Megan McDermott News

'I sometimes think women'll go so far that the great battle of the future will be between the sexes for supremacy!' exclaims Dr. Remington in Rachel Crothers' 1920 Broadway hit "He and She."

As the house lights came up on the Garage Theatre Group's production of THE BALD SOPRANO on Sunday afternoon, the delighted audience was still reflecting on what they had just seen.

A simple dinner party devolves into hilarious chaos and linguistic acrobatics in Eugene Ionesco's comic masterpiece The Bald Soprano. The cutting-edge Garage Theatre Group concludes its 17th season with a new translation of Ionesco's absurdist triumph. The Bald Soprano will play April 21 through May 8 at the Becton Theatre on the Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University, 960 River Road in Teaneck.

Following six weeks of fierce competition among 20 of California's finest young musical theatre performers, LA's Next Great Stage Star 2011 celebrated Judy Mora's outstanding victory at the 5th annual competition's glittering Finale on Sunday, February 6, presented by Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's, the most critically acclaimed, award-winning supper club of its kind in greater Los Angeles. Runners up included San Francisco's Michael David (2nd place); Matthew McFarland (3rd place); Emily Goglia (4th place); and Reba Buhr (5th place). Broadway World's Dean Butler was there to capture the three and a half hour event ... off and on stage - which also included a Special Guest Star performance by musical theatre, television star and pop composer/singer Blake McIver Ewing.

LA's Next Great Stage Star 2011 rings in the New Year at Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's, the most critically acclaimed, award-winning supper club of its kind in Los Angeles. The fifth anniversary presentation of this distinguished musical theatre talent competition shines the spotlight on an unprecedented twenty (20) young contestants beginning Sunday, January 6.

'I am a border-ruffian from the State of Missouri. I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption. In me, you have Missouri morals and Connecticut culture. This is the combination which makes the perfect man.' Mark Twain said this tongue-in-cheek, but it appears to have been the formula for a complicated life that included an impressive body of literature.

'I am a border-ruffian from the State of Missouri. I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption. In me, you have Missouri morals and Connecticut culture. This is the combination which makes the perfect man.' Mark Twain said this tongue-in-cheek, but it appears to have been the formula for a complicated life that included an impressive body of literature.

Where else have these actors performed and how did they become part of 'Berkeley Square?' How does ELTC's artistic director Gayle Stahlhuth choose a show and a season? How and why do actors even do what they do? And who is playwright John L. Balderston and how did he come to write this highly original time-travel adventure? Audience members have the opportunity to ask these and other questions of the talented ten-member cast and the company's artistic director, Gayle Stahlhuth on Friday, October 1, immediately after seeing the award-winning Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company's production of 'Berkeley Square.'

'How can you speak of things that haven't happened yet, as though they had happened? How can you know things you couldn't know?' asks Helen, living in 1784, to Peter, who is from 1928 in John L. Balderston's highly original fantasy adventure, 'Berkeley Square.'

Where else have these actors performed and how did they become part of 'Berkeley Square?' How does ELTC's artistic director Gayle Stahlhuth choose a show and a season? How and why do actors even do what they do? And who is playwright John L. Balderston and how did he come to write this highly original time-travel adventure? Audience members have the opportunity to ask these and other questions of the talented ten-member cast and the company's artistic director, Gayle Stahlhuth on Friday, October 1, immediately after seeing the award-winning Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company's production of 'Berkeley Square.'

'How can you speak of things that haven't happened yet, as though they had happened? How can you know things you couldn't know?' asks Helen, living in 1784, to Peter, who is from 1928 in John L. Balderston's highly original fantasy adventure, 'Berkeley Square.'

Broadway comes to the Pasadena Presbyterian Church for one night only, when husband and wife musical theater composers Jason Robert Brown and Georgia Stitt share the stage with their talented friends tonight, June 12 at 7:30pm.

The Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company, the recent recipient of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance's Achievement of Excellence Award for '30 years of celebrating America's heritage through productions and educational programs,' has its usual season filled with music, a radio show, classic gems and a world premiere. To celebrate ELTC's 30th birthday, the shows are a blend of old favorites and new discoveries.