The Corsair - 1857 - Broadway Articles Page 633

Aeschylus' The Persians, Encores! and MTC shows will be the highlights of City Center's 2006-2007 season

The Fantasticks, currently in previews at New York's new Snapple Theater Center, will open on Wednesday, August 23rd

The Off-Broadway revival of The Fantasticks will now open a week late on August 23rd

Carole Shelley, Christopher Innvar and more will star in Ring Round the Moon for Barrington Stage Company, running from August 10th through 27th

Mamma Mia!'s Leah Hocking and Olga Merediz appeared at the WLIW PBS station in Long Island, New York to help with an ABBA-themed pledge drive

Complete casting is set for the upcoming Off-Broadway production of Shakespeare's classic historical tragedy Richard II, which will be presented by Classic Stage Company from September 6th through October 15th, with opening night set for September 17th

In its third year in New York City, the Summer Play Festival (SPF) closed on July 30th following an extremely successful 25-day run; it is also taking submissions for next year

New York's One and Only Lite Music Station, 106.7 Lite fm, will conclude its free lunchtime series this week with '106.7 Lite fm Presents Broadway in Bryant Park' on Thursday August 10th at 12:30 PM on the Bryant Park Stage with performances from the casts of Drumstruck, The Fantasticks, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and The Actors' Fund.

The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest theater festival in North America, kicked off its 10th year on August 8th with a press conference at the Lucille Lortel Theatre featuring excerpts from some of its most exciting shows

Winners of Drama Desk Awards for the 2005/2006 New York theater season received their engraved trophies at a cocktail reception in their honor on Tuesday, August 8, at Tony's DiNapoli Restaurant

Another round of casting has been announced for Playwrights Horizons' 2006-2007 season, which will feature performances by Kristine Nielsen, Peter Weller, Harris Yulin and more

The new musical version of the cult film Xanadu may soon be turning an Off-Broadway theatre into a disco palace

A revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's classic play Inherit the Wind, starring Christopher Plummer, will soon be blowing into Broadway

In this issue: 2 Best Bets! LOTS of Spotlighters News! Baltimore Playwrights Festival News! Toby’s News!

Brian Stokes Mitchell will be the first star to perform as part of the Actors' Fund's new Musical Mondays series in LA

Nicholas Heck will replace the departing Logan Marshall-Green in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Greg Kotis' Pig Farm

David Gurland will present 3 special performances of his tribute to Madonna, a collaboration with musical director and arranger Michael Holland, at the Metropolitan room from August 24th through 26th

London theatregoers will be able to stroll down Avenue Q for another few months; the West End production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical has announced an extension through January 27th, 2007 at the Noel Coward Theatre

The program has been announced for 'From Broadway to Hollywood,' the August 10th concert featuring Kelli O'Hara and Aaron Lazar backed by Peter Nero and the Philadelphia Pops