Powerhouse Theatre News

Taproot Theatre Company presents Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom this spring. Based on the best-selling autobiographical book by Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie invites you to pull up a chair and join Mitch and his beloved, vibrant but terminally-ill professor, Morrie, for some of the greatest lessons life can offer. When you lose your way, sometimes you find it again in the most unexpected places. Tuesdays with Morrie, directed by Karen Lund, opens on March 27 and runs through April 25, with low-price previews on March 25 & 26, plus a pay-what-you-can performance on April 1.

Avenue Q ? the three-time Tony Award? winning smash-hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, is coming to Omaha?s Orpheum Theater. Avenue Q, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a hilariously irreverent award-winning book and score, will be presented by Omaha Performing Arts and Broadway Across America - Omaha, Wednesday, March 25 through Sunday, March 29, 2009. Tickets go on sale to the public Thursday, February 12.

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents the American premiere of HAPPY NOW? by Lucinda Coxon, directed by Liz Diamond, at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street). Opening Night is October 30 with performances running through November 15th.

The critically acclaimed Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble concludes its 2008 Season with the World Premiere of a new comedy that is both poignant and timely. Quixotic by Kit Steinkellner, a modern re-telling of Cervantes' classic novel 'Don Quixote,' opens on October 30 at The Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica.

The end of summer marks the close of the classical repertory season at The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. However, the Botanicum continues its theatrical exploration by supporting new artistic voices through its ongoing development series for playwrights, 'Botanicum Seedlings.' The program's fall playreadings are Brett Webster's Lost and Found in the Underground on Sunday, November 2 and Nude and Sunflower by Reba Waters Thomas on Sunday, November 9. Readings begin at 1 pm and admission is free.

The critically acclaimed Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble concludes its 2008 Season with the World Premiere of a new comedy that is both poignant and timely. Quixotic by Kit Steinkellner, a modern re-telling of Cervantes' classic novel 'Don Quixote,' opens on October 30 at The Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica.

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents the American premiere of HAPPY NOW? by Lucinda Coxon, directed by Liz Diamond, at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street), October 24-November 15. Opening Night is October 30.

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director), in association with Martin Hummel, present the New York premiere of the new comedy, Love Child, written and performed by Daniel Jenkins (Mary Poppins, Big River) and Robert Stanton (The Coast of Utopia, All in the Timing), as an added event of the 2008-2009 season. Under the direction of Carl Forsman, performances are set to begin Sunday evening, October 12, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. and will run in repertory with A Body of Water by Lee Blessing for a limited engagement through November 19, 2008. Opening night is October 26, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

An exciting new adaptation by the Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble of Frank Wedekind's masterpiece, Spring's Awakening, will run July 3 though July 26 at The Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica

Hal Ackerman takes a frank look at his own mortality in his play Testosterone: How Prostate Cancer Made a Man of Me. The playwright also takes center stage in his autobiographical work, joined by supporting cast members Dennis Lee Kelly and Lisa Robins. Michael Arabian directs a four-week run at The Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica April 18 through May 10.

Push to Talk Theatre Company in association with The Powerhouse Theatre Company presents the world premiere of David Largman Murray's dark sci-fi comedy, Robots vs. Fake Robots. Performances take place at The Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica February 16 through March 15.

Traveling to the West Coast following a sold out, Off Broadway run last winter, Extraordinary Deceptions - A Magical Holiday Extravaganza spices up this December's seasonal offerings in a limited holiday engagement at the Powerhouse Theatre from December 14 through 30. Ryan Dixon ('The Boomerang Kid') directs an evening of magic, mystery and illusion starring singular magician Michael Gutenplan...

With Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the national headlines on a daily basis, the critically-acclaimed Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble production of Wounded returns to The Powerhouse Theatre on April 13 following its sold-out, limited engagement last spring.

Casting has been announced for the Off-Broadway premiere of the new drama Bhutan by Daisy Foote

Gib Wallis' Solicitation will run as part of FringeNYC from August 18th through August 23rd

Adam Rothenberg and Josh Stamberg will star in Keith Huff's A Steady Rain as part of New York Stage and Film at Vassar from July 11th through 23rd

Chuck Cooper, Gregg Edelman, Douglas Sills, Sally Murphy, Leslie Kritzer, Lee Wilkof and Billy Porter are among the stars who will make the trek to Poughkeepsie, New York for 'New York Stage and Film' at Vassar College from June 23rd through July 30th

On November 6th, playwright Christopher Durang went on for Michael Rupert in Adrift in Macao when the latter was taken out by sickness

Michael Rupert will star in the new Christopher Durang musical Adrift in Macao, which will run in Philadelphia from October 19th through November 20th

The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World's librettist Joy Gregory talks about the philosophy of the (in)famous band and the new musical