John McDaniel News

Paper Mill Playhouse (Millburn, NJ) is currently presenting its mainstage production of Pirates!, a swashbuckling adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, a fully-staged theatrical concert with costumes, choreography and sword fighting

Steve Rosen and David Rossmer stop by to discuss the new Theatre-Insider Improv comedy night, Don't Quit Your Night Job, now Off-Broadway at the Ha! Comedy Club.

Weeks after Paper Mill announced it was in danger of closing its doors due to a severe financial crisis, the company's officials have announced that Goodspeed Musicals has offered support in producing their upcoming production of Pirates!, a fully-staged adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance.

Don't Quit Your Night Job, Broadway's new star-studded after hours revue, opened at HA! Comedy Club (163 46th St. at 7th Ave.) on Thursday, May 17th, and BroadwayWorld was there!

Paper Mill Playhouse announces its mainstage production of Pirates!, a swashbuckling adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, a fully-staged theatrical concert with costumes, choreography and sword fighting.

A strong and innovative public and private community response will be able to keep the doors from closing at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, local officials said yesterday.

Producer Jed Bernstein has leaked the line up of special celebrity guest stars for this week's performances of Don't Quit Your Night Job.

Jed Bernstein, producer of Don't Quit Your Night Job, Broadway's new after hours revue, has announced the complete company of Broadway and comedy performers that will join the show

The tale of the Molly Maguires, which was made into a successful Paramount movie in the late 60's, will soon have a new incarnation.

Jed Bernstein, producer of Don't Quit Your Night Job, Broadway's new after hours revue, has announced the complete company of Broadway and comedy performers that will join the show created and devised by Steve Rosen (Monty Python's Spamalot), David Rossmer (Nerds), Sarah Saltzberg (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and Dan Lipton (The Coast of Utopia), on stage beginning April 26th

'Don't Quit Your Night Job,' Broadway's new after hours revue, will begin performances April 26th at HA! Comedy Club with Opening Night set for Thursday, May 17th at 9:30 p.m.

On Monday, March 12th, the National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction (NFFR) presented 'Broadway for Medicine,' a gala concert at New York City Center featuring the best of Broadway!

Bay Street Theatre's 2007 Winter Benefit was held at The Rainbow Room at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan on Monday, February 26 at 6:30 p.m.

Betty Buckley (Cats, The Mystery of Edwin Drood), Kate Burton (Hedda Gabler, The Constant Wife), Hugh Panaro (Lestat), Lisa Vroman (The Phantom of the Opera), and Josh Strickland, Jenn Gambatese and Chester Gregory II (Tarzan), have joined the upcoming gala concert Broadway for Medicine, featuring the best of Broadway coming together on one stage to benefit children with craniofacial differences, presented by The National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction.

The new production of WICKED is being mounted specifically for Southern California and stars Eden Espinosa and Megan Hilty as Elphaba and Glinda.

The Zipper Theatre, Ryan Hill and John Johnson are pleased to announce a one-night only, newly adapted concert version of WORKING, the 1978 musical adapted from the acclaimed non-fiction book by Studs Terkel. This one-night only premiere concert event to benefit the Actor's Fund of America will take place on Monday, February 19, 2007 at The Zipper Theatre (336 West 37th Street, between 8 th and 9th Avenues).

On March 12th, 'Broadway for Medicine' will be presented at City Center, New York City, beginning at 7 PM.

Veteran stage, screen and television star John Rubinstein is announced to play The Wizard in the new Los Angeles production of WICKED, which begins performances on February 10, 2007, at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. Rubinstein joins stars Eden Espinosa and Megan Hilty, who play Elphaba and Glinda, and Carol Kane, who plays Madame Morrible. Kane appeared in the role during the sold out engagement of WICKED at the Pantages Theatre last summer, and then went on to play the part on Broadway.

The Laurie Beechman Theatre, located within The West Bank Café (407 West 42nd St.), is pleased to continue THE AFTER PARTY, an informal social gathering for the theatrically inclined. Every Friday from 10:30pm till 2am, join hosts BRANDON CUTRELL (MAC & Bistro Award winner) and ALYSHA UMPHRESS (XL Star), as well as RAY FELLMAN (Captain Louie) at the piano, for this weekly party in the heart of Manhattan's theatre district.

A capacity crowd filled the Luckman Fine Arts Complex on Saturday night, and they thrilled to The Actors' Fund tribute to legendary Broadway composer Jule Styne