Jane Wagner News

Hourglass Group, producers of Beebo Brinker Chronicles (2008 GLAAD Media Award) and Trouble in Paradise (2007 Obie), announce the World Premiere of Elyse Singer's FREQUENCY HOPPING at 3LD Art & Technology Center. Winner of the 2007 STAGE International Script Competition, FREQUENCY HOPPING is a multidisciplinary play based on the 1940 collaboration between glamorous Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) and composer George Antheil (1900-1959) on a secret communication system. Opening is set for June 5.

BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES, the 2008 GLAAD Media Award-winning stage adaptation of Ann Bannon's groundbreaking pulp novels, will end its limited engagement run as scheduled on April 27. It is written by Kate Moira Ryan (25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, 2007 GLAAD Media Award Winner for Best Play) and Linda S. Chapman (Gertrude and Alice: A Likeness to Loving) and directed by Leigh Silverman (Well).

Beebo Brinker Chronicles, the 2008 GLAAD Media Award-winning stage adaptation of Ann Bannon's groundbreaking pulp novels, will end its limited engagement run as scheduled on April 27. It is written by Kate Moira Ryan (25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, 2007 GLAAD Media Award Winner for Best Play) and Linda S. Chapman (Gertrude and Alice: A Likeness to Loving) and directed by Leigh Silverman (Well). As of closing, it will have played 17 previews and 63 regular performances at 37 Arts theater in Manhattan.

Xanthe Elbrick, Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominee and winner of Theatre World Award winner for Coram Boy, will join the cast of the 2008 GLAAD Media Award winner BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES on Tuesday, March 25th.

Hourglass Group (Trouble in Paradise, Beebo Brinker) and 45 Bleecker present BabyLove, written and performed by Christen Clifford, directed by Julie Kramer.

Tony Award winner Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner have joined the producing team of Off-Broadway's Beebo Brinker Chronicles. This stage adaptation of Ann Bannon's groundbreaking, award-winning pulp novels of the 1950s begins previews February 19 at 37 Arts.

Recording legend Cyndi Lauper and famed playwright Eve Ensler will be honored at the 37th Anniversary Gala of The Feminist Press at the City University of New York on Monday, November 5 at 6PM at Tavern On The Green

We talk to Steven Tomlinson whose one-man show, 'American Fiesta' is currently playing at the Vineyard Theatre.

To no one's surprise, Lily Tomlin was insightful and witty; cleverly intertwining 'Performance Art' and 'Comedy'

On May 18th, New Dramatists will present Chita Rivera with a Career Achievement Awrd

Eve Ensler, the author of the international phenomenon THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, plans to explore and expose even more -- in her new play THE GOOD BODY. Ms. Ensler will be making her Los Angeles stage debut when THE GOOD BODY plays a limited 16 performance engagement at the Wadsworth Theatre January 31 to February 12, 2006.

On November 21st, Steve Ross, Maude Maggart and others will be featured in Funny Money, the latest edition of the Thalia Follies

Why would sell-out crowds drive through lightning, thunder, floods and mudslides just to hear this crazy woman rant? During the height of the January monsoon, Jackie Hoffman's solo show, The Kvetching Continues, played to rave reviews and SRO audiences at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Renberg Theatre.

And you thought she was out spoken on that damn Little House on the Prairie? Vanity Fair declared her 'TV history's #1 one bitch' and now after her successful run in New York, she's taking her title and show on the road starting in Los Angeles. Based on her one woman nightclub act, join Alison Arngrim (formerly Nellie Oleson from the hit series Little House on the Prairie) as she gives audiences a reality check on 'the facts of life' like no one else has ever done before, but sure as hell should have in CONFESSIONS OF A PRAIRIE BITCH.

Named one of the Top 10 Performances of 2004 by The Advocate magazine, The MisMatch Game returns to the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Renberg Theatre for two riotously unpredictable performances on Friday and Saturday, February 18 and 19, 2005.