Eileen Heckart News

The first annual Joel and Phyllis Ehrlich Award for a promising new play that deals with socially relevant subject matter was presented Wednesday to The Jesus Hickey by Luke Yankee

The first annual Joel and Phyllis Ehrlich Award for a socially relevant new work of theater will be awarded to one of the four plays being showcased in June as part of the TRU Voices New Plays Reading series, announced Bob Ost, President of Theater Resources Unlimited

A new play, The Jesus Hickey, will receive a staged reading with an all-star cast at the Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street on Monday, June 11th at 7 pm.

Transport Group Artistic Director Jack Cummings III has announced that the company will present three post-show talkbacks for its official 50th anniversary production of William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. The talkbacks will run as follows:

Transport Group Artistic Director Jack Cummings III has announced that performances of the official 50th anniversary production of William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, will begin Friday, March 30 at 8pm at the Connelly Theatre, 220 East 4 Street.

A number of June events will celebrate books released by Back Stage Books; among the stars set to participate are Kitty Carlisle Hart, Shirley Knight and Julie Wilson

Bruce F. Winston remembers his 'musical theatre mentor' Harold Rome, the composer/lyricist of Call Me Mister, Fanny, I Can Get It for You Wholesale and more

In May, Back Stage Books will publish Just Outside the Spotlight: Growing Up With Eileen Heckart by her son Luke Yankee, with a foreword by Mary Tyler Moore

Leonard Gershe's Butterflies Are Free will be presented off-off-Broadway from October 20th through 30th

Christopher Meloni, who stars on 'Law and Order: SVU' may reprise his Gate Theatre role of Eddie in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge on Broadway