Michael Caine News

The Walnut Street Theatre opens its landmark 201st season with the Philly premiere of Broadway's smash hit, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS. With Direction and Choreography by Barrymore Award-winner Richard Stafford, this all-new production of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS begins previews on September 8th, opens on September 16th and runs through October 25th on the WST Mainstage.

The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park will open its 50 th Anniversary Season with one of the greatest stage thrillers of all time - SLEUTH. This edge-of-your seat mystery by Anthony Shaffer begins previews in the Playhouse's Robert S. Marx Theatre September 5 and continues through October 3.For immensely successful mystery writer Andrew Wyke, life is an elaborate game whereothers are merely pawns at his disposal.

Joe Piscopo, Harris Doran, and Nell Mooney star in Gateway Playhouse's DIRTY ROTTTEN SCOUNDRELS. The production runs August 26 through September 12.

The Walnut Street Theatre opens its landmark 201st season with the Philly premiere of Broadway's smash hit, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS. With Direction and Choreography by Barrymore Award-winner Richard Stafford, this all-new production of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS begins previews on September 8th, opens on September 16th and runs through October 25th on the WST Mainstage.

The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park will open its 50 th Anniversary Season with one of the greatest stage thrillers of all time - SLEUTH. This edge-of-your seat mystery by Anthony Shaffer begins previews in the Playhouse's Robert S. Marx Theatre September 5 and continues through October 3.For immensely successful mystery writer Andrew Wyke, life is an elaborate game whereothers are merely pawns at his disposal.

Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Richard M. Parison, Jr., Producing Director, announce the theatre?s 15th Anniversary Season. Opening on the Mainstage will be Rodgers and Hammerstein?s musical masterpiece Carousel from June 17 through July 11. BSC will present its first thriller, the Tony Award-winning play Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer, from July 16 through August 1. Tennessee Williams? landmark play A Streetcar Named Desire will conclude the Mainstage summer season from August 6 through 29. The Mainstage fall show will be announced at a later date. On Stage 2, receiving its world premiere is Mark St. Germain?s Freud?s Last Session from June 10 through 28. Glen Berger?s hit Off-Broadway play Underneath the Lintel will play on Stage 2 from July 8 though 26.

Maine State Music Theatre's third show of the 2009 season is the delightfully deceptive 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.' This Tony Award winning musical is based on the film of the same name and includes music and lyrics by David Yazbek, composer and lyricist of 'The Full Monty', and a book by Jeffrey Lane. In addition to the familiar story line, the musical boasts witty lyrics with a side of harmless adult humor.

Maine State Music Theatre's third show of the 2009 season is the delightfully deceptive 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.' This Tony Award winning musical is based on the film of the same name and includes music and lyrics by David Yazbek, composer and lyricist of 'The Full Monty', and a book by Jeffrey Lane. In addition to the familiar story line, the musical boasts witty lyrics with a side of harmless adult humor.

Maine State Music Theatre's third show of the 2009 season is the delightfully deceptive 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.' This Tony Award winning musical is based on the film of the same name and includes music and lyrics by David Yazbek, composer and lyricist of 'The Full Monty', and a book by Jeffrey Lane. In addition to the familiar story line, the musical boasts witty lyrics with a side of harmless adult humor.

The New York Times reports that Morton Gottlieb, a Broadway producer who guided to the stage four plays that were nominated for Best-Play Tony Awards, died Thursday in Englewood, N.J. He was 88 years old.

The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye reports that Matthew Warchus, the 2009 Tony Award winner for Best Direction of a Play for his work guiding Best Play honoree God of Carnage, will helm a new West End production of Ira Levin's 1978 Broadway play Deathtrap.

A film adaptation of Cy Coleman's CITY OF ANGELS is headed to the screen, to be helmed by Director Barry Levinson ('Wag the Dog', 'Good Morning, Vietnam'). The picture is one of many new projects to be produced by new company Unique Features, headed by former New Line Films principals Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, Variety reported today.

Ardal O'Hanlon, Dylan Moran and Tommy Tiernan are set to perform their critically-acclaimed stage event the The Fellas Live! in a limited U.S. tour -- 7 performances ONLY -- June 5 - 13. Presented by WestBeth Entertainment and Mick Perrin for Just For Laughs, this special limited engagement lands in five hotbeds of comedy: Boston*, Baltimore, Chicago**, Philadelphia and New York City.

Gateway Playhouse, the 'foremost summer professional regional theatre' (Newsweek), announces its 60th anniversary season celebrating some of Broadway's biggest Tony Award winning hits: Miss Saigon, A Chorus Line, The Drowsy Chaperone, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sophisticated Ladies and Meshuggah-Nuns.

Maine State Music Theatre will open its doors to musical theatre fans for the fifty-first time on June 3rd, 2009. The season will include four award-winning musicals new to the MSMT stage along with three children's musicals and a special concert appearance by Grammy-nominated a capella group, Toxic Audio

Veteran actor Sir Michael Caine is quick to point out that he is 'too old' to appear on Broadway.