Ethel Barrymore News

Stoneham Theatre kicks off their 2005-2006 season with 'Pal Joey,' the ground-breaking Rodgers and Hart musical that centers around a roguish nightclub emcee who ditches his naïve girlfriend to romance a rich older woman, who subsequently finances his lifestyle and business pursuits, until a blackmail scheme threatens to ruin them all.

The upcoming show will begin previews on November 23rd, and will open on Broadway on December 11th.

The Jersey Shore town has two professional theaters; both, appropriately enough, are currently presenting plays set in the Victorian age.

Full casting is now complete for Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, which will play San Diego this fall before opening on Broadway in December

Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, the Broadway legend's retrospective of her performing career, is set to begin previews in November for a Decemeber opening at an unannounced Shuberts-owned theatre

The Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie, directed by David Leveaux, will shutter early on July 3rd

On Sunday, Josh Lucas departed from the cast of The Glass Menagerie to shoot a film; casting of a replacement is in the works

Producer Marty Richards is considering putting Cy Coleman's 1997 show The Life on the big screen

Bill Kenwright and Thelma Holt will bring the acclaimed National Theatre of Great Britain production of PRIMO, starring Antony Sher as Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, to Broadway this summer for 32 performances only beginning Friday, July 8 through Sunday, August 7. Opening night for PRIMO, which is based on Levi's memoir Survival in Auschwitz, as adapted for the stage by Antony Sher, and directed by Richard Wilson, is Monday, July 11 at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45 Street).

The tour which was announced yesterday to star Pacino and Tomei has now been called off