Iris Rainer Dart News

Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director and Stephen Eich, Executive Director) announced today, that they will present, by special arrangement with American Pop Anthology and Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, in association with Universal Music Group, the world premiere musical BABY IT'S YOU!

Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director and Stephen Eich, Executive Director) announced today, that they will present, by special arrangement with American Pop Anthology and Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, in association with Universal Music Group, the world premiere musical BABY IT'S YOU!

Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director, Ken Novice, Interim Managing Director, Tom Ware, Producing Director) announced today that LAUGHING MATTERS, a world premiere musical featuring a book and lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart (author of the international best-selling novel 'Beaches'), music by Mike Stoller (Smokey Joe's Café) and Artie Butler (Feelin' Alright by Joe Cocker), and directed by Leonard Foglia (Broadway's Thurgood starring Laurence Fishburne), will be the final production of the 2009 Season entitled WOMEN: The Heart and Soul of Theatre.

IRIS RAINER DART, the award-winning best-selling author of Beaches and eight other novels and books, will be honored as the sole female, along with five male distinguished alumni of Allerdice High School as Inaugural Inductees into the school's new Hall of Fame.

Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director and Stephen Eich, Executive Director) announced today, that they will present, by special arrangement with American Pop Anthology and Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, in association with Universal Music Group, the world premiere musical BABY IT'S YOU!

IRIS RAINER DART, the award-winning best-selling author of Beaches and eight other novels and books, will be honored as the sole female, along with five male distinguished alumni of Allerdice High School as Inaugural Inductees into the school's new Hall of Fame.

Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director, Ken Novice, Interim Managing Director, Tom Ware, Producing Director) announced today that LAUGHING MATTERS, a world premiere musical featuring a book and lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart (author of the international best-selling novel 'Beaches'), music by Mike Stoller (Smokey Joe's Café) and Artie Butler (Feelin' Alright by Joe Cocker), and directed by Leonard Foglia (Broadway's Thurgood starring Laurence Fishburne), will be the final production of the 2009 Season entitled WOMEN: The Heart and Soul of Theatre.

Pasadena Playhouse announced today that LAUGHING MATTERS, a world premiere musical featuring a book and lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart (author of the international best-selling novel 'Beaches'), music by Mike Stoller (Smokey Joe's Café) and Artie Butler (Feelin' Alright by Joe Cocker), and directed by Leonard Foglia (Broadway's Thurgood starring Laurence Fishburne), will be the final production of the 2009 Season.

On Sunday, October 7, Jane Alexander starred as D. H. Lawrence's widow, Frieda, in a reading of the new play, A Moon To Dance By, by Thom Thomas at Primary Stages.