Arms and the Man 2000 - Articles Page 19

Intiman Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Bartlett Sher, continues its 2008 season with the world premiere of 'Namaste Man', an autobiographical play written and performed by actor Andrew Weems.

Grammy Award and Emmy Award winner and two-time Tony Award nominee Harry Connick, Jr. will return to Broadway in Spring 2009 in Nice Work If You Can Get It, a new musical comedy with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, and book by Joe DiPietro ( I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, All Shook Up). Two-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall (The Pajama Game, Wonderful Town) will direct and choreograph.

Previews begin tomorrow, Tuesday May 6th, for Signature Theatre Company's world premiere production of Edward Albee's 'Occupant' starring Mercedes Ruehl and Larry Bryggman.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announces the cast for Christopher Durang's award winning comedy The Marriage of Bette and Boo directed by Walter Bobbie, featuring Terry Beaver (Father Donnally), Heather Burns (Emily Brennan), Victoria Clark (Margaret Brennan), John Glover (Karl Hudlocke), Julie Hagerty (Soot Hudlocke), Kate Jennings Grant (Bette Brennan), Adam Lefevre (Paul Brennan), Charles Socarides (Matt), Christopher Evan Welch (Boo Hudlocke).

This California girl changed coasts 2 years ago, after touring Europe with 'Grease' and the U.S. and Japan with Brian Setzer.

Screen star Claire Danes, most recently seen on screen in the all-star cast of Evening, will play Eliza Doolittle to Jefferson Mays' Henry Higgins in the Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, directed by David Grindley at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, will open on Broadway November 8th 2007 at the Hilton Theatre (213 W 42nd St). Previews begin October 11th 2007. The production stars Roger Bart (Dr. Frederick Frankenstein), Megan Mullally (Elizabeth), Sutton Foster (Inga), Shuler Hensley (The Monster), Fred Applegate (Kemp) and Christopher Fitzgerald (Igor).

Variety.com reports that Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays (I am My Own Wife) will star in the fifth Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the world premiere of LoveMusik, a new musical featuring the songs of Kurt Weill, starring Tony Awardâ winners Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy.

The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio will present an interview with Tony Award-nominated Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher on their weekly theatrical interview show, 'Downstage Center,' on XM's On Broadway (XM Channel 28)

The New York Musical Theatre Festival's Next Link presentation of The Flight of the Lawnchair Man, playing from September 13th through 18th, will reunite its 2005 Goodspeed Opera cast--including Sweeney Todd's Donna Lynne Champlin--as well as much of its creative team

Swoosie Kurtz, Lily Rabe, Byron Jennings and more will join Philip Bosco in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Heartbreak House, which opens on October 11th

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

SPRING AWAKENING will begin previews Thursday, May 18, 2006, officially open Thursday, June 15, 2006 and play a limited engagement through Sunday, July 9, 2006.

Mandy Patinkin starred in a gala concert at Carnegie Hall on June 16th in which theatre legends Anne Jackson and Elli Wallach were also honored

Complete casting was announced today for the upcoming Broadway production of LENNON, the world premiere musical based on the life and songs of John Lennon. The cast includes Will Chase, Chuck Cooper, Julie Danao, Mandy Gonzalez, Marcy Harriell, Chad Kimball, Terrence Mann, Julia Murney, and Michael Potts.

Barrett Foa, who understudies Rod/Princeton in Avenue Q already has some quite an intriguing list of roles to his credit. In the following interview, Barrett shares his thoughts on workshops, concerts, and his experience joing the Avenue Q family!