Terry Scott News

This no frills Twelfth Night rattles through Shakey's comedy getting laughs along the way, but includes some artistic decisions that didn't quite land as clearly as they were, perhaps, intended to.

Variety has reported that stage and screen actress Dame June Whitfield has died at age 93.

Boundless Theatre today presents a major revival of Judy Upton's Confidence. First performed in 1998 at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Artistic Director of Boundless, Rob Drummer, directs the previously announced Tanya Burr in the role of Ella. She is joined by Anna Crichlow (Ruby), Vauxhall Jermaine (Edwin), Will Pattle (Dean) and Rhys Yates (Ben). The production opens at Southwark Playhouse on 25 May with previews from 23 May.

This weekend the biggest music festival of the year in Rockland & Bergen County will be held at the German Masonic Park in Blauvelt!

World renown British actor/playwright Ray Cooney will be performing the zany farce Cash on Delivery, written by his son Michael Cooney, on the mainstage of the El Portal in Noho December 3-20.  Cooney performed Out of Order at the El Portal in 2001, and was a tremendous hit. In our conversation Cooney, who was bestowed the honor of OBE (Order of the British Empire) by the Queen, and wife Linda talk about the play, and among other topics, theatre and its importance in our world right now. Linda is a landscape painter and former actress, and her work will be exhibited in the El Portal lobby during the run of the play and on to January 1, 2016.

The new collection "Autumn for a Day-Old Toad: The Journal of A. Manley Stanz" (published by AuthorHouse), edited by Terry Scott Boykie, uses humor, satire, controversy and argument to show readers how America has changed for better or worse during the Baby Boom era.

AuthorHouse, the leading self-publishing imprint and marketing services provider for authors around the globe, has released its schedule of free indie author signings at the 2013 "Los Angeles Times Festival of Books" being held at the University of Southern California campus. AuthorHouse will host 11 free signings throughout the weekend.

Gary Naylor sees a rollicking good comedy - a kind of Carry On up the Battle of Hastings

The Players Guild of Leonia present: BALLROOM. Book by Jerome Kass, music by Billy Goldenberg, lyrics by Marilyn & Alan Bergman. Directed by Annette Lenge. Based on Kass' teleplay for the 1975 Emmy Award-winning television drama 'Queen of the Stardust Ballroom,' the plot focuses on lonely widow Bea Asher, who becomes romantically involved with Alfred Rossi, a mail carrier she meets at the local dance hall.

The UK Telegraph has reported that beloved English comedy actress, known as Mollie Sugden, who was best known for playing Mrs. Slocombe in the popular and long running British sitcom 'Are You Being Served?' has passed away at the age of 86.

June Whitfield will play the role of Madame Maude P. Dilly in ENO's smash hit production of the original 'New York, New York' musical On the Town.