Theatre Buzz

Tonight, August 20th, will see an 11:30PM performance of Don’t Quit Your Night Job at The Julia Miles Theater. The variety show of music, sketches, and improv has already been a hit at Joe’s Pub and the Zipper Factory Theater, and tonight it steps up with a killer cast of Broadway stalwarts, like Sutton Foster (Tony Award winner, currently in Shrek: The Musical), Karen Olivo (Anita in West Side Story, recently publicly courted by Prince), Marc Kudisch (Broadway leading man and ex husband of Kristin Chenoweth), Brian D’Arcy James, and Martha Plimpton, to name a few.

Speaking of Sutton Foster, her almost-as-successful brother, Hunter Foster (what a family!) will be one of four cast members in the New York premiere of Ordinary Days, presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Roundabout Underground from October 2 to December 13.

Star of stage and screen John Lithgow will join fellow Tony winner Jennifer Ehle for the off-Broadway production of Mr. and Mrs. Fitch, beginning previews January 26 at the Second Stage Theater. Written by Douglas Carter Beane, the play tells the story of two gossip columnists who learn just how meaningless celebrity is.

Only a few shows can be dragged on as long as Rent and still be welcome, relevant, and poweful. The current tour, starring Rent originals (and greats!) Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, will tour into January 2010. So there’s still time, look and see if it’s coming near you! If you haven’t seen Rapp and Pascal, you haven’t seen Rent.

August 20th, 2009 by Courtney Iseman | Posted in Broadway, Entertainment News | (0)