Jenn Harris News

Tonight, April 29, Cornelia Street Cafe presents Eric Plaks Trio at 6 pm and a reading of NOTES ON A SCANDAL at 8:30 pm. In celebration of his recent CD release, the young Eric Plaks will perform on the piano. NOTES ON A SCANDAL: A READING will parody the 2006 film with the same title.

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied and stellar artists.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud to present the New York premiere ofTheresa Rebeck's new comedy The Understudy, directed by Scott Ellis featuring Mark-Paul Gosselaar (TNT's 'Raising the Bar') as 'Jake', Justin Kirk (Showtime's 'Weeds') as 'Harry' and Tony Award winner Julie White as 'Roxanne'.

Silence! the Musical, the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs that was presented as part of the ninth annual New York International Fringe Festival, is set for a UK mounting.

For the first and only time, Our Hit Parade is breaking from its format and presenting an All Michael Jackson Edition of Our Hit Parade for July. the King of Pop touched us all and his songs will live on forever. So join Bridget Everett, Kenny Mellman and Neal Medlyn as they, and a slew of guest artists including Jenn Harris, Molly Pope, Claudia Gonson, Dudley Klute, NA-ON, and many more as they pay tribute to the songs of Michael Jackson. Don't be fooled: this is not your staid overly reverential tribute. Expect the insane.

OUR HIT PARADE STARRING BRIDGETT EVERETT, KENNY MELLMAN AND NEAL MEDLYN With guests Alan Cumming, Jenn Harris, Murray Hill and more!

OUR HIT PARADE STARRING BRIDGETT EVERETT, KENNY MELLMAN AND NEAL MEDLYN With guests Alan Cumming, Jenn Harris, Murray Hill and more!

For the first and only time, Our Hit Parade is breaking from its format and presenting an All Michael Jackson Edition of Our Hit Parade for July. the King of Pop touched us all and his songs will live on forever. So join Bridget Everett, Kenny Mellman and Neal Medlyn as they, and a slew of guest artists including Jenn Harris, Molly Pope, Claudia Gonson, Dudley Klute, NA-ON, and many more as they pay tribute to the songs of Michael Jackson. Don't be fooled: this is not your staid overly reverential tribute. Expect the insane.

OUR HIT PARADE is back Wednesday, May 20 at 9:30pm with Trapper Felides and the cast of Broadway's '13', Jenn Harris, Murray Hill, Larry Krone, Molly Pope, Varsity Interpretive Dance Squad, Adira Amram. OUR HIT PARADE Wednesday, May 20 at 9:30 PM.

Actress and playwright ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN, best known for originating the role of the Angel in Tony Kushner's 'ANGELS IN AMERICA', appearing in every U.S. production from its earliest workshops through its Broadway run, will present a workshop presentation of her new play 'PENELOPE' at NYU this fall. 'PENELOPE' is a music-theater piece featuring Ms. Mc Laughlin and a string quartet with original music by Sarah Kirkland Snider. It will be presented at NYU Gallatin School's new Labowitz theatre, 715 Broadway, on October 29, 20, 31 and November 1st at 7 PM with a 2 PM matinee on November 1.

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).

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.

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