Laurence Olivier News

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce its 25th Anniversary season productions.

The North American touring production of Disney's THE LION KING is pleased to welcome to the company beginning Tuesday, July 13

As BroadwayWorld has previously reported, the West End hit PRISCILLA: QUEEN OF THE DESERT will be making its way to Broadway next season after a run at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre. The video below samples the UK production, now open for booking until 28 May 2011 at the Palace Theatre, giving audiences east side of the pond good reason get get excited for the import.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) has announced its 25th Anniversary season productions. The 2010-2011 season will feature world premieres from Academy Award® winner Ethan Coen, Pulitzer and Tony Award® winner David Auburn, Lucy Thurber, a return to the work of Tony Award® and Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter and a 25th anniversary one-act festival that will reunite a who's who of Atlantic alumni playwrights, directors and actors.

Nine of the most respected actors in America, representing nine of the nation's premier regional theatres, have just been selected for the prestigious Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program, a widely acclaimed national program to serve regional theatre actors and the future of American theatre.

Disney's The LION KING has announced a date change for The Actors Fund performance to Wednesday, August 18 at 2:00 PM. The performance accommodates back-to-school schedules and provides an end of summer matinee for families.

Cast members from Disney's THE LION KING (at Mandalay Bay) will be performing in Los Angeles at The Grove outdoor shopping and entertainment district during a free event on Friday, July 9 at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for the West Coast Premiere of Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro's The Last Romance. Old Globe Associate Artist and television icon Marion Ross will star with her longtime partner Paul Michael in the new romantic comedy which was written for them by DiPietro.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) has announced the selections for its 22nd Annual Festival of New Musicals taking place on Thursday, October 21 and Friday, October 22, 2010 in New York City.

Lincoln Center Festival 2010 is sponsored by American Express. Lincoln Center Festival 2010 is also made possible by Nancy A. Marks, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Isilon Systems, The Skirball Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Katzenberger Foundation, Inc.

In the tradition of Irish storytelling, Theatre of the Expendable will present Conor McPherson's St Nicholas, starring Darrell James as a jaded theatre critic who recounts his obsession with a beautiful young actress, and how that obsession led him into a macabre world of savage vampires.

The Tony-winning star of MISS SAIGON, Lea Salonga, will play the role of the Glamour Cat Grizabella in the international touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical CATS NOW AND FOREVER running on a limited engagement at the Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo, Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)from July 24 to August 15, 2010.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, directed by Daniel Sullivan, began performances for Shakespeare in the Park on Saturday, June 12. The Public Theater began Shakespeare in the Park performances of A Winter's Tale, directed by Michael Greif on June 9. Both shows will play in repertory through Sunday, August 1 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

The Actors Fund, a national human services organization that helps all professionals in performing arts and entertainment, is pleased to announce that the producer, cast, and management of Disney's The LION KING have added a special performance to benefit The Fund on Wednesday, August 25 at 2:00pm in Salt Lake City.

In a recent interview with Reed Johnson of the LA Times Adrian Noble talked about this season's Shakespeare Festival at The Old Globe in San Diego.

Emily Bronte's gothic novel, 'Wuthering Heights,' adapted to a romantic musical by Paul Dick, will be presented June 11 to 27, 2010 by Passajj Productions at The Mint Theatre, 311 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, directed by Matt Gutschick. The show, titled 'Wuthering Heights, a Romantic Musical,' is a signature piece, of sorts, for author/composer Paul Dick, who has penned over 15 Off-off Broadway tuners between the 60's and now.

BroadwayWorld.com has independently confirmed recent online rumors that changes have been made to the Broadway production of THE LION KING when the show recently welcomed new cast members in mid-June. The show now runs 8-10 minutes shorter and incorporated small cuts that were made first for the show's Las Vegas production. Also no longer in the show is 'Morning Report.' A production spokesperson declined comment or confirmation on any changes to the show, but BroadwayWorld.com's scooper did say that audiences are responding to the show just as wildly enthusiastically as they have for years, and those following the numbers know that the production continues to sell out.

Cast members from Disney's THE LION KING (at Mandalay Bay) will be performing in Los Angeles at The Grove outdoor shopping and entertainment district during a free event on Friday, July 9 at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Baz Bamigboye reports in the U.K. Daily Mail today that Martin Shaw and Jenny Seagrove will lead a new production of Clifford Odets' THE COUNTRY GIRL in the West End, opening in October of this year at the Apollo Theatre. Rufus Norris reportedly directs.

According to Baz Mabigboye in The Daily Mail, Britain's Got Talent's Amanda Holden scored in her SHREK audition for the West End production and reportedly 'played a blinder and was brilliant.' No casting has been announced as of yet, however rumors are abuzz that Holden will be the choice lady ogre.