Helen Hayes News

Adam Blanshay & Lyric Productions, in association with The Present Company, presents the U.S. Premiere of multi Award-winning playwright Daniel MacIvor's HIS GREATNESS - based on a potentially true story about two days in the last years of the life of playwright Tennessee Williams - as part of the 13th Annual New York International Fringe Festival with five performances only, between August 14-30 at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College opens its 2009-2010 Season on Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 3pm with Irving Berlin's I Love A Piano. This enchanting new musical revue spans over seven decades of American history as seen through the insightful and earnest eyes of Irving Berlin, a man whom Jerome Kern described by saying 'Irving Berlin has no place in American music...He IS American music!'

Hailed as 'A sensational powerhouse of a singer packed in a lithe body' by Variety, New York's own N'Kenge will perform her new show 'DivaLicious - Unplugged' at Don't Tell Mama. N'Kenge will pay homage to the sizzling singing divas of yesterday and today featuring music from 70's Disco, Broadway, Opera, Motown and more.

Adam Blanshay & Lyric Productions, in association with The Present Company, presents the U.S. Premiere of multi Award-winning playwright Daniel MacIvor's HIS GREATNESS - based on a potentially true story about two days in the last years of the life of playwright Tennessee Williams - as part of the 13th Annual New York International Fringe Festival with five performances only, between August 14-30 at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan.

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo have announced that Restoration, written by and starring two-time Tony Award nominee Claudia Shear and directed by Christopher Ashley, will be the final play in the theatre?s 2009-10 season, slated for production in spring 2010.

Edward Albee is generally regarded as America's greatest living playwright. He is also one of its bravest and most versatile, and none of his plays proves this more than the 1975 drama SEASCAPE, presented by The American Century Theater through August 22, at the Theater II, Gunston Arts Center, 2700 S. Lang St,, Arlington. SEASCAPE is directed by Steven Scott Mazzola.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Artistic Director, Todd Haimes) is pleased to announce a huge event on Monday, August 10th, 2009 at 11:45AM to celebrate the box office opening at Broadway's new Henry Miller's Theatre (124 West 43rd Street). The box office will officially open at 12:00PM with tickets on sale to the general public.

A video shoot at Rep Stage in Columbia, MD, is holding a casting call for mature non-union actresses.

The New York premiere of Slipping, written by Daniel Talbott and directed by Kirsten Kelly, opens August 4th at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 224 Waverly Place.

Rubicon Theatre Company has announced the cast and creative team for the World Premiere of THE BEST IS YET TO COME: THE MUSIC OF CY COLEMAN, which began previews July 9 at Rubicon's intimate 200-seat home at 1006 E. Main Street in Ventura's Downtown Cultural District. The show continues Wednesdays through Sundays through August 2, 2009.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the first new Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie, after a 48 year absence, as the inaugural production of the new Henry Miller's Theatre (124 West 43rd Street) beginning Thursday, September 10th, 2009 with an official opening on Thursday, October 15th, 2009. This will be a limited engagement through January 10th, 2010.

Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS, Broadway's longest running comedy, continues its 'Hitchcock Meets Hilarious' Talkback Tuesday series on August 4 with Karith Foster (comedian, 'Imus in the Morning') joining cast members of the Tony Award-winning comedy for a post-show discussion.

While their show's in town, cast members of the current 'Farewell Tour' of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF starring Topol will be 'Fiddlin' Around' at Hollywood's famed Gardenia Supper Club in a one-night-only cabaret, silent auction, and raffle benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the nation's leading entertainment industry-based HIV/AIDS fundraising and grant-issuing organization.

Westport Country Playhouse will reunite six audience favorites---playwright Alan Ayckbourn, director John Tillinger, and cast members Paxton Whitehead, Cecilia Hart, Geneva Carr and Carson Elrod---in the classic comedy, 'How the Other Half Loves,' playing July 28 through August 15. Over the past two seasons, the popular team brought to the Playhouse the smash hit comedies 'Time of My Life' and 'Relatively Speaking.' Darren Pettie and Karen Walsh will round out the cast of 'How the Other Half Loves.'

Signature Theatre, the recipient of the 2009 Tony Award® for Outstanding Regional Theatre, celebrates the best in musical theater and drama at its Target Open House on Saturday, August 8 from noon ? 9:30 pm. Free and open to the public, this fun-filled Signature event is 9½ hours of exciting performances, and fascinating master classes, demonstrations, and exhibits, plus kids? offerings, all offered in Signature?s swanky two-theater complex. Events begin every 15 minutes. Located in the Shirlington Village area of Arlington, VA just off I-395, Signature Theatre is approximately nine minutes from downtown Washington, D.C. Free parking is available in two adjacent public garages.

Stephen Sondheim turns 80 on Monday, March 22nd, 2010 and Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) will celebrate this landmark with a star-studded tribute at the 2010 Spring Gala: Sondheim 80.

Arena Stage announces full cast for its upcoming production of The Quality of Life, newly rewritten by Emmy Award-winning Jane Anderson (TV's Mad Men and Normal) and directed by Lisa Peterson (Arena's The Rainmaker).

BroadwayWorld gave the very talented Rick Holmes, who plays Sir Lancelot and The French Taunter among many other roles in hit musical, a FLIP video camera and set him free backstage and beyond as 'Spamalot' brings some 'Snap snap, grin grin, wink wink, nudge nudge' to sunny Los Angeles.

Edward Albee is generally regarded as America's greatest living playwright. He is also one of its bravest and most versatile, and none of his plays proves this more than the 1975 drama Seascape, presented by The American Century Theater, July 30 through August 22, at the Theater II, Gunston Arts Center, 2700 S. Lang St,, Arlington.

Full casting was announced today for MEMPHIS, an original Broadway musical, opening Monday, October 19, 2009 at the Shubert Theatre (225 W. 44th Street) following critically-acclaimed and sold-out engagements at La Jolla Playhouse and Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre. Previews begin on Wednesday, September 23, 2009.