Reasons to Be Pretty - 2011 - West End Articles Page 18

Philadelphia Theatre Company announces its 2011-2012 season highlighted by a Tony Award winner, a new play by a prominent local playwright, a Tony and Drama Desk nominated comedy and a multiple Tony Award nominated new musical by an award-winning team. The season features Red by John Logan, The Scottsboro Boys with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb and book by David Thompson, The Outgoing Tide by Bruce Graham, and reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers Presents SOME OF OUR PARTS Seven ten-minute plays about disabilities - and the people affected by them.

First up is First Night: The Tony Concert, presented by Keeping Scores Concerts at Franklin's Boiler Room Theatre on Monday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m. Featuring some of Nashville's biggest and brightest theater stars performing songs from Tony Award-winning musicals, the concert is the kick-off of the 2011 First Night Season, culminating with First Night, The Nashville Theatre Honors, which will be presented at Belmont University's Troutt Theatre on Sunday, September 4.

The NonProphet Theater Company proudly announces their fifth "legitimate" theater season running June through October 2011.

According to an audition notice, the musical revival of CARRIE will hold a development lab at MCC from May 25, 2011 through June 7, 2011. Stafford Arima will direct, Matt Williams will choreograph, and Mary Mitchell-Campell will musical direct.

In the center of the New York City Theater District, Tony Award-winning set designer Christine Jones, in association with LOT-EK® Architects, True Love Productions and Times Square Arts, presents "Theatre for One", a four foot by eight foot portable theater with one performer playing to one audience member.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers Presents SOME OF OUR PARTS Seven ten-minute plays about disabilities - and the people affected by them.

New Georges (Susan Bernfield, Artistic Director; Sarah Cameron Sunde, Associate Director; Jaynie Saunders Tiller, Managing Director), the OBIE Award-winning downtown theater company founded in 1992, will present "THE GERM PROJECT," featuring the work of playwrights Kara Lee Corthron (directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni), Lynn Rosen (directed by Shoshana Gold), Kathryn Walat (directed by Portia Krieger), and Anna Ziegler (directed by Beatrice Terry).

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/22 for Fort Lauderdale

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/22 for Orlando

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/22 for Jacksonville

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/22 for Florida

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/22 for Tampa

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/22 for St. Petersburg

On days when Kalen Allmandinger is feeling blue, it's actually a really great thing. In fact, he's required to be blue because he's part of the world renowned performance extravaganza known as Blue Man Group. This trio of bald, silent (think Charlie Chaplin on steroids), blue-latex-coated performers first took the world by storm in 1991 and hasn't stopped since. Created by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton, Blue Man Group is set to appear at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre May 24 - June 19.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/15 for Fort Lauderdale

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/15 for Orlando

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/15 for Jacksonville

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/15 for Florida

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/15 for Tampa

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/15 for St. Petersburg

Whether you're a flower child of the 60's or an Internet child of the 90's, it is likely that you have heard about the hit musical Hair, or at very least heard some of the iconic numbers from the show like "Aquarius" or "Let the Sunshine In." But regardless of how much audiences come to the theatre knowing about Hair, they leave having experienced something electric, powerful and unique. And leading the "tribe" is free-spirited and energetic Berger, everyone's best friend and resident "bad boy." When Hair arrives at The Fabulous Fox Theatre on May 17th, wearing Berger's trademark loincloth and "long, beautiful hair" will be Steel Burkhardt, a veteran of five previous versions of the show. We had the chance to chat with Steel about the show, playing Berger, and baring your soul on stage in more ways than one.

Profiles Theatre concludes its 2010-2011 Season with the Midwest premiere of Fifty Words by Michael Weller, directed by Artistic Director Joe Jahraus.

(Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director), one of New York's leading Off Broadway theater companies for the past 25 years, believes in the exciting new voices of young artists and in giving those voices the opportunity to be nurtured and heard.

James Earl Jones, who most recently starred as Hoke Colburn, the chauffeur in Driving Miss Daisy will return to Broadway in the role of the feisty, folksy and wily ex- U.S. President Arthur Hockstader in GORE VIDAL'S THE BEST MAN coming to Broadway in the spring of 2012. Reported first by Variety, he revealed last night while being honored with the Monte Cristo Award at Bridgewaters-South Street Seaport that starring alongside him will be five-time Tony Winner Angela Lansbury making her return to the stage after most recently appearing as Madame Armfeldt in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.