Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced that, due to popular demand, it will extend its World Premiere production of THREE CHANGES, a new play by Nicky Silver (Fit to Be Tied at Playwrights Horizons, The Food Chain, Pterodactyls, Raised in Captivity). In addition to the extension starting Tuesday, September 30, the theater company is also adding two special Wednesday matinees on September 10 and September 24, both at 2:30 PM. Tickets for all new performances are now on sale.
Ildar Abdrazakov will be the bass soloist for the Verdi Requiem tribute to Luciano Pavarotti at the Metropolitan Opera on September 18, at 5 p.m. He replaces James Morris, who is ill.
TABOOS by Carl Djerassi, directed by Melissa Maxwell at the Soho Playhouse (15 Vandam Street), beginning performances on Wednesday, September 10 with its press opening Friday, September 19 and will run through October 19, 2008 at the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street)
The SF Playhouse (Bill English, Artistic Director; Susi Damilano, Producing Director) is pleased to launch its 2008-09 season with the Bay Area Premiere of Shining City by Conor McPherson. Amy Glazer will direct.
Watching Michael Feinstein deliver punchy versions of Sinatra standards with a 17-piece band, you could hardly guess that two decades ago he was a different musical animal.
Director Billy Porter and Grammy nominee Ledisi mark their debuts with Reprise Theatre Company in the 1990 musical Once on This Island, opening the 2008-2009 season, September 2 to 14 at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.
Leslie Uggams and Yaya DaCosta star in ?The First Breeze of Summer,? which depicts the generational tensions that pull at a close-knit, working-class African-American family.
Cabrillo Music Theatre of Thousand Oaks, Calif proudly kicks off the new 2008-2009 season by announcing that Deborah Gibson will star in Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic, 'The King and I'. Cabrillo Music Theatre's Artistic Director Lewis Wilkenfeld will direct, while Darryl Archibald will serve as Musical Director and Conductor. The production will feature the original Jerome Robbins choreography of the "Small House of Uncle Thomas" Ballet, recreated by Irene Cho, who performed the piece under Robbins' supervision in 'The King and I' and 'Jerome Robbins' Broadway'.
Arman, a writer blocked by the pressures of unexpected success, follows his girlfriend to the redwood forests of northern California. In this isolated landscape, he develops a friendship with an enigmatic treesitter and is soon caught in the struggle between those who make their living cutting timber and those who risk their lives to preserve nature. Torn between conflicting information and expectations, Arman must reach into his past for the key that will allow him to determine exactly where-and with whom- he stands. ODIN'S HORSE is the winner of the national EcoDrama Award from the EcoDrama Playwrights Festival and makes its professional World Premiere in this Infamous Commonwealth Theatre production.
On September 4th, 2008 MAMMA MIA! became the sixteenth longest running show in Broadway history, surpassing Hello Dolly! Nearly seven years after opening at the Winter Garden Theatre, MAMMA MIA! has remained in the Million Dollar Club, and among Broadway top five selling musicals for the past seven consecutive weeks, a landmark not achieved since 2002.
The first preview for "9 to 5: The Musical" has been delayed for the second time and will now take place on Tuesday, Sept 9, 2008, at 8 p.m. at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre. Audiences for the previously-announced previews on September 3, 4 and 5 will be moved to other performances. This change is being made to meet the technical demands of this world premiere musical. Two performances have been added: a matinee preview on Sept 14th and a 6:30 p.m. performance on the closing date of Oct.19.
One September night in 1941, the German Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg visited his friend and mentor Niels Bohr in Nazi-occupied Denmark. The two went for a walk, and their conversation ended in an argument, stemming from Heisenberg's revelation that he was leading a research effort that might provide Nazi Germany with atomic weapons. What was said and exactly why Heisenberg came to Copenhagen in the first place has remained a puzzle ever since.
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