Georgie News

Daniel Evans' sell-out Sheffield Crucible production of Show Boat has transferred to the West End and is now in previews, with press night on Monday 25 April 2016.  Show Boat is booking at the New London Theatre to 7 January 2017.  BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Next Wave Festival presents the world premiere of Sedih // Sunno, an intimate and immersive performance by award-winning artist Rani Pramesti and the first work for company Rani P Collaborations from May 5 -15 at Arts House, Melbourne. In Sedih // Sunno, four artists invite audience members into private spaces to listen and reflect on the personal histories and hidden legacies of their families. 

In 1999, Independent Theatre produced HAMLET with the talented Nick Opolski as a brilliant central character. Fifteen years on, director Rob Croser is revisiting this most famous of plays - this time with a very young Hamlet.

Martin Platt and David Elliott (Perry Street Theatricals) announce a workshop presentation of Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose, directed by Eric Schaeffer and written by and starring Ed Dixon, on April 11, 2016. The presentation will run 90 minutes, with no intermission.

The Almeida Theatre announces the cast for the world premiere of Boy, a new play by Leo Butler, directed by Sacha Wares. The cast is Mohammad Amiri, Osmain Baig, Ruby Bridle, Emilio Doorgasingh, Terina Drayton, Aeran Fitzgerald, Frankie Fox, Ellie Mai Gallagher, Bayleigh Gray, Zainab Hasan, Duramaney Kamara, Asiatu Koroma, Wendy Kweh, Lev Litvinov, Georgie Lord, Angel Loren, Teann McDonnell, Eugenie-Alexia Mulumba, Sarah Niles, Demi Papaminas, Imogen Roberts, Abdul Salis, Morgane Tapia,Peter Temple and Matthew Wellard. Boy will run at the Almeida Theatre from 5 April until 28 May, with a Press Night on 12 April.

Ensemble Theatre, Australia's longest, non-funded continuously running professional theatre company has today been given a major gift of $300,000 from The Balnaves Foundation.

THE FULL MONTY: THE MUSICAL has some pretty unlikely ingredients for musical comedy: divorce, unemployment, degradation, custody battles, suicide, alienation and Buffalo, New York in the economically depressed 2000. Yet somehow, Short North Stage director Edward Carignan makes all those ingredients work while bringing Terrence McNally's script and David Yazbeck's lyrics to life.

June Coen-Hewitt RN, a registered nurse and retired General Motors employee, has completed her new book 'Who Knew': a fun and insightful story of how two young students persuade their principal into taking a more active role in the hallways of the elementary school.

Author Jonathan Harnisch is pleased to announce that his literary fiction/erotica novel, 'Second Alibi: The Banality of Life' is receiving rave reviews from reviewers. Afflicted with schizophrenia, Tourette's Syndrome and other mental illnesses, the prolific and gifted Jonathan Harnisch has transformed the harrowing raw material of his life into what he calls 'transgressive fiction' in semi-autobiographical novels such as 'Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography and Living Colorful Beauty.' With 'Second Alibi: The Banality of Life,' he revisits the abrasive, triangular psychodrama of his brilliant, questing psychotic Ben Schreiber, Ben's libertine alter-ego, Georgie Gust, and the sadistic temptress, Claudia Nesbitt, who torments them both, while also including a moving plea for understanding that stands apart from the disturbed fevers of his fiction. 'This is a story, I hope, about my coming to enlightenment,' Harnisch writes, and in that vein he enlightens us, too, about the fantastic terrors of schizophrenia: 'What this life is like with the ups and the downs, the confusion, the love and the hate; the black and the white.' He tells us about his moods abruptly shifting 25 times in an hour, his suicide attempts and addictions, the grim realities of sleep deprivation and the fear that his beloved wife has been reading his mind. 'Second Alibi' toggles unpredictably between semi-coherent rage (Harnisch says he often writes when symptomatic) and cool detachment, and it deploys several forms: Harnisch's sexually-charged fiction (Claudia is 'a slow-moving serpent with a tongue of fire and the ass of a bombshell'); a 106-page screenplay featuring dialogues between Ben and his old antagonists, and with his life-saving therapist, 'Dr. C,' self-lacerating entries from 'Georgie Gust's' 2005 diary, and the author's clear explanations of his condition, apparently written at moments when his symptoms have subsided. *Due to content of a sexually explicit nature, this book is recommended for a mature audience only. Recent Praise for 'Second Alibi: The Banality of Life': At times, Harnisch is energized by the very power of his illness. 'The mind and the sickness is all so sublime,' he writes, 'the heart of living, colorful beauty.' But in his most lucid moments, this brave and eloquent writer struggles mightily to escape the dark woods of madness: 'As always, my journey continues, on and on.' - BlueInk Review 'This story is now shedding light on the experiences of schizophrenics in a language that the non-sufferer can understand.' - From Worldnews Network 'Harnisch's sense of the inner machinations of human experience spring into life through the text.' - From WOWK 13 News, W. Va, WV 'My brain was spinning by the end. It's brilliant.' - From Editor, 'Second Alibi: The Banality of Life' 'Second Alibi' provides an honest window into the 'hollow stuff.' Harnisch is at his best, though, when he leaves his inner critic behind and allows his creativity to color the world around him.' Foreword Reviews Book Details: 'Second Alibi: The Banality of Life' By Jonathan Harnisch Publisher: Babydude Press Published: August 2014 ISBN: 978-1500482015 ASIN: B00N37L3CQ Pages: 310 Genre: Erotica, Literary About The Author: Jonathan Harnisch is a producer, filmmaker, fine artist, musician and published author. He has been diagnosed with several mental illnesses from schizoaffective disorder to Tourette's syndrome; playfully, he dubs himself the 'King of Mental Illness.' Jonathan holds myriad accolades, and his works captivate the attention of those who experience it. Manic-toned scripts with parallel lives, masochistic tendencies in sexual escapades, and disturbing clarities embellished with addiction, fetish, lust, and love, are just a taste of themes found in Jonathan's transgressive literature. Conversely, his award-winning films capture the ironies of life, love, self-acceptance, tragedy and fantasy. Jonathan's art evokes laughter and shock, elation and sadness, but overall forces you to step back and question your own version of reality. Contact Information: Jonathan Harnisch Email: press@alibiography.com Website: http://www.alibiography.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jwharnisch Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jwharnisch

In 1999, Independent Theatre produced HAMLET with the talented Nick Opolski as a brilliant central character. Fifteen years on, director Rob Croser is revisiting this most famous of plays - this time with a very young Hamlet.

Malcolm Sinclair (Capt. Andy Hawks) and Chris Peluso (Gaylord Ravenal) will join original Sheffield cast members Gina Beck (Magnolia Hawks), Lucy Briers (Parthy Ann Hawks), Rebecca Trehearn (Julia La Verne), Emmanuel Kojo(Joe), Sandra Marvin (Queenie), Alex Young (Ellie May Chipley) and Danny Collins (Frank Schultz) in the West End cast of Daniel Evans' five star production of Show Boat.

A St. Patrick's Day toast to the Father of the American Musical Comedy and The Father of the American Drama.

Annie Hernandez, a devoted writer and author, has completed her new book, 'Grandma's Story of Georgie the Rooster Goose': a fun and unique tale of a lost egg who finds a warm home with a mother goose and her brood.

The Brazilian stage production of the musical created out from one of the great movie box office hits in the 1990s - The Full Monty - conquered the cariocas in their season of 5 months, directed by Tadeu Aguiar and Portuguese version by Artur Xexeo. In this musical production version, with a book by Terrence McNally and score by David Yazbek, six unemployed steelworkers, low on both cash and prospects, decide to present a strip act at a local club after seeing their wives' enthusiasm for a touring company of Chippendales-type club. One of them, Jerry, declares that their show will be better than the Chippendales dancers because they'll go 'the full monty'-strip all the way. As they prepare for the show, working through their fears, self-consciousness, and anxieties, they overcome their inner demons and find strength in their camaraderie.

Following months of workshopping, John McDonald's stage adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS is poised for its world premiere at the Roxy Regional Theatre on Friday, March 25, at 8:00pm.

The Almeida Theatre announces the cast for the world premiere of Boy, a new play by Leo Butler, directed by Sacha Wares. The cast is Mohammad Amiri, Osmain Baig, Ruby Bridle, Emilio Doorgasingh, Terina Drayton, Aeran Fitzgerald, Frankie Fox, Ellie Mai Gallagher, Bayleigh Gray, Zainab Hasan, Duramaney Kamara, Asiatu Koroma, Wendy Kweh, Lev Litvinov, Georgie Lord, Angel Loren, Teann McDonnell, Eugenie-Alexia Mulumba, Sarah Niles, Demi Papaminas, Imogen Roberts, Abdul Salis, Morgane Tapia,Peter Temple and Matthew Wellard. Boy will run at the Almeida Theatre from 5 April until 28 May, with a Press Night on 12 April.

FOX has ordered eight one-hour episodes of SUPERHUMAN, the unscripted competition series that tests the abilities of ordinary people to use their extraordinary skills. The episodes were picked up following a two-hour special which aired Jan. 4, 2016. Kal Penn will return as host for the all-new episodes.

Ballet of Blood, the 9th feature film by Jared Masters, has been picked up for distribution by Gravitas Ventures. It will have a vast cross-platform VOD release today, March 1, 2016.

Franklin Performing Arts Company (FPAC) presents Broadway In Franklin: A Weekend with the Stars on February 26-28, featuring Broadway headliners Jenn Colella and Michael James Scott in a Broadway Revue of show-stopping numbers from the Great White Way.

Boston Public Works Theater Company will present the world premiere of Unsafe, a psychological thriller, written and directed by Jim Dalglish. The play will be co-produced by Boston Public Works and Cotuit Center for the Arts on Cape Cod. It opens March 31 at CCftA and runs through April 10, before the production moves to the Plaza Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts, where it runs April 15-30.