Jo Swerling News

South Bend Civic Theatre bets on fun with Guys and Dolls March 1-17.

Ring in the holiday season with a special one night-only performance of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY, to be performed on December 22, 2012 at 8pm at the Riverdale YM-YWHA, located at 5625 Arlington Avenue (just off of Riverdale Avenue and West 256th Street), in Riverdale, Bronx, NY.

An exceptional collection of talent has been assembled to bring the Shaw Festival's 52nd season to life - a unique and entertaining playbill rich with new and provocative conversations, culture clashes, magical transformations and dazzling ideas. The Salvation Army marches in this season with freshly re-envisioned productions of Guys and Dolls, one of musical theatres most celebrated pieces, and Shaw's Major Barbara - an ever relevant and potent play.

Mesa Encore Theatre presents Guys and Dolls, a musical fable of Broadway, now through November 18th, at the Mesa Arts Center. Get a first look at the production in the photos below!

Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 25th Anniversary Season with IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, The 1946 Live Radio Play, with previews set to begin December 5, prior to its official Off-Broadway opening on Monday, December 10 on The Irish Repertory Theatre's W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre (132 West 22nd Street). Charlotte Moore (DANCING AT LUGHNASA, NEW GIRL IN TOWN) directs.

Bill Hanney's award winning North Shore Music Theatre presents an all-new sizzling production of GUYS AND DOLLS opening tonight, October 30, and playing through Sunday, November 11. With its unforgettable songs and a cast of gamblers, gals and gangsters, GUYS AND DOLLS is musical entertainment you can bet on. Press night is scheduled for October 31 at 7:30pm.

Bill Hanney's award winning North Shore Music Theatre presents an all-new sizzling production of GUYS AND DOLLS opening October 30, and playing through Sunday, November 11. With its unforgettable songs and a cast of gamblers, gals and gangsters, GUYS AND DOLLS is musical entertainment you can bet on. Press night is scheduled for October 31 at 7:30pm.

The Performing Arts Center Segal offers the chance to see the Musical classic by Frank Loesser Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows "Guys and Dolls" from September 30, 2012 to October 28, 2012 at Montreal, and Broadway world got a first look at this amazing and sumptuous production! Check out the trailer below!

Bus Barn Stage Company in Los Altos comes home where the heart is for its 2012-2013 season, the 17th season in residence at Bus Barn Theater in Los Altos.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will inaugurate its 2012-2013 theatre season with the Tony Award winning musical Guys and Dolls.

Flat Rock Playhouse presents GUYS AND DOLLS, now playing onstage at Playhouse Mainstage through August 19. BroadwayWorld has a complete look at the production photos below.

Flat Rock Playhouse presents one of Broadway's most endearing and successful musicals, GUYS AND DOLLS, onstage at Playhouse Mainstage tonight, July 25 - August 19.

Flat Rock Playhouse presents one of Broadway's most endearing and successful musicals, GUYS AND DOLLS, onstage at Playhouse Mainstage July 25 - August 19.

Today in 1976, Guys and Dolls opened at the Broadway Theatre, where it ran for 239 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure', two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably 'Pick the Winner'. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway revivals as well as West End productions.

Flat Rock Playhouse presents one of Broadway's most endearing and successful musicals, Guys and Doll, onstage at Playhouse Mainstage July 25 - August 19. Amidst cops looking for an ever moving illegal dice game, bets made and lost, love found, lost, and found again, Guys and Dolls awards the audience with laughter, great dancing sequences, some wonderful vocal harmony, and the all important happy ending.

Laurel Mill Playhouse, located at 508 Main Street in historic Laurel, MD., presents GUYS AND DOLLS, a musical fable of Broadway, based on a story and characters of Damon Runyon, music and lyrics by: FRANK LOESSER, book by: JO SWERLING and ABE BURROWS, and presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI), directed by Jocelyn Knazik, choreographed by Hannah Mollerick, music director Stu Knazik and producer Patti Knazik.

RUNWAY THEATRE PRESENTs GUYS AND DOLLS, Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows June 29 - July 22,2012.

Tokyo International Players have announced information about upcoming 2012-13 productions, youth opportunities, auditions, how to apply to produce a show on TIP's second stage, and more. See full details below.

Bus Barn Stage Company in Los Altos comes home where the heart is for its 2012-2013 season, the 17th season in residence at Bus Barn Theater in Los Altos.

'The Wizard of Oz' by L. Frank Baum, book by John Kane, music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, directed by Jonah Hagans, will be presented on Tokyo International Players' mainstage tonight, May 17 through May 20.