Peter Jay Fernandez News

Due to overwhelming ticket demand, the producers of the new production of Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand's 1897 romantic classic with a translation and adaptation by Anthony Burgess, announced today that the hit production will extend for two weeks, through Sunday, January 6, 2007.

Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand's 1897 romantic classic, with a translation and adaptation by Anthony Burgess, officially opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Thursday, November 1, 2007. The Opening Night After Party was held at Spotlight Live in Times Square.

The new production of Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand's 1897 romantic classic, with a translation and adaptation by Anthony Burgess is set to begin previews on Friday, October 12 with an opening night set for Thursday, November 1. Directed by 5-time Tony Award Nominee, David Leveaux, the production will play a strictly limited 10-week engagement at the Richard Rodgers Theater, 226 W. 46th Street.

Producers Nona Hendryx and Charles Randolph-Wright will present a concert version of 'SkinDiver,' a multimedia rock musical (a la Tommy or The Rocky Horror Picture Show) at Joe's Pub on Monday, October 1 at 9:30PM.

INTAR Theatre, one of America's longest running Latino theaters producing plays in English, begins its 42nd season with a production of Pulitzer Prize-winner Maxwell Anderson's Night Over Taos, directed by Academy Award-winning actress and director Estelle Parsons. This rediscovered classic will play a limited Off-Broadway run from September 20 through October 20 at Theater for the New City. The official opening is set for Monday, October 1 at 7PM.

The Founding Producers and Board of Directors of Epic Theatre Center have voted to officially change the company's name to Epic Theatre Ensemble effective September 4, 2007

Playwrights Horizons has extended its current production--the New York premiere of Bruce Norris' The Pain and the Itch--through October 15th

Bruce Norris' wonderfully vicious and somewhat disturbing dark comedy targets smart, educated and supposedly open-minded ladder-climbers whose left-wing activism is generally defined by watching PBS

Playwrights Horizons will open its 2006/2007 season with the New York premiere of The Pain and the Itch, the controversial comedy by Bruce Norris that was a a hit in Chicago during its 2005 world premiere production at Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Another round of casting has been announced for Playwrights Horizons' 2006-2007 season, which will feature performances by Kristine Nielsen, Peter Weller, Harris Yulin and more

Jayne Houdyshell, Mia Barron, Peter Jay Fernandez and more will star in The Pain and the Itch, running at Playwrights Horizons from September 1st through October 8th

Mark St. Germain's play The God Committee, starring Larry Keith, Ron Orbach and Michael Mulheren, will close at Off-Broadway's Lamb's Theatre on April 16th

Richard Kalinoski's Between Men and Cattle will receive a February 10th staged reading at Hudson Stage

Elizabeth Marvel and Bryon Jennings will enact scenes from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra while Shakespearean expert Kristin Linklater will moderate the reading on September 26th

The limited engagement of Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington will close on June 12th

Performances begin tonight Tuesday, March 8 for the all-new Broadway production of William Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street, NYC). Opening night is Sunday, April 3 at 6:30pm.

The Belasco Theatre Box Office (111 West 44th Street, NYC) opens at 10:00AM on Monday, February 14th for Broadway's all-new production of William Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR.

Complete casting was announced today for the all-new Broadway production of William Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR, starring two-time Academy® Award-winner Denzel Washington as Brutus. The cast also stars Colm Feore as Brutus' co-conspirator, Cassius; Jessica Hecht as Brutus' wife, Portia; William Sadler as Julius Caesar; Tamara Tunie as Caesar's wife, Calphurnia; Eamonn Walker as Marc Antony and Jack Willis as Casca.