Laurence Maslon News

WRITERS on WRITERS New Literary Series ROBERT STONE, EMILY BARTON, AND GERALD HOWARD on Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow Monday, November 2, 7pm

Producer Jeffrey Finn announced today additional panelists for the TAKE A SIDE: THE OLEANNA TALK-BACK SERIES, the special post-show series for audiences during previews of the first-ever Broadway production of OLEANNA, the provocative drama by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles.

Producer Jeffrey Finn announced today additional panelists for the TAKE A SIDE: THE OLEANNA TALK-BACK SERIES, the special post-show series for audiences during previews of the first-ever Broadway production of OLEANNA, the provocative drama by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles.

Producer Jeffrey Finn announced today that the upcoming, first-ever Broadway production of OLEANNA, the provocative drama by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, has instituted a special post-show series for audiences during previews.

Producer Jeffrey Finn announced today that the upcoming, first-ever Broadway production of OLEANNA, the provocative drama by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, has instituted a special post-show series for audiences during previews.

The American Theatre Wing has announced the newest members of the Nominating Committee for the 2009-2010 Broadway theatre season.

South Pacific movie star and Golden Globe-nominee Mitzi Gaynor; current Broadway cast member and Tony Award-nominee Loretta Ables Sayre; original Broadway cast membersBarbara Luna, Michael DeLeon and Noel DeLeon; Broadway historian and author of The South Pacific Companion, Laurence Maslon; and President of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, Ted Chapin all came together to celebrate theSouth Pacific 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition Blu-ray Disc release at the Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble in New York City.

Original and current South Pacific stars joined together to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the original, Tony Award winning Broadway production; the 50th anniversary of the Academy Award winning movie adaptation; and the 1st year anniversary of Lincoln Center Theater's Tony Award winning Broadway revival.

The American Theatre Wing has announced the newest members of the Nominating Committee for the 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards.

Yesterday, June 5th, the cast of SOUTH PACIFIC performed and signed CDs at Barnes and Nobles Lincoln Triangle.

On June 5, 2008, stars of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific will perform selections from the new Broadway Cast Recording as well as participate in a CD signing.

June at Barnes & Noble is overflowing with music from jazz and Broadway, international cabaret stars and newcomers, and even several events built around books about music and naked men.

On June 5, 2008, stars of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific will perform selections from the new Broadway Cast Recording as well as participate in a CD signing.

Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 62nd Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced today by Tony Award Winners Sara Ramirez and David Hyde Pierce at the Tony Award Nominations Announcement sponsored by IBM. The nominees were selected by an independent committee of 23 theatre professionals appointed by the Tony Awards Administration Committee. The 2008 Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.

On Saturday December 8 from 12 noon to 1:30PM, Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Triangle in New York City (1972 Broadway at 66 Street) will be alive with The Sound of Music.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today the Nominating Committee for the 2007-2008 Broadway season

I don't think that we've ever given out so many four and five star reviews and there's a lot of exciting reading and buying of books, as well as gift-giving ahead...

On November 16th, on what would have been his 117th birthday, the first official website for America's greatest comic dramatist, George S. Kaufman, was launched.

- 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.

Friday, January 28 at midnight on Thirteen, THEATER TALK welcomes producer/director/writer Michael Kantor and writer/historian Laurence Maslon discussing their remarkable PBS documentary, BROADWAY: THE AMERICAN MUSICAL.