John Houseman News

Signature Theatre Company Founding Artistic Director James Houghton was a recent guest on the American Theatre Wing/XM Radio's 'Downstage Center'

The Play Company kicks off its 2007-2008 season with the American premiere of Bad Jazz by Robert Farquhar. Directed by Trip Cullman, Bad Jazz will play a limited Off-Broadway run from Sunday, November 4 - Sunday, November 25 at the Ohio Theatre (66 Wooster Street). Official opening is set for Sunday, November 11 at 7PM.

Rita McKenzie recreates her uncanny, award winning Off-Broadway portrayal of Ethel Merman, the Queen of the Broadway Musical in her international smash hit, Ethel Merman's Broadway!

The Blossom Company will present Animals as part of the 11th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC. It will run at the Connelly Theatre (E. 4th St., between A and B) from August 10th through 24th.

The iconic theater diva and star of 24 - count 'em, 24 - Broadway shows including 'Evita,' 'Master Class,' 'Noises Off,' 'Anything Goes' and 'Sweeney Todd' brought all the songs she 'Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda' sung, plus a few more, to The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH this past weekend

The North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA), one of the premier arts conservatories in the United States, will present a new production of West Side Story to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the work

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com will present the return of the award-winning acappella group, Toxic Audio to Birdland on Monday, April 23 at 7pm

Maria Aitken, director of London's Olivier-winning Best New Comedy, will bring an all star ensemble of Broadway actors to the stage of the Laura Pels Theatre on Monday, April 9th at 7pm as The Acting Company presents a benefit staged reading of W. Somerset Maugham's For Services Rendered.

The North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA), one of the premier arts conservatories in the United States, will present a new production of West Side Story to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the work.

Four-time Emmy Award winning talk show host Bill Boggs will complete the winter 2006-2007 run of his long-running show, Talk Show Confidential, in order to embark on a book tour for Got What It Takes?: Successful People on How They Made It To the Top, to be published by HarperCollins on April 10, 2007.

On Saturday, December 9, La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego will host 'A Winter Fantasy,' a gala benefit featuring Tony Award-winning actress and singer Patti LuPone

Cipriani Wall Street was the site of The Acting Company's October 23 'Masquerade' as Angela Lansbury presented the John Houseman Award to Patti LuPone for her outstanding contributions to the theater

Zoe Caldwell, Roseanne Cash, Megan Dodds, John Doyle, Tom Fontana, Dana Ivey, Thomas Kean, Audra McDonald, Phyllis Newman, Alan Rickman, Laila Robins, David Schramm, Marian Seldes and Francesca Zambello will ateend the Acting Company's October 23rd Masquerade, in which Angela Lansbury will present an award to Patti LuPone

Angela Lansbury will toast fellow Lovett Patti LuPone, who will be presented with the John Houseman Award

Four-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury makes a return to the Broadway stage heading the cast of This is on Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker, a staged reading adapted by Tom Fontana to benefit The Acting Company on Sunday, November 5, 7pm at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 West 45th Street. Boyd Gaines, Harriet Harris, Lisa Banes and Lynn Collins complete the cast.

A capella group Toxic Audio will perform at Birdland on August 7th

This August, Andrea Reese's one-woman play Cirque Jacqueline will return to Provincetown

Eric Sanders' Oceanside Parkway and Bekah Brunstetter's Arms will run for four performances from May 12th through 20th as part of the More for Your Money '06 Festival

The Acting Company's Macbeth and The Three Musketeers, playing in repertory through May 20th, began performances on May 9th, and BroadwayWorld was there for the celebration!

Jason Robert Brown, Stephanie J. Block and Linda Lavin will be among the performers appearing at Birdland as part of the Summer in the City series