Plan B News

MCC THEATER has announced three of its four-show 2015-16 Main Stage Season, which runs August 2015 through June 2016.

Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) continues its 20th season of the New Play Sounding Series (NPSS) with a free reading of William Missouri Downs' newest play HOW TO STEAL A PICASSO on Monday, February 16, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Directed by Teresa Sanderson, the reading will feature local actors Daniel Beecher, Terence Goodman, Elise Groves, Jesse Peery, and Susan Dolan Stevens. The NPSS provides an essential testing ground where playwrights see and hear their works in progress and receive insightful feedback from the audience members during a post-play discussion.

Plan-B Theatre Company continues the 2014/15 season with the world premiere of A/VERSION OF EVENTS, the latest play by Matthew Ivan Bennett.

According to Deadline, SONS OF ANARCHY's Charlie Hunnam has signed on to lead the upcoming film adaptation of James Gray's best-seller LOST CITY OF Z. Hunnam joins the previously cast Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison.

HBO has greenlit LEWIS AND CLARK, with production on the six-hour miniseries to begin this summer, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. Casey Affleck ('Interstellar'; Oscar(R) nominee for 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford') stars as Meriwether Lewis and Matthias Schoenaerts (the upcoming 'Far from the Madding Crowd'; Cesar Award winner for 'Rust and Bone') stars as William Clark. The miniseries is executive produced by Tom Hanks (Emmy(R) winner for HBO's 'The Pacific'), Gary Goetzman (Emmy(R) winner for HBO's 'Game Change'), Edward Norton (HBO's 'By the People: The Election of Barack Obama'), Brad Pitt (Emmy(R) winner for HBO's 'The Normal Heart'), Dede Gardner (Emmy(R) winner for HBO's 'The Normal Heart'), Tim Kelly and Adam Leipzig.

Beginning Thursday, February 26, Teatro Paraguas presents Not Quite Right, an upbeat family comedy by Elaine Jarvik and Los Alamos playwright Robert F. Benjamin for 10 performances.

When brainstorming concepts for new shows, the idea of making a musical about Berry Gordy--not necessarily a household name, may have seemed like an odd choice. So let's look at Plan B....a musical about the careers of Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson and Marvin Gaye. Well, essentially the two are all the same musical. The slick production of MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL that opened on Tuesday night at Shea's tells the story of producer Berry Gordy and his start up record label, 'Motown.'

The ensemble effort of La Mirada Theatre/McCoy Rigby's cast of BILLY ELLIOT is an extraordinary accomplishment and especially resonant in a musical that is all about solidarity and overcoming the odds. It also has the kind of opening night story that wins hearts and shows how a company will rally like a family to manage an unexpected, even disastrous, event.

Directed by Austin Pendleton, BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY begins previews tonight, January 16, 2015 and will officially open on Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at Second Stage Theatre's Tony Kiser Theatre (305 West 43rd street).

Variety writes that Brad Pitt is among a star-studded cast for his company Plan B and Paramount's upcoming big screen adaptation of Michael Lewis's book 'THE BIG SHORT'.

Variety writes that Brad Pitt is among a star-studded cast for his company Plan B and Paramount's upcoming big screen adaptation of Michael Lewis's book 'THE BIG SHORT'.

Off-Broadway's hilarious comedy OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES makes its Southland debut March 5-15 at the Scherr Forum Theatre of the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Presented by Theater League, the musical comedy revue plays Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday at 8:00pm, Saturday 2 and 8pm and Sunday at 2pm. Tickets are on sale now at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza box office, online at www.theaterleague.com or by calling 805.449.2775.

The Dramatists Guild Fund awards $170,000 to theaters across the country. As a part of its mission to support writers, the Dramatists Guild Fund provides grants to non-profit theaters and theatrical institutions across the country that develop and/or produce contemporary American plays and musicals.

To celebrate their first year of podcasting, the Theater People Podcast is counting down its Top-10 moments. As he has done before, host Patrick Hinds is giving the BroadwayWorld readers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at what happens before, during, and after the the tape is rolling.

Plan-B Theatre Company continues its 2014-15 season with two non-traditional Christmas plays in the Studio Theatre at The Rose Wagner. Details below!

Casting is complete for Second Stage Theatre presentation of the Atlantic Theater Company's production of Stephen Adly Guirgis' acclaimed play, BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY. Ron Cephas Jones (Of Mice of Men and 2ST's Wildflower) and Michael Rispoli (Between Riverside and Crazy at ATC) join previously announced cast members Stephen McKinley Henderson (Fences, 2ST's Jitney), Victor Almanzar (Repertorio Espanol, LAByrinth Theater), Elizabeth Canavan (The Little Flower of East Orange), Rosal Colon (The Motherf*cker with the Hat) and Liza Colon-Zayas (2ST Water by the Spoonful and Living Out).

I tell ya, these Mikelson family reunions keep coming and they never turn out well. Don't they know that we are approaching the holidays and it's time to forgive and forget? Can you imagine what their Secret Santa party would be like? The horrors!

Utah Repertory Theater Company will stage the state premiere of the Broadway musical '[title of show]' Nov. 7-16, 2014, at the Sugar Space Black Box Theater in Sugarhouse and Nov. 21-22 at the Covey Center in Provo.

Brad Pitt and Zach Galifianakis sit BETWEEN TO FERNS to discuss acting, charity work, and handsomeness on the latest installment of the Funny or Die web series.