Kumu Kahua Theatre Announces 42nd Seasonby BWW News Desk - May 7, 2012Kumu Kahua Theatre, dedicated to producing works by Hawai‘i writers and about Hawai‘i's culture, announced their 42nd season at a press conference on Sunday, May 6th at 5:00 PM at their home on the corner Merchant and Bethel Streets. (more...)
Dixon Place to Present BD Wong in HERRINGBONE, Directed by Roger Rees, 5/21-22; CD Release Plannedby BWW News Desk - May 2, 2012Dixon Place will present BD Wong in the one-man musical Herringbone. Wong, best known for his Tony Award winning performance in M. Butterfly and his role in the long running hit series Law & Order: SVU, will appear in Herringbone for two performances only on Monday May 21, and Tuesday May 22, at 7:00pm. (more...)
Breaking News: Brooke Shields & Richard Chamberlain to Star in Premiere of THE EXORCIST at Geffen Playhouse; Full Cast Announced!by BWW - May 17, 2012Stage and screen stars Brooke Shields and Richard Chamberlain will take on the iconic roles of Chris MacNeil and Father Merrin in playwright John Pielmeier’s world premiere of The Exorcist at the Geffen Playhouse. Helmed by acclaimed director John Doyle, who won a Tony Award for his striking reimagining of Sweeney Todd, this stage adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s famous 1971 novel transforms the unsettling battles of good versus evil, faith versus fact and ego versus ethos into a uniquely theatrical experience as sophisticated as it is suspenseful.
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STAGE TUBE: Brian d'Arcy James and Jennifer Lim Perform Excerpt from CHINGLISHby Stage Tube - May 15, 2012SMASH's Brian d'Arcy James (SHREK, NEXT TO NORMAL) and Jennifer Lim (CHINGLISH) recently participated in a staged reading of the Broadway play CHINGLISH at The Greene Space. This particular evening also featured a conversation with Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of the Public Theater in NYC and readings by David Henry Hwang and additional readers Francis Jue and BD Wong. In this video, James and Lim perform a hilarious excerpt from CHINGLISH. (more...)
CHINGLISH to be Released by TCG Books in Juneby BWW News Desk - May 11, 2012Theatre Communications Group (TCG) today announced the publication of Chinglish, a new comedy by two-time Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Yellow Face). (more...)
Long Beach Opera Presents Oswaldo Golijov & David Henry Hwang's AINADAMAR, 5/20-26by BWW News Desk - May 1, 2012For the first time on the West Coast, audiences will have the opportunity to see Ainadamar fully staged in its acclaimed revised version. Long Beach Opera (LBO) presents Argentine composer Oswaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry Hwang’s powerful Grammy Award-winning opera on May 20 and May 26, 2012 at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach, CA. Based on the life of famous writer Federico Garcia Lorca and his murder by Fascists during the Spanish Civil War, Ainadamar celebrates Lorca’s fight for artistic, political and personal freedom. (more...)
Nominee Reactions: John Lithgow for THE COLUMNIST - 'Taking the Cast out for Drinks...and They're Big Drinkers!'by BWW - May 1, 2012"I'm feeling pretty high right now- it's wonderful! I'm so happy for the production and all of the people in the cast even though they weren't recognized. I feel like the play is getting some important recognition because of this. My publicist Mandy called me on the phone to give me the news this morning. I chose not watch the TV. I've done that before and it makes me a nervous wreck- it seems that 'L' comes too late in the alphabet for that. I have to do the show tonight and then I'm taking the cast out for drinks- and trust me, they're big drinkers!"
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Harriet Harris, Simon Jones Lead Guthrie Theater's HAY FEVER, Opens 3/10by BWW
News Desk - Mar 9, 2012The Guthrie Theater today announced complete casting for its first-ever production of Hay Fever, Noël Coward’s sensational and highly entertaining comedy of manners, playing March 10 – April 22, 2012, on the Wurtele Thrust Stage. (more...)
2012 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awardees Announcedby BWW News Desk - Mar 5, 2012Two-time Tony Award nominated costume designer Carrie Robbins, and scenic, lighting, costume designer and educator Lloyd Burlingame are among the 2012 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards recipients. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Friday, May 4, at 6:30pm, at the Hudson Theatre (145 West 44th Street). Ms. Robbins was selected to receive the 2012 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for costume design, and Mr. Burlingame will receive the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design. (more...)
THE OUTGOING TIDE Opens At Philadelphia Theatre Company 3/23-4/22by BWW
News Desk - Mar 23, 2012Philadelphia Theatre Company will present the second production and East Coast premiere of Barrymore Award-winning playwright Bruce Graham’s newest play The Outgoing Tide, running March 23-April 22 at PTC’s home at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard Streets). (more...)
Lark Play Development Center to Hold Grand Opening, 4/26by BWW News Desk - Apr 4, 2012The Lark, founded in 1994 as a laboratory for new voices and new ideas, is proud to announce the grand opening of the Lark Play Development Center, located at 311 West 43rd Street. To celebrate the addition of this new artistic center to the theater district, a Grand Opening event, organized by award-winning producer Bruce Cohen (American Beauty, Milk), will take place on Thursday, April 26, 2012 beginning at 7:00 p.m. (more...)
GODSPELL Star Telly Leung Plays Birdland, 5/14by BWW News Desk - Apr 4, 2012The Broadway at Birdland concert series today announced that Telly Leung, currently starring in Godspell, will be performing in concert on Monday, May 14 at 7pm. (more...)
ALLEGIANCE - A NEW AMERICAN MUSICAL Starring Lea Salonga & More Set for The Old Globe 2012-13 Season - Full Season Announcement, San Diegoby BWW News Desk - Apr 27, 2012The Old Globe’s 2012-13 Season will feature the World Premieres of two new musicals: Allegiance – A New American Musical by Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder by Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak. The season also includes George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion in celebration of the classic play’s 100th anniversary and the World Premiere of a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey and Kirsten Brandt. Two recent Broadway hits will make their San Diego debuts at the Globe: David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People and Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities. Rounding out the season are the West Coast Premiere of Bekah Brunstetter’s Be a Good Little Widow and the Southern California Premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size. (more...)
The Greene Space and TCG Welcome CHINGLISH Playwright David Henry Hwang, 5/7 by BWW News Desk - Apr 26, 2012On Monday, May 7th at 7pm, WNYC’s The Greene Space and Theater Communications Group will welcome Chinglish author DAVID HENRY HWANG. (more...)
Lark Play Development Center's Grand Opening Live-Streamed Tonightby BWW News Desk - Apr 26, 2012The Live-Stream of Lark Play Development Center's grand opening begins tonight, April 26 @ 6:30pm (EST). Go to www.larktheatre.org/GO.html to follow along with the festivies, or follow Lark on Twitter with the hashtag #LarkGO. (more...)
Theatre Communications Group and The Greene Space Continue Discussion Series With David Henry Hwang, 5/7by BWW News Desk - Apr 26, 2012Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR, announce the fourth event in the series, TCG Playwrights in Conversation: Discussions and Readings – An Evening with David Henry Hwang. In celebration of TCG’s 50th anniversary, events featuring conversations with TCG authors and featured artists are being presented at The Greene Space, WNYC and WQXR’s innovative broadcast studio and performance venue. (more...)
The Lark Play Development Center Opens Tonightby BWW News Desk - Apr 26, 2012The Lark today announced the grand opening of the Lark Play Development Center, located at 311 West 43rd Street. (more...)
David Henry Hwang Named Signature Theatre's 2012-13 Residency One Playwrightby BWW News Desk - Apr 2, 2012Signature Theatre today announced that Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang will be the Residency One Playwright for the 2012-2013 season at the company’s new home, The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenues). (more...)
Lynn Nottage, David Gallo et al. to Judge 4th Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, 5/7by BWW News Desk - Apr 19, 2012Jujamcyn Theaters (Jordan Roth, President) and True Colors Theatre Company (Kenny Leon, Co-Founding Artistic Director) have announced the judges and guest performers for the 4th Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition on Monday, May 7th at 7:00 p.m. at the August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street). The event, which is free and open to the public, features high school students from Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh and Seattle performing monologues by the late, legendary American playwright. (more...)
Long Beach Opera Interviews David Henry Hwang About AINADAMAR Libretto, 5/5by BWW News Desk - Apr 19, 2012Which came first, the music or the libretto? On Saturday, May 5, 2012, 4:00PM, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Andreas Mitisek, Artistic and General Director of Long Beach Opera, will interview Tony award-winning author David Henry Hwang about his libretto for Ainadamar, the opera by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov based on the life of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca and his murder by Fascists during the Spanish Civil War. (more...)
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