Edmund is a struggling young novelist who takes a job tutoring a sullen Manhattan girl.
PREMIERES, a not-for-profit musical theater development company, proudly announces the world premiere of INNER VOICES: SOLO MUSICALS, three new works created by and starring some of the industry's brightest talents.
Kate Shindle, the current co-star of Broadway's Legally Blonde, will play the title role in Sympathy Jones, a new musical which will debut at this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival
In conjunction with their Off Broadway production of Zak Berkman's Beauty On The Vine, Epic Theatre Center has announced the programming for their 'Beyond Beauty Initiative.' The program seeks to bring together a diverse array of women with different backgrounds to share experiences and creatively explore how definitions of beauty, power and success impact society as a whole.
CanStage presents Necessary Angel's production of HALF LIFE, written by John Mighton and directed by Daniel Brooks. Limited engagement through February 3rd at the Bluma Appel Theatre.
Toronto, ON...Prize-winning Canadian playwright John Mighton's latest play Half Life premiered to rave reviews in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Scotland. It has been showered with accolades including the Governor General's Award for Drama and a Dora Award for Outstanding New Play.
'CanStage is thrilled to be presenting this beautiful play on the large Bluma Appel Theatre stage, giving a bigger and more broadly-based audience an opportunity to experience this exciting new Canadian work,' enthused CanStage Artistic Producer Martin Bragg.
The Necessary Angel production of Half Life will subsequently travel across Canada and be presented in Winnipeg at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in February 2007, and Vancouver at the Arts Club Theatre in March 2007. It is scheduled to be part of the Melbourne Theatre Festival in Australia in October 2007.
Directed by Daniel Brooks, the cast of Half Life features the original cast of Laura de Carteret as Anna, Barbara Gordon (CanStage's Homechild) as Agnes, Carolyn Hetherington (CanStage's Written on Water) as Clara, Maggie Huculak (CanStage's A Midsummer Night's Dream) as Tammy, Randy Hughson (CanStage's Homechild) as Reverend, Diego Matamoros as Donald and Eric Peterson (CanStage's Homechild) as Patrick.
Joining Mr. Brooks is a creative team that includes set and costume designer Dany Lyne (CanStage's Hair), lighting designer Andrea Lundy (CanStage's The Comedy of Errors), sound designer Richard Feren, stage manager Crystal Salverda and assistant stage manager Kate Porter.
Clara and Patrick meet in a nursing home for veterans and their families. They begin to fall in love, thinking they are rekindling an old flame. Have they met before? As Clara and Patrick's middle-aged children watch their faltering parents, the older couple rediscovers beauty and love in the twilight of their lives. Half Life is a poetic and moving meditation on identity, aging and the nature of memory.
John Mighton's plays Scientific Americans, Possible Worlds, A Short History of Night, Body and Soul, The Little Years and Half Life have been performed across Canada, as well as in Europe, Japan and the United States and have won several national awards including a Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for Possible Worlds, A Short History of Night and Half Life. Possible Worlds was made into a full-length feature film directed by renowned director/playwright Robert Lepage. In 2005 Mr. Mighton was awarded the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre for his body of work. Mr. Mighton holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto. For the past eight years he has coordinated the highly acclaimed JUMP program, designed to tutor children who are having difficulties in math.
Daniel Brooks is a prolific and versatile artist whose innovation and risk-taking have made him a leader within the Canadian cultural landscape. A director, writer, actor and teacher, Mr. Brooks has been recognized with accolades and awards throughout Canada and around the world. A tremendous mentor and inspiration to an entire generation of theatre artists, Mr. Brooks was the recipient of the inaugural Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. Some of his creations include Red Tape and 86; An Autopsy (with Don McKellar and Tracy Wright); The Lorca Play, House, Here Lies Henry, Monster and Cul de sac (all with Daniel MacIvor); The Noam Chomsky Lectures and Insomnia (with Guillermo Verdecchia), Bigger Than Jesus (with Rick Miller) and The Good Life. His work as a director includes John Mighton's Possible Worlds and Half Life, Goethe's Faust, and Beckett's Endgame. His most recent play is The Eco Show. He is currently the artistic director of Necessary Angel Theatre Company.
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PREVIEWS: January 8-10, 2007
OPENS: January 11-February 3, 2007
SCHEDULE: Monday-Saturday 8:00 p.m., Wednesday matinee 1:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee 2:00 p.m.
TICKETS: $20-$95
LOCATION: CanStage - Bluma Appel Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts,
27 Front St. E.
BOX OFFICE: Tickets are available in person at the CanStage Customer Service Centres, 26 Berkeley St. or 27 Front St. E., by telephone at CanStage 416-368-3110 and Ticketmaster at 416-872-1111, and online at www.canstage.com
Rush seats are available for any performance one hour prior to show time. Rush seats are half the regular ticket price. For Monday nigh performances only, pay-what-you-can tickets are available in person at the CanStage Box Office beginning at 10:00 a.m. on the day of the performance.
Special Group Rates available. For details call Heather Burns at
416-367-8243 ext. 266.
Other activities to enhance your theatre-going experience:
CanStage Tea Talks and Talk Backs - These informal post-performance question and answer periods give you an opportunity to meet the artists immediately following a production. Contact Patty Jarvis at 416-367-8243 ext. 245 for details
Today's New York Post reports, and sources confirm that THE WOMAN IN WHITE star Michael Ball will not return to the show before it's February 19th closing due to a 'severe sinus problem.'
THE WOMAN IN WHITE will play its final performance at Broadway's Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway) on Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.
Marks milestone on Broadway with 1,000th performance on December 22, 2005
The music of composer Charles Bloom (Insomnia, Heaven Knows) will be presented in a new revue, BEYOND THE MUSIC: THE SONGS OF CHARLES BLOOM, to be performed at Don't Tell Mama (343 West 46th Street) for 2 performances only in December: Sunday, December 18 at 8 p.m. and Monday, December 19 at 6:30 p.m.
Something old, something new? Sure, Little Women has that. Borrowed and blue, that as well. It's a new show that's old-fashioned, with a score that's not all that original and bits of blue here and there, mainly represented in the period-lace that frames the brightly lit stage.
Victor Herbert's Mlle. Modiste and Oh, Lady! Lady!!, with music by Jereome Kern, have replaced Show Girl and Roberta in Musicals Tonight!'s season line-up
Cabaret star Brandon Cutrell and musical director Ray Fellman will host Ray and Brandon's Birthday Bash at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre on October 9th
The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. today announced the new fall season, highlighted by big names, up-and-coming talent, classic shows, and new works.
Maria Friedman, the leading lady of the British musical theatre, makes her Broadway debut in London's smash hit musical, THE WOMAN IN WHITE, opening on Broadway Thursday, November 17th at the Marquis Theatre (211 W 45th St).
Along with Ruthie Henshall, Damian Humbley, Alexandra Silber, Michael Cormick and Elinor Collett will take over roles in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White, beginning July 11th
Concert presentations of musicals by Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Schwartz and Dietz, Jerome Kern and more will be included in the Musicals Tonight! 2005-2006 season
The Public Theater announces that Brian Bedford, Lynn Collins, Jennifer Ikeda, Richard Thomas, and James Waterston have joined the cast of As You Like It for Shakespeare in the Park. As You Like It is the first production scheduled in The Public's year-long 50th Anniversary Celebration, with performances beginning Tuesday, June 25th and continuing through Sunday, July 17th.
Crawford has decided not to reprise his award-winning West End role when show comes to Broadway.
Ball will play the roll of Count Fosco through April 30, Crawford to return May 2.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest has announced an out of town tryout in Chicago for the show prior to a now Spring 2006 opening.
Kevin Gray will reprise his Broadway role as the King alongside esteemed English actress Elizabeth Renihan as Mrs Anna in a brand new production of the much-loved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King & I, which will open at the Liverpool Empire in January 2005 ahead of a year-long national tour.
London's new smash hit musical, THE WOMAN IN WHITE, will open on Broadway, at a Nederlander Theatre to be announced, on Thursday, November 10, 2005. This is the fastest ever transfer from the West End to Broadway for a major musical in living memory.
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