Richard Dreyfuss News

Café Carlyle (located in The Carlyle Hotel, Madison Avenue at 76th Street), is pleased to announce the opening of its fall season with a seven-week engagement by the incomparable ELAINE STRITCH in her very first solo cabaret engagement.

Actress, author and comedian Suzanne Somers One-Woman show, The Blonde in the Thunderbird, is now running at The Brooks Atkinson Theatre for a limited engagement.

Fred Applegate has been announced as the next London Bialystock in the Producers, stepping in for Brad Oscar on April 25th

In the third in a series of Women's History Month profiles, Nugent talks about producing hits and flops, getting backers, making movies and leveling the playing field for women in theater.

Complete casting was announced today for the upcoming Broadway production of LENNON, the world premiere musical based on the life and songs of John Lennon. The cast includes Will Chase, Chuck Cooper, Julie Danao, Mandy Gonzalez, Marcy Harriell, Chad Kimball, Terrence Mann, Julia Murney, and Michael Potts.

The first roundup of 2005 kicks off with lots of exciting news - Nathan Lane leaves Producers early, Jerry gets Christian boycott and Jane Krakowski comes to London!

The Public Theater, George C. Wolfe, producer; Mara Manus, executive director, announces the New York premiere of THE CONTROVERSY OF VALLADOLID, an exciting new masterwork by French playwright and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière that brings to life the stunning real-life debates of the Catholic Church in the 16th century, as it tried to determine whether or not natives an ocean away were indeed human.

Jake looks back at 2004 in the UK theatre industry, including the summer's disastrous closing trend and the 'big 3' winter..

He Can Do It! - Nathan Lane steps into London Producers and Slater's Nest extends.

Based on the life and songs of John Lennon, the new tuner is slated for its Broadway debut at the Broadhurst Theatre, Summer 2005.

This week Jake asks - can London get any luckier?

William Shakespeare was born 440 years ago this week. 'He was not of an age, but for all time,' said Ben Jonson. So let's celebrate the man to whom all theater lovers owe a debt.

It was opening night at Sly Fox, and BroadwayWorld was there covering the red carpet. In Sly Fox, it's the dawn of the Gold Rush in San Francisco...

In this years' final UK column Jake looks at the year ahead in London's West End, including Billy Elliot the Musical, Mary Poppins and the casting game for The Producers