Karen Azenberg News

In the tradition of Honky Tonk Angels, Always... Patsy Cline and Beehive the Alabama Shakespeare Festival will complete its 2009-10 season with the summer-fun musical Cowgirls, June 11-27.

Acclaimed director Jonathan Warman will direct IN LOCO PARENTIS by Michael DeVito, as part of the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival (August 13-29), at the Fourth Street Theatre, dates to be announced soon.

Local Equity Principal Auditions (EPAs) for Pioneer Theatre Company's 2010-2011 Season will be held on Friday, June 25th, 2010. Auditions are for actors ages 18 and up. Audition time slots are from 10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. If these slots are 75% filled in advance, additional time will be made available.

In the tradition of Honky Tonk Angels, Always... Patsy Cline and Beehive the Alabama Shakespeare Festival will complete its 2009-10 season with the summer-fun musical Cowgirls, June 11-27.

Arbitrator Marlene Gold has decided that the Broadway League must include a TKTS ticket purchase fee of $1 when calculating royalties for members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), Variety reported today. Gold ruled that this money should be included when determining a production's total sales figures, out of which royalties are frequently calculated as a percentage. The fee of $1 has been included in the price of every ticket purchased at New York City's TKTS booths since 2008; Gold has decided that this new ruling must be used to recalculate all royalties from then on.

Local Equity Principal Auditions (EPAs) for Pioneer Theatre Company's 2010-2011 Season will be held on Friday, June 25th, 2010. Auditions are for actors ages 18 and up. Audition time slots are from 10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. If these slots are 75% filled in advance, additional time will be made available.

In the tradition of Honky Tonk Angels, Always... Patsy Cline and Beehive the Alabama Shakespeare Festival will complete its 2009-10 season with the summer-fun musical Cowgirls, June 11-27.

The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) has announced that its membership ratified several contracts at the union's annual membership meeting held this past month. Attended by over 75 directors and choreographers and presided over by Executive Board President Karen Azenberg and Executive Director Laura Penn, the meeting also included the announcement of executive board election results and the presentation of the Joe A. Callaway Awards.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), the not-for-profit foundation of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), announces the establishment of The Zelda Fichandler Award to recognize an outstanding director or choreographer who is making a unique and exceptional contribution through his or her work in regional theatre.

Pioneer Theatre Company presents the spectacular musical phenomenon Miss Saigon, by the same team that created Les Misérables. The show runs May 1 through May 16, 2009.

Pioneer Theatre Company presents the spectacular musical phenomenon Miss Saigon, by the same team that created Les Misérables. The show runs May 1 through May 16, 2009.

The results of the 2008 Executive Board Election were announced on November 17, 2008 at the annual SSDC membership meeting in New York. Joining the leadership of President Karen Azenberg, Executive Vice President Larry Carpenter and Treasurer Doug Hughes are director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall as Vice President and director Mary B. Robinson as Secretary. New members Joe Calarco and Leigh Silverman joined the Board, along with incumbents Rob Ashford, Edie Cowan, Ethan McSweeny, Tom Moore, Lisa Peterson, Daniel Sullivan, David Warren and Chay Yew. After twelve years of valued service, Mark Brokaw and Sheldon Epps rotated off the Board.

Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC) announces that Karen Azenberg was elected President of SSDC and Larry Carpenter as Executive Vice President on November 19, 2007.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) and Bridge Club Productions will present The Angle of the Sun, a new musical by Rachel Lampert (book and lyrics) and Larry Pressgrove (music)

North Shore Music Theatre production proves that anything can happen if you believe

Deborah Lew, Maureen Brennan, Terry Burrell, Natalie Joy Johnson, Joyce Chittick and more will be featured in North Shore Music Theatre's upcoming staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, which will run from August 22nd through September 10th at the theatre in Beverly, MA

Thorstein Veblen, dismissed from the professorial ranks of Barnard College for Women, takes to the Vaudeville stage to promote his latest economic treatise, THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS.