The Human Comedy Revival 2006 - Articles Page 21

Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe return to the helm to put the 78-year-old Connecticut theatrical landmark back on course

Select performances of Catherine Filloux's Killing The Boss - a new dark comedy about an altruistic woman's unexpected transformation into a vigilante, opening February 12 at The Studio at Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) - will be followed by talkbacks.

The acclaimed arts institution The Kitchen presents Target Margin Theater as it continues its acclaimed 2006-2007 season 'On The Greeks' with the world premiere of two newly adapted one-act plays, The Argument, based on Aristotle's Poetics, written and performed by David Greenspan, and Dinner Party, an adaptation of Plato's Symposium

Casting has been announced for the new touring stage version of High School Musical which will play Chicago's LaSalle Bank Theatre for a limited engagement, July 25 - September 2, 2007

Northwestern University has announced that award- winning Broadway director Michael Greif has replaced Oskar Eustis as the director of the American Music Theatre Project's (AMTP) fourth new musical, The Boy in the Bubble.

In a swirling non-linear timeline the true story of Agnete Ottosen, Danish Poet and famed Resistance fighter, unfolds.

Priscilla Lopez, Mandy Gonzalez and Karen Olivo will star in In the Heights, which is now set to open Off-Broadway on February 8th

Playwrights Horizons will open its 2006/2007 season with the New York premiere of The Pain and the Itch, the controversial comedy by Bruce Norris that was a a hit in Chicago during its 2005 world premiere production at Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Jayne Houdyshell, Mia Barron, Peter Jay Fernandez and more will star in The Pain and the Itch, running at Playwrights Horizons from September 1st through October 8th

Disney's The Lion King will surely bring home the lion's share of popularity in the 2006 Philadelphia theater season.

Grammy winner Debby Boone and the cast of Barrington Stage Company's 'The Human Comedy' will be guests Friday, June 16 on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio's (90.3FM/1400 AM) 'Performance Roundtable'

TheatreWorks of Palo Alto and Mountain View, has announced its 2006-07 season full of world and West Coast premieres.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival is pleased to announce the 18 new musicals selected for this year's Next Link Project, to be presented as part of the third-annual New York Musical Theatre Festival, September 10 through October 1, 2006.

A chorus of young performers from Rosie's Broadway Kids, an arts education organization created by Rosie O'Donnell which enriches the lives of children through the arts, will make their professional New York City stage debuts in the upcoming productions of Brundibar and Comedy on the Bridge at The New Victory Theater.

Donna McKechnie has been cast in the title role of Mame, which will run at the Barrington Stage Company from October 4th through 15th

This December, DISNEY LIVE! WINNIE THE POOH will play a special month-long holiday engagement at New York's legendary Beacon Theatre (2124 Broadway at West 74th Street), December 8-28, 2005.