James Higgins News

Off-Broadway's award-winning Irish Repertory Theatre launches its 26th season with a revival of Sean O'Casey's JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, directed by Irish Rep Artistic Director Charlotte Moore. With a cast that features, among others, J. Smith-Cameron as Juno Boyle, Ciaran O'Reilly as 'Captain' Jack Boyle, and John Keating as Joxer Daly, JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK opens on Sunday, October 20th on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage of the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street). BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Ocean Professional Theatre Company presents Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at Bengal Auditorium, 180 Bengal Blvd. Barnegat, NJ. The show will run at 2:00pm: today, June 20, 23, 26, 27 and at 8:00pm: June 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29. Price: $35/Adults; $20 Children 12 & Under. Tickets: Call the Box Office at 609-312-8306, or order online at www.oceantheatre.org. Or you can purchase at the door on the day of the show. All seating is reserved.

Tom Hanks and Shirley Jones joined Irish Repertory Theatre's Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director, and Ciaran O'Reilly, Producing Director, as the Off-Broadway company celebrated its 25th anniversary with SOMETHING WONDERFUL! THE SONGS OF RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN, an evening celebrating classic Rodgers and Hammerstein hits performed by a galaxy of Broadway stars, for one night only, on Monday, June 10 at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street). Check out a look back at the event below!

Ocean Professional Theatre Company presents Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at Bengal Auditorium, 180 Bengal Blvd. Barnegat, NJ. The show will run at 2:00pm: June 20, 23, 26, 27 and at 8:00pm: June 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29.

Gefilte Fish Chronicles the Musical was invited to perform at the White House. The event was hosted by Presidential Senior Advisor, Valerie Jarrett and Congresswoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. After a crowd pleasing presentation, the entire cast, writers, and crew, were invited to attend a VIP reception with Vice President Biden. Scroll down for photos!

In celebration of the eighth annual Jewish American Heritage Month, the White House will be hosting on Tuesday, May 21st, a staging of the critically acclaimed 'The Gefilte Fish Chronicles the Musical', directed by Emily Maltby, with orchestrator James Higgins.

The Tony Awards has just announced members of the 2012-13 Administration and Management Committees for next season's ceremony. The 2012-13 management committee will include: Mark Abrahams, Kristin Caskey, Ted Chapin, Sondra Gilman, James Higgins, Heather Hitchens, Paul Libin, William Ivey Long, Michael Price, Jane Safer, Charlotte St. Martin, Scott Sanders, Nick Scandalios, Thomas Viertel, Robert Wankel, and Barry Weissler.

It's Saturday, and that means it's time for BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' round-up! Today's photos feature a beautifully composed #SIP from the cast of CHAPLIN, a generational portrait from EVITA's Ricky Martin, Max von Essen and the show's youngsters, Perez Hilton's first intermission pic from NEWSical, plus shots from FORBIDDEN BROADWAY, BRING IT ON, THE BOOK OF MORMON, JERSEY BOYS, MARY POPPINS and several regional shows!

Surflight Theatre will present the New Jersey premiere of an all-new and entirely original musical comedy Once Upon A Time in New Jersey (described as "The Sopranos" meets "Happy Days") from August 28 through September 15.

Surflight Theatre presents the New Jersey premiere - an all-new and entirely original musical comedy Once Upon A Time in New Jersey (it's "The Sopranos" meets "Happy Days") from August 28 through September 15. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the production photos below.

Surflight Theatre will present the New Jersey premiere - an all-new and entirely original musical comedy Once Upon A Time in New Jersey (it's "The Sopranos" meets "Happy Days") from tonight, August 28 through September 15. Opening Night is Thursday, August 30 at 8pm.

Surflight Theatre will present the New Jersey premiere - an all-new and entirely original musical comedy Once Upon A Time in New Jersey (it's "The Sopranos" meets "Happy Days") from August 28 through September 15. Opening Night is Thursday, August 30 at 8pm.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and Beyond Boundaries present Christopher Wilson's LIVING WITH HENRY, musically directed by James Higgins, and directed/choreographed by Donna Marie Barratta. As an official selection of the 2012 Next Link Project, LIVING WITH HENRY will play a limited engagement at the Off-Broadway Theatre-the PTC Performance Space. Performances begin Monday, July 23rd at 8:00 pm and continue through Sunday, July 29th, 2012, at 5:00 pm. Check out the promo video for the musical below!

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL (NYMF) and BEYOND BOUNDARIES present Christopher Wilson's LIVING WITH HENRY, musically directed by James Higgins, and directed/choreographed by Donna Marie Barratta. As an official selection of the 2012 Next Link Project, LIVING WITH HENRY will play a limited engagement at the Off-Broadway Theatre - the PTC Performance Space (555 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036). Performances begin Monday, July 23rd, 2012 at 8:00 pm and continue through Sunday, July 29th, 2012 at 5:00 pm. Press are invited Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 at 1:00 pm and any subsequent performance. Get a first look at the cast in the photos below!

Surflight Theatre, under the leadership of award-winning Broadway Producers Timothy Laczynski (The Pee-wee Herman Show, A Christmas Story), Executive Producer and Roy Miller (West Side Story, The Drowsy Chaperone, Ragtime, and the upcoming new musical Animal House) Artistic Director, continues its 63rdSeason with the Surflight premiere of All I Ask of You: A Musical Tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber, on stage for three weeks, tonight, May 26 through June 16.

On April 18, the Wagner College Theatre will premiere "Goddess Wheel," a new musical by "Hair" composer Galt MacDermot, with book and lyrics by Matty Selman. The show, which runs through April 29, will be staged in the Music Hall at Staten Island's Snug Harbor Cultural Center.

The Irish Repertory Theatre commissioned playwright Kelly Younger to write this bristling drama set during the Civil War in New York City. BANISHED CHILDREN OF EVE follows a motley assemblage of New Yorkers through a few days in the terrible summer of 1863 when the Civil War had just entered its third bloody year.

The Irish Repertory Theatre and its guests, including Marian Seldes and Frances Sternhagen, celebrated last Thursday's Off-Broadway opening of Conal Creedon's AFTER LUKE and WHEN I WAS GOD -- two short plays, set in present-day Ireland, about the powerful bond between fathers and their sons -- at The Irish Repertory (132 West 22nd Street) in Manhattan.

The American Theater Wing has elected Ted Chapin to be Chairman of the Board of Directors.