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'Tales Of The City' A New Musical From 'Avenue Q' Creators
The last time librettist Jeff Whitty and director Jason Moore were at the O'Neill Theater Center's National Music Theater Conference, they were working on a little musical with puppets called "Avenue Q," a show that eventually went on to Broadway, where it won a Tony Award for best musical and will end its 6-year-plus run in September.
Music theater conference begins at the O'Neill
It's fair to say the O'Neill's National Music Theater Conference is having a banner year.
Kay Ryan , 63, poet. The current U.S. poet laureate, Ryan has published 16 books of poetry.
Thesps tell 'Tales' at O'Neill
Mary Birdsong, Candy Buckley, Jeffrey Carlson and Christopher J. Hanke are among the cast of the developmental staging of "Tales of the City" at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in July.
Birdsong, Buckley, Carlson, Llana and Zbornik Cast in Tales of the City for O'Neill Conference
Tony Award winner Dick Latessa, Lynn Cohen, Jeffrey Carlson, Mary Birdsong and Johanna Day have been cast in the O'Neill Theater's Musical Theater and Playwrights Conference projects.
Directors Joe Calarco, Jason Moore for O'Neill Musicals
Calarco will stage the reading of "Picnic at Hanging Rock," with book, lyrics, and music by Daniel Zaitchik A Moore will direct "Tales of the City," an adaptation of Armistead Maupin' s novel about San Francisco life in the 1970's by Jeff Whitty , book-writer for "Avenue Q," and Jason Sellards and John Garden , of the band Scissor Sisters .A A The ...
Moore, Calarco, Goodman and Stovall Will Be Part of O'Neill Music Theater Conference
Tony nominee Jason Moore and Helen Hayes Award-winning director Joe Calarco will be directors for the 2009 Eugene O'Neill Music Theater Conference in Waterford, CT.
Theatre Rhino/Word for Word" 'Three on a Party'
Three on a Party: "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" by Gertrude Stein, directed by Delia MacDougall; "Two on a Party" by Tennessee Williams and "Suddenly Home" by Armistead Maupin, directed by John Fisher.
Stein, Williams and Maupin combine for 'Party'
Collaborating for the first time, Word for Word, the company that turns short fiction into fully produced theater without altering a word of the original, and Theatre Rhinoceros, the country's oldest continuously running gay and lesbian theater, are throwing a "Party." Images View Larger Image The guests of honor are Gertrude Stein, Tennessee ...
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Psychological mystery leaves audience slightly haunted
Some mysteries are baffling, some are frightening and some are all about tone, which is where you find The Night Listener, a psychological conundrum whose intrigues mostly take place in silences and apprehensions and, later, in the questions you take from the theatre.
Theatre Rhinoceros Plays 'Three On a Party'
THEATRE RHINOCEROS and WORD FOR WORD present Three On a Party, opening on Saturday May 16 at 8 PM , on Theatre Rhinoceros, Mainstage in San Francisco .
Theatre Rhinoceros and Word for Word have revealed the table of contents for the previously announced first-ever collaboration between the nation's oldest continually operating, proudly queer theater company and the innovative troupe that stages short stories with every word intact, the final show in the Rhino's current season.
Barbary Lane dissolves, but senior housing remains
Just months after its splashy October grand opening, Oakland's Barbary Lane Senior Communities is no more, an apparent victim of the current economic crisis.
Catching up with Armistead Maupin Jesse Hamlin, Chronicle Staff Writer Nobody captured the hedonism and high spirits of San Francisco in the '70s better than Armistead Maupin.
Catching up with Armistead Maupin
Nobody captured the hedonism and high spirits of San Francisco in the '70s better than Armistead Maupin.
Wee tales of love and loss: Lovelorn, love-struck and bitter say it in six words
The love-struck need just three little words to declare the contents of their heart.
Armistead Maupin once told me the problem with being well known is that there is no longer such a thing as anonymous sex.