The Master Builder - 2005 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 11

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

Patrick Stewart revives his one-man Christmas Carol, Billy runs against Poppins for Best Musical, Blue Man Group opens and Wicked plans to fly East?

Lynn Redgrave has been cast as Lady Bracknell in the CTG's Ahmanson Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest, which runs from January 17th to March 5th in CA

Joshua Jackson and Patrick Stewart give us A Life in the Theatre and news of a sizzling revival of On The Town