LITTLE WOMEN, XANADU, & More Set for TMP's Upcoming SeasonJune 10, 2011Just imagine! TMP is all ready to move into our 18th season of award-winning musical theater in Tacoma! Our incredible 2011-2012 season is packed full of characters, music and stories to fill the imagination and transport you to another time or place, all season long. The season will include six Broadway style musicals on the TMP Mainstage and three equally exciting productions just for families from the Tacoma Children's Musical Theater.
Gary Beach, Eric Kunze, et al. Set for California Musical Theatre's Music Circus SeasonJune 10, 2011Casting for the 61st Music Circus season has been completed. After auditioning performers in New York, Los Angeles and Sacramento, California Musical Theatre Artistic Director Glenn Casale has finalized the acting company for the seven-show season at the Wells Fargo Pavilion, including The Producers, Oliver!, Anything Goes, Camelot, Annie Get Your Gun, I Do! I Do! and Miss Saigon.
THE FOOL'S LEAR Plays Fells Point Corner Theatre, 6/24-26June 10, 2011Fells Point Corner Theatre welcomes Nomad Theatrical Company of New York City in their touring production of The Fool's Lear, written by, directed by, and starring brothers, Randy and Grant Neale. The Fool's Lear is here for one weekend only! Don't miss this hilarious new play!
Second Show Added to Ronnie Milsap Concert 8/6June 10, 2011An additional 2 p.m. concert appearance has been added to the schedule for country great Ronnie Milsap, whose Spencer Theater show at 8 p.m. Saturday, August 6 was rapidly selling to capacity. A few rows of seats are still available to the evening performance, but the 2 p.m. matinee provides an additional 500+ seats for fans to fill.
Chautauqua Theater Company Announces New Play Workshop Festival, 7/21-31June 10, 2011Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Ethan McSweeny are pleased to announce the four writers at the center of CTC's new play development work in Summer 2011: Kate Fodor will be in residence as the very first recipient of the Chautauqua Play Commission. Her residency will correspond with the New Play Workshop Festival that will feature fully staged readings of plays by Michael Golamco, Michael Mitnick and Molly Smith Metzler.
'Swamp Loggers' Premieres Second Season 6/17June 10, 2011All-new Season 2 of SWAMP LOGGERS kicks off with a new crew member, some difficult neighbors and a crippling winter storm that threatens to stop the crews cold on their tracts.
Atlantic Theater Company Concludes Season With 10X25, 6/15-26June 10, 2011Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) concludes its 25th Anniversary season with a celebration of its history with 10x25, an all-commissioned, one-act festival of ten-minute plays by twenty-five of the extraordinary playwrights who have been produced there since 1985.
SPIDER-MAN's TV Carpio Performs at Splash Curtain Call, 6/20June 10, 2011Splash's Musical Mondays is proud to present a very special edition of 'Curtain Call' with Broadway's T.V. Carpio. On June 20th, directly following the video clip extravaganza, host Emily McNamara welcomes T.V. as she makes her 'Curtain Call' debut.
ABC's 'Shark Tank' Casting Now for Season ThreeJune 10, 2011The producers of the ABC reality series 'Shark Tank' are on a nationwide search to discover the next successful - and possibly wealthy - entrepreneurs, inventors, businesspersons, dreamers, promoters, creators and innovators. In each episode, budding entrepreneurs are given the unprecedented chance to make their business dreams come true.
THE BOOK OF MORMON Cast Recording Available For $1.99!June 9, 2011The complete Original Broadway Cast Recording for THE BOOK OF MORMON will be available for digital download for $1.99 from Amazon.com, starting tonight at midnight, Pacific Time. The special offer will be available for four days only through Monday, June 13 at midnight, Pacific Time. Visit www.amazon.com/bookofmormon for download information.
DONNA/MADONNA Receives Limited Run at Lounge Theatre, 7/6-8/10June 9, 2011Rizzo 39 Productions has announced a limited engagement of Donna/Madonna at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood. This new solo show, written and performed by John Paul Karliak, is directed by Tiger Reel and Matthew Craig. Donna/Madonna is set to open on Wednesday, July 6 and play a limited engagement through August 10 only.
SMASH Among Critics' Choice Nominees for 'Most Exciting New Series'June 9, 2011BroadwayWorld.com previously reported that NBC has officially picked up the pilot entitled SMASH for a series to begin mid-season. The show is already generating positive buzz, and even some award recognition, nominated for the first Critics' Choice Television Awards in the category 'Most Exciting New Series.'
The Private Theatre Announces 2011 Summer Scene Study Intensive with John Gould RubinJune 9, 2011The Private Theatre's Summer Scene Intensive consists of 6 rigorous weeks of class. It is designed to work through three genres of scene study: Classical (Shakespeare, 15th Century drama, etc.), 19th & 20th Century (Chekhov, Ibsen, Shaw, etc.), and Contemporary scenes. Everyone will work during every class and it is expected that everyone rehearse outside of class. The final class will be open to the public.