Anything Goes Revival

The UK première of the award-winning musical THRILL ME: The Leopold & Loeb Story, with book, music and lyrics by Stephen Dolginoff, will be at the Tristan Bates Theatre, Tower Street,WC2 for a four-week season from Tuesday 5 April until Saturday 30 April 2011, starring George Maguire as Richard Loeb and Jye Frasca as Nathan Leopold and with off-stage dialogue recorded by Les Dennis, Patricia Quinn and Lee Mead.

Registrations for Musical theatre NZ's annual conference are now open http://www.musical.org.nz/conference.htm

Performances have begun for Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) new Broadway production of Anything Goes, starring Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as 'Reno Sweeney' and Tony and Academy Award winner Joel Grey as 'Moonface Martin.'Check out the new photo below!

Twitter has provided the means for celebrities of all types to communicate with their fans in an intimate way -- one on one -- without needing to be face to face. It's wonderful how many of them have embraced the medium, and used it to let us into their worlds. It's even better when they reach out to thank us for our support, respond to questions, or engage in conversation. 140 characters at a time, I've developed a whole new set of online friends who are all on Broadway. The acknowledgement of us 'little people' makes me appreciate them in a bigger way, and makes me want to support them onstage in everything they do.

Long Wharf Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein, concludes its 2010-11 season with Italian American Reconciliation, by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Eric Ting, running from April 27 through May 22.

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & MC COY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT present the fourth production of their 2010-2011 season of shows, the blood-thirsty musical comedy LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, music by Alan Menken, book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, musical direction by David O, choreography by Dana Solimando, directed by La Mirada Theatre's Producing Artistic Director Brian Kite and starring Brett Ryback, Lesli Margherita and Bob Amaral.

New York City's popular Upper West Side institution SING! SING! SING! presents “Anything Goes - Cole Porter - Part Two', a follow-up to last fall's initial rousing evening with the master songwriter, on Thursday, March 17th at 6:45 p.m. at The Triad, 158 West 72nd Street in New York City.

Some of the brightest names in film, television, theater, books, advocacy and awareness are sitting down with New York Times journalists for TimesTalks events at TheTimesCenter this month. Participants include Yale University professor David W. Blight, filmmaker Ken Burns, and historian Adam Goodheart; actor-producer Bradley Cooper; Tony Award-winning stars of the upcoming Roundabout Theatre revival of 'Anything Goes,' Sutton Foster and Joel Grey with director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall; Tony Award-winning British playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard; two-time Golden Globe winner, Academy Award and Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner; and Academy Award-winning director Gerardine Wurzburg with the two men featured in her new documentary 'Wretches & Jabberers,' Larry Bissonnette and Tracy Thresher, and Autism Society president and CEO Lee Grossman. Moderators for upcoming TimesTalks offerings include theater reporter Patrick Healy; arts columnist Dave Itzkoff; Jamie Malanowski, lead writer of NYTimes.com's award-winning Opinionator series, 'Disunion;' and Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal.

Some of the brightest names in film, television, theater, books, advocacy and awareness are sitting down with New York Times journalists for TimesTalks events at TheTimesCenter this month. Participants include Yale University professor David W. Blight, filmmaker Ken Burns, and historian Adam Goodheart; actor-producer Bradley Cooper; Tony Award-winning stars of the upcoming Roundabout Theatre revival of 'Anything Goes,' Sutton Foster and Joel Grey with director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall; Tony Award-winning British playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard; two-time Golden Globe winner, Academy Award and Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner; and Academy Award-winning director Gerardine Wurzburg with the two men featured in her new documentary 'Wretches & Jabberers,' Larry Bissonnette and Tracy Thresher, and Autism Society president and CEO Lee Grossman. Moderators for upcoming TimesTalks offerings include theater reporter Patrick Healy; arts columnist Dave Itzkoff; Jamie Malanowski, lead writer of NYTimes.com's award-winning Opinionator series, 'Disunion;' and Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal.

9 to 5: The Musical arrives at The 5th Avenue Theatre, just in time to brighten the final grey days of spring. Based on the wildly popular 1980s film of the same name, this outrageously funny Broadway delight features the original movie's blockbuster title tune, plus more than a dozen new songs by the queen of country music, iconic songwriter, movie star, and entrepreneur -- Dolly Parton!

Alfred Music Publishing is proud to announce the publication of the officially licensed songbook for the beloved Cole Porter musical Anything Goes, which returns to Broadway this spring in a Roundabout Theatre Company production with a dazzling all-star production led by Sutton Foster and Joel Grey.

In the coming weeks, some of the brightest names in film, television, theater, books, advocacy and awareness will sit down with New York Times journalists for TimesTalks events at TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City. Participants include Yale University professor David W. Blight, filmmaker Ken Burns, and historian Adam Goodheart; actor-producer Bradley Cooper; Tony Award-winning stars of the upcoming Roundabout Theatre revival of 'Anything Goes,' Sutton Foster and Joel Grey with director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall; Tony Award-winning British playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard; two-time Golden Globe winner, Academy Award and Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner; and Academy Award-winning director Gerardine Wurzburg with the two men featured in her new documentary 'Wretches & Jabberers,' Larry Bissonnette and Tracy Thresher, and Autism Society president and CEO Lee Grossman.

Host Andy Cohen joined honorary chairs Hugh Dancy, Claire Daines, David Duchovny and Téa Leoni for MCC's annual MISCAST Gala. This one-night-only musical spectacular featured Broadway's hottest stars performing songs from roles in which they would never be cast. All proceeds from Miscast 2011 provide general operating support for MCC Theater. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event and brings you photo coverage below!

The Broadway Beauty Pageant adds Lee Roy Reams to open the show in a special number 'Beautiful Boys' created by Gerard Alessandrini. The award-winning Tovah Feldshuh will be the host for this not-to-be-missed event on Monday, March 21st, 2011 at 8:00 PM, benefiting The Ali Forney Center, NYC's primary housing resource for homeless LGBT youth. The annual show will again be at the Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway (at 95th Street). This year's contestants are: Matt Anctil, La Cage aux Folles; Michael Cusumano, Chicago; Raymond J. Lee, Anything Goes; Brandon Rubendall, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark; and James Tabeek, Mary Poppins. Conceived by Jeffery Self and directed by Ryan J. Davis, The Broadway Beauty Pageant is musically directed by Christopher Denny, choreographer is Erin Porvaznika. Brian Tovar is the lighting designer The evening is produced by Wil Fisher, Ryan J. Davis, Jeffery Self and Matthew Oberstein.

Tony Winner Sutton Foster's triumphant sold-out run at New York's famed Cafe Carlyle comes home to listeners on March 15th, as Ghostlight Records proudly releases her 20-song tour de force ‘An Evening With Sutton Foster - Live at the Café Carlyle'. In an interview with THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, Foster emphasizes that ‘it's a concert, not cabaret, but adds that whatever you call it, 'it's definitely quirky and weird -- and very much me.'

In the coming weeks, some of the brightest names in film, television, theater, books, advocacy and awareness will sit down with New York Times journalists for TimesTalks events at TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents its annual 2011 Spring Gala honoring Emmy Award winner Alec Baldwin.

MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) will celebrate the company's 25th anniversary by honoring a host of MCC artists past and present at Miscast 2011. This highly anticipated annual gala will take place on Monday, March 14, 2011 at The Hammerstein Ballroom (311 West 34th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues). Andy Cohen (Host of Bravo TV's 'Watch What Happens Live') will host the evening. David Duchovny (star of the recent MCC Theater hit, The Break of Noon), Téa Leoni, Hugh Dancy (star of yet another recent MCC hit, The Pride) and Claire Danes are this year's honorary chairs. Funds raised from Miscast help MCC Theater produce some of the most talked-about new work Off Broadway and support their Youth Company and in-school partnerships that serve New York City public high school students, as well as their literary development work with emerging playwrights.

The American Theatre Wing (Theodore S. Chapin, Chairman, Board of Trustees; Howard Sherman, Executive Director) is now accepting applications for the 2011 SpringboardNYC summer program, being held June 6 - 17 in New York City.

The Colony Theatre Company is excited to present the fifth and final production of its 36th season, the classy, sassy musical, THE ALL NIGHT STRUT!, conceived by Fran Charnas, directed & choreographed by Murphy Cross and Paul Kreppel (Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!) with musical direction by Dean Mora.

High school seniors Meghan Dean, Callie Liljeberg, Avery McStay and Catherine Weiss will take the stage as the March sisters in Franklin Performing Arts Company's (FPAC's) production of Little Women-The Musical, to be performed March 11 at 8:00 p.m. and March 12 at 3:00 p.m.

New York City Center will honor Walter Bobbie, Kathleen Marshall and Jack Viertel in a benefit celebration hosted by Christopher Fitzgerald on Monday, April 4 at The Plaza Hotel.

New York City Center will honor Walter Bobbie, Kathleen Marshall and Jack Viertel in a benefit celebration hosted by Christopher Fitzgerald on Monday, April 4 at The Plaza Hotel. Highlights from City Center's acclaimed Encores! series will be recreated by a star-studded cast that will include Jason Danieley, Christopher Fitzgerald, Marin Mazzie, James Naughton, Bebe Neuwirth and Emily Skinner, accompanied by members of the Encores! Orchestra under the musical direction of Rob Berman. The benefit will help fund New York City Center's artistic and education programs.

Producer Tom Brocato's Butterfield Road Productions has announced a special three-week engagement of the comedy The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon, starring Jason Alexander and Gina Hecht.

The Renaissance Center in Dickson presents a unique production of Annie, Jr., a Broadway Junior version of one of the most beloved musicals of all time, running March 11-20. The Young Entertainers on Stage (Y.E.S.) production is adapted for young performers and is cast entirely with kids from first through 12th grades. The seven-time Tony Award winning musical boasts a hit score that includes 'It's A Hard Knock Life,' 'You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile,' 'Easy Street' and the song used to cheer up children of all generations, 'Tomorrow.'

It's an amazing mixture of Hollywood musical, soap opera, epic storytelling, fantasy and MTV.It's Bollywood, and it's taken the world by storm. The term is a mixture of Hollywood and Bombay (now Mumbai), the center of India's film industry. It refers to the kind of over-the-top, anything-goes filmmaking from India that now has passionate fans all over the world.

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present David Ives' new comedy, THE SCHOOL FOR LIES, adapted from the Moli re classic The Misanthrope, directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie, beginning performances Wednesday, April 13 at CSC (136 East 13th Street) for a limited engagement through Sunday, May 22

Pittsburgh CLO is proud to announce the cast for the Pittsburgh premiere of Off-Broadway sensation The Marvelous Wonderettes, which will run April 28 through October 2 at the CLO Cabaret.

Previews begin TOMORROW, March 10th at 8PM, for Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) new Broadway production of Anything Goes, starring Tony® Award winner Sutton Foster as "Reno Sweeney" and Tony® and Academy® Award winner Joel Grey as "Moonface Martin.

Anything Goes is a show that I've wanted to produce for a long time now because, quite honestly, it is pure and total joy. The show is an unabashed farce with a crazy cast of characters hopping aboard the S.S. American and letting their schemes and dreams run wild. It's silly, romantic, and utterly hilarious as these characters let loose, desperately trying to solve all their troubles before the ship arrives in London. And since desperation can lead to ridiculous acts, it's a good thing that, as our wonderful director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall puts it, "What happens on the boat, stays on the boat."

Previews begin TONIGHT, March 10th at 8PM, for Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) new Broadway production of Anything Goes, starring Tony® Award winner Sutton Foster as "Reno Sweeney" and Tony® and Academy® Award winner Joel Grey as "Moonface Martin.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce a one-week extension of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, by Tennessee Williams, directed by Michael Wilson, through Sunday, April 10th.

Tony Winner Sutton Foster's triumphant sold-out run at New York's famed Cafe Carlyle comes home to listeners on March 15th, as Ghostlight Records proudly releases her 20-song tour de force ‘An Evening With Sutton Foster - Live at the Café Carlyle'. In an interview with THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, Foster emphasizes that ‘it's a concert, not cabaret, but adds that whatever you call it, 'it's definitely quirky and weird -- and very much me.'

New York City's popular Upper West Side institution SING! SING! SING! presents “Anything Goes - Cole Porter - Part Two', a follow-up to last fall's initial rousing evening with the master songwriter, on Thursday, March 17th at 6:45 p.m. at The Triad, 158 West 72nd Street in New York City.

In the coming weeks, some of the brightest names in film, television, theater, books, advocacy and awareness will sit down with New York Times journalists for TimesTalks events at TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) has announced fabulous additions to their all-star line-up for the company's highly anticipated 25th anniversary gala honoring a host of MCC artists past and present at Miscast 2011. Complementing the glittering, previously announced Miscast will be Christian Borle (Angels In America, Legally Blonde), Justin Guarini ('American Idol,' American Idiot, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) and Josh Henry (Scottsboro Boys, American Idiot). Andy Cohen (Host of Bravo TV's 'Watch What Happens Live') will host the evening, which will take place Monday, March 14, 2011 at The Hammerstein Ballroom (311 West 34th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues).

In the coming weeks, some of the brightest names in film, television, theater, books, advocacy and awareness will sit down with New York Times journalists for TimesTalks events at TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City.

The Broadway Beauty Pageant announced that the award-winning Tovah Feldshuh will be the host for this not-to-be-missed event on Monday, March 21st, 2011 at 8:00 PM, benefiting The Ali Forney Center, NYC's primary housing resource for homeless LGBT youth. The annual show will again be at the Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway (at 95th Street).

Kravis Center to Offer a Nonstop Series of Dazzling Performers & Productions During March & April 2011 Highlights Include the Beach Boys, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Natalie Cole, Kathy Griffin, Jackie Mason, Itzhak Perlman, Smokey Robinson, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Yanni, Spring Awakening, West Side Story & 18th Annual Reach for the Stars

Dundalk Community Theatre continues its 2010/11 season with Reginald Rose's stage version of Twelve Angry Men through March 6th. Individual tickets are $22 for adults, $19 for senior adults and $14 for students/DCT Actors/Children 12 and under. The CCBC Box Office between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday at 443-840-2787, or visit www.ccbcmd.edu/performingarts/dct.html . The CCBC Box Office is also open two hours before each performance for ticket sales.

The Colony Theatre Company is excited to present the fourth production of its 36th season, MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS, written by Ron Hutchinson and directed by Andrew Barnicle (Celadine, Gunmetal Blues). MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS will close Sunday, March 6 at The Colony Theatre, 555 North Third Street (at Cypress) adjacent to the Burbank Town Center.

HIPTIX is a special program from Roundabout Theatre Company, offering $20 to young professionals for all Roundabout productions.

Joel Grey - the much-lauded star of both stage and screen - will have a busy spring. The 78-year-old actor is appearing in the Roundabout revival of ANYTHING GOES, and will also be directing THE NORMAL HEART, beginning rehearsals later this month. His schedule will keep him so busy, in fact, that Tony Award-winning director George C. Wolfe will step in to direct THE NORMAL HEART when Grey's projects conflict.

For our UPSTAGE playgoer's guide, Roundabout's Educational Dramaturg, Ted Sod, sat down with director Kathleen Marshallto discuss her exciting upcoming musical, Anything Goes - beginning performance on March 10 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre!

High school seniors Meghan Dean, Callie Liljeberg, Avery McStay and Catherine Weiss will take the stage as the March sisters in Franklin Performing Arts Company's (FPAC's) production of Little Women-The Musical, to be performed March 11 at 8:00 p.m. and March 12 at 3:00 p.m.

Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) critically acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by and starring Brian Bedford, will be filmed live with multiple high definition cameras during public performances on March 11 and 12, 2011 at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd St.).

The Renaissance Center in Dickson presents a unique production of Annie, Jr., a Broadway Junior version of one of the most beloved musicals of all time, running March 11-20. The Young Entertainers on Stage (Y.E.S.) production is adapted for young performers and is cast entirely with kids from first through 12th grades. The seven-time Tony Award winning musical boasts a hit score that includes 'It's A Hard Knock Life,' 'You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile,' 'Easy Street' and the song used to cheer up children of all generations, 'Tomorrow.'

On Broadway as a teen and now a seven-show veteran before she turns 30, Cameron has also become a Rob Ashford regular.

Kravis Center to Offer a Nonstop Series of Dazzling Performers & Productions During March & April 2011 Highlights Include the Beach Boys, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Natalie Cole, Kathy Griffin, Jackie Mason, Itzhak Perlman, Smokey Robinson, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Yanni, Spring Awakening, West Side Story & 18th Annual Reach for the Stars

Virginia's Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre, through its groundbreaking American Musical Voices Project (AMVP), announces the world premiere of the musical comedy And the Curtain Rises (formerly known as Wheatley's Folly). Beginning performances on Thursday, March 17, 2011, And the Curtain Rises marks the third production presented as part of Signature's AMVP, the largest commissioning program for new musicals in the country, following Michael John LaChiusa's Giant in 2009 and Ricky Ian Gordon's Sycamore Trees last year. The Washington Post has said that 'Signature's AMVP is the most ambitious embrace of new musical theater in the DC region.'