Leila Benn Harris, Tommy Sherlock et al. Set for FROM UP HERE World Premiere, June 13-15by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012Perfect Pitch Musicals and South Hill Park have announced the world premiere production of new musical FROM UP HERE, which will play four performances from Wednesday 13 – Friday 15 June 2012 at South Hill Park Arts Centre, featuring a West End cast including Leila Benn Harris, Tommy Sherlock, Russell Walker, Lisa Kerr and Tony Kemp. From Up Here has music and lyrics by Aaron Lee Lambert, and will be directed by Luke Sheppard with musical direction by Tom Attwood. It will also be streamed live via WhatsOnStage.com on Thursday 14 June at 7.30pm. (more...)
Theater Works Holds General Season Auditions; Youth Works Seeks Actors for LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORSby BWW News Desk - May 26, 2012Theater Works will hold its Master Works season general auditions beginning June 14, 2012. Shows will be directed by Robyn Allen (Artistic Director for Theater Works) and other guest directors. Youth Works will also be auditioning for Little Shop of Horrors, beginning June 30. (more...)
Fault Line Theatre to Present FROM WHITE PLAINS, 5/31-6/10by BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012After a shocking announcement on international television, 30 year old Ethan Rice finds himself finally having to confront who he was and what he did as a teenager. (more...)
Casting Announced for YES, PRIME MINISTER at Trafalgar Studios; Robert Daws to Lead Castby BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012Robert Daws will play Prime Minister Jim Hacker alongside Michael Simkins as Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby in the triumphant return of Yes, Prime Minister to the West End. Bringing politics back to Whitehall, the popular political comedy will begin an open-ended run at Trafalgar Studios – formerly the Whitehall Theatre, on 6 June 2012.
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Casting Announced for THE RESISTABLE RISE OF ARTURO UI in Chichester, Beg. June 29by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2012Keith Baxter, Michael Feast, William Gaunt, Joe McGann and Lizzie McInnerny are among those confirmed to appear alongside Henry Goodman in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, during Festival 2012. (more...)
Elizabeth Stanley to Perform at Inside Broadway's Beacon Awards, 6/4by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2012Elizabeth Stanley (Million Dollar Quartet, Company and Cry-Baby on Broadway, and an Inside Broadway alum from their past touring production of On the Town) will perform at Inside Broadway’s 2012 Broadway Beacon Awards, being held at 6:00PM on Monday, June 4th, 2012 at the Hudson Theatre in the Millennium Broadway Hotel-Times Square at 145 West 44th Street. (more...)
Eduardo Placer Replaces Esteban Cruz as Angel in ATC/About Face's RENTby BWW News Desk - May 23, 2012Esteban Cruz has had to permanently leave the cast of American Theater Company/About Face's production of RENT for undisclosed personal reasons. As of today, Wednesday, May 23, the role of Angel will be taken over by Eduardo Placer. (more...)
Unicorn Theatre Announces 2012-2013 Season: BLACKTOP SKY, THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT and Moreby BWW News Desk - May 22, 2012Unicorn Theatre, under the artistic leadership of Producing Artistic Director Cynthia Levin, announces the 39th season. (more...)
The Attic Theater Company Presents THE TUTORS, Opening 5/22by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2012The Attic Theater Company will present a limited run of Erica Lipez’s (story editor for Suits on USA) play The Tutors. The production will be directed by Drama League Directors Project Alumnus Laura Braza, and performances are May 18th-26thh at The Access Theater. (more...)
Naked Girls Reading Presents BROS vs HOS, 6/20by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2012Naked Girls Reading NYC presents BROS vs HOS. "Hairy chests vs hairdos! Chauvinists vs suffragettes! Running with the bulls vs finding a room of one's own! Mary Wollestonecraft goes head-to-head with Iron John and Snow White takes on Stanley Kowalski in this literary grudge match for the ages." (more...)
THE NORMAL HEART Tour Kicks Off A.C.T.'s 2012-2013 Season, 9/13by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2012American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Artistic Director Carey Perloff announced today that The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s landmark play focusing on the early days of the AIDS crisis in New York City in the 1980s, will open the 2012–13 season this fall, playing Sep 13-Oct 7. (more...)
BYE, BYE, BIRDIE Runs June 1-17 at Dickson's Renaissance Centerby Jeffrey Ellis - May 21, 2012Bye Bye Birdie—conjuring up memories of Elvis Presley and the fan fervor that greeted a lot of musical acts in the 1950s and ‘60s—takes center stage at Dickson’s Renaissance Center in June as the Renaissance Players present the musical theater classic June 1-17. (more...)
Photo Flash: First Look at Shakespeare Festival's OTHELLO!by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2012Shakespeare Festival St. Louis will present a free production of OTHELLO from 5/25 to 6/17, 2012 at Shakespeare Glen, Forest Park nightly at 8pm with previews 5/23-24.
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Pittsburgh CLO Announces Full Casts of Local Productions - Starring Sally Struthers, Hunter Herdlicka, Liz Callaway and More!by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2012Pittsburgh CLO has announced casting for its summer season, which includes six shows, featuring the national tours of Come Fly Away and The Addams Family, and CLO original productions of A Chorus Line, Annie, Fiddler on the Roof and Sunset Boulevard. Notably, A CHORUS LINE brings on board a slew of the show's national tour veterans, ANNIE stars Sally Struthers as Miss Hannigan, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF features Broadway's Lewis J. Stadlen, Susan Cella, Hunter Herdlicka, Joel Robertson, Emily Shoolin and Kay Walbye. Liz Callaway and Walter Charles are set to star in SUNSET BOULEVARD. (more...)
Jackie Hoffman, Noah Racey and More Join Berkshire Theatre Group's Summer Castsby BWW News Desk - May 18, 2012Berkshire Theatre Group today announced its acting ensemble for the Summer of 2012 with a mixture of Berkshire Theatre Group alumni, newcomers, up and coming talent and seasoned professionals. (more...)
DTC Announces New Members of Brierley Resident Acting Companyby BWW News Desk - May 17, 2012Dallas Theater Center Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty today announced two new members of DTC’s Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company – Kieran (Michael) Connolly and Tiffany Hobbs. (more...)
EURYDICE, CHINGLISH, et al. Set for South Coast Rep's 2012-13 Seasonby BWW News Desk - May 17, 2012South Coast Repertory’s 49th season will offer audiences an exciting blend of current hits and world premieres. The season begins with Alan Ayckbourn’s hilarious farce, Absurd Person Singular, and will include new plays by some of the hottest writers on the theatre scene, including the world premiere of Noah Haidle’s Smokefall and a second world premiere to be announced; Sarah Ruhl’s comic tale of loss, Eurydice; the Southland debuts of Bill Cain’s touching How to Write a New Book for the Bible, Amanda Dehnert’s trailblazing musical take on Shakespeare, The Verona Project, and David Henry Hwang’s hit comedy Chinglish; and the West Coast premieres of Samuel D. Hunter’s poignantly funny The Whale and Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Broadway hit The Motherf**ker with the Hat. (more...)
The Civilians Announces LET ME ASCERTAIN YOU: DEATH As Final Joe's Pub of the Season, May 18by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2012The Civilians, the award-winning New York-based theater company known for projects investigating real life topics, presents Let Me Ascertain You: Death on May 18, 2012 at 9:30 PM at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater at 425 Lafayette St. (more...)
Chita Rivera, Susan Sarandon et al. to Help Honor Jason Alexander at 2012 Actor's Fund Tony Awards Party, 6/10by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2012On June 10, 2012, The Actor's Fund will present its 16th Annual Tony Awards party at the Skirball Center, this year honoring Jason Alexander with the Julie Harris Award for Lifetime Achievement.. Scott Bakula will host the gala and this year's Honorary Celebrity Committee includes: Julie Bowen, Nancy Dussault, Dann Florek, Elliott Gould, Steve Guttenberg, Garry Marshall, Chita Rivera, Susan Sarandon, Holland Taylor and Zachary Quinto. The event includes cocktails and a silent auction followed by ainner and a live telecast of a live feed of the Tony Awards as they happen in New York. (more...)
New York Neo-Futurists Present TOO MUCH PRIDE MAKES THE BABY GO GAY, 6/21-23by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2012In celebration of the LGBTQ community and its advocates, the NEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS will perform a special, one-weekend-only version of their ongoing, award-winning show Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind featuring 30 short plays in 60 minutes. This year’s performance will feature 30 original LGBTQ-themed plays, including 15 world-premiers and 15 fan favorites from years past. (more...)
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