Oscar Wilde News

The Idaho Shakespeare Festival is in full swing, with offerings this year that include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bat Boy: The Musical, An Ideal Husband, Othello, and The Woman in Black. For tickets and more information, visit www.idahoshakespeare.org.

Producer Daryl Roth announces that following a sold out developmental run last spring, THE DIVINE SISTER, the new comedy written by and starring Charles Busch, directed by Carl Andress, will transfer to the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street) featuring the entire original company: Alison Fraser, Amy Rutberg, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Walker, and Julie Halston.

The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, New York's premiere eco-friendly/socially-conscious theatre festival, invites you to celebrate the great talents and achievements of our amazing 2010 artists! You are invited to attend The Planet Connections Awards Ceremony, Sunday, August 1st at 7:00pm at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street?A, C, E, B, D, F, V to West 4th Street ).

Dention Community Theatre announces auditions for THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, which will be held July 12th and 13th starting at 7 pm at the Campus Theatre, located at 214 W. Hickory Street in downtown Denton. Callbacks will be held July 14, if needed. The Denton Community Theatre production is directed by Michael Bolen. Auditions are open - no appointments and will consist of Cold Readings from the script and Improvisation. The style is that of Comedy of Manners and the setting is London and its suburbs in 1895. An upper class British dialect will be required of the actors. Head shots and resumes are helpful, but not necessary.

From October 1, 2010, to January 9, 2011, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present Intervals: Ryan Gander, the third installment of its contemporary art series designed to reflect the spirit of today's most innovative practices.

This past Saturday I saw Everyday Rapture on Broadway, and brought my friend John who almost never goes to the theatre. It isn't that he doesn't enjoy it - in fact, he came out of the show this weekend raving. His excuse, like so many others, is that Broadway tickets just cost too much to rationalize.

There's 'Superman,' 'Ironman,' 'Spiderman,' 'Cyber Man' and 'Mighty Man.' And if there's a superhero of the North Bay theater community it would have to be 'Multi-Task Man.'

In a clever mix of fact and fiction, SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE JERSEY LILY has the beautiful British actress Lillie Langtry (Virginia Burke) seeking help from the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes (Steve Hendrickson) in a discreet matter involving blackmail, some missing jewels and the Royal Family.

Marin Shakespeare Company Presents TRAVESTIES 7/2-8/15

Roundabout Theatre Company (Julia C. Levy, Executive Director) is pleased to announce that Lynne Gugenheim Gregory will join the company on July 1st, 2010 as Director of Development.

Honoring the one-year anniversary of the passing of Frank McCourt, The Irish Repertory Theatre presents a special engagement of THE IRISH...AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt ('Angela's Ashes'). Directed by Charlotte Moore

The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) presentstheir Eleventh Anniversary Season LAUNCH PARTY on Monday, June 28, 2010 at 7:30pm (doors open at 6:30pm) at Sweet Caroline's, 322 W. 45th Street, NYC.

Streamlined, gender-bending versions of classic plays are the name of the game in a five-week summer theater festival from the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company. Longtime fans of the company's all-female explorations of classic texts will be intrigued to discover this festival's inclusion of male actors - although not always in the roles one might expect.

The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, New York's premiere eco-friendly/socially-conscious theatre festival, is proud to announce this years line-up which include new works, musicals, adaptations, one-acts, solo shows and more.

This just in! Two more world premiere programs have been added to our World Premiere Summer. We relish the opportunity to collaborate with Portland's new work pioneers and believe you'll enjoy these new pieces too. Single ticket prices vary, OR you can select 5 of the new pieces you most want to see for $50, the price of a World Premiere Summer FlexPass! Purchase one online or call (503) 205-0715.

Cinnabar Theater has announced its 2010 to 2011 season, which includes comedies, musicals and a new play entitled 'Dracula,' written expressly for Cinnabar Theater by playwright and screenwriter Eric Overmyer the writer of hit HBO shows 'The Wire' and 'Treme.'

A concert presentation of the 1997 semi-autobiographical Off-Broadway cult hit musical, The Last Session, featuring the creators and original cast members from the GLAAD Media Award and L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award winning New York and Los Angeles productions, will be presented on Wednesday, June 23, at 8pm, at the Theatre at St. Clement's, as a benefit for their food pantry and free veterinary clinic.

Dention Community Theatre announces auditions for THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, which will be held July 12th and 13th starting at 7 pm at the Campus Theatre, located at 214 W. Hickory Street in downtown Denton. Callbacks will be held July 14, if needed. The Denton Community Theatre production is directed by Michael Bolen. Auditions are open - no appointments and will consist of Cold Readings from the script and Improvisation. The style is that of Comedy of Manners and the setting is London and its suburbs in 1895. An upper class British dialect will be required of the actors. Head shots and resumes are helpful, but not necessary.

Programming a season is always a bit of a balancing act. The goal is to be true to Roundabout's mission while providing our audience with an exciting range of work over the course of each year. I'd say that we generally do one big musical revival each year, and that always fits nicely in balance with the classic play revivals and new play work that we're doing. To me, it's exciting to be producing this great piece of musical theatre at the same time that we'll be running plays by Oscar Wilde and Tennessee Williams. That's exactly the kind of range that I think the audience is looking for. Anything Goes, with its great Cole Porter score, is a perfect representative of traditional musicals from the "Golden Age." It really goes to the heart and soul of why we started producing musical revivals back in 1993. As a truly American art form, it's so important that we bring these musicals back to the stage, and since Anything Goes hasn't been seen on Broadway in more than two decades, it's time to share this show with a new generation.

Roundabout Theatre Company and Todd Haimes, Artistic Director announced that Tony® Award winner Sutton Foster will star as "Reno Sweeney" in a new Broadway production of ANYTHING GOES, directed and choreographed by Tony® Award winner Kathleen Marshall. Music & lyrics by Cole Porter; original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse; New book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman.