John Guare News

Isabel Keating will host the Paradise Follies, honoring Ziegfeld Girl Dorothy Wegman Raphaelson and featuring a screening of Trouble in Paradise, on March 25th

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) have announced that the American premiere of Conor McPherson's Shining City at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street) will open Tuesday, May 9 at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street). Previews for Shining City will begin Thursday, April 20.

Grey Gardens is one of three new musicals produced by nonprofit theatres to receive a 2006 Richard Rodgers Award

Some of the biggest names in film and theatre will turn out to pay tribute to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Horton Foote at Signature Theatre Company's annual gala, which will be held on Monday, March 13th

The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Mara Manus, Executive Director) and New Dramatists (Todd London, Artistic Director; Joel Ruark, Executive Director) will hold a memorial service for the Playwright John Belluso, who died on Friday, February 10, 2006. The service will be held at The Public Theater on Monday, February 27th at 7:00 PM. It will be open to the general public.

On February 20th and 21st, Signature Theatre Company will present an invitation-only reading of Adrienne Kennedy's adaptation of Flaubert's Madama Bovary

The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Mara Manus, Executive Director) and New Dramatists (Todd London, Artistic Director; Joel Ruark, Executive Director) will hold a memorial service for the Playwright John Belluso, who died on Friday, February 10, 2006.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced that Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning star Christine Lahti will make her eagerly-awaited return to the stage in the company's final production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season,

On February 2nd, John Guare, Suzan-Lori Parks and Diana Son will take part in the Public TALKS discussion 'Writers and the Public'

The hit Horton Foote play The Trip to Bountiful has been extended at Signature Theatre Company for a second and final time; it will close on March 11th

Signature Theatre Company has offered $15 for the run of Landscape of the Body from March 28th through May 21st; the show stars Sherie Rene Scott and Lili Taylor

he Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts will kick off with a symposium to discuss Harold Clurman, his effect on American theater, culture and the lives and work of panelists Zoe Caldwell, Roy Scheider, David Amram, Elaine Stritch and Grace Schulman.

The cast will feature (in alphabetical order): Chris Bauer (Chaplin White), Stephen Lang (Colonel Littlefield), Trevor Long (Gunney), Margaret Colin (Margaret Littlefield), Jeremy Strong (Private Evan Davis), and Chris Chalk (Captain Lee King).

NORA, legendary film director Ingmar Bergman's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic play, A Doll's House, is coming to Manhattan for the first time in its 25-year history.

Signature Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful will be extended for six weeks through February 29th, 2006

The Dirty Rotten Producers are proud to announce that their Tony Award-nominated leading lady, Sherie Rene Scott, has extended her contract, and will continue with the hit show through Fall 2006.

Signature Theatre Company announced today that, after further discussion with the August Wilson Estate, the company will reinstate its plans to present playwright August Wilson in 2006 as part of its 15th Anniversary line-up.

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce the full cast for the upcoming New York premiere of BEAUTY OF THE FATHER by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz (Anna in the Tropics) with direction by Michael Greif (Rent).

Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG), Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures announced today that they will join forces to provide viewers of Starz Cinema a first look at exclusive footage from Revolution Studios' 'Rent', the much-anticipated movie adaptation of the smash Broadway musical.

The Trip to Bountiful, for which tickets are $15, will open on December 4 after beginning previews on November 15th