Hattie McDaniel News

The York Theatre Company has announced the cast for The Day Before Spring, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe

The Island Dance Festival returns to Fire Island Pines on the weekend of July 20.

The York Theatre Company will present Bajour, with book by Ernest Kinoy and music and lyrics by Walter Marks

The York Theatre Company has announced casting for Bajour, with book by Ernest Kinoy and music and lyrics by Walter Marks

The York Theatre Company has announced full casting for I and Albert, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams and book by Jay Presson Allen.

The York Theatre Company has announced casting for It's a Bird...It's a Plane…It's Superman, the first of the four shows in York's Summer 2007 Musicals in Mufti Series -- the York's acclaimed series of musical theatre gems in staged concert performances.

The Coast of Utopia and Spring Awakening won the top honors at The 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, which were presented on Sunday, May 20 at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center!

The York Theatre Company has announced its Summer 2007 Musicals in Mufti Series -- the York's acclaimed series of musical theatre gems in staged concert performances.

Beth Leavel and James Naughton announced the nominees for the 2007 Drama Desk Awards this morning at The Friar's Club. The awards will take place on Sunday, May 20th at the F. H. LaGuardia Concert Hall.

Joan Ross Sorkin's fascinating new play explores the triumphs and tragedies of Hattie McDaniel's life and career.

Capathia Jenkins will play the Hollywood icon of the title in Emerging Artists' Theatre's premiere of (mis)Understanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story, written by Joan Ross Sorkin and directed by David Glenn Armstrong

Emerging Artists Theatre has announced its 2007 Triple Threat, the company's second annual premiere of three full-length plays by emerging playwrights

Margaret Hamilton in THE WIZARD OF OZ defined, forever, how a wicked witch looks and how she behaves. Her performance in the film is etched in our souls as surely as there are presidents etched on Mt. Rushmore

Margaret Hamilton in THE WIZARD OF OZ defined, forever, how a wicked witch looks and how she behaves. Her performance in the film is etched in our souls as surely as there are presidents etched on Mt. Rushmore