(Nov. 21 12:30 AM) - Sydney Theatre Company's forthcoming production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, directed by Liv Ullmann, is to tour to the United States. The production which will play at Sydney Theatre from 1 September to 10 October 2009, featuring STC Co-Artistic Director Cate Blanchett as Blanche DuBois, and will run at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington from 29 October to 21 November 2009 and Brooklyn Academy Of Music (BAM), New York from 27 November to 20 December 2009.
(Nov. 20 5:49 PM) - The cast and creative team of Glory Days, Signature's world premiere musical, will reunite to celebrate the cast recording of the show in a special concert on Monday, November 30 at 8:00 pm in Signature's MAX Theatre.
(Nov. 20 3:34 PM) - Additional casting has been announced for the upcoming THE MUSIC MAN concert produced by the National Symphony Orchestra Pops in the NSO Pops series. Todd A. Horman will play the role of Marcellus and Joseph Serafini will play Winthrop. Horman and Serafini join Shirley Jones, the original Marian from the film version of The Music Man, as well as Rebecca Luker and Patrick Cassidy as Harold Hill.
(Nov. 20 2:30 AM) - Laurence O'Dwyer will assume the role of Henry from previously announced Terrence Currier in Arena Stage's production of The Fantasticks.
(Nov. 20 1:30 AM) - Arena Stage presents an innovative take on the world's longest-running musical, The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. Director Amanda Dehnert (Oregon Shakespeare Festival‘s All's Well That Ends Well and Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Cabaret) and famed set designer Eugene Lee (Tony Award for Broadway's Wicked, Candide, Sweeney Todd) take a spin on this timeless love story by staging it in Rocky Point, an abandoned amusement park in Rhode Island. This whimsical twist on the classic musical is full of buoyant humor, charming music and incredible magic that will thrill audiences of all ages. The Fantasticks runs November 20, 2009 - January 10, 2010 at Arena Stage at the Lincoln Theatre, with an official opening on Friday, November 27, 2009.
(Nov. 19 1:41 PM) - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company hosts a special art sale and benefit reception with local artist Tina Palmer on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 from 6:30 - 9pm.
(Nov. 19 12:30 AM) - The League of Washington Theatres (LOWT), in conjunction with Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national association of non-profit theatres in America, presents the Washington, D.C. area's 4th annual FREE NIGHT OF THEATER from October 6 thru November 19, 2009.
(Nov. 19 12:30 AM) - "Before Barack Obama there was Martin Luther King, and before King, there was Paul Robeson..." Thus starts one review of Call Mr. Robeson at an international Fringe Festival in Brighton, UK, at which the play picked up two major awards. Call Mr. Robeson is being performed at the DC Arts Center, 2438 18th Street NW, Washington D.C. 20009 between November 19 and 29.
(Nov. 18 2:26 PM) - The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non-profittheaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, will produce sixnew plays in staged reading format at its National Showcase of New Plays, hosted December 4-6 inAtlanta by member theaters Actor's Express and Horizon.
(Nov. 18 1:29 PM) - The Washington Post reports today that Catalyst Theatre Company, the intimate, edgy experimental theater organization, famous locally for its productions of 1984 and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, is folding due to financial troubles.
(Nov. 18 12:10 PM) - Ford's Theatre has partnered with Bread for the City to create a donation drive around its run of "A Christmas Carol." During the curtain calls for performances of "A Christmas Carol" on December 1-6, 2009, the cast of "A Christmas Carol" will collect monetary donations on behalf of the Washington-based Bread for the City. Patrons can also make donations through the Ford's Theatre Box Office; in exchange for a $10 contribution to Bread for the City, patrons can receive $5 off a single ticket to a performance of "A Christmas Carol" from December 29, 2009, through January 3, 2010. All donation checks should be made payable to "Bread for the City." This offer is available only at the Ford's Theatre Box Office, only on performances between December 29 and January 3, and cannot be combined with other special offers or applied to previously purchased tickets.
(Nov. 17 4:00 PM) - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will present the Reduced Shakespeare Company in Completely Hollywood (abridged) June 22 - July 11, 2010 in the Terrace Theater.
(Nov. 17 2:09 PM) - Laurence O'Dwyer will assume the role of Henry from previously announced Terrence Currier in Arena Stage's production of The Fantasticks.
(Nov. 17 12:33 PM) - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company continues Season 30 with the return of our Chicago friends The Neo-Futurists with their long-running late-night sensation TOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) following three sold-out runs at the theatre in 2008 and 2009.
(Nov. 16 1:30 AM) - The Kennedy Center presents an evening with NSO Principal Pops Conductor and Tony Award®-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch on November 16, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. in the Terrace Theater.
(Nov. 16 1:30 AM) - On Monday November 16th, the cast of JERSEY BOYS 1st National tour will present "ROCK LIKE A MAN" an evening of classic rock and roll at the D.C Improv with proceeds to benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS.
(Nov. 15 2:00 AM) - Washington National Opera (WNO), under the leadership of General Director Plácido Domingo, presents two concert performances of Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, November 7 and 15 at the Kennedy Center Opera House.
11/21:
GLEE and Barbara Cook?
11/20:
The Brother/Sister Plays
11/11:
'Empire' Rising
Photo Coverage: RAGTIME - Curtain Call
BWW TV: GLEE Peek - Matthew Morrison & Lea Michele Sing 'Endless Love'
Photo Flash: THE ADDAMS FAMILY in Rehearsal
Bdwy Beat Sneak Peek - RAGTIME Opens
Photo Flash: 'Rhythm and Rhyme' - RAGTIME Opens on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre
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Photo Coverage: ON THE TOWN Opens!
STAGE TUBE: LOVE NEVER DIES - Creating The Phantom's New Look
'Heaven On His Mind' Lambert Aims for Judas Role in Rumored 'SUPERSTAR' Remake
Photo Coverage: RAGTIME - Opening Arrivals
