Herbert Berghof News

The Colony Theatre Company is thrilled to present its first production of its 36th sensational season, GRACE & GLORIE, written by Tom Ziegler, directed by Cameron Watson (Trying) and starring Ovation Award winner Beth Grant and Melinda Page Hamilton.

The Colony Theatre Company is thrilled to present its first production of its 36th sensational season, GRACE & GLORIE, written by Tom Ziegler, directed by Cameron Watson (Trying) and starring Ovation Award winner Beth Grant and Melinda Page Hamilton.

The Katselas Theatre Company presents The World Premiere of The 'Hook Up' Comedy Altar Ego by James Lyons and Directed by Audrey Moore and Leila Vatan. The show is produced by Gary Grossman and opens Saturday, April 10 at 8pm at The Beverly Hills Playhouse.

The Katselas Theatre Company continues its landmark 2010 Season with the World Premiere of James Lyons' Alter Ego, a fresh, candidly irreverent, sometimes poignant look at relationships, fidelity, monogamy, addiction and everything else that takes place between the upper thighs and the lower waist. The production is co-directed by Audrey Moore and Leila Vatan. Producing is Gary Grossman. The production opens Saturday, April 10 at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.

Athena Theatre Company has announced that Sally Burtenshaw will replace Ann Farthing in the role of Mom in the production of Sam Shepard's True West currently playing thru February 14 at Theatre Row.

Al Pacino is set to star as 'Herod' in the upcoming film 'Mary, Mother of Christ.' The multi-award winning actor will star alongside Camilla Belle, Al Pacino, Peter O'Toole, Julia Ormond and Hollywood newcomer Diogo Morgado, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Variety reports that Al Pacino is set to star in the upcoming HBO film, 'Kervorkian' about right-to-die champion Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Barry Levinson is set to direct the film, which will revolve around Kervorkian's construction of his infamous 'Mercy Machine,' his first assisted suicide in the early 1990s and the resulting media frenzy.

The New York Post has reported that stage and screen actor and longtime political activist Ron Silver died this morning, ending a long battle with cancer, friends of the liberal Democrat-turned-GOP stalwart told The Post.

The Herbert Berghof (HB) Studio and the HB Playwrights Foundation will host a tribute to the acclaimed and accomplished actors/comedians Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller in a gala celebration at The Players Club on Monday, November 10, 2008.

The Herbert Berghof (HB) Studio and the HB Playwrights Foundation will host a tribute to the acclaimed and accomplished actors/comedians Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller in a gala celebration at The Players Club on Monday, November 10, 2008.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center has acquired the papers of renowned performers and acting teachers Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof. The collection consists of thousands of pages of unpublished correspondence, diaries, scripts and manuscripts, photographs, clippings and other documentation relating to the dynamic theatrical careers of both Hagen and Berghof. This collection of professional and personal papers, spanning nearly 100 years of theater history, is being made public for the first time. To celebrate the bequest, the Library is planning a series of eight free public programs featuring many close friends and colleagues of Ms. Hagen and Mr. Berghof's including such figures as Harold Prince, Edward Albee, David Hyde Pierce and Eli Wallach. Programs take place in the Bruno Walter Auditorium in The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center located at 111 Amsterdam Avenue (between 64th and 65th streets). Admission to all programs is free and first come, first served. For information, please call (212) 642-0142 or visit www.nypl.org/lpaprograms. Programs are curated by Alan Pally, Manager of Public Programs at the Library for the Performing Arts.

A frank and intimate chat with Lorna Luft, who's performing in York's Larry Grossman revue this weekend in NYC.

Makor's March line-up will include a reading of a Norman Mailer play and the NYMF musical Soul Searching, among other events.

Eight-time Oscar-nominee and two-time Tony Award-winner Al Pacino has been selected by the American Film Institute's (AFI) Board of Trustees to receive the 35th AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film, it was announced today by Sir Howard Stringer, chair of the AFI Board of Trustees