Frances McDormand News

The 78th Annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 5, 2006 and will air on ABC live at 8pm EST.

The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards will be broadcast live tonight on NBC

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Felicity Huffman, Dame Judi Dench and Cynthia Nixon are among the actors nominated for SAG Awards, which will be presented on January 29th

Lauren Ambrose, Ben Gazzara, Jonathan Hadary, Zoe Wanamaker and others will headline the Lincoln Center revival of Awake and Sing! on Broadway in spring of 2006

Theatre veterans such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Felicity Huffman, Dame Judi Dench and many more received Golden Globe Award nominations

Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing will be revived by Lincoln Center Theatre in spring 2006, with the production to open on April 17th at the Belasco Theatre

- MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) has announced the lineup for the 35th anniversary season of its famed 'WRITERS IN PERFORMANCE' (WIP) literary series. Under the direction of Steve Lawson, WIP's eclectic five-event program will celebrate the best in drama, literature and song with tributes to Tennessee Williams, Kurt Weill, Cervantes' Don Quixote, George S. Kaufman and an appearance by opera great (and first-time author) Renee Fleming.