GOD OF CARNAGE Featured In The Daily NewsJuly 20, 2009Broadway?s hottest new play God of Carnage is featured in The Daily News. Joe Dziemianowicz writes about how the Tony nominated cast members plan to spend their summer vacations. The Tony award winning Best New Play starring Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden will resume performances on Tuesday, September 8 and continue through Saturday, November 14.
Imagination Players And KD Studio Present LES MISERABLES, School Edition 7/17-19July 19, 2009Imagination Players will perform four shows of the much-loved musical, Les Miserables, in the KD Studio Theatre. The show, wich is directed by Linda Leonard and has musical direction by Lynn Ambrose will be performed July 17 at 7pm, July 18 at 2pm and 7pm, July 19 at 2pm. Tickets cost $17 - general, $10 - youth (12 and under). Tickets are available through KD Studio:
214*219*2718 or www.kdstudio.com.
THE PRODUCERS Ends Its Run At CPCC Summer Theater 7/25July 19, 2009CPCC Summer Theatre will present the final three performances of Mel Brooks? The Producers on July 24 & 25 at 8:00pm, July 23 at 7:00pm in the Halton Theater on the CPCC Central Campus. Single tickets are $21.00/17.00/15.00. Further ticket options available at tix.cpcc.edu or by calling the box office.
Rice, Beyer To Join Cast Of Broadway Meows On 7/20July 18, 2009Sarah Rice, the original Johanna from the original Sweeney Todd and Elyse Beyer, recent star of the off-Broadway show, Judy and Me round out the cast of Broadway Meows this Monday night at Don't Tell Mama.
Ignite Your Imaginiation At Cal Shakes' Costume Shop Sale 8/6-9July 16, 2009The California Shakespeare Theater costume department has just completed a huge reorganization of its inventory, and the result is tons and tons of costumes, wigs, and accessories, to be sold to the public at thrift-store prices for a few days only. 35 years? worth of hats, armor, capes, Renaissance and Tudor, unique modern pieces?a little bit of everything! Perfect for Burning Man costumes, Ren Faire, Halloween, and what-have-you.
Previews For The Falcon Theatre's OEDIPUS THE KING, MAMA Begin 8/12July 16, 2009The Falcon Theatre presents the Troubadour Theater Company's Oedipus the King, Mama!, the first production in its 2009-2010 Subscription Season. It's the Maternal Musical that mashes up Sophocles' ?Oedipus the King? with the music of the King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley. Oedipus has a Burning Love and he Can't Help Falling in Love with his Mama. So Don't Be Cruel and miss this musical parody by the theater company the Los Angeles Times calls ?The Masters of Musical Spoofery.?
Globe Receives Edgerton Award In Support Of World Premiere Of Leslie Bricusse's SAMMYJuly 16, 2009Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced that the Edgerton Foundation's New American Play Award has been granted to The Old Globe in support of the world premiere of Sammy. The $75,000 award will allow for an extension of the rehearsal period of Sammy, a new musical based on the life of Sammy Davis, Jr. with book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. Directed by Keith Glover, Sammy will run in the Old Globe Theatre Sept. 19 ? Nov. 8, 2009. (The cast and creative team have not yet been announced.)
East West Players' 44th Anniversary Season Emphasizes The Major Presence And Value Of Art With ART, PO BOY TANGO, CAVE QUEST, And ROAD TO SAIGONJuly 15, 2009East West Players' (EWP) 44th Anniversary Season includes a white painting costing 200k, a Chinese cooking show, a video game about world peace according to Buddhist, and an inside look at performer who played the lead role of Kim of Miss Saigon. This season, themed Art is... includes Art, by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, Po Boy Tango by Kenneth Lin, Cave Quest by Les Thomas and Road to Saigon developed and directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera.