Hats! - 2006 - New York Articles Page 16

Extra! Extra! Read all about it...and you can, because Gutenberg has just invented the printing press. You'll learn things you never knew in this piece of 'historical fiction' set to music, performed by two actors wearing many hats in New Rep's Downstage Black Box Theater

Completing its 30th Anniversary Season, Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will present EVERYDAY RAPTURE, written by Dick Scanlan (Tony nominee for Thoroughly Modern Millie) and Sherie Rene Scott (Tony nominee for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), with musical supervision by Tom Kitt (Next to Normal, High Fidelity), directed by Michael Mayer (Tony Award winner for Spring Awakening).

Major Theatre openings in the Baltimore area from September - November 2008.

Transport Group, the winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award and a 2007 Obie Award, has announced its 2008-09 season: Bury the Dead, written by Irwin Shaw and directed by Joe Calarco, and Being Audrey, music and lyrics by Ellen Weiss, book by James Hindman, additional book and lyrics by Cheryl Stern, developed with Jack Cummings III and Adam R. Perlman, and directed by Jack Cummings III.

WHITE NOISE is a cautionary musical that re-imagines the adage 'when good men do nothing evil happens.' Its tale is how hate can be taught, fear can be learned and intolerance can be sold when harnessed, polished and packaged correctly.

'Gutenberg! The Musical!' is a fun night out, delivering more laughs than many a big budget show...

It's finally here! The jam-packed end-of-season roundup of CDs from our very own Naomi Plume (so big, it had to be put into two parts)...The good, the bad, the ugly...or to quote from the ad for the upcoming musical A TALE OF A TWO CITIES... 'it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' We're so glad that we got to use that line first! So enjoy this very special two-parter - happy reading, happy listening, happy buying (or not) and good luck to everyone at the TONY Awards on Sunday night from all of us at BroadwayWorld.com.

New Burlesque Revue Brings Taste of Sin-City to Uptown

Sibling Entertainment Group Holdings, Inc. announced the critically acclaimed musical Hats! opens at Harrah's Las Vegas on January 12, 2008.

SpeakEasy Stage in Boston closes its season with a beautifully realized production of Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's powerful historical musical based on the real-life persecution and prosecution of a Jewish businessman in 1913 Atlanta

Continuing its long standing partnership with ASCAP, MAC has announced the next MAC/ASCAP Songwriter's Showcase, Wednesday, June 6th at 6pm at the Laurie Beechman Theater, hosted by Jamie deRoy and featuring special guest, composer and lyricist Carol Hall with singer Laurel Masse and musical director Tex Arnold

Nick Spangler chats about a performing career that has led him to the current Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks, in which he plays the Mute

An array of Broadway stars and shows are taking part in the auction Bid 2 Beat AIDS

The Directors Company will present the world premiere of The Milliner, a new play by Suzanne Glass (The Interpreter)

A weekly column regarding Broadway, Baltimore, and Washington theater

The Providence Gay Men's Chorus caps its 10th Anniversary season with its best spring concert in years.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents John Ellison Conlee, Katie Finneran, Logan Marshall-Green and Denis O'Hare in the co-world premiere (in collaboration with the Old Globe, San Diego, CA) of Greg Kotis's new comedy Pig Farm, directed by John Rando.

A Weekly Theater Column for the Baltimore/Washington area.

The Theatre Outlet presents the world-premiere of MEN OF CLAY, a comedy written and directed by Jeff Cohen (founder of the award-winning Worth Street Theater Company). Matthew Arkin and Obie Award winner Steve Ratazzzi join the previously announced Danton Stone in a cast that also includes Daniel Ahearn, Victor Barbella and Gabrielle Maisels.

SPRING AWAKENING will begin previews Thursday, May 18, 2006, officially open Thursday, June 15, 2006 and play a limited engagement through Sunday, July 9, 2006.

The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players present the seafaring favorite as part of their 32nd season.

Kim Hines' play Alice, based on Whoopi Goldberg's book, will be the first play in the Kennedy Center's new Family Theatre; both will open on December 9th