New Rep Opens Its 28th Season With RENT, Opens 9/6
by Gabrielle Sierra - Aug 9, 2011
New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, is thrilled to begin its 2011-2012 Season with Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical RENT.
EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris! Show to Play Marquis Theatre
by Robert Diamond - Aug 8, 2011
Producers Hal Luftig and Scott Sanders announced today that Michael Cerveris will star as Juan Peron in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's landmark musical EVITA opening on Broadway in the spring of 2012 at The Marquis Theatre, 1535 Broadway. Cerveris joins the previously announced world renowned music artist Ricky Martin (Che) and, in her Broadway debut, Olivier Award Winning Argentinean actress Elena Roger (Eva). Olivier Award winner Michael Grandage and Tony Award winner Rob Ashford will direct and choreograph, respectively. This is the first new Broadway production of the seven-time Tony Award-winning musical since it debuted on Broadway more than 30 years ago.
Theatre Of NOTE Presents SHOE STORY, Closes 5/22
by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2011
Theatre of NOTE continues the celebration of its 30th anniversary with SHOE STORY, written by Ben Snyder and directed by Maureen Huskey. SHOE STORY will close Sunday, May 22 at Theatre of NOTE, 1517 N. Cahuenga Blvd. (just North of Sunset) in Hollywood.
PICT launches 2011 Season With Antony & Cleopatra 5/5-21
by BWW
News Desk - May 5, 2011
A Roman general and an Eqyptian queen, Mark Antony and Cleopatra are great leaders of their time who share a passion for each other - but at a price. Power, politics and betrayal overshadow their doomed and legendary affair.
PICT launches 2011 Season With Antony & Cleopatra 5/5-21
by Gabrielle Sierra - Apr 18, 2011
A Roman general and an Eqyptian queen, Mark Antony and Cleopatra are great leaders of their time who share a passion for each other - but at a price. Power, politics and betrayal overshadow their doomed and legendary affair.
Circle Mirror Transformation Plays Victory Gardens, Closes 4/10
by BWW News Desk - Apr 10, 2011
Victory Gardens continues its 2010/11 Season with the Chicago premiere of Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker, directed by Dexter Bullard. The production closes April 10, 2011 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Park. The Press Openings are March 5 and 6, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. in the Richard Christiansen Theatre.
Perth Theatre Trust Presents CATALPA Beginning 3/11
by BWW News Desk - Mar 11, 2011
The true story of the whaling ship 'Catalpa', and her captain George Anthony has been described as one of the most extraordinary prison escapes of all time linking Ireland, Australia and the United States of America.
Mariinsky Ballet Joins Royal Shakespeare Company et al. in 2011 Lincoln Center Festival
by Jessica Lewis - Mar 8, 2011
The Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet joins the previously-announced Royal Shakespeare Company and The Cleveland Orchestra, completing the trio of leading performing ensembles coming to New York this summer as part of Lincoln Center Festival 2011. Nigel Redden, Festival Director, today announced the complete Festival schedule, which runs from July 5 through August 14. In a co-presentation with the Metropolitan Opera, the renowned Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet returns to the Festival for eight performances at the Met Opera House, dancing three programs. Highlighting the company's appearance are the U.S. premieres of Anna Karenina and The Little Humpbacked Horse, evening-length ballets by critically-acclaimed choreographer Alexei Ratmansky set to music by leading Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin. A third program pairs Alberto Alonso's Carmen Suite, to Shchedrin's arrangement of Bizet's score, and George Balanchine's neo-classical masterwork Symphony in C, also with music by Bizet. Artistic Director of the Mariinsky, Valery Gergiev will conduct the Mariinsky Orchestra.
FLASH FRIDAY: Best of the Bard
by Robert Diamond - Feb 18, 2011
This week, in honor of our InDepth Interview series of articles on the Public Theater Shakespeare LAB production of TIMON OF ATHENS featuring Richard Thomas and Barry Edelstein, we are setting out to prove that all the world's a stage and we are, indeed, merely its players with a collection of clips featuring the work of William Shakespeare. Leonardo Dicaprio to Anthony Hopkins to Russell Brand; Ian McKellen & Judi Dench and more await with many marvelous visions for weary eyes and ears to behold and be bequeathed. TITUS, ROMEO & JULIET, THE TEMPEST and MACBETH are merely a taste of the grand banquet!