Moss Hart News

Florida Rep Announces its High Flying 12th Season Florida Repertory Theatre is pleased to announce its High Flying 12th season, opening Oct. 27 with one of Broadway's hottest comedies, the 2008 Tony-winner Boeing-Boeing.

Come aboard the Showboat Majestic as she celebrates the 88th season in her legendary career! The summer will feature musicals and comedies to please every patron - aboard America's last showboat - a genuine National Historic Landmark! The Showboat Majestic 2010 Subscription Season promises another fun season on the river.

It's a busy year for Anne Kaufman, daughter of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, George S. Kaufman, but she found time to come to Cape May to be part of the scheduled Q&A with the cast of East Lynne Theater Company's 'The Butter and Egg Man' on Friday, October 2.

The Footlight Club Proudly Presents 'YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU', The Pulitzer Prize Winning Comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman Directed by Daniel Bourque

Good Theater is pleased to announce the shows for its 2009-2010 season which will mark the company's eighth anniversary. The season features three Maine premieres, including two recent Broadway hits, an award winning musical, and one classic comedy. Good Theater is the professional company in residence at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 congress Street, on Munjoy Hill in Portland.

The 6th Street Playhouse proudly presents 'You Can't Take It With You' by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.

With Matthew Modine playing a role he is unequivocally perfect for (a fictionalized version of himself), one can imagine the casting challenge for the rest of the characters in the Geffen Playhouse's upcoming production of Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas. But - barring having identical names to the characters they play - the Geffen Playhouse's cast includes a troupe of comedians befitting their satirical roles.

Letters To Daddy, Jr., a contemporary musical that celebrates life through the eyes of a child written and produced by Center Stages' JILL JAYSEN with music and lyrics by MARK SHEPARD and conceived by 4e Productions will be presented as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), Letters to Daddy, Jr. will be presented for two performances only Sunday, October 4th at 1pm and 4pm at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, 248 West 60th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenue.

Where else have the actors performed and how did they get into this production? How does ELTC's artistic director choose a show? How and why do actors even do what they do? And who is George S. Kaufman?

Letters To Daddy, Jr., a contemporary musical to be presented in the New York Musical Theatre Festival that celebrates life through the eyes of a child will be presented for two performances only Sunday, October 4th at 1pm and 4pm at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center.

Due to Northern Stage's growth over the last 12 years, the company has moved from single-headed leadership to dual-headed leadership.

'She keeps saying she shot the guy and there's a lot of trial stuff, and finally the judge gives her fifteen years. Then everybody does an exit, and she's just there with the judge, who turns out to be her father.

The Footlight Club Proudly Presents 'YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU', The Pulitzer Prize Winning Comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman Directed by Daniel Bourque

RFK: The Journey to Justice is a commission led by the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, Stanford Lively Arts at Stanford University, and the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond. Additional funds provided by the Susan Raab Simonson Commissioning Project.

HARTFORD CHILDREN'S THEATRE (360 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT) is holding auditions for Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the first production of the 2009-2010 20th Anniversary Main Stage Season, '20 Years of Enchantment.' Performances of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST will take place at Hoffman Auditorium on the campus of Saint Joseph College in West Hartford October 30 through November 7, 2009.

MUTINY AT PORT CHICAGO opened Friday, July 10th and runs through August 29, 2009. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm at Ruskin Group Theatre, 3000 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

HARTFORD CHILDREN'S THEATRE (360 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT) is holding auditions for Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the first production of the 2009-2010 20th Anniversary Main Stage Season, '20 Years of Enchantment.' Performances of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST will take place at Hoffman Auditorium on the campus of Saint Joseph College in West Hartford October 30 through November 7, 2009.

Presenting quality theater at affordable prices is a Farmington Players' tradition - one that began in 1953 and continues with the staging of four memorable shows for the 2009-2010 season, beginning in October and running through May.

Ruskin Group Theatre announces the WORLD PREMIERE production of 'MUTINY AT PORT CHICAGO' Written by Paul Leaf Opening Friday, July 10, 2009 with reception to follow. Running Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm

Village Players Performing Arts Center announces the hiring of new Artistic Director, Dan Taube, a long-time Chicago theater veteran. Taube is a graduate of the Acting program at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and also holds a MFA in Directing from The Theatre School of DePaul University.