John Stevens News

Playhouse 1960 presents Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz. Running tonight, January 23 through February 7, 2015.

Playhouse 1960 presents Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz. Running January 23 through February 7, 2015.

Theatre Southwest presents John Stevens in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Dec. 19-24. Charles Dickens loved the theater. He couldn't get enough of the stage. This love of the theatre was most fulfilled when he toured the country performing readings of his work. His most popular reading was always 'his ghostly little book,' A Christmas Carol In this tradition John Stevens has adapted and stars at Theatre Southwest in his own one-man version of Dickens's most beloved tale. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look below!

North Shore Animal League America, in partnership with PURINA®, will make the final stop of its annual national cooperative life-saving adoption event, Tour For Life®, with a Grand Finale celebration at Broadway Plaza, Times Square, NYC (West 42(nd) & 43(rd) St. & Broadway) on Friday, May 16 beginning at 11:30 a.m. with dozens of adoptable animals.

Kicking off Asia Week 2014, the historic Bohemian National Hall (BNH) will present its first annual Asia Art Fair, previewing on Friday, March 14, 2014 and running from Saturday, March 15 - through Tuesday, March 18th.

Disney's mega animated hit Frozen was also among the night's big winners, winning the four awards for an animated feature, including outstanding VFX, animated character, created environment, and FX and simulation animation.

Today, the Visual Effects Society, the industry's professional honoray society , announced the nominees for the 12th Annual VES Awards, recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials? and video games.

Prodigious playwright Alan Ayckbourn has been acclaimed for his craft many times during his lengthy career. Currently, Theatre Southwest is presenting his first really successful play HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES. The 6 person comedy first debuted in 1969 at The Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, England. It went on to find success in London's West End, opening on August 5, 1970, and on Broadway, opening on March 29, 1971. The production at Theatre Southwest exemplifies why the sidesplitting comedy was so well received.

Theatre Southwest presents 'Death and the Maiden' by Ariel Dorfman directed by Trevor B. Cone. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage!

Theatre Southwest presents 'Death and the Maiden' by Ariel Dorfman directed by Trevor B. Cone. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage!

'The Meeting Room,' an installation by world–renowned artist and architect Maya Lin, was dedicated and opened to the public today in Newport's Queen Anne Square. The Doris Duke Monument Foundation (DDMF), an offshoot of the Newport Restoration Foundation (NRF), presented the installation and revitalized park to the City of Newport as a gift in honor of the memory of philanthropist Doris Duke. Duke championed Newport's historic preservation and left an enduring legacy of historic architecture. The installation also honors the effect of historic preservation as a catalyst for community revitalization.

Dracula is a name that invokes fear and terror in me. Not because it is a horror story, but because just about every adaptation of Bram Stoker's legendary Gothic novel gets it so wrong that I am left completely cold and empty. Astonishingly, this is not the case with Theatre Southwest's brilliant and opulent production of DRACULA, written by Steven Dietz and directed by Ananka Kohnitz.

Theatre Southwest is currently producing a fascinating production of Tennessee William's thrilling and tense THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. The 1961 drama is set at The Costa Verde Hotel in Puerto Barrio on the West Coast of Mexico in the summer of 1940. The Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is leading a tour group of Baptist women from Texas through Mexico, but makes an unplanned stop at the hotel, which is owned and operated by his friend, Maxine Falk. Over the course of the afternoon and evening, Shannon slowly unravels, exposing his secrets and sins. An impoverished and entirely broke New England spinster, Hannah Jelkes, and her aging grandfather, a poet losing his mind, arrive at the hotel as well. Without any money, the duo hopes to lodge at the hotel with the promise to earn some money and pay upon checkout.

Theatre Southwest presents 'The Night of the Iguana' by Tennessee Williams, directed by Mimi Holloway. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast below!

It was announced today that Billy Crudup ('Almost Famous,' 'Watchmen'), Anton Yelchin ('Star Trek,' 'Terminator Salvation,' 'Like Crazy'), Selena Gomez ('Spring Breakers') and Laurence Fishburne ('The Matrix' trilogy, 'Contagion, 'Man of Steel') will star alongside William H. Macy ('Fargo') and Felicity Huffman ('Desperate Housewives') in Unified Pictures' music drama 'Rudderless.'

Unified Pictures, the Los Angeles based film production and finance company has tapped two of Hollywood's most illustrious animators, Academy Award nominee John Stevenson ('Kung Fu Panda," "Shrek") and Cameron Hood ("Megamind," "First Flight") for the company's CG-animated feature "Noah's Ark."

Comedies about Southern women talking are a dime a dozen. Most audiences cling to Robert Harling's STEEL MAGNOLIAS, imbued with healthy doses of both comedy and drama, as the quintessential Southern women play. However, Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten's DIXIE SWIM CLUB may start giving Robert Harling some competition.

MTV today announced a second season pick-up of its hit new series 'BUCKWILD.'

I've been writing for Houston's BroadwayWorld page for a brief 8 ½ months now, and one thing that I quickly learned and came to love about Houston is that there is always a wide selection of venues and titles to choose from. This past Saturday, I ventured from my residence in a Southeast suburb of the city to Playhouse 1960 for the very first time to see their production of I'M NOT RAPPAPORT. The aesthetically well-designed and beautiful performance space is nestled near FM 1960 and US 290, and the company provides audiences with a production of the Tony Award-winning comedy that leaves audiences with plenty to talk about it.

Playhouse 1960 Theatre will launch its 40th season with the Tony Award-winning comedy by Herb Gardner, I'm Not Rappaport, directed by Christine Weems. The production will run January 25th - February 9th, 2013. Get a first look at the show in the photos below!