John Golden News

The puppets of 'Avenue Q' were happy to pick up the pen and sign-in for work on Thursday, November 29. Trekkie Monster, Rod and Kate Monster have been away from the Golden Theatre for 19-days during the work-stoppage. But they're ready to bring the laughs back to The Golden Theatre in their Tony Award-winning musical!

Broadway's Avenue Q celebrates Halloween as only a monster-filled musical can!

John Breglio will be receiving The Actors Fund Medal of Honor, to be given by Broadway legend and longtime Actors Fund supporter, Patti LuPone at Carnegie Hall on October 15. The celebration will continue with the Carnegie Hall solo debut concert of Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tony-Award winner and President of The Actors Fund. The entire evening will celebrate the Fund's 125th Anniversary.

The Geffen Playhouse has added an additional two weeks of performances to the West Coast premiere of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig at its Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.

Patrick Hamilton's Gaslight, the dark, Victorian melodrama, will be the next production at The Irish Repertory Theatre

Jo Bonney (SubUrbia), who also directed the 2004 World premiere production in New York, heads for the left coast and helms the West Coast premiere of Fat Pig

According to a casting notice, Avenue Q will soon be embarking on a national tour

'Avenue Q' breaks house record at the John Golden Theatre for the fourth consecutive year.

For the fourth consecutive year, AVENUE Q has set a box office record at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th St.) on Broadway. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical broke its own box office record -- yet again -- with an all-time high of $665,181 for the week ending December 31, 2006.

Avenue Q, the 2004 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, will make its West Coast debut at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in the summer of 2007

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the American premiere of Simon Mendes da Costa's LOSING LOUIE at the Biltmore Theatre. Previews for LOSING LOUIE begin Thursday, September 21 for a Thursday, October 12 opening.

A new Avenue Q contest is offering fans the chance to create a commerical for the hit Broadway musical

Howie Michael Smith has been announced as the next performer to play purpose-seeking Princeton and fellow puppet Rod in the Broadway production of Avenue Q; he will replace Barrett Foa, who leaves the day before, on July 3rd.

Jessica Lange and Maria Tucci have joined the all-star cast of actresses channeling legendary opera star Maria Callas in a Master Class benefit on Monday, June 19th at the Broadhurst Theatre at 7 PM

Kathy Bates, Edie Falco, Chita Rivera and more will all play Maria Callas in the Metropolitan Opera Guild's Master Class benefit on June 19th

Laurence Holzman, Felicia Needleman, Alison Louise Hubbard, Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak have been selected as the winners of the 16th Annual Kleban Awards, which honor achievement in writing for musical theatre

Andrew MacDonald Smith and his puppet Maurice Tipo, chosen as the winner of the 'One Night Stand' contest, made their Broadway debuts in Avenue Q on March 10th

As the winning puppet of Avenue Q's One Night Stand contest, puppet Maurice Tipo--as well as creator Andrew MacDonald Smith--will make his Broadway debut in the musical

Avenue Q and Wicked will receive Actors' Fund Special Performances on March 27th at PM and April 30th at 8 PM, respectively, with funds to benefit the Actors' Fund of America

The Las Vegas production of Avenue Q will close on May 28th, leaving the Wynn Las Vegas hotel open for the incoming Spamalot and making Avenue Q available to tour