Barbara Vann News

You wouldn't expect a 1937 Broadway musical that satirized American profiteering from wartime rumblings in Europe and was written to showcase the unique comedy talents of 'The Perfect Fool' Ed Wynn to be especially playable in the year 2008, but The Medicine Show, on their tiny stage way out west on W. 52nd Street, do a bang-up job with Hooray For What!

Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble has announced its revival of 'MR. SHAKESPEARE & MR. PORTER,' the melding of the plays of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE with the music and lyrics of COLE PORTER. The production features two different evenings of mini-musicals: Volume 1 ('Hamlet,' 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream') runs from November 13th through the 23rd; Volume 2 ('Measure for Measure,' 'Richard III' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream') runs from December 4th-December 21st.

Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble has announced its revival of 'MR. SHAKESPEARE & MR. PORTER,' the melding of the plays of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE with the music and lyrics of COLE PORTER. The production features two different evenings of mini-musicals: Volume 1 ('Hamlet,' 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream') runs from November 13th through the 23rd; Volume 2 ('Measure for Measure,' 'Richard III' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream') runs from December 4th-December 21st.

City Repertory Theatre is pleased to announce an all-star reading of Anne Frank, the controversial 1955 theatrical adaptation of the famous story by acclaimed novelist and playwright Meyer Levin

Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble, one of NYC's longest-running experimental theatres will present Frank & Stein and Friends, an evening of short verse plays featuring the World Premiere of The Houses At Falling Hanging, a newly-discovered work by famed poet Frank O'Hara, as well as plays by Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay and others.

Medicine Show revives the 1961 Yip Harburg/Jacques Offenbach combination of Lysistrata and Bulfinch's Mythology

Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble, one of NYC's longest-running experimental theatres, will present The Happiest Girl in the World, the 1961 Broadway musical comedy adapted from Lysistratra

Undercover Lover, a lost musical by Arnold Weinstein and Frank O'Hara, will be presented in New York from November 3rd through December 4th

The Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble will present a concert staging of composer Morton Feldman's piece Three Voices on June 17th and 18th

The Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble's Republic of Poetry suite will run throughout June at the Medicine Show Theatre

The Medicine Show Theatre Company brings back Porter's charming 1933 Gertrude Lawrence star vehicle