James Joyce News

Rehearsals will begin on Tuesday, April 8 for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) World Premiere production of the new musical SAVED.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting for the sixth and final production of its 2007/2008 Season, the World Premiere of the new musical SAVED.

Award-winning actor Chris Sullivan returns to the UK with his one man show A Bit of Irish, a theatrical evening of Irish celebration, which features poems, limericks, a multitude of stories and audience participation and opens for a limited week long season at Jermyn Street Theatre in London on St Patrick's Day, Monday 17 March, running to Saturday 22 March 2008.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) is now accepting entries for its popular online lottery LIVEforFIVE for $5 tickets to its next production, The Drunken City, a new play by 2007 Obie Award winner Adam Bock (The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows). A total of 40 tickets will be available for the show via the lottery.

Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy (LACCTA) has announced the Theatre Academy will next present An Evening of Student Directed One-Act Plays as part of its 79th Annual Spring Season

The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio proudly present an interview with actress Alice Ripley, on their weekly theatrical interview show, 'Downstage Center,' on XM's On Broadway (XM Channel 28).

The American Theatre Wing's 'Working in the Theatre' will feature the Artistic Directors of four off-Broadway not-for-profit theatre companies on CUNY TV on Sunday, January 6 at 5 p.m.

Further casting has been announced for the two night only concert version of the smash hit London musical Jerry Springer The Opera which will play Carnegie Hall for two nights only on January 29 and 30, 2008. Joining Harvey Keitel are Max von Essen, Emily Skinner, Linda Balgord, Lawrence Clayton, Luke Grooms, Sean Jennes, Patricia Phillips, Sam Kitchin and Laura Shoop.

Second Stage Theatre has announced that Tony nominees Alice Ripley and Brian d'Arcy James will star in their upcoming musical, Next to Normal, featuring music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, and direction by two-time Tony nominee Michael Greif. Beginning previews January 16 at Second Stage.

The UNLV Performing Arts Center welcomes The Broadway Divas at 8PM on Saturday, October 20 as part of the New York Stage & Beyond Series. Direct from the casts of Broadway's biggest shows, the Broadway Divas - Shayna Steele, Emily Skinner, Kate Baldwin, and Kimberly Grigsby - sing brand new arrangements of Broadway tunes by Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Lippa.

Donna Lynne Champlin and Moeisha McGill are special guests to 'The After Party' with Brandon Cutrell on Friday, September 28.

OBIE winner Donna Lynne Champlin brings her acclaimed one-woman show 'Finishing The Hat' back to Birdland on Sunday, September 30 at 7PM, in continuation of 'Broadway at Birdland.'

OBIE winner Donna Lynne Champlin brings her acclaimed one-woman show Finishing The Hat back to Birdland on Sunday, September 30 at 7PM, in continuation of 'Broadway at Birdland.' This series features top Broadway performers and songwriters at the legendary music room, located at 315 West 44th Street in Manhattan.

The New School for Liberal Arts has announced the accomplished singer and actress Marni Nixon as its Fall 2007 Visiting Artist. Nixon's residence will kick off with a free public lecture, 'An Evening with Marni Nixon,' on her illustrious stage and film career on Thursday, September 27 at 6PM at The New School, Wollman Hall (65 West 11th Street, fifth floor). The lecture is free and open to the public.

Wicked, Broadway's blockbuster musical, welcomes two new witches beginning Tuesday, October 9: Stephanie J. Block as Elphaba and Annaleigh Ashford as Glinda.

Birdland has announced its September line-up

The Laurie Beechman Theatre continues The After Party, which runs every Friday from 10:30PM till 2AM, with a visit by Anne Runolfsson

Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director, Tim Sanford; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional creative team members for the World Premiere of the new musical Saved, which will be the sixth and final production of its upcoming 2007/2008 Season.

RIPLEY, Alice Ripley's acclaimed rock band led by the singer/actress, will be featured on Sirius Satellite Radio on Friday, August 3rd at 10 PM.