Alice Playten News

A new audio theater version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is the featured launch product for WYD Media Management's new online consumer entertainment digital destination, Spoken Word America. The new production, written and directed by Night Kitchen Radio Theater founder Arthur Yorinks debuts today

Halloween comes a day early to The New Victory Theater (209 West 42nd Street), as The Night Kitchen Radio Theater performs the spooky new show The Witch's Child on Tuesday, October 30 at 6:30PM.

Broadway lovers and teddy bear collectors came together on Sunday, February 11, at the 'Broadway Bears X' auction, which raised a grand total of $130,000 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS!

The Lambs Club hosted a private preview screening last night of the new NJN/PBS documentary - Words and Music by Jerry Herman, a film by Amber Edwards.

Directed by Hourglass Artistic Director Elyse Singer, Week 6 of 365 Days/365 Plays will ring in the holidays Downtown-style with musical performances Tony&Alyson (members of the band Betty - a frequent contributor to Showtime's 'The 'L' Word') and cabaret star Julian Fleisher.

Josh Lucas (Poseidon, The Glass Menagerie), Jake Robards (You and I, V.O, Our Town), Dorian Missick (Six Degrees), and Alice Playten (Caroline, or Change, Seussical) have joined the cast of The Fire Dept Theater Company's Speakeasy.

New World Stages will host two staged readings of Why This Night, a new comedy by Stephen Joseph, with direction by Alan Souza, on Monday, August 28th at 7pm and Tuesday, August 29th

Mary Bond Davis, Alice Playten and Carol Hall will be featured guests at 'Jamie deRoy & friends' on June 28th

Over a dozen of Broadway's brightest took part in the gender-blind concert Broadway Backwards: Songs of Love and Survival on June 5th, and BroadwayWorld was there!

The star-studded benefit concert Broadway Backwards is now fully cast, with Alice Playten, Pam Myers and more having signed on

The First Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival concludes with an afternoon of great performers and the great songs they introduced

The First Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival, comprised of A Tribute to Kander and Ebb, Euan Morton and Eden Espinosa Sing Broadway and Broadway Originals, will be presented at Town Hall from October 21st through 23rd

The complete cast list, which includes Karen Akers, Chuck Cooper and Rachel York, has been announced for Broadway Originals, which will be performed as part of the First Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival on October 23rd

The first annual Broadway Cabaret Festival will be at Town Hall from October 21st through 23rd as will stars like Brent Barrett, Euan Morton, Eden Espinosa and Rachel York

Broadway's best and brightest showed off their true vocal power when they returned to the Town Hall on Monday night.

Broadway Unplugged II, featured stars throwing out their mics at Town Hall on September 19, 2005.

Liz Callaway, Euan Morton, Deven May and Martin Vidnovic are the latest stars to join Broadway Unplugged II, which will have them singing without the aid of amplification on September 19th

Stars such as Cheyenne Jackson, Emily Skinner and Norm Lewis will take center stage and throw away the mics at Town Hall on September 19th for the second Broadway Unplugged concert

Cheyenne Jackson and Michael McElroy have been added to a star-studded cast of performers who will sing off-mic at the second Broadway Unplugged concert on September 19th

Tony Roberts and Derek Cecil will team up in the Bay Street Theatre's July production of Sleuth, while Sebastian LaCause, Alice Playten and Larry Keith have been added to the cast of Pippin, which will open in August