Mark Twain News

Growing up in a coastal community, dreams of swashbuckling and great sea adventures floated around throughout my adolescence, and thanks, in part, to Disney recently giving a much needed boost to the pirate adventures series, tales of the high seas are back in vogue. Subsequently, what was once the toast of Victorian England, Louis de Rougemont's wild stories of a life out at sea, has come full circle and once again shines as bright as the North Star at South Coast Repertory...

Tickets for Mark Twain's Is He Dead?, adapted by David Ives, and directed by two-time Tony Award winner Michael Blakemore, go on sale to the general public tomorrow, Saturday, September 22.

'Is He Dead?' opening at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre on November 29 will star Norbert Leo Butz, Jenn Gambatese, David Pittu, Tom Alan Robbins.

Political humorist Will Durst is a funny guy but many of his jokes seem rescued from the recycling bin rather than ripped from the headlines.

Billy Crystal, who won the Tony award last year and broke box office records with his Broadway hit 700 Sundays, won the Helpmann award for Best Special Event for the one-man show.

Is He Dead?, a new comedy by master American novelist and satirist Mark Twain, adapted by David Ives, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Michael Blakemore, and starring Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz, will open on November 29, 2007 at the Lyceum Theatre

The Performing Arts Center at UNLV, Southern Nevada's premier performing arts venue, recently announced its 2007-2008 season and in addition to the longstanding Charles Vanda Master Series, New York Stage & Beyond Series, and UNLV Classical Guitar Series, the Performing Arts Center also will offer two outstanding performances to celebrate UNLV's 50th Anniversary.

Angela Lansbury, currently on Broadway in Terrence McNally's Deuce, will be honored with the Players Club's Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Actors Fund's Annual Auction of 1000 Stars launches online June 11

Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo Butz will return to Broadway next season in the farce Is He Dead?.

This week we talk to Daniel Jenkins who plays George Banks in 'Mary Poppins.' Not only does he talk about 'Mary Poppins' but we also hear his performances of 'Leavin's Not the Only Way to Go' from 'Big River' and 'Coffee, Black' from 'Big.'

The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio will air an interview with Tony Award winning lyricist Alain Boublil and composer Claude-Michel Schönberg on their weekly theatrical interview show, 'Downstage Center,' on XM's On Broadway (XM Channel 28).

New York City is hosting the first-ever NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL (NAATF) from June 11-24, 2007, featuring more than 25 Asian American performing arts companies and solo artists convening for two weeks of performances at venues throughout the city.

According to The New York Times, Billy Crystal will be the 10th recipient of the annually awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The award will be presented October 11 at the Kennedy Center in DC, in a tribute performance to be televised by PBS.

Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) limited engagement of The Apple Tree will play its final performance on Sunday, March 11th at 2:00 PM.

Kristin Chenoweth, starring in Roundabout Theatre Company's The Apple Tree, will be a featured on FOX's 'Good Day New York' on Monday, March 5th between 8:30-9:00AM on channel 5. The Apple Tree is playing a limited engagement through Sunday, March 11th at Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street).

Tune in to WOR's 'The Joan Hamburg Show' on Friday, February 23rd from 9:00-11:00AM (710 AM) to listen as Joan celebrates Roundabout Theatre Company's 2007 Spring Season. Roundabout's Artistic Director Todd Haimes and many stars currently performing on Roundabout stages will be on-hand to discuss Roundabout's exciting spring productions.

Kristin Chenoweth, starring in Roundabout Theatre Company's The Apple Tree, will be a guest on NBC's 'Martha' on Wednesday, February 21st between 10:00-11:00AM on channel 4.

Kristin Chenoweth, starring in Roundabout Theatre Company's The Apple Tree, will co-host ABC's 'The View,' alongside Rosie O'Donnell, Joy Behar and Elizabeth Hasselbeck on Thursday, February 8th from 11:00AM to 12:00PM on Channel 7.

Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth, currently starring in Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of The Apple Tree, will be a guest on NBC's 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' tonight, Monday, February 5th at 12:35-1:35 AM.