Carrie Preston News

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

The Off-Broadway play CYCLING PAST THE MATTERHORN will close on Sunday, November 6, 2005.

Shirley Knight, Carrie Preston and Brenda Wehle star in Deborah Grimberg's Cycling Past the Matterhorn, which opens Thursday, September 29th off-Broadway

Farm Avenue Productions and Joseph Smith are proud to announce CYCLING PAST THE MATTERHORN, a new play by award-winning playwright Deborah Grimberg, starring Tony Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee Shirley Knight.

Stage and film actress Carrie Preston will make her debut as a film director with the festival hit 29th and Gay, which will also feature songs written and performed by Malcolm Gets

THE ARTISTS SHOWCASE SERIES presents a reading of THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SAMANTHA BROWN, a new musical with music and lyrics by BRIAN LOWDERMILK, concept by ZACH ALTMAN and book and lyrics by KAIT KERRIGAN at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 3, at Makor, 35 West 67th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue.

Photos from the recent reading of Adam Rapp's new black comedy which featured Anthony Rapp.

WAVERLY WRITERS COLLECTIVE is pleased to announce its upcoming production of 'BABIES, BOMBS AND LOVE: PLAYS FOR A NEW GENERATION,' an evening of short plays written by its member playwrights. Performances are Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays only March 13th through March 15th at 7:00 pm and March 20th through March 22nd at 8:00 pm.

Lincoln Center Theater's production of the Richard Brinsley Sheridan classic comedy, THE RIVALS, directed by Mark Lamos, will open on Thursday, December 16, at 7:30 PM at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.