The Distance From Here 2004 - Articles Page 11

MCC THEATER announced today that FELICIA FIELDS (The Color Purple), along with a special performance by members of Broadway's THE WEDDING SINGER will join the celebrity cast of 'MISCAST,' a star-studded musical revue featuring some of Broadway's biggest names singing show tunes in roles they would never, ever perform.

On February 2nd, Groundhog Day became 'Hound Dog Day' as canines and their owners descended on Bert V. Royal's hit comedy Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead to be the first in line to fetch the show's new two-for-one ticket special offer

Katie Finneran, Denis O'Hare and David Marshall-Green will headline Greg Kotis' Pig Farm, which will be presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company in the summer of 2006

A host of talented, hot and hip young stage, film and television actors star in DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD, a new play by Bert V. Royal, which opened December 15th, Off-Broadway at the Century Center for the Performing Arts.

American Songbook, the critically acclaimed Lincoln Center series devoted to the rich history and variety that is American popular song, returns for its eighth season.

A host of talented, hot and hip young stage, film and television actors star in DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD, a new play by Bert V. Royal, beginning previews December 1st and opening December 15th Off-Broadway.

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, starring young performers Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eliza Dushku, America Ferrera and others, will open off-Broadway on December 15th

Geva Theatre Center (Mark Cuddy, Artistic Director) and Five Course Love Company LLC will present the lip-smacking new musical comedy Five Course Love with Book, Music & Lyrics by Gregg Coffin at the Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane (between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal Street).

MCC Theater's 2005 FreshPlay Festival will run from July 27th to July 30th and will showcase the short works of young playwrights

Mark Cuddy, Geva Theatre Center's Artistic Director, is proud to announce the much anticipated 2005–2006 Season. The new season features three world premieres, a world-wide hit that began as a 'whodunit' at Geva thirty years ago, and the return of one of the most popular musicals in Geva Theatre Center history.

Gina Gionfroddo's new play starring Anna Paquin and Kieran Culkin opens tonight at the Off-Broadway Vineyard Theatre

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director, John G. Schultz, Executive Director), is proud to announce its third production of the 2004-2005 season: WHAT OF THE NIGHT, an American premiere based on the writings of Djuna Barnes, created for the stage by Jane Alexander, Noreen Tomassi, Birgitta Trommler, directed and choreographed by Ms. Trommler, and starring Ms. Alexander (The Great White Hope; Kramer vs. Kramer; Testament; The Sisters Rosenzweig). The production marks Trommler's New York directorial debut.

MCC THEATER will present 'ESCAPE: 6 WAYS TO GET AWAY,' a star-studded benefit reading of new, one-act plays written by some of the leading voices in American theater today.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director, John G. Schultz, Executive Director), one of New York City's leading Off-Broadway theater companies, will present 'ESCAPE: 6 WAYS TO GET AWAY,' a benefit evening of one-act plays written by Jon Robin Baitz (Ten Unknowns), John Guare (Six Degrees of Separation), Peter Hedges (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), Neil LaBute (The Mercy Seat), Tim Blake Nelson (The Grey Zone) and Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles). 'ESCAPE' will be held on Monday, December 6, 2004, 8pm at Broadway's CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE THEATER (1633 Broadway at West 50th Street, NYC).

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone & Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; John G. Schultz, Executive Director) will re-team with NEIL LaBUTE for the world premiere of his latest work, FAT PIG starring in alphabetical order: ASHLIE ATKINSON (Theresa on F/X's 'Rescue Me'); ANDREW McCARTHY (Broadway: Side Man; feature films: Less Than Zero; Pretty in Pink; St. Elmo's Fire); JEREMY PIVEN (Ari Jacobs on HBO's 'Entourage') and KERI RUSSELL (Golden Globe winner for WB's 'Felicity'). Jo Bonney (Living Out; Fifth of July) directs.