Photo Flash: LA's Geffen Playhouse Honors Bening, Iger
by James Sims
- Mar 20, 2008
The Geffen Playhouse honored actress Annette Bening and Walt Disney Company's President and CEO Robert Iger during Monday's Backstage at the Geffen, a star-studded event raising $575,000 for the Geffen's Stage for Any Age education and outreach programs.
American Theatre Wing Presents Steppenwolf Members
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 19, 2008
The newest edition of the American Theatre Wing's 'Working in the Theatre' will feature 'Steppenwolf: From Chicago to Osage County' on CUNY TV on Sunday, March 23 at 5 p.m. The segment will repeat on Friday, March 28 at 9 a.m., 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, March 29 at 11 a.m. The program becomes available as streaming audio and podcast from www.americantheatrewing.org, as well as iTunes, beginning Wednesday afternoon, March 26.
LA Drama Critics Noms incl. '13' Musical, Itzin, Metcalf & Williams
by BWW News Desk
- Feb 5, 2008
Nominations have been announced for the 39th annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, to be presented on March 17 at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. Jason Graae, who will receive the Joel Hirschorn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theater, will host the event.
Geffen's 'Life' Pure Quality Theatre
by James Sims
- Nov 10, 2007
Quality of Life remains highly relevant leading up to next years presidential elections, and the enormously talented cast treats the work with utmost sincerity. Metcalf and Williams have the most dynamic characters to develop, as both come to terms with the others choices and their roller coaster emotional journeys drive the heart of Anderson's work...
Metcalf, Bakula Lead Geffen's 'Quality of Life'
by James Sims
- Aug 24, 2007
The Geffen Playhouse has announced the cast lineup for their first produced play in the theater's new commission program, The Quality of Life, which will star Laurie Metcalf, Scott Bakula, Dennis Boutsikaris and JoBeth Williams...
Krieger & Shanley, Townsend, Etc. Part of NYSF Season
by BWW News Desk
- May 11, 2007
According to NYTimes.com, the lineup for New York Stage and Film and Vassar College's 23rd Powerhouse summer theater season will include productions of John Patrick Shanley's Romantic Poetry: A Musical Play, featuring a score by Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls) and starring Mark Linn-Baker and Idina Menzel, Stephen Belber's (Match) new play, Geometry of Fire, and concert readings of Pete Towshend's new rock opera, The Boy Who Heard Music, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T, a musical featuring hit songs originally by Aretha
Franklin, Otis Redding, the Staple Singers, Wilson Pickett and more.
Review: DEFYING GRAVITY
by Mark Andrew Lawrence
- Jan 29, 2007
The Mississauga Players have a must-see winner this time out with Jane Anderson's play, DEFYING GRAVITY.
* * * * 1/2 (OUT OF 5)
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