August Wilson News

New York's Signature Theatre Company, in its 15th anniversary, will offer $15 tickets for its upcoming 20-month program of plays, including ones by John Guare, Horton Foote and August Wilson

Click in for the complete list of 2005 Tony Award Winners. By the numbers, the Light in the Piazza led the pack followed by Doubt, and Spamalot (which won Best Musical).

David Gallo's set design for the Broadway production of Gem of the Ocean has been nominated for a 2005 Tony Award.

When Tony Award nominations are announced Tuesday morning at 8:35 a.m. (EDT), Broadway insiders will probably prove they're not as star-struck as many theater-goers, according to the journalists at GoldDerby.com.

The 2005 Tony Award Nominations were announced this morning, and we've got the complete list of nominees.

John Patrick Shanley has received the Dramatist Guild's 2005 Hull-Warriner Award for his play, DOUBT, now on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street).

LOVE/LIFE, A Life in Song, will play on Sunday and Monday nights in the Vivian Beaumont Theater beginning Sunday, May 1.

Roger Rees, Artistic Director of the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF), has announced details for the Festival's 2005 Season, running July 6 through August 28.

The American National Theatre, Inc. (Sean Cullen, Founder and President of ANT) will host its first Founders' Celebration on Monday, May 9th, 2005 at the Dodger Stages (World Wide Plaza, 50th & 8th Ave.)

Jazz, flamenco, blues, hip-hop and slam poetry flavor Mildred Ruiz and Steven Sapp's story of a musician and his muse

James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams, the Tony-winning stars of the new Broadway production of ON GOLDEN POND, will appear in a special joint interview on Weekend Today this Sunday morning, March 27.

In the conclusion of BWW's series on groundbreaking women in theater, Rashad sounds off on many subjects...but not her history-making Tony triumph last season.

Producers Daryl Roth and Jordan Roth today announced four stars of their new Broadway-bound musical THE MAMBO KINGS, which begins performances Wednesday, July 20 at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway at 53rd Street) following an out-of-town engagement at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre from May 24 through June 19. Opening night on Broadway is Thursday, August 18.

Stokes will perform at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on Sunday and Monday Nights

It was announced today that the upcoming Broadway production of ON GOLDEN POND, starring the legendary James Earl Jones and Tony Award winner Leslie Uggams, has been nominated for 4 Helen Hayes Awards, the prestigious awards that pay tribute to excellence in professional theater in Washington, DC. The production premiered last Fall at The Kennedy Center.

The box office at The Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street) will open on Monday, February 28 at 10AM for the new production of the beloved play ON GOLDEN POND starring two-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee James Earl Jones (Fences, The Great White Hope) and Tony Award winner Leslie Uggams (Hallelujah, Baby!, King Hedley II).

The area is bursting with theater companies--with both classics, and premieres of new works.

Tickets for the new production of the beloved play ON GOLDEN POND starring two-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee James Earl Jones (Fences, The Great White Hope) and Tony Award winner Leslie Uggams (Hallelujah, Baby!, King Hedley II) will go on sale to the general public beginning Thursday, February 17 at 10AM.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT, the lunch-time play reading series, under the Artistic Direction of its founder, Susan Charlotte, will celebrate its Fifth Anniversary when it opens its Spring 2005 season on Wednesday, February 23 with the New York premiere of a new Tennessee Williams' work Me, Vashya.