Much Ado About Nothing - 1988 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 12

New York Stage & Film and Vassar have completed casting for the new workshop production of DEFIANCE (formerly called CHAIN OF COMMAND) to be presented July 29, 30 and 31 at Vassar College.

Broadway singer Glenn Rainey of Disney's Beauty and the Beast will perform classic R&B hits on December 13th, 2004 in an original show called 'Blue-Eyed Soul' at the Triad theatre on West 72nd Street at 9:15pm. This special one night only event will be a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

A year-long search has led to the appointment of Roger Rees as the new Artistic Director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF). Ira Lapidus, President of the Festival's Board of Trustees made the announcement. Rees, who will assume his post January 1, 2005, replaces Michael Ritchie, who is leaving the Festival to become Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles.