Brian Scott News

The fifth annual San Francisco Children's Theater Festival, a one-day free event with 20 shows for children will be held Sunday, July 27th, 11:00 am-4:30 pm at Yerba Buena Gardens and the Zeum Theater.

Two-time winners of the Edinburgh Fringe First Award, The TEAM (Particularly in the Heartland ) presents its newest work-in-process ARCHITECTING at Manhattan's 3LD Art and Technology Center. Workshop performances of this new American saga for the 21st century will be presented May 14 - 18.

Saga Theater's Individualist Ensemble announces the world premiere of Homesick, an original work that explores the elusiveness of finding happiness through the company's intense physicality and experimentation with narrative form. Performances begin November 29 at the Ohio Theatre.

Playwrights Horizons has announced Bill Camp will join the cast of Dead Man's Cell Phone in the role of Gordon, the dead man himself! A new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, Dead Man's Cell Phone will be directed by two-time Obie Award winner Anne Bogart.

Classic Stage Company will present Obie Award winner Michael Cumpsty in the title role in Shakespeare's Richard III beginning performances Thursday, November 1 at CSC (136 East 13th Street). The production kicks of CSC's 40th anniversary season. Co-directed by Kulick and Cumpsty, Richard III will play a limited engagement from Thursday, November 1 through Sunday, December 9. The official opening night is Tuesday, November 13 at 7PM.

Playwrights Horizons has announced that Tony, Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner Mary-Louise Parker will star in the New York premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl.

Austin, Texas-based ensemble Rude Mechanicals (a.k.a. Rude Mechs) return to New York with the Off-Broadway premiere of Get Your War On - a new play by Kirk Lynn et al adapted from David Rees' popular internet and Rolling Stone Magazine comic 'Get Your War On' - with preview performances starting January 9, 2007 prior to its official opening January 11 at 59E59 Theatres

Accomplished live entertainment executives Brian Becker and Scott Zeiger announced today the formation of BASE Entertainment, a producer, presenter, venue programmer, and operator involved in live, theatrical entertainment and content on a worldwide basis

CHARLES BUSCH added to star-studded line up of the 2005 Nightlife Awards The All Performance/No Acceptance Speeches Awards Show

Special guest stars Joy Behar, Bruce Vilanch, Sutton Foster, Ute Lemper, Maureen McGovern, and Kate Clinton will perform in honor of the winners!

Joy Behar, Bruce Vilanch, Sutton Foster, Ute Lemper, Euan Morton, Maureen McGovern, Karen Akers and Kate Clinton to perform in support of NY Nightlife award winners.