Jeff Dennhardt - Page 8

Wendy Moore, author of the popular novel 'Wedlock,' will pen a novel based on real life Eliza Doolittle, Sabrina Sidney, the basis for the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion and the hit Lerner and Lowe musical, My Fair Lady. The novel, entitled 'How to Create the Perfect Wife,' is currently in publication negotiations.

5 Additional GLAAD Media Award winners were announced at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on April 17th. Winners included GLEE, 'A Single Man,' and the Los Angeles play, LYDIA, by Octavio Solis. The awards were presented at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza.

Comedian Nick Thune will replace Patton Oswalt in the upcoming pilot 'Beach Lane,' starring Matthew Broderick and Kristen Johnston.

Stage and screen star James Aubrey died earlier this month at the age of 62. Aubrey made his screen acting debut in the 1963 adaptation of Lord of the Flies. He performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company during their 1974-1975 season at several British theatres, including the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Comedy Theatre, and the Old Vic.

SHORT LOVE at the OHIO is a festival of short works by award-winning playwrights Bekah Brunstetter (OOHRAH!, Atlantic Theater), Dan Kitrosser (Night of the Butterfly, 45 Bleecker Theatre) and Justin Swain (OtherLife, American Place Theater) all woven together to into that big wicker basket we call Love, playing Wednesday - Saturday, April 21st - April 24th at 7pm, at The Ohio Theatre.

LET MY PEOPLE COME - The Party!, Earl Wilson, Jr.s ultra-hot sexual musical revue adapted from his precedent setting, barrier-breaking 1970s hit show, opens Monday, April 19 at 5 and 8 PM, for a three-week engagement at New York City's popular Ritz Bar and Lounge, 369 West 46th Street, in Manhattan.

On May 6th, 7th, and 8th, New Orleans Fringe presents the second annual Adult Petting Zoo, transforming the Marigny Theatre and Allways Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Avenue, into a den of theater antics and live unnatural acts. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased online at www.nofringe.org or at the door. Raising an eyebrow and asking yourself, 'Hmmm, just what is an Adult Petting Zoo?'? In addition to being a brazen initiative of FATI, the Fringe Alternative Theatre Incubator, and a welcoming platform for challenging, risky performances, Adult Petting Zoo brings together a range of original theater for a weekend affair that is titillating, thought-provoking, and fun.

Westwood Gallery will present a solo exhibition by New York artist Will Insley. ONECITY, envisioned by Insley, is a 675 mile square architectural labyrinth of mythology buried in the central North American plains. Through drawings, paintings, and photomontage the artists created a civilization based on his written manuscript leading to the concept of ONECITY. For over forty years, Insley created this ongoing project which was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, NYC in 1984.

The Rising Sun Performance Company will present a number of one acts on April 20th in order to allow audiences to select the upcoming plays for the 2010-2011 season. The readings will feature Via Cruces by Scott McMorrow, Blue Tuesday by Frank Anthony Polito, Residue by Stacey Lane, Nothing By Elena Naskova, and 14th Street by Laura Rohrman.

Three Cat Productions celebrates the birthday of the legendary Barbra Streisand with the third annual 'Bab Fab: The Barbra Streisand Birthday Celebration'. It kicks off on April 23rd with a Streisand connoisseur Matt Howe, and then continues with two great performances of Streisand's work on April 24th and 25th. All performances can be found at the Skokie Theatre Music Foundation. A portion of the proceeds benefit BEHIV and Three Cat Education.

TheaterLab will present an acting workshop hosted by Carlo Altomare. The Objective Acting Workshop will be an introduction to the non-fictional aspects of the art of acting. The workshop will take place April 24 from 11:00am to 5:00pm.

Southern Rep, now in its 23rd season, welcomes Mark Routhier to the newly created staff position of Associate Artistic Director. In addition to significant new work development and dramaturgical support of SRT activities, Mark will manage the programming and oversight of Southern Rep's new Second Stage life at Le Chat Noir.

Thirty seven of the nation's top high school student actors, musicians, singers, dancers, writers, photographers, visual artists and filmmakers will travel to New York City for an intensive week of interdisciplinary artistic workshops and performances, April 17-23, sponsored by YoungArts, the core program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. The students, YoungArts Gold and Silver winners from all across the country, will perform and exhibit at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and Affirmation Arts Gallery during the 2010 In the Studio Week, a Celebration of YoungArts Gold and Silver Winners.

Megan Mullally will join the cast of the Starz's television hit, 'Party Down.' Mullally joins the cast after the departure of GLEE star Jane Lynch, who starred in season one. Lynch left the show in order to continue her work on GLEE. Mullally's character will debut April 23rd.

The German Music Authors' Awards will honor lyricist and librettist Michael Kunze, presented on April 22 at the Axica building in Berlin. Kunze has worked extensively translating Broadway musicals, as well as the composer for Elisabeth, Tanz der Vampire, and Mozart!

According to a recent Tweet from pop star Lady Gaga, the singer will appear on the hit television show 'American Idol' on May 5th. The tweet read 'See you on American Idol. May 5th, Little Monsters.'

Dobbs Ferry's own Rebecca Spencer ('Jekyll & Hyde') will be the final act for The Castle on the Hudson's Cabaret at The Castle series. The performance will take place May 16th at 8 p.m.

Gossip will perform with special guests Rye Rye and Phenomenal Handclap Band at Terminal 5 on April 30th at 8:00pm.

Beginning April 23 for three weekends, the women from Jerry Herman's hit musicals will grace the Alden Theatre stage in his cabaret-style revue -- appropriately styled Jerry's Girls. Nine talented vocalists from all over the Washington area will sing and dance their way through more than thirty of Herman's tunes, including the title numbers from Mame, Hello Dolly! and Milk and Honey.

The Southern Colorado Repertory Theatre (SCRT) announces its 2010 summer performance season, the not-for-profit theatre company's eighth in Trinidad and one with changes on the horizon.