The Corsair 1857 - Articles Page 137

Working Theater, the New York-based theater company that has been devoted to producing new plays since the company began in 1985, including the popular plays Tabletop (Rob Ackerman), Hold Please (Annie Weisman) and I Am a Man (OyamO) -- presents the Off-Broadway premiere of Our Dad is in Atlantis by Mexican playwright Javier Malpica, with an English translation by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas (Blind Mouth Singing).

'Sweet Mama Stringbean', an entertaining jukebox musical based on the life of Ethel Waters, produced by Woodie King's New Federal Theatre, has a brilliantly talented cast that more than make up for the script's weaknesses.

Touring productions of Monty Python's Spamalot and Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady evenly split eight of the 10 Stock Road Show Awards with Chita Rivera - The Dancer's Life and Camelot taking home one each.

BROADWAY BARES 18: WONDERLAND will be held on Sunday, June 22 with two performances only (9:30 PM & Midnight) at Roseland Ballroom (239 West 52nd Street). BROADWAY BARES 18: WONDERLAND is produced by and benefits Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS.

REVIEW: One of Kander and Ebb's lost jewels is wonderfully revived at Virginia's Signature Theatre.

Get $10 off tickets to the smash hit drama 'A Steady Rain' on any rainy day in April!

A Broadway Baker's Dozen of great talents will took The Town Hall stage by storm on Monday, April 7 at 8pm when Broadway by the Year saluted 1954. Songs from famous shows like The Pajama Game, Peter Pan, The Boy Friend, and Fanny were featured in this critically acclaimed concert series that is now in its 8th Season.

Jamie McGonnigal and Joe's Pub presented the 4th incarnation of their hit concert series It's a Bird…It's a Plane…It's Flopz n' Cutz 4 on Sunday, April 6th 2008

Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, April 9th for Signature Theatre Company's (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) world premiere production of Tony® and Academy Award®-winning actress Mercedes Ruehl and two-time Emmy® winner and Tony® nominee Larry Bryggman in EDWARD ALBEE'S OCCUPANT directed by Pam MacKinnon. Mr. Albee was Signature's 1993-1994 Playwright-in-Residence. EDWARD ALBEE'S OCCUPANT begins performances on May 6, 2008 and continues through June 29 at The Peter Norton Space located at 555 West 42nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues). The production will have its official opening on June 5th.

The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, a not-for-profit organization supporting the Off-Off-Broadway community, released the findings of their statistical analysis of Off-Off Broadway's budgets today.

The world premiere of the supercalifragilistic new original full-scale musical production of 'PAZZAZZ!' will open at Santa Barbara's Grand New Performing Arts Center on June 21st. The production will star Dale Kristien, Adam Wylie and Alan Rachins with words and music by Milt Larsen and Oscar winning composer Richard M. Sherman (Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).

The comic genius of Harold Lloyd meets the musical genius of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra as LACO presents the 19th Annual Silent Film Gala, with co-chairs Hanna Kennedy and Roger Mayer as well as seven-time Honorary Chairman Academy Award-winning actor Dustin Hoffman. The evening will feature Harold Lloyd's 1928 film entitled Speedy, with an extended cameo by Babe Ruth. Joel McNeely conducts the score by Carl Davis.

Steppenwolf celebrates its 32nd season with Gala 2008 on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 1650 N. Halsted St.

NEW THIS WEEK! Audition notices! New Theatre Company Offers Open House! New shows at FPCT, LMP, and the Theatre Project! More!!

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) artistic director Carey Perloff today announced the final casting and design team for A.C.T.'s 30th anniversary production of Sam Shepard's classic interrogation of the American dream, Curse of the Starving Class

ACT is thrilled to stage the world premiere of Fathers and Sons by Michael Bradford. Fathers and Sons is the third project to be produced as a part of the Hansberry Project at ACT, a professional Black theatre company dedicated to the artistic exploration of African American life, history, and culture.

A Class Act NY, New York's premier Acting Studio for kids & teens, has announced that Steve Blanchard, the Beast for a record eight years from BEAUTY & THE BEAST will be teaching a Mixed Level Musical Theatre Workshop in conjunction with A Class Act NY on Saturday, June 14th from 11 am to 3 pm at Ripley-Grier Studios-520 8th Ave-16th Floor.

Kris Marshall will star as 'Carter', Joanna Page as 'Jeannie', Ella Smith as 'Helen' and Robert Webb as 'Tom' in the UK premiere of Neil LaBute's comedy 'FAT PIG', which will open at the Trafalgar Studios in London on Tuesday 27 May, following previews from 16 May. The limited season will finish on 6 September.

Broadway stars Lillias White, Alice Ripley, Brian d' Arcy James, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Anthony Rapp, Laura Osnes, and Billy Porter will take the stage alongside members of Second Stage Theatre's Board of Trustees for the Company's first ever SECOND STAGE THEATRE PRO-AM NIGHT ('Pro as in professional / 'Am' as in amateur) on Monday April 21, 2008 at Hammerstein Ballroom (311 West 34th street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

For its annual summer festival of contemporary opera, music and theatre, the Almeida Theatre will present a programme which includes the London premiere of An Ocean of Rain, a specially commissioned opera by Yannis Kyriakides and Daniel Danis, the European premiere of Adam Rapp's Nocturne and British African Theatre Company Tiata Fahodzi's first week long residency at the Almeida.

Amas Musical Theatre's Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Academy (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director; Rosetta LeNoire, Founder) will present the Tony Award-Winning musical Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical, by Eve Merriam, with a score by Helen Miller. Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical will open on Friday, May 9 and run through the 18th at the American Theatre of Actors (314 West 54th St.)

SHLOMO The New Musical, about the life and music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, plays a three-week limited engagement, April 22nd - May 9th at the Edmund J. Safra Hall at The Museum of Jewish Heritage (36 Battery Place). Featuring music by Carlebach, a book by Daniel S. Wise (Rent, producer of the world tour), lyrics and direction by David Schechter (Drama Desk nominee for Hannah Senesh) and additional material by Carlebach's daughter, Neshama Carlebach, SHLOMO The New Musical tells the story of the foremost innovator in Jewish Music of the 20th Century, and one of the most pivotal, unconventional and controversial Jewish personalities of the post WWII generation.