Arts News

Playbill - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mystery thriller, "The Hound of the Baskervilles," gets a comic theatrical clawing starting Sept. 18 with the American premiere of a play featuring "three actors playing 16 characters, a few fake beards, plenty of cross-dressing and a host of bad British accents."

Playbill - The upcoming Los Angeles engagement of the Disney/Cameron Mackintosh musical Mary Poppins has been extended by a month.

Playbill - The new epilogue to the acclaimed 2000 theatrical docudrama, The Laramie Project, about the murder of gay student Matthew Shepard, will be presented concurrently at scores of theatres around the world, the creators announced.

Playbill - "Goyband," a new feature film comedy starring Tony Award nominees Adam Pascal and Tovah Feldshuh, and Helen Hayes Award winner Erik Liberman, will have its New York City premiere Sept. 29 as part of Manhattan's JCC Film program.

Playbill - A recent comment about cast albums that have not yet been transferred to CD brought forth several requests for a discussion on this topic.

Playbill - Broadway favorite Brent Barrett, recently back on Broadway in the Tony-winning revival of Chicago, joins internationally famed vocalist Kim Criswell Aug. 28 for an evening at Dublin's National Concert Hall.

Playbill - Nominees for the Equity Jeff Awards, celebrating excellence in Chicago area theatre, were announced Aug. 27. Goodman Theatre and Drury Lane Oakbrook earned the most nominations.

Playbill - Daniel Craig, who will make his Broadway debut later this season in the two-character Keith Huff play A Steady Rain, has can been cast in a new film.