Epic Theater Ensemble brings out the vote on Election Eve with 'First Vote '08,' a one-night only special event to benefit Epic's innovative, civic-minded in-school and after-school education programs.
MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) today announced that the second offering of their 2008-09 season will be Charles Busch's The Third Story, directed by Carl Andress.
On Sunday, October 26 at 6pm, the Abingdon Theatre Company is holding a fundraiser, specifically to benefit their production of GREEK HOLIDAY by Mayo Simon.
LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co-Artistic & Executive Director) opens its fall season with the first of two annual festivals of free staged readings, the Barn Series (October 23 - November 15, 2008). Ethan Hawke joins the previously announced roster of performers that includes LAB members Eric Bogosian, Elizabeth Canavan, Max Casella, John Doman, Kevin Geer, Didi O'Connell, John Ortiz, Portia, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Michael Stuhlbarg, Yul Vazquez, and David Zayas, among others.
WABC-7 TV will present a 'BROADWAY BACKSTAGE: FALL PREVIEW' on Saturday, October 25th, 2008. The show will be hosted by ABC News Anchor Michelle Charlesworth and Actor Tom Wopat.
HAPPY SUNSHINE KUNG FU FLOWER will play their last show on Saturday October 25th, at 10:30 PM at the Zipper Factory Theater.
Star of the hit Off-Broadway show Rock of Ages, Constantine Maroulis will appear on Don't Forget the Lyrics tonight (FOX), October 24th, 2008. He plans to donate his winnings to Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS.
DON'T QUIT YOUR NIGHT JOB, the critically acclaimed comedy variety show featuring a revolving cast of Broadway's brightest performing without a net, welcomes the fall at their monthly home The Zipper Factory Theater (336 West 37th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) on Thursday, October 30th at 11:30 p.m. Tickets are $20.00 and proceeds go to benefit Wendy Wasserstein's TDF/Open Doors program.
Broadway's THE 39 STEPS, the Tony Award-winning quick change comedy, will welcome Halloween next Friday, October 31, with a special ticket offer and the Hitchcock-themed '39 Shrieks Halloween Costume Contest'. THE 39 STEPS is currently playing at the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues).
WABC-7 TV will present a 'BROADWAY BACKSTAGE: FALL PREVIEW' on Saturday, October 25th, 2008. The show will be hosted by ABC News Anchor Michelle Charlesworth and Actor Tom Wopat.
The 'Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award' was presented to Tony Kushner at a ceremony on Tuesday, October 21, at 620 Loft & Garden at Rockefeller Center. The honor comes with a cash prize of $200,000, making this by far the largest award ever created to honor and encourage artistic achievement in the American theater. Mr. Kushner was also presented with 'The Mimi,' a statue designed by Tony Award-nominated scenic designer and architect David Rockwell.
Producers of HAIRSPRAY, the Tony winning Best Musical, have announced that the show will close on Jan. 4, 2009.
Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, composer/lyricist of the new musical '13', hosted '13 Questions' - a series of audience Q & A's - immediately following the 7pm performance on Tuesday, October 21st. Special co-hosts for the evening included 13's casting director, Mark Simon, 'fabulous' members of Broadway's first all teenage cast and band and other members of 13's creative staff.
Due to medical reasons, Crystal Gayle will no longer be performing with Laura Bell Bundy in the scheduled Feinstein's show KENTUCKY GIRLFRIENDS, which was set to play October 28th through November 1st. Instead, Bundy will be performing a show titled JUST ME, featuring her Broadway material on October 30th and Nov 1st, 2008.
LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co-Artistic & Executive Director) entered the arena of power chords and monster riffs last night October 20th, to present the sixth annual benefit featuring Celebrity Charades.
ROCK OF AGES rocked the house at New World Stages during its Off-Broadway opening on Thursday, October 16. BroadwayWorld joined the 'jam' and celebrated along with the high energy cast!
On Monday October 20th at 7PM, Project Shaw will present The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet featuring Cheyenne Jackson as Blanco Posnet, and Hannah Cabell, Mary Carver, Nora Chester, Teddy Eck, Stephen Mo Hanan, Lianne Kressin, Brian Scott Lipton, John Martello, Charlotte Moore, Liz Morton, Nathaniel Shaw and Emily Young.
Most soldiers go off to war to defend their country with guns... Kahlil Ashanti defended with his humor in BASIC TRAINING, now playing at the Barrow Street Theatre. As a member of the elite US Air Force troupe Tops In Blue, Kahlil served his country in Iraq by entertaining the troops on the front-line. Often hysterical and many times dangerous, Ashanti knows true fear... but nothing was quite as scary as turning his focus back home to face the childhood he tried to forget.
The exciting conclusion to the runaway Web series 'Legally Brown: The Search For The Next Piragua Guy' will be posted this weekend to coincide with the closing of Legally Blonde, The Musical on Broadway which plays its final performance at the Palace Theater on October 19th.
Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS will launch its second year on Broadway in a new home at the Helen Hayes Theatre (240 West 44th Street), starting on Tuesday, January 20. THE 39 STEPS will play through Sunday, January 11 at its current home, the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street).
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