David Auburn News

Michael Kahn will step down from his job as director of the Drama Division at Juilliard in order to dedicate himself to his Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. while continuing to teach at Juilliard

Martin Platt, Co-director of the Perry Street Theatre Company, has been tapped to direct the European Premiere of John Patrick Shanley's Tony Award Winning Drama, DOUBT to begin performances at Vienna's English Theatre at January 30 - March 11, 2006.

Deb Margolin has been awarded the Kesselring Prize for Playwriting

Playwright Deb Margolin -- author of the plays 'Three Seconds in the Key,' 'Bringing the Fisherman Home' and 'Rock Scissors Paper' -- is the recipient of the $15,000 '2005 Kesselring Prize' for playwriting, it has been announced by O. Aldon James, president of The National Arts Club, which presents the Kesselring each year to an emerging American playwright. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Kesselring Prize.

The trailer for the film adaptation of David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Proof is now accessible online

Proof is the third entry in Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy's series of summer theatre in NC; the show will run from June 29th to July 10th

Neil Patrick Harris will hear his life go tick, tick...BOOM! when he stars in the show in its London premiere, which opens on June 9th

The production, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner and directed by Edward Berkeley, will be performed March 17-19 and 22, 2005.

The newly founded Invictus Theatre Company (Co-Artistic Directors John Stanisci, Thomas Ryan and Laurie Ann Bulman) is proud to present, as its inaugural Off-Broadway production, the New York premiere of Dan Gordon's gripping legal drama MURDER IN THE FIRST.

Todd Haimes, Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theatre Company, is pleased to announce that Harold Wolpert will be joining the company as the new Managing Director on July 5th, 2005.

MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB will present its annual Winter Benefit, 'An Intimate Night,' an evening featuring Broadway stars LESLIE UGGAMS, PATRICK CASSIDY and KELLI O'HARA on Monday, January 24 at the Plaza Hotel (Fifth Avenue at Central Park South).

The Tony Award-winning Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) announced that its Broadway home, the landmarked Biltmore Theatre, has been included in the National Register of Historic Places.