Playwrights Horizons Announces New Additions to Online Auctionby BWW News Desk - May 8, 2012Acclaimed Off-Broadway not-for-profit theater company Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional details for its 2012 special online Auction. Bidding for the auction, which already features an outstanding array of unique opportunities and experiences, is now underway at www.BiddingForGood/PlaywrightsHorizons. Online bidding continues through Monday, May 14 (with items staggered to close at 8PM and 9PM). (more...)
Playwrights Horizons Announces Updates to Benefit Auctionby BWW News Desk - May 8, 2012Playwrights Horizons has announced additional details for its 2012 special online Auction. Bidding for the auction is now underway at www.BiddingForGood/PlaywrightsHorizons. Online bidding continues through Monday, May 14 (with items staggered to close at 8PM and 9PM). (more...)
CHINGLISH Cast Members and More Star in LUTHER, etc. at Summer Works 5/26-6/30by BWW News Desk - May 7, 2012The annual season of new plays at Summer Works is presented the Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb -- has announced complete casting for its 17th season running May 26 to June 30 at the HERE Arts Center (145 Sixth Ave. at Dominick Street) in Manhattan. (more...)
Norm Lewis to Receive Sardi's Caricature, 5/30by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2012Tony nominee Norm Lewis, currently starring on Broadway as Porgy in The Gershwins’ PORGY AND BESS, will join the legendary walls of Sardi’s (234 West 44th Street) when his caricature is unveiled and hung on Wednesday, May 30th at 5:00pm during a special ceremony. His portrait will be join the hundreds of Broadway and Hollywood celebrities, including his co-star and fellow 2012 Tony nominee Audra McDonald, as well as co-star David Alan Grier also Tony-nominated for his performance in The Gershwins’ PORGY AND BESS. (more...)
Seth Rudetsky, Corbin Bleu, Norbert Leo Butz, et al. to Take Part in NOT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL Benefit, 6/18by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2012Seth Rudetsky will host/music direct NOT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL at 7:30, Monday June 18th at XL (512 West 42nd Street). The show will benefit the Chesapeake Bay Academy (http://www.cba-va.org/) a school for children with learning issues. (more...)
Rebecca Naomi Jones, Fran Kranz and More Set for Page 73's SNORE AND OTHER SORTS OF BREATHING Readingsby BWW News Desk - May 21, 2012Off-Broadway’s Page 73 Productions will present readings of their 2012 P73 Playwriting fellow Max Posner’s play SNORE AND OTHER SORTS OF BREATHING on Monday, May 21 at 7:30pm and Tuesday, May 22 at 3pm at the Roundabout Rehearsal studio (32 East 31st Street, 4th Fl). Trip Cullman (LONELY I’M NOT) will direct. (more...)
David Schwimmer and Amy Ryan Team Up for Playwrights Horizon's DETROIT this Fallby BWW News Desk - May 21, 2012Lisa D'Amour's play Detroit premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in 2010, directed by Austin Pendleton, and was scheduled to open on Broadway in the 2011/12 season. (more...)
Steppenwolf's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? to Preview on Broadway Sept. 27, 2012; Understudy EPAs Set for Jun. 5by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2012According to an Equity Audition notice, the Steppenwolf's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf will begin previews on Broadway on September 27, 2012 in anticipation of its previously announced October 13, 2012 opening at a Shubert Theatre to be announced. Pam Mackinnon will continue to helm the project. Jerry Frankel, Jeffrey Richards Susan Q. Gallin and Mary Lu Roffe will produce. (more...)
Keystone State Boychoir Joins Irish Rep's OLIVER! Benefit Concert, 6/11by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2012Off-Broadway's acclaimed Irish Repertory Theatre presents its 2012 Annual Benefit Gala, a concert performance on Broadway of Lionel Bart's OLIVER! – a glorious, Tony Award-winning musical adaptation of the classic Dickens tale of 1850's London in the time of the Industrial Revolution – on Monday, June 11 at The Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street) in Manhattan. Charlotte Moore, who directed last year's concert staging of CAMELOT on Broadway and the IrishRepertory's recent revival of Brian Friel's DANCING AT LUGHNASA, will direct. (more...)
Susan Graham Announces Upcoming Appearancesby BWW News Desk - May 16, 2012Fresh from her appearances in Lehár’s The Merry Widow at the Opéra National de Paris and Berlioz’s La mort de Cléopâtre with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, as well as a successful run of Australian recitals in Melbourne and Sydney, Susan Graham continues. (more...)
RuPaul's DRAG RACE Winner Bebe Zahara Benet and More Set for XL Cabaret, May-June 2012by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2012XL Cabaret has announced its upcoming shows for May and June 2012, featuring RuPaul's Drag Race Winner Bebe Zarah Benet, a work by Seth Rudetsky and more. See the full schedule below. (more...)
Photo Flash: Clubbed Thumb's SUMMERWORKS 2012 Kick-Off Partyby BWW News Desk - May 15, 2012The Obie Award-winning Clubbed Thumb recently held a kickoff for its 17th annual program of new plays by emerging writers -- SUMMERWORKS 2012, running May 26-June 30 at the HERE Arts Center in Soho. Actors, playwrights, directors and designers joined Clubbed Thumb's Producing Artistic Director Maria Striar at the SUMMERWORKS launch party. See photos from the event below! (more...)
Playwrights Horizons' RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN Begins Previews May 18by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2012Previews begin this Friday, May 18 for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) World Premiere of RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Gina Gionfriddo (Becky Shaw). Directed by Peter DuBois (Becky Shaw, Sons of the Prophet, Measure for Pleasure, Jack Goes Boating, Artistic Director of Huntington Theatre Company), the play is the final production of the theater company’s 2011/2012 Season. Opening Night is set for Tuesday, June 12 at 7PM and the limited engagement will play through Sunday, June 24 at Playwrights Horizons’ Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street). (more...)
WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory and CENTERSTAGE Announce Playwrights for 2012 LAB, 6/9by BWW News Desk - May 14, 2012Generous Company’s WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory celebrates its 16th birthday at CENTERSTAGE in June 2012, and will welcome six playwrights to the 2012 Lab. (more...)
FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS Begins Previews for Shaw Festivalby BWW News Desk - May 11, 2012French Without Tears, Terence Rattigan’s comedy and one of the longest running plays in British theatre history, makes its debut at the Shaw Festival. This delightful comedy concerning lessons in love, language and the opposite sex, begins previews today at the Royal George Theatre, and shows just how much fun learning French can be! (more...)
DANCING WITH THE STARS Offs Another Contestantby Tyler Peterson - May 1, 2012DANCING WITH THE STARS has descended upon the common masses for yet another life-and-death situation: one pseudo-celeb's inflated head is resting in the guillotine's embrace once more. It's Wednesday eve, which means the sprawling epic drama that is results night has returned from the dark mists of Satan's den, ready to carry another beheaded contestant away, back to irrelevancy.
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Nominee Reactions: Christian Borle for PETER AND THE STARCATCHER - 'Watching EMPIRE STRIKES BACK'by BWW - May 1, 2012Christian Borle, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
"It's been an awfully nice morning! I'm happy and just so very proud of the show. It's been a few years leading up to now. This is just enormously gratifying. I woke up this morning and turned on NY1 and watched. I just got a new sound bar for my TV so I think I'm going to sit down and watch 'The Empire Strikes Back.' That will be my celebration for the day!"
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Nominee Reactions: Norm Lewis for PORGY AND BESS - 'Work has spoken for itself, even through the adversity'by BWW - May 1, 2012"We are over the moon. The work has spoken for itself, even through the adversity, and I just couldn't be prouder of the cast and the show. I was going to try to play it cool this morning, but I was too excited so I was up early watching the broadcast. It is my first nomination! I couldn't believe my name was called - I rewound the broadcast on my DVR just to be sure. I think we'll have a little celebration at work tonight!"
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Playwrights Horizons Announces 2012 Benefit Auctionby BWW News Desk - Apr 27, 2012Playwrights Horizons has announced initial details for its 2012 special online Auction in connection with its annual Spring Gala. (more...)
Brian Stokes Mitchell, James Barbour and Melissa Errico to Lead Irish Rep's OLIVER! Benefit, 6/11by BWW News Desk - Apr 24, 2012Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre will present its 2012 Annual Benefit Gala, a concert performance on Broadway of Lionel Bart's OLIVER! – the Tony Award-winning musical adaptation of the classic Dickens tale of 1850's London – on Monday, June 11 at The Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street) in Manhattan. Charlotte Moore, who directed last year's concert staging of CAMELOT on Broadway and the Irish Repertory's recent revival of Brian Friel's DANCING AT LUGHNASA, will direct. (more...)
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