A world premiere, fully-staged production by John Patrick Shanley, the first professional production for playwright Tracy Thorne, and the newest musical project from the multi-award winning director Michael Mayer will be just a few of the many highlights of Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater season, June 25 - August 1, 2010.
Two-time Emmy Award-winning comedy writer Rachel Axler will make her off Broadway playwriting debut at the NEA-rejected Women's Project with Smudge, a dark comedy directed by Pam MacKinnon about the changing face of the American family and the limits of love and cheesecake. Smudge features Cassie Beck, Greg Keller and Brian Sgambati.
Women's Project, truly on a roll in its 32nd year (and not looking a day over 29!) of producing plays written and directed by women, has signed Maggie Siff, one of the acclaimed ensemble of actors in the hit, third-season TV series 'Mad Men,' to play Aphra Behn in Liz Duffy Adams's three-hander Or, directed by Wendy McClellan.
Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse season will continue through Sunday, August 2, with the Mainstage play Vera Laughed (through 8/2); the Martel Musical Tina Girlstar (7/31 - 8/1); the ever-popular Readings Festival 2 (7/30 - 8/2); and a free concert reading by the Powerhouse Apprentice Company of the new musical Hello! My Baby.
Women's Project, the 32-year-old non-profit theater dedicated to producing plays written and directed by women, will increase main stage production next season by 50%. The theater's board of directors authorized Julie Crosby, producing artistic director, to increase main stage productions from two to three at the company's Julia Miles Theater on West 55th Street.
Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater announces the cast for the first of three Mainstage productions of the 25th anniversary season: Ninety, by Joanna Murray-Smith, directed by Maria Mileaf, beginning performances June 30 and running through July 12, and new additions to the star-filled line-up for the 25th anniversary gala benefit, 'Silver Celebration under the Stars,' June 27.
Directly from its critically acclaimed run at Chicago's prestigious Goodman Theatre comes a work of monumental passion and epic sensuality. An intense erotic journey. An experience you will not soon forget... Eugene O'Neill's DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS, starring two-time Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy, stage and screen star Carla Gugino, and Tony nominee Pablo Schreiber, under the direction of Tony Award Winner Robert Falls.
ROCK OF AGES rocked the house at New World Stages during its Off-Broadway opening on Thursday, October 16. BroadwayWorld joined the 'jam' and celebrated along with the high energy cast!
A sweeping tale of love and friendship, set against the trials and tragedy of the blacklist of the 1950s, is the basis of Joe Gilford's Finks, directed by Charlie Stratton, that will receive its world premiere at Vassar and New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater with a cast led by Josh Radnor (star of CBS's How I Met Your Mother) and Tony Award-nominated Jennifer Westfeldt (Wonderful Town, Kissing Jessica Stein), July 23 - August 3.
Scott Siegel's summer series came to a close with a dazzling display of song and dance from Broadway's brightest.
The Town Hall presented an extravaganza of Broadway song and dance that encompasses traditions from George M. Cohan to Susan Stroman and beyond as the first-ever Summer Broadway Festival presents 'All Singin! All Dancin!' on Monday, July 30.
Usher flashes a great smile, has a sweet singing voice and dances nicely, but he's never Billy Flynn
Sandra Bernhard and Cady Huffman appeared at the Tribeca Film Festival to catch the screening of the short film Twenty Dollar Drinks, in which they co-star
Two-time Tony Award-winner Donna Murphy has landed a role in the upcoming feature film The Nanny Diaries, also starring Scarlett Johannson
Gregory Jbara informs BROADWAYWORLD.COM that his 'curiously popular' live dressing room cam, which has broadcast on Wednesdays and Saturdays for almost a year, will draw to a close at the end of July.
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