(Mar. 11 7:25 AM) - Last Month, Arena Stage announced six productions and two major festivals that will inaugurate the company's new venue the Mead Center for American Theater next year. In addition to those exciting projects, Artistic Director Molly Smith is pleased to complete the 2010/11, 60th anniversary season lineup with the inclusion of the pre-Broadway world premiere of A Time to Kill-an adaptation by Rupert Holmes of the acclaimed John Grisham novel presented by special arrangement with Daryl Roth-and Let Me Down Easy, conceived, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith. Both productions will be staged in the Mead Center's restored and remarkably intimate Kreeger Theater.
(Mar. 9 4:29 PM) - On March 20 and 21, The Signature Theatre will celebrate the life and work of composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim, the man who has transformed the face of American musical theater with works such as A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Company, Follies, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Sunday in the Park with George. Sondheim turns 80 on March 22, and since he's Signature's "signature" composer, the theater company will honor him with a full weekend of free events including lobby performances, backstage tours, films, lectures, actor discussions, a critic forum, a sing-along, and a birthday cake. The schedule for the Signature's Sondheim Birthday Weekend is Saturday, March 20 from 12 - 7pm and Sunday, March 20 from12:45 - 10pm.
(Mar. 9 2:46 PM) - Casting has been announced for the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of THE LIAR. The comedy, originally by Corneille, has been adapted by David Ives and will play the Lansburgh Theatre from April 6, 2010 through May 23, 2010.
(Mar. 9 12:20 PM) - Gala Chair Liza Minnelli, her co-host Harvey Fierstein and some of Broadway's biggest stars will appear at the 18th annual Kennedy Center Spring Gala, Sunday, May 2nd at 8:30 pm in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. The evening will celebrate Roger L. Stevens, founding chairman of the Kennedy Center, founding chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and executive producer of over 200 Broadway shows. The evening will feature performances from some of his legendary contributions to Broadway. Casting will be announced at a later date.
(Mar. 8 1:51 PM) - Kings of the swing music revival, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, will bring their rocking mix of jazz, swing, big band and original dance tunes to McLean's Alden Theatre for a single performance, celebrating the music of Cab Calloway, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 27. Tickets are $38, $33 for McLean tax district residents. The theatre is located at 1234 Ingleside Avenue.
(Mar. 7 1:30 AM) - Signature Theatre presents Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®, starring Helen Hayes Award-winner Andrew Long and directed by Alan Paul, January 12 through March 7, 2010 in the company's intimate ARK Theatre.
(Mar. 6 2:30 AM) - Auditions for the Gospel Stage Play "Home Is Where The Heart Is" written and directed by Award Winning* playwright Michael McCorkle, will be held on Saturday March 6th, 2010 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, DC.
(Mar. 6 2:00 AM) - Bello Is Back! The Big Apple Circus is back in town with Bello Nock, named "America's Best Clown" by Time magazine, and the world's most exciting circus artists under the Big Top! In Bello Is Back!, the playfully elegant Bello, with his gravity-defying hair, trademark tuxedo, white gloves and spats, returns to the one-ring intimacy of the Big Apple Circus after an absence of nine seasons.
(Mar. 5 6:03 PM) - Patricia Loughrey's play "Dear Harvey" will be presented in a concert reading with professional actors at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. during the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) this April. KCACTF is a national theater program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the United States.
(Mar. 5 4:54 PM) - According to Variety, Indian composer of "Slumdog Millonaire" fame A.R. Rahman has teamed up with creative director Amy Tinkham to launch "Jai Ho Concert: The Journey Home World Tour."
(Mar. 5 3:51 PM) - The Music Division of the Library of Congress will present the 1934 Harold Arlen/Ira Gershwin/Yip Harburg musical revue "Life Begins at 8:40" in concert, its first live performance in 75 years, in the Library's Coolidge Auditorium at 10 First St., S.E., Washington, D.C., on Monday, March 22, 2010, at 8 p.m. Aaron Gandy will conduct the cast of 25 and the 24-piece orchestra.
(Mar. 5 10:04 AM) - What a busy week it's been at Center Stage. Sunday was their very successful Radio Auction. The American premiere of Let There Be Love ends Sunday March 7 and a trio of three short works entitled Working It Out (by Aaron Sorkin, Lynn Rosen, and Rick Cleveland) runs to March 28.
(Mar. 5 9:32 AM) - Pack your bags and join MAMMA MIA! for "A Year on the Road," a new video podcast series. Go backstage with the cast and crew, and see what it's like on tour with ABBA's global smash hit musical. Check back every Friday for a brand new podcast!
(Mar. 5 12:30 AM) - Full casting is set for the upcoming Arena Stage musical The Light in the Piazza, book by Craig Lucas, music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, based on the novel by Elizabeth Spencer.
(Mar. 4 9:48 AM) - The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, recognizing the best scripts which premiered professionally outside New York City during 2009.
(Mar. 4 2:00 AM) - Fahrenheit 451: the temperature at which paper ignites and books burn. And that is precisely what the firemen do, in Ray Bradbury's classic novel of the future, FAHRENHEIT 451. They burn books. It is a crime, in this society, to own or read books. Trivial information is good, and knowledge is evil. People receive all of their culture and information through television walls that are built into their houses.
(Mar. 2 2:41 PM) - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced its 2010-2011 theater programming. The season will feature: a Center-produced revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies; ON THE FRINGE: Eye on Edinburgh featuring new work by artists emerging from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 11 and 12, directed by Peter Brook; Chekhov International Theatre Festival's Three Sisters and Twelfth Night; DRUID's The Cripple of Inishmaan; and Penumbra Theatre Company's new production I Wish You Love, as part of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. Barbara Cook's Spotlight will bring six theater cabaret performers in its fourth season, and audiences will delight in touring productions of Hair, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, Wicked, and Next to Normal. The 2010-2011 season is as follows:
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