Mario Cantone and Cookie Monster have joined Chance and Chemistry: A Centennial Celebration of Frank Loesser, a concert to benefit The Actors Fund taking place at the Minskoff Theatre on Monday, October 26, 2009 at 7:30PM.
Peter Martins, Ballet Master in Chief of New York City Ballet, and George Steel, General Manager and Artistic Director of New York City Opera, today unveiled the results of the renovation of their shared home, the David H. Koch Theater, which is located on the campus of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Yale School of Drama (James Bundy, Dean; Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean) will offer a new concentration in Projection Design under Wendall Harrington, within the Design Department (Ming Cho Lee, Stephen Strawbridge, Co-Chairs) beginning in the fall of 2010, the first such course of graduate theatre training in the United States.
The world premiere of Rajiv Joseph's (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) Gruesome Playground Injuries features Selma Blair (Hellboy, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Storytelling, Legally Blonde, NBC's Kath & Kim) playing Kayleen and Brad Fleischer (Center Theatre Group's premiere of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Broadway's Coram Boy, Off Broadway's Streamers) playing Doug.
Art Garfunkel, Gerry Vichi, Lauren Kennedy, Alan Campbell, with Elmo and Abby Cadabby (making their Broadway debuts) have joined Chance and Chemistry: A Centennial Celebration of Frank Loesser, a concert to benefit The Actors Fund taking place at the Minskoff Theatre on Monday, October 26, 2009 at 7:30PM.
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‘Tis been the season of movie stars heading back to their roots on stage this fall. Variety reports today that screen sirens Salma Hayek and Jessica Biel, along with Broadway stars Matthew Morrison and Paulo Szot starring in a private industry reading last weekend of 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,' now in development by Lincoln Center Theatre. They were joined in the reading by Joanna Gleason (Tony Award winner for Into The Woods) and Argentinian actress Mia Maestro (Alias).
Additional names have been announced for Chance and Chemistry: A Centennial Celebration of Frank Loesser, a concert to benefit The Actors Fund taking place at the Minskoff Theatre on Monday, October 26, 2009 at 7:30PM.
The world premiere of Rajiv Joseph's (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) Gruesome Playground Injuries features Selma Blair (Hellboy, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Storytelling, Legally Blonde, NBC's Kath & Kim) playing Kayleen and Brad Fleischer (Center Theatre Group's premiere of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Broadway's Coram Boy, Off Broadway's Streamers) playing Doug.
Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Producing Director Richard M. Parison Jr., is proud to present a new production of the world's longest-running musical, The Fantasticks, a captivating romantic comedy about a boy, a girl, two fathers, and a wall.
THE NEW YORK NEW MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL and BRYAN PUTNAM INK are pleased to announce the world premiere production of THE TOYMAKER, directed by Lawrence Edelson. THE TOYMAKER will play a limited engagement at Theatre at St. Clement's (423 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036.) Performances begin Monday, October 5 and continue through Sunday, October 18.
UK actress Summer Strallen has been cast as Meg Giry in Andrew Lloyd Webber's LOVE NEVER DIES the sequel to THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Strallen recently portrayed the role of Maria Von Trapp in Andrew Lloyd Webber's revival of THE SOUND OF MUSIC at the London Palladium.
The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye has revealed that Joseph Millson and Liz Robertson have joined the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's LOVE NEVER DIES, starring alongside previously confirmed cast members Sierra Boggess, Ramin Karimloo and Summer Strallen.
Broadway's Lauren Kennedy, most recently seen as Mary in Second Stages production of 'Vanities,' will host the October 26th Monday Nights, New Voices concert at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre.
Second Stage Theatre is pleased to announce that the critically acclaimed production of Anna Deavere Smith's LET ME DOWN EASY, has extended four weeks, through December 6. Conceived, written, and performed by Ms. Smith and directed by Leonard Foglia, LET ME DOWN EASY opened on Wednesday, October 7 and was originally scheduled to run through November 8.
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE: - William Bolcom's tragic opera about Red Hook longshoremen finds its Brooklyn voice with Vertical Player Repertory. World premiere of a two piano arrangement developed in collaboration with the composer.
Nashville Opera opens the 2009-10 season with a grand production of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca in the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Andrew Jackson Hall on Thursday, October 8 at 7:00 pm and Saturday, October 10 at 8:00 pm.
Additional names have been announced for Chance and Chemistry: A Centennial Celebration of Frank Loesser, a concert to benefit The Actors Fund taking place at the Minskoff Theatre on Monday, October 26, 2009 at 7:30PM.
MTV news is revealing today that Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger will be involved in the staging of 'LOVE NEVER DIES', Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
Tony Roberts, aged 69, 'took ill' on stage during this past Sunday's matinee of The Royal Family, resulting in the curtain coming down and the cancellation of the rest of the performance. An ambulance was called and Roberts has brought to the hospital, with no further word on his condition at the time. The actor was taken to St. Luke's-Roosevelt the last update was that Roberts was in stable condition.
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