Rob Ruggiero News

Theater Works Hartford presents The Little Dog Laughed, by Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Rob Ruggiero to begin previews January 25, Opening February 1 with performances through March 9, 2008. Featuring Chad Allen, Candy Buckley, Jeremy Jordan and Amanda Perez.

'Homecoming' is the theme of Barrington Stage Company's 14th Season. The theatre that developed and premiered William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on its Stage II in 2004 welcomes home the award-winning Broadway hit to its Mainstage from June 11 through July 12. Long-time BSC director Rob Ruggiero returns to direct Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour, which will play July 17 through August 2. Julianne Boyd will direct Noel Coward's delicious battle-of-the-sexes comedy Private Lives starring Christopher Innvar from August 7 through 24. Private Lives marks the fifth stage collaboration between Boyd and Innvar.

Star of television, film and theater, Chad Allen, will lead the cast of the hilarious hit play, The Little Dog Laughed, at TheaterWorks

Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn will play its final performance on December 30. The show, which opened at New World Stages on November 12, will have played 14 previews and 55 performances.

Arena kicks off performances in this temporary location, known now as Arena Stage in Crystal City, with the swinging new musical Ella, conceived by Rob Ruggiero and Dyke Garrison with book by Jeffrey Hatcher.

Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn is coming off Broadway and will open at the New World Stages on Monday, November 12 with previews commencing on Tuesday, October 30.

F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company announces its inaugural production as resident company of the Factory Theater Bat Boy: The Musical on the 10th Anniversary of its debut. Bat Boy: The Musical opens on Friday, October 19 at 8PM and plays through October 27.

Make Me A Song, The Music of William Finn will open off Broadway at New World Stages, on Tuesday, November 12 with previews starting on October 30. This musical revue with a cast of four, showcases the songs of composer-lyricist William Finn.

TheaterWorks has announced the lineup for the company's 2007-2008 season

TheaterWorks has announced the 20th Anniversary production of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy, starring stage and screen favorite Rosemary Prinz in the title role.

'Ella,' the musical play that weaves myth and memory, comedy and drama, mystery and music about the heart and soul of Ella Fitzgerald, one of the world's most beloved jazz singers. Performances begins June 23, opening June 29, through July 22.

Glenn Seven Allen has been cast as Edward Rutledge in 1776 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT

The Connecticut Critics Circle Awards - selected by Connecticut-based theatre critics - have been announced. A ceremony will be held at East Haddam's Goodspeed on Monday, June 4th

The winners of the Kevin Kline Awards have been announced

Junkyard Dog Productions and Larry Hirschhorn announced today that the New York premiere of Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn will be postponed until the 2007-2008 theatre season, due to scheduling conflicts

Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith recently announced the lineup for the Arena Stage's 57th theater season, her 10th as Artistic Director.

Seventeen St. Louis theater companies are represented in the nominations for the second annual Kevin Kline Awards. Thirty-seven plays and musicals produced in the St. Louis area during 2006 now share 115 nominations in 22 different categories for the coveted award. The nominations were announced on KWMU-FM's 'Cityscape' on January 19.

Junkyard Dog Productions and Larry Hirschhorn will present the New York premiere of Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn, a theatrical revue showcasing the songs of one of the most acclaimed composer-lyricists currently writing for the musical theatre.

Due to other engagements, Tony Award-winner Donna McKechnie will no longer be taking on the title role of Mame in a semi-staged concert version of the Jerry Herman classic at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA