Michael Ball makes his West End debut as a producer after falling in love with the enchanting new British musical, Love Story.
Now following a critically acclaimed sell-out season at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Love Story transfers to the West End for a limited season from 27 November 2010 – 26 February 2011.
Inspired by Erich Segal’s best-selling iconic novel and one of the most romantic films of all time, this life-affirming musical is scored by the Emmy and BAFTA award winning composer Howard Goodall with lyrics by Stephen Clark.
Oliver Barrett IV went to Harvard and Jenny Cavilleri to Radcliffe. He was rich, she was poor. He was sporty, she played music. But they fell in love. This is their story. A celebration of love and life, Love Story will win your heart. And it might just break it.
For 2010, Repertory Philippines has picked an exciting selection of shows sure to stimulate local theatergoers.
Gotham Arts Exchange, in association with the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU presents DANCE GOTHAM from January 8-10, 2010 at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South), NYC.
Harper Lee's coming-of-age classic remains one of the most beloved and influential stories of our time. The adventures of Scout, Jem and Atticus Finch are at once an epic saga brimming with stark lessons of tolerance and quiet heroism, and a simple story of love, hope and family.
After a successful nine and a half month run, The Toxic Avenger, the critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway musical, will end its New York run, having played over 300 performances at New World Stages on Sunday, January 3rd, 2010, to prepare for its national tour. The Toxic Avenger had its world premiere at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey where it broke box office records before transferring Off-Broadway, beginning previews on March 18, 2009 and officially opening on April 6, 2009.
South Bend Civic Theatre has announced it's 2010 season. Individual performance tickets will available for sale January 1, 2010. The schedule is as follows:
As we celebrate Christmas and await the New Year, here's a new audio interpretation of 'The Gift of the Magi' by O. Henry, written and recorded by local DC actors and designers who make up The Audible Group. It is Christmas Eve, 1935. In a small apartment in the H Street NE neighborhood of Washington, DC where James and Della Young, a young couple who, though rich in love, but down to their last pennies, still manage to give each other the perfect gift. It will fill you - from head to mistletoe - with the holiday spirit. Listen here
Roger Michell will direct Patrick Hamilton's classic thriller Rope running from 10 December 2009 - 6 February 2010, with press night on 16 December. Designs are by Mark Thompson with lighting by Rick Fisher and sound by John Leonard. Rope will be produced at the Almeida in association with Sonia Friedman Productions. Booking for Rope, sponsored by Aspen Re, is now open.
Mesa Arts Center Announces its Spring 2010 Performing Live Season with diverse acts that will excite patrons of all ages. For country fans, music legend Merle Haggard will perform his #1 chart topping songs. For classical music lovers, reigning virtuoso of the violin, Itzhak Perlman is returning for an unforgettable performance.
Rasgos Group Theatre and Teatro LaTea proudly presents 'OH...! OLLANTAY...', directed by Walter Ventosilla, playing a limited-run Thursday January 28 through Sunday, February 14, 2010 at Teatro LaTea - Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center - 107 Suffolk St, 2nd Floor, between Delancey and Rivington Sts, Lower East Side. Performances are scheduled for Thursdays at 8pm (in English), Fridays at 8pm (in Spanish), Saturday - 3pm (English), Saturday - 8pm (Spanish), Sunday - 4pm - (Spanish).
For the 13th year Centaur Theatre Company presents the Annual Wildside Festival, a selection of cutting-edge plays that celebrate the spirit of independent theatre. This season the Wildside Festival will feature creations by some of Montreal's most amazing female artists as well as one show by an artist making waves in Toronto. From January 5th- 17th catch six plays in repertory, including the OFF THE MAIN winner (Centaur's Best of the Montreal Fringe award), My Pregnant Brother.
Harper Lee's coming-of-age classic remains one of the most beloved and influential stories of our time. The adventures of Scout, Jem and Atticus Finch are at once an epic saga brimming with stark lessons of tolerance and quiet heroism, and a simple story of love, hope and family.
Gotham Arts Exchange, in association with the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU presents DANCE GOTHAM from January 8-10, 2010 at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South), NYC.
2nd Story Theatre proudly presents the hilariously serious comedy 'Comic Potential' by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by Ed Shea.
The new theatre season is full of exciting works by some very well known artists. With the New Year almost upon us, we've turned our focus on the ten personalities we'll be keeping an extra special eye on here at BroadwayWorld.com in 2010.
Tickets for the Napa Valley Opera House's Winter/Spring 2010 Season go on sale to the public Monday, December 14! Please see the listings for our exciting Fall shows below.
La Jolla Playhouse is pleased to present John Leguizamo Diary of a Madman as part of its Page To Stage program, by special arrangement with WestBeth Entertainment. The production will run March 4 - 14, 2010 in the Mandell Weiss Theatre. Performances take place Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 pm; Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 pm; Sunday at 2:00 pm.
'The Golden Gays', this fall's runaway hit Drag Musical Spoof and Tribute is back in 2010 with their first tour. The elderly girls jaunt will begin with a grand reopening of the show at the Meta Theatre (Melrose and Fairfax in Hollywood) January 22nd - January 30th. The Fab Five men in gals clothes then take the ribald musical parody to a brand new 200 seat venue in Palm Springs at the Temple Isaiah Pavilion on Alejo for one weekend only February 5th, 6th and 7th. After a two-week rest of their tired old
bones, the girls will perform their little hearts out to attendees in South Beach at the Colony Theatre on Lincoln Boulevard. All the original cast members of the show expected to make the trip barring any unforeseen health issues prominent with this vulnerable demographic. The Miami Dates are February 26th, 27th and 28th 2010.
The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project will bring William Shakespeare's rarely produced, controversial, tragicomedy THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN to the Medicine Show Theatre on January 7 to 17, 2010.
Arena Stage presents an innovative take on the world's longest-running musical, The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. Director Amanda Dehnert (Oregon Shakespeare Festival‘s All's Well That Ends Well and Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Cabaret) and famed set designer Eugene Lee (Tony Award for Broadway's Wicked, Candide, Sweeney Todd) take a spin on this timeless love story by staging it in Rocky Point, an abandoned amusement park in Rhode Island. This whimsical twist on the classic musical is full of buoyant humor, charming music and incredible magic that will thrill audiences of all ages. The Fantasticks runs November 20, 2009 - January 10, 2010 at Arena Stage at the Lincoln Theatre, with an official opening on Friday, November 27, 2009.
On Thursday 8 October, Andrew Lloyd Webber unveiled his brand new production 'LOVE NEVER DIES' at a global launch in London. Andrew Lloyd Webber's long awaited new show will have its World Premiere in London at the Adelphi Theatre on Tuesday 9 March 2010 followed by New York on Thursday 11 November and in Australia in 2011. Go behind the scenes in this video as star Ramin Karimloo is put through the process of having the makeup team create the new look of 'The Phantom.'
Pleasance Islington Listings November 2009 - January 2010 Rob Rouse: My Family and the Dog that Scared Jesus
NATIONAL THEATRE: JANUARY - MARCH 2010 Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw lead the cast of Boucicault's LONDON ASSURANCE, directed by Nicholas Hytner in the Olivier
Gotham Arts Exchange, in association with the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU presents DANCE GOTHAM from January 8-10, 2010 at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South), NYC.
After a successful nine and a half month run, The Toxic Avenger, the critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway musical, will end its New York run, having played over 300 performances at New World Stages on Sunday, January 3rd, 2010, to prepare for its national tour. The Toxic Avenger had its world premiere at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey where it broke box office records before transferring Off-Broadway, beginning previews on March 18, 2009 and officially opening on April 6, 2009.
Artistic Director Oanh Nguyen and Managing Director Casey Long are pleased to announce Chance Theater's 2010 Season.
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