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OPUS at The Seattle Rep

The Seattle Rep is presenting Michael Hollinger’s wonderful new play “Opus” about the behind the scenes drama of a string quartet, and while the ensemble never actually plays a note, they make beautiful music together. (more...)

BWW SPECIAL FEATURE: How I Got My Equity Card - by Michael Cerveris

BroadwayWorld.com is proud to present its newest weekly feature, presented in association with and to celebrate the importance of the Actors' Equity Association. "AEA" or "Equity", founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 48,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans, for its members. (more...)

Actors Playhouse Presents THE GAYEST CHRISTMAS PEAGENT EVER!, Previews 11/13, Opens 11/29

Alternative Theatre Company (Joe Marshall, Founder/Artistic Director; Adrian Maynard, Managing Director) and The Actors' Playhouse present the much anticipated THE GAYEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER! written and directed by Joe Marshall. (more...)

Photo Flash: GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE at Cortland Repertory Theatre

The fifth mainstage summer production at Cortland Repertory Theatre will be the theatre's regional debut of the timely, riveting and highly theatrical courtroom drama Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. (more...)

Rupert Holmes Joins Creative Team For 'ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS' Musical

The swinging '60's meet Broadway when Robin and the 7 Hoods, a brand new musical comedy, opens in New York during the 2010-11 season, it was announced by the show's producers (Bruce Charet, Dennis Mastro, Dennis Farina, Billy Campbell; Barry Brown, executive producer) (more...)

Photo Flash: WVPT Continues 25TH Anniversary Season With LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, Opens 6/30

West Virginia Public Theatre continues its 25th Anniversary Summer Season by bringing back a cult-classic musical comedy thriller after fourteen years absence from the WVPT stage. Little Shop of Horrors runs from June 30th through July 5th in the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre of the WVU Creative Arts Center. First appearing at WVPT in 1995, this audience favorite was written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken?the team behind such Disney favorites as Aladdin and The Little Mermaid?and tells the story of a nerdy florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical was based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman. (more...)

Photo Flash: OPUS

Old Globe Executive Producer Lou Spisto is pleased to announce the cast of The Old Globe?s production of Opus, by Michael Hollinger, directed by Kyle Donnelly, to run in the Globe?s Arena Stage at the San Diego Museum of Art?s James S. Copley Auditorium March 21 ? April 26, 2009 (press opening: Thursday, March 26 at 8:00pm). Tickets are available by calling (619) 23-GLOBE, online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, or by visiting the Globe Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park. (more...)

New York Philharmonic VERY YOUNG PEOPLES CONCERTS Begin 4/26

The 2008?09 New York Philharmonic Very Young People?s Concerts, geared to children ages three to five, will begin on Sunday, April 26, 2009, at 12:30 and 3:00 p.m., and Monday, April 27, at 10:30 a.m., at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street. This first program of the season, entitled ?Allegro and Adagio,? will explore how tempo makes music fun, and will feature works by Dvoř?k, Brahms, and Smetana, along with hands-on music-making with musicians from the Orchestra. (more...)

Photo Flash: Carol Channing at 'Cabaret at the Castle'

Friends and colleagues including Bruce Vilanch, Valarie Pettiford, Rachel York, Rita McKenzie, Carole Cook, Thom Troupe, Kathryn Jootsen, Lily Tomlin, Florence Henderson, Donna Mills, Jackie Joseph, Channing Chase, Tippi Hedren, JoAnne Worley, Kate Linder and the Los Angeles cast of RENT among others were more than thrilled to turn out for this special engagement of "The First 80 Years are the Hardest," that marked Carol Channing's return to the stage after her accident last year that forced her, for the very first time in her 70 year career, to cancel all scheduled performances. (more...)

Photo Flash: Razors Edge Productions Presents ZOMBIE

Following a critically acclaimed World Premiere at The 2008 New York International Fringe Festival, Razors Edge Productions proudly presents a revival of Zombie, an award-winning solo play by Bill Connington, adapted from the novella by Joyce Carol Oates. Zombie is directed by Thomas Caruso and performed by Bill Connington. Zombie began performances on February 18 and continues through March 29, 2009 in a limited 6-week engagement at the Theatre Row Complex (Studio Theatre), located at 410 West 42 Street between 9 & 10 Avenues in NYC. Official opening was on February 21. Post-show discussions will follow select shows. (more...)

Photo Flash: Reprise Theatre Co. Presents MAN OF LA MANCHA

The 2008-2009 Reprise Theatre Company season continues with the classic international hit "Man of La Mancha," starring Brent Spiner as Cervantes/Quixote. Julia Migenes, the renowned opera and theatre performer, will play Aldonza/Dulcinea; Valerie Perri will play the role of Aldonza/Dulcinea at matinee performances; and Tony nominee Lee Wilkof will play Sancho Panza. (more...)

Photo Flash: LYDIA At Yale Repertory Theater

Yale Repertory Theatre (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents the east coast premiere of Lydia by Octavio Solis, directed by Juliette Carrillo at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street, at York Street) beginning February 6 through February 28. Opening Night is Thursday, February 12. Lydia features music composed by Chris Webb; sets by Andrew Boyce; costumes by Amanda Seymour; lighting by Jesse Belsky; sound design, additional music, and arrangements by David Molina; voice and dialect by Beth McGuire; fight direction by Rick Sordelet; dramaturgy by Matt Cornish; and stage management by Donald E. Claxon. (more...)

Photo Flash Exclusive: Elaine Stritch Visits COWARD AT CHRISTMAS: A CABARET FOR NOEL

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is thrilled to host the NYC premiere of Simon Green Sings COWARD AT CHRISTMAS: A Cabaret for Noel. Simon Green Sings COWARD AT CHRISTMAS: A Cabaret for Noel began performances on Sunday, December 14 for a limited engagement through Sunday, January 4. There was a special Noel Coward Birthday Celebration Performance on Tuesday, December 16 at 8:30 PM, which included a champagne toast, birthday cake and special guest theatre icon Elaine Stritch. (more...)

Photo Flash: FST Opens Award-Winning Opus

Florida Studio Theatre continues the Winter Mainstage Season with Opus, "a smart, witty tribute to the trials and tribulations of working together as we follow the functions and dysfunctions of a world class string quartet." said Artistic Director and Show Director, Richard Hopkins. (more...)

Bette Bourne Returns to the London Stage in Fountain's RESIDENT ALIENT

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Quentin Crisp (immortalised on TV by John Hurt in "The Naked Civil Servant"), Bette Bourne returns to the London stage with his acclaimed, multi award-winning performance in Tim Fountain's "Resident Alien". A 10-week season opens at the New End Theatre, Hampstead, on Wednesday 28 January and will run to Sunday April 5. (more...)

BLITHE SPIRIT to Play at Shubert Starting 2/26; Simon Jones Joins Cast

The producers of Blithe Spirit are pleased to announce the show will play The Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street). Rehearsals are scheduled to begin Monday, January 26, 2009 with the first performance on Thursday, February 26, 2009. (more...)

Bohmer, Bean, Callaway and More Cast in THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER at the Kennedy Center

Jeffrey Finn Productions announces final casting for the special return holiday engagement of THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER for two weeks only at the Kennedy Center's newly-renovated Eisenhower Theater, Tuesday, December 23, 2008 through Sunday, January 4, 2009. (more...)

Angela Lansbury to Return to Broadway in 'Blithe Spirit'

Variety reports that Angela Lansbury has joined the Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit, joining Rupert Everett and Christine Ebersole. (more...)

Schwimmer to Direct Off-Broadway Premiere of Belber's 'Fault Lines'

New York's eternally boundary-pushing theater company Naked Angels (Geoffrey Nauffts, Artistic Director and Brittany O'Neill, Managing Director) has announced that it will present the Off Broadway premiere of Fault Lines, a new play by Stephen Belber, directed by David Schwimmer. (more...)

Photo Flash: One Night Only Concert, 'Street Lights for Obama'

Street Lights For Obama, a one-night-only benefit concert of Joe Drymala's new hip-hop/pop musical Street Lights, premiered this Sunday, August 17th at 8pm at The Zipper Factory. Ryan J. Davis produces and directs. (more...)

Coming Up This Week in Theatre - 6/3/2008

BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 6/3/2008. (more...)

LaVoy Finds There Is One Life To Live

Broadway actress joins cast of the popular daytime soap. (more...)