Something Wonderful - 1995 - Broadway Articles Page 18

Our special series for Women's History Month continues with a profile of Irish Rep's artistic director and cofounder.

The New York Times is updating that Natasha Richardson's family is with her at the Lenox Hill Hospital, while the relatives continue the emotional vigil, the media continues to grapple with how to follow the story, several news outlets are reaching out for medicial opinion on her fall and resulting condition.

Tony winning actress Natasha Richardson was privately flown away from the Montreal hospital where she was being treated Tuesday afternoon as speculation swirled regarding the seriousness of her condition after her fall at the upscale Mont Tremblant ski resort.

Lawrence Edelson, Producing Artistic Director of American Lyric Theater, has announced that Kyrian Friedenberg, the ten-year old singer, violinist and actor most recently seen in Gypsy with Patty LuPone on Broadway, has been cast as Charlie Bucket in ALT's upcoming workshop and reading of The Golden Ticket, a new opera based on Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Speaking of the young performer, Edelson said that 'Kyrian has a wonderful voice, is incredibly musical, and has charisma that is truly contagious. After hearing him sing Charlie's first act Aria from The Golden Ticket, I had no doubt that he was the right boy to bring Roald Dahl's classic character to life in our upcoming workshop.'

Mercedes Ruehl is no stranger to the high-stakes of mother/daughter on-stage drama. In her 1991 Tony Award-winning performance as the intriguing 'special' daughter Bella in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, she stood-up to her stern mother on more than one occasion. Only now, the tables have turned! Ms. Ruehl finds herself on Broadway as the mighty matriarch in Richard Greenberg's family-feud 'The American Plan.'

Lawrence Edelson, Producing Artistic Director of ALT, has announced that the company has commissioned The Golden Ticket, a new opera based on Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In his announcement, Edelson explained that all of Dahl's beloved characters find a unique voice in this exciting new opera. 'If thoughts of Augustus Gloop being swept away in the Chocolate River, Violet Beauregarde inflating like a giant blueberry, Mike Teavee being demagnified into the tele-dimension, and Veruca Salt being thrown down the rubbish shoot by a gang of nut-inspecting squirrels sound like your idea of a fun night at the opera - or better yet, unlike any night at the opera or theater you've ever experienced - The Golden Ticket is....just the ticket!'

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2009 season ? a playbill reflecting the Festival's commitment to producing the works of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, along with other classical theatre repertoire and the work of living playwrights is now offering tickets to the public.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival announces its 2009 season - a playbill reflecting the Festival's commitment to producing the works of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, along with other classical theatre repertoire and the work of living playwrights.

Manhattan Theatre Club announced casting for two of its upcoming productions: ROMANTIC POETRY, the world premiere musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger, and RUINED, a world premiere play by Lynn Nottage.

Popular cabaret duo perform Cole Portes show at Town Hall on June 9th.

Actress Mary Bacon is currently starring as Alma Winemiller in TACT's production of the Tennessee Williams masterpiece, Eccentricities of a Nightingale- the first time the production has been performed in New York in thirty years.

Without auditioning or formally training in dance, Jimmy has performed in four hit musicals on Broadway.

Conductor and Maestro Keith Lockhart is a true gem of a performer and one whose recordings and concerts with the Boston Pops that begs repeated hearings.

Penguin Rep, a suburban Equity house formed in 1977 as a community theater, is presenting 'The Goldman Project' in NYC.

Arden Theater's Producing Artistic Director, Terrance J.Nolan, is always inventing ways to entertain us.

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Spotlighters discounts! Your chance to name the best in Charm City Theatre of 2006! Two best bets of the week! News of MAF, CenterStage, Fells Point Corner Theatre, and MUCH MORE!

Part III features ON THE LINE - The Creation of A CHORUS LINE, MOSS HART: A PRINCE OF THE THEATRE, A FINE ROMANCE HOLLYWOOD/BROADWAY The Magic. The Mayhem. The Musicals, SECOND ACT TROUBLE Behind the Scenes at Broadway's Big Musical Bombs, and THE LONGEST LINE Broadway's Most Singular Sensation: A CHORUS LINE.

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

Reprise! Broadway's Best will treat audiences to staged concerts of My One and Only, Sunday in the Park with George and No Strings during its 10th anniversary season of staged readings at UCLA's Freud Playhouse

Stopping by Weller's dressing room after a recent matinee found the 35 year old Weller still in the process of removing his green makeup. ..

LESTAT stars Hugh Panaro in the title role, Carolee Carmello as Gabrielle, Jack Noseworthy as Armand, Jim Stanek as Louis, Roderick Hill as Nicolas, Michael Genet as Marius and Allison Fischer as Claudia.

Husband-and-wife performers Lauren Kennedy and Alan Campbell chat about their upcoming concert in North Carolina, their careers and their toddler

Always look on the bright side of life? It's easy for Brad now that he's part of the popular Monty Python goofapalooza.