John Bull News

Producer Arielle Tepper Madover and the Donmar Warehouse are pleased to announce the complete Broadway cast for William Shakespeare's HAMLET, with Jude Law in the title role, directed by Michael Grandage. The production will begin performances at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street) on Saturday, September 12 for a strictly limited run of twelve weeks only. Opening night is Tuesday, October 6.

La Jolla Playhouse is pleased to present Herringbone, book by Tom Cone, music by Skip Kennon, lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh, directed by Roger Rees (La Jolla Playhouse's Peter and the Starcatchers), and starring Tony Award-winner BD Wong (M. Butterfly; Law & Order: SVU). Herringbone runs August 1 - 30 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre (press opening: Friday, August 7 at 8:00 pm).

Seattle Center Fund and Seattle Center Advisory Commission are pleased to recognize two outstanding community leaders at the Legion of Honor. The award recipients, Korynne and Jeffrey Wright, were honored for their extraordinary contributions at an award ceremony held on April 21 at Seattle Center.

La Jolla Playhouse welcomes back Rick Elice, co-writer of the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys, as the playwright of Peter and the Starcatchers. Alex Timbers and Roger Rees are set to direct with choreography by Kelly Devine and music by Wayne Barker. Peter and the Starcatchers will be playing at the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre at La Jolla Playhouse February 13 -March 8, 2009. Based on the best-selling novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers dares to tell the real story of precisely how a desperate orphan in Victorian England became The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. It's a tale that travels halfway round the world and straight up to the stars. It's a comedy that takes aim at social injustice. It's a romance of young heroes who risk everything for the sake of doing right. It's an expos? of extravagant villains possessed of a single-minded ferocity from which no good shall ever spring. In short, it's an awfully big adventure. La Jolla Playhouse will present Peter and the Starcatchers, a new play, as a part of its Page To Stage program, by special arrangement with Disney Theatrical Productions. Adam Green has been cast in the role of Peter. He has appeared in Off-Broadway productions such as Election Day, All This Intimacy and None of the Above. Molly will be played by Celia Keenan-Bolger who most recently appeared on Broadway in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, for which she earned a Tony Award nomination. She also appeared in Saved. Lost boy Prentiss will be played by Carson Elrod, who appeared in the La Jolla Playhouse production of Our Town. Elrod has also appeared on Broadway in Reckless and Noises Off. David Rossmer is cast as the ever - peckish lost boy Teddy. His Broadway credits include Fiddler on the Roof and Titanic. Christian Borle, who will be playing the ravenous Black Stache, received acclaim for his roles in Spamalot. He also received a 2007 Tony Award nomination for his role in the Broadway production of Legally Blonde. Andrew McGinn is set to play Slank. His New York credits include Coast of Utopia and The Invention of Love. Playing Lord Aster is John G. Preston, who recently appeared as Cameron Parker in the Off-Broadway production of Taboos. Greg Hildreth, playing the good hearted Alf, recently appeared in Dance Dance Revolution and Gentlemen of Verona. Teddy Bergman will be playing Fighting Prawn. His New York theater credits include Dance Dance Revolution and Nobody Likes the Mormons.

La Jolla Playhouse welcomes back Rick Elice, co-writer of the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys, as the playwright of Peter and the Starcatchers. Alex Timbers and Roger Rees are set to direct with choreography by Kelly Devine and music by Wayne Barker. Peter and the Starcatchers will be playing at the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre at La Jolla Playhouse February 13 -March 8, 2009. Based on the best-selling novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers dares to tell the real story of precisely how a desperate orphan in Victorian England became The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. It's a tale that travels halfway round the world and straight up to the stars. It's a comedy that takes aim at social injustice. It's a romance of young heroes who risk everything for the sake of doing right. It's an expos? of extravagant villains possessed of a single-minded ferocity from which no good shall ever spring. In short, it's an awfully big adventure. La Jolla Playhouse will present Peter and the Starcatchers, a new play, as a part of its Page To Stage program, by special arrangement with Disney Theatrical Productions. Adam Green has been cast in the role of Peter. He has appeared in Off-Broadway productions such as Election Day, All This Intimacy and None of the Above. Molly will be played by Celia Keenan-Bolger who most recently appeared on Broadway in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, for which she earned a Tony Award nomination. She also appeared in Saved. Lost boy Prentiss will be played by Carson Elrod, who appeared in the La Jolla Playhouse production of Our Town. Elrod has also appeared on Broadway in Reckless and Noises Off. David Rossmer is cast as the ever - peckish lost boy Teddy. His Broadway credits include Fiddler on the Roof and Titanic. Christian Borle, who will be playing the ravenous Black Stache, received acclaim for his roles in Spamalot. He also received a 2007 Tony Award nomination for his role in the Broadway production of Legally Blonde. Andrew McGinn is set to play Slank. His New York credits include Coast of Utopia and The Invention of Love. Playing Lord Aster is John G. Preston, who recently appeared as Cameron Parker in the Off-Broadway production of Taboos. Greg Hildreth, playing the good hearted Alf, recently appeared in Dance Dance Revolution and Gentlemen of Verona. Teddy Bergman will be playing Fighting Prawn. His New York theater credits include Dance Dance Revolution and Nobody Likes the Mormons.

Tonight, September 30th the first performance of the national Frost/Nixon tour will begin in Des Moines, IA The 2007 Tony Award® -nominated new play by Peter Morgan, the award-winning author of The Last King of Scotland and The Queen, will run at the Des Moines Civic Center through October 5th.

The full cast for the tour of Frost/Nixon, the 2007 Tony Award® -nominated new play by Peter Morgan, the award-winning author of The Last King of Scotland and The Queen, has been announced.

The American Conservatory Theater Master of Fine Arts Program presents 'The Cider House Rules Part One: Here in St. Cloud's' playing at The Zeum Theatre March 1 - 17.

'The Little Foxes' at the American Conservatory Theatre delectably wriggles in a snake-pit of lies, corruption, and familial deceit.

The revival of Lillian Hellman's 'The Little Foxes,' opens at ACT Nov. 1 to run through Nov. 26 under the direction of Laird Williamson.

The American Conservatory Theatre of San Francisco presents their revival of Lillian Hellman's 'The Little Foxes,' beginning Oct. 27 through Nov. 26.

A starry cast--including Marc Kudisch, Barrett Foa, Brian Murray and Kate Baldwin--will star in Project Shaw's John Bull's Other Island on July 17th

Theater Ten Ten's fascinating and innovative presentation of The Mikado has British military men as the 'gentlemen of Japan'

The latest play of the Project Shaw series will be studded with a starry cast, including Daniel Reichard, Charlotte Rae, Penny Fuller, Alison Fraser, and series regulars George S. Irving and Paxton Whitehead; it will be presented on June 19th

Overruled and Augustus Does His Bit, the latest presentation of the Shaw Project, will feature Charlotte Moore, Kathleen Widdoes, Paxton Whitehead and series regular George S. Irving on May 8th

As with the Shaw Project's previous staged readings, You Never Can Tell--set for April 17th--will feature a star-studded cast led by Tovah Feldshuh, Malcolm Gets, George S. Irving, Elena Shaddow and Paxton Whitehead

On March 20th, the Shaw Project reading of Shaw's Heartbreak House--starring Michele Pawk, Fritz Weaver and others--will be presented at the Players Club

On March 20, Michele Pawk, Fritz Weaver, Malachy McCourt and Simon Jones, among others, will enter George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House, the third reading presented as part of the Shaw Project

Marc Kudisch, Doug Sills, Rebecca Luker, George S. Irving and Max Von Essen will be among the stars taking part in the Shaw Project's Fanny's First Play on February 27th

Marc Kudisch, George S. Irving, Malcolm Gets, Nancy Anderson and Alison Fraser will be among the stars of the Shaw Project's Arms and the Man, opening January 23rd