Theatre: New York News

The Guthrie announces a series of special events surrounding the American premiere of Brian Friel's The Home Place, directed by Joe Dowling and playing on the McGuire Proscenium Stage through November 25.

Broadway In Chicago has announced Cameron Mackintosh and the National Theatre of Great Britain's acclaimed new production of Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady will premiere in Chicago in a limited two-week engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre

Signature Theatre Company announced today that Kate Mulgrew will replace the previously announced Victoria Clark in Charles Mee's Iphigenia 2.0, directed by Tina Landau

Jonathan Pryce has been confirmed as the star of an upcoming West End revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross

Signature Theatre Company announced today the casting for the first play in the Charles Mee Series, Iphigenia 2.0, starring Victoria Clark

Signature Theatre Company today announced the next four years of programming as well as the unprecedented Signature Ticket Initiative, made possible by the lead sponsorship of Time Warner, Inc.

Peculiar Works Project, the 2007 Village Voice OBIE Award-winning company for its production 'Off Stage: the West Village Fragments' will present the site-specific multi-venue companion piece to the West Village performance - 'OFF Stage: the East Village Fragments.'

Due to a high demand for tickets, the Ahmanson Theatre engagement of Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, has been extended three weeks through Sunday, August 26

New York City is hosting the first-ever NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL (NAATF) from June 11-24, 2007, featuring more than 25 Asian American performing arts companies and solo artists convening for two weeks of performances at venues throughout the city.

Repertory Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director James Bundy and Managing Director Victoria Nolan, will present three re-imagined classics, a rediscovered play from the mid-twentieth century, and a world premiere during its 42nd season in 2007-2008.

New York City will be the setting for the first-ever National Asian American Theatre Festival from June 11-24, 2007 when more than 25 Asian American performing arts companies and solo artists from coast-to-coast -- Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, etc. -- convene for two weeks of performances at various venues throughout NYC.

The producers of JERSEY BOYS, winner of this year's Tony® Award for Best Musical, have announced the cast that will launch the National Tour in San Francisco.

The York Theatre Company will present Take Me Along, Carmelina and Plain and Fancy as part of its 2006-2007 Musicals in Mufti season

On August 4th, Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes will be featured on 'Downstage Center'

Jerome Walden's BULLY, a play based on the life of Theodore Roosevelt, produced by Double W Productions, will open on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at the Irish Arts Center (553 West 51st St.) Previews begin patriotically, on July 4th.

William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure opens at The Pearl Theatre Company on Sunday, March 5th and runs through Sunday, April 9th. Rachel Botchan (Richard III) and Sean McNall (The Gentleman Dancing Master) star and Beatrice Terry (Double Infidelity) directs.

Now through Saturday, February 25, American Express Gold Card Events is offering a pre-sale before they're available to the general public.

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