Taylor Hackford News

The winners of the 2009 Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards and the recipients of the Guild's 2010 Career Achievement Awards were announced last night during the 62nd Annual DGA Awards Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Kathryn Bigelow won the DGA's Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for The Hurt Locker. Following the welcome by DGA President Taylor Hackford to an audience of more than 1,600 guests, director/actor Carl Reiner hosted the ceremony.

According to a recent equity casting notice, Leap of Faith, the new musical based off of the 1992 Steve Martin Film, will make its premiere at the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles this summer.

Broken Watch Theatre (Drew DeCorleto, Artistic Director) will celebrate its tenth season by unveiling its newest and most ambition project to date: The Final Draft Production Series. Readings of the three finalists will be presented January 19th 20th and 27th at the Frederick Loewe Room (1501 Broadway, 7th Floor) and are FREE to the public.

Michael Riedel reveals this morning that a likely Broadway-bound musical adaptation of Leap of Faith (based off of the 1992 film starring Steve Martin) had an industry reading last week starring Raul Esparza as the preacher, Sutton Foster, and Kendra Kassebaum. The musical workshop, featuring a score by Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermain composer Alan Menken and lryics by Glenn Slater, had Promises, Promises director/choreographer Rob Ashford at the helm. Janus Cercone, who authored the original screenplay also penned the musical book.

Broken Watch Theatre (Drew DeCorleto, Artistic Director) will celebrate its tenth season by unveiling its newest and most ambition project to date: The Final Draft Production Series. Readings of the three finalists will be presented January 19th 20th and 27th at the Frederick Loewe Room (1501 Broadway, 7th Floor) and are FREE to the public.

Casting has been announced for the new Broadway musical COME FLY AWAY, conceived, choreographed, and directed by Tony Award-winner Twyla Tharp and featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra. COME FLY AWAY will star Matthew Dibble, Holley Farmer, Laura Mead, Charlie Neshyba-Hodges, Rika Okamoto, Karine Plantadit, Keith Roberts and John Selya, all of whom were in last fall's acclaimed world premiere production at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre.

Broken Watch Theatre (Drew DeCorleto, Artistic Director) will celebrate its tenth season by unveiling its newest and most ambition project to date: The Final Draft Production Series. Readings of the three finalists will be presented January 19th 20th and 27th at the Frederick Loewe Room (1501 Broadway, 7th Floor) and are FREE to the public.

Directors Guild of America President Taylor Hackford today announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2009.

The new Broadway musical, COME FLY AWAY, conceived, choreographed, and directed by Tony Award-winner Twyla Tharp and featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra, will open this spring at the Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway). Previews will begin on Monday, March 1, 2010 with an opening night slated for Thursday, March 25. COME FLY AWAY played its sold-out, critically lauded world premiere engagement at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre this fall.

Emmy Award Winner Leslie Jordan returns to the live stage with another theatrical segment from his mindset, 'Full of Gin and Regret: An Evening with Leslie Jordan,' at the Renberg Theater at LA Gay & Lesbian Center in Los Angeles. The performance will feature special guest singer/actress Alexandra Billings and will run for two weekends only, December 10-13 and 17-20.

Emmy Award Winner Leslie Jordan returns to the live stage with another theatrical segment from his mindset, 'Full of Gin and Regret: An Evening with Leslie Jordan,' at the Renberg Theater at LA Gay & Lesbian Center in Los Angeles. The performance will feature special guest singer/actress Alexandra Billings and will run for two weekends only, December 10-13 and 17-20.

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents the first show of the Fall 2009 Season The Art of Justice Series, which integrates the performing arts and issues on justice, 'DE NOVO' - Part 1: Lil' Silent, running from November 12-14, 2009 at 7pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Admission is $15 (CUNY Students FREE).

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents the first show of the Fall 2009 Season The Art of Justice Series, which integrates the performing arts and issues on justice, 'DE NOVO' - Part 1: Lil' Silent, running from November 12-14, 2009 at 7pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Admission is $15 (CUNY Students FREE).

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presentsthe first show of the Fall 2009 Season The Art of Justice Series, which integrates the performing arts and issues on justice, 'DE NOVO' - Part 1: Lil' Silent, running from November 12-14, 2009 at 7pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Admission is $15 (CUNY Students FREE).

After being honored with five Ovation Award nominations last week - including Best Musical for the second year in a row, Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara is closing out its run on Sunday, November 8. The production has been playing in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse since March. While these final weeks mark Angeleno's final chance to see th production, the team behind the musical is in the process of planning the show's future.

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presentsthe first show of the Fall 2009 Season The Art of Justice Series, which integrates the performing arts and issues on justice, 'DE NOVO' - Part 1: Lil' Silent, running from November 12-14, 2009 at 7pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Admission is $15 (CUNY Students FREE).

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents the first show of the Fall 2009 Season The Art of Justice Series, which integrates the performing arts and issues on justice, 'DE NOVO' - Part 1: Lil' Silent, running from November 12-14, 2009 at 7pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Admission is $15 (CUNY Students FREE).

Emmy Award Winner Leslie Jordan returns to the live stage with another theatrical segment from his mindset, 'Full of Gin and Regret: An Evening with Leslie Jordan,' at the Renberg Theater at LA Gay & Lesbian Center in Los Angeles. The performance will feature special guest singer/actress Alexandra Billings and will run for two weekends only, December 10-13 and 17-20.

After being honored with five Ovation Award nominations last week - including Best Musical for the second year in a row, Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara is closing out its run on Sunday, November 8. The production has been playing in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse since March. While these final weeks mark Angeleno's final chance to see th production, the team behind the musical is in the process of planning the show's future.

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) have announced that acclaimed actor and playwright Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio, 'Law & Order: CI') has joined the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming Broadway production of Donald Margulies' TIME STANDS STILL directed by Daniel Sullivan.