Michael Williams News

Actors' Equity Association announced today that James Earl Jones is the recipient of the 2011 Paul Robeson Award. Created in 1971, the Award recognizes a person who best exemplifies the principles by which Mr. Robeson lived.

Repertory Philippines (REP), the country's premier English-language theater company, and Stages Production Specialists Inc. (Stages), a fast growing event and talent management firm, have started their month-long run of Anthony Drewe and George Stiles' musical incarnation of PETER PAN at Meralco Theatre.

Repertory Philippines (REP), the country's premier English-language theater company, and Stages Production Specialists Inc. (Stages), a fast growing event and talent management firm, will bring to the Meralco Theatre Anthony Drewe and George Stiles' musical incarnation of PETER PAN from September 29 to October 30.

North American tour of COME FLY AWAY will launch at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA, on August 2, 2011.

COME FLY AWAY launches its North American tour today at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA. Direct from the original Broadway cast of COME FLY AWAY and the Las Vegas production of Sinatra Dance With Me are principal dancers Matthew Stockwell Dibble, Cody Green, Laurie Kanyok, Marielys Molina, John Selya and Ron Todorowski.

The producers of the new Broadway musical, COME FLY AWAY, announced the cast today for the North American tour of the show, launching at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA, on August 2, 2011.

Carmen, the well-known opera, will play at Artscape's opera house from 9-19 March.

Animal Planet today announced that character actor Michael Kenneth Williams will narrate the network's upcoming series TAKING ON TYSON debuting March 6 at 10 PM (ET/PT). Most notably known for his roles as Chalky White on 'Boardwalk Empire' and Omar Little on 'The Wire,' Williams' extensive stage and screen career combined with his genuine yet gritty tone was an obvious standout and a perfect match for the series. Over the past decade, Williams has appeared in numerous long-running network television series and feature films including 'Alias,' Martin Scorsese's 'Bringing Out the Dead,' 'Boston Legal,' 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' and 'The Sopranos.' Williams grew up in Flatbush, Brooklyn - just minutes away from Tyson's hometown of Brownsville.

Carmen, the well-known opera, will play at Artscape's opera house from 9-19 March.

Animal Planet today announced that character actor Michael Kenneth Williams will narrate the network's upcoming series TAKING ON TYSON debuting March 6 at 10 PM (ET/PT). Most notably known for his roles as Chalky White on 'Boardwalk Empire' and Omar Little on 'The Wire,' Williams' extensive stage and screen career combined with his genuine yet gritty tone was an obvious standout and a perfect match for the series. Over the past decade, Williams has appeared in numerous long-running network television series and feature films including 'Alias,' Martin Scorsese's 'Bringing Out the Dead,' 'Boston Legal,' 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' and 'The Sopranos.' Williams grew up in Flatbush, Brooklyn - just minutes away from Tyson's hometown of Brownsville.

Veteran stage and film actress Dame Judi Dench recently released her autobiography entitled 'And furthermore' in the UK. 'And Furthermore' was published by Weiderfeld & Nicolson and focuses on Dench's professional career as well as her 30-year marriage to actor Michael Williams who passed away in 2001 after succumbing to lung cancer. The book is set for release in the US in February 2011.

Broadway at The Center and LGBT Theatre Company present, back by popular demand, 'LA CONTESSA'S CHRISTMAS CAROL! A Holiday Musical Frolic. 'Tis a benefit show with a cheeky spin on Dickens' classic tale, starring infamous La Contessa, self-dubbed 'The Puerto Rican Dame Edna.' Featuring, from Broadway's West Side Story 'Shark' boys,Isaac Calpito, Sean Ewing, Patrick Ortiz, Waldemar Quinones and Michael Williams with Jody Cole, Gavin Esham, William J. Growney, Lori Hammel, Scott Westervelt, John Wasiniak and more.

Broadway at The Center and LGBT Theatre Company present, back by popular demand, 'LA CONTESSA'S CHRISTMAS CAROL! A Holiday Musical Frolic. 'Tis a benefit show with a cheeky spin on Dickens' classic tale, starring infamous La Contessa, self-dubbed 'The Puerto Rican Dame Edna.' Featuring, from Broadway's West Side Story 'Shark' boys,Isaac Calpito, Sean Ewing, Patrick Ortiz, Waldemar Quinones and Michael Williams with Jody Cole, Gavin Esham, William J. Growney, Lori Hammel, Scott Westervelt, John Wasiniak and more.

Veteran stage and film actress Dame Judi Dench recently released her autobiography entitled 'And furthermore' in the UK. 'And Furthermore' was published by Weiderfeld & Nicolson and focuses on Dench's professional career as well as her 30-year marriage to actor Michael Williams who passed away in 2001 after succumbing to lung cancer. The book is set for release in the US in February 2011.

In Theater Down South's hilarious production of Stephen Sondheim's 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum', theatre stalwart Michael Williams mentors his junior thespian apprentices, and contributes a lot to this delightful madness!

Four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally ('Master Class', 'Kiss of the Spiderwoman') was formally introduced to revered Filipino film and television actress Cherie Gil at the writer's home in Brooklyn, New York. Ms. Gil recently received rave reviews from both media critics and theatre-goers when she essayed the larger-than-life role of 'La Divina' Maria Callas thrice (two seasons in Manila and a touring production in Dumaguete City, Southern Philippines) in Mr. McNally's 1996 Tony Award-winning play 'Master Class'.

It's Manila's turn to greet musical theatre legend Stephen Sondheim a happy 80th birthday. Two Sondheim musicals are opening this month of October: one of which is prolific theatre company Atlantis Productions Inc.'s touring production of 'A Little Night Music', starring Philippine cinema's multi-award-winning actress Dawn Zulueta as Desirée Armfeldt; the other one is community theatre company Theater Down South's (TDS) production of 'A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum', featuring young thespians Chino Veguillas as Pseudolus, Jacob Kliatchko Gayanelo as Hero, and Carla Gonzalez as Philia.

Tony Award-winning actor James Earl Jones has joined the fall line-up for The New York Times's TimesTalks event series.

On Thursday, September 9 at 7:30, Boulder Weekly and Twist & Shout present AN EVENING WITH CHARLIE HUNTER featuring Eric Kalb (drums) & Michael Williams (trumpet).