Sesame Street meets South Park: They may look familiar, but these puppets (and their human counterparts) have an irreverent take on the joys and travails of making it on your own. Winner of the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical.
Click in for reviews of Avenue Q: The Book, The Audrey Hepburn Treasures, Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You?, The Alchemy of Theatre, We Bombed in New London, Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, Stop The Show, In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights, Fantasia: Life is Not a Fairy Tale and The Entertainment Sourcebook 2007.
Recent news for Avenue Q includes an Olivier Award nomination, a new 'Scrubs' episode and a new house record
The nominations have been announced for the 2007 Laurance Olivier Awards, the UK's most prestigious theatrical awards. The awards will be presented on February 18, 2007 at the Grosvenor House Hotel.
According to a casting notice, Avenue Q will soon be embarking on a national tour
The Board of Directors and the Executive Director/ Producer of The ColumnTheatre Awards have announced that film and stage star Christian Campbell, Tony Award-nominee Stephanie D'Abruzzo, and theatre veteran and 'Ugly Betty' star Michael Urie will appear at the 2007 Column Awards Gala on Monday February 26th, 2007
For the third year running, the Greenwich Theatre presents the groundbreaking 'The Ten Minute Musical Challenge'. Originally devised by Ellie Jones in 2005, this year's challenge will be directed by Fiona Laird. The challenge is designed to bring together composers, bookwriters and lyricists who have not worked together before, to forge new collaborations and encourage these creative teams to work fast enough to produce a ten minute musical in just one day, from the stimulus of stories in that day's newspaper.
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The York Theatre Company, James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director, and Jeff Landsman, Series Coordinator, will present as part of its Developmental Reading Series the first reading of Gay Grimms on Thursday, January 11th at 7:30. The York Theatre Company is located in The Theatre at Saint Peter's Church, 54th Street just east of Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022. Admission is free. For reservations, call: 212-935-5824, ext. 24.
The London production of Avenue Q at the Noël Coward Theatre (formely the Albery Theatre) has scheduled a 'Midnight Matinee' for Monday 22nd January 2007. The performance will be a special event to raise funds for TheatreCares, the proceeds of which will be invaluable to people affected by HIV and AIDS. Beginning at 11:30pm, long after all of the other West End theatres have locked up for the night, the performance will run through midnight into the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The new musical In the Heights will offer specially priced preview tickets during its four-week preview period
Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller and Jill Furman, the producers of the new
musical IN THE HEIGHTS, are pleased to announce specially priced preview
tickets during its four-week preview period.
John Tartaglia's new show 'Johnny and the Sprites' is set to air on Playhouse Disney (Disney Channel) starting in January 2007
John Tartaglia will be starring as Lumiere in Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, beginning performances on Tuesday, November 21st at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street). Tartaglia is best known for originating the roles of Princeton and Rod in Avenue Q in Las Vegas and on Broadway for which he received a Tony Award® nomination in 2004.
Priscilla Lopez, Mandy Gonzalez and Karen Olivo will star in In the Heights, which is now set to open Off-Broadway on February 8th
The popular holiday musical White Christmas, based on the classic movie musical, will be presented in Seattle
For the second time, the hit London production of the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q has been extended
Avenue Q, the 2004 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, will make its West Coast debut at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in the summer of 2007
The producers of the new Broadway musical High Fidelity have announced that the show will begin previews November 20 prior to opening December 7, 2007 on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre
London theatregoers will be able to stroll down Avenue Q for another few months; the West End production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical has announced an extension through January 27th, 2007 at the Noel Coward Theatre
An original new musical will be brought off-Broadway by a team that includes two producers of The Drowsy Chaperone
Applications for the first year composer/lyricist class of the 2006-2007 BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop are being accepted through August 1st
Lord of the Rings plans to cast its spell on London, Chris Carmack and Rosamund Pike plan Summer and Smoke, Trevor Nunn trims Porgy and Bess and a roundup of Avenue Q reviews.
In this edition: A Baltimore.BroadwayWorld exclusive discount for readers of this column! Murder mysteries circle the beltway! Cockpit has Monty and Plaza Suite! CSC has Lear and Shrew in outdoor venue! Toby’s Baltimore opens a new show! Sissies take on Gay Pride at Spotlighters! Plus some Post-Tony thoughts and a special thank you.
A Weekly Theater Column for the Baltimore/Washington Area
Plays by J.M. Barrie, Anne Washburn and Nicky Silver will be part of the Vineyard Theatre's 2006-2007 season
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