59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Inis Nua Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA) with the New York premiere of DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT, written by Michael West and directed by Tom Reing. DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT ends performances on Sunday, October 2.
From Gerard Alessandrini, the creator of the Tony-Award-Winning Forbidden Broadway, and Robert Hetzel, comes an over-the-top new musical: Madame X, a melodramatic yet comic take on the Douglas Sirk films of the 1950s, and the ever-durable genre of the altruistic, self-sacrificing mother. The show, which will be presented concert-style, stars Forbidden Broadway veterans Donna English as Madame X (Ruthless!, Lend Me a Tenor) Janet Dickenson (The Grinch, Nine to Five) Edward Staudenmayer (Frank Wildhorn's Alice in Wonderland, Spamalot), Michael West (Newsical), plus Bill Coyne, Sean Bell, and Mike Longo with Musical Direction by David Caldwell and Richard Danley.
David West in Association with John Freedson will present MADAME X with book, music and lyrics Geard Alessandrini & Robert Hetzel and directed by Mr. Alessandrini at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
USA Network, in tandem with DC Entertainment, announces Volume Two of BURN NOTICE: A New Day, its engaging first interactive multiplatform comic book series.
'We started with more than 100, and now are down to five,' says PFP Executive Director David Zak. 'We have had a tremendous outpouring of exciting and fresh new writing submitted.'
From Gerard Alessandrini, the creator of the Tony-Award-Winning Forbidden Broadway, and Robert Hetzel, comes an over-the-top new musical: Madame X, a melodramatic yet comic take on the Douglas Sirk films of the 1950s, and the ever-durable genre of the altruistic, self-sacrificing mother. The show, which will be presented concert-style, stars Forbidden Broadway veterans Donna English as Madame X (Ruthless!, Lend Me a Tenor) Janet Dickenson (The Grinch, Nine to Five) Edward Staudenmayer (Frank Wildhorn's Alice in Wonderland, Spamalot), Michael West (Newsical), plus Bill Coyne, Sean Bell, and Mike Longo with Musical Direction by David Caldwell and Richard Danley.
59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Inis Nua Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA) with the New York premiere of DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT, written by Michael West and directed by Tom Reing.
The fourth annual 1st Irish Festival, the world's only all-Irish theatre festival, opens on Monday September 5 with the first of 21 performances of 'A Night with George,' the Aisling Award-winning comedy from Belfast.
The fourth annual 1st Irish Festival, the world's only all-Irish theatre festival, opens on Monday September 5 with the first of 21 performances of 'A Night with George,' the Aisling Award-winning comedy from Belfast.
USA Network dominated the television landscape all summer, and this fall, the network will continue to deliver high-quality programming. In September, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, USA will present two world television premieres, the USA original movie THE SPACE BETWEEN followed by the Academy Award(R)-winning short subject documentary TWIN TOWERS. October will feature the USA launch of season six of the hit original series PSYCH, and in November, two of summer's biggest hits, BURN NOTICE and COVERT AFFAIRS, will continue their fifth and second seasons respectively on Tuesday, November 1 and Thursday, November 3 with all-new episodes.
The fourth annual 1st Irish Festival, the world's only all-Irish theatre festival, opens on Monday September 5 with the first of 21 performances of 'A Night with George,' the Aisling Award-winning comedy from Belfast.
Twelve new screenplays with LGBT themes or characters have been named semi-finalists in the 2011 Great Gay Screenplay Contest sponsored by Pride Films and Plays.
Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer; Mandy Greenfield, Artistic Producer) announces the 2011 recipients of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiative commissions. This year's eight commissioned writers are Daniel Goldfarb (Cradle & All), Anne Washburn (The Internationalist), Lisa D'Amour (Detroit), Samuel D. Hunter (Bright New Boise), Anna Ziegler (Photograph 51), Nick Payne (Wanderlust), Michael West (Freefall) and Hannie Rayson (Life After George).
59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Inis Nua Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA) with the New York premiere of DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT, written by Michael West and directed by Tom Reing.
The best of Broadway is being presented FREE on six consecutive Thursdays this summer with '106.7 Lite fm's Broadway in Bryant Park 2011' - a lunchtime series that began on Thursday July 7th on the Bryant Park Stage. Sponsored by Bank of America, and Clean Air NY, and hosted by Lite fm's on-air personalities, the eleventh annual presentation of open-air, On- and Off- Broadway lunch hour performances runs through August 11th.