Terry Hands News

CarrietheMusical.com has revealed that Tony-Award winner Sutton Foster has joined the CARRIE reading in the role of Miss Gardner, the caring gym teacher that was played by stage legend Betty Buckley in the film version.

Michael Riedel in this morning's New York Post confirms the recent reports that producers, Jeffrey Seller and Kevin McCollum, are indeed working to resurrect the infamous flop musical CARRIE for the Broadway stage.

Variety is reporting that producers are putting together a 29-hour Equity reading of CARRIE, the musical that had a notoriously short 3 night, 5 performance run on Broadway in 1988.

Variety is reporting that producers are putting together a 29-hour Equity reading of CARRIE, the musical that had a notoriously short 3 night, 5 performance run on Broadway in 1988.

Executive Producer Louis G. Spisto today announced the appointment of Adrian Noble as Artistic Director of The Old Globe's 2010 Shakespeare Festival celebrating the theater's 75th anniversary season. One of the theater's most respected and sought-after directors, Noble will oversee the Festival and direct two of the three productions presented in repertory. Noble succeeds Resident Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak who will leave his post in September to pursue independent directing opportunities. The annual festival will run from June 12 through September 26, 2010.

BroadwayWorld is proud to present the third webisode in our exclusive series 'Betty's Back.' This week shows Buckley reminiscing of her short-lived stint in the Broadway musical Carrie, before launching into the song 'When There's No One.'

Terry Hands' production of Jonathan Lichtenstein's Memory will open at the Pleasance Theatre, Islington on 1 October, after a national tour.

The Roundtable Ensemble will present the world premiere of Chris Kipiniak's Save the World, a superhero-adventure play at the American Theatre of Actors. Performances will begin on Thursday, January 17, and the official opening night will be Saturday, January 19 at 8PM. Performances will run for four weeks through February 9.

The four female co-stars of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone at CENTERSTAGE on Wilson, acting, and celebrating life.

59E59 Theaters will welcome the return of playwright Jonathan Lichtenstein to Brits Off Broadway with the Clwyd Theatr Cymru's astonishing production of Memory, directed by three-time Tony Award-nominee Terry Hands, former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The complete Brits Off-Broadway line-up has been announced, with a number of playwrights joining the previously announced Alan Ayckbourn and Jonathan Lichtenstein

Plays by Jonathan Lichtenstein and Alan Ayckbourn will be presented as part of the Brits Off-Broadway Festival this spring

Actors and directors have been recognised in The Queen's New Year's Honours List for 2007, with some well-known names being rewarded for their services to the industry.

Shakespearean icons such as Laurence Olivier and Judi Dench will be among the actors featured in the RSC's new CD set The Essential Shakespeare--Live