Robert Redford News

Signature Theatre Company is proud to announce that two-time Emmy winner and Tony nominee Larry Bryggman will join Tony and Academy Award-winning actress Mercedes Ruehl in the world premiere of Edward Albee's Occupant directed by Pam MacKinnon.

Hollywood actor and Sundance Festival founder Robert Redford, stage and screenwriter/director Martin McDonagh and Sundance Film Festival director Geoffrey Gilmore attended the 2008 Sundance Film Festival's opening day press conference at the Egyptian Theatre on Thursday, January 17, 2008 in Park City, Utah.

Freddie Fields, Hollywood agent, producer and studio executive who represented Mel Gibson, Richard Gere and others, died from lung cancer in his Beverly Hills Home on Tuesday, December 11. He was 84 years old

Stew - whose new musical Passing Strange will begin performances on Broadway Feb. 8, 2008 at the Belasco Theatre - is one of five special guest hosts who will divulge the music they just cannot live without during WNYC Radio's annual weeklong 'Must Have Festival' December 10 to 14. Stew's evening of 'Must Have' music will conclude the weeklong Festival, broadcasting on December 14 at 7PM.

Sundance Institute and The Public Theater announced today the launch of the 2007 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in Residence at the Public Theater in New York. This residency marks the first theatre workshop in New York for the Sundance Institute and will take place November 6-18 at The Public Theater.

On Wednesday, August 8 at 7:30 pm, filmmaker Rick McKay appeared live in the WLIW studio with behind-the-scenes stories about the making of Broadway: The Golden Age and its upcoming sequels.

Rick McKay's acclaimed documentary 'Broadway: The Golden Age' is back on Public Television and Rick McKay will appear live with WLIW's Laura Savini, hosting the film, on WLIW/21 in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area on Wednesday, August 8th at 7:30 PM, which will be rebroadcast at 11:30 PM and Thursday, August 9th at 1 PM.

American Public Television and PBS stations around the country have renewed Rick McKay's award-winning documentary Broadway: The Golden Age for another two years, beginning this weekend.

We interview director Jerry Rapier and playwright Carol Lynn Pearson of the new Off Broadway show, the powerful Mormon drama, Facing East.

With a recent interview in the UK's Glamour, Scarlett Johansson continues to attach her name to the upcoming Lincoln Center revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic South Pacific

Michael Riedel in today's New York Post reports that film star Scarlett Johansson is 'in the running' to play Nellie Forbush in the planned 2008 Lincoln Center revival of South Pacific.

Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson, tells Access Hollywood that she's hoping to take on an unnamed role in the upcoming Jackie Robinson bio pic.

Comix presents 'Extra-Ordinary People,' a comic take on the Oscar-winning Robert Redford film.

Comix will present 'Extra-Ordinary People,' a comic take on the Oscar-winning Robert Redford film.

CBS will broadcast the 28th Annual Kennedy Center Honors on December 26th at 9 PM ET

'The Kennedy Center Presents: The 2006 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor' will celebrate Neil Simon, one of America's foremost playwrights, humorists and screenwriters

How The Grinch Stole Christmas! - The Musical, the new holiday musical based on the Dr. Seuss classic, opened at the Hilton Theater on November 8th after beginning previews on October 25th

John Cullum celebrates almost 46 years since his Broadway theatre debut by playing Max the dog in the upcoming Broadway musical Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Robert Redford may return to Broadway in an upcoming revival of All My Sons

An all-star cast will headline Naked Angels' September 18th reading of the classic 1976 political drama All the President's Men