James Lapine News

June 1, Former President Bill Clinton with his daughter Chelsea and mother-in-law Dorothy Rodham attended 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.'

'Saturday Night Live's' Darrell Hammond will make his Broadway debut this summer when he joins the cast of the acclaimed Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for a limited engagement, June 12 - July 19.

Producer David Stone sought to capture magic in a bottle twice with his Tony Award winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, reuniting the entire original cast for the show's Los Angeles premiere, and judging Sunday's opening performance, his plan was a S-U-C-C-E-S-S...

Mo Rocca, the special correspondent to 'The Tonight Show' and alumnus of 'The Daily Show,' has extended his stay in the hit Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for two weeks.

Federico Garcia Lorca's classic play The House of Bernarda Alba, about a household of women repressed by a domineering mother, and William Finn's modern classic musical Falsettoland, about a gay/straight/divorced/married extended family of New Yorkers preparing for a son's bar mitzvah, will be presented by the Obie Award-winning National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) in June 2007 in NYC.

WHO: Fells Point Corner Theatre WHAT: William Finn's Falsettos WHEN: Through June 10; Fri and Sat at 8PM, Sun at 2PM HOW MUCH: $20.00 general; $17.00 students, seniors. INFORMATION: www.fpct.org or 410-276-7837

Charles Shubow gives you the scoop on the week in Washington D.C. and Baltimore theatre

Producer David Stone has announced that the acclaimed Tony Award-winning musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, will come to Los Angeles starring its complete original Broadway cast, reunited for the first and only time since the production began two years ago in New York.

Anna Francolini and Gary Waldhorn will be joining the Royal Opera House's new production of Into the Woods next month

The cast of Broadway's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee presented an Adults Only performance on Sunday, May 6

The 5th Avenue Theatre announces new dates for two of its 2007-2008 season musicals.

Roundabout Theatre Company, in association with Boyett Ostar Productions, David Babani, Caro Newling for Neal Street Productions and Mark Rubinstein, has announced that Olivier Award winners Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell will reprise their roles as George and Dot in The Menier Chocolate Factory's Olivier Award winning production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, directed by Sam Buntrock.

Two special guests from Scores will join Spelling Bee on May 6th

The Manhattan School of Music's American Musical Theater Ensemble is presenting their first-ever full-length musical, Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods, with a cast made up of some of the school's most versatile singers. The production will run Thursday May 17, through Saturday May 19, at 7:30p.m. in the School's John C. Borden Auditorium.

WHO: Laurel Mill Playhouse WHAT: Into the Woods WHEN: Through May 6. Fri-Sat at 8PM, Sat and Sun at 2PM HOWMUCH: $15 general, $12 students and seniors. CONTACT: www.laurelmillplayhouse.org or 301-617-9906

On April 17th, the Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee welcomed new cast members into its tension-fraught middle school gymnasium

The cast of Broadway's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will present an Adults Only performance on Sunday, May 6 at 7:30pm.

Valerie Smaldone, the host and co-producer of the special portrait unveilings of The Wall of Fame at Tony's di Napoli Restaurant in Times Square and radio personality on 106.7 Lite-Fm WLTW, has announced that she will be a guest speller at The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on Thursday, April 26th.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center will present its annual Monte Cristo Award posthumously to Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein in recognition of her distinguished accomplishments and contributions to the American theater exemplifying Eugene O'Neill's standard of excellence.

Los Angeles is about to get a taste of Broadway as the original cast of 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' reunites for the upcoming month-long production at the Wadsworth Theatre...