Walter Bobbie News

Classic Stage Company will present Tony Award-winning actor Richard Easton and Jeremy Strong in the world premiere of New Jerusalem, a new play by David Ives, directed by Tony Award-winner Walter Bobbie, for a limited engagement from Friday, December 28 through Sunday, February 3 at Classic Stage Company; Opening January 13 with Fyvush Finkel, David Garrison, Jenn Harris, Michael Izquierdo and Natalia Payne.

Todd Haimes, Artistic Director of Roundabout Theatre Company will be featured on NY1's 'On Stage' this weekend beginning Saturday, November 24 on channel 1.

Sandy Duncan, Fred Willard, Shonn Wiley and Mara Davi will join previously announced cast members Rosie O'Donnell and Beth Leavel in No, No, Nanette, the final 2008 Encores! presentation of the New York City Center season.

This Fall, the record-breaking, razzle-dazzle Broadway smash Chicago welcomes stage and screen star Maxwell Caulfield to the role of Billy Flynn for a special two-week holiday engagement beginning Monday, November 19 at the Ambassador Theatre. On Monday, December 3, Drama Desk Award nominee Jeff McCarthy (Urinetown) steps into the role of Billy Flynn for a five-week engagement through Sunday, January 13.

The smash-hit musical Chicago celebrates 10 glittering, celebrity-studded years in the West End on November 18, 2007.

Amra-Faye Wright (Velma Kelly), Frances Ruffelle (Roxie Hart), Terence Maynard (Billy Flynn) and Paul Rider (Amos Hart) will return to star in the smash hit West End musical Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre from November 5 until December 8. At the same time, Sue Kelvin will return to play Mama Morton.

An impressive collection of Broadway and screen celebrities arrived for the officially opening of The Ritz on Thursday, October 11 on Broadway at Studio 54 (254 West 54th St) where it will play a limited engagement through December 2, 2007.

Roundabout Theatre Company is proud to announce 'Access Roundabout,' a multi-faceted audience development initiative that allocates over 22,000 affordable tickets as low as $10, to theatregoers!

Roundabout Theatre Company announces a new Off-Broadway production of Christopher Durang's comedy The Marriage of Bette and Boo directed by Walter Bobbie, beginning performances June 13, 2008 and opening July 2008 at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. This is a limited engagement through September 7, 2008.

Kelly Osbourne will now play an 8-week extended season in London's Chicago. She will appear in the show, as Mama Morton, until Saturday, November 3rd.

The cast and creators of the Broadway musical High Fidelity, recently released on CD by Ghostlight Records, will perform selections from the show at a free in-store performance and CD signing at 6:00 PM on Wednesday, August 1 at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center

Kelly Osbourne will make her legitimate stage debut starring as 'Mama Morton' in the smash hit West End musical Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre on Monday, September 10 for a limited seven-week season, finishing on October 27.

Rosie O'Donnell will play Pauline, 'the tart-tongued, wisecracking maid' in Encores!' upcoming production of the classic 1925 musical No, No Nanette, while Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole will take on the role of stage diva Margo Channing in Applause, the 1970 Charles Strouse-Lee Adams musical based on All About Eve.

Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin - have added a one-week extension to their summer engagement in Broadway's razzle-dazzle hit, Chicago. Originally scheduled to play through Sunday, July 29, Rinna and Hamlin will now appear through Sunday, August 5.

Broadway's 'Chicago' debuts Brian McKnight as Billy Flynn October 8 - November 18. Prior to Broadway, McKnight appears in a 2-week engagement at Washington DC's Warner Theatre with the Chicago national touring company, September 25 - October 7.

Husband and wife show business couple Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna danced their way onto the Great White Way to make their Broadway debuts in the hit musical Chicago, and BroadwayWorld was there!

On Monday, June 18th, the release of High Fidelity's cast recording, now available from Ghostlight Records, was celebrated at Birdland.

We talk to Anna Louizos, Tony nominee for best set design for High Fidelity. She talks about many of her shows, and how she got to be where she is.

Television and recording star Duncan James will make his stage debut starring as 'Billy Flynn' in the smash hit West End musical 'CHICAGO' at the Cambridge Theatre on Monday 2 July for a limited seven-week season, finishing on 18 August.

Anna also designed four other shows currently running in NY: 'Curtains,' 'In the Heights,' 'Avenue Q' and 'Altar Boyz.'