The Corsair 1857 - Articles Page 62

Sundance Institute today announced the acting company for its 2008 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, to be held July 7 to July 27 at the Sundance Resort in Utah. The 2008 ensemble company includes: Satya Bhabha, (Queens Boulevard) Reed Birney (Stuff Happens), J. Alex Brinson (The Happening), Amari Cheatom (Histoire du Soldat), Michael Chernus (Hunting and Gathering), Tracee Chimo (Water and Discarded Hair), Jennifer Dundas (Good as New), Greg Felden (Naked Will), Chinai Hardy (In the Red and Brown Water),Erin Hill (a-ha), Nicholas Hormann (The Little Foxes), Ella Joyce (Roc), Lisa Joyce (U.S. Drag), Christina Kirk (Well),David Margulies (Angels in America, 45 Seconds from Broadway, Wonderful Town), James McDaniel (Malcolm X), Kristine Nielsen (Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Green Bird), Deirdre O'Connell (In the Blood, 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore), Nija Okoro (August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone), Alison Pill (The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Susan Pourfar (The Last Sunday in June), Gita Reddy (Hindustan), Heidi Schreck (Major Barbara), Jeanine Serralles (Hold, Please), Lois Smith (The Trip to Bountiful, Buried Child, The Grapes of Wrath) and Susie Sokol (The Sound and the Fury).

The Big Sky Theatre Company is proud to present Tennessee Williams' 'Summer and Smoke' at The Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row.

The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization confirmed today that principal orchestral and vocal work has been completed for the first complete recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's ALLEGRO. A release date for the recording will be announced shortly.

2,000 Feet Away, starring Joseph Fiennes, has been extended by a week at west London's Bush Theatre.

CHINA THE WHOLE ENCHILADA will be performed at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Performing Arts at Pace University.

TheatreWorks, the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, presents Silicon Valley with its first look at John Patrick Shanley's gripping Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play DOUBT, A Parable.

Peter Hall's latest staging of Shakespeare's Love's Labour Lost will be the first full production to be presented in Kingston's Rose Theatre. The theater opened officially in January after several years of fundraising and development.

On Monday, August 4th, at 8:00pm the New Globe Theater will be presenting VARIATIONS ON SHAKESPEARE: An Evening of Songs Inspired by the Bard. This benefit concert will highlight songs from musicals based on the works of William Shakespeare with performances by some of Broadway's hottest stars

Daniel Evans who recently starred in the Broadway production of Sunday In The Park With George, will be re-uniting with Oliver Award Winner Maria Friedman in Swell Party. Swell Party is a concert celebrating the life of musician Cole Porter at London's Cadogan Hall. The concert will run for four nights only, August 6th-9th 2008.

Rupert Goold will direct Michael Gambon, David Bradley, David Walliams and Nick Dunning in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, opening at the Duke of York's Theatre on 27 September 2008, with press night on 7 October 2008.

Scott Wolf and JoBeth Williams have been announced to join the cast of LA Theater Works' production of 'Broadway Bound' at the Skirball Center. Wolf replaced the previously announced Josh Radnor as 'Eugene Morris Jerome'. Williams will be taking on the role of 'Kate'.

When the lease on its Tribeca home expires on July 31, 2008, Collective: Unconscious will close its doors for good. This decision comes on the heels of a massive plumbing problem that has rendered its lower level 'lobby' and backstage storage area unusable and has forced much of its previously announced UNDERGROUNDZERO FESTIVAL to seek new venues.

According to Variety legit consultant Deborah L. Clapp is the new interim exec director of the League of Chicago Theaters.

'Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants' Begins July 16th. Prince Trevor is a satire of Contemporary Politics, reflected in the Magic Mirror of Fairy Tales injected with 42 ccs of Shakespearean Verse, and dissected through the Ridiculous Theatrical style of Charles Ludlam.

Theater Oobleck's acclaimed production of Mickle Maher's fascinatingly hilarious 'The Strangerer' will play Barrow Street, marking that play's New York Premiere.

This morning it was announced that the Broadway League and Actors' Equity reached a tentative agreement in the contract negotiations which have been going on since the night June 30th, 2008 when the current contract expired. Both parties reached an agreement and released a joint statement this morning July 2nd.

A selection of 40 short plays, chosen from over 450 submissions by playwriting workshops, university theatre programs, and professional companies nationwide will be presented at the 33rd Annual Samuel French Inc.Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival on July 15th.

Direct from Spain, an exceptional and exciting event occurs when Rafael Amargo with his 18 member company perform 'Tiempo Meurto' with two special performances at Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street, between Broadway & Avenue of the Americas/6th Ave) on Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, September 21 at 3:00 pm.

Written and performed by Harnest, SACRED IS THE NEW PROFANE is told stylistically: mixing stand-up, story-telling and character driven scenes, Harnest portrays a breakdown that transformed into a break-through. Directed by Jeremy Bloom, the show begins performances on Friday, July 25th at Stage Left Studio, located at 438 W. 37th Street as part of the Ninth Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival.

The hilarious new musical comedy CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES will make its Chicago premiere at The North Shore Center for Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie, previewing September 10.

The Route 66 Theatre Company's first production will be the Chicago premiere of John Kolvenbach's ON AN AVERAGE DAY, co-produced with the Vs. Theatre Company of Los Angeles.

THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES plays at the Vaudeville Theatre (404 The Strand, London WC2R 0NH) with previews beginning 10 July 2008 and opening16 July 2008.