Ovation Awards unveil nominees
Productions of "Jekyll & Hyde" and "Singin' in the Rain" secured a total of 18 nominations to establish the Cabrillo Music Theater as the leader in noms for the 2008 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards.
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Review: ‘How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents’
A commendable priority of Maryland's Round House Theater under a.d. Blake Robison is to bring popular books to the stage.
Review: ‘It’s Magic! A Tribute to Sammy Cahn’
Six noted performers meandered through 21 Sammy Cahn standards, a benefit for the Wilshire Theater Beverly Hills Revitalization Project, with bio bits provided by amiable onstage narrator Leonard…
Shaw Festival offers ‘Tonight’ series
As part of one of its most populist seasons in years, Ontario's Shaw Festival will present all 10 plays that make up Noel Coward's "Tonight at 8:30" series, including the rarely produced "Star…
Diahann Carroll memoir worth a read
I'VE READ a lot of movie star memoirs in my time, but I have to say hands down Diahann Carroll's new book, "The Legs Are The Last To Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying & Other Things I Learned The Hard Way"…
Review: ‘Irena’s Vow’
At the performance reviewed, it was obvious why "Irena's Vow" is an important work. After the play -- which tracks Polish Catholic Irene Gut Opdyke's real-life rescue of Jews during WWII -- the late…
Review: ‘The English Channel’
Robert Brustein has a lot of nerve, which is almost a good thing. "The English Channel" isn't the most successful comic riff on the Great Shakes' friendships and careers, but it sustains enough…
Review: ‘Oklahoma!’
Having survived a near-fatal financial crisis -- by being bailed out when Millburn township purchased the 70-year-old landmark theater -- the Paper Mill Playhouse has selected American classic…
‘Sons’ boosts Broadway box office
"All My Sons," the revival of the 1947 Arthur Miller play that co-stars Katie Holmes, filled nearly all its seats in its first five previews as the Broadway box office continued to climb out of its…
Parcom acquires interest in Stage
Euro investment firm Parcom Capital, a subsidiary of ING Group, has acquired a majority interest in the ticketing branch of European legit producing org Stage Entertainment.
