Playbill News

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival has announced the addition of a 12th production to its 2011 playbill. Seana McKenna will present her one-woman show SHAKESPEARE'S WILL at the Studio Theatre.

In the Spirit of George Bernard Shaw, the Shaw Festival provokes the mind and stirs the soul through a theatre experience so compelling that, year after year, ever broadening groups of artists, audiences and supporters are drawn to our work in Niagara-on-the-Lake and beyond.

200 students from across the United States as well as Australia, Canada and American Samoa are attending this summer's intensive curriculum at Broadway Theatre Project (BTP) to prepare for a professional career in the performing arts. BTP will culminate in an exciting festival featuring performances and workshops by the apprentices and various faculty members and guest artists, to be held at the University of South Florida from July 29-31.

This summer, the great American tradition of summer stock theatre is being brought to New York City by CAP21: America's Musical Theatre Conservatory & Theatre Company. The inaugural season will celebrate the women of Broadway.

200 students from across the United States as well as Australia, Canada and American Samoa are attending this summer's intensive curriculum at Broadway Theatre Project (BTP) to properly prepare them for a professional career in the performing arts.

Tony Award winning Sound Designer Robert Kaplowitz is responsible for the sound system and sound content of a production. In a play, that content includes both music and sound effects. His primary skills are listening and the ability to understand a play and help an audience connect to the text. Kaplowitz demonstrates creating sound effects and score. In a musical such as Fela!, he brings the existing music to the audience to create an immersive aural environment. Kaplowitz shares how he began his career and why he loves being a sound designer.

The Pollard Theatre in historic downtown Guthrie proudly celebrates its 24th year with a collection titled 24 Seasons of Laughter. Shows in 24 Seasons of Laughter include: Harvey, Lucky Stiff, A Territorial Christmas Carol, The NERD, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Passing Strange (see detailed show information below).

Direct from her run Off-Broadway in the hit comedy White's Lies, the Broadway star, actress/singer Betty Buckley opens Song Interpretation Workshop to new participants in July 2010. The Song Interpretation Intensive class schedule consists of six sessions beginning on Monday July 12, Wednesday July 14, Monday July 19, Wednesday July 21, Monday August 2, 2010, Wednesday August 4. Classes begin at 6:30pm and last 4-5 hours. For further details and to arrange an interview, prospective participants should call (940) 300-4944 An accompanist will be provided. For more information go to www.bettybuckley.com.

This summer, the great American tradition of summer stock theatre is being brought to New York City by CAP21: America's Musical Theatre Conservatory & Theatre Company. The inaugural season will celebrate the women of Broadway.

Stratford, Ontario's Stratford Shakespeare Festival has announced the lineup for the 2011 Festival.

JOE MOORE and PAT SAJAK star in THE BOYS IN AUTUMN, Bernard Sabath's provocative Broadway play that depicts a reunion between two of the most beloved characters in American literature, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, 50 years after they parted ways as boyhood pals.

The Civic Center of Greater Des Moines today announced a brand new dance series for 2010-2011 featuring some of today's most highly acclaimed dance companies. The Dance Series will bring three world-class dance companies to the Civic Center's main stage at an introductory package price of just $100 for the three-show Season Ticket Package. Packages are on sale now.

JOE MOORE and PAT SAJAK star in THE BOYS IN AUTUMN, Bernard Sabath's provocative Broadway play that depicts a reunion between two of the most beloved characters in American literature, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, 50 years after they parted ways as boyhood pals.

The Civic Center of Greater Des Moines today announced a brand new dance series for 2010-2011 featuring some of today's most highly acclaimed dance companies. The Dance Series will bring three world-class dance companies to the Civic Center's main stage at an introductory package price of just $100 for the three-show Season Ticket Package. Packages are on sale now.

Paul Morella brings famed attorney Clarence Darrow to the Everyman stage in the one-man show, 'Passion for Justice'.

Pulse Ensemble Theatre's acclaimed production of Anuvab Pal's Indian-flavored, bittersweet comedy 'CHAOS THEORY' starring Rita Wolf, Sorab Wadia and Amar Srivastava will end its limited engagement at the TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, on Saturday, June 19th.

ANNE CATTANEO is the dramaturg of Lincoln Center Theater and the creator and head of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors' Lab. A three term past president of Literary Mangers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, she is the recipient of LMDA's first Lessing Award for lifetime achievement of dramaturgy. She has worked widely as a dramaturg on classical plays with directors such as James Lapine, Robert Wilson, Adrian Hall, Robert Falls, Mark Lamos and JoAnne Akalaitis. As the director of the Playworks Program at the Phoenix Theater during the late 1970's, she commissioned and developed plays by Wendy Wasserstein (Isn't It Romantic) Mustapha Matura (Meetings) and Christopher Durang (Beyond Therapy). For the Acting Company, she created two projects: Orchards (published by Knopf and Broadway Play Publishing) which presented seven Chekhov stories adapted for the stage by Maria Irene Fornes, Spalding Gray, John Guare, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein, Michael Weller and Samm-Art Williams, and Love's Fire (published by William Morrow) responses to Shakespeare sonnets by Eric Bogosian, William Finn, John Guare, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange and Wendy Wasserstein. Her own translations of 20th Century German playwrights include Brecht's Galileo (Goodman Theater 1986 starring Brian Dennehy) and Botho Strauss' Big And Little (Phoenix production starring Barbara Barrie, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.) She is currently on the faculty at Juilliard.

Pulse Ensemble Theatre's acclaimed production of Anuvab Pal's Indian-flavored, bittersweet comedy 'CHAOS THEORY' starring Rita Wolf, Sorab Wadia and Amar Srivastava will end its limited engagement at the TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, on Saturday, June 19th.

The American Theatre Wing's 64th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were held at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 13, 2010 and broadcast on the CBS Television Network. For more information visit tonyawards.com.

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