Nancy Giles News

Theater Talk announces upcoming guests for the month of July. Lewis Black and Nancy Giles On Thirteen: Friday, July 3rd at 1:00 AM On CUNY TV: Saturday, July 4th at 8:30 PM

Theater Talk announces upcoming guests for the month of July. Lewis Black and Nancy Giles On Thirteen: Friday, July 3rd at 1:00 AM On CUNY TV: Saturday, July 4th at 8:30 PM

J.J. Kandel and John McCormack will present SUMMER SHORTS 3, their third annual festival of new American short plays, at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street). Performances begin Friday July 24th, and continue through Thursday August 27th.

New York Theatre Experiment is turning 5 and you're invited to the best birthday party of the year. The Second Annual Great American Pie-Off: A Birthday Benefit for New York Theatre Experiment Bake a Pie! Think you're the best baker out of all of your friends? Prove it! Think your office/theatre company/sports team/frat house can beat any single baker? Or at least have fun trying? Show us! And win!

This week Theater Talk presents 'Celebrating The Boys in the Band' On Thirteen: Friday, June 26th at 1:00 AM, On CUNY TV: Saturday, June 27th at 8:30 PM Sunday, June 28th at 12:30 PM and Monday, June 29th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM

The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) announced the winners of the 2009 Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for screen, television, radio, news, promotional, and videogame writing at simultaneous ceremonies at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City.

Eight young playwrights (ages 12 to 13), all members of The 52nd Street Project from Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, will debut plays that they have written for themselves to perform alongside a cast of actors that will feature such stage and television stars as Nancy Giles ('CBS Sunday Morning'), Jeremy Beck, Tim Cain, Angel Desai, Reg Flowers, Maile Holck, Josh Moody, and Keira Naughton. The short plays entitled WHAT'S NEW?!? will play Friday, October 19 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, October 20 at 7:30 PM; and Sunday, October 21 at 3:00 PM at The Julia Miles Theater (424 West 55th Street, corner of 9th Avenue). Admission is free, but reservations are required.

The worlds of opera and family therapy will come together in a unique event on Sunday, October 14 when two internationally famous maestros - Maestro Marco Munari of La Scala and Maestro Joshua Greene of the Metropolitan Opera - join forces with world-renowned soprano Frances Ginsberg at 'Sweet Appreciation IV,' a benefit concert for the Ackerman Institute for the Family's Rusty Magee Clinic for Families and Health.

Edie Falco, Martha Plimpton and others will perform in an evenign of short plays written by nine young playwrights, aged 9 to 11, from December 9th through 11th