Molly Shannon News

Nederlander Alliances, LLC and Pittsburgh CLO, co-producers and founding partners of The National High School Musical Theater Awards, presented the first annual Jimmy Awards in a ceremony held last night at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University. The Jimmy Award is named in honor of legendary Broadway theater owner and producer James M. Nederlander. The award features an illustration of James M. Nederlander drawn by world renowned artist Al Hirschfeld.

Pittsburgh CLO and Nederlander Alliances, LLC. will present The , celebrating excellence in high school musical theater programs nationally, at Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, NYU (566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South) on Monday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m.

When it comes to acting, beyond the confines of sketch comedy, only one woman has displayed serious dramatic talent, of late. Out of the most recent SNL ensemble, Maya Rudolph, now starring in the film Away We Go, surpasses her late-night cohorts, including Fey and Amy Poehler, with an inspired and often touching performance...

The Blank Theatre Company's Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival is now seeking submissions from playwrights 19 years of age and younger through March 16, 2009. Winning plays will be presented by professional actors and directors in June of 2009 in Hollywood, CA. Now in its seventeenth year, The Blank Theatre Company's Young Playwrights Festival is a nationwide competition that produces the work of eight to twelve teenage playwrights each year. The Festival has produced 184 plays by playwrights 19 and younger since 1993 from over 25 states.

17TH ANNUAL NATIONWIDE BLANK THEATRE COMPANY YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS The Blank Theatre Company's Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival is now seeking submissions from playwrights 19 years of age and younger through March 16, 2009. Winning plays will be presented by professional actors and directors in June of 2009 in Hollywood, CA.

The Blank Theatre Company's Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival is now seeking submissions from playwrights 19 years of age and younger through March 16, 2009. Winning plays will be presented by professional actors and directors in June of 2009 in Hollywood, CA. Now in its seventeenth year, The Blank Theatre Company's Young Playwrights Festival is a nationwide competition that produces the work of eight to twelve teenage playwrights each year. The Festival has produced 184 plays by playwrights 19 and younger since 1993 from over 25 states.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Managing Director) is proud to present the world premiere production of Beau Willimon's play FARRAGUT NORTH, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt), and featuring Dan Bittner (The Vertical Hour) Kate Blumberg (Atlantic's Celebration and The Room), Tony Award winner John Gallagher, Jr. (Spring Awakening), Golden Globe Award nominee Chris Noth ('Sex and the City'), Otto Sanchez (HBO's 'Oz'), Olivia Thirlby (Juno) and Isiah Whitlock, Jr. (HBO's 'The Wire').

The eight-year-old musical 'The Full Monty' is receiving what is surely one of its very best productions to date, now through September 21st at the Marriott Theatre in the far north Chicago suburb of Lincolnshire, Illinois.

Molly Shannon, film comedienne and 'Saturday Night Live' alumni, recently brought her family to a performance of Broadway's The Little Mermaid, where she and her children met the stars back-stage!

'Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words,' the acclaimed, long-running L.A-based comedy sensation returned to New York City at The Triad Theater (158 West 72nd Street). 'Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words' will play a strictly-limited six-week engagement, performing weekly on Mondays at 7:30PM through March 3.

On Monday, February 11, Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words will present a specially themed Valentine's Day show, with a line up that will include Joy Behar, two-time Tony winner Matthew Broderick, Rachel Dratch, Cheyenne Jackson, two-time Emmy Award winner Kristen Johnston, Richard Kind, Jack Plotnick, Dayle Reyfel, Seth Rudetsky, Molly Shannon, Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig and creator Eugene Pack.

At Least it's Pink is a delight- a raunchy, hilarious, surprisingly touching, potty-mouthed delight.

Dreamgirls, the highly anticipated film version of the classic Broadway musical, had a star-studded premiere at New York's Ziegfeld Theatre on December 4th

Kathleen Turner, Sean Hayes, Doris Roberts, Molly Shannon, Kevin Pollack, Joe Scarborough, Toni Senecal and celebrity chef Mario Batali will be the latest guests plucked from the audience for an on-stage improvised interview with celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick in Martin Short's Fame Becomes Me.

BroadwayWorld was at the Hard Rock Cafe on March 30th as Lisa Kron's Well celebrated its opening night at the Longacre Theatre

An all-star crowd attended the opening night of 'Well' at the Longacre Theatre in New York City. March 30, 2006.

WELL, a new comedy, will open on Broadway tonight, March 30.

The first-ever revival of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, starring Patrick Wilson, Amanda Peet, Jill Clayburgh and Tony Roberts, opened on February 16th