Patches News

The first production to be seen in London for forty years in a strictly limited season, Gypsy opened at the Savoy Theatre 15 April 2015.

HAMLET, starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, started performances on 5 August and officially opens tonight, 25 August at the Barbican Theatre for an exclusive run through 31 October 2015. Let's see what the critics had to say...

Tony's Last Tape, by Andy Barrett, takes style and situation from Krapp's Last Tape, and reinvents it by replacing its protagonist with the late great left-wing legend Tony Benn.  One might be justified in imagining that the Edinburgh Fringe is the only place you could expect to see a show melding Samuel Beckett to the life of a veteran (what they call socialists when they're old and dead according to the central character) Labour MP, but the Nottingham Playhouse production has already had successful runs in both Nottingham and London before arriving in Edinburgh this August.

Irish Theatre of Chicago is pleased to launch its 2015-16 Season with the Midwest premiere of Geraldine Aron's touching and comedic one-woman show MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE, directed by Siiri Scott and featuring ensemble member Barbara Figgins*. MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE will play October 7 - November 1, 2015 at Chief O'Neill's Pub & Restaurant, 3471 N. Elston Ave. in Chicago.

?Bernadette Peters releases her third children's book this summer. Titled STELLA AND CHARLIE, FRIENDS FOREVER, it will hit the shelves today, August 4, 2015.

Irish Theatre of Chicago will launch its 2015-16 Season with the Midwest premiere of Geraldine Aron's touching and comedic one-woman show MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE, directed by Siiri Scott and featuring ensemble Barbara Figgins*. MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE will play October 7 - November 1, 2015 at Chief O'Neill's Pub & Restaurant, 3471 N. Elston Ave. in Chicago. Tickets will go on sale Saturday, August 1 at www.irishtheatreofchicago.org.  The press opening is Thursday, October 8 at 7:30 pm.

Singer, songwriter, actress and activist Cyndi Lauper partners with National Psoriasis Foundation and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation on I'm PsO Ready, a national initiative highlighting the physical, emotional and social challenges of psoriasis.

Here's some unsolicited career advice for those of you who might be considering relocating to Tuna, the third smallest town in Texas:  Tunanians - or Tunaites or however they refer to themselves - are sorely in need of a good beauty operator to help them keep their unruly wigs in shipshape, Bristol fashion. What with all the civic events, out-of-town trips and local affairs, every woman in Tuna should want their coiffures to be dazzling creations of the beauticians' trade.

Harper Lee's newest book, GO SET A WATCHMAN, hit bookshelves on July 14 to mixed and mostly controversial reviews.

For the first time ever, the Official Shakespeare Festival of the State of Michigan is offering workshops for professional actors, all taught by Michigan Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Janice L Blixt. The classes will be held at the Village Theatre of Cherry Hill in Canton, Michigan in July and August. For information or to book a slot, contact MSFCasting@aol.com. The classes include:

So saying, the plot of John Patrick Shanley's Outside Mullingar shows just disheartening it is when four characters are discovered to have been strangers for so long due to those undisclosed feelings that have eaten away at their souls for so long; when the time for changes arises, the obstacles which arise and the way in which each character reacts makes this such an epic story. How disheartening it is for four people to have lived over the last few years with the "what is" as the unchanging doctrine of their reality, living in anticipation of something that may or may not come and meandering in this life until fate sticks her ugly hand in to change the bleak, unmoving world that such characters inhabit. Yet, how beautiful it is to see four wildly talented actors bring such inner turmoil to a head in Cape Rep's current production of Shanley's epic play.

Bernadette Peters celebrate dthe launch of her highly anticipated third children's book, STELLA AND CHARLIE: FRIENDS FOREVER, with a reading and signing on June 23rd at Barnes & Noble, 150 East 86th Street at Lexington Ave., New York, NY. Check out a look back below!

Bernadette Peters will celebrate the launch of her highly anticipated third children's book, STELLA AND CHARLIE: FRIENDS FOREVER, with a reading and signing today, June 23rd at 11 a.m. at Barnes & Noble, 150 East 86th Street at Lexington Ave., New York, NY.

Bernadette Peters will celebrate the launch of her highly anticipated third children's book, STELLA AND CHARLIE: FRIENDS FOREVER, with a reading and signing on June 23rd at 11 a.m. at Barnes & Noble, 150 East 86th Street at Lexington Ave., New York, NY.

Hodges & Hodges Set the Stage for THE ILLUSIONISTS, a hepta-pod of magicians, each with their own seeming super-power, who will wow you with their high-tech wizardry!

Melissa McCarthy stars in the new action-comedy SPY. SPY was written and directed by Paul Feig, best known for his work on BRIDESMAIDS, THE HEAT, and I AM DAVID. 

According to a listing on Barnes & Noble, Bernadette Peters will be releasing her third children's book this summer.

Howard Scott Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works on paper by the Paris based-Mexican native Carlos Torres. The exhibition will open May 28th and continues until July 11th, 2015.

Oh NBC, you devils. You tease us with promos for a season two finale entitled 'Masha Rostova,' which we've come to understand is Elizabeth Keen's birth name. Yet we open to find the title card 'Tom Connolly, No. 11.' We'll discover during the evening that not one, but both, titles just may be correct. The Attorney General of the United States is a fiend, but Liz, what are you doing with that gun?

Produced by Zodiak NYC, the series premiere of UNEARTHED airs tonight, April 29 at 9:00 PM ET/PT on Discovery Channel.