Lucy Sorensen News

The Saint Michael's Playhouse opens its 2010 season of professional summer theater Tuesday, June 15, in the McCarthy Arts Center at Saint Michael's College, with the Broadway musical comedy, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE.

Four rousing, high-spirited, big productions will fill the stage of the Saint Michael's Playhouse on the campus of Saint Michael's College for the 63rd season of professional summer theater, June 15 to August 7. Saint Michael's Playhouse has been named 'One of the best regional theater companies in America' by The Drama League of New York City and hailed by Yankee Magazine as 'The Best of New England.'

MAKAI's Mix Tape (for your journey eastward): The Music of Brett Macias (Recently featured in American Theatre Magazine as a composer to watch) With Lyrics by Caroline Murphy, Fredrick Sauter, Kyoung Ae Kang, John Donne, Shel Silverstein and Pablo Neruda MAKAI's Mix Tape is part of the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program's Songbook series.

NEW PERSPECTIVES THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to present CYCLONE (AND THE PIG-FACED LADY), a new musical with book and lyrics by DANA LESLIE GOLDSTEIN, music by Rima Fand and direction by Elysa Marden, as part of the NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 2008.

NEW PERSPECTIVES THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to present CYCLONE (AND THE PIG-FACED LADY), a new musical with book and lyrics by DANA LESLIE GOLDSTEIN, music by Rima Fand and direction by Elysa Marden, as part of the NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 2008. Tickets are $20.00 and can be purchased at www.nymf.org/Show-918.html. Performances run Tuesday, September 23rd at 8:00 pm, Wednesday, September 24th at 1:00 pm, Sunday, September 28th at 4:30 pm, Wednesday, October 1st at 8:00 pm, Friday, October 3rd at 4:30 pm, and Saturday, October 4th at 8:00 pm. TBG THEATER is located at 312 West 46th Street, just off 8th Avenue.

NEW PERSPECTIVES THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to present CYCLONE (AND THE PIG-FACED LADY), a new musical with book and lyrics by DANA LESLIE GOLDSTEIN, music by RIMA FAND and direction by ELYSA MARDEN, as part of the NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 2008.

Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference (NPC) and Paulette Haupt, Artistic Director of the National Music Theater Conference (NMTC), announced the actors cast in their 2008 projects. The actors include a mix of award-winning actors from stage and screen, seasoned O'Neill performers, and new talent.

Tony Award nominated actress Jane Summerhays, last seen on Broadway in The Wild Party, will join the cast of the new musical Sympathy Jones, which will debut at this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Big Tent: The Tammy Faye Bakker Musical had its first public viewing in a fully staged concert at Off-Broadway's New World Stages

Several Broadway stars are coming together Monday, April 30, at 8pm for We Tell The Story: The Songs of Ahrens and Flaherty, a one-night-only benefit concert in which all of the proceeds raised will go directly to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Several Broadway stars are coming together Monday, April 30, at 8pm for We Tell The Story: The Songs of Ahrens and Flaherty, a one-night-only benefit concert in which all of the proceeds raised will go directly to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

More casting has been announced for the February 13th reading of The Man in the Iron Mask, starring Ron Bohmer, Richard Roland and Marla Schaffel