Paul Charlier News

Tom Stoppard's classic comic masterpiece, Travesties, previewing at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House from 9 March 2009 (opening 13 March), will reunite one of Australia's most versatile comic actors, Jonathan Biggins, with director Richard Cottrell, award-wining designer Michael Scott-Mitchell and Composer and Sound Designer, Paul Charlier: the creative team behind Sydney Theatre Company's 2007 hit, Ying Tong. Travesties is set during the first world war when James Joyce (Peter Houghton), Lenin (William Zappa) and the Dadaist Tristan Tzara (Toby Schmitz) were all, for various reasons, resident in Zurich. Stoppard imagines them coming together to mount an amateur production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The uproarious action is presented from the indistinct memories but distinctive perspective of Biggins' minor British consulate official, Henry Carr, who places himself, to hilarious effect, at the centre of this convergence of some of the most acute minds of the twentieth century.

In theory Terrence McNally's new plays is about a doubles team that dominated the game in their youth but really there's nothing to distract us from the fact that we're watching Marian Seldes and Angela Lansbury having a 90 minute chat

Stars of the tennis world will turn up at the Broadway play Deuce on Tuesday, May 15. The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is hosting a benefit evening at the Music Box Theatre for the USTA Tennis & Education Foundation.

Four-time Tony Award-winner Angela Lansbury, who is starring on Broadway for the first time in almost 25 years in the new play Deuce, will be featured on 'The Today Show' on Monday, May 14 between 9:30 am - 10:00 am.

The producers of the upcoming Terrence McNally play Deuce have decided to draw the production away from eligibility for Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Awards.

Legendary star Angela Lansbury is now in rehearsal for her long-awaited return to the Broadway stage, starring opposite Marian Seldes in the world premiere of DEUCE, a new play by Terrence McNally and directed by Michael Blakemore.