Jason Loewith News

How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical with two successful Broadway revivals, will open Olney Theatre Center 76th Anniversary Season playing on the Mainstage January 29 - February 23, 2014. How to Succeed follows the rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, who climbs the corporate ladder from window washer to high-powered executive with the help of a little handbook called How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Based on the 1952 Shepherd Mead satire, How to Succeed features music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert. The New York Times says of How To Succeed, 'It stings mischievously and laughs uproariously […] It belongs to the blue chips among modern musicals.'

Due to multitude sold-out shows, Olney Theatre Center announces the second extension of its current production, The King and I. The show, which opened on November 14, is now set to run through January 12, 2014. WHAT: Olney Theatre Center's production of The King and I - now extended through January 12, 2014.

Single tickets are now on sale to the public for Olney Theatre Center's 2014 Season. Tickets range from $32 to $65, depending on the day of the week and time. Group, military, student, and senior rates are available. Call the box office at 301-924-3400 or visit OlneyTheatre.org for more information or to purchase tickets now. Season Memberships are on sale as well.

Due to the positive response it has garnered from audiences and the multitude of almost sold-out shows, Olney Theatre Center announces the extension of its current production, The King and I. The show, which opened on November 14, is now set to run through January 5, 2014.

Paolo Montalban and Eileen Ward are a dynamic duo in classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.

Comic book antics, over-the-top personalities and a slamming battle of the bands will have audiences cheering at The Rose Theater's production of Big Nate: The Musical, tonight, November 8-24, 2013.

Now in its fourth year at Olney Theatre Center, Paul Morella's unique and memorable adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas will run from November 29 through December 29, 2013 on the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab stage.

Comic book antics, over-the-top personalities and a slamming battle of the bands will have audiences cheering at The Rose Theater's production of Big Nate: The Musical, November 8-24, 2013. The raucous romp follows the misadventures of Lincoln Peirce's comic book hero Nate Wright, a self-proclaimed artistic genius who is destined for greatness, despite holding the highest detention record in school.

The award-winning Olney Theatre Center closes its 75th Anniversary season with Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic THE KING AND I, starring Paolo Montalban, November 14 through December 29 on the Mainstage.

Olney Theatre Center Artistic Director Jason Loewith announced the company would revamp and expand its traditional subscription format while producing an ambitious slate of three seasons and nine productions for the Theatre's 2014 76th Season. Three "mini-seasons" will feature Rolling World Premieres, 20th century American classics, four extraordinary musicals, and an outdoor Shakespeare production beneath the stars.

The Daily Record has named Olney Theatre Center's Managing Director, Amy Marshall, as one of the 2013 Maryland's Most Admired CEOs. The Daily Record created Maryland's Most Admired CEOs List in 2012 to recognize men and women who have excelled professionally and in serving their communities.

The Rose Theater, one of the country's largest theaters specializing in professional productions for young audiences, will present nine shows for the 2013-14 season. Included are two world premieres, Leo Lionni's Frederick, a musical based on the popular 1968 children's book, and The Grocer's Goblin & The Little Mermaid adapted from two Hans Christen Andersen tales by Rose Playwright-in-Residence Brian Guehring and Rose Director of Youth Productions Stephanie Jacobson.

Olney Theatre Center is pleased to announce it will kick off the National New Play Network (NNPN) Rolling World Premiere of Steven Dietz's Rancho Mirage. Written by one of America's most widely-produced playwrights (Yankee Tavern, Halcyon Days,Lonely Planet), Rancho Mirage will begin its Rolling World Premiere at Olney Theatre Center September 26 - October 20, 2013.

By popular demand, hit musical is extended to September 8

New York's critically acclaimed BEDLAM THEATRE brings Hamlet and Saint Joan to Olney Theatre Center from September 5 through October 20 in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Lab. Four of BEDLAM's actors play over fifty roles in repertory.

The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, announces its 38th Rolling World Premiere: Lauren Gunderson's I and You will receive three productions through the Network's Continued Life of New Plays Fund in the 2013/14 season. I and Youwill begin its Rolling World Premiere at Marin Theatre Company (Mill Valley, CA, October 10 - November 3, 2013), followed by performances at Olney Theatre Center (Olney, MD, February 26 - March 23, 2014) and Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis, IN, March 13 - April 14, 2014).

Olney Theatre Center will produce the groundbreaking Tony Award-winning musical A Chorus Line today, August 1 through September 1 on the Mainstage. With 24 performers and 8 musicians in the pit, A Chorus Line is the largest musical in Olney Theatre Center history.

The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non-profit theatres that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, proudly announces that Gwydion Suilebhan has been hired as the Project Director for NNPN's New Play Exchange, the national database of plays and playwrights that NNPN is currently developing. Suilebhan, a DC-based playwright, theater blogger, and arts and technology consultant, replaces Jason Loewith, who conceived the project during his tenure as Executive Director of NNPN and served as the Project Director during its initial phase.

Today, July 21, 2013, Olney Theatre Center will host 'School of Style-nomics,' a back-to-school fashion fundraiser. The event starts at 2:00pm and will feature the newest fashions from local clothing and accessory boutiques, special performances from the students at Studio of Ballet Arts in Sandy Spring, great raffle prizes, ice cream, and fun crafts. All proceeds with benefit arts and education at Olney Theatre Center.

America's longest-running touring company National Players present Shakespeare's hilarious comedy The Comedy of Errors today, July 18 through 21 at 8:00 pm on The Root Family Stage at Olney Theatre Center. These performances are part of Olney Theatre Center's annual Free Summer Shakespeare program.