Plan B News

Marymount Manhattan College Theatre Arts Division (Mary Fleisher, department Chair) will present Girl Gone by Mac William Hopkins from October 21 - October 25. Tickets go on sale today.

Girl Gone by Mac Wellman with direction by Paul Lazar, choreography by Annie-B Parson, with music composed and directed by Cynthia Hopkins marks the premier fall production at Marymount's Division of Fine Arts. The production will play 5 performances only; Wednesday, October 21 through Sunday, October 25 at the Theresa Lang Theatre.

Reports from across the pond have confirmed that the massive rebuilding plans for the West End's Westminster Theatre will be delayed until 2011. The cause for the delay, according to The Stage is stalled legal negotiations with the theater's developer.

Kingsbury Hall, in conjunction with Plan-B Theatre, presents a preview performance of the new play by the creators of the highly acclaimed play The Laramie Project.

Marymount Manhattan College Theatre Arts Division (Mary Fleisher, department Chair) will present Girl Gone by Mac William Hopkins from October 21 - October 25. Tickets go on sale today.

Kingsbury Hall, in conjunction with Plan-B Theatre, presents a preview performance of the new play by the creators of the highly acclaimed play The Laramie Project.

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Tony winner Billy Crudup has joined the cast of the new Columbia Pictures film 'Eat, Pray, Love,' an adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir. Crudup will appear alongside Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem and Richard Jenkins, according to trade paper Variety.

The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Oscar nominee and 2001 Tony winner Viola Davis is negotiating to take a featured role in Columbia Picture's 'Eat, Pray, Love' opposite Julia Roberts and Richard Jenkins. Scheduling is being worked out for the actress to join the production.

Facing East by Carol Lynn Pearson is the powerful and poignant story of a Mormon couple dealing with the suicide of their gay son. ICT artistic director Shashin Desai directs Terry Davis, Daniel Kash and Christian Lebano in a four-week run, June 12 through July 5 at International City Theatre in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Low-priced previews begin June 9.

Fulton Entertainment and Paul Anthony Storiale present 'the Columbine project' Previews Friday, April 17, 8:00 pm Runs April 18 - May 9, 2009 Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 pm Written & Directed by Paul Storiale

'the Columbine project' runs Friday's and Saturday's at 8pm April 18-May 9th 2009, with a preview Performance Friday April 17th 2009.

Diversionary Theatre's fifth production of the 2008-2009 season is the parable Facing East by noted LDS (Latter Day Saints) author Carol Lynn Pearson. A Mormon couple confronts the limits of their spiritual teachings upon the suicide of their gay son. The Salt Lake Tribune wrote of the play, which premiered at Plan-B Theatre Company in Salt Lake City in November 2006, 'A tightly-wound domestic tragedy...freshly relevant...dares to ask important questions about faith, death and survival.' In 2007, Variety said of Plan-B's tour (Off-Off Broadway and San Francisco), 'A vivid rumination on grief.'

I Ate What? Theatre, in conjunction with The Looking Glass Theatre Space Grant Program, is pleased to announce the return of Simona Berman?s acclaimed Just Shut Up & Smile!, directed by Diana Basmajian. Just Shut Up & Smile! will play a special limited engagement at The Looking Glass Theatre (422 West 57th Street, btw 9th/10th Ave). Performances begin Monday, March 16 and continue thru Friday, April 3.

Rubicon Theatre Company continues its 'Brave New World' Season with FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. The musical begins previews Thursday, March 19, open on Saturday, March 21 at 7pm and run through Sunday, April 26, 2009 at Rubicon Theatre, 1006 E. Main Street in Ventura. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is the Tony Award? winning musical that captured the hearts of people all over the world with its universal appeal. The play tells the story of Tevye, a Jewish milkman coping with day-to-day 'shtetl' life, Jewish traditions and the women in his life in pre-Revolutionary Russia.

Fulton Entertainment and Paul Anthony Storiale present 'the Columbine project' Previews Friday, April 17, 8:00 pm Runs April 18 - May 9, 2009 Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 pm Written & Directed by Paul Storiale

Rubicon Theatre Company continues its ?Brave New World? Season with Fiddler on the Roof. The musical begins previews Thursday, March 19, open on Saturday, March 21 at 7pm and run through Sunday, April 26, 2009 at Rubicon Theatre, 1006 E. Main Street in Ventura.

I ATE WHAT? THEATRE, in conjunction with The Looking Glass Theatre Space Grant Program, is pleased to announce the return of Simona Berman’s acclaimed JUST SHUT UP & SMILE!, directed by Diana Basmajian. JUST SHUT UP & SMILE! will play a special limited engagement at The Looking Glass Theatre (422 West 57th Street, btw 9th/10th Ave). Performances begin Monday, March 16 and continue thru Friday, April 3.