Maggie Smith News

The 10th Annual New York International Fringe Festival and Tuesday Club Productions will present The Infliction of Cruelty, a new play by Andrew Unterberg and Sean McManus from August 18th through 26th

Cynthia Nixon--currently Tony-nominated for her last Broadway turn in Rabbit Hole--will star in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which will be revived by the New Group in September

Cynthia Nixon--currently Tony-nominated for her last Broadway turn in Rabbit Hole--will star in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which will be revived by the New Group in September

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Complete casting has been announced for the West End production of Wicked.

Kathy Brier, Orfeh, Sara Gettelfinger and more will star in two readings of the Broadway-bound revue Oh What a Lovely War on May 22nd and May 23rd

Acorn Media has announced the May 2nd DVD release of the 'Broadway's Lost Treasures Collection,' a 4-volume boxed set of performances from the annual Tony Award broadcasts

Dame Judi Dench has returned to the London stage in a revival of Noel Coward's Hay Fever, which opened at the Haymarket Theatre on April 19th

Private Lives is this writer's favorite Noel Coward play

Private Lives is this writer's favorite Noel Coward play

Alan Menken's Sister Act musical will play Atlanta's Alliance Theatre from January 17th through February 25th, 2007, after playing the Pasadena Playhouse in fall of 2006

Dame Judi Dench will headline a London revival of Noel Coward's Hay Fever, which will be directed by Sir Peter Hall and open on April 19th

New plays will be seen in the Thicker Than Water 2006 Festival, running from January 23rd through February 18th

Youngblood's Thicker Than Water 2006 Festival will feature three new plays from January 23rd through February 18th

Divas, Jewish divas, men playing divas, men playing pianos. They're all part of the festivities on a cabaret or concert stage in NYC.

The Autograph Suit, featuring the signatures of dozens of celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Judi Dench and Ethel Merman, will be auctioned off on eBay to fund a Broadway-bound musical premiering at a Pennsylvania high school

Vanessa Redgrave is interested in starring in a planned transfer of the London hit The Breath of Life

Eileen Atkins, a four-time Tony Award® nominee, will star as Sister Aloysius in DOUBT, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Doug Hughes.

In November of 2006, a musical version of Sister Act with music by Alan Menken will premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse in California

Leading ladies such as Liz Callaway, Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Leah Hocking will headline two pre-Broadway industry readings of the revue Oh, What a Lovely War! on September 26th and 27th