Nathan Lane News

A BROADWAY CELEBRATION: IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE will premiere Wednesday, October 20 at 9:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS stations nationwide, followed by an encore presentation at 10:00 p.m.

Westport Community Theatre's ETC Staged Reading of TRUMBO Red, White & Blacklisted by Christopher Trumbo

This past July, Broadway stars joined in Washington for 'A Broadway Celebration: In Performance at the White House,' to promote arts education. The event featured Nathan Lane, Idina Menzel, Audra McDonald, Elaine Stritch, Brian d'Arcy James, Chad Kimball, Tonya Pinkins, Marvin Hamlisch, Karen Olivo, Assata Alston, Danielle Arci and Constantine Rousouli. The event will air on PBS October 20 at 9 p.m. as part of the PBS music series, 'In Performance at the White House.' Below, Broadway World brings you exclusive interview clips from before the performance, featuring Broadway stars talking about their favorite PBS programs.

Mike Birbiglia has written his first comedic memoir entitled SLEEPWALK WITH ME and Other Painfully True Stories (Simon & Schuster; October 12, 2010; $24.00).

92nd Street Y has announced that Jordan Roth, President of Jujamcyn Theaters, continues his multi-evening 92nd Street Y conversation series, "Broadway Talks," with Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning actor David Hyde Pierce.

Award-winning jazz/cabaret artist Milla Ilieva will bring her new show 'Ten!Ten!Ten!' to 'The Nightclub of New York,' Feinstein's at Loews Regency (540 Park Avenue, at 61st Street) for a one-night-only evening on Sunday, October 10th (8:30PM).

For the first time in its 25-year existence, The Stage Managers' Association will host an all-day conference entitled, 'Theater - A View From the Wings: Conversations with Directors, General Managers and Stage Managers' on Monday, November 8th beginning at 10 AM at Connolly's Klub 45 at 121 West 45th Street in Manhattan.

This Wednesday, October 6th, Broadway veteran Nathan Lane guest starred on ABC's Modern Family as Pepper, the flamboyant friend of Mitchell (played by Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (played by Eric Stonestreet). Watch the full episode below!

Mel Brooks has taken a giant tumble off the mountaintop on which he stood following the success of THE PRODUCERS. To think about it, THE PRODUCERS revealed itself not to be one of the greats as soon as Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick departed. Performers mean an awful lot in a Broadway musical. It seems the Brooks machine is willing to trade gifted star performers (they got to be stars for a reason, you know) for a more immediate return of profit. Seems to be unwise for them, and certainly not a reason for the audience to rejoice. But, on to the show.

Award-winning jazz/cabaret artist Milla Ilieva will bring her new show "Ten!Ten!Ten!" to "The Nightclub of New York," Feinstein's at Loews Regency (540 Park Avenue, at 61st Street) for a one-night-only evening on Sunday, October 10th (8:30PM).

SHINE! The Horatio Alger Musical with a Book by Richard Seff; Music by Roger Dean Anderson and Lyrics by Lee Goldsmith is being presented by Other Side Productions (Peter Mercurio, Chuck Blasius - Co-Artistic Directors) as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival at The Theater at St. Clements, 423 West 46th Street.

We've got the first look at Nathan Lane on the October 6th episode of Modern Family on ABC.

42nd Street Moon's Artistic Director, Greg MacKellan, today announced casting for the first production of the 2010-11 Season: Broadway's greatest musical farce, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM.

The New York Times reports today that Nathan Lane may be teaming up with Douglas Carter Beane following his run in The Addams Family for The Nance, a new play 'about a performer who played the role of the nance in burlesque shows in the early 20th century.' The play centers on a nance (or 'nancy boy'), who performs at the downtown burlesque club, The Irving, 'during the era when Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was moving to ban burlesque in New York City.'

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.

Penguin Rep Theatre, Rockland County's professional theatre, will hold its fifth annual auction Sunday, October 3 at the Stony Point Conference Center, located just up the street from the theatre at 17 Crickettown Road in Stony Point, New York.

The U.S. premiere of Trans-Euro Express, Dublin playwright Gary Duggan's theatrical rail odyssey, runs for 17 performances from September 16 -October 3, 2010 at New York City's Irish Arts Center in partnership with NY-based Fundamental Theater Project.

For the first time in Ogunquit Playhouse history, the season has been extended past Columbus Day weekend to October 24. Now is the perfect time to see the multi Tony Award winning Broadway musical Chicago, which is receiving rave reviews from the press for its 'stellar casting,' 'sensational staging' and 'killer choreography.' This record-breaking smash hit stars Ogunquit favorite Sally Struthers, as Matron 'Mama' Morton, keeper of the jailhouse keys and George Dvorsky as the slick lawyer, Billy Flynn. Chicago also stars Broadway veteran Angie Schworer as housewife turned murderess Roxie Hart and Broadway's Rachelle Rak as the seductive night club singer and double murderess, Velma Kelly. Tony-Award winner Paul Kreppel also stars as Amos (aka Mr. Cellophane), Roxie's husband who agrees to take the blame for her violent crime.

For the first time in Ogunquit Playhouse history the season has been extended past Columbus Day Weekend to October 24th! Now is the perfect time to see the multi Tony Award winning Broadway musical Chicago, which is receiving rave reviews from the press for its 'stellar casting,' 'sensational staging' and 'killer choreography!' This record-breaking smash hit stars Ogunquit favorite Sally Struthers, as Matron 'Mama' Morton, keeper of the jailhouse keys and George Dvorsky as the slick lawyer, Billy Flynn. Chicago also stars Broadway veteran Angie Schworer as housewife turned murderess Roxie Hart and Broadway's Rachelle Rak as the seductive night club singer and double murderess, Velma Kelly. Tony-Award winner Paul Kreppel also stars as Amos (aka Mr. Cellophane), Roxie's husband who agrees to take the blame for her violent crime.

Victory Gardens opens its 2010/11 Season with Edward Albee's At Home At The Zoo directed by Artistic Director Dennis Za?ek. The production runs October 1 - October 31, 2010 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Park. The Press Opening is Monday, October 11, 2010, at 7:30 pm.