Marcia Gay Harden News

The Tisch School of the Arts announced today that Golden Globe® Award Winner, James Franco, will join its annual gala, honoring Billy Crystal, Class of 1970.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the new hit play by Mark St. Germain, opened July 22nd to rave reviews and immediately became a sellout sensation.

Signature Theatre Company's production of Tony Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, began performances Tuesday, September 14. The first New York revival of Kushner's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play is directed by Michael Greif. The production, originally slated to run through December 19, has been extended a second time through February 20, 2011. Previously, BroadwayWorld has brought you clips of the creative team members discussing their experience with the production. Today, we bring you the latest from the Signature's web series, revisiting original Angels company members. In this clip, Marcia Gay Harden - Broadway's 'Harper Pitt' - revisits how much ANGELS meant to her.

Last night, October 13, Tony Award winning director & choreographer Matthew Bourne, Broadway's Original Tony Award winning Billy Elliot Trio David Alvarez, Kiril Kulish & Trent Kowalik; Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock), film & TV star Christine Baranski (Mamma Mia! movie), Tony Award winner Donna McKechnie (A Chorus Line), directing royalty Sir Richard Eyre, Tony Award winning stage & film star Alan Cumming (Cabaret), Academy Award & Tony Award winning stage and film director Sam Mendes (Cabaret, American Beauty), Emily Mortimer (Pink Panther, '30 Rock'), downtown performance artist Joey Arias, renowned puppeteer Basil Twist, screenwriter Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands), Broadway choreographer Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys), and Jack Noseworthy (Sweet Smell of Success) were among the stars who came out to celebrate the opening night of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake at the New York City Center. BroadwayWorld was also on hand and brings you photo coverage below.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), the not-for-profit foundation of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), announces that Michael Halberstam of Writers' Theatre is the recipient of the 2010 Zelda Fichandler Award, which recognizes an outstanding director or choreographer who is transforming the regional arts landscape through singular creativity and artistry in theatre. The award heralds accomplishment to date and promise for the future, artistic vision, and deep commitment to a region outside of New York. It carries an unrestricted grant of $5000 to the individual recipient.

Elda Ferri and Allen Bain announced today the wrap of principal photography on Director Roberto Faenza's 'Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You' based on Peter Cameron's award-winning novel of the same name. Praised by critics and readers alike, Cameron's 2007 novel has been favorably compared to 'The Catcher in the Rye.'

According to Deadline.com, Jeff Daniels is collaborating with Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Timothy Busfield, for a new Showtime series entitled, Happily Ever After. Daniels has written the script for the series' pilot, and he will also star in the show as a factory worker turned musician. The potential pilot will be directed by Bushfield.

The 24th Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS $476,917, beating the 2009 total of $403,929. This year's top booths were WICKED, Broadway Beat, TDF, American Idiot, The Phantom of the Opera, United Scenic Artists Local 829, Maddie's Corner, Next to Normal, The Addams Family, Triton Gallery and Billy Elliot!

Second Stage Theatre opened it's latest production, TRUST, starring Zach Braff, Bobby Cannavale, Sutton Foster, and Ari Graynor, on August 12. TRUST is written by Paul Weitz and directed by Peter DuBois.

TV Guide exclusively reports today that Marcia Gay Harden will be returning to NBC's 'Law & Order: SVU' as Federal Agent Dana Lewis in the eighth episode of the show's 12th season. Harden debuted the character in 2005 under her alias 'Star Morrison' in a case centering on a white supremacist group's involvement with a school murder. Harden reprised the character in 2007 in a guest stint, for which she earned an Emmy nomination.

Celebrities from the Film, Music, Theater, and TV worlds have been posing for photos with elephants for a charity project called the Elephant Project to benefit the Alzheimer's Association.

Academy Award winning actor Adrien Brody stars in the lead role in Detachment with Academy Award winning actress, Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, William Peterson, Bryan Cranston, Tim Blake Nelson with Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner and James Caan.

According to reports by Variety, Tony winner Marcia Gay Harden will star in the upcoming film 'Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You,' which Is set to be directed by Roberto Faenza.

Tony Award Winner, Emmy Award Winner and Oscar Nominee Laurence Fishburne transforms into Thurgood Marshall to tell the triumphant story of how a boy from the backstreets of Baltimore changed history. Written by George Stevens Jr and helmed by Leonard Foglia, Thurgood plays at the Geffen Playhouse from June 27 to August 8, 2010, with an opening night of July 7.

With a sense of humor equal to their sense of adventure, Robin Hood and his Merry Men pursue villains and victories in the Sherwood Forest in a lively new adaptation on stage at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival June 4 through August 7.

Stage veterans Marcia Gay Harden, William Petersen, and Lucy Liu, along with Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston, James Caan, and Christina Hendricks, will star in the film 'Detachment,' The Hollywood Reporter reports. The film will be directed by Tony Kaye.

This past Friday July 30th, Tony and Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden attended FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the new hit play by Mark St. Germain.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), the not-for-profit foundation of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), announces a call for nominations for the second-annual Zelda Fichandler Award, which recognizes an outstanding director or choreographer making an exceptional contribution to the national arts landscape through theatre work in America.

Outrageous situations lead to hilarious complications in the legendary musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opening on the Main Stage at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Friday, June 25. With previews June 23 and 24, Forum continues through July 11. Ticket prices range from $25 to $53.

La Jolla Playhouse announces the cast for the world premiere of Annie Weisman's Surf Report, the first production of the Playhouse's 2010/2011 season, running June 15 - July 11, 2010 in the Mandell Weiss Forum.