Mark Twain News

Project Shaw presented JITTA'S ATONEMENT, a 'shocking Viennese 1920 amusement wickedly re-imagined by George Bernard Shaw', on Monday, November 17th at the THE PLAYERS (16 Gramercy Park South).

Project Shaw presents actor Charles Busch in the lead role of 'Jitta' in their upcoming reading of JITTA'S ATONEMENT.

Producer Laura Coker has announced an added performance for Blood Brothers, the Olivier Award-winning, Tony-nominated musical drama by Willy Russell on Sunday, November 23 at 8 pm.

Hal Holbrook brings his much acclaimed one-man show "Mark Twain Tonight" to Marin Center for one unforgettable performance.

On Monday, November 24, Goodspeed Musicals will hold their Annual Food Drive to benefit the East Haddam Food Bank.

SFB--HALL HOLBROOK IN 'MARK TWAIN TONIGHT' AT MARIN CENTER for One Night, November 22

Project Shaw has announced that actor Charles Busch will replace Tyne Daly in the lead role of 'Jitta' in their upcoming reading of JITTA'S ATONEMENT.

The producers of Blithe Spirit are pleased to announce the show will play The Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street). Rehearsals are scheduled to begin Monday, January 26, 2009 with the first performance on Thursday, February 26, 2009.

Beginning its 30th year of broadcast, the American Theatre Wing's 'Working in the Theatre' program will feature 'Actors Words, Writers Voice' on CUNY TV on Sunday, November 2 at 5 p.m. The program will repeat on Friday, November 7 at 9 a.m., 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, November 8 at 11 a.m. The program becomes available as streaming video and podcast from www.americantheatrewing.org, as well as iTunes, beginning Wednesday afternoon, November 5.

To prepare for their roles in Goodspeed Musicals' current production, Big River, adapted from the Mark Twain classic 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' the cast recently went on a tour of The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Conn.

Beginning its 30th year of broadcast, the American Theatre Wing's 'Working in the Theatre' program will feature 'Actors Words, Writers Voice' on CUNY TV on Sunday, November 2 at 5 p.m. The program will repeat on Friday, November 7 at 9 a.m., 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, November 8 at 11 a.m. The program becomes available as streaming video and podcast from www.americantheatrewing.org, as well as iTunes, beginning Wednesday afternoon, November 5.

Project Shaw will present JITTA'S ATONEMENT, a 'shocking Viennese 1920 amusement wickedly re-imagined by George Bernard Shaw', as their next production. JITTA'S ATONEMENT will be performed Monday, November 17th, 7PM at the THE PLAYERS (16 Gramercy Park South).

It's War-Between-The-States once again in the New Jersey Premiere of Kathleen Clark's Off Broadway hit, SOUTHERN COMFORTS, running Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, December 14, at the Bickford Theatre, 6 Normandy Heights Road, in Morristown, NJ.

The Guthrie welcomes back beloved stage and screen actor Charles Keating, who returns to the Dowling Studio next month for two nights in his highly-lauded one-man show I and I: The Sense of Self.

On Monday, October 27th, at 8:00pm the New Globe Theater presents SHAKESPEARE IN THE BRAVE NEW WORLD (from the Colonies to Bart Simpson) at NYU Skirball Center.

On Monday October 20th, Project Shaw presented The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet featuring Cheyenne Jackson as Blanco Posnet, and Hannah Cabell, Mary Carver, Nora Chester, Teddy Eck, Stephen Mo Hanan, Lianne Kressin, Brian Scott Lipton, John Martello, Charlotte Moore, Liz Morton, Nathaniel Shaw and Emily Young.

On Monday, October 27th, at 8:00pm the New Globe Theater presents SHAKESPEARE IN THE BRAVE NEW WORLD (from the Colonies to Bart Simpson) at NYU Skirball Center.

On Monday October 20th at 7PM, Project Shaw will present The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet featuring Cheyenne Jackson as Blanco Posnet, and Hannah Cabell, Mary Carver, Nora Chester, Teddy Eck, Stephen Mo Hanan, Lianne Kressin, Brian Scott Lipton, John Martello, Charlotte Moore, Liz Morton, Nathaniel Shaw and Emily Young.

The Theatre and Interpretation Center (TIC), the department of performance studies and the Dance Program at Northwestern University continue their fall season with two Tony Award-winning productions, a new adaptation of a literary classic, a new performance studies work and the annual fall dance concert.

'Big River' recounts Mark Twain's powerful portrait of classic American characters - Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer and their slave friend, Jim - setting it against a musical backdrop of homespun country infused with soulful gospel. At once comical and poignant, this celebrated show takes audiences on an adventure down the Mississippi River to tell the enduring tale of a boy's struggle to escape convention, and a man's struggle to find freedom.