New York Shakespeare Festival News

A Chorus Line, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical, proudly announces the 2006 cast.

Hal Luftig, Fox Theatricals and Dori Berinstein, in association with MGM Onstage, Darcie Denkert and Dean Stolber, are psyched to announce LEGALLY BLONDE, the musical, based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture. Previews begin on March 30, 2007 and opening night is set for April 26, 2007 at a Broadway theatre to be announced. LEGALLY BLONDE will play a world premiere, pre-Broadway engagement in San Francisco at The Orpheum Theatre January 2007.

James Badge Dale ('24'), Emmy and Golden Globe Nominee Wendie Malick ('Just Shoot Me'), Mark Moses ('Desperate Housewives') and Ashley Williams ('Huff,' 'Good Morning Miami') will star in the U.S. premiere of BURLEIGH GRIME$.

The Theatre Outlet presents the world-premiere of MEN OF CLAY, a comedy written and directed by Jeff Cohen (founder of the award-winning Worth Street Theater Company). Matthew Arkin and Obie Award winner Steve Ratazzzi join the previously announced Danton Stone in a cast that also includes Daniel Ahearn, Victor Barbella and Gabrielle Maisels.

William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure opens at The Pearl Theatre Company on Sunday, March 5th and runs through Sunday, April 9th. Rachel Botchan (Richard III) and Sean McNall (The Gentleman Dancing Master) star and Beatrice Terry (Double Infidelity) directs.

Show times are Fridays at 8PM, Saturdays at 2:30PM and 8PM and Sundays at 2:30PM and 7:30PM.

Jefferson Mays, Michael Cumpsty and David Strathairn will discuss cross-dressing in Shakespeare in Boys Will Be Girls on February 13th

JAY JOHNSON: THE TWO AND ONLY! will have a limited engagement at the Brentwood Theatre January 20 to February 19, 2006, prior to transferring to the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway.

DANIEL JENKINS, who received a Tony Award nomination for his portrayal of Huck in the 1985 production of Big River on Broadway, will join the cast of SEPARATING THE MEN FROM THE BULL, presented by the Unofficial New York Yale Cabaret, a new theatre company made up of Yale School of Drama graduates recently chosen as one of NYTheatre.com's 'People of the Year' 2005.

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce the full cast for the upcoming New York premiere of BEAUTY OF THE FATHER by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz (Anna in the Tropics) with direction by Michael Greif (Rent).

JAY JOHNSON: THE TWO AND ONLY! will make its Broadway bow at the Helen Hayes Theatre this spring with its previews set for Tuesday, March 7, and its opening on Sunday, March 19 2006.

A two-part documentary on The Public Theater will be aired on PBS' WNET station on October 21st and 28th

From November 4th through 12th, Sue Costello will perform in her one-woman show The Evolution of a Sexy Mutha FuKah!! at the Zipper Theatre

This fall, cries ofrevolt rock the Roman Capitol - and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey- in Shakespeare's brilliant political thriller, Julius Caesar. Loyalty,honor and betrayal collide in this searing tale of revolution, in which omensof doom and deadly conspiracies erupt into civil war, and leaders rise and falllike the tides.

Elizabeth Marvel and Bryon Jennings will enact scenes from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra while Shakespearean expert Kristin Linklater will moderate the reading on September 26th

The star of HBO's 'Six Feet Under' will perform with the Roundabout Theatre Company in November.

Steven Pasquale, who has appeared in both plays and musicals, will make his concert debut at Joe's Pub on November 7th

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) will present the New York Premiere of Noah Haidle's play Mr. Marmalade, directed by Michael Greif at the Laura Pels Theatre (Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre; 111 West 46th Street).

Grier replaces Billy Dee Williams who withdrew from the production due to an aggravated hip condition.