Given the odds, for one to have been involved with a singular Broadway success would be impressive. To have been involved with two would solidify one's status as a true Broadway 'player.' How about 4, running at the same time?
Only two artists have been able to boast such an accomplishment, the first being Susan Stroman, whose productions of Contact, The Producers, The Music Man, and Thou Shalt Not all ran simultaneously for a short time in 2001. Last season, Broadway's go-to choreographer, Sergio Trujillo, joined her company with his superfecta of Next to Normal, Jersey Boys, The Addams Family and Memphis. It appears that like Jersey Boys, Memphis, and The Addams Family, Trujillo is showing no signs of breaking his streak, or going anywhere, with new projects in the pipeline incoming.
The first Esprit Orchestra concert of 2011 features a wide variety of works, from a small gem to the humorous, to the broad and expansive. The first half of the concert features works all under 10 minutes each: José Evangelista's Symphonie minute; György Ligeti's Lux aeterna, sung by the Elmer Iseler Singers (this work is famous from the Kubrick film '2001: A Space Odyssey';) and Canadian composer Douglas Schmidt's Discouraged Passion, a humorous tale of a guy who's scared of his girlfriend's mother.
TEATRON Toronto Jewish Theatre presents the Canadian Première of HARD LOVE a romantic drama
by award winning Israeli playwright Motti Lerner at the Toronto Centre for the Arts - Studio Theatre 5040 Yonge St., Toronto January 5-16, 2011. HARD LOVE stars two-time Dora Award nominee Tara Nicodemo and Masques Award Winner Howard Rosenstein
In this fiercely romantic drama, Hannah (Tara Nicodemo) and Zvi (Howard Rosenstein) are reunited after divorcing twenty years earlier. Raised in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim, the couple ended their marriage when Zvi turned his back on Judaism and Hannah did not. Now the teenage children from their second marriages have become romantically involved, forcing Hannah and Zvi back into each other's lives.
Abingdon Theatre Company -- which has produced more than 60 new American plays in its 17-year history -- continues its 2010-2011 Season with the New York premiere of HOW I FELL IN LOVE by Joel Fields, a writer for TV's 'Ugly Betty' and 'Raising the Bar' and winner of Abingdon's 2009 Christopher Brian Wolk Award for excellence in playwriting, with previews set to begin January 21, prior to its official press opening on January 30 at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (312 West 36th Street) in Manhattan.
If the thought of seeing yet another production of A Christmas Carol or The Nutcracker scares you, we have an even more frightening proposition: Cold Lang Syne, the new holiday thriller by Gregory Blair that runs through January 2, 2011 in the Ruby Theatre at The Complex in Hollywood.
Doo-Wop Yule Pop combines the genre's most memorable hits with the classic standards of the holiday season for a mega memory combination at the Fox Theatre on Friday, Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. Part of the Fifth Third Bank Holiday Series.
Abingdon Theatre Company is proud to announce a one-time grant sponsored by Tony-Award winning actress Cherry Jones to celebrate the career of a female playwright under 30.
TEATRON Toronto Jewish Theatre presents the Canadian Première of HARD LOVE a romantic drama
by award winning Israeli playwright Motti Lerner at the Toronto Centre for the Arts - Studio Theatre 5040 Yonge St., Toronto January 5-16, 2011. HARD LOVE stars two-time Dora Award nominee Tara Nicodemo and Masques Award Winner Howard Rosenstein
In this fiercely romantic drama, Hannah (Tara Nicodemo) and Zvi (Howard Rosenstein) are reunited after divorcing twenty years earlier. Raised in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim, the couple ended their marriage when Zvi turned his back on Judaism and Hannah did not. Now the teenage children from their second marriages have become romantically involved, forcing Hannah and Zvi back into each other's lives.
If the thought of seeing yet another production of A Christmas Carol or The Nutcracker scares you, we have an even more frightening proposition: Cold Lang Syne, the new holiday thriller by Gregory Blair that runs November 26 through January 2, 2011 in the Ruby Theatre at The Complex in Hollywood.
Ask Amy Potozkin's parents and they'll tell you: she was always theatrical. For the last two decades, the Kensington resident has put those talents to good use as the casting director and artistic associate at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
As previously announced, three Boston theatre companies will engage in a landmark local collaboration this fall to produce breakout writer Annie Baker's first three plays - Circle Mirror Transformation, produced by the Huntington Theatre Company (October 15 - November 14), Body Awareness, produced by SpeakEasy Stage Company (October 22 - November 20), and The Aliens, produced by Company One (October 22 - November 20). All set in the fictional town of Shirley, VT, the plays will run together in the first-ever festival dedicated to the work of this wryly observant young writer, which will be curated by the Huntington Theatre Company.
Three Boston theatre companies will engage in a landmark local collaboration this fall to produce breakout writer Annie Baker's first three plays - CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION, produced by the Huntington Theatre Company (October 15 - November 14), BODY AWARENESS, produced by SpeakEasy Stage Company (October 22 - November 20), and THE ALIENS, produced by Company One (October 29 - November 20). All set in the fictional town of Shirley, VT, the plays will run together in the first-ever festival dedicated to the work of this wryly observant young writer, which will be curated by the Huntington Theatre Company.
Now, in a sumptuously mounted revival touring the country, director/choreographer Robert Longbottom - who made his Broadway debut with Side Show, a musical of similar themes (again with music by Henry Krieger) that had the same visceral impact on me - has re-fashioned Dreamgirls for the new millennium, while remaining faithful to the original material. The result is musical theater at its best, telling a universal tale filled with onstage spectacle and backstage drama that is as stunning and as moving as the Broadway original.
The Monte Carlo-themed gala, ABINGDON PLAYS TO WIN, benefited the Abingdon Theatre Company -- beginning its 18th season on Friday, October 29 with the New York premiere of Reggie Cheong-Leen's THE NANJING RACE -- included salutations to Mr. Brustein by his esteemed colleagues and the presentation of an AB*IE Award for Excellence in Theatre.
