Mark Twain News

Acclaimed actor/writer JEREMY LAWRENCE has just been added to the performers taking part in the sold-out "A Celebration of Tennessee Williams" this Monday night, February 7th at the 92nd Street Y.

According to a report by Deadline.com, Robert Forster is set to play Ronald Reagan in both the one-man stage show and movie version of David Rambo's The Lifeguard: Ronald Reagan and His Story. Tony award winning director Peter Hunt has also signed on for the project.

Triangle: From the Fire, an original new dramatic oratorio about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, with music composed by Tony-nominated Elizabeth Swados and conceived and directed by Cecilia Rubino -- and written by Rubino with poet Paula Finn -- will be performed at a special theatrical five-day run to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

Fifty years after her legendary Carnegie Hall debut, The New York Pops remembers Hollywood icon Judy Garland with a song-for-song re-creation of the 1961 performance that is referred to by so many as "the greatest night in show business history".

Play Dead,the new off-Broadway comic thriller co-written and directed by Teller (of Penn & Teller) and co-written & performed by Todd Robbins, will mark its 100th performance on Saturday, February 5 at 10pm at Off-Broadway's Players Theater (115 MacDougal Street at Minetta Lane). Play Dead opened to rave reviews on November 10, for an open-ended run. The cast of PLAY DEAD includes Geri Berman, Charlotte Pines, Drea Lorraine and Don Meehan.

Porchlight Music Theatre will present the highly anticipated Midwest Premiere of the new musical MEET JOHN DOE, based on the film of the same name by Frank Capra, previewing March 4, opening Tuesday, March 8th at 7:30 p.m., and running through April 17, 2011 at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, Chicago.

Civic Theatre of Allentown is seeking African American actors, singers, and dancers for its production of Ragtime: The Musical, and will hold auditions on Thursday, January 27th at 7:00 PM at Civic Theatre of Allentown, located at 527 N. 19th Street, Allentown, PA 18104. The auditions will take place in the rehearsal hall located above the theatre.

Kurt Sutton returns as Mark Twain to the Manatee Players on Wednesday January 26 at 2 p.m.

Young Washington, a Pittsburgh CLO Gallery of Heroes production, kicked off its spring tour January 10, 2011, at Cornell Middle School in Coraopolis, PA.

People's Light & Theatre presents Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, adapted for the stage by Laura Eason.

Adah Isaacs Menken was the original global Superstar, the first media celebrity, a daredevil American performer who risked her life on stage. A poet and rebel, she was known to Victorians as "The Naked Lady." Her colorful life is the subject of A Dangerous Woman: The Life, Loves, and Scandals of Adah Isaacs Menken, 1835-1868, America's Original Superstar, by Barbara and Michael Foster.

On January 20, 2010 Lapham's Quarterly celebrates the release of its Winter 2011 issue 'Celebrity' at Joe's Pub.

Kurt Sutton returns as Mark Twain to the Manatee Players on Wednesday January 26 at 2 p.m.

Davidson Community Players announces open auditions for its June 2011 production of the landmark musical RAGTIME.

The Indiana University Department of Theatre and Drama in the College of Arts and Sciences announced the inaugural Indiana Festival Theatre season Jan. 13 at the department's new academic and rehearsal space in the newly renovated west wing of the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center.

Abingdon Theatre Company to present its 2010 Christopher Brian Wolk Award to Stephen Spotswood for his script THE AARONSVILLE WOMAN Tuesday, January 18, 7:30PM, in the June Havoc Theatre

THE 14TH STREET Y is pleased to announce the return of A WONDERFULLY FLAT THING, after a sold-out engagement last Spring. Created by Manju Shandler and Basmat Hazan, adapted by Valerie Work, Manju Shandler, and Basmat Hazan A WONDERFULLY FLAT THING, directed by David Winitsky* will close Sunday, January 16.

Jane Austen's Emma - A Musical Romantic Comedy, with book, music and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Paul Gordon and direction by Tony Award nominee Jeff Calhoun, will run in the Old Globe Theatre Jan. 15 - Feb. 27. Preview performances run Jan. 15 - Jan. 22. Opening night is Jan. 23 at 7:00 p.m.

Multi award-winning Bill Cosby returns to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center on Saturday, January 15, for two performances, at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Civic Theatre of Allentown is seeking African American actors, singers, and dancers for its production of Ragtime: The Musical, and will hold auditions on Thursday, January 27th at 7:00 PM at Civic Theatre of Allentown, located at 527 N. 19th Street, Allentown, PA 18104. The auditions will take place in the rehearsal hall located above the theatre.