August Wilson News

On December 2nd, Jersey Boys star John Lloyd Young will be featured on Live at Five on WNBC-TV

Signature Theatre Company announced today that, after further discussion with the August Wilson Estate, the company will reinstate its plans to present playwright August Wilson in 2006 as part of its 15th Anniversary line-up.

Sporting a thick Italian Jersey accent on stage each night as Tommy DeVito in 'Jersey Boys,' it may surprise people to learn that Christian Hoff grew up thousands of miles away in La Jolla, California. Here, Christian talks candidly about working with Des McAnuff on TOMMY and Jersey Boys, his career and the lessons that he continues to learn every night.

The legendary Frankie Valli and the stars of Broadway's newest hit musical, JERSEY BOYS: Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer and John Lloyd Young, will be featured on CNN 'Showbiz Tonight' on Monday, November 28 at 7:00pm, repeating at 11:00pm EST.

On November 27th, Four Seasons member Tommy DeVito and Jersey Boys star Christian Hoff will be featured on WQCD Radio

Broadway's JERSEY BOYS cast members J. Robert Spencer, Tituss Burgess, Donnie Kehr, Michael Longoria and Steve Gouveia will star in In The Raw, Original Songwriters Night, on Sunday, November 27 at 10:00pm at The Encore, 266 West 47th Street (between Broadway & 8th Avenue). In The Raw, Original Songwriters Night features various artists from the theatre community in New York City performing original material with Broadway's best musicians (they will be fully clothed).

Phylicia Rashad, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Sally Murphy and others have joined the cast of Michael John LaChiusa's latest musical The House of Bernarda Alba

Jersey Boys has broken the August Wilson Theatre house record

On November 20th, Jersey Boys' J. Robert Spencer will be featured on WKCR Radio

Legendary 'Disco Queen' Donna Summer visited the cast of 'Jersey Boys' and BroadwayWorld was there.

Brian Stokes Mitchell will serve as a narrator in Rip Van Winkle and Other Musical Tales on November 20th at the Kennedy Center

The Four Seasons' Bob Gaudios and the stars of Jersey Boys will appear at Tower Records on November 17th to sign autographs and CDs

On November 13th, The Four Seasons' Frankie Valli and Jersey Boys star John Lloyd Young will be featured on Breakfast with the Arts

On November 13th, The Four Seasons' Frankie Valli will discuss his career and Jersey Boys on MSNBC

As of the morning of November 9th, Jersey Boys has raked in over a million dollars at the box office of the August Wilson Theatre

You can now see clips from Jersey Boys right here on BroadwayWorld.com!

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette hopes to gather every Pittsburgher who works in show business in New York for a group picture in Times Square at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 16.

On November 14th, Tony Award-winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson will lead a discussion on Shakespeare on Film: Othello

The day after opening, Jersey Boys took in $529,100 in single tickets at the box office

JERSEY BOYS, the new Broadway musical based on the life story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons opened on Sunday night and BroadwayWorld was there!