Chinese Friends - 2004 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 10

Hugh Jackman got his star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. He was joined by his wife Deborah Lee-Furness and his children and also Jay Leno.

Hugh Jackman was immortalized in cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood on April 21. The Tony Award-winner, and star of the upcoming film 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine,' had his hand and foot prints imprinted in the famous sidewalk.

Thomas W. Morris, artistic director of the Ojai Music Festival and Ojai's 2009 music director eighth blackbird have announced the final programming for the 2009 Ojai Music Festival, which takes place from Thursday, June 11 to Sunday, June 14, 2009. This season, the four-day Festival, which for six decades has become well known for its fearlessness in championing pioneering musical ideas and personalities, pushes the envelope again with programming that reflects the qualities that have made eighth blackbird a growing musical phenomenon-genre-defying variety in wildly collaborative and visually dramatic presentations.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announces the cast for Christopher Durang's award winning comedy The Marriage of Bette and Boo directed by Walter Bobbie, featuring Terry Beaver (Father Donnally), Heather Burns (Emily Brennan), Victoria Clark (Margaret Brennan), John Glover (Karl Hudlocke), Julie Hagerty (Soot Hudlocke), Kate Jennings Grant (Bette Brennan), Adam Lefevre (Paul Brennan), Charles Socarides (Matt), Christopher Evan Welch (Boo Hudlocke).

The FringeNYC Encore Series announces a lineup of 80 performances in 12 shows in two theatres from August 30 - September 16 at Soho Playhouse & Bleecker Street Theater.

All new monthly calendar of local theatre events!

New York City is hosting the first-ever NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL (NAATF) from June 11-24, 2007, featuring more than 25 Asian American performing arts companies and solo artists convening for two weeks of performances at venues throughout the city.

On Tuesday, May 1, 2007, longtime theatrical publicist Jeremy Shaffer - who since late 2004 was co-owner/operator of Shaffer-Coyle Public Relations - joins The Publicity Office, the respected New York-based press agency headed by Marc Thibodeau.

Complete scheduling information has been announced for the New York Musical Theatre Festival

We know what she did this summer: took part in the Shakespeare-goes tropical-goes hippie musical revival in Central Park.

Maria Friedman, the leading lady of the British musical theatre, makes her Broadway debut in London's smash hit musical, THE WOMAN IN WHITE, opening on Broadway Thursday, November 17th at the Marquis Theatre (211 W 45th St).

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud present the New York premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's THE PARIS LETTER, directed by Doug Hughes.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud to announce that John Glover, Daniel Eric Gold, Lee Pace, Michele Pawk and Ron Rifkin will appear in the New York premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's THE PARIS LETTER, directed by Doug Hughes.

Teens and their families are invited to discuss bullying and peer violence at an open forum led by a panel of scholars, lawmakers and peers, including: NYC Council Member ALAN JAY GERSON,New York Times bestselling author RACHEL SIMMONS, 14 year-old, Paperboy author OMARI JEREMIAH.

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).