Monty Python's SPAMALOT, the 2005 Tony Award? winning Broadway smash hit musical lovingly ripped-off from the internationally famous comedy team's most popular motion picture, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, will play its last pair of coconuts on Sunday, January 11, 2009 following the evening performance, after 1,574 performances (and 35 previews) at the Shubert Theatre in New York.
Critically-acclaimed and renowned Jazz Pianist, Harpist and Vocalist, Corky Hale, will appear in an autobiographical cabaret show about her life both on stage, and off, entitled, "An Evening With Corky Hale," to be presented at the Metropolitan Room.
Critically-acclaimed and renowned Jazz Pianist, Harpist and Vocalist, Corky Hale, will appear in an autobiographical cabaret show about her life both on stage, and off, entitled, "An Evening With Corky Hale," to be presented at the Metropolitan Room.
The Lark Play Development Center has announced the selected playwrights for the 2008-09 Playwrights' Workshop Fellows 2008. This year's writers include Thomas Bradshaw (Southern Promises), Samuel D. Hunter (Lark's 2008 PONY Fellow), Lisa Kron (Well), Deirdre O'Connor (Hero), and Playwright-in-Residence Arthur Kopit (Lark Playwright Advisor).
Come out & PLAY! October 13th through the 19th when Theatre Puget Sound hosts Live Theatre Week 2008. This 4th Annual Live Theatre Week will be the biggest one ever with over 50 theaters and performing arts organizations participating at over 100 different events throughout Puget Sound.
The producers of Hairspray, winner of eight Tony Awards® including Best Musical, have announced that teen idol Ashley Parker Angel will play his final performance as dreamy Link Larkin on Sunday, September 14 at the Neil Simon Theatre after more than a year and half with the musical. Angel played his first performance, and made his Broadway debut, Friday, January 19, 2007.
YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents PASSION PLAY by Pulitzer Prize nominee and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient Sarah Ruhl, directed by OBIE Award-winner Mark Wing-Davey at the University Theatre (222 York Street, New Haven), September 19-October 11 only. Opening Night is Thursday, September 25
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, has announced details for their upcoming 2008-09 season.
Award-winning showbiz entertainers, Corky Hale and Charlotte Rae, will perform in a show emceed by Carl Reiner, with Jeff Lass serving as Music Director. The show, 'A Festive Evening For Westside Center for Independent Living,' is a benefit for WCIL.
Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Managing Director) is proud to announce the world premiere production of Annie Baker's play BODY AWARENESS, directed by Karen Kohlhaas and featuring Jonathan Clem, Peter Friedman, Mary McCann and JoBeth Williams.
Due to unprecedented demand, the Drama Desk and Obie Award-wining Mint Theater Company Premiere of The Fifth Column by Ernest Hemingway-not the dramatization of a novel or story-but a drama written for the stage by one of America's most celebrated authors, will be extending for two additional weeks, now through May 18th.
Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) has announced that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's new play, GOOD BOYS AND TRUE, will begin preview performances on Wednesday, April 23 at Second Stage Theatre (307 West 43rd Street, just west of Eighth Avenue).
'Til Sunday, a new play written by and starring Nairoby Otero and directed by Michelle Tattenbaum, will open at the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex (312 West 36th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues) on Friday, February 22. There will be a preview performance on February 21.
JUST IN!! CONTEST UPDATE! 3 BEST BETS! New Plays by Local Playwright to be Produced! MAJOR CONTEST ANNOUNCED! 2008 Preview!
NEW THIS WEEK! A New Best Bet! News of the BPF and Spotlighters! Plus Holiday Show round up and CENTERSTAGE, AVENUE Q and much more!
New BEST BET! More Holiday Show Information! New shows at Single Carrot and CENTERSTAGE! MUCH MORE!
Monarch Theatre Company's US premiere production of Dreams of Home opens Wednesday October 24, 2007. The debut of Migdalia Cruz's provocative and poignant play comes on a wave of tragic relevance, as New York City mourns the horrific murder of Felix Najera, a homeless construction worker burned to death on a Spanish Harlem sidewalk earlier this month, and continues to struggle with the mounting crisis of record homelessness.
Is He Dead?, a new comedy by master American novelist and satirist Mark Twain, adapted by David Ives, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Michael Blakemore, and starring Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz, will open on November 29, 2007 at the Lyceum Theatre
This week: Best Bet: Rep Stage's Mrs. Farnsworth! Spotlighters goes dark! BPF to perform at the Kennedy Center! News of The Wedding Singer and My Fair Lady tours!
The Drama League has announced nominations for the 2006-07 Drama League Awards, to be awarded at the 73rd Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Friday, May 11, 2007
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present its 2007 Annual Benefit Gala and third annual Quiz Show on Monday, May 14
Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' Mamma Mia! will play Shanghai's Grand Theatre in China from July 6th - August 2nd, 2007.
Among the attractions of Classic Stage Company's next season will be Michael Cumpsty in the title role of Richard II and Zoe Caldwell, Denis O'Hare and Linda Emond in Yasmine Reza's A Spanish Play
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