Margot News

Broadway star Will Chase will guest star in the series premiere of PAN AM premiering this Sunday, Sept 25th at 10 PM est on ABC. Chase will be co-starring in the upcoming series ‘Smash' for NBC and has starred on Broadway in Billy Elliot, The Story of My Life, Lennon, High Fidelity, Aida and Rent.

Dance Theatre of Tennessee (DTT) brings to life one of best-loved classical ballets of all time - Swan Lake Act 2. DTT will present this timeless classic as part of its 2011-12 opening season series entitled At 75 - A Tribute to Elaine Thomas, DTT's assistant artistic director on Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1 at 8 p.m. at Harpeth Hall Auditorium.

Many of Broadway's stars are participating in the 13th annual Carols for a Cure album, and the latest participants were the cast of off-Broadway's RENT!

Signature Theatre announced today that philanthropist and Signature Board of Trustees member Margot Adams has made a gift honoring playwright Romulus Linney in support of Signature Center, the Company's new, permanent home opening in February 2012. Spanning an entire city block at 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenue, the Frank Gehry-designed Signature Center features three intimate theatres, a studio theatre, rehearsal studio, and a public café and bookstore. The Center will be both a theatre community hub and a neighborhood destination, and has been designed to foster interaction among playwrights, artistic collaborators, and the public.

One of only 6 plays in history to win the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, and the NY Drama Critics Circle Award, The Diary of Anne Frank runs Sept. 30 - Oct. 23 as the final play of Chenango River Theatre's 2011 season.

Tony Award-nominee Veanne Cox (Company, Caroline, or Change, A Free Man of Color) will be featured in several upcoming episodes of the new series Pan Am.

The Dallas Opera will present the first production of the 2011-2012 'Tragic Obsessions' Season: Gaetano Donizetti's passionate bel canto opera, LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, opening Friday, October 21, 2011 in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Downtown Dallas.

Broadway star Will Chase will guest star in the series premiere of PAN AM premiering this Sunday, Sept 25th at 10 PM est on ABC. Chase will be co-starring in the upcoming series ‘Smash' for NBC and has starred on Broadway in Billy Elliot, The Story of My Life, Lennon, High Fidelity, Aida and Rent.

Ghostlight Records' new Broadway cast recording of Roundabout Theatre Company's Tony-Award winning production Anything Goes will be released today, September 20th and will be followed on September 27th by a Barnes & Noble In-Store performance and CD signing, featuring Sutton Foster, Joel Grey, Colin Donnell, Adam Godley and Laura Osnes, as well as an introduction by Kathleen Marshall. The celebrated album features the stellar cast of this year's best musical revival, and is available here.

The Acting Company will present a benefit staged reading of Trouble in Paradise on Monday, September 26 at the Mainstage Theater, 416 West 42nd Street, NYC (between 9th/10th Avenues) at 7pm.

The Dallas Opera today announced details regarding FIRST NIGHT, the Opening Night celebrations marking the launch of the company's 2011-2012 'Tragic Obsessions' Season.

Write-On!, a series of new plays written by Acting Company Alumni will be performed as staged readings at 7 pm on October 3, 10, 17, 31 and November 7 at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.

The Dallas Opera has announced that single ticket sales to the general public for the action-packed 2011-2012 Season - their third in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center - will begin on Monday, September 12, 2010 at 10:00 am.

Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) Tony Award winning Broadway production of Anything Goes launches 'You're the Tap!' Contest. To submit your entry and watch videos of other hopeful hoofers, visit Facebook.com/RoundaboutTheatreCompany.

NOW. HERE. THIS. -- the newest work from the creators and cast of the hit musical [title of show] -- will be given its world-premiere production at the Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15 St.) in 2012, it has been announced by the theatre's artistic director Douglas Aibel and co-artistic director Sarah Stern. Following its developmental lab production at The Vineyard earlier this year, NOW. HERE. THIS. returns for a full production this spring, running in March and April.

The Joffrey Ballet's 2011-2012 subscription season, titled New Generation, launches this fall with the World Premiere of Yuri Possokhov's re-imagined Don Quixote.

BEN CAMERON (Wicked, Aida, Footloose) is the host and creator of BROADWAY SESSIONS at THE MIDTOWN THEATRE at the HA! Comedy Club TC l4 ' (163 West 46th Street / Between 6th & 7th Avenues) every Thursday night at 11:00pm. Broadway Sessions is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week, and features musical director/composer Will Van Dyke (Rent) on piano. In addition after the show we open the microphone up to anyone who wants to sing. Open mic goes from 12:00-2am.

Chicago Dramatists and About Face Theatre are proud to co-produce the world premiere of THE KID THING by Chicago Dramatists Resident Playwright and About Face Theatre Artistic Associate Sarah Gubbins.

BEN CAMERON (Wicked, Aida, Footloose) is the host and creator of BROADWAY SESSIONS at THE MIDTOWN THEATRE at the HA! Comedy Club TC l4 ' (163 West 46th Street / Between 6th & 7th Avenues) every Thursday night at 11:00pm. Broadway Sessions is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week, and features musical director/composer Will Van Dyke (Rent) on piano. In addition after the show we open the microphone up to anyone who wants to sing. Open mic goes from 12:00-2am.

From 10 October 2011 Stephen Ashfield (Emmett) and Ben Freeman (Warner), will be joining Carley Stenson (Elle Woods), Natalie Casey (Paulette) and Peter Davison (Professor Callahan) in the Olivier Award winning show Legally Blonde The Musical, which is currently booking until 27 October 2012 at the Savoy Theatre.