Jack O'Brien News

Hugh Jackman, Tony Award-winner and star of the new blockbuster film, 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine,' is not taking a rest anytmie soon according to Variety

Lou Spisto, Executive Producer of the Tony Award®-winning Old Globe, is pleased to announce the Theatre's 2009/2010 Winter Season.

The New Group proudly presents the US premiere of Ian Bruce's thrilling drama Groundswell as the third production in its 2008-2009 season. Directed by Scott Elliott, this production plays a limited Off-Broadway run May 4 - June 27 at The New Group @ Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street), with Official Opening Night on Monday, May 18 at 8:00 PM.

The New Group proudly presents the US premiere of Ian Bruce's thrilling drama Groundswell as the third production in its 2008-2009 season. Directed by Scott Elliott, this production plays a limited Off-Broadway run May 4 - June 27 at The New Group @ Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street), with Official Opening Night on Monday, May 18 at 8:00 PM.

Impressionism, the new American play by Michael Jacobs, will close at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Sunday May 10 after the matinee performance. It will have played 23 previews and 56 regular performances.

Broadway director, choreographer and BWW favorite Jerry Mitchell is profiled in the Las Vegas Sun has he puts the finishing touches on his new Vegas production 'Peepshow,' which premieres Monday at Planet Hollywood.

It's time to let your hair down and dance the night away! The national tour of HAIRSPRAY, Broadway's musical comedy phenomenon that inspired a major motion picture is returning to the Fabulous Fox Theatre for a limited four show engagement April 24-26. Curtain times for this U.S. Bank Broadway series presentation are Friday & Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday & Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets go on sale Sunday, March 1 at noon at the Fox Theatre box office and through MetroTix.

Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Wednesday, April 22, 2009.

The Metropolitan Opera announced plans for its free outdoor events this summer, which will take place in the Lincoln Center Plaza and in parks throughout New York City. In a brand new initiative, the Met's Summer HD Festival will feature screenings of ten productions from the Met's Peabody and Emmy Award-winning Live in HD series in Lincoln Center Plaza on consecutive nights, beginning Saturday, August 29.

Hugh Jackman, has 'revealed' to Sydney's Daily Telegraph that he is indeed working to 'reappear' on Broadway in the original musical, HOUDINI in the spring of 2010.

The New Group proudly presents the US premiere of Ian Bruce's thrilling drama Groundswell as the third production in its 2008-2009 season. Directed by Scott Elliott, this production plays a limited Off-Broadway run May 4 - June 27 at The New Group @ Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street), with Official Opening Night on Monday, May 18 at 8:00 PM.

New casting finally confirmed for the Shaftesbury smash

It's time to let your hair down and dance the night away! The national tour of HAIRSPRAY, Broadway's musical comedy phenomenon that inspired a major motion picture is returning to the Fabulous Fox Theatre for a limited four show engagement April 24-26. Curtain times for this U.S. Bank Broadway series presentation are Friday & Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday & Sunday at 2 p.m

Two-time Golden Globe winner and Oscar Nominee Marsha Mason is profiled in a New York Post feature. Mason is currrently starring on Broadway in Michael Jacobs' IMPRESSIONISM, directed by Jack O'Brien.

El?na Garan?a sings the title role of La Cenerentola, Rossini's charming version of the Cinderella story, for the first time with the company beginning May 1. The Latvian mezzo-soprano made her highly acclaimed Met debut last season as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

WhatsOnStage.com reports that UK comedy star Brian Conley will make his return to the West End this summer when he takes over from Michael Ball as the 'Mama of all Mamas', Edna Turnblad in the multi award-winning Broadway import Hairspray at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

Academy and Tony Award winning actor Jeremy Irons, currently starring on Broadway in IMPRESSIONISM, will be a guest on WNYC Radio's 'New York & Company' hosted by Leonard Lopate tomorrow Tuesday April 14 at Noon. WNYC is heard on 820 AM and 93.9 FM in New York.

John Lithgow's Stories By Heart is a touching and funny meditation on the art and essence of storytelling. Invoking memories of his grandmother and father before him, Lithgow traces his own history as an actor and storyteller, a history spanning three generations.

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) will present a return engagement of award winning actor John Lithgow in his critically acclaimed one man show John Lithgow: STORIES BY HEART on Sunday and Monday nights at 7pm beginning Sunday (April 12) in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 W. 65 Street). John Lithgow: STORIES BY HEART, which will once again be directed by Jack O'Brien, will be presented during the Mitzi E.

Academy and Tony Award winning actor Jeremy Irons, currently starring on Broadway in IMPRESSIONISM, will be interviewed by The New York Times' Janet Maslin at a Times Talk on Monday April 13 from 6:30 - 8:00 PM at The Times Center, 242 West 41st Street at 6:30 PM. It will also be available on the New York Times website and on iTunes.