Democracy - 2004 - Broadway Articles Page 18

Tribeca Performing Arts Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College will present its annual Work & Show Festival, beginning March 14th. This outgrowth of their ten year old Artist-in-Residence program will feature new work by eight artists representing dance, theater and music

The producers of the upcoming Broadway production of INHERIT THE WIND starring two time Tony® Award winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy have announced the complete 34-member company.

Olivier Award winner Eve Best, Academy Award and Tony Award winner Kevin Spacey and Golden Globe nominee Colm Meaney will reprise their acclaimed performances in The Old Vic Theatre Company production of Eugene O'Neill's A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 W 47th St) for 84 performances only.

While dripping in political comedy and appropriateness, Sam Shepard's 'The God of Hell,' now playing the Magic Theatre, offers a cold slap of reality a few years late.

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

Lincoln Center Theatre has appointed its upcoming production of Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House with a starry cast that will include Tony Award-winner Blair Brown and Oscar-nominee Jill Clayburgh

Tour dates have been announced for the upcoming national tour of Reginald Rose's classic courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men

Plays by Caryl Churchill, Michael Frayn, David Mamet, Donald Margulies, Paula Vogel, August Wilson and other playwrights of note are celebrated in the 86th edition of The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2004-2005, which will be released on July 19th by Limelight Edition

Joe Drymala and Eric Svejcar aren't a songwriting team, but they have a few things in common besides the fact that they both write musicals. The songs of both men will be sung by performers such as Euan Morton, Robert Cuccioli, Tyler Maynard, Kate Wetherhead and Amanda Watkins on April 26th for their Stuck in the Zipper concert at the Zipper Theatre, and it's safe to say that both like to take risks with their shows...

'Cheers' star George Wendt has been signed to star alongside Richard Thomas in the upcoming national tour of Twelve Angry Men

The critically acclaimed Brits Off Broadway festival will return this year with a line up of 11 productions running from Tuesday, May 2 through Sunday, July 2

2005 is Broadway's highest grossing calendar year ever, and the highest in paid attendance in two decades, according to the League of American Theatres and Producers

On the coldest night of the year; in the hottest restaurant in New York City...all hell is about to break loose. Enter the world of THE CHAOS THEORIES, the critically-acclaimed urban comedy written by 2X Drama Desk nominee Alexander Dinelaris.

The National Theatre of Great Britain's production of Alan Bennett's THE HISTORY BOYS, will open on Sunday, April 23, 2006 on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street) with the National's acting company for a 20-week limited engagement.

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).

The cast includes Jill Clayburgh (Bess), Richard Thomas (Jeffrey), Matthew Morrison (Thad), Susan Kelechi Watson (Juliet), James Yaegashi (Bill), Leslie Ayvazian (Elaine) and Ann Guilbert (Sadie).

The National Theatre of Great Britain's production will open on Broadway, with the National acting company, on April 23, 2006 at a theater to be announced.

The production will play a pre-Broadway engagement at San Francisco's Curran Theatre September 13th to October 9th.

Ten new works from the Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway 2004-2005 theatre season have been selected for publication in the latest Best Plays Theater Yearbook

Richard Thomas will portray Tennesee Williams in Blanche and Beyond on August 8th at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, MA

The 2004-2005 Broadway theatre season boasted thriving grosses and a terrific number of Tony-eligible plays and musicals

And it's one, two, three strikes...he's out! At the old ball game.

The Light in the Piazza, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Monty Python's Spamalot lead nominations

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents Kate Burton as 'Constance Middleton', Michael Cumpsty as 'John Middleton', John Dossett as 'Bernard Kersal' and Lynn Redgrave as 'Mrs. Culver' in the new Broadway production of W. Somerset Maugham social comedy The Constant Wife, directed by Mark Brokaw at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street).

The National Theatre of Great Britain's critically acclaimed production of DEMOCRACY, a new play by Michael Frayn, directed by Michael Blakemore, will play its final performance on Sunday, April 17th at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 West 47th Street).