Studio Theatre News

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town, October 6 - 16 in the Nafe Katter Theatre, Storrs.

Rep Stage, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), opens its new Salon Series with a staged reading of the play 'The Guys' by Anne Nelson.

Living Image Arts presents CHARLES WINN SPEAKS written by C. S. HANSON and directed by LYNN M. THOMSON

As we move beyond the Labor Day weekend and toward the middle of September, I hope you have plans to take in one or two of the live performance and theatre productions that are currently running at one of the several entertainment venues here on the beautiful California Central Coast!

Melissa McBain, former Radnor Township teacher and Eastern University graduate, returns to Philadelphia to tell her mother's story in the Philly Fringe 2011 solo show, GOING BACK NAKED.

The Kennedy Center hosts its 10th annual Page-to-Stage new play festival from Saturday, September 3, 2011 to Monday, September 5, 2011, featuring more than 40 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work.

The Billings Studio Theatre will present The Drowsy Chaperone with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison and book by Bob Martin and Don McKeller, on September 2 - 24, 2011.

The Warner Theatre Center for Arts Education has announced the addition of a dance/choreography Master Class led by Connecticut's own, Marissa Perry, akaTracy Turnblad from the Broadway production of 'Hairspray'.

Melissa McBain, former Radnor Township teacher and Eastern University graduate, returns to Philadelphia to tell her mother's story in the Philly Fringe 2011 solo show, GOING BACK NAKED.

The new DC area theatre season begins in September. Over 50 shows are opening in our professional and community theatres. But before we move on to the new season and what's opening in September, let's look back at my personal favorite musicals, plays, and performances in both musicals and plays in the DC area - from August 2010 to August 2011.

The fast-paced comedy Boeing-Boeing, a Tony Award winner for Best Revival in its 2008 Broadway production, launches TheatreSquared's Season 6 next Thursday, September 1 at Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios.

Organised Chaos Productions will bring their latest collaboration of the North West's finest new and emerging talent with a tender insight into friendship over the years.

Rachel Reiner Productions is proud to present the World Premiere of Victor L. Cahn's Dally With The Devil, directed by Eric Parness. Dally With The Devil will begin performances on Saturday, September 10 and will open on September 14 running thru October 8, 2011 at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre (410 West 42nd Street). Tickets are $55 and can be purchased at www.Telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200.

The fourth annual 1st Irish Festival, the world's only all-Irish theatre festival, opens on Monday September 5 with the first of 21 performances of 'A Night with George,' the Aisling Award-winning comedy from Belfast.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. Drury Lane lays out its plans, a new theater opens in Plainfield, new seasons at Fireside and Northwestern, plus Gilbert, Sullivan, satire, sketch and all that!