Jenn Harris News

Unless the painters have been around the past few days, a bit of graffiti on the Classic Stage Company's men's room wall reads, 'Good Theatre + Great Coffee + Clean Bathroom = CSC.'  While the lobby's Everyman Espresso Café and (I would assume) some eager young intern are keeping the latter two parts of that equation accurate, director Walter Bobbie's premiere production of David Ives' New Jerusalem is indeed providing some good theatre.

Berkshire Theatre Festival presents the world premiere of Pageant Play by Mark Setlock and Matthew Wilkas directed by Martha Banta.

Berkshire Theatre Festival Artistic Director Kate Maguire is pleased to announce the company's 2008 80th anniversary season, which will extend from May 22 through December 30 and be the longest-running season in the company's history.

Wide critical acclaim and brisk ticket sales have prompted Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, by special arrangement with Bob Boyett, to extend the run of David Ives' New Jerusalem, directed by Tony Award-winner Walter Bobbie, by an additional week through Sunday, February 10 at CSC (136 East 13th Street).

Classic Stage Company will present Tony Award-winning actor Richard Easton and Jeremy Strong in the world premiere of New Jerusalem, a new play by David Ives, directed by Tony Award-winner Walter Bobbie, for a limited engagement from Friday, December 28 through Sunday, February 3 at Classic Stage Company; Opening January 13 with Fyvush Finkel, David Garrison, Jenn Harris, Michael Izquierdo and Natalia Payne.

Having moved gracefully through the moral shadowlands of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt, acclaimed actress Adriane Lenox now finds herself in a lighter realm - that of Noel Coward's hilarious classic Blithe Spirit, which plays the Williamstown Theatre Festival from July 18th through 29th.

Performances of Blithe Spirit, Noel Coward's beloved supernatural comedy, begin July 18 on the Main Stage of the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

'Silence! The Musical,' winner of the 2005 Fringe Festival award for Outstanding Musical, will hold a staged reading February 5th at the McGinn/Cazalle Theatre.

Casting and directors have been announced for The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT)'s 18th Annual Festival of New Musicals, which will be held at New World Stages on Sunday, October 8 and Monday, October 9, 2006

Jenn Harris, Christopher Corts, Lynn Hawley and more have joined the cast of the upcoming Berkshire Theatre Festival staging of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, running from August 15th through September 2nd

On July 11th, The Color Purple offered a special performance to benefit the Actors' Fund of America, and stars such as Fran Drescher turned out to catch the show

On Monday, June 19th at The Hudson Theatre, over 650 guests were in attendance for a one-night-only staged reading of the Charles Busch cult classic play Die Mommie Die!, produced by The Actors' Fund of America, and BroadwayWorld was there to capture the event!

Keith Nobbs has been added to the cast of Die Mommie Die!, a one-night-only staged reading of Charles Busch's play that will take place on Monday, June 19th

Jane Houdyshell, Jenn Harris and Tom Mardirosian will join Charles Busch, Christopher Meloni and Tyler Maynard for the Actors' Fund reading of Die Mommie Die! on June 19th

A socio-political sketch comedy show by Roger Rosenblatt makes its debut at the Flea.

Bebe Neuwirth will join Jenn Harris, James Waterston and Jeffrey DeMunn 'Ashley Montana Goes Ashore in the Caicos ... Or What Am I Doing Here?' At The Zipper.

With a tremendous amount of buzz, Silence! The Musical delivers the kind of outrageous laughs theatre-goers were hoping for, plus a genuine star performance from Jenn Harris

Silence! the Musical, the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs is being presented as part of the ninth annual New York International Fringe Festival, and runs through August 28th.

Silence! the Musical, the musical parody of the Silence of the Lambs that will play the New York International Fringe Festival from Aug. 12th through 28th, will feature Paul Kandel, Jenn Harris and Lisa Howard

The Theatre World honors are awarded to performers for making their first major New York stage appearance.