Michael Yeargan News

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming national tour of The Light in the Piazza, which will circle the country for 50 weeks beginning in August

Marking 60 years of excellence on Broadway, The Tony Awards were being broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS, Sunday, June 11th, and we've got the winners here! The History Boys led the pack with 6 wins, followed by The Drowsy Chaperone with 5, Jersey Boys with 4 and The Pajama Game, Sweeney Todd, and Awake and Sing with 2.

The 51st Annual Drama Desk Awards were presented on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 9:00 PM, at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. The annual awards honor excellence in theater for Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway during the season.

Announced this morning and reported on live at BroadwayWorld.com, we've got all the nominees for the 2006 Tony Awards, which will be broadcast on CBS on Sunday, June 11th.

Nominations for the 51 st Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today at The New York Friars Club by theater notables Marvin Hamlisch and Donna McKechnie, who revealed the nominees for the 2005/2006 theater season in front of a crowd of theater professionals at the press conference this morning.

Clifford Odets' Depression-era masterpiece has returned to the theatre of its original glory in director Bartlett Sher's captivating and heart-tugging revival

Bartlett Sher and Michael Yeargan, as part of LCT's Platform Series, will discuss Awake and Sing! on April 20th

The revival of Awake and Sing!, starring Lauren Ambrose, Ben Gazzara, Mark Ruffalo and more, opens on Broadway on April 17th

Bartlett Sher and Michael Yeargan, as part of LCT's Platform Series, will discuss Awake and Sing! on April 20th

On March 24th, Lincoln Center Theatre's starry production of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! will begin Broadway previews

Negotiations are currently underway for a possible 'Live at Lincoln Center' TV presentation of The Light in the Piazza

Two new productions of operas by Rossini and Puccini will be helmed, respectively, by The Light in the Piazza's Bartlett Sher and Dirty Rotten Scoundrel's Jack O'Brien as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 2006-2007 season

Jeff McCarthy will star in The Front Page, presented by the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT, in April

Variety reports that the Tony-winning tunes will begin a national tour in August after the Broadway show closes in June.

Johanna Day, Frank Wood and Michael Laurence will star in Arena Stage's The Rainmaker from March 3rd through April 9th

Cast members of The Light in the Piazza will appear at Joe's Pub on Monday, February 6th in a one-night-only cabaret performance titled The Lights of the Piazza.

Screen star Mark Ruffalo will join Lauren Ambrose, Ben Gazzara, Jonathan Hadary and Zoe Wanamaker in the starry upcoming revival of Odets' Awake and Sing!

Katie Clarke, Patti Cohenour, Aaron Lazar and other cast members from the hit musical will perform at Joe's Pub on February 6th as The Lights of the Piazza

Victoria Clark will stay with The Light in the Piazza through its closing on July 2nd, but understudy Patti Cohenour will go on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings

Lauren Ambrose, Ben Gazzara, Jonathan Hadary, Zoe Wanamaker and others will headline the Lincoln Center revival of Awake and Sing! on Broadway in spring of 2006