Based on the novel by Karl Alexander
Teacher, inventor and future science fiction writer H.G. Wells creates a time machine and chases a friend, who turns out to be Jack the Ripper, into the present-day New York City. There, he meets a contemporary woman, Amy, and falls in love.
Cinematographer Richard P. Crudo, producer Gale Anne Hurd, composer David Newman and film editor Michael Tronick make up this year's first-time electees to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors.
JERUSALEM is pleased to announce a special giveaway for the show's daily rush tickets, sold every morning at 10:00 AM for the day's performance. The first two customers in line will win a 'Farewell Lee?' t-shirt, fashioned after the costume worn by Tony Award-winner John Gallagher Jr., in the critically acclaimed and award-winning production. The t-shirt is not commercially available.
DARE TO SPEAK PRODUCTIONS is pleased to announce the World Premiere production of I PLEAD GUILTY, written and directed by Natalia Pelevine, based on the real events of the Moscow theatre siege of 2002. It is adapted from Pelevine's play In Your Hands, which, after a successful London run, was translated into Russian and banned there by the government officials after just one performance. I PLEAD GUILTY will play a limited engagement at Gene Frankel Theater, (24 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012). Performances conclude on Sunday, May 29.
The Joffrey Ballet's 2010-2011 Stars season concludes this spring with Rising Stars, a mixed repertory program featuring two World Premieres by Edwaard Liang and Yuri Possokhov, plus a company premiere by Julia Adam. Rising Stars will be presentedfor the final time at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, May 15.
The Broadway production of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN officially opened last night, April 10. BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the show's after party!
Three-time Tony Award-winning scenic designer ROBIN WAGNER and esteemed costume designer LEWIS BROWN are among the 2011 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards recipients. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Friday, April 8 at 6:30pm at the Hudson Theatre (145 West 44th Street). Mr. Brown was selected to receive the 2011 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for costume design, and Tony Award-winning scenic designer Robin Wagner will receive the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design. Sadly, Mr. Brown passed away in January of 2011. His award will be accepted by his long-time colleague and friend, Albert Wolsky, who was the recipient of the 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award
Veteran Production Stage Manager Beverley Randolph died Tuesday, March 15 at her home in Bloomingdale, NJ, surrounded by family and friends. The cause was cancer. The highly-respected Randolph, 59, stage managed more than 20 Broadway productions over the course of a 30-plus year career. At the time of her death and since 2009, she was Production Supervisor for the musical The Addams Family. Her credits include the Kander & Ebb musical Curtains, the musical Little Women, the 2002 revival of Into the Woods, the 1998 revival of The Sound of Music, Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning best musical Passion, Kander & Ebb's The Kiss of the Spider Woman, William Finn's Falsettos, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Follies in Concert at Avery Fisher Hall, the 1987 revival of Kander & Ebb's Cabaret and Neil Simon's Chapter Two. In the 1980's, she stage managed eight Broadway productions for legendary producer/director Hal Prince.
Three-time Tony Award-winning scenic designer ROBIN WAGNER and esteemed costume designer LEWIS BROWN are among the 2011 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards recipients. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Friday, April 8 at 6:30pm at the Hudson Theatre (145 West 44th Street). Mr. Brown was selected to receive the 2011 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for costume design, and Tony Award-winning scenic designer Robin Wagner will receive the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design. Sadly, Mr. Brown passed away in January of 2011. His award will be accepted by his long-time colleague and friend, Albert Wolsky, who was the recipient of the 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award
Today we are talking to one of the most influential musical theatre writers of all time, having written the book and lyrics for JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, EVITA, CHESS and many more, as well as contributing lyrics to the stage adaptation of Disney's BEAUTY & THE BEAST and winning Oscars for his work on Disney's ALADDIN with Alan Menken and THE LION KING with Elton John - as well as sharing a Tony for Best Score with Elton John for AIDA in 2002 - who is now preparing for the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new production of THE WIZARD OF OZ for which the superstar composing team has rejoined once again to pen five new songs - Sir Tim Rice. Discussing everything from his 70s Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborations to CHESS to the first news on his new musical version of FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, to GLEE and beyond, plus a look at his roots - all with an emphasis on his commitment to craft and bringing new audiences to the theatre. Sir Tim was kind and generous enough to illuminate his illustrious career in Hollywood, the West End and on Broadway exclusively for BroadwayWorld.
'Sunday Night Football' finished the season as the No. 1 show in primetime (Viewers 2+, all key adult and male demos), the first time on record (since the advent of people meters in 1987) that a sports series has been the most-watched show from the start of the primetime TV season to the end of the NFL regular season, and defeated its nightly competition every week this season according to The Nielsen Company.
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) announces 2010 Next Wave Festival, featuring 16 music, dance, theater, and opera engagements from Sep 21-Dec 19. BAM 2010 Next Wave Festival is part of Diverse Voices at BAM sponsored by Time Warner Inc.
Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) announced today that it has commissioned FAR FROM HEAVEN, a new musical with book by Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out, Three Days of Rain), music by Tony Award nominee Scott Frankel (Grey Gardens) and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie (Grey Gardens, The Grapes of Wrath). The musical is being adapted from the acclaimed, award-winning 2002 Focus Features/Vulcan Productions motion picture Far From Heaven, written and directed by Todd Haynes.
Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) announced today that it has commissioned FAR FROM HEAVEN, a new musical with book by Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out, Three Days of Rain), music by Tony Award nominee Scott Frankel (Grey Gardens) and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie (Grey Gardens, The Grapes of Wrath). The musical is being adapted from the acclaimed, award-winning 2002 Focus Features/Vulcan Productions motion picture Far From Heaven, written and directed by Todd Haynes.
The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Executive Director) is proud to announce the complete line-up for the fourth Public Forum event of the 2010, "Afghanistan After America, America After Afghanistan," held at New York University's Skirball Center on Tuesday, December 14 at 8 p.m.
The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Executive Director) is proud to announce the complete line-up for the fourth Public Forum event of the 2010, "Afghanistan After America, America After Afghanistan," held at New York University's Skirball Center on Tuesday, December 14 at 8 p.m.
American Stage Theatre Company's 'After Hours' Series and Hot Off The Press Playreading Series of new works in the Raymond James Theatre continue with nine productions in November: ODD MAN OUT, 321, JOURNEYMEN, CHICKEN OR THE EGG?, THE ROOM, TRIP TO THE BALLPARK, DEAR AUNT GERTRUDE, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES and LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!
American Stage Theatre Company's 'After Hours' Series and Hot Off The Press Playreading Series of new works in the Raymond James Theatre continue with nine productions in November: ODD MAN OUT, 321, JOURNEYMEN, CHICKEN OR THE EGG?, THE ROOM, TRIP TO THE BALLPARK, DEAR AUNT GERTRUDE, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES and LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!
American Stage Theatre Company's 'After Hours' Series and Hot Off The Press Playreading Series of new works in the Raymond James Theatre continue with nine productions in November: ODD MAN OUT, 321, JOURNEYMEN, CHICKEN OR THE EGG?, THE ROOM, TRIP TO THE BALLPARK, DEAR AUNT GERTRUDE, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES and LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!
American Stage Theatre Company's 'After Hours' Series and Hot Off The Press Playreading Series of new works in the Raymond James Theatre continue with nine productions in November: ODD MAN OUT, 321, JOURNEYMEN, CHICKEN OR THE EGG?, THE ROOM, TRIP TO THE BALLPARK, DEAR AUNT GERTRUDE, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES and LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!
American Stage Theatre Company's 'After Hours' Series and Hot Off The Press Playreading Series of new works in the Raymond James Theatre continue with nine productions in November: ODD MAN OUT, 321, JOURNEYMEN, CHICKEN OR THE EGG?, THE ROOM, TRIP TO THE BALLPARK, DEAR AUNT GERTRUDE, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES and LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!
TIME STANDS STILL, the Tony nominated hit play currently playing at the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street), announces the complete November schedule for its talk back series.
American Stage Theatre Company's 'After Hours' Series and Hot Off The Press Playreading Series of new works in the Raymond James Theatre continue with nine productions in November: ODD MAN OUT, 321, JOURNEYMEN, CHICKEN OR THE EGG?, THE ROOM, TRIP TO THE BALLPARK, DEAR AUNT GERTRUDE, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES and LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!
American Stage Theatre Company's 'After Hours' Series and Hot Off The Press Playreading Series of new works in the Raymond James Theatre continue with nine productions in November: ODD MAN OUT, 321, JOURNEYMEN, CHICKEN OR THE EGG?, THE ROOM, TRIP TO THE BALLPARK, DEAR AUNT GERTRUDE, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES and LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!
American Stage Theatre Company's 'After Hours' Series and Hot Off The Press Playreading Series of new works in the Raymond James Theatre continue with nine productions in November: ODD MAN OUT, 321, JOURNEYMEN, CHICKEN OR THE EGG?, THE ROOM, TRIP TO THE BALLPARK, DEAR AUNT GERTRUDE, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES and LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!
TIME STANDS STILL, the Tony nominated hit play currently playing at the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street), announces the complete November schedule for its talk back series.
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