Pump Boys and Dinettes News

Producers Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh today announced full casting for the Toronto engagement of MARY POPPINS. Toronto's most eagerly anticipated stage production will begin performances at the Princess of Wales Theatre on Thursday November 10, for a limited engagement of nine weeks, through Sunday January 8, 2012. The opening night is Saturday November 12, at 7:30pm.

WaterTower Theatre today announced the cast for Spring Awakening, running September 30 to October 23, 2011 at the Addison Theatre Centre.

Pump Boys and Dinettes will play the Laurie Beechman Theatre. Country-rock and Broadway collide for finger-licking good BBQ, good tunes and bucket loads of all-star talent for three nights only!

Annie, the irrepressible orphan of newspaper comics-fame who has been delighting audiences onstage since the 1970s, makes her return to Nashville's Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre this summer, running July 28-September 3, in a new production of Annie directed by Martha Wilkinson, with music direction by Jaclyn Brown and choreography by Bakari King.

Four Rogers Park area theatres, Lifeline Theatre, Raven Theatre, the side project, and Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, join together for the fourth year to offer a flexible subscription pass to see a variety of Rogers Park productions throughout the season, running from September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2012.

Pump Boys and Dinettes will play the Laurie Beechman Theatre. Country-rock and Broadway collide for finger-licking good BBQ, good tunes and bucket loads of all-star talent for three nights only!

Four Rogers Park area theatres, Lifeline Theatre, Raven Theatre, the side project, and Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, join together for the fourth year to offer a flexible subscription pass to see a variety of Rogers Park productions throughout the season, running from September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2012.

WaterTower Theatre today announced the cast for Spring Awakening, running September 30 to October 23, 2011 at the Addison Theatre Centre.

Theater for the New City's award-winning Street Theater Company opens its 35th annual tour August 6 with 'Bamboozled, or The Real Reality Show,' a rip-roaring musical which will tour City streets, parks and playgrounds throughout the five boroughs through September 18.

A fast-paced Tony-award-winning comedy BOEING-BOEING will be staged at the Saint Michael's Playhouse July 20-30 in the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College.

A high-spirited musical, THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES, will be staged at the Saint Michael's Playhouse August 3-13 in the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College.

WaterTower Theatre today announced the cast for Little Shop of Horrors, running July 22 - August 21, 2011 at the Addison Theatre Centre.

A fast-paced Tony-award-winning comedy BOEING-BOEING will be staged at the Saint Michael's Playhouse July 20-30 in the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College.

Annie, the irrepressible orphan of newspaper comics-fame who has been delighting audiences onstage since the 1970s, makes her return to Nashville's Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre this summer, running July 28-September 3, in a new production of Annie directed by Martha Wilkinson, with music direction by Jaclyn Brown and choreography by Bakari King.

Shakespeare meets the Hatfields and the McCoys this summer in Tennessee Shakespeare Festival's family-friendly The Comedy of Errors, running June 17-July 10 in Bell Buckle on the campus of the Webb School. Tennessee Shakespeare Festival's latest production, The Comedy of Errors - described as 'a rollicking version of William Shakespeare's madcap tale of mistaken identity, set in the highlands of 1880s West Virginia.'

A fast-paced Tony-award-winning comedy BOEING-BOEING will be staged at the Saint Michael's Playhouse July 20-30 in the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College.

WaterTower Theatre today announced the cast for Little Shop of Horrors, running July 22 - August 21, 2011 at the Addison Theatre Centre.

Theater for the New City's award-winning Street Theater Company opens its 35th annual tour August 6 with 'Bamboozled, or The Real Reality Show,' a rip-roaring musical which will tour City streets, parks and playgrounds throughout the five boroughs through September 18.

This July, PlayhouseSquare returns to collaborating with acclaimed New York based producing agency The Dodgers; an association that has spanned nearly 30 years - starting with country pop/rock hit Pump Boys and Dinettes and reaching such lofty heights with the Tony Award® winning mega-sensation Jersey Boys. This time, in continuing its relationship with The Dodgers and their producing partners Carl Levin and Michael Minarik, PlayhouseSquare is proud to present a rare glimpse into the creation of live theater with Fat Camp. Debuting in 2009 at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, Fat Camp tells the tale of a summer spent at Camp Overton where secrets, sex, s'mores and self-image collide in a coming-of-age rock musical comedy.

Since his arrival in Nashville, talented Jeffrey Williams has made quite the name for himself on local stages, winning over directors, producers, other actors, audience members and critics alike with his charm, dedication and remarkable talent. Seriously, he's got the goods and Nashville theater has claimed its fair share (most recently, he's been seen in Street Theatre Company's acclaimed staging of Chess in Concert, in which he sang the role of the spoiled American chess champion, and in Tennessee Repertory Theatre's hit revival of Pump Boys and Dinettes, in which he tap-danced, played an accordion and sang his heart out, surrounded by a cast of Tennessee Rep veterans), it would seem, and now young Mr. Williams is heading northeastward to check things out in New York City.