HALLIE FOOTE ANNOUNCED FOR THE ORPHANS’ HOME CYCLE AT HARTFORD STAGE AND SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY

TONY AWARD NOMINEE HALLIE FOOTE ANNOUNCED FOR
THE CAST OF HORTON FOOTE’S
THE ORPHANS’ HOME CYCLE
A NINE PLAY, THREE PART WORLD PREMIERE,
TO BE CO-PRODUCED IN 2009-2010 SEASON BY
HARTFORD STAGE AND SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY
 
MICHAEL WILSON TO DIRECT HISTORIC PRODUCTION
 
 
2009 Tony Award nominee Hallie Foote (Dividing the Estate) will be featured in the cast of THE ORPHANS’ HOME [...]

JERSEY BOYS NATIONAL TOUR CELEBRATES 1000TH PERFORMANCE

JERSEY BOYS
NATIONAL TOUR
CELEBRATES 1,000TH PERFORMANCE
SATURDAY, MAY 30
 
The National Tour of JERSEY BOYS will play its 1,000th performance tomorrow, Saturday, May 30 at 2pm.  The JERSEY BOYS National Tour opened to rave reviews in San Francisco on December 1, 2006, played a record-breaking run in Los Angeles and is still breaking house records in cities across [...]

SPAMALOT OPENS TO RAVE REVIEWS IN SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

The North American tour of Monty Python’s SPAMALOT, opened last night at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theatre to a rave review in the San Francisco Chronicle .
 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/28/DDPF17PPUS.DTL
Review: ‘Monty Python’s Spamalot’
Robert Hurwitt
San Francisco Chronicle Theater Critic
Friday, May 29, 2009
Bring out your dead, San Francisco. “Monty Python’s Spamalot” has finally arrived in SHN’s Best of Broadway series, and [...]

THE 39 STEPS CELEBRATES 500 PERFORMANCES WITH CAKE

TONY KUSHNER AND GUTHRIE’S KUSHNER CELEBRATION FEATURED IN NEWSWEEK

http://www.newsweek.com/id/199929
 
Tony Kushner’s Day
The playwright at the heart of America’s cultural moment.
 
Jeremy McCarter
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Jun 8, 2009
“I wish I was an octopus,” says Roy Cohn in Angels in America,” a f–king octopus.” These days Tony Kushner, the man who wrote that line, is a f–king octopus. With life more chaotic than usual—good [...]

ROUNDABOUT ANNOUNCES BYE BYE BIRDIE PRINCIPAL CAST ON BROADWAY

ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY
Announces full principal casting!
 
 
John Stamos                    Gina Gershon
&
Bill Irwin  
in
BYE BYE BIRDIE
     Book by                                          Music by                                         Lyrics by
MICHAEL STEWART          CHARLES STROUSE               LEE ADAMS
 
with
Jayne Houdyshell   Dee Hoty
Matt Doyle     Molly Ephraim     Jake Evan Schwencke      Allie Trimm
&
As “Conrad Birdie”
Nolan Gerard Funk
 
Directed and Choreographed by ROBERT LONGBOTTOM
 
Preview performances begin Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Opening [...]

GUTHRIE’S WORLD PREMIERE OF KUSHNER’S INTELLIGENT HOMOSEXUAL’S GUIDE REVIEWED IN VARIETY

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940362.html?categoryid=33&cs=1
Regional
The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism
With a Key to the Scriptures
 (Guthrie Theater/McGuire Proscenium Stage, Minneapolis; 700 seats; $60 top)
By QUINTON SKINNER
A Guthrie Theater presentation of a play in three acts by Tony Kushner. Directed by Michael Greif.
 
Adam Butler – Mark Benninghofen
Benedicta Immacolata Marcantonio (Bennie) – Kathleen Chalfant
Sooze Moon Marcantonio – Sun [...]

CAST ANNOUNCED FOR THE NEIL SIMON PLAYS BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS AND BROADWAY BOUND

CAST ANNOUNCED FOR
THE NEIL SIMON PLAYS
 
NEW PRODUCTIONS OF
BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and BROADWAY BOUND,
DIRECTED BY DAVID CROMER
 
CAST FEATURES LAURIE METCALF AND DENNIS BOUTSIKARIS, WITH  
SANTINO FONTANA, JOSH GRISETTI, JESSICA HECHT, ALLAN MILLER,
NOAH ROBBINS AND ALEXANDRA SOCHA
 
BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS OPENS OCTOBER 25, 2009
BROADWAY BOUND OPENS DECEMBER 10, 2009
ON BROADWAY AT A THEATRE TO [...]

KRISTINA CONCERT TO STAR HELEN SJÖHOLM, RUSSELL WATSON

HELEN SJÖHOLM and RUSSELL WATSON
 
TO STAR IN
 
BENNY ANDERSSON & BJÖRN ULVAEUS’
KRISTINA
A CONCERT EVENT AT CARNEGIE HALL
 
Featuring a Symphony Orchestra Conducted by
PAUL GEMIGNANI
 
TICKETS ON SALE THIS SUNDAY, MAY 31
 
 
Helen Sjöholm, who originated the title role in the Swedish production of KRISTINA, and internationally renowned tenor Russell Watson, will headline the concert version of Benny Andersson and [...]

EXIT THE KING’S GEOFFREY RUSH SPEAKS TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

EXIT THE KING’S
GEOFFREY RUSH
SPEAKS TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 
“Geoffrey Rush as King Berenger is giving one of the
Greatest virtuoso performances I’ve ever seen.”
–John Heilpern, NY Observer
 
EXIT THE KING NOW PLAYING AT THE BARRYMORE THEATRE
THROUGH JUNE 14 ONLY
 
www.ExitTheKingonBroadway.com 
 
How Geoffrey Rush wooed Susan Sarandon to Broadway
May 27, 2009
By MARK KENNEDY
NEW YORK (AP) — Geoffrey Rush [...]