Robert Walden News

On October 2, 1959, a unique television series was launched: Rod Serling's inimitable The Twilight Zone. Fifty years later, the Paley Center in association with Food For Thought Productions will present a star-studded staged reading of 'The Masks,' a classic episode from the series that originally aired March 20, 1964.

The New School for Drama has announced that the award-winning playwright Jon Robin Baitz will be the distinguished artist-in-residence for the 2009-2010 academic year. Baitz is a Pulitzer finalist, a Guggenheim and NEA fellow, and winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. A founding member and former artistic director of New York's Naked Angels theater company, Baitz has written a number of acclaimed plays, including The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, Three Hotels, A Fair Country, Ten Unknowns, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, a new version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (produced on Broadway in 2001), and The Paris Letter. Playwrights Horizons, the Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, and the Second Stage Theatre have produced Baitz's work in New York. His new play, Love and Mercy, will be produced next season on Broadway.

The New School for Drama has announced that award-winning actor John Turturro will be the distinguished Artist-in-Residence for the 2008-09 academic year. Turturro is the recipient of a multitude of awards and accolades for his extensive acting work in theater, film and television.

On Monday, December 10 at 7PM, The New School for Drama hosted a cocktail reception celebrating the residency of visiting artist and award-winning director Doug Hughes, hosted by New School President Bob Kerrey and Director Robert LuPone.

Camelot Artists (Gary Grossman, Producing Director) presents Some Greeks Are Not in the Restaurant Business, written and performed by Greg Lewis...

Casting is now complete for the highly anticipated world premiere of the Kander and Ebb musical Curtains, which will begin previews at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre on July 25th, open on August 9th and run through September 10th