Company Revival 2006 - Articles Page 38

According to The New York Post's Michael Riedel, producers are bidding for the rights to produce John Doyle's critically acclaimed Cincinatti production of Company, starring Raul Esparza, in New York during the 2006-2007 season

The 2006 MAC AWARDS will be presented on MONDAY, APRIL 17 AT 7:30 PM at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at BMCC, 199 Chambers Street. Hosted by Lee Roy Reams, the 20th annual MAC Awards will include appearances by Phoebe Snow, Ben Taylor, Karen Mason, Carol Hall and Rocky Carroll among others.

Congratulations to the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, one of 3 local arts organizations included in this national event in DC in 2007!

Wicked, Avenue Q, Caroline or Change, Evita and Spamalot join a long list of musical productions opening in 2006..

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

Moliere's THE IMAGINARY INVALID presented by the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company at the Howard County Center for the Arts, 8510 High Ridge Road, Ellicott City, Maryland 21043. Performances through February 19, 2006, Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM, Sundays at 2PM. Tickets available online: www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com or by phone: 866-811-4111.

The nominations have been released for the 2006 Laurence Olivier Awards. The ceremony for this year's awards will take place at the Park Lane Hilton on February, 2006. Leading the pack this year are Billy Elliot with nine nominations, and Guys and Dolls with eight.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz and Executive Director Steve Asher) presents the second developmental production of the 2005-06 season, ALL THE BAD THINGS by Cusi Cram, directed by Paula Pizzi. ALL THE BAD THINGS will begin performances on Wednesday, February 15th at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street) for 15 performances only through Sunday, March 5th.

Full casting has been announced for John Doyle's upcoming Cincinnati production of Company, in which Barbara Walsh will play Joanne to Raul Esparza's Bobby

F. Murray Abraham will headline two repertory productions of The Merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malta at Theatre for a New Audience in 2006

Producer Jeffrey Finn announced today that Academy Award-winning film and stage star Hayley Mills will join legendary star Richard Chamberlain to headline the upcoming National Tour of the beloved play ON GOLDEN POND. The 30-week tour of the two-time 2005 Tony Award-nominated production will launch September 5, 2006 in Fort Worth, Texas at Bass Performance Hall. A complete list of touring cities and venues will be announced in the coming weeks.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Managing Director), by special arrangement with Randall L. Wreghitt, is proud to announce casting for the third production of the Company's 20th Anniversary Season.

Atlantic Theater Company has announced the relocation of its second stage, acting school and administrative offices to Chelsea

A new version of Rick Crom's Drama Desk nominated topical musical revue Newsical 2006: The Next Edition, is coming to New York City for two weeks only after a nation wide tour and critically acclaimed sit-down productions in Denver and Provincetown. Performances for this limited engagement starring John Tartaglia will be at the Village theatre (located at 158 Bleecker Street between Thompson and Sullivan).

Raul Esparza will star in a new production of Company, directed by John Doyle, that will run in Cincinatti from March 14th through April 14th, 2006

TACT Company Member Kyle Fabel will direct HE AND SHE, an early feminist 'battle of the sexes' drama (1911) by Rachel Crothers.

Mary Poppins will begin performances at the New Amsterdam Theatre on October 14, 2006 for a November 16, 2006 opening. The Lion King will exit the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 4, 2006, to re-open at the Minskoff on June 13, 2006.

JAY JOHNSON: THE TWO AND ONLY! will make its Broadway bow at the Helen Hayes Theatre this spring with its previews set for Tuesday, March 7, and its opening on Sunday, March 19 2006.

Due to a request from the August Wilson Estate, Signature Theatre Company's planned August Wilson celebration has been cancelled

Jeremy Irons will make his long-awaited return to the London stage in Embers, a new play by Christopher Hampton and directed by Michael Blakemore that will open on March 1st, 2006

Hank Azaria will return to the show December 2, and David Hyde Pierce has extended his stay. Both actors will star in SPAMALOT until April of 2006.

VITAL THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce the first production if its 2005-2006 season. 'REBOUND & GAGGED,' by AARON GINSBURG and featuring JASON GILBERT, MATT HOBBY, NIA McGOVERN, JEFF MEACHAM, and SARAH BETH-LEE WILLIAMS.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz and Executive Director Steve Asher) have announced the 2005-06 season, which will include two plays by José Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries).

The 2006 Old Vic season will include The Soldier's Tale, Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues directed by Robert Altman, and Kevin Spacey in A Moon for the Misbegotten

The National Theatre of Great Britain's production will open on Broadway, with the National acting company, on April 23, 2006 at a theater to be announced.