last night, May 26. Scroll down for photos!

Get ready for the most fun you've ever had on a date, with a cast you can't help but fall for! TUTS Underground brings you First Date, the hilarious and hopeful musical about the chances we all take to find love. This uniquely charming show runs June 11 - 21 in Zilkha Hall at The Hobby Center.  

Best-selling novelist Chuck Palahniuk attended a recent performance of It Shoulda Been You to see his friend and literary agent, Edward Hibbert. Scroll down for photos of Palahniuk backstage!

Original ensemble members, Michael Winther, Kimberly Grigsby, Shane Shanahan are joined by cellist, Peter Sachon as they reunite with Pulitzer prize-winning lyricist, Mark Campbell and many of the composers for a special one-night-only concert event, celebrating the ten year anniversary of Songs from an Unmade Bed, the critically acclaimed, theatrical song cycle originally produced off-Broadway by New York Theatre Workshop in 2005.