Lee Strasberg News

The Ridgefield Theater Barn will offer an adult workshop on Thursday evenings, beginning in May 3rd. 'Developing Your Acting Career' is taught by Susan Grace Cohen of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, where she has been a faculty member for 20 years. All levels of experience are welcome.

True friendship is a journey - there is no roadmap. Award-winning playwright Richard Martin Hirsch takes us back to the Summer of '69, exploring the fragile nature of friendship in a world premiere dramedy inspired by true events. Darin Anthony directs The Closeness of the Horizon for a six-week run May 18 through June 24, presented by CoffeeHouse Productions at the Odyssey Theatre in West Los Angeles.

The Actors Fund's annual gala on Monday, May 21, 2012 at the New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, will honor Tony and Emmy Award winning artist activist Harry Belafonte, acting duo Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, and real estate developer David Steiner.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (Frank Hentschker, Executive Director) has announced the rest of its Spring 2012 season, featuring 11 free events at the Graduate Center, including rarely-seen performances, premiere readings of international playwrights, and day-long symposia on everything from ecologically inspired performance (for Earth Day!) to the Group Theatre to innovative American women producers.

Following a sold out run in Los Angeles, NAACP Award winner Kenyetta Lethridge's critically acclaimed social drama, Innocent Flesh, exposing the stark realities of the sexual exploitation, forced teen prostitution & trafficking of young children all across America, will bow in New York at Actors Temple Theater. The look at girls "in the life" that is dark yet funny begins previews March 1. Opening night is March 15.

Following a sold out run in Los Angeles, NAACP Award winner Kenyetta Lethridge's critically acclaimed social drama, Innocent Flesh, exposing the stark realities of the sexual exploitation, forced teen prostitution & trafficking of young children all across America, will bow in New York at Actors Temple Theater. The look at girls "in the life" that is dark yet funny begins previews March 1. Opening night is March 15.

Those iconic and beloved actresses Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood, whose careers were each to be cut tragically short, can be seen in two of their most important and popular films: 1956's 'Bus Stop' and 1961's 'West Side Story' respectively on THIRTEEN's Reel 13 in March.

As first reported on Deadline.com, Academy award winning actor Martin Landau has joined the cast of the yet untitled ABC drama pilot to be directed by Roland Emmerich drama pilot. The project is from ABC Studios and the Mark Gordon Co.

Horse Trade Theater Group will present The Management's (Joshua Conkel's MilkMilkLemonade; Crystal Skillman's Cut) World Premiere ofLarry Kunofsky's (The Myths We Need; The Unmarrying Project; What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends) YOUR BOYFRIEND MAY BE IMAGINARY, April 5-28 at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A).

MASKS is a buddy dramedy about two men growing up in the juvenile justice system, struggling to make it to manhood, battling with their past to shed their masks as they deal with crucial life issues that young people face.

Following a sold out run in Los Angeles, NAACP Award winner Kenyetta Lethridge's critically acclaimed social drama, Innocent Flesh, exposing the stark realities of the sexual exploitation, forced teen prostitution & trafficking of young children all across America, will bow in New York at Actors Temple Theater. The look at girls "in the life" that is dark yet funny begins previews March 1. Opening night is March 15.

On Monday, February 13, 2012 at 1:45 PM ET, President Obama will award the 2011 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal in the East Room. The First Lady will also attend. This event will be open press and will also be live streamed at www.WhiteHouse.gov/Live.

THE UNAUTHORIZED AFTERLIFE OF Eugene O'Neill is a fictional exploration by James Cady of how O'Neill tried to come to terms with the treatment of his family in his literary works as he journeys through the afterlife searching for the meaning in his own life - and maybe to settle a few scores. Cady gives us a view into the renowned playwright's life and afterlife with his portrayal of O'Neill as a 'theatrical Flying Dutchman' sailing from theatre to theatre, searching for that one second of meaning, the one moment that would make everything in the world make sense.

As first reported on TVLine.com, actress Frances Fisher will guest star on an upcoming episode of ABC's A GIFTED MAN to air in early March.

THE UNAUTHORIZED AFTERLIFE OF Eugene O'Neill is a fictional exploration by James Cady of how O'Neill tried to come to terms with the treatment of his family in his literary works as he journeys through the afterlife searching for the meaning in his own life - and maybe to settle a few scores. Cady gives us a view into the renowned playwright's life and afterlife with his portrayal of O'Neill as a 'theatrical Flying Dutchman' sailing from theatre to theatre, searching for that one second of meaning, the one moment that would make everything in the world make sense.

MASKS is a buddy dramedy about two men growing up in the juvenile justice system, struggling to make it to manhood, battling with their past to shed their masks as they deal with crucial life issues that young people face.

MASKS is a buddy dramedy about two men growing up in the juvenile justice system, struggling to make it to manhood, battling with their past to shed their masks as they deal with crucial life issues that young people face.

The world premiere of Fog opens at the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre on Tuesday, 3 January 2012 (Press Night: Thursday, 5 January 2012 at 7.30pm) for a limited four-week season, the final play in the New Writing at the Finborough Theatre Season, playing November 2011 to January 2012.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post will celebrate a very special New Year's Eve with the club's founder MICHAEL FEINSTEIN and three time Tony-nominated Broadway star KELLI O'HARA.

Executive Producer Aaron Grant is presenting an industry-only reading of Gary Morgenstein's new play, A Tomato Can't Grow in the Bronx today at the Jerry Orbach Theatre at the Snapple Theatre Center.