Jessica Lewis News

The Alley Theatre has announced that its offerings for the remainder of 2012 include Road Kill, The Last Five Years and A Christmas Carol.

Shea's Performing Arts Center in Buffalo will welcome the Billy Elliot tour from September 25 through September 30, 2012.

Broadway/L.A. has brought the acclaimed production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, winner of three 2010 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, to the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood for a limited 2 week engagement through July 22, 2012. Starring as Georges is film and television star George Hamilton, and two-time Tony Award® nominee and Broadway veteran Christopher Sieber makes his road debut in the role of Albin. The production opened on Tuesday, July 10 to great fanfare and BroadwayWorld brings you a look at the starry opening red carpet below.

On April 7, 2011, the New York Philharmonic presented Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking Company with an all-star cast led by Neil Patrick Harris as Robert for four sold-out performances through April 9, 2011. Today, BroadwayWorld has confirmed with Price that a DVD of the broadcast will be released this fall by Image Entertainment at a date to-be-announced.

Arkansas Repertory Theatre (The Rep), the state's largest nonprofit professional theatre, has announced its 37th MainStage Season. The new season will include dramatic contrasts, classic productions and a world premiere production to form a season that exemplifies The Rep's mission of producing diverse work of the highest artistic standards for its Arkansas audience.

From November 27, 2012 through January 6, 2013, Triple Espresso: A Highly Caffinated Comedy will play the Des Moines Civic Center as part of the Temple Theatre Series.

Hoyt Sherman Place welcomes University of Iowa Opera Theatre and their production of Gilbert & Sullivan's tongue-in-cheek comic opera, H.M.S. Pinafore on July 20 and July 21.

From September 14 through September 30, Repertory Theatre of Iowa will present the world premiere of Sense And Sensibility, adapted for the stage from the Jane Austen novel by Kerry Skram.

StageWest Theatre company has announced its 2012-2013 season play offerings. Broadway's Superior Donuts, Time Stands Still, and Good People made the cut, along with Evil Dead: The Musical.

Theatre Jacksonville has announced its theatrical offerings for the 2012-2013 season.

Market Theatre will present Little Foot on th Main Stage from 13 Jul 2012 - 19 Aug 2012. The new play by Craig Higginson is directed by Malcolm Purkey and features production design by Neil Coppen.

With 10 days, 80 theatre groups, 33 locations, performance, live art, (music) theatre, dance & uninhibited energy, the Amsterdam Fringe Festival is one of the events of the summer in the Netherlands.

The stage is set for the Dutch theatre event of the year. with the Netherlands Theatre Festival, running September 1 through September 11, 2012.

The Netherlands will play host to two major performing arts festivals in August, offering a wide array of offerings.

On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, the Barrymore Theatre will welcome Henry Rollins in his one-man show, Capitalism. For better than a quarter century, Rollins has toured the world as a spoken word artist, as frontman for both Rollins Band and Black Flag and - without a microphone - as a solitary traveler with insatiable curiosity bypassing the resorts in favor of places like Siberia and Senegal, or Burma and Bangladesh. To get a sneak peek of what audiences are in store for, click below for a taste of Rollins in South Africa.

Four Seasons Theatre has announced its 8th season, which will feature She Loves Me, The Gershwin Songbook, and Avenue Q.

Beginning Friday, August 10, Four Seasons Theatre's production of A Little Night Music will take the stafe at The Playhouse at the Overture Centre for the Arts, showcasing musical theatre talent, a production team, and a chamber orchestra from across the Madison area.

Ben Cross, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell and Alice Krige, stars of the original 1981 film Chariots of Fire, made a surprise visit to the Gielgud Theatre last night, July 10, to meet with the actors currently performing in Edward Hall's five star stage production of the same name. The stage cast, led by James McArdle, Jack Lowden, Tam Williams, Mark Edel-Hunt and Savannah Stevenson were introduced to their film character counterparts and to an excited audience at the Gielgud Theatre. Hugh Hudson, Director of the original film and co-producer of the new stage adaptation joined actors from both film and stage at this unique curtain call.

This morning, July 11, Broadway favorite Cheyenne Jackson visited Good Day New York to share a new tune from his upcoming album, due in August, entitled 'Before You.' His first single off the album, 'Drive' was released on May 10 and is currently available on iTunes. The music video for 'Before You' will be released tomorrow but in anticipation, click below to hear his live performance of the track on Good Day New York!

Yesterday afternoon Max Page, the boy who played "little Darth Vader" in the Volkswagen commercial last year, visited New York and had the chance to meet James Earl Jones back stage at Gore Vidal's THE BEST MAN. During the visit, Max Page asked James Earl Jones all about his career and the two talked shop about theatre, film, and voiceovers!