Frances McDormand News

Production begins in Connecticut this week on an untitled contemporary comedy directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty) from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. The film is being produced and co-financed by Big Beach, with Focus Features co-financing and distributing worldwide.

Perry Street Theatre Company (David Elliott/Martin Platt, Co-Directors) is proud to present the World Premiere of A Dangerous Personality, a new play by Sallie Bingham.

WABC-7 TV PRESENTS'BROADWAY BACKSTAGE: SPRING PREVIEW' AIRING SATURDAY, MARCH 29th 7:30PM-8:00 PM

Mike Nichols returns to Broadway this spring to direct Morgan Freeman, Frances McDormand and Peter Gallagher in Clifford Odets's The Country Girl. The production will play a limited engagement on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45th Street) beginning Thursday, April 3 and open on Sunday, April 27.

Classic Stage Company will present 'Monday Night Macbeth,' an exciting theatrical experience in which acclaimed actors - Ruben Santiago-Hudson, David Strathairn, Frances McDormand and members of Anne Bogart's SITI Company - will work through and explore a different act of Shakespeare's Macbeth with an acclaimed director in front of an audience on four Monday evenings

Kathryn Marchand of Stratford and John O'Hern of Westport will star in the premiere of a new comedy, Sweetspot: Confessions of a Golfaholic, written by O'Hern and presented by Playhouse on the Green, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Friday and Saturday, November 2 and 3 at 8PM and Sunday, November 4 at 3PM.

Oscar-winners Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand are likely to make their Broadway debut in a revival of Clifford Odets' 1950 backstage drama The Country Girl this spring

According to NYTimes.com, the lineup for New York Stage and Film and Vassar College's 23rd Powerhouse summer theater season will include productions of John Patrick Shanley's Romantic Poetry: A Musical Play, featuring a score by Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls) and starring Mark Linn-Baker and Idina Menzel, Stephen Belber's (Match) new play, Geometry of Fire, and concert readings of Pete Towshend's new rock opera, The Boy Who Heard Music, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T, a musical featuring hit songs originally by Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, the Staple Singers, Wilson Pickett and more.

The non-profit production company, WET continues its third season of the Risk Takers Films Series on March 17th with special guest Olympia Dukakis

Film Independent's 2007 Spirit Awards were held at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, CA on February 24, 2007.

Tamara Tunie, Brooke Smith, Michael Cerveris and more will guest star in 'an oak tree'

More stars have joined the line-up of rotating actors playing the role of 'The Father in Tim Crouch's an oak tree

The new book In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights features dozens of portraits of great dramatists

An all-star cast will headline Naked Angels' September 18th reading of the classic 1976 political drama All the President's Men

Michael Cerveris, Lisa Kron, Olympia Dukakis, as well as Anna Deveare Smith herself, will read from Smith's Letters to a Young Artist on September 25th

The revival of Awake and Sing!, starring Lauren Ambrose, Ben Gazzara, Mark Ruffalo and more, opens on Broadway on April 17th

On March 24th, Lincoln Center Theatre's starry production of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! will begin Broadway previews

The 78th Annual Academy Awards took take place on Sunday, March 5, 2006. Here's all the night's big winners!

Love, a one-night only benefit performance that will feature readings of short plays about love by some of today's hottest young women playwrights, will be presented on February 13th