The Public Theatre News

Broadway and Off-Broadway producer Ken Davenport (author of the popular blog, www.TheProducersPerspective.com) will present the first selection of THE DAVENPORT DEVELOPMENTAL READING SERIES, four readings of new works (plays and/or musicals) on Monday, March 15th at the Producer's Club (358 West 44th Street, between Eighth & Ninth Avenues).

Rising stars of the alternative rock nation, Long Island's Black Suit Youth will be special guests on Jeremy X. Halpern's weekly music show aired on www.Weirdos.TV Jeremy X. Halpern and Black Suit Youth will jam at Halpern's Williamsburg studio on Tuesday March 9, 2010.

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presents the opening production of the 2010 Spring Festival Season - Rossini's Moses in Egypt (Mosè in Egitto) on April 17, 21, 23 and 25 at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park.

terraNOVA Collective will present three new plays from its 2009 Groundbreakers Playwrights Program February 22nd and March 1st & 8th at Performance Space 122 (150 First Avenue at 9th Street). All readings begin at 7pm. Admission is open to the public with a $5 suggested donation.

Humor, pathos, romance and suspense fill the rarified Syrian air as Northern Stage presents the first-ever U.S. production of the award-winning Damascus by David Greig, from February 17 through March 7 at the Briggs Opera House in downtown White River Junction, VT, directed by Northern Stage Artistic Director Brooke Ciardelli, featuring Broadway Tony nominee John Herrera.

Charles L. Mee's fast-paced, physical tragicomedy focuses on a furious battle of the sexes. Love and marriage fuel the fire between the play's men and women, and audiences won't soon forget the intense outcome.

January marks a decade of Geva productions in the Nextstage. To celebrate this landmark, Geva is proud to announce its production of Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger.

Visionary composer Jeremy X. Halpern brings his psychedelic-powered band to R Bar in NYC on March 5. Mysterious and electric, Jeremy X. and the Weirdos will infect your brain with with bizarre beats and strange synth sounds. Live processed cameras and trippy videos accompany the ritualistic performance of the masked Weirdos musicians and their ranting insane frontman, Head Weirdo Jeremy X. Some of the songs are familiar...Talking Heads 'Psycho Killer' and the Beatles 'I Want You, She's So Heavy' are performed in radical new versions with deeply weird vocal interpretations. The original material is eclectic, with drum beats morphing into spacey atmospheric shimmering.

Intense. Amazing. Life-changing. These are just some of the words that former members of the Powerhouse Theater Training Program, one of the country's leading theater immersion programs, use to describe their experience at Vassar. Now, this nationally-recognized training program entering its 26th season is accepting applications for actors, designers, directors, and writers for the 2010 Powerhouse season.

NEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS are pleased to present their first prime-time show of the decade in honor of the 30th Anniversary of Women?s History Month, THE SOUP SHOW, written and performed by Desiree Burch, Cara Francis & Erica Livingston, directed by Lauren Sharpe.

Casting is complete for Goodman Theatre's Chicago-premiere production of Tracey Scott Wilson's The Good Negro, directed by Resident Director Chuck Smith. Wilson and Smith have tapped nine actors to bring this historical drama to the Albert stage, including Karen Aldridge (Goodman's The Cook; Proof); Teagle F. Bougere (Broadway's A Raisin in the Sun; The Tempest); Tory O. Davis (Goodman's Magnolia); John Hoogenakker (Goodman's Rock 'n' Roll; Chicago Shakespeare's Othello); Billy Eugene Jones (Broadway's Passing Strange; Radio Golf); Nambi Kelley (Goodman's Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Victory Gardens' The Lost Boys of Sudan); Demetrios Troy (Northlight's Awake and Sing; Chicago Shakespeare's Richard III); Dan Waller (Goodman's Ghostwritten; Talking Pictures) and Mick Weber (Goodman's Rock 'n' Roll; Chicago Theatre's Shear Madness). The production will run from May 1 - June 6, 2010.

Following its sold-out run at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, Harriet Jacobs, Lydia R. Diamond's play that tells the harrowing true story about the life of a slave in the years leading to the Civil War, will make two more stops in New England.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced complete casting today for BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, the critically acclaimed rock musical that returns to The Public after a sold-out run last spring as part of The Public's Public LAB season. A co-production with Center Theatre Group and in association with Les Freres Corbusier, BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON is written and directed by Alex Timbers and features music and lyrics by Michael Friedman. Previews begin on Tuesday, March 23 and will continue through Sunday, April 25 with an official press opening on Tuesday, April 6.

Stephen Adly Guirgis will join Itamar Moses, Adam Rapp and Christopher Shinn for 'The Bad Boys of Off Broadway', the first in a series of seminars focused on the culture, business and history of Off Broadway sponsored by The Off Broadway Alliance, on Sunday, February 28, 2010.

Inspired by hilarious memories of a childhood etiquette class, playwright Jeffrey Hatcher conjures up the world of a seven-year-old studying manners from the title character. Mrs. Mannerly is a demanding teacher, and no student in her 36 years of etiquette classes has achieved a perfect score. But when he discovers her secret past, Young Jeffrey is determined to be the first. This unique comic tale reveals truths about the face we present and real selves that lie inside. Recommended for general audiences.

The Upright Cabaret is proud to announce the Los Angeles debut of acclaimed singer-songwriter and musical theater composer JEREMY SCHONFELD. The 9:00pm concerts will take place on Friday, February 26 & Saturday, February 27, 2010 at the Upright at Vermont, 1714 Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles CA.

WeildWorks' New York Premiere of Fêtes de la Nuit, Charles L. Mee's sexy meditation on lust, beauty and the divine experience of love, will end its run on Saturday, February 27.

Stephen Adly Guirgis will join Itamar Moses, Adam Rapp and Christopher Shinn for 'The Bad Boys of Off Broadway', the first in a series of seminars focused on the culture, business and history of Off Broadway sponsored by The Off Broadway Alliance, on Sunday, February 28, 2010.

The Upright Cabaret is proud to announce the Los Angeles debut of acclaimed singer-songwriter and musical theater composer JEREMY SCHONFELD. The 9:00pm concerts will take place on Friday, February 26 & Saturday, February 27, 2010 at the Upright at Vermont, 1714 Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles CA.

Charles L. Mee's fast-paced, physical tragicomedy focuses on a furious battle of the sexes. Love and marriage fuel the fire between the play's men and women, and audiences won't soon forget the intense outcome.