August Wilson News

Rhino will release the original cast recording of Broadway's JERSEY BOYS, the new musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers: Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.

The Virginia Theater, at 245 West 52nd Street will be renamed the August Wilson Theater on October 17th.

August Wilson, arguably the most influential and important living African-American playwright, has been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer

LESTAT stars Hugh Panaro in the title role, Carolee Carmello as Gabrielle, Jack Noseworthy as Armand, Jim Stanek as Louis, Roderick Hill as Nicolas, Michael Genet as Marius and Allison Fischer as Claudia.

Phylicia Rashad will once again play 285 year-old Aunt Ester in Gem of the Ocean when the August Wilson play runs at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ from October 11th through October 30th

Ten new works from the Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway 2004-2005 theatre season have been selected for publication in the latest Best Plays Theater Yearbook

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