By Byrne Harrison
A look at the now lost Union Square Theater on Jeremiah's Vanishing New York.
The marquee of the new Stephen Sondheim Theatre will be unveiled and lighted at a 6:30 PM ceremony Sept. 15 at 124 W. 43rd Street in Manhattan's Broadway theatre district.
Shakespeare . . . in Klingon.
Provincetown actor and Ghost Hunter Academy winner Adam Berry gets interviewed by GhostHunterFans.net.
This Thursday, Sept. 2, 6:30 pm Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th St. THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF US STAGE DIRECTORS, A Presentation by Segal Center Scholar Sophie Proust.
Good article featuring Tony Kushner.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival's Beautiful Burnout coming to NY.
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the live version.
Vanessa Redgrave does not like Broadway buffoonery.
Beginning Tuesday, September 7th and continuing through Sunday, September 19th, many Off-Broadway shows will offer seats still available twenty minutes before the curtain for only $20.
Playbill Backstage features a behind the scenes look at The 39 Steps.
Great Peter Scolari interview about It Must Be Him.
Is Bryan Batt heading back to "Mad Men"?
Gavin Creel heading to the UK for three shows.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
Theatre Shorts
By Byrne Harrison
-- Bid on a limited edition Al Hirschfeld print of Bernadette Peters as Annie Oakley in the 1999 Broadway Revival of "Annie Get Your Gun." Proceeds benefit Broadway Barks.
-- And speaking of Broadway Barks, on Saturday, July 10, Kristin Chenoweth, Kelsey Grammer and Sean Hayes will be among the many stars joining founders and cohosts Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters for the 12th annual edition of Broadway Barks, the all-star dog and cat adopt-a-thon featuring more of your favorite celebrities presenting adorable, but temporarily down-on-their-luck, dogs and cats from more than 25 New York area shelters and rescue organizations.
-- Even more Broadway Barks news! A Little Night Music's Hunter Ryan Herdlicka appeared on WPIX's morning show to talk about Broadway Barks 12.
-- Did you know you can get lots of theatre discounts by joining WNET's Kids Club 13? Save money at The Gazillion Bubble Show, Manhattan Children's Theatre, The Shadow Box Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, TADA! Youth Theatre, and more.
-- There's just a little time left to join the New York Neo-Futurists Basic Training Level I Workshop.
-- Redd Tale Theatre Company dives into its seventh season with Shakespeare's classic, Macbeth, and a new adaptation of the French classic The Triumph of Love by Will Le Vasseur. Both are directed by Artistic Director, Will Le Vasseur.
-- Bid on a limited edition Al Hirschfeld print of Bernadette Peters as Annie Oakley in the 1999 Broadway Revival of "Annie Get Your Gun." Proceeds benefit Broadway Barks.
-- And speaking of Broadway Barks, on Saturday, July 10, Kristin Chenoweth, Kelsey Grammer and Sean Hayes will be among the many stars joining founders and cohosts Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters for the 12th annual edition of Broadway Barks, the all-star dog and cat adopt-a-thon featuring more of your favorite celebrities presenting adorable, but temporarily down-on-their-luck, dogs and cats from more than 25 New York area shelters and rescue organizations.-- Even more Broadway Barks news! A Little Night Music's Hunter Ryan Herdlicka appeared on WPIX's morning show to talk about Broadway Barks 12.
-- Did you know you can get lots of theatre discounts by joining WNET's Kids Club 13? Save money at The Gazillion Bubble Show, Manhattan Children's Theatre, The Shadow Box Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, TADA! Youth Theatre, and more.
-- There's just a little time left to join the New York Neo-Futurists Basic Training Level I Workshop.
-- Redd Tale Theatre Company dives into its seventh season with Shakespeare's classic, Macbeth, and a new adaptation of the French classic The Triumph of Love by Will Le Vasseur. Both are directed by Artistic Director, Will Le Vasseur.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Theatre Shorts
By Byrne Harrison
-- Mark W. Jones, Executive Director of the Paper Mill Playhouse in NJ, resigns.
-- Dance New Amsterdam faces possible eviction.
-- The Midtown International Theatre Festival announces this season's shows. The festival runs from July 12-August 1.
-- Academy, the 2009 New York Musical Theatre (NYMF) selection to the 2010 Daegu International Musical Festival (DIMF) in Daegu, South Korea has been awarded The Best Musical Prize at the Festival. Academy has book, music and lyrics by John Mercurio and was conceived and developed by Andrew Kato. Academy won The 2009 NYMF Awards for Excellence for Best Ensemble and Best Music. Actor Corey Boardman also wins the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for the entire festival.
The NYMF/DIMF production exchange will continue with Korea’s homegrown musical Special Letter at the 2010 New York Musical Theater Festival. Written by Book and Lyrics by In Seon Park, Music by Chang Wook Ma, Special Letter is a rambunctious comedy about a soldier whose pen pal is not who she seem.
-- John Tartaglia presents music from his new Off-Broadway production Imaginocean! at Barnes & Noble (86th and Lexington) on Wednesday July 28 at 7:00 PM. Tartaglia and cast members will sign copies of the CD.
-- Broadway favorite Mary Testa will be Valerie Smaldone's special guest on her new WOR Radio program "Valerie's New York" this Friday, July 9th at 11:20 AM to discuss I'll Be Damned, currently running at The Vineyard's Dimson Theatre. The interview can be heard live at wor710.com. See photos from the production here.
-- The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) has announced the selections for its 22nd Annual Festival of New Musicals taking place on Thursday, October 21 and Friday, October 22, 2010 in New York City.
-- Brooklyn's TKTS booth turns 2 years old on Saturday.
-- Israel Hicks, a prolific stage director who in 2009 completed a nearly 20-year project directing August Wilson’s entire decade-by-decade cycle about the black experience in 20th-century America, died on Saturday in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
-- Julianne Moore's "Freckleface Strawberry" to hit Off-Broadway as a musical.
-- The Brick presents Game Play: A Celebration of Video Game Performance Art. The festival runs from July 9th-25th.
-- For those in the Philly area, People's Light & Theatre's The Secret of Sherlock Holmes opens this week.
-- Two-time Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch returns to Fire Island Pines on Saturday, July 17 and Sunday, July 18 to host Fire Island Dance Festival 16 (FIDF 16), the premier cultural event of the summer benefiting Dancers Responding to AIDS (DRA). This year's festival will include performances by eleven dance companies and artists including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, MOMIX, Camille A. Brown, ABT principal Marcelo Gomes and more all performed outdoors against the stunning backdrop of the Great South Bay.
-- Are you a student looking for cheap (and possibly free) tickets to Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. StudentRush.org is just for you.
-- Exhibitionistic daters can put their love lives in the spotlight at the Fix-Up Show, a weekly Love Connection–type stage spectacle.
-- If you don't have 12 hours to see The Demons this weekend on Governors Island, you can still hear director Peter Stein discuss the production this Friday at Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse in the Rose Building, 165 West 65th Street.
-- The undergroundzero festival discussed on WNYC.org.
-- Mark W. Jones, Executive Director of the Paper Mill Playhouse in NJ, resigns.
-- Dance New Amsterdam faces possible eviction.
-- The Midtown International Theatre Festival announces this season's shows. The festival runs from July 12-August 1.
-- Academy, the 2009 New York Musical Theatre (NYMF) selection to the 2010 Daegu International Musical Festival (DIMF) in Daegu, South Korea has been awarded The Best Musical Prize at the Festival. Academy has book, music and lyrics by John Mercurio and was conceived and developed by Andrew Kato. Academy won The 2009 NYMF Awards for Excellence for Best Ensemble and Best Music. Actor Corey Boardman also wins the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for the entire festival.
The NYMF/DIMF production exchange will continue with Korea’s homegrown musical Special Letter at the 2010 New York Musical Theater Festival. Written by Book and Lyrics by In Seon Park, Music by Chang Wook Ma, Special Letter is a rambunctious comedy about a soldier whose pen pal is not who she seem.
-- John Tartaglia presents music from his new Off-Broadway production Imaginocean! at Barnes & Noble (86th and Lexington) on Wednesday July 28 at 7:00 PM. Tartaglia and cast members will sign copies of the CD.-- Broadway favorite Mary Testa will be Valerie Smaldone's special guest on her new WOR Radio program "Valerie's New York" this Friday, July 9th at 11:20 AM to discuss I'll Be Damned, currently running at The Vineyard's Dimson Theatre. The interview can be heard live at wor710.com. See photos from the production here.
-- The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) has announced the selections for its 22nd Annual Festival of New Musicals taking place on Thursday, October 21 and Friday, October 22, 2010 in New York City.
-- Brooklyn's TKTS booth turns 2 years old on Saturday.
-- Israel Hicks, a prolific stage director who in 2009 completed a nearly 20-year project directing August Wilson’s entire decade-by-decade cycle about the black experience in 20th-century America, died on Saturday in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
-- Julianne Moore's "Freckleface Strawberry" to hit Off-Broadway as a musical.-- The Brick presents Game Play: A Celebration of Video Game Performance Art. The festival runs from July 9th-25th.
-- For those in the Philly area, People's Light & Theatre's The Secret of Sherlock Holmes opens this week.
-- Two-time Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch returns to Fire Island Pines on Saturday, July 17 and Sunday, July 18 to host Fire Island Dance Festival 16 (FIDF 16), the premier cultural event of the summer benefiting Dancers Responding to AIDS (DRA). This year's festival will include performances by eleven dance companies and artists including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, MOMIX, Camille A. Brown, ABT principal Marcelo Gomes and more all performed outdoors against the stunning backdrop of the Great South Bay.
-- Are you a student looking for cheap (and possibly free) tickets to Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. StudentRush.org is just for you.
-- Exhibitionistic daters can put their love lives in the spotlight at the Fix-Up Show, a weekly Love Connection–type stage spectacle.
-- If you don't have 12 hours to see The Demons this weekend on Governors Island, you can still hear director Peter Stein discuss the production this Friday at Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse in the Rose Building, 165 West 65th Street.
-- The undergroundzero festival discussed on WNYC.org.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Theatre Shorts
By Byrne Harrison
-- Broadway in Bryant Park kicks off on Thursday, July 8th from 12:30-1:30 PM featuring the casts of STOMP, Promises, Promises, In the Heights, and Nunsense. Broadway in Bryant Park is every Thursday through August 12th. See the full schedule here.
-- The undergroundzero festival starts today and runs through the 26th.
-- Pulitzer and Tony-winning playwright David Mamet, currently represented on Broadway with the play Race, will be a guest on Charlie Rose Wednesday, July 7th at 11 PM EST on PBS.
-- Jane Krakowski will perform and sign copies of her first solo album, "Jane Krakowski: The Laziest Gal in Town" at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle on Tuesday, July 13th at 5 PM.
-- Cast members from The Addams Family will perform and sign copies of the cast album at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle on Thursday, July 15th at 4:30 PM.
-- Three-time Tony Award winner Carol Channing and cabaret performer Richard Skipper will be appearing at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle on July 23 at 6 PM to discuss Channing's career and her new album of classics and gospel, "For Heaven's Sake."
-- Broadway in Bryant Park kicks off on Thursday, July 8th from 12:30-1:30 PM featuring the casts of STOMP, Promises, Promises, In the Heights, and Nunsense. Broadway in Bryant Park is every Thursday through August 12th. See the full schedule here.
-- The undergroundzero festival starts today and runs through the 26th.
-- Pulitzer and Tony-winning playwright David Mamet, currently represented on Broadway with the play Race, will be a guest on Charlie Rose Wednesday, July 7th at 11 PM EST on PBS.
-- Jane Krakowski will perform and sign copies of her first solo album, "Jane Krakowski: The Laziest Gal in Town" at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle on Tuesday, July 13th at 5 PM.
-- Cast members from The Addams Family will perform and sign copies of the cast album at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle on Thursday, July 15th at 4:30 PM.
-- Three-time Tony Award winner Carol Channing and cabaret performer Richard Skipper will be appearing at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle on July 23 at 6 PM to discuss Channing's career and her new album of classics and gospel, "For Heaven's Sake."
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Theatre Shorts
By Byrne Harrison
The Writers Guild of America presented Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee with the Evelyn F. Burkey Award in Manhattan Feb. 20.
Wednesday, February 24th is Arts Day in Albany. Find out how to get involved here.
Tommy Femia will star in Norma Doesmen, a parody of Sunset Boulevard.
Queens Theatre in the Park and Bristol Riverside Theatre, in association with Neil Berg and Adam Friedson, will present a new production of the award-winning musical revue Closer Than Ever directed by Richard Malty. Jr. and starring original cast members Sally Mayes and Lynne Wintersteller from April 16-25.
Philadelphia Theatre Company announces that two-time Tony Award-nominee and film actress Kathleen Turner will star in the world premiere of Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins by Margaret Engel and Allison Engel.
To celebrate the extension of Yisrael Campbell's Circumsize Me, Ben's Deli on W. 38th Street unveiled The Circumsize Me BRIS-ket Sandwich, sliced brisket and cole-slaw on rye bread with a pickle (with the ends cut off, naturally) and chopped liver on the side.
Willard Morgan's Saint Hollywood extends through March 20th.
The Gerald Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents Zombie, an unflinching look into the disturbed mind of a serial killer, written and performed by Bill Connington, adapted from the novella of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates. The show was a big hit at the 2008 FringeNYC Festival.
Karen Finley extends her Kennedy/Obama inspired new work, The Jackie Look, through March 27 at the Laurie Beechman Theater.
The No Name Theater Company has a new website.
Scott Mason, a Dame Edna look-a-like from Delaware, was named the Dame’s Honorary Understudy in All About Me by judges Michael Riedel of the NYPost, NY1’s Frank DiLella and The Village Voice’s Michael Musto. Also on hand were guest judges Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna’s manager Barry Humphries. Judge for yourself.
The Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw St. Patrick's Day Gala is March 17th. Featuring an all-star cast playing all the WRONG roles: KATE BALDWIN · MICHAEL CERVERIS · GEORGE S. IRVING · CHARLOTTE MOORE · KATE MULGREW · JANE POWELL · MICHAEL RIEDEL DIANE STILWELL WEINBERG · TOM VIOLA with irish musicians, songs, dances and larks.
At their March 26th benefit, the Astoria Performing Arts Center will be honoring Assembly Member Michael Gianaris and Jack Rainey, Vice President, Government and Community Banking, TD Bank, for their contributions to the arts and the Astoria community.
The Play Company will bring together some of NYC's top chefs and theater artists for its seventh annual gala CABARET GOURMET 2010 -- a unique evening hosted by Bryan Batt, the beloved Broadway performer and star of the hit television series MAD MEN, with featured performance by Tony-nominee Barbara Walsh and savory and sweet dishes prepared by chefs from several of the city's most celebrated restaurants.
Ma-Yi Theater Company - the Off-Broadway, Obie Award-winning company dedicated to producing new works about the Asian-American experience - will present the world-premiere of Michi Barall's play RESCUE ME (A Post-modern classic with snacks) , an adaptation of Euripides Iphigenia in Taurus. The cast of eight includes the Obie Award-winning actor and playwright David Greenspan (Myopia, She Stoops to Comedy, Boys in the Band), Jennifer Ikeda (Top Girls, Seascape), Julian Barnett, Leon Ingulsrud, Postell Pringle, Paco Tolson, Oni Monifa Reneee Brown and Katherine Partington.
Casting continues for the upcoming Broadway production of Lucy Prebble’s Enron, directed by Rupert Goold. Noah Weisberg, Rightor Doyle, Ian Kahn, Mary Stewart Sullivan, Madisyn Shipman and January Lavoy join the already announced Norbert Leo Butz and Stephen Kunken.
Aaron Louis (Producing Director, 3LD Art & Technology Center) in association with New Georges and The Essentials, will present the world premiere of The Diary of a Teenage Girl, written by Marielle Heller, adapted from the hit graphic novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner, and directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde and Rachel Eckerling in a multi-media production. The cast includes Marielle Heller, Jon Krupp, Michael Laurence, Mariann Mayberry, and Nell Mooney.
Sin, a mystical comedy, based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story “The Unseen,” adapted by Mark Altman, will have it’s world premiere at the Baruch Performing Arts Center’s Rose Nagelberg Theatre.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is opening at The Gallery Players in Park Slope very soon.
The New York Neo-Futurists' The Soup Show opens on March 4th.
The Amoralists, the company behind The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, have announced their new season. On tap are the world premiere of Happy In The Poorhouse, written and directed by Derek Ahonen, the Off-Broadway premiere of Amerissiah, written and directed by Derek Ahonen, and the New York premiere of Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, written and directed by Obie Award-winner Adam Rapp.
What if Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski? Well, The Two Gentlemen of Lebowski has sold out it's entire run, so unless you have a ticket, you may never know.
Tony Award winner Betty Buckley has joined the cast of the new Off-Broadway comedy White's Lies, which begins previews at New World Stages March 22. She joins a cast that includes the previously reported Scott Patterson, Peter Scolari, Christy Carlson Romano, Rena Strober and Jimmy Ray Bennett. Producers of the Ben Andron play, which officially opens April 12, are Aaron Grant, Jana Robbins, Jeremy Handelman; Bob Cline directs.
The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization has announced the Christmas 2010 release of "The Sound of Music" on Blu-ray, which will include bonus and interactive material.
The Writers Guild of America presented Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee with the Evelyn F. Burkey Award in Manhattan Feb. 20.
Wednesday, February 24th is Arts Day in Albany. Find out how to get involved here.
Tommy Femia will star in Norma Doesmen, a parody of Sunset Boulevard.
Queens Theatre in the Park and Bristol Riverside Theatre, in association with Neil Berg and Adam Friedson, will present a new production of the award-winning musical revue Closer Than Ever directed by Richard Malty. Jr. and starring original cast members Sally Mayes and Lynne Wintersteller from April 16-25.
Philadelphia Theatre Company announces that two-time Tony Award-nominee and film actress Kathleen Turner will star in the world premiere of Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins by Margaret Engel and Allison Engel.
To celebrate the extension of Yisrael Campbell's Circumsize Me, Ben's Deli on W. 38th Street unveiled The Circumsize Me BRIS-ket Sandwich, sliced brisket and cole-slaw on rye bread with a pickle (with the ends cut off, naturally) and chopped liver on the side.
Willard Morgan's Saint Hollywood extends through March 20th.
The Gerald Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents Zombie, an unflinching look into the disturbed mind of a serial killer, written and performed by Bill Connington, adapted from the novella of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates. The show was a big hit at the 2008 FringeNYC Festival.
Karen Finley extends her Kennedy/Obama inspired new work, The Jackie Look, through March 27 at the Laurie Beechman Theater.
The No Name Theater Company has a new website.
Scott Mason, a Dame Edna look-a-like from Delaware, was named the Dame’s Honorary Understudy in All About Me by judges Michael Riedel of the NYPost, NY1’s Frank DiLella and The Village Voice’s Michael Musto. Also on hand were guest judges Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna’s manager Barry Humphries. Judge for yourself.
The Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw St. Patrick's Day Gala is March 17th. Featuring an all-star cast playing all the WRONG roles: KATE BALDWIN · MICHAEL CERVERIS · GEORGE S. IRVING · CHARLOTTE MOORE · KATE MULGREW · JANE POWELL · MICHAEL RIEDEL DIANE STILWELL WEINBERG · TOM VIOLA with irish musicians, songs, dances and larks.
At their March 26th benefit, the Astoria Performing Arts Center will be honoring Assembly Member Michael Gianaris and Jack Rainey, Vice President, Government and Community Banking, TD Bank, for their contributions to the arts and the Astoria community.
The Play Company will bring together some of NYC's top chefs and theater artists for its seventh annual gala CABARET GOURMET 2010 -- a unique evening hosted by Bryan Batt, the beloved Broadway performer and star of the hit television series MAD MEN, with featured performance by Tony-nominee Barbara Walsh and savory and sweet dishes prepared by chefs from several of the city's most celebrated restaurants.
Ma-Yi Theater Company - the Off-Broadway, Obie Award-winning company dedicated to producing new works about the Asian-American experience - will present the world-premiere of Michi Barall's play RESCUE ME (A Post-modern classic with snacks) , an adaptation of Euripides Iphigenia in Taurus. The cast of eight includes the Obie Award-winning actor and playwright David Greenspan (Myopia, She Stoops to Comedy, Boys in the Band), Jennifer Ikeda (Top Girls, Seascape), Julian Barnett, Leon Ingulsrud, Postell Pringle, Paco Tolson, Oni Monifa Reneee Brown and Katherine Partington.
Casting continues for the upcoming Broadway production of Lucy Prebble’s Enron, directed by Rupert Goold. Noah Weisberg, Rightor Doyle, Ian Kahn, Mary Stewart Sullivan, Madisyn Shipman and January Lavoy join the already announced Norbert Leo Butz and Stephen Kunken.
Aaron Louis (Producing Director, 3LD Art & Technology Center) in association with New Georges and The Essentials, will present the world premiere of The Diary of a Teenage Girl, written by Marielle Heller, adapted from the hit graphic novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner, and directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde and Rachel Eckerling in a multi-media production. The cast includes Marielle Heller, Jon Krupp, Michael Laurence, Mariann Mayberry, and Nell Mooney.
Sin, a mystical comedy, based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story “The Unseen,” adapted by Mark Altman, will have it’s world premiere at the Baruch Performing Arts Center’s Rose Nagelberg Theatre.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is opening at The Gallery Players in Park Slope very soon.
The New York Neo-Futurists' The Soup Show opens on March 4th.The Amoralists, the company behind The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, have announced their new season. On tap are the world premiere of Happy In The Poorhouse, written and directed by Derek Ahonen, the Off-Broadway premiere of Amerissiah, written and directed by Derek Ahonen, and the New York premiere of Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, written and directed by Obie Award-winner Adam Rapp.
What if Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski? Well, The Two Gentlemen of Lebowski has sold out it's entire run, so unless you have a ticket, you may never know.
Tony Award winner Betty Buckley has joined the cast of the new Off-Broadway comedy White's Lies, which begins previews at New World Stages March 22. She joins a cast that includes the previously reported Scott Patterson, Peter Scolari, Christy Carlson Romano, Rena Strober and Jimmy Ray Bennett. Producers of the Ben Andron play, which officially opens April 12, are Aaron Grant, Jana Robbins, Jeremy Handelman; Bob Cline directs.
The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization has announced the Christmas 2010 release of "The Sound of Music" on Blu-ray, which will include bonus and interactive material.
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