Powerhouse Theatre News

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

Ashley Road Productions is proud to announce the New York premiere of A WOMAN OF WILL, a new musical starring Golden Globe Award-winning writer and performer Amanda McBroom ('The Rose').

Amanda McBroom's new musical A Woman of Will will begin its off-Broadway run on September 15th and open on October 2nd

A Woman of Will, Golden Globe-winner Amanda McBroom's new musical, will begin previews off-Broadway on September 15th before opening on October 2nd

Dana Delaney, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Chris Bauer are some of the actors cast in the workshop production of John Patrick Shanley's new play Defiance, which will run at Vassar from July 29th to July 31st

Hunter Foster will star in the Vassar premiere of Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann's new musical, The Man in the White Suit from June 24th to 26th

Lily Rabe, who plays Annelle in the revival of Steel Magnolias, will be featured on WB-11 Morning News on May 31st

The Philadelphia Theatre Company's 30th season will include world premieres by Terrence McNally and Christopher Durang

STEEL MAGNOLIAS, the play by Robert Harling, will open Monday, April 4, 2005 at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street, east of Broadway). The production, directed by Jason Moore (Avenue Q), begins previews on March 15, 2005.

SH-K-BOOM Records has announced the release of the Original Cast Album of the OBIE Award-winning musical A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant on November 2, according to label founder and co-president Kurt Deutsch.