Syracuse Stage News

It's 1927 and Ma Rainey, the Mother of the Blues, strides into a rundown Chicago recording studio to join a battling quartet of musicians. The great playwright August Wilson places this formidable artist at the center of a captivating drama of flamboyant personalities, professional jealousy, and shattered dreams. Directed by Lou Bellamy, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM plays in Tucson at the Temple of Music and Art from October 16 through November 6. It continues its run in Phoenix at the Herberger Theater Center from November 11 through November 28. The Tucson media sponsors for the 2010-2011 season are KGUN9, MIX-FM and Tucson Lifestyle. Arizona Theatre Company's season sponsors are I. Michael and Beth Kasser.

Unrelenting Monkey Productions proudly presents 'Our Country,' a gay country western musical, as a special event of the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Music and Lyrics by Tony Asaro, book by Dan Collins, directed by Diana Basmajian. 'Our Country' will have three performances: Monday, October 11 at 8 PM, Tuesday, October 12 at 8 PM, Wednesday, October 13 at 8 PM at the Hudson Guild Theatre, located at 441 W. 26th Street. Tickets are $20 and are available by calling OvationTix, 866-811-4111, or at www.nymf.org.

Unrelenting Monkey Productions proudly presents 'Our Country,' a gay country western musical, as a special event of the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Unrelenting Monkey Productions proudly presents 'Our Country,' a gay country western musical, as a special event of the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Music and Lyrics by Tony Asaro, book by Dan Collins, directed by Diana Basmajian. 'Our Country' will have three performances: Monday, October 11 at 8 PM, Tuesday, October 12 at 8 PM, Wednesday, October 13 at 8 PM at the Hudson Guild Theatre, located at 441 W. 26th Street. Tickets are $20 and are available by calling OvationTix, 866-811-4111, or at www.nymf.org.

Cleveland Play House Artistic Director Michael Bloom announces the 2010-11 Season lineup - the final one at the historic venue on 85th and Euclid Avenue before relocating to downtown Cleveland's Theater District in the fall of 2011. A re-imagining of an American classic by Horton Foote, Midwest premieres of acclaimed literary adaptations, modern musicals and clever comedies are all contributing to the wide variety of entertainment Bloom has designed for The Play House's 95th consecutive season.

Vermont's Flynn Center and Weston Playhouse Theatre Company will present 'Death of a Salesman' starring Christopher Lloyd on Saturday, October 9 at 8pm. Winner of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize, Death of a Salesman tells the story of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman who struggles with the changes of time and his failure to reach success as he and his family pursue the 'American Dream.'

The Los Angeles premiere of K2, written by Patrick Meyers and directed by Damen Scranton, will play two lower-priced previews at the Underground Theater in Hollywood on Thursday, October 7 and Friday, October 8 at 8pm, and opening is set for Saturday, October 9, 2010, at 8pm. K2 will play a strictly limited engagement through Sunday, November 14.

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents Edward Albee's A DELICATE BALANCE, directed by James Bundy, at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street, at York Street) October 22-November 13.

Sinclair, Sam, and Stu discover the audience in their attic. Clearly, these quiet strangers are going to eat them, so they distract the hungry savages by telling them their grandfather's original fairytales. With these vivid, multi-media stories the siblings discover the answer to, 'are we still loved after the person who loved us is gone?'.

Sinclair, Sam, and Stu discover the audience in their attic. Clearly, these quiet strangers are going to eat them, so they distract the hungry savages by telling them their grandfather's original fairytales. With these vivid, multi-media stories the siblings discover the answer to, 'are we still loved after the person who loved us is gone?'.

Unrelenting Monkey Productions proudly presents 'Our Country,' a gay country western musical, as a special event of the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Music and Lyrics by Tony Asaro, book by Dan Collins, directed by Diana Basmajian. 'Our Country' will have three performances: Monday, October 11 at 8 PM, Tuesday, October 12 at 8 PM, Wednesday, October 13 at 8 PM at the Hudson Guild Theatre, located at 441 W. 26th Street. Tickets are $20 and are available by calling OvationTix, 866-811-4111, or at www.nymf.org.

Michael Donald Edwards, Asolo Repertory Theatre's producing artistic director, announced today his selections for the 2010-2011 season. A major highlight of Asolo Rep's 52nd season is the pre-Broadway try-out production of Bonnie & Clyde opening on November 19, 2010.

Donald Margulies's Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner With Friends at Olney Theatre Center has been extended to Sunday, October 3. The Washington Post calls the Olney production an 'exacting, unsettling drama.' The Frederick News-Post declares, 'Dinner With Friends shines on Olney Theatre Center's black box stage.'

New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, is thrilled to begin its 2010-2011 Season with David Mamet's clever, biting comedy Boston Marriage. Boston Marriage opens for the press on Monday, September 13, 2010 at 7:30pm and plays through Sunday, October 3, 2010 at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in the Charles Mosesian Theater.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is proud to announce the US premiere of EXIT/ENTRANCE, written by Aidan Mathews and directed by M. Burke Walker.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), in association with Extra-Ordinary Productions, present the new musical POPart: The Musical with Book & Lyrics by Daryl Lisa Fazio, and Music by Aaron McAllister, directed by Chad Larabee with music direction by Andrew Smithson and choreography by DJ Gray.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), in association with Extra-Ordinary Productions, present the new musical POPart: The Musical with Book & Lyrics by Daryl Lisa Fazio, and Music by Aaron McAllister, directed by Chad Larabee with music direction by Andrew Smithson and choreography by DJ Gray.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), in association with Extra-Ordinary Productions, present the new musical POPart: The Musical with Book & Lyrics by Daryl Lisa Fazio, and Music by Aaron McAllister, directed by Chad Larabee with music direction by Andrew Smithson and choreography by DJ Gray.

Unrelenting Monkey Productions proudly presents 'Our Country,' a gay country western musical, as a special event of the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Lust, love and horror set the stage for the opening production of Bristol Riverside Theatre's 2010-11 mainstage season with Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, running September 28-October 17. Directed by BRT Artistic Director Keith Baker, the ensemble cast features Ezra Barnes, Sean Gormley, Eileen Ward, and Debra Whitfield.