Shirley Knight News

The world-renowned Imagination Workshop was founded 40 years ago by Margaret Ladd, the award-winning actress and Founding Artistic Director, and her husband Lyle Kessler, the critically-acclaimed playwright, and Co-Founder of the organization. Today, the Imagination Workshop, a unique theatre company comprised of professional theatre artists collaborating with patients recovering from mood disorders and other mental illnesses, is one of the longest running Arts and Social Institutions in the country.

Tony Award-winners Philip Bosco, Jim Norton and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, as well as Cheyenne Jackson, Kate Baldwin, and Jeremy Bobb star in Finian's Rainbow, the final production of New York City Center's 2008-09 Encores! season, running from March 26 - 29. Finian's Rainbow has music by Burton Lane, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg and book by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy and will be directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle with music direction by Rob Berman. The musical will play five performances at City Center (West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues).

The world-renowned Imagination Workshop was founded 40 years ago by Margaret Ladd, the award-winning actress and Founding Artistic Director, and her husband Lyle Kessler, the critically-acclaimed playwright, and Co-Founder of the organization. Today, the Imagination Workshop, a unique theatre company comprised of professional theatre artists collaborating with patients recovering from mood disorders and other mental illnesses, is one of the longest running Arts and Social Institutions in the country.

Tony Award-winners Philip Bosco, Jim Norton and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, as well as Cheyenne Jackson, Kate Baldwin, and Jeremy Bobb will star in Finian's Rainbow, the final production of New York City Center's 2008-09 Encores! season, running from March 26 - 29.

Tony Award-winners Philip Bosco, Jim Norton and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, as well as Cheyenne Jackson, Kate Baldwin, and Jeremy Bobb will star in Finian's Rainbow, the final production of New York City Center's 2008-09 Encores! season, running from March 26 - 29.

In celebration of Women's History month, Riverspace is pleased to host the premiere of the Goddess on Earth installation with an opening reception on Saturday, March 7 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The culmination of a six-year project by Nyack photographer Lisa Levart, Goddess on Earth is a collection of more than seventy stunning, evocative photographic images of women in which each is portrayed as the goddess who most deeply reflects and gives meaning to her life.

In celebration of Women's History month, Riverspace is pleased to host the premiere of the Goddess on Earth installation with an opening reception on Saturday, March 7 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The culmination of a six-year project by Nyack photographer Lisa Levart, Goddess on Earth is a collection of more than seventy stunning, evocative photographic images of women in which each is portrayed as the goddess who most deeply reflects and gives meaning to her life.

Swimming Upstream, a project incubated and coordinated through the Ashé Cultural Arts Center and V-Day with Eve Ensler, playwright of The Vagina Monologues will play at True Colors Theatre Company from November 5th through 16th at the 14th Street Playhouse. It will feature Jasmine Guy, Shirley Knight, Phylicia Rashad, Kerry Washington and the women of New Orleans.

Arthur Miller's ALL MY SONS starring John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson & Katie Holmes opened on Broadway on Oct. 16th. BroadwayWorld's cameras were there to capture the opening night festivities.

Swimming Upstream, a project incubated and coordinated through the Ashé Cultural Arts Center and V-Day with Eve Ensler, playwright of The Vagina Monologues will play at True Colors Theatre Company from November 5th through 16th at the 14th Street Playhouse. It will feature Jasmine Guy, Shirley Knight, Phylicia Rashad, Kerry Washington and the women of New Orleans.

New Village Arts presents 'Prelude to a Kiss' and a one night only reading of 'The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.'

Transport Group Artistic Director Jack Cummings III has announced that the company will present three post-show talkbacks for its official 50th anniversary production of William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. The talkbacks will run as follows:

Theatre stars Shirley Knight and Kaitlin Hopkins will offer a number of upcoming master classes at Chelsea Studios

L.A. Theatre Works, with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, records four new plays and begins new radio program focusing on Science-themed plays.

Actors' Equity Association (Equity) today announced the appointment of John P. Connolly as Executive Director, effective March 19, 2007

On Sunday night, November 26, just 12 hours before Drama Desk-nominee Leslie Kritzer started rehearsals for the new Broadway musical Legally Blonde, she played to an enthusiastic SRO audience with 'Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches.'

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

Theatre stars and Broadway-related programs were quite visible on the list of 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, with 'High School Musical' and Hugh Jackman among the nominees

A number of June events will celebrate books released by Back Stage Books; among the stars set to participate are Kitty Carlisle Hart, Shirley Knight and Julie Wilson

Kathy Bates, Jane Fonda, Marcia Gay Harden, Shiva Rose, Marian Seldes and Kerry Washington will be among the starry line-up taking part in a reading of Eve Ensler's Necessary Targets on June 12th