The La Jolla Playhouse News

La Jolla Playhouse will once again take theatre to the schools of San Diego with its latest incarnation of the Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour: Honey Bo and the Gold Mine

Daniel Reichard, who stars as Bob Gaudio in the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, will appear in his own concert entitled 'Daniel Reichard: Christmas in Black and White' at The Metropolitan Room on Monday, December 18th at 10 PM.

Valarie Pettiford, who was last seen on stage at the La Jolla Playhouse performing in Des McNauff's The Wiz, recently spent the evening in the historic lobby of the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, singing a handful of showtunes and standards...

Valarie Pettiford will perform in Los Angeles on December 4th

The 2006 Best Musical Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys will celebrate its First Anniversary on Broadway Monday, November 6

The national tour of Jersey Boys has replaced the new Motown musical Ain't No Mountain High Enough on the Ahmanson Theatre's 2006-2007 line-up

Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! welcomes Pearce Bunting, Carolee Carmello, Michael Mastro and David McDonald to Broadway at the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway at 50th Street). MAMMA MIA!'s fifth anniversary will be marked by a special performance and celebration on Wednesday, October 18th at 7PM.

Des McAnuff will join Ontario's Stratford Festival as an artistic director in 2008; he is also set to direct new musicals

Variety reports the casting for the upcoming La Jolla production of The Wiz, directed by Des McAnuff. The show will feature Wayne Brady (Scarecrow), David Alan Grier (the Wizard), Nikki M. James, (Dorothy), Tituss Burgess (the Lion) and Michael Benjamin Washington (Tin Man).

The comic performance piece all wear bowlers will play the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego from August 1 - September 3, 2006 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre

On May 22nd, Daniel Reichard of Jersey Boys will perform in a special concert at the Joseph C. Caruso School in Keansburg, NJ

Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, has set a new house record at the August Wilson Theatre, grossing $1,013,616 for the week ending April 16th

Time/Unstuck, an evening by The Gang of Four, EST's young directors' residency, will feature new plays by Neal Bell and Bathsheba Doran, and run from April 20th through 30th

Marisa Tomei will headline a reading (closed to the public) of Alan Bowne's Beirut on April 17th; she will reprise her role from the original production

Ivan Hernandez, Jason Danieley, Tom Hewitt and Jessica Burrows will star in the La Jolla Playhouse's production of the musical Zhivago, running from May 9th through June 24th

Barry Manilow--who penned the musical Harmony among his many pop hits--will perform on the March 22nd edition of 'American Idol'

On March 19th, Jersey Boys co-writer Marshall Brickman will be featured on A&E's 'Breakfast with the Arts'

John Lloyd Young, currently starring as Frankie Valli in Broadway's Jersey Boys, will have his caricature unveiled at Sardi's Restaurant on Thursday, February 23th

On February 21st, the four actors who play the title roles in Jersey Boys will appear on 'The Late Show with David Letterman'

On February 1st, Jersey Boys will reach its 100th Broadway performance